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cvillepedia is a wiki hosted by Charlottesville Tomorrow dedicated to sharing and building community knowledge. It is built with the same software as Wikipedia and has a hyperlocal focus on the people, places, and events in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. It is a free, public, collaborative encyclopedia that anyone can edit and improve.
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On this day in history...
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April 16:
- 1861 – Civil War: Company A, "The Monticello Guard," enlisted.
- 1865 – While in Washington, D.C., two days after President Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, Ben Ficklin was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the assassination. A telegraph operator had reported Ficklin to the authorities, saying the 37-year-old ex-Confederate presented “the appearance of a refined pirate.” Ficklin was never tried, and was released after spending a couple of months in prison.
- 1936 – Death claimed Dr. Arthur J. Weed, noted physicist and instrument maker. Dr. Weed, who was 75 years old, was a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, having resigned from the United States Weather Bureau in 1920 to come to the university. An authority on earthquakes, Dr. Weed was the inventor of the Weed Strong Motion Seismograph, until the 1960's generally used in the study of earthquakes.
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Cvillepedia:Featured contributor/April 2024
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Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
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—Thomas Jefferson, 1789
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Where there is a free press the governors must live in constant awe of the opinions of the governed.
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—Lord Macaulay
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