June 11, 1898
Emperor Guangxu of China’s Qing Dynasty initiated The Hundred Days' Reform or Wuxu Reform (from 11 June to 22 September 1898) *百日维新、戊戌变法。The attempt failed after 103 days in The Coup of 1898 perpetrated by the powerful conservative opponents led by Empress Dowager Cixi.
破天一声挥大斧，干断柯折皮骨腐，纵作良材遇已苦。遇已苦，呜咽哀鸣莽终古！
- 谭嗣同
Today is
National German Chocolate Cake Day
(in the U.S.)
German chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany, as 海南没有海南鸡饭，新加坡没有星洲炒米粉，扬州没有扬州炒饭。
German chocolate cake is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting.
Originating in the United States, it owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. (It is not German by nationality.) - Wikipedia.
想起几年前在魔都街头看见的一个饭店招牌——“新西兰拉面”。仔细一看，不远处还有一家“西兰拉面”，“新西兰拉面”的意思是它是新开的西兰拉面，跟大洋洲那个国家无关。
June 11, 1979
Alice Dalgliesh, a naturalized American author born in Trinidad, British West Indies, died at age 86.She has been called "a pioneer in the field of children's historical fiction”. (Wikipedia)
“Hearts don't break...They only crack into a thousand little pieces. If they broke it would be better—because then they wouldn't exist.”
― Alice Dalgliesh
- Alice Dalgliesh