The Final Cut is the twelfth studio album by the English progressive
rock group Pink Floyd, first released on 21 March 1983 by Harvest
Records in the UK. It was the band's last studio album to include
founding member Roger Waters, who received sole credit for writing and
composition. It is also the only Pink Floyd album to which keyboardist
Richard Wright did not contribute. Waters originally planned The Final
Cut as a soundtrack album for the 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall, but
with the onset of the Falklands War, he rewrote it as a concept album
and dedicated it to his father, who died during the Second World War.
Waters sang most of the lyrics and designed the packaging to reflect the
album's anti-war theme. The Final Cut was recorded from July to December
1982 in eight British studios, but the album's production was dominated
by interpersonal conflict, and Waters left the band in 1985. Although it
reached the top of the UK Albums Chart, the album received mixed
reviews.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
630:
Byzantine emperor Heraclius restored the True Cross to
Jerusalem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross>
1800:
After being elected as a compromise candidate after several
months of stalemate, Pope Pius VII was crowned in Venice with a
temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_VII>
1871:
Founder of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck was proclaimed
as its first Chancellor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck>
1946:
The Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League signed
Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the
league since 1933.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Washington_(American_football)>
2006:
A man using a hammer smashed the statue of Phra Phrom in the
Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, and was subsequently beaten to death
by bystanders.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erawan_Shrine>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
make a spectacle of oneself:
(idiomatic, originally US) To embarrass oneself or others in public.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_a_spectacle_of_oneself>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is
going to be a journey that takes some time.
--Barack Obama
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>
Amir Hamzah (1911–1946) was an Indonesian poet and national hero. Born
into an aristocratic Malay family in the Sultanate of Langkat, Sumatra,
he began writing poetry while still a teenager. Though his works are
undated, the earliest are from around 1930, when he first travelled to
Java for schooling. He continued writing while studying in Surakarta and
Batavia. He helped establish the literary magazine Poedjangga Baroe in
1932, and published his two poetry collections in it, Nyanyi Sunyi
(1937) and Buah Rindu (1941). Amir stopped writing in 1937, when he
grudgingly returned to Sumatra to marry the sultan's daughter and take
on responsibilities of the court. After Indonesia proclaimed its
independence in 1945, he served as the government's representative in
Langkat; the following year he was killed in a socialist revolution and
buried in a mass grave. His poetry deals with themes of love and
religion, and often reflects a deep inner conflict. He has been called
the "King of the Poedjangga Baroe-era Poets" and the only international-
class Indonesian poet from before the Indonesian National Revolution.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Hamzah>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1602:
The Dutch East India Company—the first company to issue
stock, one of the first multinational corporations, and possibly the
first megacorporation—was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company>
1760:
A fire of unknown cause broke out in Boston, Massachusetts,
destroying 349 buildings and left over a thousand people homeless.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Boston_Fire_of_1760>
1942:
World War II: After being forced to flee the Philippines, US
Army General Douglas MacArthur announced in Terowie, South Australia, "I
shall return."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur>
1987:
The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (AZT) became the first
antiviral drug approved for use against HIV and AIDS.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine>
2006:
Cyclone Larry made landfall in Far North Queensland, eventually
causing nearly AU$1 billion in total damage and destroying over 80
percent of Australia's banana crop.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Larry>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
paradoxical frog:
Pseudis paradoxa, a species of frog unusual because it is larger as a
tadpole (up to 25 cm or 10 in long) than as an adult (about a quarter of
that length).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paradoxical_frog>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have
it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep.
--Jesus
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jesus>
Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist body horror film written and
directed by filmmaker David Lynch. Shot in black-and-white, it is
Lynch's first feature-length film, coming after several short works.
Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna
Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of Henry Spencer
(Nance), who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a
desolate industrial landscape. Eraserhead spent several years in
principal photography because of the difficulty of funding the film. It
was produced with the assistance of the American Film Institute during
the director's time studying there, and donations from Fisk and his wife
Sissy Spacek kept production afloat. Lynch and sound designer Alan Splet
spent a year working on the film's audio. Eraserhead earned positive
reviews, especially for its intricate sound design, but only gained
popularity after several long runs as a midnight movie. Its surrealist
imagery and sexual undercurrents have been seen as key thematic
elements. In 2004 the film was preserved in the National Film Registry
by the Library of Congress.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1279:
Emperor Bing, the last emperor of the Song dynasty, died during
the Battle of Yamen, bringing the dynasty to an end after three
centuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emperors_of_the_Song_dynasty>
1911:
Socialist German politician Clara Zetkin established the first
International Women's Day.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Zetkin>
1941:
The Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-African American unit of the
United States Army Air Corps, was activated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen>
1962:
Highly influential American musician Bob Dylan released his
eponymous debut album.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan>
2008:
The gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B, the farthest object that could
be seen by the naked eye, was observed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_080319B>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dog in the manger:
One who denies to others what he cannot use himself.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dog_in_the_manger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is
not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
--William Jennings Bryan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan>
The Quietly Confident Quartet was the self-given name of the Australian
men's 4 × 100 metres medley relay swimming team that won the gold
medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. This was the only year
since its inception that the event has not been won by the United
States, which was boycotting the Moscow Olympics after the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan. The quartet consisted of backstroker Mark
Kerry, breaststroker Peter Evans, butterflyer Mark Tonelli and
freestyler Neil Brooks. Tonelli, the oldest at 23, was also a
spokesperson for the Australian athletes' campaign to compete at the
Olympics against the wishes of the Fraser Government. All four clashed
with swimming authorities over disciplinary issues, and three were
suspended or expelled from the Australian team. After the backstroke
leg, Australia was in fourth place and more than a second behind, but
Evans was the fastest breaststroker, moving into second position at the
halfway point, and Tonelli completed his leg in a personal best time.
Brooks overtook the Soviet swimmer Sergey Kopliakov in the latter half
of the final leg to secure a narrow victory.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quietly_Confident_Quartet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1241:
First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelmed the Polish
armies of Sandomierz and Kraków provinces in the Battle of Chmielnik
and plundered the abandoned city of Kraków.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chmielnik>
1741:
New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George was
destroyed by a fire supposedly set by slaves, starting the New York
Conspiracy of 1741.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Conspiracy_of_1741>
1871:
French President Adolphe Thiers ordered the evacuation of Paris
after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the
Franco-Prussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune
government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune>
1906:
Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a
heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Vuia>
1996:
The deadliest fire in Philippine history burned a nightclub in
Quezon City, leaving 162 dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_Disco_Club_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
saw gourds:
(chiefly late-19th-century US slang, intransitive) To snore very
loudly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saw_gourds>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We
cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the
televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of
holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
--John Updike
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike>
Final Fantasy Type-0 is a Japanese video game produced by Square Enix in
2011 for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). It is an action role-playing
game where players take the role of Class Zero, a group of fourteen
students skilled in magic who are recruited by their superiors into a
war between the four nations of Orience. The players also engage in
large-scale strategy-based battles on the world map, and have access to
a multiplayer option during story missions and side quests. Developed by
the same staff as Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Type-0 was designed as
a departure from the traditions of the Final Fantasy series with its
action-based gameplay and dark storyline. It was originally planned for
both PSP and mobile, but the mobile version was cancelled in 2008. The
game met with commercial success in Japan, and favorable reviews both in
Japan and overseas. Plans for international versions were halted due to
the flagging PSP market in the Western world. The first non-Japanese
version of Type-0 was a fan translation into English in 2014. A high-
definition remaster was released worldwide in 2015.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Type-0>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
455:
After arranging for the assassination of Valentinian III,
Petronius Maximus seized the throne of the Western Roman Empire, only to
be killed 11 weeks later during the sack of Rome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius_Maximus>
1860:
The First Taranaki War began at Waitara, New Zealand, marking
an important phase of the New Zealand land wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taranaki_War>
1891:
The transatlantic steamship SS Utopia accidentally collided
with the battleship HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar, sinking in less
than twenty minutes and killing 562.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Utopia>
1950:
The synthesis of californium, a radioactive transuranium
element, was announced.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium>
1991:
Nearly 70% of voters in nine Soviet republics agreed that the
Soviet Union should be preserved in the Soviet Union referendum.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_referendum,_1991>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
disparadise:
(obsolete) To expel or remove from paradise.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disparadise>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
At Tara today in this fateful hour I place all Heaven with its
power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness,
And fire with all the strength it hath, And lightning with its rapid
wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea
with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth
with its starkness All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace,
Between myself and the powers of darkness.
--Saint Patrick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick>
Hurricane Charley was the costliest tropical cyclone of the 1986
Atlantic hurricane season. The third tropical storm and second hurricane
of the season, Charley formed as a subtropical low on August 13 along
the Florida panhandle. It became a tropical storm on August 15 off the
coast of South Carolina, then as a hurricane traversed eastern North
Carolina. It weakened over the north Atlantic Ocean before transitioning
into an extratropical cyclone on August 20. Its remnants remained
identifiable until crossing the British Isles and dissipating on
August 30. In the U.S. Hurricane Charley caused an estimated
$15 million in damage (equivalent to $32.4 million in 2016). As an
extratropical cyclone, Charley brought heavy rainfall and strong winds
to Ireland and the United Kingdom, causing at least 11 deaths. Ireland
saw a record for the greatest daily rainfall total in the country,
7.8 inches (200 mm). In the Dublin area, 451 buildings were flooded,
some up to a depth of 8 ft (2.4 m). In the United Kingdom, the storm
flooded rivers and brought down trees and power lines.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Charley_(1986)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1244:
Following their successful siege of Montségur, French royal
forces burned about 210 Cathar Perfecti and unrepentant credentes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Monts%C3%A9gur>
1802:
The United States Congress authorized the establishment of the
US Army Corps of Engineers in order to operate the US Military Academy
at West Point, New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy>
1926:
American scientist Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first
liquid-fueled rocket, which flew for two-and-a-half seconds before
falling to the ground.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard>
1978:
Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome
by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Aldo_Moro>
1988:
Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town
of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_chemical_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Scotch mist:
1. (Britain) A cold and penetrating mist, verging on rain.
2. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire, idiomatic)
Something that is hard to find or does not exist.
3. A drink of Scotch whisky served with ice and lemon peel.
4. (botany) The perennial flowering plant Galium sylvaticum.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Scotch_mist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are tremendous actual differences in values. Some value
systems, such as the ones that motivate "honor killings", deserve to be
morally condemned and rejected. But there are many other variations in
values within the bounds of decency.
--Richard Stallman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman>
State Route 78 is a state highway in California that runs from Oceanside
east to Blythe, a few miles from Arizona. Its western terminus is at
Interstate 5 in San Diego County and its eastern terminus is at
Interstate 10 in Riverside County. The route is a freeway through the
heavily populated cities of northern San Diego County and a two-lane
highway running through the Cuyamaca Mountains to Julian. In Imperial
County, it travels through the desert near the Salton Sea and passes
through the city of Brawley before turning north into an area of sand
dunes on the way to its terminus in Blythe. Portions of the route
existed as early as 1900, and it was one of the original state highways
designated in 1934. The freeway section in the North County of San Diego
that connects Oceanside and Escondido was built in the middle of the
20th century in several stages, including a transitory stage known as
the Vista Way Freeway, and has been improved several times. An
expressway bypass of the city of Brawley was completed in 2012. There
are many projects slated to improve the freeway due to increasing
congestion.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_78>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1783:
A potential uprising in Newburgh, New York, was defused when
George Washington asked Continental Army officers to support the
supremacy of Congress.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy>
1892:
Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football
clubs, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C.>
1916:
Six days after Pancho Villa and his cross-border raiders
attacked Columbus, New Mexico, US General John J. Pershing led a
punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue Villa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition>
1941:
Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took
its first flight, making it the oldest commercial airline in Asia
operating under its original name.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines>
2011:
Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the
authoritarian government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
injurious:
1. Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.
2. Causing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous,
slanderous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/injurious>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let us accept this as a sign from the Gods, and follow where they
beckon, in vengeance on our double-dealing enemies. The die is cast.
--Julius Caesar
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar>
Sarcoscypha coccinea, commonly known as the scarlet elf cup, is a
species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae of the order Pezizales.
Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, it has been found in
Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. It grows
on decaying sticks and branches in damp spots on forest floors,
generally buried under leaf litter or in the soil. The cup-shaped fruit
bodies are usually produced during the cooler months of winter and early
spring. The brilliant red interiors of the cups, from which the common
and scientific names are derived, contrast with the lighter exteriors.
The edibility of the fruit bodies is not clearly established, but their
small size, tough texture and insubstantial fruitings would dissuade
most people from collecting for the table. The fungus has been used
medicinally by the Oneida Indians, and as a colorful component of table
decorations in England. The species Molliardiomyces eucoccinea is an
imperfect form of the fungus that lacks a sexually reproductive stage in
its life cycle.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoscypha_coccinea>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1794:
American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, the
first ever machine that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from
their seedpods.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin>
1885:
The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed
Savoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mikado>
1931:
Alam Ara, the first Indian film with sound, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alam_Ara>
1978:
Israeli–Lebanese conflict: The Israel Defense Forces began
Operation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushing
PLO troops north up to the Litani River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_South_Lebanon_conflict>
1991:
The "Birmingham Six", wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham
pub bombings in England, were released after sixteen years in prison.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ad infinitum:
Endlessly; for ever; neverendingly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ad_infinitum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let us accept the world is a mystery. Nature is neither solely
material nor entirely spiritual. Man, too, is more than flesh and blood;
otherwise, no religions would have been possible. Behind each cause is
still another cause; the end or the beginning of all causes has yet to
be found.
--Albert Einstein
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein>
Asahi was a pre-dreadnought battleship built in Britain for the Imperial
Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. As flagship of the Standing Fleet,
Asahi was in every major naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War of
1904–05. The ship saw no combat during World War I, but participated
in the Siberian Intervention in 1918. Reclassified as a coastal defence
ship in 1921, Asahi was disarmed two years later to meet the terms of
the Washington Naval Treaty, then served as a training and submarine
depot ship. The ship was modified for marine salvage and rescue before
being placed in reserve in 1928. Asahi was recommissioned in late 1937,
after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and used to transport
Japanese troops. In 1938 the ship was converted into a repair ship and
based first at Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, and then Camranh Bay,
French Indochina, from late 1938 to 1941. The ship was transferred to
occupied Singapore in early 1942 to help repair a damaged light cruiser
and ordered to return home in May. Asahi was sunk en route by the
American submarine USS Salmon, but most of the crew survived.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Asahi>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
624:
Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh of
Mecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badr>
1781:
German-born astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered
the planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset,
thinking it was a comet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus>
1845:
German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the
most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time,
was first played in Leipzig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)>
1943:
The Holocaust: Nazi German troops began liquidating the Jewish
Ghetto in Kraków, Poland, sending about 8,000 Jews deemed able to work
to the Plaszow labor camp, with the rest either killed or sent to
Auschwitz.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto>
1986:
Claiming the right of innocent passage, American warships USS
Yorktown and USS Caron entered the Soviet territorial waters in the
Black Sea, inciting Soviet combat readiness.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Black_Sea_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
aposiopesis:
(rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print
using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aposiopesis>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whereas "false stories" can be told anywhere and at any time,
myths must not be recited except during a period of sacred time.
--Mircea Eliade
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade>
Isabella Beeton (1836–1865) was an English journalist and editor, and
the author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She married
Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor, in
1856. Less than a year later, she began writing for one of his
publications, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. She translated
French fiction and wrote the cookery column, though all the recipes were
plagiarised from other works, or sent in by the magazine's readers. In
1859 the Beetons launched a series of 48-page monthly supplements to the
magazine; the 24 instalments were published in one volume as the Book of
Household Management in October 1861, which sold 60,000 copies in the
first year. Isabella was working on an abridged version of her book when
she died of puerperal fever at the age of 28. She had given birth to
four children, two of whom died in infancy, and had had several
miscarriages. Two of her biographers posit the theory that Samuel had
unknowingly contracted syphilis in a premarital liaison with a
prostitute, and had passed the condition on to his wife.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Beeton>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red
River Campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Campaign>
1881:
Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national
football team and became the world's first black international football
player.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Watson_(footballer,_born_1856)>
1912:
Juliette Gordon Low founded a youth organization for girls that
grew into the Girl Scouts of the USA.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA>
1934:
Supported by the Estonian Army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup
d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_P%C3%A4ts>
1993:
A series of thirteen coordinated bomb explosions took place in
Bombay, India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bombay_bombings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
purpurous:
(archaic) Purple.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/purpurous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in
others but give them life, and not only life but that great
consciousness of life.
--Jack Kerouac
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac>