Rose Cleveland (1846–1918) was the acting first lady of the United

States from 1885 to 1886, during the first presidency of her brother,

Grover Cleveland, until his wedding with Frances Folsom in 1886.

Receiving an advanced education in her youth, Rose Cleveland rejected

traditional gender norms and worked in literary and academic positions.

She used the role of first lady as a platform for her support of women's

suffrage. After leaving the White House, Cleveland authored several

fiction and nonfiction works, many relating to women's rights. She was

editor of a literary magazine, and continued teaching and lecturing. She

met Evangeline Marrs Simpson in 1889, and the two became romantic

partners, interrupted for several years by Simpson's marriage to Henry

Benjamin Whipple. After reuniting, they moved to Italy in 1910. There,

Cleveland spent her final years aiding refugees during World War I and

cared for Spanish flu patients before contracting the disease herself

and dying in 1918.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1920:

The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor

of the National Football League, was founded.

1988:

Fires in the United States' Yellowstone National Park ravaged

more than 150,000 acres (610 km2) on the single worst day of the

conflagration.

1989:

The final stage of the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South

Australia, was finished, completing at the time the world's longest and

fastest guided busway, with buses (example pictured) travelling 12 km

(7.5 mi) at speeds of up to 100 km/h (62 mph).

2018:

Silent Sam, a Confederate monument on the campus of the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was toppled by protestors.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

anopheles:

(entomology, loosely, also attributive) A mosquito of the genus

Anopheles, some insects of which transmit various parasites of the genus

Plasmodium that are the cause of malaria.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the

same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes

monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the

release is welcome. … I believe that's my biggest job: tone control,

and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all

the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and

narrative interest is maintained.  

--Patricia Rozema

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