The silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus) is a large lemur with silky
white fur that lives in northeastern Madagascar. It is listed by the
International Union for Conservation of Nature as one of the world's 25
most critically endangered primates. The silky sifaka lives in groups of
two to nine and spends most of its day feeding, resting, playing,
grooming, and traveling. Like other eastern sifakas, it eats leaves and
seeds, but also fruit, flowers, and even soil. As with other sifaka
species, group members will groom, play with, carry, and nurse infants
that are not their own. Adults vocalize frequently despite having only
seven different calls. Like all lemurs, it relies strongly on scent for
communication; males frequently scent-mark. The species is found in the
rainforests of northeastern Madagascar, with the remaining population in
Marojejy National Park, Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve, the Makira
Forest Protected Area, the Betaolana Corridor, and some unprotected
forest fragments. Locals hunt the silky sifaka throughout its range.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silky_sifaka>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1492:
Members of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus reported
the sighting of unknown light on their way to Guanahani.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1492_light_sighting>
1531:
Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed in battle
when Catholic cantons attacked in response to a food blockade being
applied by his alliance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli>
1767:
Unable to go any further, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made
their final observations for what would become known as the
Mason–Dixon line.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line>
1942:
World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest
coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese
fleet on their way to destroy Henderson Field.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Esperance>
1975:
Saturday Night Live, an American weekly sketch comedy–variety
show, was broadcast for the first time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
alnage:
1. Measurement (of cloth) by the ell.
2. A duty paid for such measurement.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alnage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or
to take away the freedom of other people?
--Eleanor Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt>
Business US Highway 41 was a state trunkline highway and business loop
off US 41/M-28 in Marquette, Michigan, along Washington and Front
streets. Serving the downtown area, the two streets originated with the
founding of the city in the mid-19th century. The original city hall was
built in 1895 on Washington Street. In 1910 the city started paving its
streets, replacing wooden planks with asphalt; later that decade,
Washington and Front streets were included in the state highway system.
In 1926 they were included in the United States Numbered Highway System.
When US 41/M-28 was moved to bypass the downtown in 1963, Washington
and Front streets were redesignated as a business loop. The highway was
also co-designated Business M-28 on state maps between 1975 and 1981,
mirroring a similar business loop designation in the neighboring cities
of Ishpeming and Negaunee. Jurisdiction over the two streets was
transferred to the city as part of a highway swap that resulted in the
decommissioning of the trunkline in 2005.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_41_Business_(Marquette,_Michigan)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1780:
One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the
Caribbean Sea, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several
days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780>
1897:
German chemist Felix Hoffman discovered an improved way of
synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) (pills pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin>
1933:
In the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of
commercial aviation, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in mid-air
near Chesterton, Indiana, US, killing all seven people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explo…>
1967:
The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of
international space law, entered into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty>
1982:
Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of a
stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, was
canonized by the Catholic Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
yonic:
In the shape of a vulva or a vagina; in the shape of a yoni.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yonic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it
isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up.
That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He
has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of
his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the
courage to do it.
--Helen Hayes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Hayes>
Banksia menziesii, commonly known as firewood banksia, is a species of
flowering plant in the genus Banksia. It is a gnarled tree up to 10 m
(33 ft) tall or, in its northern range, a spreading shrub. The serrated
leaves are dull green with new growth a paler grey green. The autumn and
winter inflorescences are often two-coloured red or pink and yellow.
First described by the botanist Robert Brown in the early 19th century,
no separate varieties of B. menziesii are recognised. It is found in
Western Australia, from the Perth region north to the Murchison River,
and generally grows on sandy soils in scrubland or low woodland. It
provides food for an array of invertebrate and vertebrate animals;
honeyeaters and other birds are prominent visitors. A relatively hardy
plant, B. menziesii is commonly seen in gardens, nature strips and parks
in Australian urban areas with Mediterranean climates, but its
sensitivity to root rot makes it short-lived in places with humid
summers. It is widely used in the cut flower industry in Australia and
overseas.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_menziesii>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1594:
Sinhalese–Portuguese War: Portugal had almost conquered the
island of Sri Lanka when its army was completely annihilated, ending the
Campaign of Danture.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_of_Danture>
1845:
Anglican priest John Henry Newman, who wished to return the
Church of England to many Catholic beliefs, was formally received into
the Roman Catholic Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Newman>
1914:
World War I: Belgian troops in Antwerp surrendered, allowing
the German army to capture the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Antwerp_(1914)>
1970:
The Khmer Republic, headed by General Lon Nol and Prince
Sisowath Sirik Matak, was proclaimed in Cambodia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Republic>
2012:
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was shot at by a Taliban
gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fictionary:
A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar
word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others
try to guess which one is the correct definition.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fictionary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've
never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and
answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace,
love and understanding.
--John Lennon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Lennon>
Shinano was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy
during World War II, the largest one built up to that time. Laid down in
May 1940 as the third of the Yamato-class battleships, the ship's
partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to a carrier
following Japan's disastrous loss of four fleet carriers at the Battle
of Midway in mid-1942. Her conversion was still incomplete in November
1944 when she was ordered to sail from the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to
Kure Naval Base to complete her fitting out and to transfer a load of 50
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka rocket-propelled kamikaze flying bombs. Hastily
dispatched with an inexperienced crew and serious design and
construction flaws, the ship had inadequate pumps, no fire-control
systems, and no carrier aircraft. She was sunk en route, just 10 days
after commissioning, on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the US
Navy submarine Archerfish. Over a thousand sailors and civilians were
rescued, but some 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains
the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shinano>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1200:
Isabella of Angoulême was crowned queen consort of England at
the age of twelve, after having married King John two weeks earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Angoul%C3%AAme>
1871:
Four large fires broke out in the United States, including the
Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the latter being
the deadliest fire in U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_Fire>
1897:
Composer Gustav Mahler was appointed the director of the Vienna
Court Opera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler>
1932:
The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of
the Indian Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Air_Force>
1962:
Newsmagazine Der Spiegel revealed the unpreparedness of the
West German armed forces against the communist threat from the east, and
was accused of treason shortly afterwards.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_scandal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
memoriter:
1. That is or has been recited from memory; that has been learned by heart.
2. Of, pertaining to, or involved with the practice of recitation or
learning by heart.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/memoriter>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence
derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence
with limitless skepticism.
--John Cowper Powys
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cowper_Powys>
Hu Zhengyan (c. 1584 – 1674) was a Chinese artist, printmaker and
publisher. He worked in calligraphy, painting, and seal-carving (his own
seal pictured), but was primarily a publisher, producing academic texts
and records of his work. Hu lived in Nanjing during the transition from
the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty. A Ming loyalist, he designed the
Hongguang Emperor's personal seal and was offered a position at the
emperor's remnant court, but declined the post, and held only minor
political offices. He largely retired from society after the emperor's
capture and death in 1645. He owned and operated an academic publishing
house called the Ten Bamboo Studio in Nanjing, where he practised
various multi-colour printing and embossing techniques. Hu's work
pioneered new techniques in colour printmaking, producing delicate
gradations of colour not previously achievable. He is best known for The
Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, an artist's primer
which remained in print for around 200 years.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Zhengyan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1542:
Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first
European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of
California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Catalina_Island,_California>
1763:
Following Great Britain's acquisition of New France after the
end of the Seven Years' War, King George III issued a Royal Proclamation
closing most of this land to the residents of the Thirteen Colonies and
reserving it for indigenous peoples.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763>
1919:
KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its
original name, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM>
1976:
Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist
Party of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng>
2001:
War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial
bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
flack:
To publicise, to promote.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flack>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human
existence.
--Desmond Tutu
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu>
John Lloyd Waddy (1916–1987) was a senior officer and aviator in the
Royal Australian Air Force, who later served as a member of the New
South Wales Legislative Assembly and Minister of the Crown. As a fighter
pilot during World War II, he shot down fifteen enemy aircraft in the
Desert War, becoming one of Australia's top-scoring aces and earning the
Distinguished Flying Cross. He went on to command No. 80 Squadron in
the South West Pacific, where he was awarded the US Air Medal. He was
also one of eight senior pilots who took part in the "Morotai Mutiny" of
April 1945. He led the Air Force Reserve as a group captain in the early
1950s. Active in business and in veterans' groups, he was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1955. As the Liberal
Member for Kirribilli from 1962 to 1976, he held cabinet posts in the
New South Wales Parliament, including Minister for Child Welfare and
Social Welfare (later Youth and Community Services), Minister for
Health, and Minister for Police and Services.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lloyd_Waddy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British forces under the command of
General Sir Henry Clinton captured Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery, and
then dismantled the Hudson River Chain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Forts_Clinton_and_Montgomery>
1910:
Eleftherios Venizelos was elected Prime Minister of Greece for
the first of his seven non-consecutive terms.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleftherios_Venizelos>
1927:
The first successful feature sound film The Jazz Singer,
starring Al Jolson, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer>
1985:
Police constable Keith Blakelock was killed during rioting in
the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Keith_Blakelock>
2000:
Denouncing corruption in the administration of Argentine
President Fernando de la Rúa and in the Senate, Vice President Carlos
Álvarez resigned from his office.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_%C3%81lvarez_(politician)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
whinge:
1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To complain, especially in an
annoying or persistent manner.
2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To whine.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whinge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades
science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so
awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent
people couldn't do the same thing.
--David Brin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin>
Hurricane Gert was a large tropical cyclone that caused extensive
flooding throughout Central America and Mexico in September 1993. It
originated over the southwestern Caribbean Sea and briefly attained
tropical storm strength before crossing Nicaragua, Honduras, and the
Yucatán Peninsula. Once over warm water in the Bay of Campeche, Gert
grew into a Category 2 hurricane and made landfall on the Gulf Coast of
Mexico. The cyclone quickly weakened to a depression over the rugged
terrain and eventually dissipated over the Pacific Ocean. Gert's broad
wind circulation produced heavy rain across Central America, flooding
property and crops. Although the highest winds occurred upon landfall in
Mexico, the worst effects there were due to extreme rainfall of
31.41 inches (798 mm) over the mountains. Following the overflow of
several rivers, expansive parts of the Huasteca region became submerged,
forcing tens of thousands to evacuate. Roads across the affected
countries were severely disrupted, and thousands became homeless. The
disaster killed 116 people, left 16 missing, and caused $170 million
in damage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gert_(1993)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
French Revolution: Upset about the high price and scarcity of
bread, thousands of Parisian women and their various allies marched on
the royal palace at Versailles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_March_on_Versailles>
1910:
The Portuguese Republican Party organised a coup d'etat,
deposed the constitutional monarchy and implanted a republican regime in
Portugal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_October_1910_revolution>
1930:
The British airship R101 crashed in France en route to India on
its maiden voyage, killing 48 passengers and crew.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101>
1975:
Dirty War: The guerrilla group Montoneros carried out Operation
Primicia, a terrorist attack in which they hijacked an Aerolíneas
Argentinas flight, captured the Formosa International Airport, and
attacked a military regiment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Primicia>
2000:
Serbian engineering vehicle operator Ljubisav Đokić rammed
the Radio Television of Serbia building with a wheel loader in a protest
known as the Bulldozer Revolution, causing Slobodan Milošević to
resign two days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hinterland:
1. The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
2. The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
3. A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
4. (figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
5. (figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill
understood.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hinterland>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By
the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power
to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to
the state what health is to the individual.
--Denis Diderot
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot>
George Formby Sr (1875–1921) was one of the greatest music hall
performers of the early 20th century. His comedy and songs played upon
Lancashire stereotypes, and he was popular around Britain. His nickname,
"The Wigan Nightingale", was coined because of the way he would use his
bronchial cough as a comedic device. Born into poverty, he sang on
street corners before starting a professional career in the 1890s, when
he built up a following in Lancashire. He also developed a series of
stage characters, including that of "John Willie", an accident-prone
northerner. Formby had a successful recording career and made the
transition from music hall to revue in 1916. He suffered from
tuberculosis, and a stage accident in 1916 weakened him further; after
he contracted influenza in the 1918 pandemic, he died in 1921 at the age
of 45. Formby's act, and one of his costumes, inspired Charlie Chaplin
to create the Tramp, his signature film character. Formby's son used
parts of his father's act when starting his stage career and, once
established, also changed his name to George Formby; he went on to
become the top British male star in box office takings between 1937 and
1943.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby_Sr>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1779:
American Revolution: James Wilson and his colleagues were
forced to defend themselves after a mob, angered by his successful legal
defense of 23 people from exile, converged on his house, resulting in
six deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilson>
1876:
Texas A&M; University opened as the first public institution of
higher education in the U.S. state of Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University>
1917:
First World War: The British devastated the German defence in
the Battle of Broodseinde, which prompted a crisis among the German
commanders and caused a severe loss of morale in the German Fourth Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Broodseinde>
1957:
Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to
orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1>
2010:
The dam holding a waste reservoir in western Hungary collapsed,
freeing 1 million cubic metres (1,300,000 cu yd) of red mud, which
flooded nearby communities and killed at least nine people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajka_alumina_plant_accident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hoyden:
(archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hoyden>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours
is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
--Rutherford B. Hayes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes>
Suillus brevipes is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. First
described by American mycologists in the late 19th century, it is
commonly known as the short-stemmed slippery Jack. The mushrooms
produced by the fungus are characterized by a chocolate to reddish-brown
cap covered with a sticky layer of slime, and a short whitish stalk
without a partial veil. The cap can reach a diameter of about 10 cm
(3.9 in), while the stalk is up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long and 2 cm
(0.8 in) thick. Like other bolete mushrooms, S. brevipes produces
spores in a vertically arranged layer of spongy tubes with openings that
form a layer of small yellowish pores on the underside of the cap. The
fungus grows on or near various species of two- and three-needled pines,
especially lodgepole and ponderosa pine. It is found throughout North
America, and has been introduced to several other countries via
transplanted pines. The mushrooms are slimy but edible, and are good
sources of the essential fatty acid linoleic acid.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus_brevipes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
2333 BC:
According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of
heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangun>
1918:
World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat by the Allied
Powers, Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of his son Boris
III.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_III_of_Bulgaria>
1935:
Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia
during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bono%27s_invasion_of_Abyssinia>
1957:
A California Superior Court judge ruled that "Howl", a poem by
Allen Ginsberg, was of "redeeming social importance" and thus not
obscene.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl>
1981:
The hunger strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the
Maze jail in Belfast ended after seven months and ten deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
predominance:
The condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination,
preeminence, preponderance.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/predominance>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become
uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
--Thomas Wolfe
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Wolfe>
Capon Chapel is a mid-19th-century church near the town of Capon Bridge
in the US state of West Virginia. A Baptist congregation began gathering
at the site of the present-day church as early as 1756. The land
originally belonged to William C. Nixon, a member of the Virginia House
of Delegates, and later to the extended family of Captain David Pugh of
the West Virginia House of Delegates. Capon Chapel was used as a place
of worship by Baptists until the late 19th or early 20th century, by the
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church for most of the 20th century, and in
this century by the United Methodist Church. The church cemetery
contains the remains of John Monroe (one of the first ministers at the
site), Nixon, Pugh, American Civil War veterans from the Union and the
Confederacy, and free and enslaved African Americans. Capon Chapel,
along with its cemetery, was added to the National Register of Historic
Places in 2012 in recognition of its rural religious architecture
representative of the Potomac Highlands region, and for its service as a
rural church in Hampshire County.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon_Chapel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1470:
With King Edward IV of England forced to flee to the
Netherlands after a rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of
Warwick, Henry VI was restored to the throne of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neville,_16th_Earl_of_Warwick>
1835:
Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales,
Texas, encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle
of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales>
1937:
Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops
began mass killings of approximately 20,000 Haitians living in the
Dominican Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre>
1968:
A peaceful student demonstration in the Tlatelolco section of
Mexico City was violently suppressed when army and police forces fired
into the crowd.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre>
1990:
A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while
attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China,
resulting in a total 128 fatalities.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Guangzhou_Baiyun_airport_collisions>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
batik:
A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/batik>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth
stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.
--Mahatma Gandhi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi>