Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel

published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at

the University of Oxford. It was the sequel to his Alice's Adventures in

Wonderland (1865), in which many of the characters were playing-cards;

in this novel the theme is chess. As in the earlier book, the central

figure, Alice, finds herself in a fantastical universe. She passes

through a large mirror into another world and finds that, just as in a

reflection, things there are reversed, including logic. Eventually,

after a succession of strange adventures, she wakes and realises she has

been dreaming. The original illustrations are by John Tenniel. The book

contains several verse passages and, like Alice's Adventures in

Wonderland, introduces phrases that have become common currency. Through

the Looking Glass has been adapted for the stage and screen and

translated into many languages. Critical opinion of the book has

generally been favourable.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1775:

American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard

Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of

Quebec.

1878:

A British surveyor was detained by the Zulu on the border with

the Colony of Natal; a demand for reparations for the incident formed

part of an ultimatum that led to the Anglo-Zulu War.

1985:

Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United

States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video featured) for

the first time.

2018:

The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit

multiple targets in western Syria, including one that accidentally

downed a Russian plane.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

indict a ham sandwich:

(intransitive, chiefly US, criminal law, humorous, hyperbolic) Of a

grand jury: to charge a person with a crime, despite a perceived lack of

evidence.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Life is essentially sad. Happiness is sporadic. It comes in

moments and that's it. Extract the blood from every moment.  

--Robert Redford

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