SMS Bayern was the lead ship of her class of battleships in the German
Imperial Navy. The vessel was launched in February 1915 and entered
service in July 1916, too late to take part in the Battle of Jutland.
Her main armament consisted of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns in four
turrets, which was a significant improvement over the preceding
König 's ten 30.5 cm (12 inch) guns. The ship was to have led a
battle squadron of four ships in the High Seas Fleet, but only Baden was
completed; the other two ships were cancelled when wartime production
requirements shifted to U-boat construction. Bayern 's first
assignment was on an abortive fleet advance into the North Sea, a month
after she had been commissioned. The ship also participated in Operation
Albion in the Gulf of Riga, but shortly after the German attack began in
October 1917, Bayern was mined and had to be withdrawn for repairs. She
was interned with the majority of the High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow,
Scotland, in November 1918 following the end of World War I. On 21 June
1919, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the fleet to be scuttled, and
Bayern was sunk. In September 1934, the ship was raised, towed to
Rosyth, and scrapped.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Bayern>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1637:
Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a
Spanish fleet intercepted an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44
vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Lizard_Point>
1766:
A mutiny by captive Malagasy began at sea on the slave ship
Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-
day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meermin_slave_mutiny>
1873:
Vasil Levski (pictured), the national hero of Bulgaria, was
executed in Sofia by Ottoman authorities for his efforts to establish an
independent Bulgarian republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasil_Levski>
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the systematic
extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching>
2001:
Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese broke out in
Sampit, Indonesia, that would ultimately result in more than 500 deaths
and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampit_conflict>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
artisanal:
1. Of or pertaining to artisans or the work of artisans.
2. Involving skilled work, with comparatively little reliance on machinery.
3. (of an item, especially a foodstuff) Made by an artisan (skilled
worker).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/artisanal>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have
faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your
head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for
certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also
real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
--Ramakrishna
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ramakrishna>
Banksia paludosa (swamp banksia) is a shrub endemic to New South Wales,
found between Sydney and Batemans Bay and in Eden. Two subspecies are
recognised: a spreading shrub to 1.5 m (5 ft) in height, and a
subspecies astrolux, up to 5 m (16 ft) high and found only in Nattai
National Park. Native mammals, such as the brown antechinus and sugar
glider, are important pollinators of B. paludosa. Several species of
honeyeaters visit the flower spikes, as do ants and the European
honeybee. The response to bushfire depends on the subspecies; subspecies
paludosa regenerates from underground lignotubers, while plants of
subspecies astrolux are killed by fire and regenerate from large stores
of seed which have been held in cones in the plant canopy. B. paludosa
is sometimes seen in cultivation, with dwarf forms being registered and
sold.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_paludosa>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1400:
The body of the deposed king Richard II was put on display in
London's Old St Paul's Cathedral, after his death in Pontefract Castle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_of_England>
1600:
Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent
of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the
stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>
1913:
In the U.S. National Guard's 69th Regiment Armory in New York
City, the Armory Show opened, introducing Americans to avant-garde and
modern art.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armory_Show>
1949:
Chaim Weizmann began his term as the first President of Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann>
2011:
Bahrain security forces launched a pre-dawn raid on protesters
in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, killing four of them.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain_Bloody_Thursday>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bebother:
To bring trouble upon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bebother>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our philosophy... reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a
single end, and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one
primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of
contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that
contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to
compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
--Giordano Bruno
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>
Tintin in the Congo is the second volume of The Adventures of Tintin,
the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the
conservative newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century) for
its children's supplement, it was serialised weekly from May 1930 to
June 1931. The story tells of young reporter Tintin, who is sent to the
Belgian Congo with his dog Snowy. Encountering native Congolese people
and wild animals, Tintin unearths a diamond smuggling operation run by
the American gangster Al Capone. Following Tintin in the Land of the
Soviets and bolstered by publicity stunts, it was a commercial success
and appeared in book form shortly after the serial's conclusion. The
Tintin series grew over the 1930s and 1940s to become a defining part of
the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1946, Hergé re-drew and
coloured Tintin in the Congo in his distinctive style of uniform lines
and low contrast for republication by Casterman, revised for a 1975
edition. In the late 20th century, Tintin in the Congo was criticised
for its representation of big-game hunting and for its typically
colonial depictions of Africans as unable to fend for themselves and in
need of European masters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: Union victory in the Battle of Fort
Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional
Surrender" Grant.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson>
1918:
The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence of
Lithuania (facsimile pictured), proclaiming the restoration of an
independent Lithuania governed by democratic principles, despite the
presence of German troops in the country during World War I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Independence_of_Lithuania>
1940:
Second World War: The British Royal Navy boarded and captured
the German tanker Altmark and freed 299 captured British sailors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmark_Incident>
1985:
"The Hizballah Program" was released, describing the ideology
and goals of the Shia Islamic political and paramilitary organization
Hizballah.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah>
2005:
The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the international treaty on
climate change, entered into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
seriatim:
One after another, in order; taking one topic or subject at a time in an
order; sequentially.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seriatim>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In essence, religion was love; in no case was it logic. Reason
can reach nothing except through the senses; God, by essence, cannot be
reached through the senses; if he is to be known at all, he must be
known by contact of spirit with spirit, essence with essence; directly;
by emotion; by ecstasy; by absorption of our existence with his; by
substitution of his spirit for ours.
--Henry Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams>
John Barrymore (1882–1942) was an American actor most famous for his
film roles. Born into a theatrical dynasty, he initially tried to avoid
the stage, briefly attempting a career as an artist, but he soon
followed his father Maurice and siblings Ethel and Lionel into acting.
After beginning in light comedy, he moved to high stage drama,
culminating in productions of Justice (1916), Richard III (1920), and
especially Hamlet (1922), a role critics lavishly praised him for. After
his stage career peaked, he turned entirely to cinema for the next 14
years, initially in silent films. His stage-trained voice proved an
asset when sound films were introduced, and three of his works have been
inducted into the National Film Registry. His personal life has been the
subject of much attention before and since his death. He struggled with
alcohol abuse from the age of 14, was married and divorced four times,
and declared bankruptcy in his fifties. Much of his later work involved
self-parody and the portrayal of drunken has-beens. A hugely influential
actor whose talent still shapes Shakespearean acting today, his later
career and private life were seen by the obituarists as a waste of a
once-great talent.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrymore>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
The United States Navy battleship USS Maine exploded and sank
in Havana, Cuba (wreckage pictured), killing more than 260 people and
precipitating the Spanish–American War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1)>
1900:
Second Boer War: British cavalry under Major-General John
French defeated Boer forces to end a 124-day siege of Kimberley,
present-day South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kimberley>
1949:
Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations
at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank region of Jordan, the
location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves>
1965:
Canada adopted the Maple Leaf flag, replacing the Canadian Red
Ensign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada>
1999:
Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founding members of the militant
organization the Kurdistan Workers' Party, was arrested by Turkish
security forces in Nairobi, Kenya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%96calan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
skysill:
Horizon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skysill>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful
— it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any
moment and with no explanation.
--Miranda July
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miranda_July>
Romances is the twelfth studio album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel,
released on August 12, 1997, by Warner Music Latina. It is the third
album of the Romance series, in which Miguel covers Latin songs from
1940 to 1978. Production was directed by Armando Manzanero, and the
songs were arranged by Bebu Silvetti, whose style has been described by
Leila Cobo of Billboard as "anchored in sweeping melodies, lush string
arrangements, acoustic instrumentation, and above all, unabashed
romanticism." Romances consists of twelve cover versions and two new
compositions by Manzanero and Silvetti. Recording took place in early
1997 at the Ocean Way recording studio in Los Angeles, California.
Romances has sold over 4.5 million copies and received platinum
certifications in several Latin American countries, the United States
and Spain. Miguel promoted the album by touring the United States, Latin
America and Spain. The album was generally well received by critics, who
praised Miguel's vocals as well as the song selection, and earned Miguel
several awards, including a Grammy Award in the United States. Six
singles were released: "Por Debajo de la Mesa", "El Reloj", "Contigo
(Estar Contigo)", "De Quererte Asi (De T'Avoir Aimee)", "Bésame Mucho",
and "Sabor a Mi".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romances_(Luis_Miguel_album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1779:
English explorer James Cook was killed during a fight against
Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook>
1835:
The members of the original Quorum of the Twelve of the Latter
Day Saint movement were selected by the Three Witnesses.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_of_the_Twelve>
1949:
The Knesset, the legislature of Israel, convened for the first
time, succeeding the Assembly of Representatives that had functioned as
the Jewish community's parliament during the British Mandate Era.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset>
1990:
The Voyager 1 space probe took an iconic photograph of planet
Earth that later became famous as Pale Blue Dot.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot>
2005:
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated
when explosives were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St.
George Hotel in Beirut, sparking the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Revolution>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
impassionate:
1. Filled with passion, impassioned: young ministers, deeply impressed and
longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls,
are apt to abuse the use of this figure (George Hott).
2. Lacking passion, dispassionate: scholarly works demand keen attention to
logical consistency while maintaining an impersonal, impassionate voice
(Alexander Newport).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impassionate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough
for love.
--Time Enough for Love
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love>
The Bull Run River is a 21.9-mile (35.2 km) tributary of the Sandy
River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at the lower end of Bull
Run Lake in the Cascade Range, it flows generally west through the Bull
Run Watershed Management Unit, an area restricting potential sources of
contamination. Native Americans living along the Columbia River as early
as 10,000 years ago likely visited the watershed in search of food, and
more recently created trails near the upper part of it over the Cascade
Range and around Mount Hood. By the mid-19th century, pioneers used
these trails to cross the mountains to reach the fertile Willamette
Valley. The river, impounded by two artificial storage reservoirs as
well as the lake, has been the primary source of drinking water for the
city of Portland, Oregon, since 1895. Despite legal protections, about
22 percent of the protected zone was logged during the second half of
the 20th century, and erosion increased, forcing Portland to shut down
the water supply from the river one time in 1996. A law passed later
that year prohibited most logging in or near the watershed. Trees more
than 500 years old cover about half of the watershed, and more than 250
wildlife species, including the protected northern spotted owl, inhabit
this forest.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Run_River_(Oregon)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1542:
Catherine Howard (pictured), the fifth wife of Henry VIII of
England, was executed for adultery.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Howard>
1867:
Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted
main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the
city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne>
1945:
World War II: The Allies began their strategic bombing of
Dresden, Saxony, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm that killed
tens of thousands of civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II>
1978:
A bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, the site of
the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, killing three people and
injuring eleven others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Hilton_Hotel_bombing>
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors
destroyed more than two miles (3 km) of streets in Louisville,
Kentucky, US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
luck out:
1. (US) To be lucky; to experience great fortune: I lucked out and got the
last two tickets to the show.
2. (UK) To run out of luck: I lucked out and wasn't able to get any tickets
to the show.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/luck_out>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale
of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first
morning.
--Eleanor Farjeon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon>
The "Streatham" portrait is an oil painting on panel from the 1590s
believed to be a copy of a portrait of Lady Jane Grey dating to her
lifetime (c. 1537–54). It shows a three-quarter-length depiction of a
young woman in Tudor-period dress holding a prayer book, with the faded
inscription "Lady Jayne" or "Lady Iayne" in the upper-left corner.
Thought to have been completed as part of a set of paintings of
Protestant martyrs, it is in poor condition and damaged, as if it has
been attacked. By the early 20th century it was in the possession of a
collector in Streatham, London. In December 2005 the portrait was
examined by the art dealer Christopher Foley. He saw it as an accurate,
though poorly executed, reproduction of a contemporary painting of Jane,
had it verified, and on that basis negotiated its sale. The work was
acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London for a rumoured
£100,000, a sale of which the historian David Starkey was highly
critical, challenging Foley's identifications. As of 2015 it is on
display in Room 3 of the National Portrait Gallery. Although of
historical interest, the painting is generally considered to be of poor
artistic quality.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streatham_portrait>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
On the first anniversary of its victory in the Battle of
Chacabuco, Chile formally declared its independence from Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Declaration_of_Independence>
1855:
Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was
founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United
States' first agricultural college.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_State_University>
1912:
Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated
under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai,
formally replacing the Qing Dynasty with a new republic in China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi>
1947:
The Sikhote-Alin meteorite (fragment pictured), one of the
largest iron meteorite impacts ever observed, fell in the Sikhote-Alin
range in Siberia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhote-Alin_meteorite>
2009:
Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo Niagara
International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house in
Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49
people on board the aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cleave:
1. From Old English clēofan:
2. To split or sever.
3. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting: the snow plow clove a path
through the ice.
4. From Old English cleofian:
5. To cling or adhere to: she clove to him like a second skin.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cleave>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what
means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic
military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the
armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of
the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte
for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a
track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point
then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever
reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If
destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As
a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
--Abraham Lincoln
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>
Final Fantasy VIII is a role-playing video game released for the
PlayStation in 1999 and Windows in 2000. It was developed and published
by Square as the Final Fantasy series' eighth title, the first title to
consistently use realistically proportioned characters. The game follows
a group who have joined the "SeeD" mercenaries and are trying to stop
Ultimecia, a sorceress from the future, from casting a spell that
compresses time. Playable characters include the duty-bound loner
Squall, the outspoken and passionate young woman Rinoa, the patient
instructor Quistis, the martial artist Zell, the cheerful airship pilot
Selphie, and Irvine, a marksman looking for love. The music was scored
by Nobuo Uematsu, a series regular, and in a first for the series, the
theme music is a vocal piece, "Eyes on Me", performed by Faye Wong. The
game was a commercial success and positively received by critics.
Thirteen weeks after its release, it had earned more than US$50 million
in sales, making it the fastest-selling Final Fantasy title before Final
Fantasy XIII, a multi-platform release. The game had shipped
8.15 million copies worldwide by the second quarter of 2003.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VIII>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1826:
Swaminarayan wrote the Shikshapatri, a book of 212 verses that
serves as the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaminarayan>
1858:
Fourteen-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported
the first of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting
in the town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_apparitions>
1919:
Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the German
Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ebert>
1990:
Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner
for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South
Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela>
2008:
Rebel East Timorese soldiers invaded the homes of President
José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, seriously wounding
the former.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_East_Timorese_assassination_attempts>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
table:
1. (UK, Canada) To propose for discussion; to put on the table: the
legislature tabled the amendment and will start discussing it now.
2. (US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone; to take off the table:
the motion was tabled and parties agreed not to raise it again until
next year.
3. To tabulate; to put into a table.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/table>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for
such do always see that every cloud is an angel’s face. Every man
deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the
hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because
they are the very ones he most needs.
--Lydia Maria Child
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lydia_Maria_Child>
The wordless novel uses captionless pictures to tell a story, most often
using woodcut and other relief printing techniques. The genre flourished
primarily in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in Germany. The typically
socialist work drew inspiration from medieval woodcuts and used the
awkward look of that medium to express angst and frustration at social
injustice. The first such book was the Belgian Frans Masereel's 25
Images of a Man's Passion (illustrated), published in 1918. Other
artists, such as the German Otto Nückel, followed Masereel's example.
Lynd Ward brought the genre to the United States in 1929 when he
produced Gods' Man, which inspired other American wordless novels and
was parodied in 1930 by cartoonist Milt Gross in He Done Her Wrong.
Following an early-1930s peak in production and popularity, the genre
waned in the face of competition from sound films and anti-socialist
censorship in Nazi Germany and the US. The graphic novels of cartoonists
Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman and the wordless graphic novels of Eric
Drooker and Peter Kuper were inspired by the wordless novel genre.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordless_novel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1258:
Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a
cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, ending
the rule of the Abbasid caliphate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)>
1862:
American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk
of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the
Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elizabeth_City>
1906:
The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched,
representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name
came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)>
1962:
Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it
included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day
dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now
known for.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Mickey>
2008:
The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's
National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Namdaemun_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
no fear:
1. Don't worry, no worries.
2. (UK, dated) No way; absolutely not: TOAD: You should take up swimming!
— RABBIT: No fear, toad! (The Animals of Farthing Wood).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_fear>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell
alone.
--Jimmy Durante
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Durante>
Æthelred was King of Mercia from 675 until 704. He was the son of Penda
of Mercia and came to the throne in 675, when his brother, Wulfhere of
Mercia, died. Within a year of his accession he invaded Kent, where his
armies destroyed the city of Rochester. In 679 he defeated his brother-
in-law, Ecgfrith of Northumbria, at the Battle of the Trent in a major
setback for the Northumbrians; it effectively ended their military
involvement in English affairs south of the Humber and permanently
returned the kingdom of Lindsey to Mercia's possession. Nevertheless,
Æthelred was unable to re-establish his predecessors' domination of
southern Britain. He was known as a pious king, and he made many grants
of land to the church. His wife, Osthryth, was a daughter of King Oswiu,
one of the dominant 7th-century Northumbrian kings. Osthryth was
murdered in unknown circumstances in 697, and in 704 Æthelred
abdicated, leaving the throne to Wulfhere's son Coenred. Æthelred
became a monk at Bardney, a monastery which he had founded with his
wife, and was buried there. His son Ceolred became king after Coenred;
it is also possible that Æthelred had another son named Ceolwald who
was briefly king before Ceolred.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_of_Mercia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was named as the
provisional president of the Confederate States of America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis>
1913:
A group of meteors was visible across much of the eastern
seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude
that the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the
Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Great_Meteor_Procession>
1920:
The Svalbard Treaty was signed, recognizing Norwegian
sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, but all signatories
were also given equal rights to engage in commercial activities on the
islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard>
1945:
World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully
attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1945)>
1976:
The Australian Defence Force was formed by the unification of
the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian
Air Force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Defence_Force>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
northerly:
1. Facing the north; directed towards the north.
2. Located in a northern region.
3. Coming from the north.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/northerly>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to
respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel
others to respect you.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky>