Supporting an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Capitalist
Fact of the Day
Isaac Newton may - or may not - have invented the cat flap.
Quote of the Day
"He so beautified the city [Rome] that he justly boasted that he found it brick and left it marble.
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~ Suetonius on Augustus
On This Day
69 Otho, the second Roman emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors, stabbed himself in the heart after losing to Vitellian troops. He had been emperor for just three months.
1705 Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton.
1746 The Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuart were decisively crushed at Battle of Culloden, ending the Jacobite Rising with disastrous consequences for the Scottish clans.