This day in history: Did you know...

Thursday, 16 October 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that the 2014 Internet Slowdown Day (logo pictured) has been compared to the Internet Blackout Day of 2012?
... that the majority of the Mikea people live in and around the spiny Mikea Forest on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, betweenMorombe and Toliara?
... that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement?
... that the closure-threatened Secombe Theatre was converted from a Christian Science church in 1984?
... that in 1996 Jamie Nabozny sued school officials for failing to protect him from years of homophobic bullying?
... that Scottish religion in the seventeenth century included intense conflicts between Presbyterian Covenanters and government forces?
... that Shloime Gertner has been called "the Hasidic Robbie Williams"?

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