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1871: Renoir was placed before a firing squad.
He was going to die. For treason.
Why?
He was just 30 years old.
It was during the Paris Commune in 1871.
Renoir was painting along the Seine, but the National Guard wasn't in the mood for art.
They accused him of mapping out the river's fortifications.
A crowd gathered, shouting, "Drown the traitor in the river!"
They dragged him to the town hall to be executed.
Luckily, he had friends: an acquaintance at the town hall spotted him, embraced him, and convinced the soldiers he was just an artist.
Saved right before the firing squad could end his life.
Today we honor Neil Armstrong, who passed away on this day in 2012.
Neil will forever be remembered for his work on Apollo 11. But beyond this, he should be remembered for his grace, humility, and amazing courage.
Next time you look at the Moon, give a little wink for him.
I genuinely think one of the hardest things about being a reader is having nobody to talk to about the book you just finished.
Like, I need to discuss this immediately.
"Curses and Caviar" is being featured on a StoryOrigin giveaway this week! Check it out with other currently free stories below:
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In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up, not for neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.
S301: The Extreme Star Stress-Testing Einstein Right at Our Galaxy’s Heart
Astronomers have found a superstar — literally. Meet S301, a sun-like star locked in the shortest-known orbit around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
Orbital period: Just **8.7 years
Closest approach*: ~24 AU (if Sgr A were at the Sun’s position, S301 would fly between Uranus and Neptune)
Speed at periapsis: Over **8% the speed of light
This makes S301 the most relativistic star ever observed. Its highly elliptical orbit shows dramatic perihelion precession of about 2 degrees per orbit — orders of magnitude stronger than Mercury’s famous precession that helped confirm general relativity.
Future observations with giant telescopes will let us measure higher-order effects like gravitational redshift and even test alternative gravity theories. For now, just tracking its motion is giving us an unprecedented look at spacetime near a 4-million-solar-mass black hole.
S301 isn’t just orbiting — it’s dancing on the edge of physics as we know it