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  • The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation has 22,000 students — 1,500 of them are from outside the United States, including more than 40 countries and a plethora of languages.
  • During the 1860s, watercolor paintings by English artists depicted rural scenes with thatched cottages surrounded by profuse cottage gardens. It was an idealized version of English country life.
  • Lancelot "Capability" Brown, landscaper to the rich and famous in 18th-century England, died in 1783. He advocated vistas that were "simple, uncluttered and restrained."