[Daily article] October 19: V. Gordon Childe

V. Gordon Childe (1892–1957) was an Australian archaeologist who
specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his
life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of
Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London, and wrote
twenty-six books during his career. Initially an early proponent of
culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first exponent of
Marxist archaeology in the Western world. Childe studied classics at the
University of Sydney before moving to England to study classical
archaeology at the University of Oxford. In 1921 he became librarian of
the Royal Anthropological Institute and journeyed across Europe to
pursue his research into the continent's prehistory. He co-founded The
Prehistoric Society in 1934 and was its first president. In a 1935
presidential address he argued that a Neolithic Revolution initiated the
Neolithic era, and that other revolutions marked the start of the Bronze
and Iron Ages.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Gordon_Childe>

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1914:

First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops in
the First Battle of Ypres.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres>

1965:

Vietnam War: The Siege of Plei Me began with the first major
confrontation between soldiers of the communist North Vietnamese Army
and the U.S. Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Plei_Me>

2017:

Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua
(artist's impression pictured), the first known interstellar object
detected passing through the Solar System.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

stink to high heaven:
1. To have a very strong and unpleasant smell.
2. (figurative) Of a person or situation: to be highly ethically
dubious; also, of a person: to be very incompetent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stink_to_high_heaven>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and
carries the whole world about him.  
--Thomas Browne
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Browne>

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