Today in Strangeness: On this day in 1903, George Orwell was - TopicsExpress



          

Today in Strangeness: On this day in 1903, George Orwell was born in Motihari, India. He wrote two of the 20th centurys best known novels, Animal Farm, and 1984. Set in a totalitarian future, his influential book 1984 coined such phrases as Big Brother is watching you, newspeak and doublethink. On June 25, 1997 an unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russias Mir space station, knocking out power and rupturing a laboratory.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:57:50 +0000

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