Douglas Albert Munro (October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942) served in
the United States Coast Guard in World War II, and was the Coast Guard's
only recipient during the war of the Medal of Honor. He was awarded the
medal posthumously after leading the evacuation of American marines
whose positions had been overrun during the Second Battle of the
Matanikau. He was shot while piloting a Higgins boat to shield a landing
craft filled with marines from Japanese fire. Numerous warships,
buildings, and monuments have been dedicated to him, and he is the only
non-marine to be enshrined on the Wall of Heroes of the National Museum
of the Marine Corps. He is annually memorialized in ceremonies held in
his hometown of Cle Elum, Washington, and at Coast Guard Training Center
Cape May. Munro was the nephew of Francis Fairey, a commanding officer
of the Irish Fusiliers of Canada and a member of the Canadian House of
Commons.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Albert_Munro>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: A British fleet defeated American
ships at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, but gave
American forces enough time to prepare their defenses for the Saratoga
campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Island>
1840:
Bashir Shihab II (portrait pictured) surrendered to the Ottoman
Empire and was removed as Emir of Mount Lebanon after an imperial decree
by Sultan Abdülmecid I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashir_Shihab_II>
1937:
Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor,
arrived at Friedrichstraße station in Berlin to begin their tour of
Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_and_Duchess_of_Windsor%27s_1937_tour_of_…>
1987:
An estimated 750,000 people attended the "Great March" in
Washington, D.C., to demand greater civil rights for the LGBT community.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_National_March_on_Washington_for_Lesbi…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
oology:
1. (ornithology) The study of birds' eggs.
2. The hobby or practice of collecting birds' eggs, especially those of
wild birds.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oology>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I cannot remember a time when the question on so many people's
lips was "How can we prevent war?" There is a widespread understanding
among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the
world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt>
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) is the seventh
studio album by the English rock band the Kinks (pictured), released 10
October 1969. Kinks frontman Ray Davies constructed the concept album as
the soundtrack to a Granada Television play with Julian Mitchell, but
the television programme was cancelled and never produced. The plot
revolves around Arthur Morgan, a carpet-layer based on Arthur Anning,
the brother-in-law of Ray and guitarist Dave Davies. The album received
generally positive reviews and generous coverage in the US rock press.
The lead single, "Victoria", peaked at number 62 on the Billboard charts
in 1969, the Kinks' highest position there since "Sunny Afternoon" in
1966. The album itself reached number 50 in the US on the Record World
charts, and number 105 on Billboard. Arthur paved the way for the
success of the Kinks' 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the
Moneygoround, Part One and its accompanying US Top 10 and UK Top 5 hit
"Lola".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_%28Or_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Brit…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1933:
In the first proven act of sabotage in the history of
commercial aviation, a Boeing 247 operated by United Airlines exploded
in mid-air near Chesterton, Indiana, killing all seven people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explo…>
1964:
The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics took place in
Tokyo (torchbearer Yoshinori Sakai pictured), becoming the first Games
to be held in Asia and the first to be broadcast live internationally
via satellite.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics>
1982:
Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar who had volunteered to die in
place of a stranger in Auschwitz concentration camp, was canonized by
the Catholic Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nide:
(archaic) A nest of pheasants.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nide>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of course wars are fought by teenagers — you realize that —
they really ought to be fought by the politicians and the old people who
start these wars.
--James Clavell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Clavell>
Horizon Guyot is an underwater volcanic mountain with a flat top in the
Mid-Pacific Mountains west of Hawaii and northeast of the Line Islands.
An elongated ridge over 300 kilometres (190 mi) long and 4.3 kilometres
(2.7 mi) high, it stretches in a northeast–southwest direction,
rising to a depth of 1,443 metres (4,734 ft). It was probably formed by
a hotspot, but evidence is conflicting. Its volcanic activity occurred
between 100.5 and 82 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.
Around 89 million years ago, carbonate deposition from lagoonal and
reefal environments set in and formed limestone. Volcanic islands
developed on Horizon Guyot as well and were colonised by plants. Pelagic
ooze has accumulated on the seamount, forming a thick layer that has
been further modified by ocean currents, landslides, and various
organisms living on it. Ferromanganese crusts have been deposited on
exposed rocks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_Guyot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1874:
The Universal Postal Union, then known as the "General Postal
Union", was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify
disparate postal services and regulations so that international mail
could be exchanged freely.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union>
1913:
Carrying a cargo hold full of highly flammable chemicals, the
ocean liner SS Volturno caught fire in the north Atlantic and sank,
resulting in 136 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Volturno_%281906%29>
1986:
The Phantom of the Opera (scene pictured), a musical by Andrew
Lloyd Webber and currently the longest-running Broadway show in history,
opened in London's West End.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_%281986_musical%29>
2012:
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was severely injured by a
Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
style:
1. (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.
2. (transitive) To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or
image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or
trendy.
3. (intransitive, US, informal) To act in a way which seeks to show that
one possesses style.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/style>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living
nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are
more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to
everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense,
on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable
than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
--Ivo Andrić
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ivo_Andri%C4%87>
The yellow-faced honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops) is a bird in the
honeyeater family found in eastern and south eastern Australia. It has
yellow stripes on the sides of its head and a loud clear call. It
inhabits open forests and woodlands at all altitudes. It is short-billed
for a honeyeater and feeds on insects and spiders, as well as the nectar
and pollen of flowers such as Banksia. It catches insects in flight and
from plant foliage. While some yellow-faced honeyeaters are sedentary,
large numbers migrate to southern Queensland for the winter, returning
in July and August to breed in New South Wales and Victoria. Pairs lay
two or three eggs in a delicate cup nest. While breeding success can be
low, pairs nest several times during the breeding season. Their woodland
habitat is vulnerable to the effects of land clearing, grazing, and
weeds, although this bird is common and widespread and considered by the
International Union for Conservation of Nature to be of least concern
for conservation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-faced_honeyeater>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
Five large fires broke out in the United States, including the
Great Chicago Fire (depicted) in Illinois and the Peshtigo fire in
Wisconsin, the latter being the deadliest in U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_fire>
1952:
Three trains collided at Harrow & Wealdstone station in London,
killing 112 people and injuring 340 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_and_Wealdstone_rail_crash>
1967:
Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was
captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara>
1969:
Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground known as
the Days of Rage began in Chicago, aimed at ending U.S. involvement in
the Vietnam War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dojo:
1. (martial arts) A training facility, usually led by one or more
sensei; a hall or room used for such training.
2. (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities,
such as meditation or software development. […]
3. The dojo loach, Japanese weather loach, or pond loach (Misgurnus
anguillicaudatus), a freshwater fish native to East Asia.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dojo>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not
understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance.
They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
--Frank Herbert
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert>
The Poitevin is a French breed of draft horse. Named for the former
province of Poitou in west-central France, now a part of Nouvelle-
Aquitaine, it originated in the seventeenth century when horses of
Flemish or Dutch origin, brought to the area by engineers working to
drain the Poitevin Marsh, interbred with local horses. It may be of any
solid coat color, and is sometimes striped dun, a color not seen in
other French draft horses. Although it has the size and conformation of
a draft horse, the Poitevin has not generally performed draft work. Its
principal traditional use was the production of Poitevin mules, by
breeding with large Baudet du Poitou donkeys; the mules were once in
worldwide demand for agricultural and other work. In the early twentieth
century there were some 50,000 brood mares, producing between 18,000 and
20,000 mules per year, but the Poitevin is today an endangered breed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitevin_horse>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1763:
King George III of the United Kingdom issued a royal
proclamation closing most of New France to the residents of the Thirteen
Colonies and reserving it for indigenous peoples.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763>
1913:
The Highland Park Ford Plant in the Detroit area of Michigan
became the world's first car factory to implement a moving assembly
line, eventually reducing Ford Model T production time from 12 hours to
93 minutes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park_Ford_Plant>
1944:
The Holocaust: When Sonderkommando (work unit) members in
Auschwitz learned that they were due to be murdered, they staged a
revolt before being massacred themselves.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando>
2006:
Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights
activist, was assassinated in the elevator of her apartment block in
central Moscow.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
machicolation:
1. (architecture) An opening between corbels that support a projecting
parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a
fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items
dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.
2. (architecture) A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/machicolation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen
the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a
mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate
your neutrality.
--Desmond Tutu
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu>
"Barge of the Dead" is an episode from the sixth season of the American
science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. First broadcast by
UPN on October 6, 1999, it was developed from a story by Ronald D. Moore
and Bryan Fuller, and directed by Mike Vejar. Set in the 24th century,
the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet and Maquis crew of
the starship USS Voyager after they are stranded in the Delta Quadrant,
far from the rest of the Federation. In this episode, the half-Klingon,
half-human B'Elanna Torres – played by Roxann Dawson (pictured) –
has a near-death experience and is sent to the Klingon version of Hell.
Some television critics praised Dawson's performance, while others
faulted the representation of Klingon spirituality. Following the
episode's completion, both Moore and Fuller left the series,
dissatisfied with their lack of control over its direction and with the
storylines.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_of_the_Dead>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1762:
Seven Years' War: The Battle of Manila concluded with a British
victory over Spain, leading to a twenty-month occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_%281762%29>
1908:
Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged their relations
with the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Crisis>
1927:
The first successful feature sound film, The Jazz Singer
(poster depicted), starring Al Jolson, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer>
2002:
Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing 90,000 barrels
(14,000 m3) of oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_Jewel>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
evert:
1. (transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a
pocket being emptied) or outwards.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
3. (transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to
overturn.
4. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To disrupt;
to overthrow.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evert>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One of life’s joys was to have friends who gave you reality
checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you
drowned in it.
--David Brin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin>
Kate Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an award-winning English actress.
She made her film debut playing a murderer in Heavenly Creatures (1994),
and received her first BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in
Sense and Sensibility (1995). After her leading role in the epic romance
Titanic (1997), she appeared in critically acclaimed period pieces,
including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001). She starred in Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children
(2006), and Revolutionary Road (2008). For playing a Nazi camp guard in
The Reader (2008), she won the BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best
Actress. In the 2010s, Winslet played a single mother in 1930s America
in the miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), joined the Divergent film
series, and portrayed Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs (2015). Time magazine
named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009.
In 2012 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Winslet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1869:
During construction of the Hennepin Island tunnel in
St. Anthony, Minnesota (now Minneapolis), the Mississippi River broke
through the tunnel's limestone ceiling, nearly destroying Saint Anthony
Falls.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennepin_Island_tunnel>
1936:
Around 200 men began a 291-mile (468 km) march from Jarrow to
London, carrying a petition to the British government requesting the re-
establishment of industry in the town.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March>
1975:
Dirty War: The Argentine guerrilla group Montoneros carried out
Operation Primicia, a terrorist attack in which they hijacked an
Aerolíneas Argentinas flight, captured Formosa International Airport,
and attacked a military regiment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Primicia>
1999:
Two trains collided head-on at Ladbroke Grove, London, killing
31 people, injuring 417, and severely damaging public confidence in the
management and regulation of safety of Britain's privatised railway
system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wh-question:
A question that is introduced by a wh-word (what, where, why, etc.) and
cannot be answered by yes or no.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wh-question>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only
little by little at a truth we find bitter.
--Denis Diderot
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot>
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata is the subject of two unsigned
paintings, nearly identical except for their size, that were both
completed around 1430. Art historians usually attribute them to the
Flemish artist Jan van Eyck. The larger panel measures 29.3 cm
× 33.4 cm (11.5 in × 13.1 in) and is in the Sabauda Gallery in
Turin, Italy; the smaller panel is 12.7 cm × 14.6 cm (5.0 in
× 5.7 in) and is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The paintings
show Saint Francis of Assisi kneeling in front of detailed rock
formations as he receives the stigmata of the crucified Christ on the
palms of his hands and soles of his feet. A panoramic landscape seems to
relegate the figures in the foreground to secondary importance. The
Philadelphia wood panel comes from the same tree as that of two
paintings definitively attributed to van Eyck, and the Italian panel has
underdrawings of a quality that probably could only have come from him.
Today the consensus is that both were painted by the same hand.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Francis_Receiving_the_Stigmata_%28van_E…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1957:
The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 (replica pictured), the first
artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1>
1958:
The current Constitution of France was signed into law,
establishing the French Fifth Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic>
2003:
A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured 51 others inside
the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_restaurant_suicide_bombing>
2010:
The dam holding a waste reservoir in western Hungary collapsed,
freeing 1 million m3 (35 million cu ft) of red mud, which flooded
nearby communities and killed ten people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajka_alumina_plant_accident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
orient:
1. (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
2. (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so
that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward
the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to
rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction
between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction
in nature.
3. (transitive) To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
4. (transitive, reflexive) To determine which direction one is facing.
5. (transitive, often reflexive, figuratively) To familiarize (oneself
or someone) with a circumstance or situation.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of (something) so as to
appeal or relate to a certain group.
7. (intransitive) To change direction to face a certain way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orient>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The President of the United States of necessity owes his election
to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the
members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential
importance the principles of their party organization; but he should
strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best
who serves the country best.
--Rutherford B. Hayes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes>
Michael Hordern (3 October 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an English stage
and film actor best known for his Shakespearean roles, especially King
Lear, whom he played on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1969 and London
in 1970 and on television five years later. Hordern came to prominence
in the 1950s with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre where he played
Caliban in The Tempest and Jaques in As You Like It. With Michael
Benthall's company at the Old Vic, he played Polonius in Hamlet, and the
title role in King John. In 1958 he won a best actor award at the
British Academy Television Awards for his role as the barrister in John
Mortimer's courtroom drama The Dock Brief. He appeared in nearly 140
cinema roles, including Cleopatra (1963) and A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum (1966). His television credits include Paradise
Postponed, the BAFTA-award-winning Memento Mori, and the BBC adaptation
of Middlemarch. He was knighted in 1983.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hordern>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1957:
A California Superior Court judge ruled that "Howl", a poem by
Allen Ginsberg, was of "redeeming social importance" and thus not
obscene.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl>
1963:
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón
Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military
rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1989:
Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in
his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Panamanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt>
2013:
A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the
Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
festschrift:
A collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial
or tribute to an academic or some other respected person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festschrift>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are
permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we
remember nothing.
--Gore Vidal
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal>
India is a country in South Asia. Comprising the bulk of the Indian
subcontinent, India owes its geography, climate and biodiversity to
ancient plate tectonics which pushed the Indian Plate north from deep in
the Southern Hemisphere. Modern humans arrived on the subcontinent from
Africa no later than 55,000 years ago. Settled life emerged in the
western margins of the Indus River basin 9,000 years ago. India is home
to a large mix of languages, religions, and cultures. It is the world's
most populous democracy, with 1.3 billion people, and a secular federal
republic governed in a parliamentary system. It is the world's third-
largest economy in purchasing power parity, and a fast-growing major
economy. After 190 years in the British Empire, India gained
independence in 1947 through a campaign of nonviolent resistance whose
enduring symbol is Mahatma Gandhi (born 2 October 1869).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1937:
President Rafael Trujillo announced that Dominican troops had
begun mass killings of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_massacre>
1942:
Second World War: HMS Curacoa was accidentally rammed and sunk
by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from
submarine attacks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Curacoa_%28D41%29>
1996:
A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the
static ports of the aircraft caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into
the ocean near Lima, Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603>
2005:
The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial,
took place in Bushy Park, London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkrun>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pleach:
(transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of
shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleach>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination
before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is
simply the methodizer of the imagination.
--Wallace Stevens
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens>