Bill Brown (31 July 1912 – 16 March 2008) was an Australian cricketer.
A right-handed opening batsman, he played 22 Tests between 1934 and
1948, captaining his country in one of them. His partnership with Jack
Fingleton in the 1930s is regarded as one of the finest in Australian
Test history. In the 1938 tour of England, Brown had 1,854 runs,
including an unbeaten 206 that saved Australia from defeat in the second
Test, and was honoured as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
The outbreak of the Second World War cost Brown his peak years as a
player, time that he spent in the Royal Australian Air Force. After the
war, he was a member of Don Bradman's Invincibles, who toured England in
1948 without defeat. He performed reasonably well in the tour matches,
but struggled while batting out of position in the middle order during
the first two Tests, and was dropped from the Test team.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brown_%28cricketer%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution allowing
French nobleman the Marquis de Lafayette to enter the American
revolutionary forces as a major general.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette>
1954:
A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit
of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2>
1975:
The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members
of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were
killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings>
1991:
Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven
Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of
their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_OMON_assaults_on_Lithuanian_border_pos…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
adret:
(geography) The sun-facing side of a mountain.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adret>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom
and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and
a powerful one too powerful.
--Primo Levi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Primo_Levi>
The octopus is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda,
with around 300 known species. Along with squids, cuttlefish and
nautiloids, they are classed as cephalopods. The mouth with its hard
beak is at the base of the arms, which trail behind the animal as it
swims. A siphon is used both for respiration and for locomotion, by
expelling a jet of water. Octopuses have a complex nervous system and
excellent sight, and are among the most intelligent and behaviourally
diverse of all invertebrates. They inhabit all parts of the ocean, from
the intertidal zone and coral reefs to the abyssal depths. They can
escape from predators by hiding in a cloud of ink, camouflaging
themselves, or contorting their bodies to squeeze through narrow gaps.
They are all venomous, but only the blue-ringed octopus is known to be
deadly to humans. Octopus is sold as food around the world, especially
in the Mediterranean and along the coasts of Asia.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
Off the coast of Crescent City, California, U.S., the steamship
Brother Jonathan struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people;
its cargo of a large number of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Jonathan_%28steamer%29>
1930:
Uruguay defeated Argentina at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo
to win the first Football World Cup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_FIFA_World_Cup>
1981:
Amid widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland,
up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took part in the largest
of the hunger demonstrations in Łódź.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_1981_hunger_demonstrations_in_Poland>
2014:
At least 151 people were killed when heavy rains triggered a
landslide in Pune district, Maharashtra, India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Malin_landslide>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
memory lane:
(idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) A set of recollections available to
be reviewed, especially accompanied by a feeling of nostalgia.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/memory_lane>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to
all people if it’s achieved properly. When I’ve heard a piece of
music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something. That’s
such an incredibly special experience. I have intentions as a writer,
but people — when they’re listening to a track — will take from it
what they interpret. Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a
song’s about something it isn’t. That doesn’t matter. If it speaks
to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
--Kate Bush
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kate_Bush>
Maurice Wilder-Neligan (1882–1923) was a British-born Australian
soldier who commanded the 10th Battalion during the latter stages of
World War I. Emigrating to Australia before the war, he enlisted in the
Australian Imperial Force. He was decorated for bravery and commissioned
during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. He received a severe head wound
while leading a successful raid on German trenches near Fleurbaix,
France, in early 1916, earning a second decoration for gallantry and the
praise of war historians. In July 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant
colonel and received command of the battalion. He led it during the
Battle of the Menin Road Ridge in September and was made a Companion of
the Order of St Michael and St George in June 1918. He was again
decorated for courage for the capture of the commune of Merris on 29
July. After the war, he worked as a district officer in the Territory of
New Guinea, where he died at the age of 40, probably of complications
from his war wounds.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilder-Neligan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
French physicist Augustin Fresnel submitted his "Memoir on the
Diffraction of Light", providing strong support for the wave theory of
light.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin-Jean_Fresnel>
1914:
The first shots of World War I were fired by the Austro-
Hungarian river monitor SMS Bodrog upon Serbian defences near Belgrade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_monitor_Sava>
1958:
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National
Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-
military space agency known as NASA.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA>
1981:
An estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million
people watched the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at
St Paul's Cathedral in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Charles_and_Lady_Diana_Spen…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deadfall:
1. (uncountable, Canada, US) Coarse woody debris; deadwood. (countable,
specifically) A fallen tree.
2. (countable, specifically) A fallen tree.
3. (countable, Canada, US, hunting) A kind of trap for large animals,
consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey.
4. (countable, US, slang) A cheap, rough bar or saloon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deadfall>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
䷳ KEEPING STILL. Keeping his back still So that he no longer
feels his body. He goes into his courtyard And does not see his
people. No blame. True quiet means keeping still when the time has
come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go
forward. In this way rest and movement are in agreement with the
demands of the time, and thus there is light in life
--I Ching
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/I_Ching>
The Nine Stones is a stone circle near the village of Winterbourne Abbas
in the south-western English county of Dorset. The circle was probably
erected during the Bronze Age; stone circles were built throughout much
of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany between 3,300 and 900 BCE, during the
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The stone circle tradition was
accompanied by the construction of timber circles and earthen henges,
reflecting a growing emphasis on circular monuments. At least nine of
these stone circles are known in modern Dorset. They are smaller than
those found elsewhere in Britain and are typically built from sarsen
stone. Located in the bottom of a narrow valley, the Nine Stones circle
consists of nine irregularly spaced sarsen megaliths, with a small
opening on the circle's northern side. Two of the stones on the north-
western side are considerably larger than the other seven. The site,
adjacent to the A35 road, is owned by English Heritage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Stones,_Winterbourne_Abbas>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1821:
Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San
Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn>
1939:
During an excavation of a ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk,
England, archæologists discovered a helmet likely belonging to King
Rædwald of East Anglia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo_helmet>
1996:
The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on
a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man>
2005:
The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced an end to its
armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland to create a
United Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
numinous:
1. Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a
divinity.
2. Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-
inspiring.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/numinous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we
have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before
birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated
histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more
complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a
particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able
to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a
language which has reached a particular degree of development through
the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We
are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that
one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or
unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
--Karl Popper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Popper>
Ride the Lightning is the second studio album by American heavy metal
band Metallica. It was produced by Flemming Rasmussen in Copenhagen,
Denmark, and released on July 27, 1984, by the independent record label
Megaforce Records. Rooted in the thrash metal genre, the album showcased
bassist Cliff Burton's songwriting and the band's musical growth and
lyrical sophistication, with acoustic guitars, extended instrumentals,
and complex harmonies. Music critics considered the album a more
ambitious effort than its predecessor. In 1985 the band performed at
major music festivals such as Monsters of Rock and Day on the Green. Two
months after the album's release, Elektra Records reissued it and signed
Metallica to a multi-year deal. It peaked at number 100 on the Billboard
200 with no radio exposure. It was certified 6× platinum in 2012 for
shipping six million copies in the United States. Many rock publications
have ranked Ride the Lightning on their best album lists.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_the_Lightning>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1214:
Philip II of France decisively won the Battle of Bouvines, the
conclusive battle of the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bouvines>
1949:
The de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet
airliner to reach production, made its maiden flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet>
1953:
An armistice was signed to end hostilities in the Korean War,
officially making the division of Korea indefinite by creating an
approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide demilitarized zone across the Korean
Peninsula.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone>
2002:
A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft crashed during an
aerobatics presentation at an airshow near Lviv, Ukraine, killing 77
people and injuring over 500 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sknyliv_air_show_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fetial:
1. Of or relating to a fetial (member of the Roman college of priests
who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations); (by
extension) ambassadorial, heraldic.
2. Concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fetial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of courtesy it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness
Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
--Hilaire Belloc
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc>
The cooperative pulling paradigm is an experimental design in which
animals cooperate to pull food towards themselves. Researchers use these
experiments to try to understand how cooperation works and how and when
it may have evolved. Meredith Crawford ran the first such experiment in
1937, attaching two ropes to a rolling platform that was too heavy to be
pulled by a single chimpanzee. In another design, a rope comes loose if
only one animal pulls it, and the platform can no longer be retrieved.
Researchers look for signs of cooperation, such as when an animal waits
for another animal's actions before pulling the rope. Chimpanzees,
bonobos, orangutans, capuchins, tamarins, wolves, elephants, ravens, and
keas appear to understand the requirements of the task, and other
animals sometimes manage to retrieve the food. The superior scale and
range of human cooperation comes mainly from the ability to use language
to exchange social information.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_pulling_paradigm>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1887:
L. L. Zamenhof published Unua Libro, the first publication to
describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unua_Libro>
1918:
Emmy Noether introduced what became known as Noether's theorem,
from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular
momentum, linear momentum, and energy, at Göttingen, Germany
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether>
1968:
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged
presidential election in 1967, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a
military court for illicit currency transactions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Dzu>
2016:
In one of the worst crimes committed in modern Japanese
history, a former employee went on a knife rampage at a care home for
disabled people in Sagamihara, killing 19 people and wounding 26 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagamihara_stabbings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sassywood:
1. A form of trial by ordeal in Liberia, typically involving a suspect
drinking a poisonous concoction made from the bark of the ordeal tree
Erythrophleum guineense, Erythrophleum ivorense, or Erythrophleum
suaveolens (called sassy bark); by extension, other forms of trial by
ordeal such as applying a heated machete to the suspect's legs, or
dipping the suspect's hand into hot oil.
2. The ordeal tree itself, the bark of which is used in the sassywood
procedure.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sassywood>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is
hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with
this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the
boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them —
our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
--Stanley Kubrick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick>
The Shorwell helmet (replica pictured) is a sixth-century Anglo-Saxon
helmet found near Shorwell on the Isle of Wight in southern England. It
was one of the grave goods of a high-status Anglo-Saxon warrior, and was
found with other objects such as a pattern-welded sword and hanging
bowl. One of only six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, alongside those from
Benty Grange, Sutton Hoo, Coppergate, Wollaston, and Staffordshire, it
is the sole example to derive from the continental Frankish style rather
than the contemporaneous Northern crested style used in England and
Scandinavia. Exhibiting hardly any decoration other than a speculative
exterior leather covering, this was a utilitarian fighting helmet. It
was simply and sturdily designed out of eight pieces of riveted iron,
and its only decorative elements were paired with functional uses. The
helmet's plainness belies its significance; helmets were rare in Anglo-
Saxon England, and appear to have been limited to the higher classes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorwell_helmet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
American Civil War: The United States Congress passed the
Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, asserting that the war was solely to
prevent the dissolution of the nation, although this was repealed five
months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crittenden%E2%80%93Johnson_Resolution>
1893:
The Corinth Canal, which bisects the narrow Isthmus of Corinth,
was formally opened, connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean
Sea's Saronic Gulf.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth_Canal>
1978:
Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed in a
police ambush at Cerro Maravilla in Ponce.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Maravilla_murders>
2000:
Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde en route from Paris to New
York City, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all one hundred
passengers and nine crew members, as well as four people on the ground.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mink:
1. (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous
mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur,
native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera
are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink
(Mustela lutreola).
2. (plural mink) The fur or pelt of a mink, used to make apparel.
3. (plural minks) An article of clothing made of mink.
4. (slang, pejorative, Scotland) (plural minks) An individual with poor
personal hygiene; a smelly person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mink>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
People unfit for freedom — who cannot do much with it — are
hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have"
type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and
realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of
a "have-not" type of self. If Hitler had had the talents and the
temperament of a genuine artist, if Stalin had had the capacity to
become a first-rate theoretician, if Napoleon had had the makings of a
great poet or philosopher they would hardly have developed the all-
consuming lust for absolute power. Freedom gives us a chance to realize
our human and individual uniqueness. Absolute power can also bestow
uniqueness: to have absolute power is to have the power to reduce all
the people around us to puppets, robots, toys, or animals, and be the
only man in sight. Absolute power achieves uniqueness by dehumanizing
others.
--Eric Hoffer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer>
Three municipalities in the U.S. state of New Jersey resisted the
construction of an eruv within their borders in 2017 and 2018. An eruv
is used by Orthodox Jews as a ritual boundary that facilitates travel on
the Jewish Sabbath, and the one in Bergen County was marked by plastic
pipes attached to utility poles. Mahwah, Upper Saddle River and Montvale
ordered it dismantled, as their permission had not been obtained. During
the controversy, many Mahwah residents angrily protested against the
prospect of Orthodox Jews from Rockland County, New York, using local
parks or seeking to buy homes there. The eruv association brought
federal lawsuits against each of the municipalities. In Mahwah, an
ordinance was passed barring nonresidents of New Jersey from its parks,
leading to accusations of anti-Semitism. A settlement was reached
allowing the eruv to remain, but Mahwah still faces a lawsuit from the
New Jersey Attorney General accusing it of discrimination.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_Bergen_County_eruv_controversy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër to put down the
Albanian revolt of 1910.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_revolt_of_1910>
1923:
The Treaty of Lausanne was signed to settle the Anatolian part
of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries
of modern Turkey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne>
1998:
A gunman entered the United States Capitol and opened fire,
killing two police officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_Capitol_shooting_incident>
2014:
Fifty minutes after departing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Air
Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar, and its wreckage was found
the next day in Mali, with no survivors of the 116 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_5017>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tank up:
1. (transitive, intransitive, Canada, US) To fill up (for example, a
tank in a vehicle with gas, petrol, etc.).
2. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To intoxicate (especially with
alcohol).
3. (intransitive) To install a tank.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tank_up>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In many ways life is less random than we think. In your past and
mine, there have been times when we have, on some lonely trail,
constructed a device aimed into our future. Perhaps nothing ever comes
along to trigger it. We live through the safe years. But, for some
people, something moves on the half-forgotten path, and something arches
out of the past and explodes in the here and now.
--John D. MacDonald
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_D._MacDonald>
Suillus spraguei, the painted suillus, is a species of fungus in the
family Suillaceae. Its readily identifiable fruit bodies have caps that
are dark red when fresh, dry to the touch, and covered with mats of
hairs and scales that are separated by yellow cracks. On the underside
of the cap are small, yellow, angular pores that become brownish as the
mushroom ages. The stalk bears a grayish cottony ring, and is typically
covered with soft hairs or scales. S. spraguei grows in symbiosis with
roots of several pine species, particularly the eastern white pine. The
fruit body grows on the ground, appearing from early summer to autumn.
It is found in eastern Asia, northeastern North America, and Mexico
throughout the range of the host tree. The mushroom is edible, although
opinions about its quality vary. It bears a resemblance to several other
Suillus species, including the closely related S. decipiens, although
the species can be differentiated by variations in color and size.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus_spraguei>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
The trial in the Eastbourne manslaughter began, which became an
important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for discussions of
corporal punishment in schools.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastbourne_manslaughter>
1921:
The Communist Party of China was founded at the inaugural
National Congress in Shanghai.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China>
1968:
In Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., a two-day gun battle between police
and a Black Power group began, which in turn sparked three days of
rioting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenville_shootout>
2001:
Megawati Sukarnoputri became the first female president of
Indonesia after the People's Consultative Assembly removed Abdurrahman
Wahid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawati_Sukarnoputri>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
maverick:
1. An unbranded range animal.
2. (by extension) Anything dishonestly obtained.
3. (by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules.
4. (by extension) One who creates or uses controversial or
unconventional ideas or practices.
5. (military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to
college while on active duty as an enlisted person.
6. (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold
'em.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/maverick>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind
which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can
produce the artistic job of writing.
--Raymond Chandler
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler>
Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon), an extinct species of shark, lived
around 23 to 2.6 million years ago, from the Early Miocene to the Late
Pliocene. Once thought to be closely related to the great white shark
(C. carcharias), it may be a member of the extinct family Otodontidae.
It may have looked like a stocky great white, measuring at most 18
meters (59 ft), and averaging 10.5 metres (34 ft). Its large jaws
exerted an estimated bite force of 108,500 to 182,200 newtons (24,400 to
41,000 lbf), coupled with thick teeth to grab large, struggling prey,
crushing the heart and lungs of the marine mammals – mainly baleen
whales – that it fed on in oceans around the world. It is thought
that its decline was due to competition from other large predators (such
as Livyatan), the ice ages, and the shift in whale populations. The
shark has made appearances in media such as the Discovery Channel's
docufiction Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1793:
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie inscribed his name on a
rock near Dean Channel after becoming the first recorded person to
complete a transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mackenzie_%28explorer%29>
1975:
Stanley Forman took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo Fire
Escape Collapse, which spurred action to improve the safety of fire
escapes across the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Escape_Collapse>
2005:
London metropolitan police killed Jean Charles de Menezes, a
Brazilian immigrant, after misidentifying him as being involved in the
previous day's failed bombing attempts on the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
forex:
Short for foreign exchange.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forex>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is so amusing the way that mortals misunderstand the shape, or
shapes, of time. … In the realms of the ultimate, each person must
figure out things for themselves. … Teachers who offer you the
ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did,
they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only
be received.
--Tom Robbins
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins>