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10th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1825 Paul Kruger (President of the South African Republic 1883)
Died:
1985 Yul Brynner (actor)
On This Day:
1874 Fiji becomes a British possession
Have a good Saturday, 10th October
Indian Summer
A soft veil dims the tender skies,
And half conceals from pensive eyes
The bronzing tokens of the fall;
A calmness broods upon the hills,
And summer’s parting dream distills
A charm of silence over all.
The stacks of corn, in brown array,
Stand waiting through the placid day,
Like tattered wigwams on the plain;
The tribes that find a shelter there
Are phantom peoples, forms of air,
And ghosts of vanished joy and pain.
At evening when the crimson crest
Of sunset passes down the West,
I hear the whispering host returning;
On far-off fields, by elm and oak,
I see the lights, I smell the smoke,–
The Camp-fires of the Past are burning.
– Henry Van Dyke
25 April – Today In History
Born:
1599 Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector of England)
Died:
1995: Ginger Rogers (actress)
On This Day:
1915 ANZAC (78 000) troops land at Gallipoli
Have a good Saturday, 25th April!