produced by the American artist Norman Rockwell. They represent the
freedoms outlined by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State
of the Union Address on January 6, 1941, including the "freedom of every
person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world." Freedom
of Worship shows the profiles of eight people of different faiths in a
moment of prayer. Rockwell considered this painting and Freedom of
Speech more successful than the other two paintings in the series,
Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear. Freedom of Worship appeared on
February 27, 1943, in The Saturday Evening Post alongside an essay on
religious freedom by philosopher Will Durant. All four images were
widely distributed on posters in support of the War Bond drive. Text
supporting the four freedoms was later incorporated into the Allies'
World War II policy statement, the Atlantic Charter, and the charter of
the United Nations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Worship_(painting)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1066:
Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king
before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson>
1322:
Having defeated his half-brother Stephen Constantine in battle,
Stefan Dečanski (fresco pictured) was crowned King of Serbia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_De%C4%8Danski>
1839:
The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, with
100-knot winds damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in
Dublin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Big_Wind>
1912:
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory
of continental drift.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift>
1993:
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) units killed 55 Kashmiri
civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants
ambushed a BSF patrol.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
myrrhic:
Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/myrrhic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to
be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and
fluidity.
--Alan Watts
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Watts>
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