Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Today is Friday, April 26th, the 117th day of 2024. There are 249 days left in the year. It is Get Organized Day, National Richter Scale Day, National Audubon Day, National Dissertation Day, National Help a Horse Day, National Pretzel Day, National Static Cling Day, and World Intellectual Property Day.
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In 1607, the Virginia Company’s colonists made landfall at Cape Henry.
In 1803, a meteorite shower of more than 3,000 fragments fell upon the town of L’Aigle in Normandy, France. The event gave birth to the science of meteoritics.
In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was shot and killed.
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