Knuckles' Chaotix is a side-scrolling platform game developed and
published by Sega for the 32X, first released on April 20, 1995. A spin-
off of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the game features Knuckles the
Echidna and the four Chaotix, who try to prevent Doctor Robotnik and
Metal Sonic from conquering a mysterious island. Development of the game
can be traced to Sonic Crackers, a 1994 prototype for the Sega Genesis
featuring Sonic and Tails. Development transitioned to the 32X under the
working title Knuckles' Ringstar. Sonic and Tails were removed from the
game and replaced by Knuckles and four other characters, including
Mighty the Armadillo, who first appeared in the arcade game SegaSonic
the Hedgehog (1993). Critical reception to Knuckles' Chaotix has been
mixed, and the physics of a new tethering system was faulted as
cumbersome. Some characters and concepts introduced in the game were
featured in later Sonic games and media. Despite interest from fans, the
game has not been rereleased beyond a brief period through GameTap in
the mid-2000s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckles%27_Chaotix>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1535:
The appearance of sun dogs over Stockholm, Sweden, inspired the
painting Vädersolstavlan, the oldest colour depiction of the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4dersolstavlan>
1818:
Four days after the Court of King's Bench in England upheld a
murder suspect's right to trial by battle in Ashford v Thornton, the
plaintiff declined to fight, allowing the defendant to go free.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton>
1968:
British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell made his
controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech in opposition to immigration and
anti-discrimination legislation, resulting in his removal from the
Shadow Cabinet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech>
1978:
Soviet fighters shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 902 after it
violated Soviet airspace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902>
2008:
American Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the
first woman to win an IndyCar auto race.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_Patrick>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
words fail someone:
(transitive, idiomatic) Of a person: to be incapable of describing
something with words, especially due to fear, shock, or surprise.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/words_fail_someone>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I can never regret. I can feel sorrow, but it's not the same
thing.
--The Last Unicorn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(film)>
The 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia was a peacetime
infantry regiment that was activated by the Union army in the American
Civil War. On April 19, 1861, the regiment was on its way to Washington,
D.C. in response to President Abraham Lincoln's initial call for troops
when it was attacked by a crowd in Baltimore, Maryland, during the
Baltimore Riot. Private Luther C. Ladd of the 6th Massachusetts was
wounded and later died, becoming the war's first Union soldier to be
killed in action. April 19 was the anniversary of the battles of
Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution in 1775, and
the men of the 6th Massachusetts (some of whom were descended from
soldiers of that war) were often called the "Minutemen of '61". After
proceeding to Washington, the regiment returned to Baltimore to guard
locations within the city as well as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
station at Elkridge, Maryland. In April and May 1863, the regiment saw
action near Suffolk, Virginia, in the Siege of Suffolk and the Battle of
Carrsville.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Regiment_Massachusetts_Volunteer_Militia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
797:
Byzantine emperor Constantine VI was captured, blinded, and
imprisoned by the supporters of his mother Irene.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VI>
1713:
With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued
the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure one of his daughters would inherit the
Habsburg lands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor>
1903:
A two-day anti-Jewish riot began in Kishinev, Bessarabia (now
in Moldova), causing the death of nearly 50 Jews and focusing worldwide
negative attention on the persecution of Jews in Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinev_pogrom>
1927:
American actress Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for
"corrupting the morals of youth" for her play Sex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West>
1971:
The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, USSR.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dreamworker:
A person who attempts to discover what deeper meaning might be contained
in his or her own, or another person's, dreams.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dreamworker>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
For heaven's sake enjoy life. Don't cry over things that were or
things that aren't. Enjoy what you have now to the fullest. In all
honesty you really only have two choices; you can like what you do OR
you can dislike it. I choose to like it and what fun I have had. The
other choice is no fun and people do not want to be around a whiner. We
can always find people who are worse off and we don't have to look far!
Help them and forget self! I would certainly say, above all, seek God.
He will come to you if you look. There is absolutely NO down side.
--Barbara Bush
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Bush>
Famous Fantastic Mysteries was an American science fiction and fantasy
pulp magazine published from 1939 to 1953, edited by Mary Gnaedinger. It
was launched by the Munsey Company to reprint stories from their
magazines, including Argosy. Frequently reprinted authors included
George Allan England, A. Merritt, and Austin Hall. The artwork,
including some of the best work of Virgil Finlay and Lawrence Stevens,
contributed to the success of the magazine. In late 1942 Popular
Publications acquired the title from Munsey, and Famous Fantastic
Mysteries stopped reprinting short stories from the earlier magazines.
It continued to reprint longer works, including titles by G. K.
Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and H. Rider Haggard. Original short fiction
also began to appear, including Arthur C. Clarke's "Guardian Angel",
which later formed the first section of his novel Childhood's End. In
1951 the publishers experimented briefly with a large digest format, but
returned quickly to the original pulp layout.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1738:
By royal decree, Philip V of Spain established the Real
Academia de la Historia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Academia_de_la_Historia>
1915:
World War I: French aviator Roland Garros landed his aircraft
behind enemy lines and was taken prisoner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Georges_Garros>
1938:
Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his
debut in Action Comics #1, the first true superhero comic book.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman>
1958:
Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from St.
Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he had been incarcerated
for twelve years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound>
1996:
Israeli forces shelled Qana, Lebanon, during Operation Grapes
of Wrath, killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 110
others at a UN compound.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tit for tat:
(idiomatic) Equivalent retribution; an act of returning exactly what one
gets; an eye for an eye.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tit_for_tat>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and
particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western
culture. … Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that
people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions,
and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most
liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of
humankind. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational
clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers
three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.
--Samuel P. Huntington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington>
Yvonne Fletcher was fatally wounded on 17 April 1984 by a shot coming
from the Libyan embassy on St James's Square in London. She had been
deployed as a constable of the Metropolitan Police to monitor a
demonstration against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. During the
protest, two unknown gunmen opened fire with Sterling submachine guns,
killing Fletcher and wounding eleven Libyans. The inquest found that she
was "killed by a bullet coming from one of two windows on the west side
of the front on the first floor of the Libyan People's Bureau". After an
eleven-day siege of the embassy, those inside were expelled from the
United Kingdom, and diplomatic relations with Libya were severed. In
1999 a warming of diplomatic relations with Britain led to the payment
of compensation and a statement from the Libyan government admitting
culpability in Fletcher's shooting. British police continued their
investigation until 2017, but no one has been convicted of Fletcher's
murder.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1080:
On the death of his brother Harald III, Canute IV, who later
became the first Dane to be canonized, became King of Denmark.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_IV_of_Denmark>
1362:
Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, the Teutonic
Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction pictured) in
Lithuania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kaunas_(1362)>
1907:
The first of three dreadnought battleships for Brazil was laid
down, sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_dreadnought_race>
1951:
The Peak District was designated the first national park in the
United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_District>
1973:
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment entitled
The Star Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kyriarchy:
A system of ruling and oppression in which many people may interact and
act as oppressor or oppressed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kyriarchy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The idea that Anarchy can be inaugurated by force is as
fallacious as the idea that it can be sustained by force. Force cannot
preserve Anarchy; neither can it bring it. In fact, one of the
inevitable influences of the use of force is to postpone Anarchy. The
only thing that force can ever do for us is to save us from extinction,
to give us a longer lease of life in which to try to secure Anarchy by
the only methods that can ever bring it. But this advantage is always
purchased at immense cost, and its attainment is always attended by
frightful risk. The attempt should be made only when the risk of any
other course is greater.
--Benjamin Tucker
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tucker>
William T. Stearn (16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist.
Born in Cambridge in 1911, he was largely self-educated. He was
librarian at the Royal Horticultural Society in London from 1933 to 1952
and then moved to the Natural History Museum as a scientific officer in
the botany department until 1976. After retirement, he became President
of the Linnean Society and taught botany at Cambridge University. He is
known for his work in botanical taxonomy, botanical history, and
botanical illustration and for his studies of the Swedish scientist Carl
Linnaeus. He is the author of Botanical Latin, as well as the Dictionary
of Plant Names for Gardeners, a popular guide to the Latin names of
plants. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in
1957. Considered one of the most eminent British botanists of his time,
he is the botanical authority for over 400 plants that he named and
described. An essay prize in his name from the Society for the History
of Natural History is awarded each year.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Stearn>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty,
which laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and
British North America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%E2%80%93Bagot_Treaty>
1847:
New Zealand Wars: A minor Māori chief was accidentally shot by
a junior British Army officer in the Petre settlement of New Zealand's
North Island, triggering the Wanganui Campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanganui_Campaign>
1912:
American Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across
the English Channel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimby>
1917:
Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and
joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin>
2014:
The South Korean ferry MV Sewol sank 1.5 km (0.93 mi)
offshore of Donggeochado, Jindo County, with around 300 of the 476
onboard killed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sprachbund:
(linguistics) A group of languages sharing a number of areal features
(similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to language
contact rather than cognation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sprachbund>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a
foolish thing.
--Anatole France
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France>
The sinking of the RMS Titanic in the early morning of 15 April 1912,
four days into the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton to New York
City, was one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history,
killing more than 1,500 people. The largest passenger liner in service
at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she
struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The ship had received six
warnings of sea ice but was travelling at near maximum speed when the
lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship
suffered a glancing blow that buckled the starboard (right) side and
opened five of sixteen compartments to the sea. The disaster caused
widespread outrage over the lack of lifeboats, lax regulations, and the
unequal treatment of the three passenger classes during the evacuation.
Inquiries recommended sweeping changes to maritime regulations, leading
to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (1914),
which continues to govern maritime safety.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1638:
A rebellion by Catholic Japanese peasants in Shimabara over
increased taxes was put down by the Tokugawa shogunate, resulting in
greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion>
1738:
Serse (audio featured), an opera by Baroque composer George
Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serse>
1936:
A group of Arabs in British Mandatory Palestine killed two Jews
at a roadblock, an act widely viewed as the beginning of the violence
within the Arab revolt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tulkarm_shooting>
1958:
On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
San Francisco Giants played in the first Major League Baseball game on
the U.S. West Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley>
1995:
At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco,
representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities signed an
agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Leonardeschi:
A group of artists who worked in the studio of, or under the influence
of, Leonardo da Vinci.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Leonardeschi>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He who thinks little, errs much.
--Leonardo da Vinci
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci>
Urse d'Abetot (c. 1040 – 1108) was a Sheriff of Worcestershire and
royal official under Kings William I, William II and Henry I. Urse's
lord in Normandy was present at the Battle of Hastings, and Urse moved
to England shortly after the Norman Conquest, where he was appointed
sheriff around 1069. His castle in the town of Worcester encroached on
the cathedral cemetery there, angering the Archbishop of York. He helped
to put down a rebellion against King William I in 1075, and quarrelled
with the Church in his county over the jurisdiction of the sheriffs. He
continued in the service of William's sons after the king's death, and
was appointed constable under William II and marshal under Henry I. He
earned a reputation for extortion, and during the reign of William II,
he was considered second only to the king's minister Ranulf Flambard in
his greediness. Through his daughter, Urse is an ancestor of the
Beauchamp family, who eventually became Earls of Warwick.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urse_d%27Abetot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1561:
In Nuremberg, a mass sighting of celestial phenomena
(illustration pictured) took place of an "aerial battle" between odd-
shaped objects.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg>
1908:
The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed and
caused severe flooding and damage downstream.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser_Dam>
1945:
The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the
German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher
Vokes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razing_of_Friesoythe>
2014:
Boko Haram kidnapped 276 female students from the Government
Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibok_schoolgirls_kidnapping>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
consistent:
1. Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature.
2. Compatible, accordant.
3. (logic) Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically
follows from them.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consistent>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time,
it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable
direction.
--James Branch Cabell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell>
Carousel (1945) is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers
(music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), after their hit
Oklahoma! (1943). It was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom,
transplanting the setting to the U.S. state of Maine. Carousel barker
Billy Bigelow's romance with millworker Julie Jordan cost them their
jobs; after he attempts a robbery that goes tragically wrong, he is
given a chance to make things right. The show includes the songs "If I
Loved You", "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "You'll Never Walk
Alone". It opened on Broadway on April 19, 1945, and was an immediate
hit with both critics and audiences. It initially ran there for 890
performances, and duplicated its success in the West End in 1950. It has
been repeatedly revived and recorded. A 1992 production by Nicholas
Hytner enjoyed success in London, in New York, and on tour. Rodgers
later wrote that Carousel was his favorite of all his musicals. In 1999,
Time magazine named it the best musical of the 20th century.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_(musical)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1111:
Henry V, the last ruler of the Salian dynasty, was crowned Holy
Roman Emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor>
1829:
The Roman Catholic Relief Act was granted royal assent,
removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United
Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Relief_Act_1829>
1943:
World War II: German news announced the discovery of a mass
grave in Katyn, Russia, of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet
forces, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile
and the USSR.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre>
1958:
In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn won
the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Cliburn>
1984:
Indian forces launched Operation Meghdoot, a preemptive attack
on the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir, triggering a military
conflict with Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siachen_conflict>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
magnality:
A great or wonderful thing; a marvel.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magnality>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of
our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that
confidence is every where the parent of despotism; free government is
founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not
confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those
whom we are obliged to trust with power; that our Constitution has
accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no farther, our confidence
may go; and let the honest advocate of confidence read the Alien and
Sedition Acts, and say if the Constitution has not been wise in fixing
limits to the government it created, and whether we should be wise in
destroying those limits; let him say what the government is, if it be
not a tyranny, which the men of our choice have conferred on the
President, and the President of our choice has assented to and accepted,
over the friendly strangers, to whom the mild spirit of our country and
its laws had pledged hospitality and protection; that the men of our
choice have more respected the bare suspicions of the President than the
solid rights of innocence, the claims of justification, the sacred force
of truth, and the forms and substance of law and justice. In questions
of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him
down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
--Thomas Jefferson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>
Imogen Holst (12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer,
arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator. In the 1940s
she helped to establish Dartington Hall as a major centre of music
education, and for the next 20 years was the joint artistic director of
the Aldeburgh Festival. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she
attended the Royal College of Music, but was unable for health reasons
to follow her ambitions to be a pianist or a dancer, and became a full-
time organiser for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. In the early
1950s she became Benjamin Britten's musical assistant. In later years
she concentrated on the preservation of her father's musical legacy, and
wrote several books on his life and works. The music she wrote is not
widely known and has received little critical attention. She received
numerous academic honours, and was appointed Commander of the Order of
the British Empire in 1975.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Holst>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
627:
King Edwin of Northumbria was converted to Christianity by
Bishop Paulinus of York, who had previously saved his life.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_of_Northumbria>
1807:
The Froberg mutiny at Fort Ricasoli in Malta came to a close
when the rebels blew up 600 barrels of gunpowder and escaped, although
they were later caught.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froberg_mutiny>
1861:
Confederate forces began firing at Fort Sumter in the harbor of
Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter>
1910:
SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the
Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Zr%C3%ADnyi>
1994:
Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
horses for courses:
(chiefly Britain, idiomatic) Different people are suited for different
jobs or situations; what is fitting in one case may not be fitting in
another.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horses_for_courses>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The drafters of the Constitution had made one simple but far-
reaching error. They'd assumed that the people selected by The People to
manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they'd been. One
could almost hear the "Oops!" emanating from all those old graves.
--Tom Clancy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy>
State Route 520 (SR 520) is a 13-mile (21 km) state highway and
freeway in the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of
Washington. Connecting Seattle to the Eastside region of King County
across the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge on Lake Washington, it
intersects Interstate 5 (I-5) in Seattle, I-405 in Bellevue, and SR 202
in Redmond. It was designated as a freeway in 1964, but was not fully
constructed until the late 1970s. Increased traffic on the corridor,
spurred in part by expansion of the Microsoft headquarters in Overlake,
led to the addition of high-occupancy vehicle lanes and new interchanges
in the 1990s. In April 2016, the original floating bridge was replaced
by a wider one as part of a multibillion-dollar expansion program that
is scheduled to be completed in the 2020s. The program includes the
construction of a new bicycle and pedestrian path, bus stations, and
interchanges.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Route_520>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed, ending the War of the
Sixth Coalition, and forcing Napoleon to abdicate as ruler of France and
sending him into exile on Elba.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fontainebleau_(1814)>
1913:
The Nevill Ground's pavilion was destroyed (damage pictured) in
the only suffragette arson attack on a cricket ground.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevill_Ground>
1968:
Rudi Dutschke, the most prominent leader of the German student
movement, survived an assassination attempt, which led to the largest
protests to that date in Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dutschke>
1993:
Inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near
Lucasville, Ohio, U.S., rioted and took over the facility for 11 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ohio_Correctional_Facility>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
folding stuff:
(slang) Banknotes, paper money.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/folding_stuff>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice
that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North
and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling,
wealth to the strong! Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of
mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions! For I stand
forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the "laws" of
man and of "God"! I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why
and wherefore of your ten commandments. … I break away from all
conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. I
raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong!
--Anton LaVey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey>