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Mandy Rice-Davies
"
Well he would, wouldn't he?
" is an
aphorism
that is commonly used as a retort to a self-interested denial. It was said by the model
Mandy Rice-Davies
(pictured)
while giving evidence at the 1963 trial of
Stephen Ward
, who had been accused of living off money paid to Rice-Davies and her friend
Christine Keeler
for sex: part of the larger
Profumo affair
. While being cross-examined Rice-Davies was told that
Lord Astor
, who owned the
Cliveden
estate on which Ward rented a cottage, had denied an affair with her; she replied: "Well he would, wouldn't he?" Political, communications and psychological experts have interpreted it as a phrase which indicates the speaker believes a person is making a self-interested, obvious or irrelevant denial. They have also stated it functions as a retort to mistruths made by public figures. Linguistically, it has been noted for its use of the modal verb
would
to create rhetorical effect. The phrase has been included in
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
since 1979. (
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On this day
June 28
:
Vidovdan
in Serbia
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Gavrilo Princip
- 572
?
Alboin
, the king of the
Lombards
, was assassinated in
Verona
in a coup d'etat instigated by the
Byzantines
.
- 1904
? In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship,
SS
Norge
ran aground on
Hasselwood Rock
and sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
- 1914
?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
and his wife
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
,
were assassinated
in
Sarajevo
by
Gavrilo Princip
(pictured)
, a
Yugoslav nationalist
, sparking the outbreak of
World War I
.
- 1969
? In response to a police raid at the
Stonewall Inn
in New York City, groups of
gay
and
transgender
people
began demonstrations
, a watershed event for the worldwide
gay rights movement
.
- 1989
? President
Slobodan Milo?evi?
gave
a speech
at
Gazimestan
in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
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Fumarole minerals
are minerals that are deposited by
fumarole
exhalations. They form when gases and compounds desublimate or precipitate out of condensates, forming mineral deposits. They are mostly associated with volcanoes (as volcanic sublimate or fumarolic sublimate), following
deposition
from volcanic gas during an eruption or discharge from a volcanic vent or fumarole, but have been encountered on
burning coal deposits
as well. They can be black or multicoloured and are often unstable upon exposure to the atmosphere. This natural-colour
photomicrograph
of fumarole minerals from
Mutnovsky
, a volcano on the
Kamchatka Peninsula
in Russia, was taken using a
scanning electron microscope
and colour-enhanced by optical microscopy. Yellow and red crystals of
thallium(I) iodide
are visible, with a gradual transition between the two
polymorphs
. The crystals are located on a substrate of altered rock. This image is 700 micrometres (0.028 in) across on the long side.
Photograph credit: Mikhail Zelensky
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