ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
july 3, 1940 The King and Queen have firmly rejected suggestions from influential quarters that Princess elizabeth and Princess Margaret should be sent out of the country at this juncture. The King and Queen have said: ‘We all face a common peril. We would prefer to share whatever family perils there may be with the parents of this country.’ july 3, 1969 Brian Jones, the pop star who broke with the rolling stones recently, was found dead early today. his body was discovered at his farmhouse home at hartfield, sussex. Jones (pictured), 27, was one of the original rolling stones. he was lead guitarist. he became famous for his poker face, maintained whatever the number the group were playing.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Joanne harris, 53. The Barnsley born author of Chocolat, which was turned into an oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, has also written three cookbooks. harris worked as a teacher for 15 years and once mistook actor ewan McGregor for an ex-pupil. TRACEY EMIN, 54. The artist, who grew up in Margate, revealed last year that she had ‘married’ a rock in her garden in France, while wearing her father’s funeral shroud as a wedding dress. emin (pictured) said the stone was ‘a metaphor for what i prefer to live with’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
FRANZ KAFKA (1883-1924). The Czechborn German author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis gave us the word ‘Kafkaesque’, which means something that has ‘a complex, bizarre, or illogical quality’. he ordered his close friend, Max Brod, to destroy all his unpublished manuscripts, but Brod ignored the instructions. FONTELLA Bass (1940-2012). The american soul singer is best known for her 1965 hit rescue Me, which has been described as ‘the best record aretha Franklin never made’. it took her more than 20 years of legal battles to be credited as a co-writer on the song and receive royalties for it.
ON JULY 3...
IN 1035, William the Conqueror became the Duke of normandy aged seven or eight, upon the death of his father.
IN 1938, The Mallard set a world speed record for a steam locomotive when it reached a speed of 126 mph near Grantham, lincolnshire.
WORD WIZARDRY
NEW WORD OF THE DAY Greentailing: The business of selling environmentally friendly goods. GUESS THE DEFINITION FOR Fillip (coined 1543) a) To dash and rebound in waves (of water) B) a flick of the finger let go from the thumb C) a needle with a broken eye Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED A penny for your thoughts: refers to an invitation to someone lost in thought to share his or her preoccupation. Derived from a line by sir Thomas More, who said: ‘it often happeth that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that other folk sodainly say to them a peny for your thought.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I’m not so think as you drunk I am. Sir J C Squire, English man of letters (1884-1958)
JOKE OF THE DAY
i have a job helping a one-armed typist do capital letters. It’s shift work. GUESS THE DEFINITION answer: B