1497 CE - Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeau Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
Photo of the Day
A freestanding, room-sized camera obscura at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Quote of the Day
"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me". --Langston Hughes
Song of the Day
Artist - Radiohead
Album - Pablo Honey
Film of the Day
Director - Nadav Schirman
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Wiki of the Day
Otto Braun (28 September 1900, Ismaning, Upper Bavaria – 15 August 1974, Varna, Bulgaria) was a German Communist with a long and varied career.
His most significant role was as a Comintern agent sent to China in 1934, to advise the Communist Party of China (CPC) on military strategy during the Chinese Civil War. At the time Braun adopted a Chinese name, Li De (Chinese: 李德; pinyin: Lǐ Dé, Li the German); it was only many years later that Otto Braun and "Li De" came to be known as one and the same person.
Otto Braun was born in Ismaning (near to Munich). Even though his mother was still alive, he grew up in an orphanage.
He enrolled at a teachers' training college in Pasing in the Munich area. In June 1918 Braun was drafted into the ranks of the Bavarian army, part of the Imperial German Army, but the First World War ended before he could face combat duty.
After the armistice he went back to complete his studies at the teachers' training college. However, he did not take a job as a primary school teacher. Rather, he joined the newly founded Communist Party of Germany (KPD), embarking on what would be a lifelong vocation and career, and traveled widely, mainly in North Germany.
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