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de Corbeil (c. 1070 – 1136) was an

Archbishop of Canterbury, and the first
Augustinian canon to become an
archbishop in England. Born at
Corbeil, south of Paris, he was
educated as a theologian. In 1123 he
was elected to the See of Canterbury.
Throughout his archbishopric, William
was embroiled in a dispute with
Thurstan, the Archbishop of York, over
the primacy of Canterbury. As a
temporary solution, the pope Olga Tokarczuk
appointed William the papal legate for • Former cosmonaut
England, giving him powers superior Alexei Leonov, the first
to those of York. He presided over person to conduct a
three legatine councils, which spacewalk, dies at the
condemned the purchase of benefices age of 85.
or priesthoods and admonished the • Ethiopian Prime Minister
clergy to be celibate. He oversaw Abiy Ahmed is awarded
construction of the keep of Rochester the Nobel Peace Prize for
Castle (pictured), the tallest Norman- his efforts in easing the
built keep in England. Towards the long-standing tensions
end of his life William crowned Count between Ethiopia and
Stephen of Boulogne as King of Eritrea.
England, despite his oath to the dying • Following the 2018
King Henry I that he would support the cancellation, the 2018
succession of Henry's daughter, the Nobel Prize in Literature
Empress Matilda. (Full article...) is awarded to Olga
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force in British India,
giving law enforcement
sweeping powers to
arrest, control, and
monitor the movements
of the members of ethnic
or social communities
that were defined as
"habitually criminal".
• 1890 – The Uddevalla
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was founded in
Uddevalla, Sweden, with
the purpose of bringing
about universal suffrage.
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New Zealand troops
suffered more than 2,000
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Suffrage Association
was founded in
Uddevalla, Sweden, with
the purpose of bringing
about universal suffrage.
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New Zealand troops
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casualties, including
more than 800 deaths, in
the First Battle of
Passchendaele, making
it the nation's largest loss
of life in one day.
• 1979 – Typhoon Tip, the
largest and most intense
tropical cyclone ever
recorded, reached a
worldwide record-low
sea-level pressure of
870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in
the western Pacific
Ocean.
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 the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. The
painting was commissioned and completed sometime
around 1430. It contains a number of elements typical of
van Eyck's secular portraits, including a slightly
oversized head, a dark and flat background, forensic
attention to the small details and textures of the man's
face, and illusionistic devices. It had long been thought
that the ring held in the man's right hand was meant as
an indication of his profession as a jeweler or goldsmith
and so the painting was long titled on variants of such.
More recently, the ring is interpreted as an emblem of
betrothal and the titles given by various art historians
and publications since are usually more descriptive of
the colour or form of the headdress.
The painting was attributed to van Eyck in the late 19th
century, but this was repeatedly challenged by some art
historians until a 1991 cleaning when infrared
photography revealed an underdrawing and methods of
handling of oil that were unmistakably van Eyck's. Prior
to 1948, the panel belonged to the Brukenthal National
Museum in Sibiu, Romania. That year, the new
Communist regime seized the panel, along with eighteen
others it considered the museum's most valuable
holdings, and gave it to the National Museum of Art of
Romania in Bucharest. At the end of 2006, in time for
Sibiu's stint as European Capital of Culture, the works
were returned to the Brukenthal Museum.
Painting credit: Jan van Eyck
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