The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out for
California in a wagon train, but became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada
mountains in November 1846. Running out of food, some resorted to
cannibalism to survive. The journey west usually took between four and
six months, but the Donner Party had been slowed by following a new
route called the Hastings Cutoff, which crossed the Rocky Mountains'
Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day Utah. They
lost many cattle and wagons in the rugged terrain, and divisions formed
within the group. Their food supplies ran low after they became trapped
by an early, heavy snowfall high in the mountains. In mid-December some
of the group set out on foot and were able to obtain help. Of the 87
members of the party, 48 survived to reach California. Historians have
described the episode as one of the most spectacular tragedies in
California history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1892:
Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football
clubs, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C.>
1937:
Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke
of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private
ceremony in France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis_Simpson>
1969:
During a SEATO exercise in the South China Sea, a collision
between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans resulted in the latter
vessel being cut in two and the deaths of 74 personnel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Frank_E._Evans>
1982:
A failed assassination attempt was made on Shlomo Argov, the
Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, which event was later used as
justification for the First Lebanon War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Argov>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tandem:
1. One behind the other; in single file.
2. (figurative) In close collaboration; collaboratively, cooperatively.
3. (countable) A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals
(generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both
providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to
steer.
4. (by extension, countable)
5. Two draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind
the other.
6. A thing with two components arranged one behind the other.
7. (specifically, cycling) Short for tandem bicycle (“a bicycle or
tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to
pedal but only the person in front being able to steer”).
8. (medicine) A hollow metal tube containing radioactive material,
inserted through the vagina into the uterus to treat gynecological
cancer.
9. (figurative)
10. (countable) A group of two or more machines, people, etc., working
together; hence (uncountable), close collaboration.
11. (uncountable, education) A method of language learning based on
mutual exchange, where ideally each learner is a native speaker in the
language the other person wants to learn. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tandem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of
those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
--Sydney Smith
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith>
John Richard Clark Hall (1855–1931) was a British scholar of Old
English, and a barrister. Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
(pictured) became a widely used work upon its 1894 publication, and
after multiple revisions remains in print. His 1901 prose translation of
Beowulf was still the canonical introduction to the poem into the 1960s;
some later editions included a prefatory essay by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Hall's other work on Beowulf included a metrical translation in 1914,
and the translation and collection of Knut Stjerna's Swedish papers on
the poem in the 1912 work Essays on Questions Connected with the Old
English Poem of Beowulf. In the final decade of his life, Hall's
writings took to a Christian theme. The Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge published two of his works in this time: Herbert Tingle, and
Especially his Boyhood, and Birth-Control and Self-Control. Hall worked
as a clerk at the Local Government Board in Whitehall, becoming
principal clerk in 1898.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Richard_Clark_Hall>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
First Red Scare: The anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani set
off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_bombings>
1953:
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Elizabeth_II>
1994:
The Royal Air Force suffered a significant peacetime disaster
when a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland,
killing all 29 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Mull_of_Kintyre_Chinook_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
snottite:
(bacteriology) A colony of single-celled extremophilic bacteria that
hangs in a sheet (having the consistency of snot or nasal mucus) from
the ceilings of some caves like stalactites.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snottite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A man should be only partially before his time — to be
completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's
warlike son been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted
civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike
hero that he seemed, but nobody would have heard of an Alexander.
--Thomas Hardy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy>
Ludwigsburg Palace is a 452-room complex of 18 buildings in Ludwigsburg,
Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the largest palatial estate in the
country and has been called the "Versailles of Swabia". Eberhard Louis,
Duke of Württemberg, began construction of the palace in 1704. Charles
Eugene, the son of his successor, completed it and refurbished parts in
the Rococo style, especially its theatre. Charles Eugene abandoned the
palace in 1775, and it began a decline until Frederick, the future duke,
moved into the palace in 1795. As King of Württemberg, Frederick and
his wife Queen Charlotte renovated the entirety of the palace in the
Neoclassical style. The palace was opened to the public in 1918. It
underwent periods of restoration, including for its tercentenary in
2004. It has hosted the Ludwigsburg Festival annually since 1947. The
palace is surrounded by gardens named Blooming Baroque (Blühendes
Barock), laid out in 1954 as they might have appeared in 1800.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigsburg_Palace>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1857:
The Revolution of the Ganhadores, the first general strike in
Brazil, began in Salvador, Bahia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_the_Ganhadores>
1974:
In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich
introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known as the
Heimlich maneuver, to treat victims of choking.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Heimlich>
1988:
Group representation constituencies were introduced to the
parliament of Singapore.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_representation_constituency>
1999:
On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of
Arkansas, American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed
(wreckage pictured), resulting in 11 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_1420>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
baby's tears:
Any of various plants having parts (such as leaves or spots on leaves,
petals, etc.) resembling teardrops; specifically, angel's tears
(Soleirolia soleirolii), a plant in the nettle family grown as a green,
mossy ground cover.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baby%27s_tears>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Once the expenditure of effort exceeds the value of the
political object, the object must be renounced and peace must follow.
We see then that if one side cannot completely disarm the other, the
desire for peace on either side will rise and fall with the probability
of further successes and the amount of effort these would require. …
If the incentive grows on one side, it should diminish on the other.
Peace will result so long as their sum total is sufficient — though
the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the
better bargain.
--Carl von Clausewitz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz>
The siege of Guînes took place from May to July 1352 when a French
army under Geoffrey de Charny unsuccessfully attempted to recapture the
French castle (pictured) at Guînes which had been seized by the English
the previous January. The siege was part of the Hundred Years' War and
took place during the uneasy and ill-kept truce of Calais. The strongly
fortified castle had been taken by the English during a period of
nominal truce and the English king, Edward III, decided to keep it.
Charny led 4,500 men and retook the town but was unable to either
recapture or blockade the castle. After two months of fierce fighting, a
large English night attack on the French camp inflicted a heavy defeat
and the French withdrew. Guînes was incorporated into the Pale of
Calais. The threat posed by this enclave caused the French to garrison
60 fortified positions around it, at ruinous expense. The castle was
besieged by the French in 1436 and 1514, but was relieved each time,
before falling to the French in 1558.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gu%C3%AEnes_%281352%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1223:
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus': Mongol forces defeated a Kievan
Rus' army at the Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Kalka_River>
1468:
Cardinal Bessarion announced his donation of 746 Greek and
Latin codices to the Republic of Venice, forming the Biblioteca
Marciana.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Marciana>
1935:
An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck Balochistan in British
India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Quetta_earthquake>
2013:
A tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing 8 people and
injuring more than 150.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
contain multitudes:
(intransitive, idiomatic) To have a complex and apparently paradoxical
nature; to be inconsistent, especially in a way that is ultimately
admirable or noble.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contain_multitudes>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the
animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for
the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate
tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward
the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man
or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with
the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the
open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you
have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever
insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and
have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines
of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every
motion and joint of your body.
--Walt Whitman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman>
The Beulé Gate is a fortified gate leading to the Propylaia of the
Acropolis of Athens, Greece. It was constructed largely of repurposed
material taken from the 4th-century BCE Choragic Monument of Nikias and
integrated into the Post-Herulian Wall, a late Roman fortification built
around the Acropolis in the years following the city's sack by the
Germanic Heruli people in 267 or early 268 CE. Its construction marked
the beginning of a new phase in the Acropolis's use, in which it came to
be seen more as a defensive position than a religious sanctuary. During
the medieval period, the gate was further fortified, before being built
over with a bastion in Ottoman times. The monument was discovered by the
French archaeologist Charles Ernest Beulé on 29 May 1852, and
excavated in 1852 and 1853. Archaeologists and Greek commentators
criticised the aggressive excavation – particularly the use of
explosives. In modern times, the gate has served primarily as an exit
for tourists from the Acropolis.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beul%C3%A9_Gate>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1416:
A squadron of the Venetian navy captured many Ottoman ships at
the Battle of Gallipoli, confirming Venetian naval superiority in the
Aegean Sea for the next few decades.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gallipoli_%281416%29>
1913:
During the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring by Igor
Stravinsky at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the avant-
garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the
audience.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring>
1999:
Charlotte Perrelli, representing Sweden, won the Eurovision
Song Contest, the first edition not to feature an orchestra or live
accompaniment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1999>
2011:
Residents of Portland, Oregon, held a rally called Hands Across
Hawthorne in response to an attack against a gay couple holding hands
while crossing the Hawthorne Bridge (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_Hawthorne>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Mount Everest:
1. A mountain in the Himalayas, on the border of Solukhumbu district,
Koshi, Nepal and Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region,
China; the world's highest mountain above sea level.
2. (figurative) An endeavour that is very demanding yet rewarding; also,
a thing which is the highest achievement, challenge, etc.; the epitome,
the pinnacle, the ultimate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mount_Everest>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another.
Either alone would fail. A willingness to resist force, unaccompanied by
a willingness to talk, could provoke belligerence — while a
willingness to talk, unaccompanied by a willingness to resist force,
could invite disaster.
--John F. Kennedy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy>
Nicholas of Worcester (died 1124) was the prior of the Benedictine
priory of Worcester Cathedral (crypt pictured) from about 1115 until his
death. He was born around the time of the Norman Conquest. It is not
known who his parents were, but William of Malmesbury wrote that he was
"of exalted descent", and it has been argued that he was a son of King
Harold Godwinson. Nicholas was the favourite pupil of Wulfstan, the
bishop of Worcester, who brought him up. Wulfstan was influential in
transmitting Old English culture to Anglo-Norman England, and Nicholas
carried on this work as prior. He was respected by the chroniclers
William of Malmesbury, John of Worcester and Eadmer for his assistance
with their histories. Nicholas was an English monk at a time when both
Englishmen and monks rarely received promotion in the church, and when
Bishop Theulf of Worcester died in October 1123, Nicholas led an
unsuccessful attempt of the monks of the priory chapter to be allowed to
choose the next bishop.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_of_Worcester>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1644:
English Civil War: Royalist troops stormed and captured the
Parliamentarian stronghold of Bolton, leading to a massacre of defenders
and local residents.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_Bolton>
1754:
French and Indian War: Led by 22-year-old George Washington, a
company of Virginia colonial militiamen ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens
at the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jumonville_Glen>
1901:
Mozaffar ad-Din, Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to
prospect for oil in the country to William Knox D'Arcy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Concession>
1937:
The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession
as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to Buckingham
Palace to "kiss hands".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_Neville_Chamberlain>
2002:
An independent commission appointed by the Football Association
voted two-to-one to allow Wimbledon F.C. to relocate from London to
Milton Keynes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation_of_Wimbledon_F.C._to_Milton_Keynes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
no strings attached:
(idiomatic, originally US, informal) Without conditions or obligations;
without a catch.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_strings_attached>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no
one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a
man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes
over his face is something to see.
--Walker Percy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walker_Percy>
SMS Lothringen was the last of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the
Braunschweig class built for the Imperial German Navy. Launched in
May 1904, she was named for the then-German province of Lothringen. The
ship was armed with a battery of four 28 cm (11 in) guns and had a top
speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). She was to be replaced in
July 1914 by dreadnought battleships but World War I prevented her
retirement. The ship and the rest of II Squadron joined the
dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet to support a raid on Scarborough,
Hartlepool, and Whitby in December 1914. She primarily served as a
guard ship in the German Bight; in poor condition by 1916, she was
withdrawn from fleet service in February. She thereafter patrolled the
Danish straits until replaced by the battleship Hannover in
September 1917. After the war, she was converted into a depot ship for
F-type minesweepers and placed in reserve in March 1920. (This article
is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Battleships_of_Germ…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1799:
War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the
French Army of the Danube, capturing the strategically important Swiss
town of Winterthur.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Winterthur>
1954:
The security clearance of American nuclear physicist J. Robert
Oppenheimer, head of Project Y, was revoked.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_security_clearance_hearing>
1967:
Australians voted overwhelmingly for the number of Indigenous
Australians to be included in population counts for constitutional
purposes and for the federal government to make laws for their benefit.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Australian_referendum_%28Aboriginals%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
milliner:
1. (archaic) A person who sells (women's) apparel, accessories, and
other decorative goods, especially those originally manufactured in
Milan.
2. (specifically) A person involved in the design, manufacture, or sale
of hats for women.
3. To manufacture (women's apparel, specifically hats); also, to supply
(someone) with women's apparel, specifically hats.
4. (figurative) To adorn or decorate (something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milliner>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All is repose and peace, Untrampled lies the sod; The shouts of
battle cease, It is the Truce of God! Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from
danger free. Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant
flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow>
"The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by
American writer Ursula K. Le Guin (pictured). First published in Galaxy
in August 1974, it was republished in Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve
Quarters (1975). Set in her fictional Hainish universe, the story has
strong connections to her novel The Dispossessed (also 1974), and is
sometimes referred to as a prologue to the novel. The story follows Odo,
an aging anarchist, who over the course of a day relives memories of her
life as an activist as she learns of plans for a general strike the next
day. The strike is implied to be the start of the revolt leading to the
idealized anarchist society based on Odo's teachings depicted in the
novel. The story was critically well-received. It won the Nebula and
Locus Awards for Best Short Story in 1975, and was also nominated for a
Hugo Award. Multiple scholars commented that it represented a shift in
Le Guin's writing toward non-linear narrative structures and works
infused with feminism.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before_the_Revolution>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1894:
Germany's Emanuel Lasker defeated Wilhelm Steinitz to become
the world chess champion, beginning a record 27-year reign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lasker>
1999:
Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League final to become
the first English football club to win three major championships in the
same season.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_Manchester_United_F.C._season>
2002:
Barges being towed destroyed part of a bridge (aftermath
pictured) near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, causing vehicles to fall into
the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-40_bridge_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
exsanguinate:
1. (transitive)
2. To drain (a living or dead body, or (medicine, surgery) a body part)
of blood.
3. To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.
4. (intransitive)
5. To bleed profusely; also, to die by means of blood loss.
6. To cause blood to drain from a body or body part, or profuse
bleeding.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exsanguinate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Youth’s bright palaceIs overthrown,With its diamond
sceptreAnd golden throne;As a time-worn stoneIts turrets are
humbled—All hath crumbledBut grief alone!
--Denis Florence MacCarthy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Denis_Florence_MacCarthy>
The 2019 FA Cup final was an association football match between
Manchester City and Watford for the 138th FA Cup final. In the 21st
minute, Abdoulaye Doucouré's shot struck Vincent Kompany's arm; the
referee declined to award a penalty and showed Doucouré the first
yellow card of the game for his protests. David Silva scored the first
goal from a header and Gabriel Jesus side-footed the ball for the second
goal. At 61 minutes City extended their lead with a goal from substitute
Kevin De Bruyne (pictured), and seven minutes later Jesus scored on the
counter-attack. Sterling scored twice at the 81st and the 87th minutes
and the match ended 6–0 to Manchester City. De Bruyne was named the
man of the match. It was only the third time that a team has scored six
goals in an FA Cup final and the margin of victory is the joint-largest
in an FA Cup final. The win completed a domestic treble for Manchester
City, who already won the League Cup and the Premier League that season.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_FA_Cup_final>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1944:
The Wehrmacht and their collaborationist allies launched
Operation Rösselsprung, a failed attempt to assassinate the Yugoslav
Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_R%C3%B6sselsprung_%281944%29>
1961:
A fire broke out at a squatter settlement in Bukit Ho Swee,
Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukit_Ho_Swee_fire>
1979:
During takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, an
engine detached from American Airlines Flight 191, causing a crash that
killed 273 people in the deadliest aviation accident in United States
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191>
2009:
North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile
tests that were widely condemned internationally and led to sanctions
from the United Nations Security Council.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_North_Korean_nuclear_test>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tubular bells:
(music) A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal tubes
that are struck with a mallet, producing sounds like those of church
bells.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tubular_bells>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss
big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on
me, for every muscle in my back, shoulders and arms is groaning, "You
missed it."
--Babe Ruth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth>
George Town is the capital of the Malaysian state of Penang,
encompassing Penang Island and surrounding islets. With a population of
794,313 as of the 2020 census, it is the core city of Malaysia's second-
largest metropolitan area, which has a population of 2.84 million.
George Town serves as the commercial centre for northern Malaysia. Its
technological sector, anchored by hundreds of multinational companies,
has made the city the top exporter in the country. It was the first
British settlement in Southeast Asia, and its proximity to maritime
routes along the Strait of Malacca attracted an influx of immigrants
from various parts of Asia. In 1974, the city was merged with the rest
of the island, throwing its administrative status into doubt until 2015,
when its jurisdiction was reinstated and expanded to cover the entire
island and adjacent islets. UNESCO designated the city centre of George
Town as a World Heritage Site in 2008.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Town,_Penang>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
The Act of Toleration became law, granting freedom of worship
to English nonconformists under certain circumstances, but deliberately
excluding Catholics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleration_Act_1688>
1963:
United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with
African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to
improve race relations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%E2%80%93Kennedy_meeting>
2014:
A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the
Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_of_Belgium_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
back-of-the-envelope:
(idiomatic, informal) Especially of a calculation, estimation, or other
reasoning, or an idea: approximate, rough, simplified.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/back-of-the-envelope>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the
less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.
--Benjamin N. Cardozo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo>