Nancy Drew is a fictional character in various mystery fiction series.
She was created by Edward Stratemeyer and first appeared in 1930. The
books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published
under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Over the decades the
character has evolved in response to changes in American culture and
tastes. In the 1980s a new series was created, The Nancy Drew Files,
which featured an older and more professional Nancy as well as romantic
plots. In 2004 the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, begun in
1930, was ended and a new series, Girl Detective, was launched.
Illustrations of the character have also evolved over time to reflect
the Nancy Drew type in contemporary terms. Through all these changes,
the character has proved continuously popular worldwide: at least
80 million copies of the books have been sold, and they have been
translated into more than 45 languages. A cultural icon, Nancy Drew has
been cited as a formative influence by a number of women. Feminist
literary critics have analyzed the character's enduring appeal, arguing
variously that Nancy Drew is a mythic hero, an expression of wish
fulfillment, or an embodiment of contradictory ideas about femininity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
737:
Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Turgesh tribes attacked the
exposed Umayyad baggage train, which had been sent ahead of the main
force, and captured it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Baggage>
1882:
The Vulcan Street Plant, the first hydroelectric central
station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North
America, went on line in Appleton, Wisconsin, US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Street_Plant>
1955:
American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a
head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean>
1965:
Members of the 30 September Movement attempted a coup against
the Indonesian government, which was crushed by the military under
Suharto, leading to a mass anti-communist purge with over 500,000 people
killed over the following months.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966>
2005:
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial
editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the
Muslim world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cutify:
1. (from the Latin word for skin, "cutis") To form skin, as, the wound area
was left to cutify.
2. (from "cute" + "-ify", perhaps modeled on "beautify") To make cute, as,
she cutified her room.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cutify>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.
--Rumi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi>
Armillaria luteobubalina is a species of mushroom in the family
Physalacriaceae. Widely distributed in southern Australia, the fungus is
responsible for a disease known as Armillaria root rot, a primary cause
of Eucalyptus tree death and forest dieback. It is the most pathogenic
and widespread of the six Armillaria species found in Australia. The
fruit bodies, which appear at the base of infected trees and other woody
plants in autumn (March–April), are edible, but require cooking to
remove the bitter taste. The fungus is dispersed through spores produced
on gills on the underside of the caps and by growing vegetatively
through the root systems of host trees. Armillaria luteobubalina was
first described in 1978, after having been discovered several years
earlier growing in a Eucalyptus plantation in southeastern Australia.
Studies show that the spread of disease in eucalypt forests is
associated with infected stumps left following logging operations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_luteobubalina>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1829:
The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, originally
headquartered in Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service>
1923:
The British Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially
creating the protectorates of Palestine as a Jewish homeland under
British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under
Abdullah I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine_(legal_instrume…>
1941:
The Holocaust: German Nazis aided by their collaborators began
the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish
civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed
(monument pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar>
1954:
Twelve countries signed a convention establishing the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's
largest particle physics laboratory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN>
2006:
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an
Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso,
Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Flight_1907>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
abnegate:
1. To deny oneself (something), to renounce or give up (a right, power,
claim, privilege or convenience).
2. To deny, to reject (something, for example a truth or a commonly-held
belief).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abnegate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the
dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither
was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast
out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the
whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast
out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of
his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused
them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of
the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their
lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell
in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the
devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that
he hath but a short time. in
--The Book of Revelation
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation>
Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of
Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest
of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in
early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a
prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold
rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners, and service
providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in
Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's
biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine. Rhyolite declined almost
as rapidly as it rose. After the richest ore was exhausted, production
fell. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the financial Panic of 1907
made raising development capital more difficult. By the end of 1910, the
mine was operating at a loss, and it closed in 1911. By this time, many
out-of-work miners had moved elsewhere, and Rhyolite's population was
close to zero by 1920. After 1920, Rhyolite and its ruins became a
tourist attraction and a setting for motion pictures.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyolite,_Nevada>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1066:
William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed
at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England>
1901:
Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas killed more than
forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on
Samar Island.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balangiga_massacre>
1972:
Paul Henderson scored the game-winning goal against Vladislav
Tretiak, securing a Canadian victory in the Summit Series over the
Soviet ice hockey team.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Series>
1978:
Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal election due
to an apparent myocardial infarction, resulting in the most recent Year
of Three Popes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I>
1994:
The ferry MS Estonia sank while commuting between Tallinn,
Estonia, and Stockholm, Sweden, claiming 852 lives in one of the worst
maritime accidents in the Baltic Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meadery:
A place where mead is made.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meadery>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of
principle.
--Confucius
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius>
A toothcomb is a dental structure most commonly known in lemuriform
primates (which includes lemurs and lorisoids). Similar dental
structures can be found in other mammals, such as colugos, treeshrews,
and some African antelopes, but these structures evolved independently
through convergent evolution. Toothcombs vary in dental composition and
structure. The toothcomb of lemuriform primates include incisors and
canine teeth that tilt forward at the front of the lower jaw, followed
by a canine-shaped first premolar. The toothcombs in other animals
usually have incisors only. The comb is formed by fine spaces between
the teeth, although in colugos the individual incisors are serrated,
providing multiple tines per tooth. The toothcomb is kept clean by
either the tongue or, in the case of lemuriforms, the sublingua, a
specialized "under-tongue". The toothcomb is usually used for grooming.
While licking the fur clean, the animal will run the toothcomb through
the fur to comb it. Fine grooves or striations are usually cut into the
teeth during grooming by the hair and may be seen on the sides of the
teeth when viewed through a scanning electron microscope.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothcomb>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1422:
The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the
Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for
about 500 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Melno>
1941:
SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,751 Liberty ships built
during World War II by the United States, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship>
1983:
Software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the
Unix-like GNU operating system (logo pictured), the first free software
developed by the GNU Project.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU>
1993:
War in Abkhazia: After capturing the city of Sukhumi, Abkhaz
separatists and their allies massacred large numbers of Georgian
civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumi_massacre>
2001:
The Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, the only
university exclusively for the disabled in the world, was founded in
Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadguru_Rambhadracharya_Handicapped_Univers…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hallux:
The big toe.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hallux>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether
there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and
religious liberty.
--Samuel Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams>
Lettuce is an annual plant of the family Asteraceae. First cultivated by
the ancient Egyptians, it was converted from a weed into a plant grown
for its leaves. The Greeks and Romans gave it the name "lactuca", from
which the modern "lettuce" derives. Varieties developed in Europe in the
16th through 18th centuries can still be found in gardens today. The
consumption of lettuce has now spread throughout the world. Lettuce is
most often used for salads, but is sometimes seen in other kinds of
food. It is a good source of vitamin A and potassium and a minor source
of several other vitamins and nutrients. Despite its beneficial
properties, lettuce can become contaminated with disease-causing
bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella. Lettuce has also gathered
religious and medicinal significance.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1687:
The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed during an armed
conflict between the Venetians under Francesco Morosini and Ottoman
forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon>
1917:
First World War: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Third
Battle of Ypres, began near Ypres, Belgium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Polygon_Wood>
1933:
As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he
supposedly shouted out, "Don't shoot, G-Men ('government men')!", which
became a nickname for FBI agents.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun_Kelly>
1983:
Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a possible
worldwide nuclear war by deliberately certifying what otherwise appeared
to be an impending attack by the United States as a false alarm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident>
2008:
Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy became the first person to
fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
exanimate:
1. Lifeless, not or no longer living.
2. Spiritless, dispirited.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exanimate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Right action is freedom From past and future also. For most of us, this
is the aim Never here to be realised; Who are only undefeated Because we
have gone on trying; We, content at the last If our temporal reversion
nourish (Not too far from the yew-tree) The life of significant soil.
in
--The Four Quartets
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Four_Quartets>
The lynching of Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand,
in Waco, Texas, in 1916 became a well-known example of such attacks.
After being accused of raping and murdering his employer's wife, he
entered a guilty plea and was quickly sentenced to death. After his
sentence was pronounced, he was dragged out of the court by observers
and lynched in front of Waco's city hall. Over 10,000 spectators,
including city officials and police, gathered to watch the attack.
Members of the mob castrated Washington, cut off his fingers, and hung
him over a bonfire. A professional photographer took pictures as the
event unfolded, providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People investigated
the event and subsequently featured Washington's death in their anti-
lynching campaign. Historians have noted that Washington's death helped
alter the way that lynching was viewed; the publicity it received curbed
public support for the practice, which became viewed as barbarism rather
than an acceptable form of justice.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
275:
After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the
Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Tacitus>
1775:
Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia
failed in their attempt to capture Montreal from British forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Longue-Pointe>
1911:
An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the
French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines
and destroyed the ship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Libert%C3%A9>
1962:
The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah as-Sallal
dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen a republic
under his presidency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War>
2008:
Shenzhou 7, the third spaceflight of the Chinese space program
and their first to include a spacewalk, launched from the Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_7>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lampoon:
To satirize or poke fun at.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lampoon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to
promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer
was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without
considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to
persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the
real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.
--Christopher Reeve
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve>
The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient
Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval
king of Egypt, and its consequences. Osiris' murderer, his brother Set,
usurps his throne, while Osiris' wife Isis restores her husband's body
and posthumously conceives a son, Horus, by him. Horus' triumph over Set
restores order to Egypt and completes the process of Osiris'
resurrection. The myth is integral to the Egyptian conceptions of
kingship and succession, conflict between order and disorder, and
especially, death and the afterlife. The Osiris myth reached its
essential form in or before the 25th century BC. Parts of the myth
appear in a wide variety of Egyptian texts, from funerary texts and
magical spells to short stories. The story is, therefore, more detailed
and more cohesive than any other ancient Egyptian myth. Greek and Roman
writings, particularly De Iside et Osiride by Plutarch, provide more
information but may not always accurately reflect Egyptian beliefs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_myth>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
622:
Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to
Medina to escape religious persecution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(Islam)>
1180:
The Byzantine Empire was weakened by the death of Emperor
Manuel I Komnenos (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_I_Komnenos>
1853:
Admiral Febvrier Despointes took formal possession of New
Caledonia for France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia>
1903:
Alfred Deakin became the second Prime Minister of Australia,
succeeding Edmund Barton who left office to become a founding justice of
the High Court of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Deakin>
1964:
The Warren Commission released its report, concluding that Lee
Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of U.S. President John F.
Kennedy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
heretofore:
Prior to now, until now, up to the present time.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heretofore>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating
another human being as a thing.
--John Brunner
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner>
The White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family
Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults
have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average
100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215
cm (61–85 in) wingspan. The two subspecies, which differ slightly in
size, breed in Europe (north to Finland), northwestern Africa,
southwestern Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan), and southern Africa.
The White Stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from
tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the
Indian subcontinent. A carnivore, the White Stork eats a wide range of
animal prey, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, small
mammals, and small birds. It takes most of its food from the ground,
among low vegetation, and from shallow water. It is a monogamous
breeder, but does not pair for life. This conspicuous bird has given
rise to many legends across its range, of which the best-known is the
story of babies being brought by storks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Stork>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1568:
Anglo–Spanish War: At San Juan de Ulúa (in modern Veracruz,
Mexico), Spanish naval forces forced English privateers to halt their
illegal trade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_de_Ul%C3%BAa_(1568)>
1779:
American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones led the Continental
Navy to victory in the Battle of Flamborough Head, one of the most
celebrated naval actions of the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Flamborough_Head>
1846:
Using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain
Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first
person to observe Neptune and recognise it as a hitherto unknown planet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_Neptune>
1952:
In one of the first political uses of television to appeal
directly to the populace, Republican vice presidential candidate Richard
Nixon delivered the "Checkers speech", refuting accusations of
improprieties with contributions to his campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech>
2008:
A gunman shot and killed ten students at Seinäjoki University
of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Western Finland, before committing
suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
analemma:
An egg-shaped or figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position
in the sky is plotted out over the year.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/analemma>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally.
No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no
forbidden fruit — just everyone getting and giving as much as he and
she can.
--Ray Charles
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Charles>
The Spanish conquest of Guatemala was a protracted conflict during the
Spanish colonization of the Americas, in which Spanish colonizers
gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of
Guatemala into the colonial viceroyalty of New Spain. The Maya kingdoms
resisted integration into the Spanish Empire with such tenacity that
their defeat took almost two centuries. Pedro de Alvarado arrived in
Guatemala from the newly conquered Mexico in early 1524, commanding a
mixed force of Spanish conquistadors and native allies, mostly from
Tlaxcala and Cholula. The Itza Maya and other lowland groups in the
Petén Basin were first contacted by Hernán Cortés in 1525, but
remained independent and hostile to the encroaching Spanish until 1697,
when a concerted Spanish assault led by Martín de Urzúa y Arizmendi
finally defeated the last independent Maya kingdom. The indigenous
peoples of Guatemala lacked key elements of Old World technology such as
a functional wheel, horses, steel and gunpowder; they were also
extremely susceptible to Old World diseases, against which they had no
resistance.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: The Great Fire of New York broke
out during British occupation of New York City, destroying up to 1,000
buildings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_New_York_(1776)>
1860:
Second Opium War: Anglo-French forces earned a decisive victory
against Qing Dynasty troops in the Battle of Palikao, allowing them to
capture Beijing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palikao>
1938:
The Great New England Hurricane made landfall on Long Island,
New York, killing at least 500 people and injuring about 700 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane>
1942:
The prototype model of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a four-
engine heavy bomber that became one of the largest aircraft to see
service during World War II, flew for the first time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress>
1999:
A 7.6 Mw earthquake struck Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan, killing
2,416 people, injuring over 11,000 others and causing about
NT$300 billion in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/921_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
infanticide:
The murder of an infant.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infanticide>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I
hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it.
If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will
have been cheerful.
--H. G. Wells
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._G._Wells>
StarCraft: Ghost is a military science fiction stealth-action video game
under suspended development by Blizzard Entertainment. Part of
Blizzard's StarCraft series, the game was announced on September 20,
2002, and was to be developed by Nihilistic Software for the Nintendo
GameCube, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 video game consoles. Several delays in
development caused Blizzard to move back the release date and the game
has not yet materialized. Nihilistic Software ceded development to
Swingin' Ape Studios in 2004 before Blizzard bought the company, and
plans for the GameCube version were canceled in 2005. Blizzard announced
in March 2006 that the game is on "indefinite hold" while the company
investigated seventh generation video game console possibilities.
Subsequent public statements from company personnel have been
contradictory about whether production will be renewed or planned story
elements will be worked into other products.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Ghost>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1260:
The second of two major Prussian uprisings by the Prussian
tribe of Balts began against the Teutonic Knights.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_uprisings>
1498:
A tsunami caused by the Meiō Nankaidō earthquake washed away
the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in
Kamakura, Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dtoku-in>
1697:
The Treaty of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand
Alliance, ending the Nine Years' War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ryswick>
1977:
A series of celestial sightings of unknown nature was observed
in the western Soviet Union, Finland and Denmark.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrozavodsk_phenomenon>
2008:
An explosive-laden truck detonated in front of the Marriott
hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamabad_Marriott_Hotel_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anthelmintic:
A drug for the treatment of intestinal worm infestation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anthelmintic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make
the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways
or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results...
but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire
those who fight the good fight.
--George R. R. Martin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin>