Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm is an 1832 painting by
English artist William Etty. It was inspired by a metaphor in Thomas
Gray's poem The Bard in which the apparently bright start to the misrule
of Richard II of England was compared to a gilded ship whose occupants
are unaware of an approaching storm. Etty chose to illustrate Gray's
lines literally, showing a golden boat filled with and surrounded by
nude and near-nude figures. The Bard was about a curse on the House of
Plantagenet placed by a Welsh bard following Edward I's attempts to
eradicate Welsh culture, and critics felt that Etty had misunderstood
its point. Some reviewers praised the piece, and in particular Etty's
technical abilities, but audiences of the time found it hard to
understand, and the use of nudity led some critics to consider the
painting tasteless and offensive. It was bought in 1832 by Robert
Vernon. In 1847 Vernon donated his collection to the National Gallery,
which in turn transferred it to the Tate Gallery in 1949. Youth and
Pleasure remains one of Etty's best-known works, and formed part of
major exhibitions in 2001–02 and 2011–12.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_on_the_Prow,_and_Pleasure_at_the_Helm>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1825:
After no presidential candidate received a majority of
electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy
Adams president.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams>
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>
1969:
The Boeing 747 made its first flight, with test pilots Jack
Waddell and Brien Wygle at the controls and Jess Wallick at the flight
engineer's station.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747>
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>
2001:
The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally collided
with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima
Fishery High School.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Judas goat:
1. A goat trained to lead other goats to a place of slaughter.
2. A goat trained to find feral goats.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Judas_goat>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Ain't it good to know that you've got a friend When people can be
so cold They'll hurt you, yes, and desert you And take your soul if you
let them Oh, but don't you let them.
--Carole King
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carole_King>
"Interactions" (premiered March 8, 2008) is the second episode of the
animated television series The Spectacular Spider-Man, which is based on
the comic book character Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee and Steve
Ditko. In the episode, Spider-Man confronts the supervillain Electro,
who has been contaminated by genetically modified electric eels that
were being investigated as a potential source of clean energy.
"Interactions" was directed by Troy Adomitis and written by Kevin Hopps,
who researched all the available comic books that featured Electro.
Electro is drawn to match his comic book appearance, though designer
Victor Cook emphasized the color green and removed the character's
customary star-shaped mask. Voice actor Crispin Freeman sought to
reflect the character's declining sanity in his vocal style.
"Interactions" aired on the Kids WB! block of The CW network. Its 1.4/4
Nielsen rating was higher than that of the pilot, "Survival of the
Fittest". The episode received mixed reviews; IGN commended the episode
for "some notable moments" but found it inferior to the pilot episode.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactions_(The_Spectacular_Spider-Man)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1601:
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex led a failed rebellion
against Queen Elizabeth I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Earl_of_Essex_Rebellion>
1837:
Richard Mentor Johnson became the only person to be elected as
Vice President of the United States by the Senate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson>
1879:
At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and
inventor Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide
standard time zones based on a single universal world time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time>
1968:
Local police in Orangeburg, South Carolina, fired into a crowd
of people who were protesting segregation, killing three and injuring
twenty-seven others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangeburg_massacre>
1979:
Denis Sassou Nguesso was chosen as the new President of the
Republic of the Congo after Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced from power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Sassou_Nguesso>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bifurcate:
1. Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
2. Having bifurcations.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bifurcate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
--S.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)>
The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane was the second deadliest tropical cyclone
ever in the United States, after the 1900 Galveston hurricane. The only
major hurricane of its season, it struck Guadeloupe as a Category 4
storm on September 12, causing 1,200 deaths. The islands of
Martinique, Montserrat, and Nevis also reported damage and fatalities.
After sustained winds peaked at 160 mph (260 km/h) the next day, the
storm became the only Category 5 hurricane ever to hit Puerto Rico;
24,728 homes were destroyed and 192,444 were damaged, leaving 312
people dead and over 500,000 homeless. Early on September 17, the storm
made landfall in Florida near Lake Okeechobee with winds of 145 mph
(233 km/h). The storm surge forced water out of the southern edge of
the lake, spreading floodwaters as high as 20 feet (6.1 m) over
hundreds of square miles. Houses were swept away in the cities of Belle
Glade, Canal Point, Chosen, Pahokee, and South Bay, and at least
2,500 people drowned. The tropical storm also hit Georgia and the
Carolinas. Overall, the system caused $100 million in damage and at
least 4,079 deaths.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricane>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
457:
Leo I was crowned Byzantine emperor, and went on to rule for
nearly 20 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_the_Thracian>
1497:
Supporters of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola
collected and publicly burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics,
art, and books in Florence, Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_Vanities>
1904:
The Great Baltimore Fire in Maryland began, and destroyed over
1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Baltimore_Fire>
1907:
More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March,
the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies, seeking women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_(Suffragists)>
1986:
President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after
a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Duvalier>
1999:
Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chuchotage:
The interpretation or translation of speech in a whisper to a single
person in proximity to other people.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chuchotage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof.
Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Then, in the
alleged proof, be alert for inexplicit assumptions. Euclid's notorious
oversights drove this lesson home.
--Eric Temple Bell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Temple_Bell>
Hugh Beadle (1905–1980) served as Rhodesia's Chief Justice from 1961
to 1977. Opening a law practice in 1931, he became a member of the
Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly for Godfrey Huggins's ruling
United Party in 1939. He was Huggins's Parliamentary Private Secretary
(1940–46), then a Cabinet minister until 1950, when he resigned to
become a High Court judge. In 1961 he was knighted and appointed Chief
Justice; three years later he joined the British Privy Council. As
independence talks between Britain and Rhodesia stalled, Beadle sought a
compromise. After Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
(UDI) in 1965 he brought together Harold Wilson and Ian Smith, the prime
ministers, for talks aboard HMS Tiger. Wilson afterwards castigated
Beadle for not persuading Smith to settle. Beadle's recognition of
Smith's post-UDI administration as legal in 1968 drew accusations from
the British Prime Minister and others that he had furtively supported
UDI all along, but his true motives remain the subject of speculation.
He stayed in office after Rhodesia declared itself a republic in 1970,
and remained a Privy Counsellor for the rest of his life..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tiger_(C20)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1778:
France and the United States signed the Treaty of Alliance and
the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, establishing military and commercial
ties respectively between the two nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amity_and_Commerce_(United_States%E…>
1833:
Otto became the first modern King of Greece.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of_Greece>
1958:
The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football club and
some fans and journalists crashed while attempting to take off from
Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and
15 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster>
1987:
Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the
High Court of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron>
2000:
Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of
Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1999%E2%80%932000)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
handwavy:
Of a demonstration, proof, or explanation, missing important details or
logical steps, perhaps instead appealing to common sense, tradition,
intuition, or examples.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handwavy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can
free our minds.
--Bob Marley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Marley>
HMS Courageous was the lead ship of the Courageous-class cruisers built
for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Lightly armoured and
armed with only a few heavy guns, the ship was designed to support the
Baltic Project, a plan championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher to
invade the German coast north of Berlin. Courageous was completed in
late 1916 and spent the war patrolling the North Sea. The ship
participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917
and was present when the German High Seas Fleet surrendered a year
later. Courageous was decommissioned after the war, but rebuilt as an
aircraft carrier during the mid-1920s. The ship could carry 48 aircraft
compared to the 36 carried by the comparable Furious on approximately
the same tonnage. After recommissioning and a new career operating off
Great Britain and Ireland, the ship briefly became a training carrier
until resuming patrols, a few months before the start of the Second
World War in September 1939. Courageous was torpedoed and sunk in the
opening weeks of the war, with the loss of more than 500 crew members.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Courageous_(50)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
62:
Pompeii was severely damaged by a strong earthquake, which may
have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed
the town 17 years later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/62_Pompeii_earthquake>
1869:
Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discovered the
largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the "Welcome Stranger"
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Stranger>
1909:
Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced the creation of
Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite>
1941:
Second World War: British and Free French forces began the
Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian
Eritrea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Keren>
2000:
Second Chechen War: As the Battle of Grozny came to a close,
Russian forces summarily executed at least 60 civilians in the city's
Novye Aldi suburb.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novye_Aldi_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pony keg:
1. (US) A container for beer holding 7.75 US gallons, equal to half the
size of a standard beer keg.
2. (Cincinnati, colloquial) A drive-through liquor store; by extension, any
convenience store.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pony_keg>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to
be unpopular.
--Adlai Stevenson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson>
Abe Waddington (1893–1959) was a professional cricketer for Yorkshire
who played in two Test matches for England, both against Australia in
1920–21. Between 1919 and 1927 he played 266 first-class cricket
matches, taking a total of 852 wickets with his left arm fast-medium
bowling. Capable of making the ball swing, Waddington was admired for
the aesthetic quality of his bowling action. He first played for
Yorkshire after the First World War, when the team had been weakened by
injuries and retirements. He was effective for Yorkshire, but often
inconsistent. A hostile bowler, he sometimes verbally abused opposing
batsmen and questioned umpires' decisions, unusual behaviour in those
days, and was found guilty of dissent and inciting the crowd in a game
against Middlesex. A succession of injuries reduced his effectiveness
and he retired from first-class cricket in 1927. He continued to play
league cricket and worked for the family business, a fat-refining firm,
but maintained his connection with Yorkshire cricket. After retiring
from cricket he enjoyed some success as an amateur golfer.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Waddington>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
960:
Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song
dynasty period that eventually lasted for more than three centuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty>
1859:
German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the
Codex Sinaiticus (text sample pictured), a 4th-century uncial manuscript
of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount
Sinai in Egypt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus>
1974:
American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was
kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined in
one of the most well-known cases of Stockholm syndrome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst>
1999:
The Panamanian-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near
Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in Oregon history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carissa>
2006:
A stampede at the PhilSports Stadium in Pasig City, Metro
Manila, in the Philippines, killed 78 people and injured about 400.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhilSports_Stadium_stampede>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bizbabble:
Meaningless verbiage of business executives.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bizbabble>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and
democracy, but that could change.
--Dan Quayle
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle>
"R U Professional" is a satirical electropop song by the American indie
rock band the Mae Shi (pictured), inspired by a July 2008 outburst by
actor Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation. Bale was
filming with actress Bryce Dallas Howard when he berated the director of
photography, Shane Hurlbut, for walking into his line of sight. After an
audio recording of the incident appeared on the website TMZ, the Mae Shi
recorded their song, releasing it on YouTube and via download on
MediaFire the next day, February 3, 2009. The song samples Bale's voice,
repeating the word "professional" in the chorus. The lyrics reference
several films the actor starred in, including Newsies, Swing Kids,
American Psycho, and The Dark Knight. "R U Professional" attracted a
generally positive reception by reviewers, and was praised as an
effective parody. MTV compared its style to that of new wave groups like
Devo, and the Los Angeles Times described it as a lively pop music
tribute to the actor. El País noted that the song contributed to the
viral spread of Bale's outburst online.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_U_Professional>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1637:
The contract prices of rare tulip bulbs in the Dutch Republic,
which had been steadily climbing for three months, abruptly dropped,
marking the decline of tulip mania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania>
1807:
Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom captured Montevideo, now
the capital of Uruguay, from the Spanish Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo>
1913:
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was
ratified, allowing the US Congress to levy an income tax without
apportioning it among the states or basing it on census results.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Cons…>
1967:
Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in
Australia, sparking public protests across the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ryan>
1989:
Alfredo Stroessner, whose rule as President of Paraguay for 35
years was marked by uninterrupted repression in his country, was
overthrown in a military coup by Andrés Rodríguez.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Stroessner>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
twee:
(Britain, pejorative) Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twee>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy,
monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is
always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
--Simone Weil
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil>
Radical Dreamers is a Japanese video game produced by Square (now Square
Enix) in 1996 for the Nintendo Super Famicom's Satellaview add-on. It is
a text-based visual novel in which the player takes the role of Serge, a
young adventurer accompanied by Kid, a teen-aged thief, and Gil, a
masked magician. The game is a gaiden, or side story, to the 1995 game
Chrono Trigger in the Chrono series, and later served as inspiration for
Chrono Cross. It features text-based gameplay with minimal graphics and
sound effects, and was scored by composer Yasunori Mitsuda. Unlike many
Satellaview titles, Radical Dreamers was not designed to lock after a
certain number of play-throughs, so players owning an 8M Memory Pack
onto which the game was downloaded can still play today. Square tried to
integrate Radical Dreamers into the Japanese PlayStation port of Chrono
Trigger as an Easter egg, but writer and director Masato Kato halted
this and other releases, unhappy with the quality of his work. Though
the game was never officially released abroad, ROM hackers completed an
English fan translation in 2003.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Dreamers>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1207:
Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was
established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Mariana>
1709:
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English
captain Woodes Rogers and the crew of the Duke after spending four years
as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández
archipelago, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson
Crusoe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers>
1922:
The novel Ulysses was first published in its entirety after
this material by author James Joyce first appeared in serialized parts
in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December
1920, becoming one of the most important works of modernist literature.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)>
1974:
The F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of the best-selling jet fighters
ever built, made its first flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon>
2009:
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the Zimbabwean dollar for
the third and final time, making Z$1 trillion now only Z$1 of the new
currency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
twang:
1. To produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and
suddenly let go.
2. To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twang>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is something so familiar about this. Do you ever have déjà
vu?
--Groundhog Day
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film)>
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1903?–1937) is Madagascar's national poet. He
grew up impoverished and failed to complete secondary education, but
taught himself the traditions of French literature and Malagasy poetry,
and gained work in a publishing house as a proofreader and editor of its
literary journals. He produced numerous poetry anthologies in French and
Malagasy, as well as literary critiques, an opera, and two novels. After
an early period of modernist-inspired poetry, the originality of his
surrealist poetry garnered strong praise and drew attention in
international poetry reviews. Nevertheless, Rabearivelo never gained
support from colonial Madagascar's high society. He suffered personally
and professionally: his three-year-old daughter died, the French
authorities excluded him from the list of exhibitors at the Universal
Exposition in Paris, and philandering and opium addiction worsened his
debt. After his suicide by cyanide poisoning, he was hailed by literary
figures including Léopold Sédar Senghor as Africa's first modern poet.
A room has been dedicated to him in the National Library of Madagascar.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Rabearivelo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1327:
Fourteen-year-old Edward III became King of England, but the
country was ruled by his mother, Queen Isabella, and her lover, Roger
Mortimer.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England>
1896:
Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème premiered at the Teatro
Regio in Turin, Italy, eventually becoming one of the most frequently
performed operas internationally.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_boh%C3%A8me>
1960:
Four African American students staged the first Greensboro sit-
ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins>
1979:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led
the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the US-backed Pahlavi dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini>
2009:
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became Iceland's first female Prime
Minister and the world's first openly gay head of government of the
modern era.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3hanna_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
balconing:
1. The act of going from one room to another room by jumping from the
balcony of one room to the balcony of the other.
2. The act of jumping from a balcony towards a swimming pool.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balconing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every today is at the same time both a cradle and a shroud: a
shroud for yesterday, a cradle for tomorrow. Today, yesterday, and
tomorrow are equally near to one another, and equally far. … Today is
doomed to die — because yesterday died, and because tomorrow will be
born. Such is the wise and cruel law. Cruel, because it condemns to
eternal dissatisfaction those who already today see the distant peaks of
tomorrow; wise, because eternal dissatisfaction is the only pledge of
eternal movement forward, eternal creation. He who has found his ideal
today is, like Lot's wife, already turned to a pillar of salt, has
already sunk into the earth and does not move ahead. The world is kept
alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the
heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy: tomorrow is an
inevitable heresy of today, which has turned into a pillar of salt, and
to yesterday, which has scattered to dust. Today denies yesterday, but
is a denial of denial tomorrow. This is the constant dialectic path
which in a grandiose parabola sweeps the world into infinity. Yesterday,
the thesis; today, the antithesis, and tomorrow, the synthesis.
--Yevgeny Zamyatin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin>