The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is an elected constitutional
officer in the executive branch of the state government of New Jersey in
the United States. The person elected to this position is the second
highest-ranking official in the state government. Before 2010, New
Jersey was one of a few U.S. states that did not have a lieutenant
governor. Two men were appointed to the office during brief periods in
New Jersey's colonial era (1664–1776), but for most the state's
history, the senate president would become "acting governor" during
vacancies in the governor's office. After the resignations of Governors
Christine Todd Whitman in 2001 and Jim McGreevey in 2004, the state had
several acting governors in the span of a few years. Popular sentiment
and political pressure from the state's residents and news media outlets
sought a better rule for gubernatorial succession. In a referendum, the
state's voters authorized a 2006 amendment of the State Constitution to
create the position. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, voters elected
Republican Kim Guadagno (pictured) to be the first to serve in the post
in its modern form.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_Jersey>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
763:
The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid Revolt when one of the
rebellion leaders was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in what is
now Iraq.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alid_Revolt_(762%E2%80%93763)>
1525:
The Anabaptist Movement was born when founders Conrad Grebel,
Felix Manz, and George Blaurock re-baptized each other and other
followers in Zürich, Switzerland, believing that the Christian
religious practice of infant baptism is invalid because a child cannot
commit to a religious faith.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist>
1912:
Raymond Poincaré (pictured), who would pursue hardline anti-
German policies, began his first term as Prime Minister of France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Poincar%C3%A9>
1968:
Vietnam War: The Vietnam People's Army attacked Khe Sanh Combat
Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam,
starting the Battle of Khe Sanh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khe_Sanh>
1997:
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand
Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the
House to be so disciplined.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
palinspastic:
(geology, of a map) Showing the previous location of geological
features, correcting for any intervening crustal movements.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palinspastic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy.
--Ethan Allen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen>
Tiruchirappalli is the fourth largest city in the Indian state of Tamil
Nadu and is the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli District.
Its recorded history begins in the 3rd century BC, when it was under
the rule of the Cholas. The city has also been ruled by the Pandyas,
Pallavas, Vijayanagar Empire, Nayak Dynasty, the Carnatic state and the
British. It played a crucial role in the Carnatic Wars (1746–63)
between the British and the French East India companies. During British
rule, the city was popular for the Trichinopoly cigar, its unique brand
of cheroot. Monuments include the Rockfort (pictured), the
Ranganathaswamy temple and the Jambukeswarar temple. It is an important
educational centre in Tamil Nadu, housing nationally recognised
institutions such as the Indian Institute of Management and the National
Institute of Technology. The presence of a large number of energy
equipment manufacturing units in and around the city has earned it the
title of "Energy equipment and fabrication capital of India". Located
almost at the centre of Tamil Nadu, the city has become a major road and
railway hub in the state and is served by Tiruchirappalli International
Airport.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiruchirappalli>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1576:
León in Guanajuato, Mexico, was founded by order of Viceroy
Martín Enríquez de Almanza of New Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n,_Guanajuato>
1785:
Tây Sơn forces of Vietnam annihilated an invading Siamese
army who were attempting to restore Nguyễn Ánh to the throne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_R%E1%BA%A1ch_G%E1%BA%A7m-Xo%C3%A0i_…>
1946:
Favouring stronger executive power than the draft constitution
for the French Fourth Republic provided, Charles de Gaulle resigned as
President of the Provisional Government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle>
1992:
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges Mountains while
circling to land at Strasbourg Airport near Strasbourg, France,
resulting in 87 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Inter_Flight_148>
2007:
A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a
1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of
inaccessibility for the first time since 1958, and for the first time
ever without mechanical assistance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
casuistry:
1. The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules
or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics.
2. (pejorative) A specious argument designed to defend an action or
feeling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/casuistry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
--Federico Fellini
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Federico_Fellini>
No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit (No. 2 OCU) is a fighter training
unit of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Located at RAAF Base
Williamtown, New South Wales, it trains pilots to operate the McDonnell
Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (pictured), conducts refresher courses, and trains
future Hornet instructors. Pilots new to the Hornet enter No. 2 OCU
after first qualifying to fly fast jets at No. 79 Squadron and
undertaking initial fighter combat instruction at No. 76 Squadron. Once
qualified on the F/A-18, they are posted to one of the RAAF's
operational Hornet squadrons. No. 2 OCU was established as No. 2
(Fighter) Operational Training Unit in April 1942. During World War II
it provided training on a wide range of aircraft, including P-40
Kittyhawks, Vultee Vengeances, Avro Ansons, CAC Boomerangs, Supermarine
Spitfires and Airspeed Oxfords. Disbanded in March 1947, the unit was
re-formed at Williamtown in March 1952 in response to the demand for
more highly trained pilots in the Korean War. It was renamed No. 2
(Fighter) Operational Conversion Unit in September 1958, and before the
Hornet it conducted training with the CAC Sabre, Dassault Mirage III,
and Macchi MB-326.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._2_Operational_Conversion_Unit_RAAF>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
649:
War against the Western Turks: The forces of Kucha surrendered
after a siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing
Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_Kucha>
1746:
During the Second Jacobite Rising, Bonnie Prince Charlie
occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its
castle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling>
1862:
American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Union
forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs near
modern Nancy, Kentucky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mill_Springs>
1917:
Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in
Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing over 70
people and injuring over 400 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvertown_explosion>
1996:
A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in South Kingstown,
Rhode Island, US, spilling an estimated 828,000 US gallons
(3,130,000 l) of home heating oil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ascertain:
To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ascertain>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado.
--Edgar Allan Poe
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe>
Nigersaurus (meaning "Niger reptile") is a genus of rebbachisaurid
sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about
115 to 105 million years ago. It was discovered in the Elrhaz Formation
in an area called Gadoufaoua, in Niger. Fossils of this dinosaur were
first described in 1976, but it was only named in 1999. The genus
contains a single species, N. taqueti, named after French
palaeontologist Philippe Taquet, who discovered the first remains. At
9 m (30 ft) long—small for a sauropod—it weighed around 4 tonnes,
comparable to a modern elephant. It had a wide muzzle filled with more
than 500 teeth, which were replaced every 14 days. Unlike other
tetrapods, its jaws were wider than the skull, its teeth were located
far to the front, and it fed with its head close to the ground. It lived
in a riparian habitat, and its diet probably consisted of soft plants,
such as ferns, horsetails, and angiosperms. It is one of the most common
fossil vertebrates found in the area, and shared its habitat with other
dinosaurian megaherbivores, as well as large theropods and
crocodylomorphs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigersaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1788:
The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First
Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany_Bay>
1884:
Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to
cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent
trial, which led to the legalisation of cremation in the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Price_(physician)>
1915:
Japanese Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One
Demands to China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One_Demands>
1977:
The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by
a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease>
1983:
Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic
Committee restored gold medals to American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had
had them stripped for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912
Summer Olympics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scuttle:
(transitive) To deliberately sink a ship or boat by order of the
vessel's commander or owner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scuttle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
"Is," "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it
were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know
what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
∴ ∵
--Robert Anton Wilson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson>
Slay Tracks (1933–1969) is the debut extended play (EP) by the
American indie rock band Pavement. The group, then consisting of
founding members Stephen Malkmus (pictured in 2005) and Scott Kannberg,
recorded Slay Tracks with producer and future member Gary Young during a
four-hour session on January 17, 1989. The EP was released as a
7" vinyl record on the band's own record label Treble Kicker. The music
in Slay Tracks is influenced by indie and punk rock bands, including
Swell Maps and The Fall, and many of the lyrics are inspired by life in
the band's hometown of Stockton, California. Although only 1000 copies
were pressed, the EP became an underground hit. Most of its initial
reviews were from independently produced zines, and it met with
generally positive reactions. The songs on Slay Tracks would later
appear on the 1993 compilation Westing (By Musket and Sextant),
reaching a wider audience than the EP's limited initial release. The
release of Slay Tracks was significant to Pavement's signing to Drag
City, and later to Matador Records. All of the songs from it were played
live throughout Pavement's history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slay_Tracks_(1933%E2%80%931969)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1377:
Pope Gregory XI moved the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon,
effectively becoming the last Avignon Pope.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XI>
1524:
Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano set sail westward from
Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_da_Verrazzano>
1781:
American Revolutionary War: American forces won a surprising
victory over the British at the Battle of Cowpens, one of the most
pivotal battles of the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cowpens>
1989:
Patrick Purdy opened fire in an elementary school in Stockton,
California, killing five and wounding 30 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(Stockto…>
1991:
Harald V, the current King of Norway, succeeded to the throne
upon the death of his father Olav V.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V_of_Norway>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
indigent:
Poor; destitute; in need.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indigent>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All I know is that I'm tired of being clever Everybody's clever
these days. Take a win Take a fall I never wanted your love But I needed
it all…   
--Zooey Deschanel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zooey_Deschanel>
Steamtown, U.S.A. was a steam locomotive museum that ran steam
excursions out of North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls,
Vermont, from the 1960s to 1983. The museum was founded by millionaire
seafood industrialist F. Nelson Blount and was operated by the Steamtown
Foundation after his death in 1967. Due to Vermont's air quality
regulations restricting steam excursions, declining visitor attendance,
and track use disputes, some of the collection was relocated to
Scranton, Pennsylvania in the mid-1980s and the rest was sold.
Steamtown, U.S.A. failed to attract the expected 200,000–400,000
visitors in Scranton and, facing bankruptcy, it sold more of the
collection. In 1986, the U.S. House of Representatives approved funding
to begin the process of making it a National Historic Site. Historical
research was carried out by the National Park Service (NPS) on the
remaining equipment. By 1995, Steamtown had been acquired and developed
by the NPS as the Steamtown National Historic Site with a $66 million
allocation. Several more pieces have been removed from the collection as
a result of the government acquisition. Part of the Blount collection is
still on display in Scranton.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamtown,_U.S.A.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1780:
American Revolutionary War: The British Royal Navy gained their
first major naval victory over their European enemies in the war when
they defeated a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1780)>
1862:
The beam of a pumping engine broke at the Hartley Colliery in
Northumberland, England, and fell down the shaft trapping the men below,
resulting in the deaths of 204 men.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley_Colliery_Disaster>
1920:
The League of Nations, the first intergovernmental organisation
whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, held its first
council meeting in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations>
1942:
TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain in Nevada, killing
actress Carole Lombard and all of the other 21 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_3>
1964:
The musical Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre on
Broadway, and would go on to win ten Tony Awards, a record that stood
for 35 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(musical)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
smurf account:
(Internet slang) An alternate account used by a known or experienced
user to appear to be someone else.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smurf_account>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task
of defending art.
--Susan Sontag
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag>
Hobey Baker (1892–1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early
twentieth century, widely regarded by his contemporaries as one of the
best athletes of his time. He excelled at ice hockey and football at
Princeton University, where he was a member of three national
championship teams, and became a noted amateur hockey player for the St.
Nicholas Club in New York City, helping the club win a national amateur
championship. Baker graduated in 1914 and worked for J.P. Morgan Bank
until he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Service. During World War I he
served with the 103rd and 13th Aero Squadrons before being promoted to
captain and named commander of the 141st Aero Squadron. Baker died in
December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, hours before
he was due to return to America. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey
arena the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. He was one of the first nine
inductees in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945 and was also inducted into
the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975, making him the only person to
be in both Halls of Fame. The Hobey Baker Award is presented annually to
the best collegiate hockey player in the United States.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobey_Baker>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence from
several jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of New
Hampshire and New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Republic>
1885:
American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known
photograph of a snowflake (example pictured) by attaching a bellows
camera to a microscope.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley>
1937:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican forces both
withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the
Corunna Road.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Corunna_Road>
1975:
Portugal signed the Alvor Agreement with UNITA, the MPLA, and
the FNLA, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_War_of_Independence>
1981:
Hill Street Blues, one of American television's most critically
acclaimed shows, aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Station>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
floccinaucinihilipilificate:
(colloquial) To describe or regard something as worthless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floccinaucinihilipilificate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality?
I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and
to evidence. My name, like yours, is truth-seeker. My mission is written
in these words of the law: Speak without hatred and without fear; tell
that which thou knowest.
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon>
A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident
during the Falklands War, killing its four occupants. In the early hours
of 6 June 1982, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff was looking for
aircraft supplying the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. An Army
Air Corps Gazelle helicopter (example pictured) was making a routine
delivery to British troops on East Falkland. Cardiff's crew assumed it
was hostile, given its speed and course, and fired two missiles,
destroying it. When the wreckage was found, the loss was attributed to
enemy fire. Although Cardiff was suspected, scientific tests on the
wreckage were inconclusive. No formal inquiry was held until four years
later. Defending their claim that the helicopter had been lost in
action, the UK Ministry of Defence stated that they had not wanted to
upset relatives while they were still trying to ascertain how the
Gazelle had been shot down. The board of inquiry did not blame any
individuals but identified factors including a lack of communication
between the army and the navy and the army's decision to turn off
helicopters' identification friend or foe transmitters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_British_Army_Gazelle_friendly_fire_incid…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1724:
Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated the
throne to his eldest son Louis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_V_of_Spain>
1814:
Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby
Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the
Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Kiel>
1907:
A 6.5 Mw earthquake struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in at
least 800 deaths, which was at the time considered one of the world's
deadliest earthquakes recorded in history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Kingston_earthquake>
1954:
Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company merged to become
American Motors in an effort to create one multibrand company capable of
challenging the "Big Three" as an equal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Motors>
1978:
Austrian logician Kurt Gödel (pictured), who suffered from an
obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was
hospitalized and unable to cook for him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
orgulous:
Proud; haughty; disdainful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orgulous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they
believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to
man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the
world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only
when life, as such, is sacred to him, and that of plants and animals as
that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all
life that is in need of help. Only the universal ethic of the feeling of
responsibility in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives — only
that ethic can be founded in thought. ... The ethic of Reverence for
Life, therefore, comprehends within itself everything that can be
described as love, devotion, and sympathy whether in suffering, joy, or
effort.  
--Albert Schweitzer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer>
Roxy Ann Peak is a 3,576-foot-tall (1,090 m) mountain in the Western
Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. Composed of several geologic
layers, the majority of the peak is of volcanic origin and dates to the
early Oligocene. It is primarily covered by oak savanna and open
grassland on its lower slopes, and mixed coniferous forest on its upper
slopes and summit. Despite the peak's relatively small topographic
prominence of 753 feet (230 m), it rises 2,200 feet (670 m) above
Medford, and it is the city's most important viewshed, open space
reserve, and recreational resource. Roxy Ann Peak was originally settled
8,000 to 10,000 years ago by ancestors of the native Latgawa tribe. In
the early 1850s, a sudden influx of non-indigenous settlers led to the
Rogue River Wars. After the wars, the Latgawa were forced away from the
region onto reservations. The peak was named in the late 1850s after one
of its first landowners, Roxy Ann Bowen. In 1937, the 1,740-acre
(704.2 ha) Prescott Park was created on the peak's upper slopes and
summit from land donated by the Lions Club and the federal government,
and the park is largely undeveloped.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_Ann_Peak>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in
the British Army, arrived at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the sole European
survivor of the massacre of over 4,500 military personnel and over
10,000 civilian camp followers retreating from Kabul, excluding a few
prisoners released later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brydon>
1910:
The first public radio broadcast, a live performance of the
opera Cavalleria rusticana, was sent out over the airwaves from the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_public_radio_broadcasting>
1953:
Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first President of
Yugoslavia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito>
1968:
American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At
Folsom Prison live at the Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Folsom_Prison>
2012:
The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef
off the shore of Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, and partially sank.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gherao:
(India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician,
building, etc. until demands are met.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gherao>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Faith cannot be given to man. Faith arises in a man and
increases in its action in him not as the result of automatic learning,
that is, not from any automatic ascertainment of height, breadth,
thickness, form and weight, or from the perception of anything by sight,
hearing, touch, smell or taste, but from understanding. 
--G. I. Gurdjieff
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff>
The Bohemian Waxwing is a passerine bird that breeds in the northern
forests of Eurasia and North America. It has mainly buff-grey plumage,
black face markings and a pointed crest. Its wings are patterned white
and bright yellow, and some feather tips have the red waxy appearance
that give this species its English name. Its breeding habitat is
coniferous forests, usually near water. The pair build a lined cup-
shaped nest in a tree or bush for a clutch of 3–7 eggs, incubated by
the female alone for 13–14 days. Many birds desert their nesting
range in winter and migrate further south. Large numbers of Bohemian
Waxwings sometimes travel well beyond their normal winter range in
search of the fruit that makes up most of their diet. Waxwings can be
very tame in winter, entering towns and gardens in search of food, rowan
berries being a particular favourite. They can metabolise alcohol
produced in fermenting fruit, but can still become intoxicated,
sometimes fatally. The Bohemian Waxwing's high numbers and very large
breeding area mean that it is classified as being of Least Concern by
the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Waxwing>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1554:
Bayinnaung, who later assembled the largest empire in the
history of Southeast Asia, was crowned king of the Burmese Taungoo
Dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayinnaung>
1777:
Mission Santa Clara de Asís (pictured), a Spanish mission that
formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara, California and Santa
Clara University, was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Santa_Clara_de_As%C3%ADs>
1911:
The University of the Philippines College of Law was founded,
eventually graduating many of the leading Filipino political figures
since then.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Philippines_College_of_Law>
1964:
Rebels led by John Okello overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin
Abdullah, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar_Revolution>
2010:
A 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti, affecting an estimated three
million people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
heave in sight:
(nautical) To appear at a distance, to emerge in the field of vision.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heave_in_sight>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society;
and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under
the suspicion of being no policy at all.
--Edmund Burke
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke>