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Bits of Wisdom

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads

— G. K. Chesterton

On This Day

Arts and Science: 1827 US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils
History: 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach Florida; 1884 London prison for debtors closed; 1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
Sports: 1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; known as 'the Doubleday myth'

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