RJ Hamster
📖 He Lived Deliberately. Then He Wrote About It.
Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.
■ TODAY’S LEAD STORYThoreau published Walden on August 9, 1854 — a meditation on living simply and deliberately that has been asking the same urgent questions for 170 years.READ FULL STORY →
■ ALSO ON THIS DAYThree days after Hiroshima, a second atomic weapon detonated over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 — killing tens of thousands more and completing the pair of strikes that ended the war.READ MORE →
■ MORE FROM HISTORYJerry Garcia died on August 9, 1995, and the Grateful Dead’s three-decade experiment in communal music and perpetual motion ended with him — though the community it created never entirely dispersed.READ MORE →
■ DID YOU KNOW?
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The bird was a domestic hen in Morpeth, England, in 1919 who achieved this feat without any assistance. Chickens are technically capable of flight but have been selectively bred for so many generations to prioritize meat and egg production over wing strength that sustained flight is essentially beyond them.
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