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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Today is Monday, September 11th, the 254th day of 2023. There are 111 days left in the year. It is National Make Your Bed Day and National Hot Cross Bun Day.
On This Day
In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island.
In 1683, coalition forces, led by Poland’s King John III Sobieski, ended the Ottoman Empire’s siege of Vienna.
In 1776, a British-American peace conference on Staten Island failed to stop the nascent Revolutionary War.
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