"Don't Stop the Music" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna
(shown performing it) for her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad. It
was released worldwide on September 7, 2007, as the fourth single of the
album. The song was written by Tawanna Dabney and StarGate; Michael
Jackson also received a songwriting credit for the sampling of the line
"Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" from his 1983 single "Wanna Be
Startin' Somethin'". "Don't Stop the Music" is a dance track with hip
hop rhythmic devices. The song's accolades include a Grammy Award
nomination for Best Dance Recording. It reached number four on the UK
Singles Chart, number three on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number one
in nine countries, including Australia, France, Germany, and
Switzerland. It has sold more than 3.7 million copies in the US. The
singer performed "Don't Stop the Music" at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards
and the NRJ Music Awards in 2008, and included it on her Good Girl Gone
Bad, Last Girl on Earth, Loud and Diamonds World Tour set lists.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Stop_the_Music_%28Rihanna_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1652:
Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion
against Dutch rule before being suppressed four days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Huaiyi_rebellion>
1927:
American inventor Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first images
using his all-electronic television system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth>
1984:
An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing
of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and
policemen.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_tragedy>
2011:
Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching
staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed
near the Russian city of Yaroslavl, killing all but one of those aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_plane_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
zowerswopped:
(Exmoor) Synonym of bad-tempered.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zowerswopped>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We’re only here for a little while, and you’ve got to have
some fun, right? I don’t take myself seriously, and I think the ones
that do, there’s some sickness with people like that.
--Burt Reynolds
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Burt_Reynolds>
The Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago in the US
state of Illinois was established during World War II to research the
chemistry and metallurgy of the newly discovered element plutonium, as
part of the Allied Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. It
developed chemical processes to separate plutonium, and created the
first weighable sample. The lab produced the first controlled nuclear
chain reaction in the Chicago Pile-1 nuclear reactor, which was
constructed under the stands of the university's old football stadium,
Stagg Field. Another reactor, Chicago Pile-3, the first reactor to use
heavy water as a neutron moderator, was built in early 1944. The
Metallurgical Laboratory also designed the X-10 Graphite Reactor at the
Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the B Reactor at the
Hanford Engineer Works. It became the first of the national
laboratories, the Argonne National Laboratory, on 1 July 1946.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgical_Laboratory>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1882:
A group of London school boys led by Bobby Buckle founded
Hotspur Football Club so they could continue to play sports during the
winter months.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenham_Hotspur_F.C.>
1943:
World War II: American and Australian airborne forces made a
landing at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Nadzab>
1975:
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a devotee of Charles Manson,
attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Fromme>
1977:
NASA launched the robotic space probe Voyager 1, currently the
farthest spacecraft from Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blasé:
Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blas%C3%A9>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first
with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you
have seen in the darkness so that it may react upon others from the
outside inwards. A picture must not be invented but felt. Observe the
form exactly, both the smallest and the large and do not separate the
small from the large, but rather the trivial from the important.
--Caspar David Friedrich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich>
"Starvin' Marvin" is the eighth episode in the first season of the
American animated television series South Park. It first aired on Comedy
Central on November 19, 1997. A satire on the humanitarianism industry
and American indifference toward impoverished countries, it was written
and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker (pictured). In the
episode, Cartman, Kenny, Kyle and Stan send money to an African charity
hoping to get a sports watch, but are instead sent an Ethiopian child
they call "Starvin' Marvin". In a Thanksgiving-themed subplot,
genetically engineered turkeys attack South Park. The episode received
generally positive reviews, and several commentators have described it
as a classic episode. It was originally viewed by about 2.2 million
households, roughly eight times Comedy Central's average viewership at
the time. In addition to Starvin' Marvin, who became a popular minor
character, the episode introduced Kyle's father Gerald Broflovski and
Kenny's family members Stuart, Carol and Kevin McCormick.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvin%27_Marvin_%28South_Park%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1812:
War of 1812: A coalition of Native American tribes began the
Siege of Fort Harrison in Terre Haute, Indiana, by setting the fort on
fire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Harrison>
1843:
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies married Pedro II of Brazil
(both pictured) at a state ceremony.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Cristina_of_the_Two_Sicilies>
1912:
The Albanian revolt of 1912 came to an end when the Ottoman
government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_revolt_of_1912>
1998:
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in Menlo Park,
California, to promote the web search engine that they developed as
Stanford University students.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
barracks emperor:
(Ancient Rome, historical) An emperor who seized power by virtue of his
command of the army.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barracks_emperor>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but
analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is
contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his
inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as
minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find
the soul through careful examination of your body.
--Anthony de Mello
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello>
The Avenue Range Station massacre was the murder of at least nine
Aboriginal Tanganekald people, who were shot by white settlers on the
Avenue Range pastoral station in the colony of South Australia around
September 1848, during the Australian frontier wars. Those confirmed to
have been killed were an old blind man, three women, two teenage girls,
and three female children, including a baby. The sheep farmer James
Brown (pictured) and his overseer, Eastwood, were suspected, and Brown
was charged with the murder of "unknown aboriginal natives" in March
1849. The magistrate who committed him for trial said that there was
"little question of the butchery or the butcher". Further investigation
was ordered, but by the November 1849 sittings of the Supreme Court in
the colonial capital of Adelaide, the case had been dropped. At the time
there were significant restrictions on the use of evidence given by
Aboriginal witnesses, especially where a verdict could involve capital
punishment.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Range_Station_massacre>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1901:
The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the
Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop
the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia>
1918:
The Bolshevik government of Russia published the first official
announcement of the Red Terror, a period of repression against political
opponents.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror>
1950:
Winning the Italian Grand Prix, Giuseppe Farina became the
first Formula One world champion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Farina>
1991:
A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken
processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
thrice:
(dated) Three times.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thrice>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead
you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore,
it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-
stone of humanity.
--Louis Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan>
Boletus aereus, the dark cep, is a prized edible mushroom in the family
Boletaceae. It is widely consumed in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and
generally throughout the Mediterranean. Described as a new species in
1789 by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard, it is closely related to
several other European boletes, including B. reticulatus,
B. pinophilus, and the popular B. edulis. The fungus predominantly
grows near broad-leaved trees and shrubs in symbiosis with the roots,
enveloping them with sheaths of fungal tissue. Quercus suber, the cork
oak, is a key host. The spore-bearing mushrooms appear above ground in
summer and autumn, growing a large dark brown cap, up to 30 cm (12 in)
in diameter. Like other boletes, B. aereus releases its spores through
pores on the underside of the cap instead of gills; this surface is
whitish when young, aging to a greenish-yellow. The squat brown stalk,
up to 15 cm (6 in) tall and 10 cm (4 in) thick, is partially covered
with a raised network pattern.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_aereus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1885:
White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S., attacked Chinese
immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately
US$150,000 in property damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre>
1967:
Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War
II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England,
as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand>
1998:
A fire on Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to
Geneva, caused the aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean, killing
all 229 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dernier:
(dated) Final, last.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dernier>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they
want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it
consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do.
Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading
squadrons, and their object is the same — to prevent trade. The
difference between the two is that blockading squadrons are a means
whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective
tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people
from trading. What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time
of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
--Henry George
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_George>
Messier 87 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo.
It has about 12,000 globular clusters—compared to the 150 to 200
orbiting the Milky Way—and a jet of energetic plasma that originates
at the core and extends at least 4,900 light-years. One of the brightest
radio sources in the sky, it is a popular target for both amateur and
professional astronomers. The French astronomer Charles Messier
discovered the galaxy in 1781, and catalogued it as a nebulous feature
while searching for objects that would otherwise confuse comet hunters.
About 53.5 million light-years from Earth, M87 is the second brightest
galaxy within the northern Virgo Cluster. Unlike disk-shaped spiral
galaxies, M87 has no distinctive dust lanes. Instead, it has an almost
featureless ellipsoidal shape typical of most giant elliptical galaxies,
diminishing in luminosity away from the center. It has a supermassive
black hole at its core, powering an active galactic nucleus.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: Confederate forces attacked retreating
Union Army troops at the Battle of Chantilly during a rainstorm in
Chantilly, Virginia, but the fighting ended up being tactically
inconclusive.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chantilly>
1902:
The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon
(scene pictured) and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne,
was released in France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon>
1914:
The passenger pigeon, which once numbered in the billions,
became extinct when the last individual died in captivity.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon>
1972:
American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World
Chess Champion when he defeated Russian Boris Spassky in a match that
was widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rich kid:
(US, informal, somewhat derogatory) A child or young adult from a
wealthy family, especially one who flaunts his or her wealth or
privilege.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rich_kid>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in
the warehouse until information moves them.
--C. J. Cherryh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._J._Cherryh>