the A217 road between Battersea, near Wandsworth Town Station, in the
London Borough of Wandsworth on the south side of the river, and Sands
End and Parsons Green in Hammersmith and Fulham on the north side. The
first bridge on the site was a toll bridge, built in 1873 in the
expectation that the western terminus of the Hammersmith and City
Railway would shortly be built on the north bank. The terminus was not
built, and problems with drainage on the approach road made access to
the bridge difficult for vehicles. Wandsworth Bridge was commercially
unsuccessful, and in 1880 it was taken into public ownership and made
toll-free. Narrow and too weak to carry buses, the bridge was demolished
in 1937. The present bridge, an unadorned steel cantilever bridge, was
opened in 1940. It was painted in dull shades of blue as camouflage
against air raids, a colour scheme it retains. Wandsworth Bridge is one
of the busiest bridges in London, carrying over 50,000 vehicles daily.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandsworth_Bridge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
27 BC:
Gaius Octavianus was given the title Augustus by the Roman
Senate when he became the first Roman emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus>
1809:
Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult
attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore
in Corunna, Galicia, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Corunna>
1938:
Benny Goodman performed a concert at New York City's Carnegie
Hall which has been considered instrumental in establishing jazz as a
legitimate form of music.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman>
1986:
The Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards organization
that develops and promotes Internet standards, held its first meeting,
consisting of twenty-one United States-government-funded researchers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force>
2008:
Five days after proposing lyrics for the wordless Marcha Real,
the Spanish national anthem, the Spanish Olympic Committee withdrew the
proposal due to widespread criticism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcha_Real>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hearsay:
1. Information that was heard by one person about another.
2. (law) Evidence based on the reports of others rather than on personal
knowledge, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under
oath.
3. (law) An out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the
matter asserted, which is normally inadmissible because it is not
subject to cross-examination unless the hearsay statement falls under
one of a number of exceptions.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hearsay>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One cannot condemn tendencies in art; one can only condemn works
of art. To be categorically against a current art tendency or style
means, in effect, to pronounce on works of art not yet created and not
yet seen. It means inquiring into the motives of artists instead of into
results. Yet we all know — or are supposed to know — that results
are all that count in art.
--Clement Greenberg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clement_Greenberg>
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