On this day in 1847, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that three hundred enlisted men of the marine corps were preparing to depart for Mexico from Fort Hamilton. With a total of about six hundred men, their mission was to head into the interior of Mexico.
"Where's your RSVP? Wedding planner Elisabeth Kramer says if you don't want to be an immediate headache, RSVP on time. When you refuse to RSVP, you force the couple to track down the information when they're already busy trying to plan their wedding."
I had locked the 13 people in attendance into a room in our Airbnb. Each of the attendees was assigned one of the papabili, which means leading candidate for the job, and literally translates to "pope-able."