Mother Solomon (1816–1890) was a Wyandot nanny and cultural activist.

Solomon was born along Owl Creek in Marion County, Ohio, to a Wyandot

chief father. In 1822, her family moved to the Big Spring Reservation in

Wyandot County, where elders taught her oral tradition. She learned

English at a mission school and began attending the Wyandot Mission

Church. Solomon married in 1833 and had several children. Some of them

died before 1843, when the Indian Removal Act forced the tribe to move

to Kansas, where they lived in poor conditions. Solomon had more

children there. By 1860, her husband and remaining children had died.

She remarried the Wyandot sheriff John Solomon; they relocated to near

Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1865. When John died in 1876, she began

babysitting children, and her village nicknamed her "Mother Solomon".

Solomon promoted Wyandot culture and advocated for the restoration of

the mission church. A popular local figure, her death in 1890 was widely

reported in newspapers.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1940:

Hungarian forces massacred at least 150 ethnic Romanians in Ip,

Transylvania, following rumors that Romanians were responsible for the

deaths of two soldiers.

1943:

World War II: Nazi forces began a mass extermination campaign

against the civilian residents of around 20 villages on the Greek island

of Crete, eventually killing more than 500 men.

2003:

President Kumba Ialá of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a

bloodless military coup.

2015:

Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed

gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri

Poincaré in 1905.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

trackless:

1. Of a place: not having tracks or paths; pathless, untrodden; also,

having had all tracks removed.

2. (literary) Leaving no track or trace when moving; also, not following

any track or path.

3. (rail transport, road transport) Of a train, tram, etc.: not running

on tracks.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary

control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be

able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would

employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate

itself not from within but from without.  

--Ivan Pavlov

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