daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and his first
wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. Victoria married Prince Louis
of Battenberg, her father's first cousin and an officer in the UK's
Royal Navy, in a love match and lived most of her married life in
various parts of Europe at her husband's naval posts and visiting her
many royal relations. She was perceived by her family as liberal in
outlook, straightforward, practical and bright. During World War I, two
of her sisters who had married into the Russian imperial family were
murdered by communist revolutionaries, and she and her husband abandoned
their German titles and adopted the British-sounding surname of
Mountbatten, which was simply a translation into English of the German
"Battenberg". She was the maternal grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh, the consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_of_Hesse_and_by_Rhine>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1081:
The Komnenian dynasty came to full power when Alexios I
Komnenos was crowned Byzantine Emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos>
1609:
Forces of the Japanese feudal domain of Satsuma captured the
castle on Ryukyu Island, beginning the process that turned the Ryukyu
Kingdom into a vassal state under Satsuma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Ryukyu>
1847:
Britain's first civic public park, Birkenhead Park in
Birkenhead, Merseyside, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park>
1900:
Archaeologists led by Arthur Evans in Knossos, Crete,
discovered a large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing
Mycenaean Greek now known as Linear B.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B>
2009:
The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from
the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking
concerns by other nations that it may have been a trial run of
technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic
missiles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
reptilianness:
The quality of the embodiment of reptile characteristics.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reptilianness>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people
act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of
another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people
feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the
weakest, there freedom exists.
--Booker T. Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington>
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