Today - July 10 一个高中老师的世纪挑战: God vs. Monkey


July 10, 1925
The Scopes Monkey Trial took place in Dayton, Tennessee, US.

The full case name of the trial: The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
Creation versus evolution 

It was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal.

Reference
https://famous-trials.com/scopesmonkey/2127-home
Today is 
National Clerihew Day
(in the U.S.)
*Clerihew 四行打油诗(克莱里休诗)

A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16.
Below are three examples by Aimee Prior:

Reference
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/clerihew.html
July 10, 2003
Winston Graham, the English novelist, died at age 95.

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