"Missing My Baby" is a song released by American Tejano music recording
artist Selena on her third studio album Entre a Mi Mundo (1992). It was
composed by her brother A.B. Quintanilla III, the song's principal
record producer. He wanted to showcase Selena's diverse musical
abilities and to help her cross over into the English-speaking market;
most of the album is Mexican pop and traditional Mexican songs. Critics
praised her emotive enunciation in the song. "Missing My Baby" is a mid-
tempo R&B; ballad influenced by urban and soul music. The lyrics talk
about the narrator's love for her boyfriend and how much she misses him.
Although never intended to be released as a single, the track peaked at
number 22 on the US Rhythmic Top 40 chart in 1995. The track was one of
the first songs to be played by radio stations after Selena was shot and
killed by her friend, the former manager of her boutiques, on March 31,
1995. A posthumous music video made for cable network VH1 was released
in 1998 to promote the triple box-set Anthology (1998).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_My_Baby>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1492:
The Catholic Monarchs of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree,
ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or be expelled from the
country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree>
1822:
Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began the massacre of
over 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chios_massacre>
1889:
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in Paris, becoming a global
icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower>
1901:
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Black Sea, the most
powerful earthquake ever recorded in the area.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_Black_Sea_earthquake>
1995:
American singer-songwriter, Selena, known as "The Queen of
Tejano music", was murdered in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the president
of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Selena>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wry:
1. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
2. Dryly humorous; sardonic or ironic.
3. Twisted, bent, crooked.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
--Leo Buscaglia
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Buscaglia>
The Alsos Mission was an Allied unit formed to investigate Axis
scientific developments, especially nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons, as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Colonel
Boris Pash, a former Manhattan Project security officer, was the
mission's commander, and Samuel Goudsmit was its scientific leader. They
joined the advancing Allied units, and occasionally operated behind
enemy lines, first in Italy, and later in France and Germany. Gathering
information on the German nuclear project, mission personnel captured
and dismantled the German experimental nuclear reactor at Haigerloch
(pictured) in a daring raid behind German lines in April 1945. They took
senior German researchers into custody, including Otto Hahn, Max von
Laue, Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. They
searched for personnel, records, and materials that might be useful, to
make them available for Allied research and to keep them out of Soviet
hands. Over 1,000 tons of uranium ore was recovered by the mission,
along with stocks of heavy water.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsos_Mission>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the
purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase>
1899:
A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other
national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the
International Committee on Atomic Weights.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Isotopic_Abundances_and_Atomic_…>
1918:
Bolshevik and Dashnak forces suppressed a Muslim revolt in
Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in up to 12,000 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Days>
1940:
Second Sino-Japanese War: Wang Jingwei was officially installed
by Japan as head of a puppet state in China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Jingwei>
1981:
Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John
Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three
others outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eat crow:
(chiefly US, idiomatic) To recognize that one has been shown to be
mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a
humiliating error.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eat_crow>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing
more truly artistic than to love people.
--Vincent van Gogh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh>
John Tyler (1790–1862) was the tenth President of the United States
(1841–45). He served as a Virginia state legislator, governor, U.S.
representative, and senator before his election as vice president in
1840 on the Whig Party ticket led by William Henry Harrison. He became
the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without being
elected to the office after his running mate's death in April 1841.
Taking the oath of office, he immediately moved into the White House and
assumed full presidential powers, a precedent that would govern future
successions and eventually become codified in the Twenty-fifth
Amendment. He found much of the Whig program unconstitutional, and
vetoed several of his party's bills. The Whigs, led by Kentucky Senator
Henry Clay, dubbed him "His Accidency", and expelled him from the party.
Stalemated on domestic policy, Tyler had several foreign-policy
achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and
the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China. He dedicated his last two years
in office to the annexation of Texas, then retired to his Virginia
plantation. When the Civil War began in 1861, Tyler won election to the
Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1807:
German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 4
Vesta, the brightest asteroid and the second-most massive body in the
asteroid belt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Vesta>
1865:
American Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign opened with the
Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate States Army was forced
into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appomattox_Campaign>
1871:
The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially
opened by Queen Victoria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall>
1945:
World War II: The German 4th Army was almost completely
destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at the Heiligenbeil Pocket in East
Prussia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiligenbeil_Pocket>
1982:
Queen Elizabeth II gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982,
which ended all remaining dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by
a process known as "patriation".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Act_1982>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
otorhinolaryngology:
(medicine) The study of diseases of the ear, nose and throat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/otorhinolaryngology>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A poet must be able to claim … freedom to follow the
vision of poetry, the imaginative vision of poetry … And in any case,
poetry is religion, religion is poetry. The message of the New Testament
is poetry. Christ was a poet, the New Testament is metaphor, the
Resurrection is a metaphor; and I feel perfectly within my rights in
approaching my whole vocation as priest and preacher as one who is to
present poetry; and when I preach poetry I am preaching Christianity,
and when one discusses Christianity one is discussing poetry in its
imaginative aspects. … My work as a poet has to deal with the
presentation of imaginative truth.
--R. S. Thomas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas>
Josh Hutcherson (born 1992) is an American actor and filmmaker. He began
his acting career at a young age with minor roles in TV commercials and
pilot episodes. As he gained experience, he began taking on bigger
roles, notably in Zathura (2005), RV (2006), Bridge to Terabithia
(2007), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), and The Kids Are All
Right (2010). Over the course of his young career, he picked up three
individual Young Artist Awards. Hutcherson has played Peeta Mellark in
the science fiction adventure film series, The Hunger Games (2012, 2013
and 2014), in his best-known role. He has also taken on filmmaking and
voiceover work, earning credits as an executive producer for Detention
(2011), The Forger (2012), and Escobar: Paradise Lost (2015), and for
voice acting in 2013's Epic, the most commercially successful of his
films except for The Hunger Games series. Hutcherson received the GLAAD
Vanguard Award in 2012 for his efforts in promoting equal rights for
LGBT people, and he supports the gay–straight alliance chapter called
"Straight But Not Narrow".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hutcherson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
193:
Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold
the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus>
1862:
American Civil War: An invasion of the New Mexico Territory by
the Confederate States Army was halted at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Glorieta_Pass>
1910:
Near Martigues, France, French aviator Henri Fabre's Fabre
Hydravion became the first seaplane to take off from water under its own
power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabre_Hydravion>
1942:
Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces
successfully disabled the key port of Saint-Nazaire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid>
1979:
British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote
in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his
government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions
during the "Winter of Discontent".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_government_…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lacrimae rerum:
The “tears of things”; the inherent tragedy of existence.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lacrimae_rerum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
--Teresa of Ávila
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila>
The D'Oliveira affair was a controversy over the inclusion of Basil
D'Oliveira, a mixed-race cricketer of South African origin, in the
England cricket team selected to tour apartheid-era South Africa in
1968–69. D'Oliveira had moved to England primarily because apartheid
restricted his cricketing career; he played Test cricket for England
from 1966. The English cricketing authorities wished to maintain
traditional links with South Africa and have the tour go ahead without
incident; the South Africans publicly indicated that D'Oliveira could
play, but secretly worked to prevent this. D'Oliveira's omission from
the tour party, ostensibly on cricketing merit, prompted a public outcry
in Britain; when he was then chosen to replace an injured player, the
South Africans alleged political motivations behind England's team
selection. Following abortive attempts at compromise, the English
cancelled the tour before it began. Sporting boycotts of South Africa
were already under way but this controversy was the first to have a
serious impact on South African cricket. South Africa was almost totally
isolated from international cricket from 1971 to 1991.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Oliveira_affair>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1329:
Pope John XXII issued a papal bull that some of the works of
German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart were heretical.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart>
1782:
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading
British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as
Prime Minister of Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Watson-Wentworth,_2nd_Marquess_of_Roc…>
1915:
Typhoid Mary (pictured), the first person to be identified as
an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was placed into quarantine,
where she spent the rest of her life.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary>
1945:
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation
Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and
ports to disrupt shipping.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Starvation>
1975:
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, an oil
pipeline spanning the length of Alaska, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_Sys…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fan death:
The urban legend originating in South Korea that if an electric fan is
left running overnight in a closed room it can cause the death of those
inside.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fan_death>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I did not think; I investigated. … It seemed at first a new
kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new, something
unrecorded.
--Wilhelm Röntgen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen>
The exhumation of Richard III of England in September 2012 and his
reburial in Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015 took place over 500
years after his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Richard was
originally buried in Leicester's Greyfriars Friary, but the site of his
grave was forgotten after the friary was demolished and it was generally
believed that his bones had been thrown into the nearby River Soar. In
September 2012, an archaeological excavation took place at the site of
the friary and a skeleton was discovered of a man with a spinal
deformity and severe head injuries. He appeared to have been hastily
buried without a coffin in a crudely cut grave. Analysis of the bones
showed that he had been killed by edged weapons cutting open his skull
and piercing his brain. DNA tests and radiocarbon dating confirmed that
the skeleton was that of Richard III. Leicester Cathedral was chosen as
the site of Richard's reburial, though some argued that York Minster or
Westminster Abbey would be more suitable locations. The reinterment in
an ecumenical Christian service at the cathedral, and the unveiling of
his tomb, were scheduled for the end of a week's commemorations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_of_Richard_III_of_England>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1351:
War of the Breton Succession: Thirty knights each from France
and England fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany,
which later was celebrated as a noble display of the ideals of chivalry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_of_the_Thirty>
1812:
The Boston Gazette printed a political cartoon coining the term
"gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry's approval of
legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts designed to
help incumbents win reelection.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry>
1885:
Feeling that Canada had failed to address the protection of
their rights, the Métis people, led by Louis Riel, began the North-West
Rebellion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Rebellion>
1953:
Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine
on a small group of adults and children.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine>
1979:
By signing the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Egypt became the
first Arab country to officially recognize Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_Peace_Treaty>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
immolate:
1. To kill as a sacrifice.
2. To destroy, especially by fire.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immolate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time.
You should also have an open mind at the right time.
--Paul Erdős
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s>
The Nauru reed warbler (Acrocephalus rehsei) is the only passerine land-
bird that breeds on the island of Nauru in the Pacific Ocean. It is
related to other Micronesian reed warblers, all of which evolved from
one of several radiations of the genus across the Pacific. Related
warblers on nearby islands include the Carolinian reed warbler, with
which the Nauru species was initially confused, and the nightingale reed
warbler. A medium-sized warbler, the Nauru reed warbler has dark brown
upperparts, cream underparts and a long, thin beak. It makes a low, cup-
shaped nest into which it lays two or three white eggs, and it feeds on
insects. It is found throughout Nauru, whose environment has changed
substantially in recent decades due to phosphate mining. The Nauru reed
warbler is potentially threatened by introduced predators and habitat
loss, and its small range leaves the species vulnerable to diseases and
tropical cyclones. Reports of a similar warbler from nearby islands
suggest that the Nauru reed warbler may have been eradicated from those
islands by introduced cats.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_reed_warbler>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1655:
Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the
largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)>
1802:
France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens,
temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the French
Revolutionary Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amiens>
1917:
Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II,
Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian
Orthodox Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Orthodox_Church>
1975:
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew
Faisal bin Musaid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia>
1995:
American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the
first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
in a pig's eye:
(idiomatic) Very unlikely; probably never.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_a_pig%27s_eye>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and
race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary
ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and
into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking
about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen,
or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
--Gloria Steinem
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem>
Isabeau of Bavaria (c. 1370–1435) became the queen of King Charles
VI of France in 1385. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach, the
eldest daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea
Visconti of Milan. Isabeau was sent to France at age 15 or 16, where the
young French king liked her enough to marry her three days after they
met. Charles suffered from lifelong progressive mental illness from
1392, and was forced to temporarily withdraw from government. A 1393
masque or masquerade ball for one of Isabeau's ladies-in-waiting—an
event later known as Bal des Ardents—ended in disaster with the King
almost burning to death. Although he demanded Isabeau's removal from his
presence during attacks of mental illness, he allowed her to act on his
behalf. Charles' illness created a power vacuum that eventually led to
the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War between the supporters of his
brother, Louis of Orléans, and the royal dukes of Burgundy. Isabeau
shifted allegiances between the factions, choosing courses she believed
most favorable for the heir to the throne. She was present at the
signing of the Treaty of Troyes in 1421, and lived in English-occupied
Paris until her death in 1435.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabeau_of_Bavaria>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
Rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain assassinated Japanese Chief
Minister Ii Naosuke, upset with his role in the opening of Japan to
foreign powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuradamon_Incident_(1860)>
1882:
German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis>
1927:
Following the capture of Nanjing by an alliance of Nationalist
and Communist forces, British and American warships bombarded the city
in defence of foreign citizens there.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Incident>
1944:
Second World War: Captured Allied airmen began "the Great
Escape", breaking out of the German prison camp Stalag Luft III.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III>
1989:
The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million
US gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the
most devastating man-made environmental disasters at sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
siesta:
An afternoon nap, especially the one taken after lunch in some cultures.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/siesta>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If "freedom" means, first of all, the responsibility of
every individual for the rational determination of his own personal,
professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than
that of the establishment of general freedom. Without a thoroughgoing
solution of this problem there never will be a peace lasting longer than
one or two generations. To solve this problem on a social scale, it will
take more thinking, more honesty and decency, more conscientiousness,
more economic, social and educational changes in social mass living than
all the efforts made in previous and future wars and post-war
reconstruction programs taken together.
--Wilhelm Reich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich>
Kangana Ranaut (born 1987) is an Indian film actress. She has
established a career in Bollywood, and is the recipient of a National
Film Award and three Filmfare Awards. She was born in Bhambla, a small
town in Himachal Pradesh. Adamant to build her own career path, she
relocated to Delhi at age sixteen, where she briefly became a model.
After training under the theatre director Arvind Gaur, she made her film
debut in the 2006 thriller Gangster. She received praise for portraying
emotionally intense characters in the dramas Woh Lamhe (2006), Life in
a... Metro (2007) and Fashion (2008). For the last of these, she won the
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Ranaut featured in the
successful films Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009) and Once Upon a Time
in Mumbaai (2010), though she was criticised for being typecast in
neurotic roles. A comic role opposite R. Madhavan in Tanu Weds Manu
(2011) was well-received, though this was followed by brief roles in
unsuccessful films. She then played a mutant in the science fiction film
Krrish 3 (2013), one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films, and won
the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama Queen (2014).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangana_Ranaut>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolution: Patrick Henry made his "Give me liberty,
or give me death!" speech to the House of Burgesses of Virginia, urging
military action against the British Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty,_or_give_me_death!>
1889:
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (pictured), founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic
religious movement in British India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya>
1905:
About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the
village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece,
beginning the Theriso revolt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriso_revolt>
1940:
Pakistan Movement: During its three-day general session, the
Muslim League drafted the Lahore Resolution, calling for greater
autonomy in British India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore_Resolution>
2005:
A fire and explosion at the third-largest oil refinery in the
United States killed 15 workers and kicked off process safety programs
throughout the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
escapade:
A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against
convention.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escapade>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about
themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This
script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive
without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really
are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going
beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies
when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human
being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem.
on
--Rashomon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rashomon>
God of War is a third person action-adventure video game for the
PlayStation 2, first released on March 22, 2005. Loosely based on Greek
mythology, it is the first installment in the series of the same name
and the third chronologically. The player controls Kratos, a Spartan
warrior who serves the Olympian Gods. The goddess Athena tasks him with
killing Ares, the God of War, who tricked Kratos into killing his own
wife and child. As Ares besieges Athens out of hatred for Athena, Kratos
embarks on a quest to find the one object capable of stopping the god:
the legendary Pandora's Box. The gameplay focuses on combo-based combat
and features quick time events that require the player to complete game
controller actions in a timed sequence to defeat stronger enemies and
bosses. The player can use magical attacks, and the game also features
puzzles and platforming elements. The eleventh best-selling PlayStation
2 game of all time, it sold more than 4.6 million copies worldwide.
Regarded as one of the best action-adventure games for the platform and
noted for its graphics, sound, presentation, and story, it won several
"Game of the Year" awards.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(video_game)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1765:
The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring
that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America
carry a tax stamp (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765>
1871:
William Woods Holden became the first governor of a U.S. state
to be removed from office due to impeachment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woods_Holden>
1933:
The Holocaust: The construction of the first Nazi concentration
camp at Dachau was completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp>
1945:
Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and
Yemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that facilitates
political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designed
to promote the interests of the Arab world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League>
1995:
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov of the Soyuz programme
returned from the Mir space station after 437 days in space, setting a
record for the longest spaceflight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
perfusion:
(medicine) The introduction of a drug or nutrients through the
bloodstream in order to reach an internal organ or tissues.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perfusion>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but
men must be sharpened by men.
--The Walking Drum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Walking_Drum>