Cuckolded

Past tense of 'cuckold', where a man is made a cuckold when his wife has an affair.

Fact of the Day

The Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, contains around two million words.

Quote of the Day

"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? "

~ Abraham Lincoln

On This Day

1830 The Manchester to Liverpool train line opened, and caused the first train death (of MP William Huskisson).

1859 The great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel died.

1916 Tanks were first used on the Somme. They weren't ready for use in combat and many broke down.

1935 The Nuremberg race laws were introduced, stripping German Jews of their citizenship and forbidding them to marry Aryans.

1940 Hitler indefinitely postponed his invasion of Britain following a massive defeat of the Luftwaffe.

2008 The financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the biggest such filing in US history, causing the Dow Jones to drop more than 500 points in a day.