Connie Talbot (born 20 November 2000) is a British singer who reached
the final of the first series of Britain's Got Talent in 2007. Although
she had never taken singing lessons, her initial performance drew
international press coverage. She signed with Rainbow Recording Company,
and her debut album, Over the Rainbow, was released in the UK in
November 2007. The album was re-released in June 2008 with a new track
listing, along with its first single, a cover of Bob Marley's "Three
Little Birds". Despite negative critical reception, Over the Rainbow
reached number one in three countries, and has sold over 250,000 copies
worldwide. Since the initial album release, Talbot has performed
publicly and on television in Europe and the US, as well as across Asia,
where her music had gained recognition through YouTube. Three more
albums by Talbot were released between 2008 and 2012: Connie Talbot's
Christmas Album, Holiday Magic and Beautiful World.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Talbot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1845:
Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine
Confederation was defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, but the
losses ultimately made the United Kingdom and France give up the
blockade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vuelta_de_Obligado>
1947:
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI of the United
Kingdom, married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who was given the title
Duke of Edinburgh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh>
1969:
A group of Native American activists began a 19-month
occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Alcatraz>
1990:
Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific
serial killers, with 52 murder convictions, was arrested in
Novocherkassk.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
belluine:
(obsolete) Of, characteristic of, or pertaining to beasts; animal,
bestial; brutal.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/belluine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The
question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts
that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible
truths of our existence. We must admit the vanity of our false
distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the
search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that
our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others.
We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or
enriched by hatred or revenge.Our lives on this planet are too short and
the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in
our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a
resolution. But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those
who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same
short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance
to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what
satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common
faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something.
Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow
men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the
wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen
once again.
--Robert F. Kennedy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy>
Life's Shop Window is an American silent drama film directed by J.
Gordon Edwards, released on November 19, 1914. Starring Claire Whitney
and Stuart Holmes, it is a film adaptation of the 1907 novel by Annie
Sophie Cory. It depicts the story of English orphan Lydia Wilton
(Whitney) and her husband Bernard Chetwin (Holmes). Although Wilton's
marriage is legitimate, it was conducted in secret, and she is accused
of having a child out of wedlock. Forced to leave England, she reunites
with her husband in Arizona. There, she meets an old acquaintance,
Eustace Pelham, and considers running away with him before she sees the
error of her ways and returns to her family. Life's Shop Window was the
first film produced, rather than simply distributed, by William Fox's
Box Office Attractions Company, the corporate predecessor to Fox Film.
Reviewers' opinions of the film's quality were mixed, but it was very
popular upon its initial release in New York. Like many of Fox's early
works, it was likely lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Shop_Window>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered
the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National
Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address>
1943:
The Holocaust: Inmates at the Janowska concentration camp near
what is now Lviv, Ukraine, staged a failed uprising, after which the SS
liquidated the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janowska_concentration_camp>
1985:
Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President
Ronald Reagan (both pictured) held the first of five summit meetings
between them in Geneva.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Summit_%281985%29>
2002:
The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in half off the coast of
Galicia, after spilling an estimated 17.8 million US gallons
(420,000 bbl) in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and
Portuguese history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
borborygm:
1. (medicine, physiology, rare) A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by
gas in the bowels; a borborygmus.
2. (figuratively) A gurgling or rumbling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/borborygm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We do not now differ in our judgment concerning the controversies
of past generations, and fifty years hence our children will not be
divided in their opinions concerning our controversies. They will surely
bless their fathers and their fathers' God that the Union was preserved,
that slavery was overthrown, and that both races were made equal before
the law. We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the
final reconciliation. Is it not possible for us now to make a truce with
time by anticipating and accepting its inevitable verdict? Enterprises
of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us
and offer ample employment of our best powers. Let all our people,
leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in
their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander
victories of peace.
--James A. Garfield
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield>
The Rhode Island Tercentenary half dollar is a commemorative fifty-cent
piece, struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1936. The coin
was designed by John Howard Benson and Arthur Graham Carey. Its obverse
(pictured) depicts Roger Williams, founder of the Colony of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations, meeting a Native American. It was intended
to honor the 300th anniversary of Providence, Rhode Island, although it
bears no mention of the city. A total of 50,000 coins were struck at the
three mints then in operation. On March 5, 1936, Rhode Island banks
holding the coins announced that the entire issue had sold out within
six hours, but ample supplies proved to be available at higher prices
from insiders. Coin collectors were incensed, and the abuses led
Congress to end the authorization for outstanding commemorative coin
issues in 1939. Today the half dollars list for hundreds of dollars,
depending on condition.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_Tercentenary_half_dollar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
American author Mark Twain's story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog
of Calaveras County", his first great success as a writer, was
published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celebrated_Jumping_Frog_of_Calaveras_Coun…>
1956:
In the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys,
prompting them to leave the room.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you>
1978:
Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to
mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its
members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan>
1991:
The current flag of Uzbekistan was adopted, making the country
the first newly independent republic in Central Asia to choose a new
flag.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Uzbekistan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
marocain:
A heavy crepe fabric of silk, wool, or both, having a cross-ribbed
texture, used for apparel.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marocain>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I believe that all other political states are in fact variations
or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy; after all, when you mention
the idea of anarchy to most people they will tell you what a bad idea it
is because the biggest gang would just take over. Which is pretty much
how I see contemporary society. We live in a badly developed anarchist
situation in which the biggest gang has taken over and have declared
that it is not an anarchist situation— that it is a capitalist or a
communist situation. But I tend to think that anarchy is the most
natural form of politics for a human being to actually practice.
--Alan Moore
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Moore>
Nihonium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Nh and atomic
number 113. It is extremely radioactive; its most stable known isotope,
nihonium-286, has a half-life of about 10 seconds. In the periodic
table, nihonium is a transactinide element at the intersection of period
7 and group 13. Its creation was reported in 2003 by a
Russian–American collaboration at the Joint Institute for Nuclear
Research in Dubna, Russia, and in 2004 by a team of Japanese scientists
at Riken in Wakō, Japan. The discoveries were confirmed by independent
teams working in the United States, Germany, Sweden, and China. In 2016
the element was officially recognised and naming rights were assigned to
Riken, as they were judged to have been first to observe it. The name,
approved in the same year (announcement pictured), derives from a
Japanese word for Japan, Nihon. Few details are known about nihonium, as
it has only been formed in very small amounts that decay away within
seconds.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1796:
French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians
at the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of
retreat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arcole>
1968:
NBC controversially cut away from an American football game
between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi,
causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic
ending.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game>
2009:
Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University
of East Anglia discovered that their servers had been hacked and
thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy>
2013:
Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing
at Kazan International Airport in Tatarstan, Russia, killing all 50
people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating
certificate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarstan_Airlines_Flight_363>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
monopsony:
1. (economics) A market situation in which there is only one buyer for a
product; also, such a buyer.
2. (economics) A buyer with disproportionate power.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monopsony>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the
truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
--Shelby Foote
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shelby_Foote>
Since 1980, York City F.C., a professional association football club
based in York, North Yorkshire, England, has seen many promotions and
relegations. The team won its only English Football League title after
finishing first in the Fourth Division in 1983–84 with 101 points, the
most season points scored by any team at the time. After four seasons in
the Third Division, they were relegated in 1987–88. They beat Crewe
Alexandra at Wembley Stadium in the play-off final in 1992–93, winning
promotion to the renamed Second Division. Later in the 1990s, they
knocked Premier League teams Manchester United and Everton out of the
League Cup in successive seasons. At the end of 2003–04, they lost
their Football League status. The 2011–12 FA Trophy (celebration
pictured) was the first national knockout competition won by York, and
they returned to the Football League that season. (
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_York_City_F.C._%281980%E2%80%93pre…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured
Fort Washington from the Patriots.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington>
1885:
After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion,
Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of
Manitoba", was hanged for high treason.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel>
1938:
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic
drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann>
1973:
U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the
construction of the Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Arctic
Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
seasteading:
The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the
territory claimed by any national government.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seasteading>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater
used to say, "Everything you know is wrong." But that is a very
liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then
all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently.
And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back
unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the
really deep levels.
--Terence McKenna
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna>
Portrait of Maria Portinari (c. 1470–72) is a small tempera and oil-
on-wood painting by Hans Memling. It portrays Maria Maddalena
Baroncelli, about whom very little is known. Around 14 years old, she is
depicted shortly before her wedding to the Italian banker Tommaso
Portinari, who was an intimate of Charles the Bold and manager of the
Bruges branch of a bank controlled by Lorenzo de' Medici. Maria is
dressed in the height of late 15th-century fashion, with an elaborate
jewel-studded necklace and a long black hennin with a transparent veil.
Her headdress is similar and necklace identical to those in her
depiction in Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece (c. 1475), a
painting that may have been partly based on Memling's portrait. The
panel is the right wing of a hinged devotional triptych; the lost center
panel is recorded in 16th-century inventories as a Virgin and Child.
Maria and Tommaso's portraits are hung alongside each other at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Maria_Portinari>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1760:
The chapel of the new Castellania Palace in Valletta, Malta,
was consecrated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellania_%28Valletta%29>
1859:
Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first
modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappas_Olympics>
1943:
The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to
be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide>
1988:
The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in
response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, unmanned, on its
only flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
high roller:
1. (Canada, US, informal, gambling) A gambler who wagers large amounts
of money, usually in a casino.
2. (Canada, US, informal) One who has a lot of money and lives
luxuriously.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high_roller>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who
sees him not in man.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Kaspar_Lavater>
Muhammad I (1195–1273) was the first ruler of the Emirate of Granada,
the last independent Muslim state on the Iberian Peninsula. In the 1230s
he took power in his native Arjona and gained control over Spain's
southern cities, including Granada, Almería and Málaga. Settling in
Granada, he became the most powerful Muslim leader in the peninsula.
Under attack from Castile, he was forced to become a vassal of Ferdinand
III in 1246. A peace with Castile followed until 1264 when Muhammad
participated in an unsuccessful rebellion of their newly conquered
Muslim subjects. In 1266 his former allies, the Banu Ashqilula, rebelled
against him with help from Castile. This conflict was still unresolved
in 1273 when he died after falling off his horse. The emirate was
finally annexed by Castile in 1492. The Alhambra, a well-preserved
palace and fortress complex that Muhammad initiated, is a World Heritage
site.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_I_of_Granada>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1940:
Second World War: Coventry Cathedral (ruins pictured) and much
of the city centre of Coventry, England, were destroyed by the Luftwaffe
during the Coventry Blitz.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz>
1960:
Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three became the first black
children to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana as part
of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_school_desegregation_crisis>
1975:
With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain agreed to
withdraw its presence from the territory of Spanish Sahara.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Accords>
1990:
Germany and Poland signed the German–Polish Border Treaty,
confirming their border at the Oder–Neisse line, which was originally
defined by the Potsdam Agreement in 1945.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_Treaty_%281990%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fruiterer:
(Britain) One who sells fruit.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fruiterer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We talk about a secular state in India. It is perhaps not very
easy even to find a good word in Hindi for "secular". Some people think
it means something opposed to religion. That obviously is not correct.
What it means is that it is state which honours all faiths equally and
gives them equal opportunities; that, as a state, it does not allow
itself to be attached to one faith or religion, which then becomes the
state religion.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru>
Imleria badia, the bay bolete, is an edible, pored mushroom found in
Europe and North America, growing in coniferous or mixed woods on the
ground or on decaying tree stumps. Both the common and scientific names
refer to the bay-coloured cap, which is almost spherical in young
specimens before broadening and flattening out to 15 cm (6 in) or more
in diameter. On the cap's underside are small yellowish pores that
bruise dull blue-grey when injured. The smooth, cylindrical stalk,
measuring 4–9 cm (1.6–3.5 in) long by 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in)
thick, is coloured like the cap, but paler. Regarded as a choice edible
mushroom by some food writers, such as Antonio Carluccio, it is sold in
markets in Europe and central Mexico. The mushroom can bioaccumulate
mercury, cobalt, nickel and other metals; radioactive caesium levels
spiked in specimens collected in Europe following the 1986 Chernobyl
disaster.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imleria_badia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
Scottish surgeon James Braid observed a demonstration of animal
magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called
hypnotism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Braid_%28surgeon%29>
1940:
Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in
stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_%281940_film%29>
1985:
The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic
mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, and killed
approximately 23,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armero_tragedy>
2015:
Terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant killed 130 people and injured 413 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hydrophobia:
1. (pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the
disease of rabies itself.
2. (psychology, colloquial) A morbid fear of water; aquaphobia.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hydrophobia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To me you can wrap all of Judaism up in one sentence, and that
is, "Do not do unto others...". All I tried to do in my stories was show
that there's some innate goodness in the human condition. And there's
always going to be evil; we should always be fighting evil.
--Stan Lee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stan_Lee>
Archie vs. Predator is a comic book series written by Alex de Campi
(pictured) of Dark Horse Comics and drawn by Fernando Ruiz of Archie
Comics. It features Predator, a deadly alien trophy hunter, who stalks
the clean-cut teenager Archie Andrews and his high school classmates,
until the survivors realize they are being hunted and fight back. A
four-issue limited series was released in the US in 2015 between April
and July, and a hardcover collection went on sale in November. Archie
Comics proposed the idea to Dark Horse, which holds the license to
comics featuring 20th Century Fox's Predator. The series received
positive reviews from critics, who enjoyed the strange matchup and dark
humor. The April issue was the top seller for both publishers, and
garnered an average review rating of 7.9 out of 10 according to the
review aggregator Comic Book Roundup. The series won a Ghastly Award for
Best Limited Series.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_vs._Predator>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1912:
The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his companions were
discovered, roughly eight months after their deaths during the ill-fated
British Antarctic Expedition 1910.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott>
1928:
At least 110 people died after the British ocean liner
SS Vestris was abandoned as it sank in the western Atlantic Ocean.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Vestris>
1940:
World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy
France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gabon>
2011:
A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base led to the death
of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani
Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Tehrani_Moghaddam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
overproof:
Possessing a higher proportion of alcohol than proof spirit.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overproof>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding
of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally
realized. The rulers and kings of the earth must needs attend it, and,
participating in its deliberations, must consider such ways and means as
will lay the foundations of the world's Great Peace amongst men.
--Bahá'u'lláh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h>
Mesopropithecus was a lemur from Madagascar, slightly larger than any of
those alive today, but one of the smallest that are known only from
subfossil remains. This genus of the sloth lemur family
Palaeopropithecidae includes the species M. dolichobrachion, M.
globiceps, and M. pithecoides. All three species were primarily leaf-
eaters, but also ate fruit and seeds. M. globiceps ate more seeds than
M. pithecoides, and an analysis of the teeth of M. dolichobrachion
suggests that it ate even more seeds; it also had distinctly longer
arms. A recently discovered postcranial skeleton shows that
Mesopropithecus had longer forelimbs than hindlimbs—a trait shared by
all sloth lemurs. Remains of M. dolichobrachion have been found only in
the north of the island, M. pithecoides in the south and west, and
M. globiceps in the center. The genus died out after the arrival of
humans on the island, probably through hunting, habitat destruction, or
both.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopropithecus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1805:
War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units
all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_D%C3%BCrenstein>
1918:
The armistice between the German Empire and the Allies was
signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France
(signatories pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918>
1934:
The Shrine of Remembrance, a memorial to all Australians who
have served in war, opened in Melbourne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_Remembrance>
1965:
Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally
declared independence from the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia%27s_Unilateral_Declaration_of_Indepe…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
elevenses:
(Britain, informal) A short mid-morning break taken around eleven
o'clock for a drink or light snack.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elevenses>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First
World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of
Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was
during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon
millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked
to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told
me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God.
So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke
clearly to mankind.
--Kurt Vonnegut
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut>