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    366 Squared. Volume 6: June
    366 Squared. Volume 6: June
    366 Squared. Volume 6: June
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    366 Squared. Volume 6: June

    By Michel Clasquin-Johnson

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    If this is your first taste of the wacky world of 366 Squared, welcome. For the old hands, welcome back, and I trust you will enjoy the new collection of bite-sized stories, vignettes and essays based on the day of the year. In this volume you will find something new. 27 and 28 June turned out to be particularly frustrating days. There was just nothing on those days that got my creative juices flowing. Throughout July and August I came back to them over and over, and ... nothing. And so I am proud to announce ... well, actually, I'm not proud of it at all, but for those two days I wrote one 732-word essay and spread it over the two days. Before you all start demanding your money back, let me point out that there are two bonus stories elsewhere in the collection.Highlights this month (meaning my personal favourites, of course): (1)Why Bhutan was the last place on Earth to get TV service(2) What really happened to Judge Crater(3)The Iliad was a cover-up!(4) The Danes are not going to like knowing where their flag actually came from(5) Why the first and the second woman PhD students were separated by 200 years.

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    PublisherMichel Clasquin-Johnson
    Release dateAug 27, 2013
    ISBN9781301302536
    366 Squared. Volume 6: June
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    Michel Clasquin-Johnson

    Michel Clasquin-Johnson is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Africa and was, until recently, the entire Buddhological establishment on the continent of Africa. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa with his wife, son and two motorcycles. Michel likes to think that he practices Buddhism (in his own way) as well as writing about it. The entire Buddhist world disagrees, but is too polite to say so. In his spare time, he writes what can loosely be called science fiction. Not a lot of science involved, and a fine disregard for the rules of fiction. He also writes application software, but only for utterly obscure and/or obsolete operating systems that are never going to lead to a payday. Let's hope he hangs on to his day job.

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      366 Squared. Volume 6 - Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      366 Squared

      Volume 6: June

      Published by Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      Copyright 2012 Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your preferred reseller and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Background to cover image courtesy of NASA. All other graphics used in this book or on the cover are in the public domain or are Creative-Content-licensed and were obtained either from Wikimedia or Wikipedia.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Introduction to Volume 6

      June 1, 1938

      June 1, 1879 (Bonus Story)

      June 2, 1855

      June 2, 1999 (Bonus Story)

      June 3, 1853

      June 4, 1411

      June 5, 1964

      June 6, 1939

      June 7, 1866

      June 8, 1794

      June 9, 68

      June 10, 2002

      June 11, 1184 BCE

      June 12, 1942

      June 13, 1886

      June 14, 1951

      June 15, 1219

      June 16, 1846

      June 17, 1987

      June18, 1858

      June 19, 1937

      June 20, 1840

      June 21

      June 22, 1856

      June 23, 47 BCE

      June 24, 1374

      June 25, 1678

      June 26, 363

      June 27

      June 28

      June 29, 1613

      June 30, 1905

      Day References

      About the Author

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      Introduction

      This book series comes from a challenge I set myself in September 2012: write a story a day for a year (and include a bonus story for February 29). I wanted to reinvent myself as a writer, and things were going … slowly. I needed a shock to the system, something to get myself to open that same file day after day and pound away on the keyboard. Even if I didn't work on anything else that day, at least I would have done this one little thing. By the end of one year, I would have created the equivalent of a 130 000 word novel.

      And so, day after day, I opened up the usual This Day in History websites and saw what had happened that was interesting, that I might be able to weave a tale around. Naturally, the best-laid plans of mice and men ... Soon enough I found myself behind schedule. People get sick. People's kids get sick. People get fired up writing on other projects. It also became clear that the Table of Contents for such a book would become ridiculously unwieldy.

      I just decided to be kind to myself: as soon as I had a month's worth of stories ready to go I would put them out there in a collection. If it took me more than a year to fill out the entire calendar, so mote it be! Whether the whole lot will ever be reassembled into an omnibus remains to be seen. If there is a demand for it, sure. Let me know.

      Almost every story in this volume is based on a real event, a celebration, a birth or a death associated with a specific day. But you may have to read carefully to figure out just what that was. I'm certainly not going to give it away in the title: if you need to know in advance what the story is going to be about, then the story itself is a flop. But if the reference is too obscure, you can look it up in the back of the book, where all the day references are listed.

      And it is just a reference to that day. The actual action in the story may take place slightly earlier or later in time. It may even be a reference transposed centuries into the past or future, or into an alternative universe influenced by what did (not) happen that day, in true science fiction style. And historians will sometimes disagree about the

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