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[Benjamin Franklin]
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The Duffield Memorial is a gravesite monument located in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary in Great Baddow, England. Designed by Herbert Maryon and installed in 1912, it commemorates Marianne and W. W. Duffield, who died in 1910 and 1912, respectively. A second plaque commemorates their son, W. B. Duffield, who died in 1918. The memorial is made of riveted sections of bronze sheet metal and comprises edging and a vertical cross. The edging follows the rectangular perimeter of the grave plot, with short pillars at each corner. Within the plot sits a Celtic wheel cross, decorated in relief with leaflike motifs. A curved shaft connects it to the foot; both the shaft and the four-sided base upon which it is mounted have curved and splayed sides. The plaques commemorating the Duffields are riveted to the base; a medallion, now lost, was once riveted to the centre of the cross. In 2022, Historic England designated the work a Grade II listed building, noting its unusual Art Nouveau metalwork. (Full article...)
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On this day: April 6
April 6: Śmigus-dyngus in Poland (2026); Tartan Day
- 1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck landed at Table Bay in southern Africa, establishing a settlement that later became known as Cape Town.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture HMS Glasgow near Block Island.
- 1926 – Varney Air Lines made its first commercial flight (flight covers pictured), later forming the basis of United Airlines.
- 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was elected by the National Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq.
- 2011 – Mexican drug war: Authorities discovered 59 bodies in clandestine mass graves linked to earlier bus hijackings in San Fernando, Tamaulipas.
- Leonora Baroni (d. 1670)
- Gustave Moreau (b. 1826)
- Bert Blyleven (b. 1951)
- Teigan Van Roosmalen (b. 1991)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].