The Scotland national football team has represented Scotland in
association football since the world's first international football
match on St. Andrew's Day (Scotland's National Day), 30 November 1872.
Controlled by the Scottish Football Association, the team competes in
the two major professional tournaments, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA
European Championship, but not the Olympic Games. Most of their home
matches are played at the national stadium, Hampden Park. They have a
long-standing rivalry with England, with annual matches from 1872 until
1989, and six matches since then. They have qualified for the FIFA World
Cup on eight occasions and the UEFA European Championship twice; they
have never progressed beyond the first group stage of a finals
tournament, but they did once beat the FIFA World Cup winners –
England, in 1967. Their supporters are collectively known as the Tartan
Army. The Scottish Football Association operates a roll of honour for
every player who has made more than 50 appearances for the team. Kenny
Dalglish, with 102 appearances between 1971 and 1986, holds the record
for Scotland; he also shares the record for goals scored (30), with
Denis Law.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_national_football_team>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1700:
Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII
defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of
Narva.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Narva_(1700)>
1853:
Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman
fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, precipitating the Crimean War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War>
1962:
Burmese diplomat U Thant became United Nations Secretary-
General, following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in September 1961.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant>
1979:
The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd, was
first released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall>
1993:
US President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence
Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a
background check.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
saltire:
1. (heraldry) An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It
usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed.
2. The Saint Andrew's cross, the flag of Scotland.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saltire>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps
and Hornets break through. But in Oratory the greatest Art is to hide
Art.
--Jonathan Swift
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift>
SMS Lützow was the second Derfflinger-class battlecruiser built by the
German Imperial Navy before World War I. Launched on 29 November 1913,
the ship was named in honor of the Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm
von Lützow who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Due to engine damage
during trials, Lützow did not join the I Scouting Group until March
1916. She missed most of the major actions conducted by the German
battlecruiser force, taking part in only one bombardment operation, at
Yarmouth and Lowestoft, on 24–25 April 1916. One month after becoming
Admiral Franz von Hipper's flagship, Lützow sank the British
battlecruiser HMS Invincible during the Battle of Jutland (31 May –
1 June); she is sometimes given credit for sinking the armored cruiser
HMS Defence as well. Heavily damaged by around 24 heavy-caliber shell
hits that flooded her bow, the ship was unable to make the return voyage
to German ports. Her crew was evacuated and she was sunk by torpedoes
fired by one of her escorts, the torpedo boat G38.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_L%C3%BCtzow>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1549:
After the death of Pope Paul III, a papal conclave with an
unprecedented number of cardinal electors convened to determine his
successor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_conclave,_1549%E2%80%9350>
1899:
FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish
football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona>
1929:
American explorer Richard E. Byrd and three others completed
the first flight over the South Pole.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd>
1963:
Five minutes after takeoff from Montreal, Trans-Canada Air
Lines Flight 831 crashed, killing all 118 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831>
2012:
The United Nations General Assembly voted to accord non-member
observer state status to Palestine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pink-collar:
Of or pertaining to employees in predominately female service
industries.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pink-collar>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a
merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned
about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to
blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of
childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in
moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to
carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about
being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I
read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been
found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a
man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and
the desire to be very grown up.
--C. S. Lewis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis>
The Australian cricketer Keith Miller toured England in 1948 as a member
of The Invincibles, a team that went undefeated in their 34 tour
matches. Miller (28 November 1919 – 11 October 2004) was an all-
rounder: a fast bowler and a right-handed middle-order batsman. Don
Bradman, the team captain, typically used him and Ray Lindwall in short
bursts with the new ball. Miller took 13 wickets at an average of 26.28,
playing a key role in subduing England's leading batsmen, Len Hutton and
Denis Compton, with a barrage of short-pitched bowling. In the First
Test, Miller took seven wickets, including Hutton and Compton twice,
bearing a large part of the bowling workload. With the bat, he scored
184 runs in the Tests at an average of 23.15, including 74 in the second
innings of the Second Test at Lord's, and a rapid 58 in the Fourth Test
that helped Australia regain the momentum in the match. In all first-
class matches on the tour, he took 56 wickets at 17.58 and scored 1,088
runs at 47.30. A carefree cricketer, Miller was seen as charismatic; his
joie de vivre on the field alienated his captain, and his friendship
with Princess Margaret was particularly scrutinised by the media.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Miller_with_the_Australian_cricket_team…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
936:
Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin
by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of
Later Tang.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Jingtang>
1443:
Having deserted the army of the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg went
to Krujë in Middle Albania and using a forged letter from Sultan Murad
II to the Governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skanderbeg>
1905:
Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith first presented his Sinn
Féin policy, declaring that the 1800 Act of Union of Great Britain and
Ireland was illegal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in>
1943:
World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin (all three
pictured) met at the Tehran Conference to discuss war strategy against
the Axis powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Conference>
1971:
Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal was assassinated by the
Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasfi_al-Tal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sickle:
(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle,
used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sickle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride; He
that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide. I am content with
what I have, Little be it or much: And, Lord, contentment still I crave,
Because thou savest such.
--John Bunyan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Bunyan>
Banksia canei (mountain banksia) is a shrub of the subalpine areas of
the Great Dividing Range between Melbourne and Canberra in southeastern
Australia. First collected on 27 November 1962, it superficially
resembles B. marginata, but is more closely related to another subalpine
species, B. saxicola. Although no subspecies are recognised, four
geographically isolated populations have been described, as there is
significant variation in the shape of both adult and juvenile leaves
between populations. B. canei is generally encountered as a many-
branched shrub with narrow leaves that grows up to 3 m (9.8 ft) high,
with yellow inflorescences (flower spikes) from late summer to early
winter. The old flowers fall off the spikes, and up to 150 finely furred
follicles develop, which remain closed until burnt in a bushfire. Each
follicle bears two winged seeds. Birds such as the yellow-tufted
honeyeater and various insects forage among the flower spikes. B. canei
is frost tolerant in cultivation, but copes less well with aridity or
humidity, and is often short-lived in gardens. One cultivar, Banksia
"Celia Rosser", was registered in 1978, but has vanished.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_canei>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1856:
King-Grand Duke William III unilaterally revised the
constitution of Luxembourg, greatly expanding his powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Coup_of_1856>
1895:
Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last
will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish
the Nobel Prize after his death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel>
1944:
Between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of ordnance exploded at the RAF
Fauld underground munitions storage depot in the largest non-nuclear
explosion in the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_explosion>
1978:
San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor
Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone%E2%80%93Milk_assassinations>
1999:
The Labour Party defeated the governing National Party in the
New Zealand general election, making Labour's Helen Clark the first
woman to win the office of Prime Minister at an election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
garlicky:
Tasting or smelling of garlic.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/garlicky>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years: among all
the errors we may have committed, the greatest of them all was that we
believed that someone really knew something about socialism, or that
someone actually knew how to build socialism. It seemed to be a sure
fact, as well-known as the electrical system conceived by those who
thought they were experts in electrical systems. Whenever they said:
“That’s the formula”, we thought they knew.
--Fidel Castro
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro>
Warlugulong (1977) is an acrylic painting by Indigenous Australian
artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. In 2007 it was purchased by the
National Gallery of Australia for A$2.4 million, a record auction price
for a contemporary Indigenous Australian art work. The painting
illustrates eight dreamings of traditional locations the artist had
knowledge of, and depicts the story of an ancestral creature called
Lungkata or the Blue-Tongue Lizard Man, who created bushfire. The
painting portrays the aftermath of a fire caused by Lungkata to punish
his two sons who had not shared a kangaroo with him that they had
caught. The sons' skeletons are on the right-hand side of the image,
shown against a background representing smoke and ashes. The painting
exemplifies a distinctive style developed by Papunya Tula artists in the
1970s, blending representation of landscape with ceremonial iconography.
Art critic Benjamin Genocchio describes it as "a work of real national
significance [and] one of the most important 20th-century Australian
paintings".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlugulong>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1161:
A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin dynasty ships in a naval
engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Caishi>
1842:
The University of Notre Dame (main administration building
pictured) was founded by Rev. Edward Sorin, of the Congregation of Holy
Cross, as an all-male institution in South Bend, Indiana, US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame>
1943:
Second World War: The British troop ship HMT Rohna was sunk in
the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe bomb, killing more than 1,100 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMT_Rohna>
1983:
Six robbers broke into the Brink's-Mat warehouse at London
Heathrow Airport and stole three tonnes (6,612 lb) of gold bullion,
much of which has never been recovered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink%27s-Mat_robbery>
2011:
US-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two
Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in
a friendly fire incident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NATO_attack_in_Pakistan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
on the wagon:
1. (idiomatic) Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the
sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken);
teetotal.
2. (by extension) Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence
from some other undesirable habit.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_wagon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is
truth because invention, by its nature, can’t be a lie. Writers who
try to prove something are unattractive to me, because there is nothing
to prove and everything to imagine. So I let words and images emerge
from within. If you do that, you might prove something in the process.
--Eugène Ionesco
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco>
Killer Instinct Gold is a fighting video game based on the arcade game
Killer Instinct 2. It was developed by Rare and initially released on
November 25, 1996, by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console.
As in other series entries, players press buttons to punch and kick
their opponent in chains of successive hits, known as combos. Large
combo chains lead to stronger attacks and brutal, stylistic finisher
moves. Characters—including a gargoyle, a ninja, and a femme
fatale—fight in settings including a jungle and a spaceship. The Gold
release lacks the arcade version's full-motion video sequences, but adds
a training mode, new camera views, and improved audiovisuals. It was
later included in Rare's 2015 Xbox One retrospective compilation, Rare
Replay. Reviewers appreciated the game's sound and environment
backdrops, but felt that its graphical upgrades and memorization-based
combo gameplay were insufficient when compared to fighting games like
Tekken 2 and Virtua Fighter 2. Gold ultimately did not replicate the
success of its Super NES predecessor, and the series remained dormant
through its 2002 acquisition by Microsoft until its 2013 reboot.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Instinct_Gold>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1120:
William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of
England, drowned in the White Ship Disaster, leading to eighteen years
of civil war, a period later known as the Anarchy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ship>
1491:
Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end
with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the
Emirate of Granada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada_War>
1795:
Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last King of Poland, was
forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_August_Poniatowski>
1936:
Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern
Pact, agreeing that if the Soviet Union attacked one of them, they would
consult each other on what measures to take "to safeguard their common
interests".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Comintern_Pact>
1970:
Failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of
the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima publicly committed the ritual
suicide seppuku.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
affluenza:
A feeling of dissatisfaction, anxiety, etc., caused by the dogged and
ongoing pursuit of more goods and possessions.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/affluenza>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any
predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get.
Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total
improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the
options, as we have in the past.
--Lewis Thomas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Thomas>
Alben W. Barkley (November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was the 35th
Vice President of the United States, from 1949 to 1953. He was elected
U.S. Representative from Kentucky's First District in 1912 as a liberal
Democrat, supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic
agenda and foreign policy. In 1926 he entered the U.S. Senate, where he
supported the New Deal, and was elected to succeed Senate Majority
Leader Joseph T. Robinson upon Robinson's death in 1937. He resigned as
majority leader after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ignored his advice
and vetoed the Revenue Act of 1943, but the veto was overridden and he
was unanimously re-elected to the position. Barkley had a better working
relationship with Harry S. Truman, who ascended to the presidency after
Roosevelt's death in 1945. At the 1948 Democratic National Convention,
Barkley gave a keynote address that energized the delegates. Truman
selected him as a running mate for the upcoming election and the
Democratic ticket scored an upset victory.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1542:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scottish
prisoners with its victory in the Battle of Solway Moss.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Solway_Moss>
1859:
On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin
was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first
day.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species>
1906:
A local newspaper accused members of two teams of conspiring to
deliberately lose games, the first major scandal in American football.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_Bulldogs%E2%80%93Massillon_Tigers_bett…>
1922:
Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine
Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a
semi-automatic pistol.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Erskine_Childers>
1976:
The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey killed at
least 4,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_%C3%87ald%C4%B1ran%E2%80%93Muradiye_eart…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
thank you:
An expression of gratitude or politeness in response to something done
or given.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thank_you>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only
a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this
for the next 1000 years, & exhaust it. How sweet to think of! My
extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is
no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O
how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my
bank can drain it — for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
--Henry David Thoreau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau>
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn
Waugh (pictured), his next-to-last full-length work of fiction, first
published in July 1957. He called it his "mad book"—a largely
autobiographical account concerning the early months of 1954 when he was
hallucinating as a result of his addictions. In search of a peaceful
environment in which he could resume writing, he had embarked on a sea
voyage, but was driven to the point of madness by imagined voices. These
experiences are mirrored in the novel: Pinfold, as an antidote to his
weariness and chronic insomnia, is dosing himself with a mixture of
barbiturates and alcohol, and hearing voices that insult, taunt and
threaten him. He is advised that the voices are imaginary, but Pinfold
ascribes his rapid cure to a private victory over the forces of evil,
not to the cessation of his drug habit. General critical reception to
the book was muted; some reviewers admired the opening self-portrait of
Waugh, but generally not the ending. The book has been dramatised for
radio and as a stage play.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ordeal_of_Gilbert_Pinfold>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1499:
Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the English throne during the
reign of King Henry VII, was hanged after allegedly attempting to escape
from the Tower of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkin_Warbeck>
1733:
African slaves from Akwamu in the Danish West Indies revolted
against their owners, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in
the Americas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1733_slave_insurrection_on_St._John>
1934:
An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden
encountered a garrison of Somalis in Italian service at Walwal, which
led to the Abyssinia Crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinia_Crisis>
1980:
An earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy, killing 2,914
people, injuring more than 10,000 and leaving 300,000 homeless.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Irpinia_earthquake>
1996:
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, then crashed into
the Indian Ocean near the Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125
of the 175 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scream blue murder:
(idiomatic) To protest loudly or angrily.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scream_blue_murder>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors;
the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who
knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for
true idiocy are boundless.
--Steven Brust
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Brust>
Star Trek: First Contact is an American science fiction film, released
on November 22, 1996. It is the eighth in the Star Trek film franchise
and the first without any characters from the original series. On mid-
21st century Earth, characters from the television series Star Trek: The
Next Generation struggle to save their future from the cybernetic Borg.
After the seventh film, Star Trek Generations (1994), Paramount tasked
writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore with developing a sequel. Cast
member Jonathan Frakes made his directorial debut. Production designer
Herman Zimmerman and illustrator John Eaves created a sleeker starship
than its predecessor, and Industrial Light & Magic's traditional optical
effects techniques were supplemented with computer-generated imagery.
First Contact made $146 million worldwide. Critical reception was
mostly positive, especially for the Borg and the special effects. The
film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup and won three
Saturn Awards. Scholarly analysis of the film has focused on the nature
of the Borg and on Captain Jean-Luc Picard's parallels to Herman
Melville's Ahab.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1635:
Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month
pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_pacification_campaign_on_Formosa>
1830:
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, one of the primary architects of
the Reform Act 1832 and namesake of Earl Grey tea, began his term as the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey>
1910:
The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo,
Bahia—all commissioned only months before—and several smaller
vessels mutinied against what they called the "slavery" being practiced
by the Brazilian Navy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Lash>
1928:
Boléro (audio featured), Maurice Ravel's most famous musical
composition, made its debut at the Paris Opéra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%A9ro>
1986:
Mike Tyson defeated Trevor Berbick to claim the heavyweight
boxing championship of the World Boxing Council, and became the youngest
boxing champion ever.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
glass harp:
A musical instrument consisting of wine glasses tuned by putting
different amounts of liquid into them. Sound is produced by rubbing
one's fingers around the edges of the glasses, causing them to vibrate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glass_harp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow
thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example?
Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew them the
way to heaven by thy good counsel, but thou takest them by the hand and
leadest them in the way to hell by thy contrary example.
--John Tillotson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Tillotson>
The CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Semi
Completo de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship
promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) since 1991. As with
other professional wrestling championships, it is not an actual
competition, but is won according to a scripted ending to a match, and
sometimes awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. The light
heavyweight division in Mexico ranges between 92 kg (203 lb) and
97 kg (214 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered
to. Because CMLL puts more emphasis on the lower weight classes, this
division is considered more important in Mexico; the heavyweight
division is considered the most important championship by most
promotions outside of Mexico. The current CMLL World Light Heavyweight
Champion in his first reign is La Máscara (pictured), who won it by
defeating Ángel de Oro in April 2016. La Máscara is the 15th overall
champion and the 13th wrestler to officially hold the championship. The
title has been vacated only once since its creation in 1991.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMLL_World_Light_Heavyweight_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1386:
Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian
capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur%27s_invasions_of_Georgia>
1894:
First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of
Lüshunkou, the Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese
servicemen and civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(China)>
1950:
Two trains collided near Valemount, British Columbia, Canada;
the subsequent trial catapulted future Prime Minister of Canada John
Diefenbaker into the political limelight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_River_train_crash>
1996:
A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río
Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, killed 33 people and wounded 69 others
when the building collapsed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Vidal_explosion>
2006:
Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel, a vocal critic of
Syria's military presence in and political domination of Lebanon, was
assassinated in Jdeideh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Amine_Gemayel>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
happy:
1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of
enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or
tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or
luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to
something).
4. Of acts, speech, etc.: appropriate, apt, felicitous.
5. (as a suffix to a noun) Favoring or inclined to use.
6. (rare) Of persons, especially when referring to their ability to express
themselves (often followed by at or in): dexterous, ready, skilful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/happy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the
frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no
longer so.
--Voltaire
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire>