Ambrose Rookwood (c. 1578 – 31 January 1606) was a member of the
failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant
English King James I with a Catholic monarch. Born into a wealthy
family of Catholic recusants, and educated by Jesuits at Flanders,
Rookwood became a horse-breeder. He was enlisted into the plot in
September 1605 by Robert Catesby, a religious zealot whose impatience
with James's treatment of English Catholics had grown so severe that he
conspired to blow up the House of Lords with gunpowder, looking to kill
the king and much of the Protestant hierarchy. Rookwood's stable of
fine horses was seen as essential for the uprising to succeed. The plan
failed when the man left in charge of the gunpowder stored beneath the
House of Lords, Guy Fawkes, was discovered there and arrested. After
surviving an attack by the Sheriff of Worcestershire, Rookwood was
imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Rookwood>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1747:
The London Lock Hospital, the first clinic specialising in the
treatment of venereal diseases, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Lock_Hospital>
1862:
American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint
white dwarf companion of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius>
1961:
Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the
first hominid launched into outer space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_%28chimpanzee%29>
2007:
Suspects were arrested in Birmingham, England, accused of
plotting to kidnap, and eventually behead, a Muslim British soldier
serving in Iraq.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_plot_to_behead_a_British_Muslim_soldier>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Tiggerish:
(Britain) (Excessively) cheerful and exuberant; bouncy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tiggerish>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge
purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here
for.
--Norman Mailer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer>
The Mascarene grey parakeet (Psittacula bensoni) was a parrot from the
Mascarene islands of Mauritius and Réunion in the western Indian Ocean
that became extinct by the 1760s. It has been classified as a member of
the tribe Psittaculini, along with other parrots from the islands.
Subfossil bones of this parakeet found on Mauritius were very similar to
those of other Mascarene parrots. The subfossils were connected with
17th- and 18th-century descriptions of small grey parrots on Mauritius
and Réunion, together with a single illustration published in a journal
describing a voyage in 1602. The Mascarene grey parakeets had long tails
and were larger than the many green species of the genus Psittacula.
They were hunted for their meat, and were considered to be crop pests.
Captured individuals would call out to summon a whole flock, a behaviour
that may have contributed to their rapid annihilation. Deforestation was
also a factor in their extinction.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarene_grey_parakeet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1649:
King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the
Second English Civil Wars, was beheaded for high treason in front of the
Banqueting House in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England>
1835:
Richard Lawrence became the first person to make an
assassination attempt on a sitting U.S. president when he failed to kill
Andrew Jackson and was subdued by the crowd.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lawrence_%28failed_assassin%29>
1959:
On the return leg of her maiden voyage, the "unsinkable" Danish
ocean liner Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg and sank with all 95 passengers
and crew lost.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Hans_Hedtoft>
2000:
Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near
Ivory Coast shortly after takeoff, killing 169 on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Airways_Flight_431>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dehort:
(transitive, rare or obsolete) To dissuade.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dehort>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am concerned about the attitude of a candidate or his sponsors
with respect to the rights of American citizens to assemble peaceably
and to express publicly their views and opinions on important social and
economic issues. There can be no constitutional democracy in any
community which denies to the individual his freedom to speak and
worship as he wishes. The American people will not be deceived by anyone
who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of
patriotism.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt>
Antlia (from Latin for "pump") is a constellation in the southern
celestial hemisphere. It was established by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in
the 18th century, and its name was later abbreviated from "Antlia
Pneumatica" by John Herschel. Completely visible from latitudes south of
49 degrees north, it is close to the stars forming the old constellation
of the ship Argo Navis. Antlia is a faint constellation; its brightest
star is Alpha Antliae, an orange giant that is a suspected variable
star, ranging between apparent magnitudes 4.22 and 4.29. S Antliae is an
eclipsing binary star system, changing in brightness as one star passes
in front of the other; sharing a common envelope, the stars are so close
they will one day merge to form a single star. Two star systems with
known exoplanets, HD 93083 and WASP-66, lie within Antlia, as do NGC
2997, a spiral galaxy, and the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1845:
American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (illustration
shown) appeared in The Evening Mirror, its first publication attributed
to Poe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven>
1943:
World War II: The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major
naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial
Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal Campaign, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rennell_Island>
1959:
The first Melodifestivalen, an annual Swedish music competition
that determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song
Contest, was held in Stockholm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodifestivalen>
2009:
The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who
did not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions are
also eligible to receive government identity documents.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_identification_card_controversy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Rafflesian:
1. Of or relating to Sir Stamford Raffles, a British colonial statesman
known for his founding of modern Singapore and British Malaya.
2. (Singapore) Of or relating to an educational institution named after
Sir Stamford Raffles.
3. (Singapore) A current or former student of an educational institution
named after Sir Stamford Raffles.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rafflesian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so
express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so
far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe
his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime.
--Thomas Paine
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine>
Paul Henderson (born January 28, 1943) is a former professional ice
hockey player from Canada. A left winger, he played thirteen seasons in
the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple
Leafs and Atlanta Flames and five in the World Hockey Association for
the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls. Appearing in over 1,000 games,
he scored 376 goals and 758 points. He led Team Canada to victory at
the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, scoring the game-
winning goal in the sixth, seventh and eighth games, the last of which
was voted the "sports moment of the century" by The Canadian Press. The
series, played at the height of the Cold War, was viewed as a battle for
hockey supremacy. Henderson played in two All-Star Games and has twice
been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (individually and as a
member of the 1972 national team). He was inducted into the
International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2013.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Henderson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1754:
Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he
wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian
fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole>
1933:
Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet entitled "Now or
Never" in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in
northwest India that he termed "Pakstan".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Declaration>
1958:
The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, patented the design of
Lego bricks (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego>
1981:
U.S. President Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from
petroleum products, helping usher in the 1980s oil glut.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
caliginous:
(archaic or literary) Dark, obscure; murky.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caliginous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human
suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and
sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing
to contribute to the political state that we profit from. We must say no
once more. Man is not free to watch impassively the enslavement and
dishonor of men, nor their struggles for liberty and honor.
--José Martí
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD>
Imperator torosus, the brawny bolete, is a fungus in the family
Boletaceae. Native to southern Europe, the Caucasus and Israel, it is
generally associated with deciduous trees such as hornbeam, oak and
beech in warm, dry locales. Although generally rare in Europe, it
appears to be relatively common in Hungary. Appearing in summer and
autumn on chalky soils, the stocky mushrooms have an ochre cap up to
20 cm (8 in) across, yellow pores on the cap underside, and a wine-red
to brown or blackish stalk up to 6–15 cm (2.4–5.9 in) long by
3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) wide. The pale yellow flesh changes colour
when broken or bruised depending on age; younger mushrooms become
reddish, and older ones take on bluish tones. Swedish mycologists Elias
Magnus Fries and Christopher Theodor Hök described this species as
Boletus torosus in 1835, relying in part on the work of Louis Secretan.
Eating raw, or sometimes even cooked, mushrooms of this species leads to
vomiting and diarrhea.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator_torosus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1820:
A Russian expedition led by naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von
Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev became the first explorers to see the
coast of Antarctica.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica>
1945:
The Soviet Red Army liberated more than 7,500 prisoners left
behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance
pictured) in Oświęcim, Poland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp>
1967:
The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of
international space law, opened for signature in the United States, the
United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty>
1996:
Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of
Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military
coup d'état.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamane_Ousmane>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
looking glass:
1. A piece of glass with a reflective surface that one may look into to
see an image of oneself; a mirror.
2. A way into a bizarre world.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/looking_glass>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any
suggestion of authority or even respect. If a subordinate always agrees
with his superior he is a useless part of the organization.
--Hyman G. Rickover
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover>
The 1956 Winter Olympics was a multi-sport event celebrated in Cortina
d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 26 January to 5 February. Cortina, which had
originally been awarded the 1944 Winter Olympics, beat out Montreal,
Colorado Springs and Lake Placid for the right to host the 1956 Games.
The Cortina Games were the first to rely heavily on corporate
sponsorship for funding. Thirty-two nations—the largest number of
participating Winter Olympic countries to that point—competed in four
sports and twenty-four events. The Italian army transported large
amounts of snow to cover the alpine skiing courses. Toni Sailer of the
Austrian team became the first person to win all three alpine skiing
events in a single Olympics. The figure skating competition (pictured)
was held outdoors for the last time. These games were the first Winter
Olympics televised to a multi-national audience. For the first time at
an Olympic Games, the venues were built with television in mind.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Winter_Olympics>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1788:
Captain Arthur Phillip and the British First Fleet landed at
Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson in present-day Sydney,
establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet>
1905:
The Cullinan Diamond, the largest gem-quality rough diamond
ever found at 3,106.75 carats (621.350 g), was discovered at the
Premier Mine in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullinan_Diamond>
1949:
The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, the
largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first
light.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Telescope>
2009:
Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a
political crisis that led to the deposal of President Marc Ravalomanana.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Malagasy_political_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
emu:
1. (obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
2. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius
novaehollandiae.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emu>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I shall set my course to the end that no man need fear to speak
the truth. I could not do less, for the opportunities for service my
country has given me and the honors it has conferred upon me have
imposed an obligation which is not discharged by the termination of
public service. Much that I have seen since my return to my native land
after an absence of many years has filled me with immeasurable
satisfaction and pride. Our material progress has been little short of
phenomenal. It has established an eminence in material strength so far
in advance of any other nation or combination of nations that talk of
imminent threat to our national security through the application of
external force is pure nonsense. It is not of any external threat that
I concern myself but rather of insidious forces working from within
which have already so drastically altered the character of our free
institutions — those institutions which formerly we hailed as
something beyond question or challenge — those institutions we proudly
called the American way of life.
--Douglas MacArthur
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur>
ZETA was an early experiment in fusion power research. Built at the
Atomic Energy Research Establishment in England, it was much larger and
more powerful than any other fusion machine at that time. It went into
operation in August 1957, and by the end of the month was giving off
bursts of about a million neutrons per pulse. Measurements suggested
temperatures between 1 and 5 million kelvins, hot enough to produce
nuclear fusion reactions. Early results were leaked to the press, and
front-page headlines announced a breakthrough. Further experiments
revealed measurement errors, and the claim of fusion was publicly
withdrawn, casting a chill over the entire fusion establishment. The
neutrons were later explained as the product of instabilities in the
fuel. ZETA went on to have a long experimental lifetime, supporting work
in plasma theory and originating more accurate laser-based temperature
measurements that supported the tokamak approach a decade later.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZETA_%28fusion_reactor%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1704:
English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their
native allies began a series of raids against a largely peaceful
population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalachee_massacre>
1949:
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the first
Emmy Awards to honor excellence in the American television industry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award>
1995:
A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black
Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken for a Trident missile by
Russian forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident>
2011:
The Day of Anger during the Egyptian revolution began,
eventually leading to the removal of Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years
of rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Egyptian_revolution_of_2011>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Cullen skink:
A thick soup made of smoked finnan haddock, milk, onions, and potatoes,
a local speciality of Cullen in Moray, Scotland.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cullen_skink>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom
and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the
mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness
upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of
the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock
length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the
timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy
between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it
should be and deserves fuller investigation.
--Orlando: A Biography
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography>
Operation Pamphlet (24 January – 27 February 1943) was a World War II
convoy that brought the Australian Army's 9th Division home from Egypt.
The convoy included five transports, which were protected from Japanese
warships by several Allied naval task forces during their trip across
the Indian Ocean and along the Australian coastline. The Australian
Government had requested an end to the Second Australian Imperial
Force's role in the North African Campaign. Winston Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to convince the Australian Prime
Minister, John Curtin, to withdraw the request until the Allied victory
in North Africa was complete, but Curtin and Allied military leaders in
the South West Pacific believed that the veteran division was needed for
planned offensive operations in New Guinea. The 9th Division arrived in
Australian ports with no losses from enemy action, and went on to make
important contributions in New Guinea during late 1943.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pamphlet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
914:
The Fatimid Caliphate began their first invasion of Egypt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_invasion_of_Egypt_%28914%E2%80%93915%…>
1915:
First World War: British Grand Fleet ships intercepted and
surprised a German High Seas Fleet squadron in the North Sea, sinking a
German cruiser and damaging several other vessels.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_%281915%29>
1989:
American serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via electric
chair in Florida after confessing to the murders of 30 young women.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy>
2011:
A suicide bomber killed 37 people at Domodedovo International
Airport in Moscow.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airport_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brumous:
(literary) Foggy or misty; wintry.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was
worse.
--Warren Zevon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Zevon>
The Tottenham outrage of 23 January 1909 was a theft of wages from the
Schnurmann rubber factory in Tottenham, North London, followed by a two-
hour, six-mile (10 km) police chase. The armed robbers, Paul Helfeld
and Jacob Lepidus, killed themselves at the end of the pursuit. The
bravery of the police led to the creation of the King's Police Medal,
awarded to several of those involved in the pursuit. A joint funeral for
the two shooting victims—Police Constable William Tyler and Ralph
Joscelyne, a ten-year-old boy—was attended by a crowd of up to half a
million mourners, including 2,000 policemen. The deaths exacerbated ill
feelings towards immigrants in London, and much of the press coverage
was anti-Semitic in nature; Helfeld and Lepidus were Jewish Latvian
Socialists. Public sentiment was further inflamed the following year
after another criminal act by Latvian immigrants, culminating in the
Siege of Sidney Street, in which three policemen were murdered.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenham_outrage>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1565:
The Deccan sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire at the
Battle of Talikota in present-day Karnataka, ending the last great Hindu
kingdom in South India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Talikota>
1793:
The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partitioned the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Partition_of_Poland>
1957:
American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying
disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee"
(example pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbee>
2001:
Five people attempted to set themselves on fire in Beijing's
Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claimed was staged by
the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their
persecution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gigot:
1. A leg of lamb or mutton.
2. (fashion) Short for gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg
of mutton”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigot>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are finite creatures. Our lives are small and can only
scientifically consider a small part of reality. What's common for us is
just a sliver of what's available. We can only see so much of the
electromagnetic spectrum. We can only delve so deep into extensions of
space. Common sense applies to that which we can access. But common
sense is just that. Common. If total sense is what we want, we should be
prepared to accept that we shouldn't call infinity weird or strange. The
results we've arrived at by accepting it are valid, true within the
system we use to understand, measure, predict and order the universe.
Perhaps the system still needs perfecting, but at the end of day,
history continues to show us that the universe isn't strange. We are.
--Michael Stevens
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Stevens_%28educator%29>
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a sports and party game developed
by Sega Sports R&D;. Published by Nintendo in Japan and by Sega in other
regions, it was released on the Wii in November 2007 and the Nintendo DS
handheld in January 2008. It features the two title characters and
fourteen others from the Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog games,
participating in twenty-four events based on the official venues of the
2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, including the Bird's Nest
(pictured). Players assume the role of a Nintendo or Sega character,
using either the Wii Remote or a stylus and button controls. Critics
praised the multiplayer interaction of the Wii game (not offered on the
DS) and the variety of events of both versions, but criticized the Wii
version for its complexity. Mario & Sonic was awarded "Best Wii game of
2007" at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. It sold over ten
million units and started a series of related sports video games to
coincide with Olympic events.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_%26_Sonic_at_the_Olympic_Games>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
The Convention Parliament convened to justify the overthrow of
James II, the last Roman Catholic King of England, who had vacated the
throne when he fled to France in 1688.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England>
1906:
SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, in
a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Valencia>
1943:
World War II: The Battle of Buna–Gona on New Guinea ended
with an Allied victory after two months of fighting, in which the
resolve and tenacity of the Japanese in defence had not previously been
encountered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buna%E2%80%93Gona>
1969:
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev survived what was seen as an
assassination attempt, an incident that was not revealed to the public
until after the fall of the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Leonid_Brezhnev>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
skimble-skamble:
Confused, chaotic, disorderly, senseless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skimble-skamble>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for
wise.
--Francis Bacon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon>