The Green Child is the only completed novel by the English anarchist
poet and critic Herbert Read. Written in 1934 and first published by
Heinemann in 1935, the story is based on the 12th-century legend of two
green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of
Woolpit, speaking an apparently unknown language. Read described the
story in his English Prose Style, published in 1931, as "the norm to
which all types of fantasy should conform". Each of the novel's three
parts ends with the apparent death of the story's protagonist,
President Olivero, dictator of the fictional South American Republic of
Roncador. In each case Olivero's death is an allegory for his
translation to a "more profound level of existence", reflecting the
book's overall theme of a search for the meaning of life. Read's
interest in psychoanalytic theory is evident throughout the novel,
which is constructed as a "philosophic myth ... in the tradition of
Plato". The story contains many autobiographical elements, and the
character of Olivero owes much to Read's experiences as an officer in
the British Army during the First World War. The novel was positively
received, although some commentators have considered it to be
"inscrutable", and one has suggested that it has been so differently
and vaguely interpreted by those who have given it serious study that
it may lack the form and content to justify the praise it has received.
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475:
Basiliscus became Byzantine Emperor after Zeno was forced to flee
Constantinople.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basiliscus>
1839:
The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype photographic
process, named after its inventor, French artist and chemist Louis
Daguerre .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/daguerreotype>
1923:
Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League
of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French
control.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_Revolt>
1972:
RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner which sailed the Atlantic Ocean for
the Cunard White Star Line, was destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour,
Hong Kong.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth>
1996:
First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched raids in the city of
Kizlyar, Republic of Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage
crisis involving thousands of civilians.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye_hostage_crisis>
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from the word go (adv):
>From the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting
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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to
other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his
freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others.
--Simone de Beauvoir
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100px|Elvis in 1970
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) was an American singer and one of the most
important figures of 20th-century popular culture. He is often referred
to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Born in Tupelo,
Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 13. He
began his career there in 1954 and became the leading figure of the
newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of television
appearances and chart-topping records during the late 1950s.
Conscripted in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years
later with some of his most commercially successful work. In 1968,
after seven years away from the stage, he returned to live performance
in a celebrated comeback television special that led to an extended Las
Vegas concert residency and a string of profitable tours. In 1973
Presley staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite,
Aloha from Hawaii, seen by around 1.5 billion viewers. Prescription
drug abuse severely affected his health, and he died suddenly in 1977
from cardiac arrest. With his versatile voice and unusually wide
success encompassing many genres, Presley is the best-selling solo
artist in the history of popular music. Nominated for 14 competitive
Grammys, he won three, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award at age 36. He has been inducted into multiple music halls of
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1297:
Francesco Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the
fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the
rulers of Monaco.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco>
1904:
Blackstone Library , the first branch of the Chicago Public Library
system, was dedicated.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Library>
1920:
The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States
steel industry in the wake of World War I, collapsed in complete
failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/steel_strike_of_1919>
2003:
Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashed in extensive fog during final
approach to Diyarbakır Airport in Turkey, leaving only five survivors
out of 80 people on board.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_634>
2010:
Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave
of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on
its way to the 2010 African Cup of Nations, killing three.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo_national_football_team_attack>
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genet (n):
(biology) A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi,
bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating
from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genet>
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Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
--Baltasar Gracián
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100px|The Entombment
The Entombment is a glue-size painting on linen attributed to the
Early Netherlandish painter Dirk Bouts. It shows a scene from the
biblical entombment of Christ, probably completed between 1440 and 1455
as a wing panel for a large hinged polyptych altarpiece. The now lost
altarpiece is thought to have contained a central crucifixion scene
flanked by four wing panel works half its length (two either side)
depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The larger work was probably
commissioned for export, possibly to a Venetian patron whose identity
is lost. The Entombment was first recorded in a mid-19th century Milan
inventory and has been in the National Gallery, London since its
purchase on the gallery's behalf by Charles Eastlake in 1861. The
Entombment is renowned for its austere but affecting portrayal of
sorrow and grief. It shows four female and three male mourners grieving
over the body of Christ. It is one of the few surviving 15th-century
paintings created using glue-size, an extremely fragile medium lacking
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1797:
The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of
the Cispadane Republic.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Italy>
1940:
Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stopped and completely destroyed
the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raate_Road>
1979:
The Vietnam People's Army captured the Cambodian capital city Phnom
Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of
large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War>
1993:
The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as its
president.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ghana>
2010:
Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving
church after celebrating a midnight Christmas Mass, killing eight of
them as well as one Muslim bystander.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_massacre>
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tin ear (n):
Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed
music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tin_ear>
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We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the
trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners. We have not
bothered to acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of
gardening. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves,
in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any
atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an
idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.
--Gerald Durrell
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100px|Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810) was a noted writer and critic of British
children's literature in the eighteenth century. Her periodical, The
Guardian of Education, helped to define the emerging genre by seriously
reviewing children's literature for the first time; it also provided
the first history of children's literature, establishing a canon of the
early landmarks of the genre that scholars still use today. Trimmer's
most popular children's book, Fabulous Histories, inspired numerous
children's animal stories and remained in print for over a century.
Trimmer was in many ways dedicated to maintaining the social and
political status quo in her works. As a high church Anglican, she was
intent on promoting the Established Church of Britain and on teaching
young children and the poor the doctrines of Christianity. Her writings
outlined the benefits of social hierarchies, arguing that each class
should remain in its God-given position. Yet, while supporting many of
the traditional political and social ideologies of her time, Trimmer
questioned others, such as those surrounding gender and the family.
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1449:
Constantine XI Palaiologos was crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor, the
last one before the Fall of Constantinople.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos>
1838:
Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the
electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in
Morristown, New Jersey.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electrical_telegraph>
1912:
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of
continental drift.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/continental_drift>
1993:
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) units killed 55 Kashmiri civilians
in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF
patrol.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore_massacre>
1994:
Two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was
clubbed on the right leg by an assailant hired by Jeff Gillooly, the
ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kerrigan>
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relegate (v):
1. (done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
2. (Roman history, done to a person) Banish from proximity to Rome for
a set time.
3. [[consign
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Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me
to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the
shore of eternity. Your thought instills in your heart arrogance and
superiority. Mine plants within me love for peace and the desire for
independence. Your thought begets dreams of palaces with furniture of
sandalwood studded with jewels, and beds made of twisted silk threads.
My thought speaks softly in my ears, "Be clean in body and spirit even
if you have nowhere to lay your head." Your thought makes you aspire to
titles and offices. Mine exhorts me to humble service.
--Khalil Gibran
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Justus (died between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of
Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the
Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native
Anglo-Saxon paganism, probably arriving with the second group of
missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first Bishop of
Rochester in 604, and attended a church council in Paris in 614.
Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was
forced to flee to Gaul, but was reinstated in his diocese the following
year. In 624 Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury, overseeing the
despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. After his death he was revered
as a saint, and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.
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1757:
Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François
Damiens, who later became the last person to be executed in France by
drawing and quartering.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens>
1976:
The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the night
before, the South Armagh Republican Action Force killed ten Protestants
in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reavey_and_O%27Dowd_killings>
1996:
Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash was assassinated by a bomb-laden cell
phone, planted by Israel's Shin Bet.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash>
2005:
Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, was
discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally
taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego
County, California.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29>
2008:
Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia
in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the
history of Georgia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_presidential_election%2C_2008>
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timbre (n):
The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/timbre>
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems
unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.
--Konrad Adenauer
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100px|A loggerhead turtle at Océanopolis, Brest, France
The loggerhead sea turtle is an oceanic turtle distributed throughout
the world. An adult weighs around 135 kilograms (300 lb), with the
largest specimens weighing in at more than 454 kilograms (1,000 lb).
The skin ranges from yellow to brown in color, and the shell is
typically reddish-brown. Found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian
oceans as well as the Mediterranean Sea, the loggerhead sea turtle
spends most of its life in saltwater and estuarine habitats, with
females briefly coming ashore to lay eggs. The loggerhead sea turtle
has a low reproductive rate and a lifespan of 47–67 years. Omnivorous,
the species feeds mainly on bottom dwelling invertebrates. Its large
and powerful jaws serve as an effective tool in dismantling its prey.
Loggerheads are considered an endangered species and are protected by
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Turtle excluder
devices (TEDs) have been implemented in efforts to reduce mortality by
providing the turtle an escape route. Loss of suitable nesting beaches
and the introduction of exotic predators has also taken a toll on
loggerhead populations. Efforts to restore their numbers will require
international cooperation since the turtles roam vast areas of ocean
and critical nesting beaches are scattered among several countries.
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1698:
Most of London's Palace of Whitehall, the main residence of the English
monarchs dating from 1530, was destroyed by fire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Whitehall>
1847:
American gun inventor Samuel Colt made his first large sale of his
revolver pistols to the Texas Rangers.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt>
1884:
The Fabian Society, an intellectual movement whose purpose is to
advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist methods rather
than revolutionary means, was founded in London.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society>
2007:
Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of
the U.S. Government.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi>
2010:
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the world's tallest structure, officially
opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa>
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brown study (n):
(dated) A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought; a moody daydream
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The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by
this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this
rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the
Prophecy also into contempt.
The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies
of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them
to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be
interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters,
be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things
predicted many ages before will then be a convincing argument that the
world is governed by Providence.
--Isaac Newton
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120px|Australian troops enter Bardia.
The Battle of Bardia was fought over three days between 3 and 5
January 1941, as part of Operation Compass in the Second World War.
Australian Major General Iven Mackay's 6th Division assaulted the
strongly held Italian fortress of Bardia, Libya, assisted by air
support and naval gunfire, and under the cover of an artillery barrage.
The 16th Infantry Brigade attacked at dawn from the west, where the
defences were known to be weak. This allowed the infantry and 23
Matilda II tanks of the 7th Royal Tank Regiment to enter the fortress
and capture all their objectives, along with 8,000 prisoners. In the
second phase of the operation, the 17th Infantry Brigade exploited the
breach made in the perimeter. On the second day, the 16th Infantry
Brigade captured the township of Bardia, cutting the fortress in two.
On the third day, the 19th Infantry Brigade advanced south from Bardia,
supported by artillery and the Matilda tanks. Meanwhile, the Italian
garrisons in the north surrendered to the 16th Infantry Brigade and the
Support Group of the British 7th Armoured Division. The victory at
Bardia enabled the Allied forces to continue the advance into Libya and
ultimately capture almost all of Cyrenaica. (more...)
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1888:
The 91 cm refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory near San Jose,
California, at the time the largest telescope in the world, was used
for the first time.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Observatory>
1911:
A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Kebin_earthquake>
1919:
Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim
Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an
Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%E2%80%93Weizmann_Agreement>
1976:
The multilateral International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, part of the International Bill of Human Rights, came
into effect.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Economic%2C_Social_a…>
1990:
United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed
"strongman of Panama", surrendered to American forces.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega>
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and how (phrase):
(idiomatic, colloquial) Used to strongly confirm preceding utterance
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He who looks on a true friend looks, as it were, upon a kind of image
of himself: wherefore friends, though absent, are still present; though
in poverty, they are rich; though weak, yet in the enjoyment of health;
and, what is still more difficult to assert, though dead, they are
alive.
--Cicero
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110px|Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, site of the 2006 Gator Bowl
The 2006 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game between the
Louisville Cardinals and the Virginia Tech Hokies in Jacksonville,
Florida on January 2, 2006. Virginia Tech was selected as a participant
in the 2006 Gator Bowl following a 10–2 regular season; a loss to
Florida State in the inaugural ACC Championship Game gave Tech a
position in the Gator Bowl instead of the more prestigious Orange Bowl
game. Facing the 12th-ranked Hokies were the 15th-ranked Cardinals, who
finished 9–2 during the regular season of their first year in the Big
East Conference. Louisville led for much of the game, beginning with an
11-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter by backup quarterback
Hunter Cantwell. In the second half, however, Virginia Tech's offense
began to have success. Tech earned the only points of the third
quarter—a 28-yard field goal from kicker Brandon Pace—to narrow
Louisville's lead to 17–13. In the fourth quarter, the game fully
turned in the Hokies' favor. Though Louisville scored a touchdown early
in the quarter, Virginia Tech scored 22 unanswered points in the final
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366:
The Alamanni, an alliance of west Germanic tribes, crossed the frozen
Rhine in large numbers to invade the Roman Empire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamanni>
1920:
Under the leadership of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ,
Department of Justice agents launched a series of raids against radical
leftists and anarchists across 30 cities in 23 states.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids>
1941:
Second World War: The Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, was
severely damaged by German bombing during the Cardiff Blitz.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandaff_Cathedral>
1971:
At Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland, 66 people were killed in a stampede
during an Old Firm football match.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrox_disaster>
2004:
The Stardust space probe flew by the comet Wild 2 and collected
particle samples from its coma, which were later returned to Earth.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/81P/Wild>
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neonate (n):
A newborn infant; recently born baby
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems
and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
--Isaac Asimov
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100px|Sheet music cover of "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"
"On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" was among the best-selling
songs of the 19th century in terms of sheet music sold. Written and
composed by American songwriter Paul Dresser, it was published by the
Tin Pan Alley firm of Howley, Haviland & Co. in October 1897. The
lyrics of the ballad reminisce about life near Dresser's childhood home
by the Wabash River in Indiana. It remained popular for decades and the
Indiana General Assembly adopted it as the official state song on March
14, 1913. The song was the basis for a 1923 film by the same title. Its
longtime popularity led to the emergence of several different lyrical
versions, including an 1898 anti-war song and a Swedish version that
was a number one hit. The song was composed during a transitory time in
musical history when songs first began to be recorded for the
phonograph. It was among the earliest pieces of popular music to be
recorded. Dresser's inability to control the distribution of phonograph
cylinders led him and his company to join other composers to petition
the United States Congress to expand federal copyright protections over
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1801:
The Kingdom of Ireland formally merged with the Kingdom of Great
Britain, adding St. Patrick's saltire to the Union Flag.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800>
1808:
As a result of the lobbying efforts by the Abolitionist Movement, the
importation of slaves into the United States was officially banned,
although slavery itself was not yet abolished.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/slavery_in_the_United_States>
1810:
Lachlan Macquarie became Governor of New South Wales, eventually
playing a major role in the shaping of the social, economic and
architectural development of the colony in Australia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macquarie>
1959:
Cuban President Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic as
forces under Fidel Castro took control of Havana, marking the end of
the Cuban Revolution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution>
1983:
The ARPANET changed its core networking protocols from NCP to TCP/IP,
marking the beginning of the Internet as we know it today.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet>
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anacrusis (n):
1. (prosody) an unstressed syllable at the start of a verse
2. (music) an unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat
(or downbeat) of a phrase
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to
the next.
--J. D. Salinger
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