Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American
theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965
for his contributions to quantum electrodynamics, jointly with Julian
Schwinger and Sin'ichirō Tomonaga. He developed the path integral
formulation of quantum mechanics, and studied superfluidity in
supercooled liquid helium. During World War II he assisted in the
development of the atomic bomb, and in the 1980s he was a member of the
Rogers Commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger
disaster. He was a pioneer in the field of quantum computing, and
introduced the concept of nanotechnology. Through his lectures and
books, including the semi-autobiographical Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, he was an avid
popularizer of physics. In a 1999 poll of leading physicists, he was
ranked as one of the ten greatest physicists of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1792:
Merchant sea captain Robert Gray became the first recorded
European to navigate the Columbia River in what is now the Pacific
Northwest United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gray%27s_Columbia_River_expedition>
1813:
William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed
westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first Europeans
confirmed to cross the Blue Mountains.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1813_crossing_of_the_Blue_Mountains>
1910:
Glacier National Park, located in the U.S. state of Montana,
was designated a national park.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_National_Park_(U.S.)>
1998:
India began conducting the Pokhran-II nuclear weapons test, its
first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II>
2010:
David Cameron took office as the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's
first coalition government since the Second World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Feynman diagram:
(physics) A pictorial representation of the interactions of subatomic
particles, showing their paths in space and time as lines, and their
interactions as points where lines meet.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As we are — the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious,
competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which
brings misery and war. The State is what we are. To bring about order
and peace, we must begin with ourselves and not with society, not with
the State, for the world is ourselves … If we would bring about a sane
and happy society we must begin with ourselves and not with another, not
outside of ourselves, but with ourselves.
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti>
Pobeda was the last of the three Peresvet-class pre-dreadnought
battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the
nineteenth century. Launched on 10 May 1900, the ship was assigned to
the Pacific Squadron upon completion, and in 1903 was based at Port
Arthur. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, she participated
in the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea. Having escaped serious
damage in these engagements, Pobeda was sunk by gunfire during the Siege
of Port Arthur, and then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into
service under the name Suwo. Rearmed and re-boilered by the Japanese,
Suwo was classified by the Imperial Japanese Navy as a coastal defense
ship in 1908 and served as a training ship for several years. She was
the flagship of the Japanese squadron at the Battle of Tsingtao at the
beginning of World War I and continued in that role until she became a
gunnery training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply
with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and probably scrapped
around that time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Pobeda>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
28 BC:
The first precisely dated observation of a sunspot was made by
Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_of_the_Han_dynasty>
1775:
American Revolutionary War: A small force of American Patriots
led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captured, without
significant injury or incident, the small British garrison at Fort
Ticonderoga in New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Fort_Ticonderoga>
1916:
Ernest Shackleton and five companions completed one of
history's greatest small-boat journeys (launch pictured) when they
arrived at South Georgia after sailing 800 nautical miles (1,500 km) in
a lifeboat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird>
1941:
World War II: Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess parachuted into
Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess>
1997:
A 7.3 Mw earthquake struck Iran's Khorasan Province, killing at
least 1,567, injuring around 2,300, and damaging or destroying more than
15,000 homes, to leave 50,000 homeless.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Qayen_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
comminution:
1. (often mining, waste management) The breaking or grinding up of a
material to form smaller particles.
2. (traumatology) The fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces
(technically, at least three); crumbling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comminution>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I know idealism is not playing on the radio right now, you don't
see it on TV, irony is on heavy rotation, the knowingness, the smirk,
the tired joke. I've tried them all out but I'll tell you this, outside
this campus — and even inside it — idealism is under siege — beset
by materialism, narcissism and all the other isms of indifference.
Baggism, Shaggism. Raggism. Notism, graduationism, chismism, I don't
know. Where's John Lennon when you need him?
--Bono
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bono>
Siward was an earl of 11th-century northern England. The Old Norse
nickname Digri and its Latin translation Grossus ("the stout") are given
to him by near-contemporary texts. Siward was probably of Scandinavian
origin, perhaps a relative of Earl Ulf, and emerged as a powerful
regional strongman in England during the reign of Cnut the Great
(1016–1035). Cnut was a Scandinavian ruler who conquered England in
the 1010s, and Siward was one of the many Scandinavians who came to
England in the aftermath of that conquest. Siward rose to become a sub-
ruler of most of northern England. In the early 1050s he turned against
the Scottish ruler Mac Bethad mac Findlaích. Despite the death of his
son Osbjorn, Siward defeated Mac Bethad in battle in 1054. More than
half a millennium later the Scotland adventure earned him a place in
William Shakespeare's Macbeth. St Olave's church in York and nearby
Heslington Hill are associated with Siward.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siward,_Earl_of_Northumbria>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
328:
Athanasius became the Patriarch of Alexandria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_of_Alexandria>
1877:
Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu made a
speech in Parliament that declared Romania was discarding Ottoman
suzerainty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Kog%C4%83lniceanu>
1901:
The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal
Exhibition Building in Melbourne, exactly 26 years before it moved to
Canberra's Provisional Parliament House, and exactly 87 years before it
moved into the Parliament House in Canberra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia>
1918:
First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to
blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ostend_Raid>
2012:
Pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 ignored alerts from the terrain
warning system and crashed into Mount Salak in Indonesia, resulting in
the deaths of all 45 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Mount_Salak_Sukhoi_Superjet_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
acrimonious:
1. (archaic) Harsh and sharp, or bitter and not to the taste; acrid,
pungent.
2. (figuratively) Angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative
replies: bitter, mean-spirited, sharp in language or tone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acrimonious>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nationalism is always an effort in a direction opposite to that
of the principle which creates nations. The former is exclusive in
tendency, the latter inclusive. In periods of consolidation, nationalism
has a positive value, and is a lofty standard. But in Europe everything
is more than consolidated, and nationalism is nothing but a mania, a
pretext to escape from the necessity of inventing something new, some
great enterprise.
--José Ortega y Gasset
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset>
The Battle of the Cedars (May 1776) was a series of skirmishes early in
the American Revolutionary War in and around the Cedars, 45 km (28 mi)
west of Montreal, British North America. Continental Army units were
opposed by a small number of British troops leading militia, together
with indigenous forces (primarily Iroquois). Brigadier General Benedict
Arnold, commanding the American military garrison at Montreal, had
placed troops at the Cedars in April on rumors of British military
preparations. The garrison surrendered to a force led by Captain George
Forster, and reinforcements were captured the next day. All of the
American captives were eventually released in a prisoner swap agreement,
but the deal was repudiated by Congress, and no British prisoners were
freed. News of the affair included greatly inflated reports of
casualties, and often included graphic but false accounts of atrocities
committed by the Iroquois, who made up the majority of the British
forces.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Cedars>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
A train derailed and caught fire in Paris, killing between 52
and 200 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_rail_accident>
1924:
Lithuania signed the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of
the Conference of Ambassadors, formally taking the Klaipėda Region
(German: Memelland) from East Prussia and making it into an autonomous
region under unconditional sovereignty of Lithuania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_Convention>
1945:
A parade to celebrate the end of World War II turned into a
riot, followed by widespread disturbances and killings in and around
Sétif, French Algeria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9tif_and_Guelma_massacre>
1963:
In Huế, South Vietnam, soldiers of the Army of the Republic
of Vietnam opened fire into a crowd of Buddhist protestors against a
government ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesākha, killing
nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BA%BF_Ph%E1%BA%ADt_%C4%90%E1%BA%A3n_sho…>
1987:
A British Army Special Air Service unit ambushed a Provisional
Irish Republican Army unit in Loughgall, Northern Ireland, killing eight
IRA members and a civilian.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughgall_ambush>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ululation:
The act of ululating; a long, loud, wavering cry or howl.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ululation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society,
is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power
adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism;
and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical
propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment,
appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes
are desirable if this world is to become a better place.
--Friedrich Hayek
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek>
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand.
The protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who
designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an
architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. Roark
embodies what Rand believed to be the ideal man, and his struggle
reflects Rand's belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
Twelve publishers rejected the manuscript before an editor at the Bobbs-
Merrill Company risked his job to get it published. Contemporary
reviewers' opinions were mixed. Some praised the novel as a powerful
paean to individualism, while others thought it overlong and lacking
sympathetic characters. Initial sales were slow, but the book gained a
following by word of mouth. It became a bestseller, and more than
6.5 million copies have been sold worldwide. The novel was Rand's first
major literary success and has had a lasting influence, especially among
architects and right-libertarians.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1697:
Stockholm's royal castle, dating back to the 13th century, was
destroyed in a huge fire; the blueprint for the current royal palace was
presented within a year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Palace>
1895:
Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his radio receiver,
refined as a lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical
Society.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov>
1931:
New York City Police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with
Francis Crowley that was witnessed by 15,000 bystanders before he
finally surrendered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crowley>
1960:
Cold War: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that his
country was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane
was shot down over the Soviet Union six days earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident>
2010:
A team of researchers presented a complete draft sequence of
the Neanderthal genome, demonstrating that today's modern humans have
Neanderthal ancestors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_human_admixture_with_modern_humans>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scrofulous:
1. (pathology, dated) Of, related to, or suffering from scrofula (form of
tuberculosis tending to cause enlarged lymph nodes and skin
inflammation).
2. (figuratively) Having an unkempt, unhealthy appearance.
3. (figuratively) Morally degenerate; corrupt.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrofulous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant
research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to
show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically,
except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of
my jests is to say that we work empirically — we use bull's eye
empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!
--Edwin H. Land
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land>
Maniac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure video game developed and
published by Lucasfilm Games. It follows teenage protagonist Dave Miller
as he solves puzzles and attempts to rescue his girlfriend from a mad
scientist. Initially released for the Commodore 64 and Apple II, Maniac
Mansion was Lucasfilm Games' first self-published product. Conceived by
Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, it tells a comedic story that draws on
horror film and B-movie clichés. Gilbert developed Maniac Mansion's
innovative point-and-click interface, which became a standard feature in
the genre. To speed up production, he created a game engine called
SCUMM, which was used in many later LucasArts titles. Maniac Mansion was
critically acclaimed for its graphics, cutscenes, animation and humor.
Writer Orson Scott Card praised it as a step toward "computer games
[becoming] a valid storytelling art". The game's success solidified
Lucasfilm as a serious rival to adventure game studios such as Sierra
On-Line.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_Mansion>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1782:
Construction began on the Grand Palace of Bangkok, the official
residence of the King of Thailand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palace>
1882:
The Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick
Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Irish National
Invincibles as they walked through Phoenix Park in Dublin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park_Murders>
1941:
American entertainer Bob Hope performed the first of his many
shows for the United Service Organizations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope>
1954:
At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister
became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_mile>
2010:
Major stock indexes in the United States dropped nearly 9% and
rebounded very quickly, exacerbated by high-frequency traders using
algorithms which have since been outlawed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
titfer:
(Cockney rhyming slang) A hat.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/titfer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There's an ocean of darkness and I drown in the night till I come
through the darkness to the ocean of light, for the light is forever and
the light it is free, "And I walk in the glory of the light," said he.
--Sydney Carter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_Carter>
The CMLL World Middleweight Championship is a professional wrestling
world championship of the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de
Lucha Libre. While lighter weight classes are regularly ignored in
wrestling promotions in the United States, more emphasis is placed on
the lighter classes in Mexico. The middleweight division range in Mexico
is between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but the weight limits
are not strictly adhered to. As it is a professional wrestling
championship, it is not won by actual competition, but by a scripted
ending to a match or storyline. Dragón Rojo Jr., the longest reigning
CMLL champion, was defeated on March 25, 2017, by Ángel de Oro, the
current champion. Since its creation in 1991, the championship has been
held by 12 wrestlers for a total of 17 individual reigns. El Dandy is
the only three-time champion; Apolo Dantés had the shortest reign, at
77 days.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMLL_World_Middleweight_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
553:
The Second Council of Constantinople, considered by many
Christian churches to have been the fifth Christian Ecumenical Council,
began to discuss the topics of Nestorianism and Origenism, among others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Constantinople>
1654:
Cromwell's Act of Grace, which pardoned the people of Scotland
for any crimes they may have committed during the Wars of the Three
Kingdoms, was proclaimed in Edinburgh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%27s_Act_of_Grace>
1940:
World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers in Hegra
Fortress finally surrendered to a vastly superior Nazi force after a
25-day siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hegra_Fortress>
1961:
Project Mercury: Aboard the American spacecraft Freedom 7, Alan
Shepard made a sub-orbital flight, becoming the second person to travel
into outer space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard>
2010:
A series of demonstrations in Athens and general strikes across
Greece began in response to austerity measures imposed by the government
as a result of the debt crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_Greece>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tabulate:
1. (transitive) To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
2. (transitive) To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tabulate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to
the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these
biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other
occupations and entertainments. Indulge your passion for science, says
she, but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct
reference to action and society. Abstruse thought and profound
researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive
melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which
they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended
discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but,
amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
--David Hume
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume>
New York State Route 343 (NY 343) is a state highway in Dutchess
County, in the Hudson Valley of the U.S. state of New York. It runs
east–west from the intersection of NY 82 in the village of Millbrook
to the Connecticut state line in the hamlet of Amenia, where Connecticut
Route 343 continues briefly eastward. It was originally the Dover
branch of the Dutchess Turnpike, a 19th-century transportation route
between Litchfield County, Connecticut, and the city of Poughkeepsie.
NY 343 was designated in 1930, connecting Amenia to the state line, but
was relocated a few years later onto the portion of NY 200 from South
Millbrook to the hamlet of Dover Plains. Landmarks along the way include
the Silo Ridge Country Club in the hamlet of Wassaic, Beekman Park in
Amenia, and the Troutbeck Conference Center in the hamlet of Leedsville.
Connecticut Route 343 passes through more rural and residential areas
into the town of Sharon, Connecticut, where it terminates at a junction
with Route 4 and Route 41.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_343>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Inter caetera,
establishing a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain
and Portugal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_caetera>
1780:
The first running of the Epsom Derby took place, won by Diomed,
owned by Charles Bunbury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1780_Epsom_Derby>
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy engaged Allied naval
forces at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first fleet action in which
aircraft carriers engaged each other.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea>
1988:
A fire at an industrial plant in Henderson, Nevada, U.S.,
caused tons of Space Shuttle fuel to explode, resulting in two deaths,
372 injuries, and $100 million in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster>
2000:
Ken Livingstone took office as the first Mayor of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Livingstone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
padawan:
1. An apprentice or student Jedi.
2. (by extension, humorous) Any apprentice or student.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/padawan>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no
longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer
impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or
probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.
--Jane Jacobs
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs>
Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974
Atlantic hurricane season. A destructive and widespread storm, Carmen
originated as a tropical disturbance that traveled westward from Africa,
spawning a tropical depression east of the Lesser Antilles on
August 29. Moving through the Caribbean Sea, it quickly strengthened to
a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and
made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula. It turned north into the Gulf
of Mexico, re-intensified, and made a second landfall in the marshland
of southern Louisiana, dissipating over eastern Texas on September 10.
Tropical cyclone watches and warnings had been issued for the storm, and
around 100,000 residents left their homes and sought shelter. Damage was
lighter than first feared, but the sugar industry suffered substantial
losses. The hurricane killed 8 people and caused damage valued at
$162 million. The name Carmen was retired from the list of Atlantic
tropical cyclone names in 1975.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carmen>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1491:
Nkuwu Nzinga of the Kingdom of Kongo was baptised as João I by
Portuguese missionaries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_of_Kongo>
1848:
The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet
similar to those in Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benty_Grange_helmet>
1913:
Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film,
was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Harishchandra>
1920:
Relying on the 11th Soviet Red Army operating in neighboring
Azerbaijan, Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Georgian_coup_attempt>
1999:
A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on
Earth (301 ±20 mph, or 484 ±32 km/h) in a tornado near Bridge Creek,
Oklahoma, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
en passant:
1. In passing, by the way, incidentally.
2. (chess) Of a player's pawn when it has moved forward two squares on its
first move in the game: captured "in passing" by the other player's
pawn, as if the first player's pawn had only moved forward one square.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_passant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy & share.
--Nina Paley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nina_Paley>
Naruto Uzumaki is the fictional protagonist of the Japanese manga series
Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. A carefree, optimistic and
boisterous teen ninja who befriends other ninja, he aspires to become
the leader of his fictional village, Konohagakure. He appears in anime,
films, video games and original video animations, as well as a sequel
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, with his son Boruto Uzumaki as the
protagonist. Kishimoto initially aimed to keep the character "simple and
stupid", while giving him many attributes of an ideal hero, and a tragic
past. The author has revised Naruto's image many times, providing the
character with different clothes intended to appeal to Western audiences
and to make him easier to illustrate. Naruto is voiced by Junko Takeuchi
(pictured) in the original animated series and Maile Flanagan in the
English adaptations. The character's development has been praised by
anime and manga publications, and has drawn scholarly attention.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1194:
King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first
Royal Charter.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth>
1559:
Scottish clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead the
Scottish Reformation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox>
1964:
Vietnam War: An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos led
USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card>
1995:
Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began firing rockets
on the Croatian capital of Zagreb, killing 7 and injuring around 200
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb_rocket_attacks>
2008:
The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time
since around 1640.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chait%C3%A9n_(volcano)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sealocked:
(geography) Of a geographical region: accessible only through a body of
seawater, and having no access by land.
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the
Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind.
Shakspeare was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many-
gifted soul, whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the
stamp of the same spirit; and in which the last and deepest of observers
will still find new harmonies with the infinite structure of the
Universe; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher
powers and senses of man. They are emblematic, have many meanings, are
simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more
unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in
that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.
--Novalis
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