Scottish lawyer with Jacobite sympathies. After 25 years of marriage
and nine children, the Granges separated acrimoniously. When Lady Grange
produced letters that she claimed were evidence of his treasonable
plottings against the Hanoverian government in London, her husband had
her kidnapped from her home in Edinburgh on the night of 22 January
1732. She was incarcerated in various remote locations on the western
seaboard of Scotland, including the Monach Isles, Skye and the distant
islands of St Kilda. Lady Grange's father was convicted of murder when
she was about 10 years old and she is known to have had a violent
temper; initially her absence seems to have caused little comment. No
action was ever taken on her behalf by any of her children, the eldest
of whom would have been in their early twenties when she was abducted.
News of her plight eventually reached Edinburgh however, and an
unsuccessful rescue attempt was undertaken by her lawyer, Thomas Hope of
Rankeillor. She died in captivity, after being effectively imprisoned
for 13 years. Her life has been remembered in poetry, prose and a play.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Chiesley,_Lady_Grange>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1551:
The National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in
the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_of_San_Marcos>
1846:
Led by George Donner, the American pioneer group known as the
Donner Party, which would become known for resorting to cannibalism when
they became trapped in the Sierra Nevadas, left Independence, Missouri,
for California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party>
1941:
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3 (replica
pictured), the world's first working programmable, fully automatic
computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)>
1955:
The Allied occupation of Austria came to an end, with the
nation regaining its independence ten years after the end of World
War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Austria>
1975:
The Cambodian navy seized the American container ship SS
Mayaguez in recognized international waters, but claimed as territorial
waters by Cambodia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayaguez_incident>
2008:
An earthquake measuring about 8.0 Ms struck the Sichuan
province of China, killing at least 69,000 people, injuring at least
374,000, and leaving at least 4.8 million others homeless.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deskfast:
Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deskfast>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance
is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
--Philip Wylie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Wylie>
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