THIS DAY IS HISTORY
In honor of Ed Champion's birthday.
1869 George Eliot starts work on Middlemarch:
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans , who was a writer, and an editor of the Westminster Review. The pen name was necessary because she felt that her relationship would have impacted the critical response to her writing (this was during a time when one used a pseudonym for purposes other than concealing one's non-transexual, non-rock star status). Middlemarch is considered to be her greatest literary achivement.
Her long time boyfriend, Lewes, died in 1878, and Eliot went on to marry a man 20 years younger than she, which is also a pretty good achievement, if you're at least 38 years old.
1909 Abraham Lincoln appears on the penny:
Issued to commemorate Lincoln's 100th birthday, this new coin replaced the popular Indian Head penny. Then, as now, the existence of this new Lincoln-ized coin was a point of controversy. Being only a few decades since the"War of Northern Aggression", having to use money bearing the likeness of Ol' Honest Abe rubbed the South in the wrong way, but they managed to deal with it. (Fortunately, pennies weren't worth much back then either.) In fact, a 1909 penny (not counting its value as a collectable), invested in an account that was commensurate with the rate of inflation since then, it would be worth $0.21.(Calculation courtesy of the Inflation Calculator.) So maybe the end of the penny wouldn't be so bad. If its creators could see the people who are rallying to defend it, maybe the penny never would have gotten of the ground in the first place.
1923 Warren G. Harding dies in San Francisco:
Oh Warren G. Harding, you oft cited example of terrible U.S. Presidents. If you could only see us now.
1869 George Eliot starts work on Middlemarch:
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans , who was a writer, and an editor of the Westminster Review. The pen name was necessary because she felt that her relationship would have impacted the critical response to her writing (this was during a time when one used a pseudonym for purposes other than concealing one's non-transexual, non-rock star status). Middlemarch is considered to be her greatest literary achivement.
Her long time boyfriend, Lewes, died in 1878, and Eliot went on to marry a man 20 years younger than she, which is also a pretty good achievement, if you're at least 38 years old.
1909 Abraham Lincoln appears on the penny:
Issued to commemorate Lincoln's 100th birthday, this new coin replaced the popular Indian Head penny. Then, as now, the existence of this new Lincoln-ized coin was a point of controversy. Being only a few decades since the"War of Northern Aggression", having to use money bearing the likeness of Ol' Honest Abe rubbed the South in the wrong way, but they managed to deal with it. (Fortunately, pennies weren't worth much back then either.) In fact, a 1909 penny (not counting its value as a collectable), invested in an account that was commensurate with the rate of inflation since then, it would be worth $0.21.(Calculation courtesy of the Inflation Calculator.) So maybe the end of the penny wouldn't be so bad. If its creators could see the people who are rallying to defend it, maybe the penny never would have gotten of the ground in the first place.
1923 Warren G. Harding dies in San Francisco:
Oh Warren G. Harding, you oft cited example of terrible U.S. Presidents. If you could only see us now.
