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Girl Looking Down in 1917

            The Postcard

An Art Series postcard that was published by F. C. B. The card was printed in Prussia.

The card was posted on Saturday the 25th. August 1917 using a ½d. stamp to:

Miss Doreen Birtles,
5, Ringwood Road,
Eastbourne,
Sussex.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"I'm glad my little girl
is doing so well on her
cello.
I expect you had a good
time with Mrs. Pearce.
Heaps of love from
Poor Old Dada xxxxx"

The Battle of Hill 70

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 25th. August 1917, the Germans frustrated further attempts by the Canadian Corps to draw further forces to Lens, France. 

The Canadians suffered 9,198 casualties, but managed to inflict up to 25,000 German casualties, including taking 1,369 German prisoners.

Six Victoria Crosses were also awarded for actions on that day, to Harry W. Brown, Robert Hill Hanna, Frederick Hobson, Okill Massey Learmonth, Michael James O'Rourke, and Filip Konowal, the only Ukrainian ever to receive the medal citation.

The Sinking of the Malda

Also on that day, the British passenger ship SS Malda was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German submarine SM U-70, killing 64 people.

J. L. Mackie

The 25th. August 1917 also marked the birth in Sydney of the Australian philosopher John Leslie Mackie, best known for his contribution to the discussion of ethics.

Mackie was the author of 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' (1977). The book opens by boldly stating:

"There are no objective values." 

He goes on to argue that because of this, ethics must be invented rather than discovered. 

His posthumously published 'The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God' (1982) has been called a tour de force in contemporary analytic philosophy. The atheist philosopher Kai Nielsen described it as:

"One of the most, probably the most, 
distinguished articulation of an atheistic 
point of view given in the twentieth 
century." 

In 1980 Time magazine described him as:

"Perhaps the ablest of today's 
atheistic philosophers."

Mackie died in Oxford, England aged 64 on the 12th. December 1981.
   

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