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Today in history

422: Celestine is elected pope. During his tenure, he convoked the Council of Ephesus to combat the Nestorian "heresy" (this belief, that Christ had two natures and two persons, was probably more semantic overstatement than heresy) and reportedly sent Patrick to Ireland as a missionary

1718: Founded in 1701 by Congregationalists who feared Harvard was straying from its Calvinist roots, The Collegiate School at New Haven, Connecticut, changes its name to Yale.

1869: A Baptist minister invents the ricksha in Yokohama, Japan.
 
24 September 1717 - Birth of Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (known as Horace Walpole).

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Horace Walpole - Wikipedia

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1555: The Peace of Augsburg is signed after the defeat of Emperor Charles V's forces by Protestant princes in Germany (1552). The official recognition of the Lutheran church in Germany, the agreement signified the dissolution of both political unity in Germany and the medieval unity of Christendom.

1789: the first Congress of the United States adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution—the Bill of Rights—and sent them to the states for ratification.
 
1460: Pope Pius II assembles European leaders, then delivers a three-hour sermon to inspire them to launch a new crusade against the Turks. The speech works, but then another speaker, Cardinal Bessarion, adds a three-hour sermon of his own. After six hours of preaching, the European princes lose all interest in the cause; they never mount the called-for crusade.
 
Cardinal Bessarion's collection of Greek and Roman manuscripts formed the basis for the great Venetian library, the Biblioteca Marciana, housed in Jacopo Sansovino's superb building on St. Mark's Square. I have spent many a happy hour working there.

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Biblioteca Marciana - Wikipedia

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Enrico Fermi was born on this day 29 September 1901 in Rome, Italy.

Fermi was one of the chief architects of the nuclear age, having directed the first controlled chain reaction involving nuclear fission. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physics.

He died in 1954 in Chicago, Illinois.
 
Diana Vreeland , born 29 September 1903, Paris, died 22 August New York City,

Fashion columnist and editor, later heading up the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art



Quote: "There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want, and you make it for yourself."
 
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Her son Feck--a diplomat and former ambassador to Morocco and still going strong at 95--quotes her as saying that her mother told her, "You're not beautiful, so you have to be interesting." Vreeland never let the truth get in the way of a good story or turn of phrase, so who knows if she was ever told this. That said, she landed quite a handsome husband:

№ 12 | Diana & Reed Vreeland :: This Is Glamorous

№ 12 | Diana & Reed Vreeland
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