Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) was a British statesman of the
Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister from May 1937 to May
1940. He became a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election. He
was rapidly promoted in 1923 and, after a short-lived Labour-led
government, returned as Minister of Health from 1924 to 1929,
introducing a range of reform measures. He was appointed Chancellor of
the Exchequer in the National Government in 1931. As Prime Minister, he
adopted a foreign policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, conceding
the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in the Munich
Agreement of September 1938. This policy was widely popular among the
British at the time. On 3 September 1939, as Germany was invading
Poland, the UK declared war on Germany. Chamberlain led Britain through
the first eight months of World War II, but resigned the premiership
after the Allies were forced to retreat from Norway.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1190:
Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River
in Anatolia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor>
1692:
Bridget Bishop became the first person executed for witchcraft
in the Salem witch trials.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop>
1878:
The League of Prizren was officially founded "to struggle in
arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Prizren>
1918:
World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian
dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Szent_Istv%C3%A1n>
2008:
War in Afghanistan: An airstrike by the United States resulted
in the deaths of eleven paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army
Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gora_Prai_airstrike>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pizzazz:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pizzazz>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture.
We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our
condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we
find it — the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
--Saul Bellow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow>
Norodom Ranariddh (born 1944) is a Cambodian prince, politician and law
academic. He is the second son of Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a
half-brother of the current king, Norodom Sihamoni. A graduate of the
University of Provence, he started his career as a law researcher and
lecturer in France. In 1983, he joined FUNCINPEC, a Cambodian royalist
party, and in 1986 became the chief-of-staff and commander-in-chief of
the Armée nationale sihanoukiste. He became the secretary-general of
FUNCINPEC in 1989, and its president in 1992. He was the first Prime
Minister of Cambodia, serving between 1993 and 1997. After being forced
into exile in July 1997, he returned to Cambodia in March 1998 and led
his party in the Cambodian general election, becoming President of the
National Assembly between 1998 and 2006. He resigned in March 2006, and
in October 2006 was ousted as president of FUNCINPEC. In March 2014 he
launched the Community of Royalist People's Party, but dissolved it in
January 2015 and was re-elected to the FUNCINPEC presidency.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Ranariddh>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
747:
Abu Muslim initiated an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which
was carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Revolution>
1523:
Simon de Colines, a Parisian printer, was fined for printing
Biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples without obtaining
prior approval.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Colines>
1928:
Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed
their Southern Cross aircraft in Brisbane, completing the first ever
trans-Pacific flight from the United States mainland to Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsford_Smith>
1965:
The Viet Cong commenced combat with the Army of the Republic of
Vietnam in the Battle of Dong Xoai, one of the largest battles in the
Vietnam War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dong_Xoai>
2010:
A boy wearing a bomb committed a suicide attack at a wedding in
Arghandab District, Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people
and injuring 70 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadahan_wedding_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hobnob:
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To toast one another by touching glasses.
2. (intransitive) To drink together.
3. (intransitive) To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those
of a higher class or status.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobnob>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world
you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And
in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the
time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful.
Often, though, they hurt.
--Anthony Bourdain
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain>
Emily Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was a suffragette who
fought for votes for women in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth
century. She grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal
Holloway College, London, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, before taking
jobs as a teacher and governess. A staunch feminist and passionate
Christian, she deemed socialism a moral and political force for good.
She became an officer of the Women's Social and Political Union and a
chief steward during its marches. Her tactics included breaking windows,
throwing stones, setting fire to postboxes and, on three occasions,
hiding overnight in the Palace of Westminster—including on the night
of the 1911 census. She was arrested nine times, went on hunger strike
seven times and was force fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after
being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Epsom Derby when
she walked onto the track during the race.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
218:
With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeated the
forces of Roman emperor Macrinus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antioch_(218)>
1862:
American Civil War: The Confederate Army won a resounding
victory at the Battle of Cross Keys, one of the two decisive battles in
Jackson's Valley Campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cross_Keys>
1929:
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the
Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by
Ramsay MacDonald.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bondfield>
1972:
Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took his
Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc
running down a road after being burned by napalm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc>
2008:
A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in the
Akihabara district of Tokyo, then proceeded to stab at least 12 people
before being apprehended.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eustasy:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eustasy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons
--Scott Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Adams>
The meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon spanned thirteen days and
included six landfalls. The hurricane formed near Panama in the
southwestern Caribbean on November 9, 1994. As a tropical depression it
brushed Nicaragua and spent several days in the waters off the country's
coast. Heading north and then northwest, Gordon made two more landfalls,
on eastern Jamaica and eastern Cuba, while delivering tremendous rains
to western Hispaniola. After it made its fourth landfall crossing the
Florida Keys, it spent a few days as an unusual hybrid of a tropical and
a subtropical system in the Gulf of Mexico. It reclaimed its fully
tropical form and made another landfall, across the Florida peninsula,
and continued into the Atlantic Ocean, where it strengthened to a
Category 1 hurricane. It briefly wandered close to North Carolina, but
then headed south, weakening into a minor tropical storm before its
final landfall on Florida's east coast.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Gordon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1692:
An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to
sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake>
1788:
Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an
event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tiles>
1810:
Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first
newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Moreno>
1938:
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government
destroyed dikes holding the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid
advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed at least 400,000
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood>
1998:
Three white supremacists murdered African American James Byrd
Jr. by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an
asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_James_Byrd_Jr.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stalwart:
1. Courageous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stalwart>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the
best it can. I give you what I have. You don’t get all your
questions answered in this world. How many answers shall be found in
the developing world of my Poem? I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my
Poem, which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it
can.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks>
Fantasy Book was a semi-professional American science fiction magazine
that published eight issues between 1947 and 1951. The listed editor,
"Garret Ford", was a pseudonym for William L. Crawford and his wife,
Margaret; the publisher was Crawford's Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
Crawford had problems distributing the magazine, and his budget limited
the quality of the paper he could afford and the artwork he was able to
buy, but he attracted submissions from some well-known writers,
including Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, A. E. van Vogt, Robert Bloch, and
L. Ron Hubbard. Cordwainer Smith's first sale, "Scanners Live in Vain",
appeared in the magazine, and was later included in the first Science
Fiction Hall of Fame anthology; it is now regarded as one of Smith's
finest works. Jack Gaughan, later an award-winning science fiction
artist, made his first professional sale to Fantasy Book, for the cover
illustrating Smith's story (pictured).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Book>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the
Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first
Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji>
1813:
War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near
present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stoney_Creek>
1943:
The first game of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball
League, the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the
United States, was played.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-American_Girls_Professional_Baseball_Leag…>
1985:
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for
human experiments performed on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu
das Artes, Brazil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele>
2004:
During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament,
President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the
first legally recognised classical language of India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enemy line:
1. (military, also figuratively, by extension, usually in the
plural) The boundary of the territory controlled by the enemy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enemy_line>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore
it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
--William Ralph Inge
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Ralph_Inge>
Harry R. Truman (1896–1980) was a resident of the U.S. state of
Washington who lived on the Mount St. Helens volcano. The owner and
caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake, at the foot of the
mountain, he came to brief fame as a folk hero in the months preceding
the volcano's 1980 eruption after he stubbornly refused to leave his
home despite evacuation orders. He appeared on the front page of The New
York Times and The San Francisco Examiner and garnered the attention of
National Geographic, United Press International, and The Today Show.
Truman is presumed to have been killed by a pyroclastic flow that
overtook his lodge and buried the site under 150 feet (50 m) of
volcanic debris. In 1981 he was portrayed by one of his favorite actors,
Art Carney, in the docudrama film St. Helens. Two books, a commemorative
album, and more than 100 songs were written in Truman's honor, including
songs by Headgear and Billy Jonas.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
663:
The Daming Palace (reconstructed gate pictured) became the
government seat and royal residence of the Tang empire during Emperor
Gaozong's reign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daming_Palace>
1832:
The June Rebellion, an anti-monarchist uprising of students,
broke out in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Rebellion>
1899:
Filipino army general Antonio Luna was assassinated in the
midst of the Philippine–American War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Luna>
1968:
Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan fatally shot U.S. Senator
Robert F. Kennedy inside the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Robert_F._Kennedy>
1997:
Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the
Congo ordered the detainment of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, thus
initiating a second civil war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_Civil_War_(1997%E2%80%9…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gelbstoff:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gelbstoff>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too
often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the
shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence
abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of
inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for
scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear:
violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a
cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
--Robert F. Kennedy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy>
The King Island emu lived on King Island, in the Bass Strait between
mainland Australia and Tasmania. This extinct subspecies, the smallest
of all emus, may have exhibited insular dwarfism. It had darker plumage,
black and brown, with naked blue skin on the neck, and its chicks were
striped like those on the mainland. The behaviour of the King Island emu
probably did not differ much from that of the mainland emu. They fed on
berries, grass and seaweed. They ran swiftly, and could defend
themselves by kicking. Europeans discovered the subspecies in 1802. The
French naturalist François Péron wrote about the bird after conducting
an interview with a seal hunter, and in 1807 the artist Charles
Alexandre Lesueur sketched a head, wing and feathers possibly belonging
to this subspecies. In 1804 two live King Island emus were sent to
France, where they were kept in the Jardin des plantes until they died
in 1822, probably the last of their kind.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Island_emu>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1561 –The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London was destroyed by
fire, probably caused by lightning.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_St_Paul%27s_Cathedral>
1792:
Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound in the
Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound>
1944:
A United States Navy task group captured German submarine
U-505, the first warship to be captured by U.S. forces on the high seas
since the War of 1812.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-505>
1967:
A chartered aircraft owned by British Midland Airways crashed
near Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, killing 72 of the 84
passengers and crew on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport_air_disaster>
1998:
Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in
the Oklahoma City bombing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nichols>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
abstemious:
1. Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
2. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
3. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
4. (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstemious>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't think the thing is to be well known, but being worth
knowing.
--Robert Fulghum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Fulghum>
Dubnium is an artificially produced chemical element with symbol Db and
atomic number 105. It is highly radioactive: the most stable known
isotope, dubnium-268, has a half-life of just over a day. Credit for
discovery of the element was contested between the Soviet Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research and American Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
beginning in 1970; the dispute was resolved in 1993 by an official
investigation of the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party, which awarded
joint credit. The element was officially named in 1997 after the town of
Dubna, the site of the Soviet institute. Dubnium should share most of
its chemical properties, such as its valence electron configuration and
a dominant +5 oxidation state, with other group 5 elements, such as
vanadium, niobium, and tantalum, with a few anomalies due to
relativistic effects. Solution chemistry experiments have revealed that
dubnium often behaves more like niobium than tantalum, breaking periodic
trends.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubnium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1658:
Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as vicar
apostolic of New France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Laval>
1892:
Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football
clubs, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C.>
1943:
Off-duty U.S. sailors fought with Mexican American youths in
Los Angeles, spawning the Zoot Suit Riots.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots>
1968:
American artist Andy Warhol and two others were shot and
wounded at his New York City studio "The Factory" by radical feminist
Valerie Solanas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol>
2012:
Dana Air Flight 992, a passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos,
Nigeria, suffered dual engine failure and crashed into a building,
resulting in the deaths of all 153 on board and 10 more on the ground.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Air_Flight_992>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
spoof:
1. (transitive) To deceive.
2. (transitive, computing) To falsify.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spoof>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The truth is, that most men want knowledge, not for itself, but
for the superiority which knowledge confers; and the means they employ
to secure this superiority, are as wrong as the ultimate object, for no
man can ever end with being superior, who will not begin with being
inferior.
--Sydney Smith
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith>
The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S.
state of Tennessee was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor
(after Chicago Pile-1), and the first designed for continuous operation.
It was built during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. The
production of sufficient plutonium for atomic bombs required reactors a
thousand times as powerful as Chicago Pile-1, along with facilities to
chemically separate the plutonium bred in the reactors from uranium and
fission products. The air-cooled X-10 pilot plant used nuclear graphite
as a neutron moderator and pure natural uranium in metal form for fuel.
DuPont commenced construction in Oak Ridge in 1943, and the reactor
produced its first plutonium in early 1944. It supplied the Los Alamos
Laboratory with its first significant amounts of plutonium, and its
first reactor-bred product. The reactor and chemical separation plant
provided invaluable experience for engineers, technicians, reactor
operators, and safety officials, who then moved on to a larger site in
Hanford, Washington.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-10_Graphite_Reactor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1805:
Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured British-held
Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading
to Fort-de-France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Rock>
1886:
Grover Cleveland became the only U.S. President to marry in the
White House when he wed Frances Folsom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland>
1953:
Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom at
Westminster Abbey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II>
1962:
One of the most violent football matches ever took place at the
World Cup when police had to intervene multiple times as Chile defeated
Italy in a group match.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santiago_(1962_FIFA_World_Cup)>
2010:
A lone gunman went on a shooting spree in Cumbria, England,
killing 12 people and injuring 11 others before committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
inthronization:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inthronization>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old
horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke
without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward
the same Though Dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wight Come
whispering by: War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story die.
--Thomas Hardy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy>
The Pioneer Helmet is a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet dating from the
late seventh century. During a March 1997 excavation, it was found in
Wollaston, Northamptonshire, in a young man's grave, probably the burial
mound of a high-status warrior, along with a hanging bowl and a pattern
welded sword. The sparsely decorated helmet is one of only six Anglo-
Saxon helmets yet discovered, joined by finds from Benty Grange, Sutton
Hoo, York, Shorwell and Staffordshire. Like most of these, it is one of
the crested helmets that flourished in England and Scandinavia from the
sixth through the eleventh centuries. Boar-crested helmets are a staple
of Anglo-Saxon imagery, evidence of a Germanic tradition in which the
boar invoked the protection of the gods. In the Anglo-Saxon poem
Beowulf, such helmets are mentioned five times. Unveiled at the New Walk
Museum in Leicester, the helmet is on display at the Royal Armouries
Museum in Leeds.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Helmet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1495:
An entry in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland made the first
recorded mention of Scotch whisky (bottle pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_whisky>
1813:
War of 1812: Mortally wounded during a battle against the Royal
Navy frigate HMS Shannon, American commander James Lawrence of the USS
Chesapeake ordered his crew "Don't give up the ship!", today a popular
battle cry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_USS_Chesapeake>
1916:
Louis Brandeis became the first Jew to be appointed to the
United States Supreme Court.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis>
1943:
Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways
Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and
France, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other notable
passengers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_777>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
boardwalk:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boardwalk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The mind is formed by the knowledge and the direction of ideas it
receives and the guidance it is given. Great things alone can make a
great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects
them as completely alien.
--Carl von Clausewitz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz>