The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a coal-mining
spoil tip that caused the deaths of 116 children and 28 adults on 21
October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the
Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural
spring. Heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which
caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, engulfing the local
junior school and other buildings. There were seven spoil tips on the
slopes above Aberfan; the one that slipped onto the village was 111 feet
(34 m) high. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board
(NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on
the organisation and nine named employees. The organisation's chairman,
Lord Robens, was criticised for making misleading statements. Neither
the NCB nor any of its employees were prosecuted and the organisation
was not fined. Half of the village's surviving children suffered post-
traumatic stress disorder.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were
sent to Turkey to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the
Crimean War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale>
1944:
World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded,
making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen>
1950:
Korean War: The Battle of Yongju began as British and
Australian troops of the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade engaged in
heavy fighting with North Korean forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yongju>
1978:
After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft,
Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while
piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to King
Island, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tattle:
1. (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
2. (intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to
report incriminating information about another person, or a person's
wrongdoing; to tell on somebody.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to
babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly, to stutter.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tattle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken,
done. The idea is like grass, It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on
crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin>
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Big-Hearted Will Take Away the Bride)
is an Indian romance film directed by Aditya Chopra, and co-written with
him by Javed Siddiqui. Released on 20 October 1995, the film stars Shah
Rukh Khan and Kajol (pictured). It focuses on Raj and Simran, two non-
resident Indians who fall in love while travelling in Europe with
friends, and on Raj's attempts to win over Simran's family so that the
couple can marry. The film was shot in India, London and Switzerland,
from September 1994 to August 1995. It won 10 Filmfare Awards, the most
for a single film at that time, and its soundtrack album became one of
the most popular of the 1990s. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is one of
only three Hindi films in the reference book 1001 Movies You Must See
Before You Die, and is 12th on the British Film Institute's list of top
Indian films of all time. Over 20 years after its first release, it is
still being shown at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai, making it the
longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilwale_Dulhania_Le_Jayenge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1944:
World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years
previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the
recapture of the entire Philippine Archipelago.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte>
1973:
Watergate scandal: Both Attorney General Elliot Richardson and
his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than obey Richard Nixon's
order to have Archibald Cox fired.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre>
1982:
During a UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC
Haarlem, a large number of attendees tried to leave the Grand Sports
Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at the same time, resulting in a
stampede that caused 66 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster>
2011:
Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya,
was captured during the Battle of Sirte and killed less than an hour
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
potsherd:
(often archaeology) A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an
archaeological site.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/potsherd>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I know so well the look on your face And there's somethin' lucky
about this place There's somethin' good comin' Just over the hill
Somethin' good comin' I know it will And I'm in for the long run
Wherever it goes Ridin' the river Wherever it goes.
--Tom Petty
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Petty>
Roger Norreis (died c. 1224) was a medieval Abbot of Evesham in England.
A native of northern England, his family was probably of Norse origin.
He was a monk at Christ Church Priory, the cathedral chapter of
Canterbury Cathedral, and in 1187 he was appointed treasurer of the
priory. The cathedral chapter sent him to King Henry II of England to
plead their case against Baldwin of Forde, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
After Norreis took Baldwin's side, the Canterbury monks captured Norreis
and held him in custody. He escaped by travelling through the sewer and
fled to the safety of the archbishop. In a mocking reference to his
escape route, Norreis was sometimes called Roger Cloacarius or "Roger
the Drain-Cleaner". In 1190 he was appointed to the abbacy of Evesham
Abbey (16th-century bell tower pictured). There he was accused of
immoral behaviour and failing to follow monastic rules. In 1202 he
became embroiled in a dispute with his monks, and in 1213 the papal
legate deposed him from the abbacy.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Norreis>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many
casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious in the
Battle of Cedar Creek.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cedar_Creek>
1943:
Streptomycin (molecular model pictured), the first antibiotic
remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by a PhD student at Rutgers
University.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptomycin>
1988:
The British government banned the voices of representatives
from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and Loyalist paramilitary
groups from being broadcast on television and radio in the United
Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9394_British_broadcasting_voice_re…>
2005:
Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on
record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Wilma>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
list:
1. (transitive) To create or recite a list.
2. (transitive) To place in listings.
3. (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a
show of colours, or to form a border.
4. (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
on; to stripe as if with list.
5. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
6. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for
a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
7. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood,
from the edge of.
8. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling
one's name; to enlist.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/list>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next
success — if you are willing to learn from it.
--Paul Allen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Allen>
SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse (His Majesty's Ship Charlemagne) was a pre-
dreadnought battleship of the Kaiser Friedrich III class, launched on 18
October 1899 at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg for the Imperial
German Navy. A shipyard strike and an accidental grounding delayed her
completion until February 1902. The ship was armed with four
24-centimeter (9.4 in) guns in two twin gun turrets and had a top speed
of 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph). She served with the active fleet
until 1908, participating in the normal peacetime routine of training
cruises and fleet maneuvers. At the outbreak of World War I in August
1914, the ship was placed back in active duty for half a year for
coastal defense. Kaiser Karl der Grosse was briefly used as a training
ship and ended her career holding prisoners of war in Wilhelmshaven.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Kaiser_Karl_der_Grosse>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1565:
The first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the
Japanese occurred when a flotilla of samurai attacked two Portuguese
trade vessels in Nagasaki.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fukuda_Bay>
1748:
The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the signing of
the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Aix-la-Chapelle_%281748%29>
1929:
In the Persons Case, the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council decided that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v_Canada_%28AG%29>
1968:
At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon set
a world record of 8.90 m in the long jump, a mark that stood for 23
years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Beamon>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
demimonde:
1. (chiefly historical (19th-century France)) A class of women
maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a
group.
2. (by extension) A group having little respect or reputation.
3. (by extension) A member of such a class or group of persons.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demimonde>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of
civilized men.
--Pierre Trudeau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau>
Political Animals and Animal Politics is a 2014 book edited by the green
political theorists Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg, and
published by Palgrave Macmillan. The first edited collection to address
the emergence of academic animal ethics informed by political
philosophy, its chapters variously cover institutional change for
animals, the relationship between animal ethics and ecologism, and real-
world laws made for the benefit of animals. Recurring features include
discussions of human exceptionalism, exploration of ways that animal
issues are or could be present in political discourse, and reflections
on the relationship between theory and practice in politics. For
example, Kurtis Boyer contributed a chapter entitled "The Limits of
Species Advocacy", focusing on the legal protection of polar bears
(example pictured). The political theorist Robert Garner wrote that
Political Animals and Animal Politics should be praised for its
trailblazing, but predicted that it would be superseded by stronger
collections on the same theme.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Animals_and_Animal_Politics>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1604:
German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally
bright star, now known as Kepler's Supernova, which had suddenly
appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus earlier in October.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_Supernova>
1964:
Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opened the
artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Burley_Griffin>
1992:
Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese
exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori was shot and killed by the homeowner
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori>
2001:
Rehavam Ze'evi, the Israeli Minister of Tourism, was
assassinated in revenge for the targeted killing of the PFLP leader Abu
Ali Mustafa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Rehavam_Ze%27evi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wheelie:
1. (informal) An action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other
vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its
rear wheel or wheels.
2. (informal, chiefly Australia) A wheelchair user.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wheelie>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate
ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
--Arthur Miller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller>
St Donat's Castle in St Donats, Wales, is a medieval castle in the Vale
of Glamorgan, about 16 miles (26 km) west of Cardiff, and about 1.5
miles (2.4 km) east of Llantwit Major. The site, on cliffs overlooking
the Bristol Channel, has been occupied since the Iron Age, and was by
tradition the home of the Celtic chieftain Caradog. In the 12th century,
the de Haweys began the present castle's development, followed by Peter
de Stradling. The Stradlings held the castle for 400 years, until the
death of Sir Thomas Stradling in a duel in 1738. By the early 19th
century it was only partly habitable. William Randolph Hearst, the
American newspaper tycoon, bought it in 1925 and expanded it with
elements from other ancient structures, such as the roofs of Bradenstoke
Priory in Wiltshire and St Botolph's Church in Lincolnshire. Bernard
Shaw described the castle after Hearst's reconstruction as "what God
would have built if he had had the money".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Donat%27s_Castle>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1793:
Marie Antoinette, queen consort of Louis XVI, was guillotined
at the Place de la Révolution in Paris at the height of the French
Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette>
1875:
Brigham Young University, the United States' largest religious
university, was founded in Provo, Utah.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University>
1923:
Roy and Walt Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
in Hollywood that eventually grew to become one of the largest media and
entertainment corporations in the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company>
1978:
Polish Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II,
the first non-Italian pope in over 450 years and the first ever from a
Slavic country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
aquaponics:
(agriculture) A sustainable food production system that combines
traditional aquaculture with hydroponics, with effluent from the water
in which fish are reared being used as nutrition for plants.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aquaponics>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate — and remain
forever scatheless.
--Eugene O'Neill
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill>
P. G. Wodehouse (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English
author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.
His novels and short stories feature elaborate plots and a unique
writing style based on a combination of very formal language, references
to classical literature, and contemporary club-room slang. His early
novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic
fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the
public. They include the jolly gentleman of leisure Bertie Wooster and
his sagacious valet, Jeeves. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in
Hollywood and moved to France in 1934 for tax reasons. In 1940 he was
taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for
nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German
radio in Berlin. The talks were comic and apolitical, but they prompted
anger and a threat of prosecution in Britain. He never returned to
England, living from 1947 until his death in the US.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance
Committee in London, received a letter allegedly from Jack the Ripper.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter>
1932:
Air India (aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of
India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India>
1965:
Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City,
David J. Miller burned his draft card, the first such act to result in
arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft-card_burning>
2013:
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines,
resulting in 222 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Bohol_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mickle:
1. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
2. (obsolete) Frequently, often.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mickle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest
source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over
all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways:
either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very
scarce.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith>
The Battle of Hochkirch took place on 14 October 1758 during the Third
Silesian War, part of the Seven Years' War. After several weeks of
maneuvering for position, an Austrian army commanded by Lieutenant Field
Marshal Leopold Joseph von Daun surprised the Prussian army commanded
by Frederick the Great. The Austrians overwhelmed the Prussians and
forced a general retreat from the village of Hochkirch, 9 kilometers
(6 mi) east of Bautzen, Saxony. Most historians consider the battle one
of Frederick's greatest blunders. Contrary to the advice of his
subordinates, he refused to believe that the cautious Daun would engage
him in battle. After a pre-dawn attack, Frederick lost over 30 percent
of his army, 5 generals, 70 munitions wagons, and his artillery park.
Daun failed to pursue the retreating Prussians, allowing the entire
force to escape and regain the momentum over the winter.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hochkirch>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
American Civil War: In the Battle of Bristoe Station, the Union
II Corps surprised and repelled the Confederate attack on the Union rear
guard, resulting in a Union victory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bristoe_Station>
1943:
The Holocaust: Inmates at the Sobibór extermination camp in
eastern Poland led a revolt, killing 11 SS officers; the camp shut down
a few days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobib%C3%B3r_extermination_camp>
1956:
B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste,
publicly converted to Buddhism, becoming the leader of the Dalit
Buddhist movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement>
2012:
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the
stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound barrier
without vehicular power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
troth:
1. (countable, archaic) An oath, pledge, or promise.
2. (countable, specifically) A pledge or promise to marry someone.
3. (countable, specifically) The state of being thus pledged; betrothal,
engagement.
4. (countable, uncountable) Truth; something true.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely,
the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but
left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
--Hannah Arendt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt>
Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine first launched
in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing, and
continuing since 2012 as an online magazine. As the first magazine that
ran only science fiction stories, it helped define a new genre of pulp
fiction, and science fiction fandom traces its beginnings to the
letters-to-the-editor columns in Amazing and its competitors.
Gernsback's initial editorial approach was to blend instruction with
entertainment; he believed science fiction could educate readers, but
his audience rapidly showed a preference for implausible adventures. The
magazine was published, with some interruptions, for almost eighty
years, going through a half-dozen owners and many editors, including
Raymond A. Palmer, as it struggled to be profitable. Amazing was
nominated for the Hugo Award three times in the 1970s during Ted White's
tenure as editor. Several owners attempted to create a modern
incarnation of the magazine, but the print publication was suspended
after the March 2005 issue.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Stories>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1773:
French astronomer Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool
Galaxy, an interacting, grand design spiral galaxy located at a distance
of approximately 15–35 million light-years in the constellation Canes
Venatici.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Galaxy>
1911:
Prince Arthur, a son of Queen Victoria, became the first
Governor General of Canada of royal descent, as well as the first Prince
of Great Britain and Ireland to hold that position.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Arthur,_Duke_of_Connaught_and_Strathea…>
1921:
The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and
Georgia signed the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of
Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the
South Caucasus states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Kars>
1972:
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into a remote area in
the Andes mountains near the border of Chile and Argentina; the
remaining 16 survivors were not rescued until December 23.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scour:
1. (transitive) To clean, polish, or wash something by rubbing and
scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
2. (transitive) To remove debris and dirt by purging; to sweep along or
off (by a current of water).
3. (transitive, veterinary medicine) To clear the digestive tract by
administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
4. (transitive, intransitive, veterinary medicine) To (cause livestock
to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse (without rubbing).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scour>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I speak of the fear, intimidation, arrests and public
shaming of intellectuals and religious leaders who dare to speak their
minds, and then I tell you that I’m from Saudi Arabia, are you
surprised?
--Jamal Khashoggi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi>
Cortinarius caperatus, the gypsy mushroom, is an edible species found in
northern regions of Europe and North America. It was known as Rozites
caperata for many years, before genetic studies placed it in the large
genus Cortinarius. The mushrooms appear in autumn in coniferous and
beech woods, as well as heathlands in late summer and autumn. The ochre-
coloured cap is up to 10 cm (4 in) across and has a fibrous surface.
The clay-coloured gills are disjoint from the whitish stalk and ring
under the cap. The flesh has a mild smell and flavour. Popular with
mushroom foragers, C. caperatus is picked seasonally in many parts of
Europe. Although highly regarded, the mushrooms are often infested with
maggots. In central Europe, old specimens could be confused with the
poisonous Inocybe erubescens in summer. Fruiting bodies of C. caperatus
have been found to bioaccumulate mercury and radioactive isotopes of
caesium.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_caperatus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1799:
Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse became the first woman to make a
parachute descent (illustrated), falling 900 m (3,000 ft) in a hot-air
balloon gondola.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Genevi%C3%A8ve_Labrosse>
1892:
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in
public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_%28United_States%29>
1960:
Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated
on live television by a man using a samurai sword.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejiro_Asanuma>
1984:
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the
Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and most of her cabinet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
good egg:
(Britain, informal, dated) A good person, someone to be trusted; a
friend.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/good_egg>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to
harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an
unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges
of changing times.
--Edith Stein
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Stein>