Carrow Road is a football stadium located in Norwich, Norfolk, England,
and is the home of Norwich City Football Club. The stadium is on the
east side of the city, not far from Norwich railway station and the
River Wensum. The club originally played at Newmarket Road before moving
to The Nest. When The Nest was deemed inadequate for the size of crowds
it was attracting, the Carrow Road ground, named after the road on which
it is located, was purpose-built by Norwich City in just 82 days and
opened on 31 August 1935. The stadium has been altered and upgraded
several times during its history, including after a devastating fire
that destroyed the old City Stand in 1984. Having once accommodated
standing supporters, the ground has been all-seater since 1992, with a
current capacity of 27,244. The stadium's record attendance since
becoming an all-seater ground is 27,036, set during a Premier League
match versus Crystal Palace on 8 August 2015. When standing on the
terraces was permitted, Carrow Road saw a crowd of 43,984 when hosting
Leicester City for an FA Cup match in 1963. Carrow Road has also hosted
under-21 international football and a number of concerts, including
performances by Elton John and George Michael.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrow_Road>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
Peninsular War: At the Battle of San Marcial, the Spanish Army
of Galicia under Manuel Alberto Freire turned back Nicolas Soult's last
major offensive against Arthur Wellesley's allied army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Marcial>
1876:
Abdul Hamid II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire when his
brother Murad V was deposed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hamid_II>
1935:
In an effort to stay out of the growing European conflict, the
United States passed the first of its Neutrality Acts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Acts_of_1930s>
1945:
The Liberal Party of Australia, one of the two major Australian
political parties, was founded to replace the United Australia Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia>
1965:
The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy, a large, wide-bodied cargo
aircraft used for ferrying outsized cargo components, made its first
flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kore:
An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed,
painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kore>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Jesus never said anything about absurdity, and he never
indicated for one flash of time that he was aware of the
preposterousness of his theory about himself. And he didn't even try to
make the theory understandable in terms of the reality and experience of
the rest of us. For if everybody else is also not what Jesus said he
was, what good is what he said?
--William Saroyan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Saroyan>
Judah Benjamin (1811–1884) was a lawyer and United States Senator from
Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his
escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an
English barrister. He was the first person professing the Jewish faith
to be elected to the Senate, and the first Jew to hold a cabinet
position in North America. After attending Yale, Benjamin moved to New
Orleans, where he read law and passed the bar. He rose rapidly both at
the bar and in politics, becoming a wealthy slaveowner, and serving in
both houses of the Louisiana legislature prior to his election to the
Senate in 1852. There, he was an ardent supporter of slavery. When war
began, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him Attorney
General, and later Secretary of War. Made Secretary of State in 1862,
Benjamin unsuccessfully tried to gain recognition of the Confederacy by
France and the United Kingdom. When Davis fled from Virginia in early
1865, Benjamin went with him. He escaped to Britain and settled there,
becoming a barrister and again rising to the top of his profession
before retiring in 1883. He died in Paris the following year.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1835:
European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River
in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne (Parliament
House pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne>
1896:
Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the
first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a
powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_del_Monte>
1914:
World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost
complete destruction of the Russian Second Army by the German Eighth
Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tannenberg>
1959:
The title of National Hero of Indonesia was first given, the
recipient being the writer-cum-politician Abdul Muis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hero_of_Indonesia>
1995:
Bosnian War: NATO began its bombing campaign against the Army
of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
leech:
1. (transitive) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from
the patient.
2. (transitive) To drain (resources) without giving back
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leech>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy
to be broken.
--Warren Buffett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#Disputed>
Birchington-on-Sea is a village and seaside resort in north-east Kent,
England, with a population of around 10,000. It faces the North Sea,
east of the Thames Estuary, between Herne Bay and Margate. Its main
beach is Minnis Bay (pictured); three smaller beaches are surrounded by
chalk cliffs, cliff stacks and caves. Roman and prehistoric artefacts
indicate that the area was inhabited before the existence of the
village, and Minnis Bay was once the site of an Iron Age settlement. The
village was first recorded in 1240. Its parish church, All Saints',
dates to the 13th century and its churchyard is the burial place of the
19th-century Pre-Raphaelite artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Quex Park, a
local 19th-century manor house, is home to the Powell-Cotton Museum and
a twelve-bell tower built for change ringing. The museum displays
stuffed exotic animals collected by Major Percy Powell-Cotton on his
travels in Africa, and houses artefacts unearthed in and around
Birchington.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birchington-on-Sea>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1475:
After an invasion by England and the Duchy of Burgundy, France
signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal
with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Picquigny>
1842:
The Treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty ending the First Opium
War, was signed, forcing the Chinese Qing dynasty to give control of the
island that is now the site of Hong Kong, and other concessions to the
British.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong>
1949:
The Soviet Union successfully conducted its first nuclear
weapons test, exploding the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1>
1991:
Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian
Mafia after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libero_Grassi>
2005:
Storm surges of Hurricane Katrina caused multiple breaches in
levees around New Orleans, flooding about 80% of the city and
surrounding areas for weeks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
skyclad:
(Wicca) Naked outdoors
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skyclad>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
--Michael Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson>
The American twenty-cent piece was a coin struck from 1875 to 1878, but
only for collectors in the final two years. In 1874 Nevada's newly
elected senator, John P. Jones, began promoting his bill for a twenty-
cent piece to alleviate the shortage of small change in the Far West.
The bill passed Congress the following year, and Mint Director Henry
Linderman ordered pattern coins struck. Although the new coin's edge was
smooth rather than reeded, as with other silver coins, the new piece was
close to the size of, and immediately confused with, the quarter. Adding
to the bewilderment, the obverses (front faces) of the coins were almost
identical. After the first year, in which over a million were minted,
there was little demand, and the denomination was abolished in 1878. At
least a third of the total mintage was later melted by the government.
Numismatist Mark Benvenuto called the twenty-cent piece "a chapter of
U.S. coinage history that closed almost before it began".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-cent_piece_(United_States_coin)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1850:
German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin (2015
production pictured), containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed
under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar, present-day Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohengrin_(opera)>
1861:
American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extended its
blockage strategy by capturing two Confederate forts on North Carolina's
Outer Banks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hatteras_Inlet_Batteries>
1909:
A military coup d'etat against the government of Dimitrios
Rallis began in the Goudi neighbourhood of Athens, Greece.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goudi_coup>
1955:
African American teenager Emmett Till was murdered near Money,
Mississippi, for flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent
American Civil Rights Movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till>
1973:
Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage
situation in Stockholm; during the incident the hostages had bonded with
their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
manumission:
Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving
of freedom; the act of manumitting.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manumission>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
⨀ My name is Harrison Bergeron. I am a fugitive, and a public
threat. I am an abomination of the able. I am an exception to the
accepted. I am the greatest man you have never known. And for the last
six years, I have been held prisoner by the state — sentenced, without
trial, to torture without end. They… had hoped to destroy in me any
trace of the extraordinary … but the extraordinary, it seems, was
simply out of their reach. So now I stand before you today, beaten,
hobbled, and sickened … but, sadly, not broken. And I say to you, that
if it is greatness we must destroy, then let us drag our enemy out of
the darkness, where it has been hiding. Let us shine a light so, at
last, all the world can see!
--2081
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/2081_(film)>
Jim Thome (born 1970) played Major League Baseball for 22 years,
starting with the Cleveland Indians in 1991 and joining the Philadelphia
Phillies in 2002. Traded to the Chicago White Sox before the 2006
season, he won the American League Comeback Player of the Year Award
that year. After back pain limited him to being a designated hitter, he
had stints with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Indians and
Phillies before ending his career with the Baltimore Orioles. A prolific
power hitter, Thome hit 612 home runs during his career—the seventh-
most of all time. He was a member of five All-Star teams and won a
Silver Slugger Award in 1996. One of his trademarks was his unique
batting stance, pointing the bat at right field before the pitcher
threw, something he first saw in the film The Natural. He was known for
his consistent positive attitude and gregarious personality. An active
philanthropist during his playing career, he was honored with two Marvin
Miller Man of the Year Awards and a Lou Gehrig Memorial Award.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thome>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1810:
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the Royal Navy,
preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de la
Passe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Port>
1832:
Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans,
surrendered to US authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_War>
1928:
Over sixty nations signed the Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing
war as an instrument of national policy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact>
1957:
The Constitution of Malaya came into force, three days before
the Federation of Malaya achieved formal independence from the United
Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Malaysia>
2000:
Moscow's Ostankino Tower caught fire, killing three people and
disrupting television and radio signals around the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostankino_Tower>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wantokism:
The Melanesian cultural practice of relying on one's wantoks for any
need, and of sharing the fruits of one's personal success with one's
wantoks.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wantokism>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I believe in man's capacity for achieving great things and in
the combined force resulting from encounters and exchanges. I plead for
greater liberty and a more open world … because it provides a setting
which liberates individuals and their creativity as no other system can.
It spurs the dynamism which has led to human, economic, scientific, and
technical advances, and which will continue to do so.
--Johan Norberg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johan_Norberg>
Pather Panchali is a 1955 Bengali drama film adapted from Bibhutibhushan
Bandopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name. The debut film of
the Indian director Satyajit Ray, it depicts the lives of a family from
a poor Indian village with two children, Apu (Subir Banerjee) and his
elder sister Durga (Uma Dasgupta). The film, shot mainly on location in
rural India, took nearly three years to complete. Sitar virtuoso Ravi
Shankar composed the score. After a screening in May at New York's
Museum of Modern Art, it was officially released in Kolkata on August
26, 1955, and was enthusiastically received after a slow start. Many
critics have praised the film's realism and humanity, though a few have
found fault with its slow pace; other critics have condemned it,
claiming it romanticizes poverty. The tale of Apu's life is continued in
Aparajito (The Unvanquished, 1956) and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu,
1959). The three films constitute the Apu Trilogy. Pather Panchali was a
pioneer film of the Parallel Cinema movement and was the first film from
independent India to attract major international attention, winning a
number of awards and establishing Ray as a major director. It has been
featured in lists of the greatest films ever made.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pather_Panchali>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1071:
Byzantine–Seljuq Wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan
captured Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert>
1789:
French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of
the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the
people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_C…>
1883:
A massive eruption destroyed the volcanic island of Krakatoa,
ejecting so much ash that average global temperatures fell by as much as
1.2 °C (2.2 °F) over the next year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa>
1968:
The US Democratic Party's National Convention began at the
International Amphitheatre in Chicago, sparking four days of clashes
between anti–Vietnam War protesters and police.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention>
1977:
The National Assembly of Quebec declared French to be the only
official language of Quebec.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
yeasayer:
1. One whose attitude is positive, optimistic, confidently affirmative.
2. (pejorative) One who habitually agrees uncritically.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yeasayer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those
Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they
really disliked them but because it was the thing.
--Christopher Isherwood
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood>
Caloboletus calopus, known as the bitter beech bolete, is a fungus of
the bolete family, found in Asia, Northern Europe and North America.
Appearing in coniferous and deciduous woodland in summer and autumn, the
stout mushrooms are attractively coloured, with a beige to olive cap up
to 15 cm (6 in) across, yellow pores, and a reddish stalk up to 15 cm
(6 in) long and 5 cm (2 in) wide. The pale yellow flesh stains blue
when broken or bruised. Christian Persoon first described Boletus
calopus in 1801. Modern molecular phylogenetics has shown that it is
only distantly related to the type species of Boletus, and it was placed
in a new genus as the type species of Caloboletus in 2014. It is not an
edible mushroom, rendered unpalatable by its intensely bitter taste,
which does not disappear with cooking. Its red stalk distinguishes it
from edible species such as Boletus edulis.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloboletus_calopus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1248:
Ommen in the Netherlands received city rights and fortification
rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht, after the town was
pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommen>
1609:
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first
telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass
refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei>
1825:
The Thirty-Three Orientals, a revolutionary group led by Juan
Antonio Lavalleja, declared Uruguayan independence from the Empire of
Brazil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay>
1920:
Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the
Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive
battle of the Polish–Soviet War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)>
1967:
Founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell was
assassinated by John Patler, a former member of his group.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shirty:
(informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shirty>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people,
do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those
characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the
clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a
certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join
battle. There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those
things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.
Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and
tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may
he be ours, he may be us.
--Walt Kelly
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly>
Jethro Sumner (c. 1733 – 1785) was an officer in the Continental Army
during the American Revolutionary War. After serving in Virginia's
Provincial forces in the French and Indian War and later as Sheriff of
Bute County, North Carolina, he became a strident Patriot, and was
elected to North Carolina's Provincial Congress. He was named the
commanding officer of the 3rd North Carolina Regiment in the Continental
Army in 1776, seeing action in the Southern theater and Philadelphia
campaign. One of five brigadier generals from North Carolina, he served
with distinction in the battles of Stono Ferry and Eutaw Springs, but
recurring bouts of poor health often forced him to play an
administrative role, or to convalesce back home. Following a drastic
reduction in the number of North Carolinians serving with the
Continental Army, Sumner became a general in the state's militia, but
resigned in protest after the state Board of War awarded overall command
of the militia to William Smallwood, a Continental Army general from
Maryland. In 1783 Sumner helped establish the state chapter of the
Society of the Cincinnati, and became its first president. He died in
1785 with extensive landholdings.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Sumner>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
410:
Rome was sacked for the first time in 800 years, by the
Visigoths under Alaric I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)>
1456:
The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first
major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible>
1821:
The Treaty of Córdoba was signed in Córdoba, Veracruz,
ratifying the Plan of Iguala and concluding Mexico's War of Independence
from Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_C%C3%B3rdoba>
1941:
Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4
euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings
continued in secret for the remainder of the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4>
2012:
American cyclist Lance Armstrong was banned from all
competitions and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the
United States Anti-Doping Agency for using illicit performance-enhancing
drugs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
resplendence:
The property of being, or that which causes something to be,
resplendent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/resplendence>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I would encourage people to look around them in their community
and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in,
even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty
people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that
when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large
numbers of people doing little things unbeknownst to one another. And
that history is very important for people to not get discouraged. …
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if
they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a
vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they
do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of
energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are,
then change takes place.
--Howard Zinn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn>
The Queen Elizabeth Way is a 400-Series highway in the Canadian province
of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New
York. The freeway begins at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie and travels
139.1 kilometres (86.4 mi) around the western shore of Lake Ontario,
ending at Highway 427, where the roadway continues as the Gardiner
Expressway into downtown Toronto. The freeway's history dates back to
1931, when work began to widen the Middle Road as a relief project
during the Great Depression, to bring it up to the quality of the nearby
Dundas Highway and Lakeshore Road. In 1934, the design was modified to
resemble German autobahns. When it was initially opened in 1937, it was
the first intercity divided highway in North America and featured the
longest stretch of consistent illumination in the world. While not a
true freeway at the time, it was gradually upgraded, widened and
modernized beginning in the 1950s, taking on more or less its current
form by 1975. Since then, various projects have continued to widen the
route.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Way>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1572:
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, a wave of Catholic mob
violence against the Huguenots, began, lasting for several months and
resulting in an estimated tens of thousands deaths across France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre>
1650:
General George Monck founded "Monck's Regiment of Foot", the
predecessor to the Coldstream Guards, in England's New Model Army,
making the regiment the oldest one in the Regular Army in continuous
active service.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards>
1896:
Andrés Bonifacio and his Katipunan comrades in modern-day
Quezon City rose up in revolt against Spanish rule, marking the
beginning of the Philippine Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_of_Pugad_Lawin>
1927:
After a controversial trial, and despite worldwide protests,
Italian-born American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti (both pictured) were
executed via electrocution in Massachusetts for the charges of murder
and theft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti>
1939:
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year, mutual non-aggression treaty,
which also included a secret protocol dividing Northern and Eastern
Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
budgie smugglers:
(Australia, New Zealand, informal, plural only) A style of tightfitting
men's swimming costume cut like underwear briefs that covers the
buttocks and groin but not the legs, especially worn in surf lifesaving
and in swimming races.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/budgie_smugglers>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I can not be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my
Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this
persecuted body, he never shall receive it. To the other points whereof
I am accused, I freely confess them all. As Governor of my country I
have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have
mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns
and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. If I or my soldiers
have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I
repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask
pardon.
--William Wallace
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wallace>
Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman (pictured
in 2007), serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman
interviewing his father, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The book
is self-referential and postmodern—most strikingly in its depiction of
Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and non-Jewish Poles as pigs. The
narrative consists mostly of flashbacks to the war years, framed by the
interview that takes place in 1978 in the Rego Park section of New York
City. Much of the story revolves around Spiegelman's troubled
relationship with his father, and the impact of his mother's suicide
when he was 20. The book uses a minimalist drawing style with innovative
page and panel layouts, pacing, and structure. Maus was serialized as an
insert in Raw, an avant-garde comics and graphics magazine published by
Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly. It was one of the first
graphic novels to receive significant academic attention in the English-
speaking world, and in 1992 became the first to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1138:
English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the
Standard near Northallerton in Yorkshire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Standard>
1639:
The East India Company bought a small strip of land on what is
today Chennai (modern skyline pictured), the capital city of the Indian
state of Tamil Nadu, from the King of the Vijayanagara Empire, Peda
Venkata Raya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai>
1791:
A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-
Domingue, starting the Haitian Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution>
1910:
Japan annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan–Korea
Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that
lasted until the end of World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule>
2012:
A series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and Pokomo tribes
of Kenya's Tana River District resulted in the deaths of at least 52
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Tana_River_District_clashes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
angleworm:
(Northern US) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to
catch fish.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angleworm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it
Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist
/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican,
Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty
to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees
himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge
unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any
author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery
rhyme.
--Ray Bradbury
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury>