Diary (June 30, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday June 30, 2020.

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Cicero

Cicero was a fawning climber, a tool of the Optimates (the "best people"), and a self-promoting, self-delighting hypocrite who reveled in his petty triumphs, among other reprehensible qualities.

See: The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome

By Michael Parenti

New Press, New York, 2003

Cicero

History Mash

1559 – During a jousting match, King Henry II of France was mortally wounded when fragments of Gabriel Montgomery's lance pierced his eye.

1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge, making him one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers.

1908 – A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river in Siberia, flattening more than 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi) of forest

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)