Dark Angel is an American cyberpunk television series that premiered in
October 2000. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, it starred
Jessica Alba (pictured) in her breakthrough role. Set in 2019, the
series chronicles the life of Max Guevara (Alba), a genetically enhanced
super-soldier who escapes from a covert military facility as a child. In
a post-apocalyptic Seattle, she tries to lead a normal life, while
eluding capture by government agents and searching for her siblings
scattered in the aftermath of their escape. The first season received
mainly positive reviews and won several awards, including the People's
Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama. The second (final) season
received some criticism for new plot elements. A series of novels
continued the storyline, and a video game adaptation was released. Dark
Angel has gothic and female empowerment themes, and Max has been
compared to other strong female characters in Cameron's work, including
Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Angel_%282000_TV_series%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1893:
USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first
battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships
of the time, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indiana_%28BB-1%29>
1975:
A London Underground train at Moorgate station failed to stop
at a terminal platform, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash>
1997:
Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers
of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the
longest and bloodiest shootouts in American police history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout>
2013:
Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to
resign from the papacy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carbonado:
1. (dated) Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled. […]
2. A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also
containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carbonado>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I want to first of all, thank you. I know that this has been
hard. I know that you face a lot. I know that you are worried about your
family — but this is part of your destiny. And, hopefully, this
portion of your destiny will lead to a better — a better, a better
Michael Cohen, a better Donald Trump, a better United States of America
and a better world. And I mean that from the depths of my heart. When
we’re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked: "In 2019,
what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact?" Did we stand
on the sidelines and say nothing? … Come on, now — we can do more
than one thing. And we have got to get back to normal.
--Elijah Cummings
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elijah_Cummings>
The Battle of San Patricio was fought on February 27, 1836, between
Mexican troops and Texians, rebellious settlers in the Mexican province
of Texas. The battle marked the start of the Goliad Campaign, the
Mexican offensive to retake the Texas Gulf Coast. By the end of 1835,
all Mexican troops had been driven from Texas. Frank W. Johnson, the
commander of the volunteer army in Texas, gathered volunteers for a
planned invasion of the Mexican port town of Matamoros. After spending
several weeks gathering horses, in late February Johnson and about 40
men led the herd to San Patricio. He assigned some of his troops to a
ranch outside town to guard the horses. Unbeknownst to the Texians, on
February 18 Mexican General José de Urrea (pictured) had led a large
contingent of troops from Matamoros into Texas. Urrea's men easily
followed the trail left by the horses, and surprised the sleeping
Texians in San Patricio. After a fifteen-minute battle, all but six
Texians had been killed or imprisoned.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Patricio>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
The current flag of Japan was first adopted as the national
flag for Japanese merchant ships.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Japan>
1933:
The Reichstag building in Berlin, the assembly location of the
German Parliament, was set on fire, a pivotal event in the establishment
of the Nazi regime in Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire>
1989:
A wave of protests, riots and looting known as the Caracazo
resulted in a death toll of between 276 and 2,000 people in the
Venezuelan capital Caracas and its surrounding towns.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracazo>
2015:
Russian statesman and politician Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken
critic of Vladimir Putin, was assassinated in central Moscow.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Boris_Nemtsov>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pronoia:
1. (philosophy, theology) Divine providence, foreknowledge, foresight.
2. (historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of
temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land,
fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of
military service. […]
3. (psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people
conspire to do one good.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronoia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base
theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be
kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly
always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is
writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in
celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand
each other.
--John Steinbeck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck>
Waisale Serevi (born 1968) is a former Fijian rugby union footballer and
coach. A member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame, he is widely
considered to be the greatest rugby sevens player in the history of the
game. In the 15-man game, he played for Fiji 39 times between 1989 and
2003, scoring 376 points and representing his country in the 1991, 1999,
and 2003 Rugby World Cups. He also played professionally for the
Mitsubishi, Leicester, Stade Montois, Stade Bordelais and Staines rugby
teams. His representative sevens career started in 1989 when he played
for Fiji at the Hong Kong tournament. Serevi also played in the 1993,
1997, 2001, and 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens, winning the World Cup with
Fiji in 1997 and 2005. He won silver at the Commonwealth Games in 1998
and 2002, and captured bronze in 2006. After winning the 2005 Rugby
World Cup Sevens, Serevi was appointed player-coach of the Fiji Sevens
national team, and led them to a 2005–06 World Sevens Series victory.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waisale_Serevi>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1815:
Napoleon escaped from Elba (return depicted), an island off the
coast of Italy, where he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty
of Fontainebleau one year earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon>
1935:
Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe reinstated, violating the
Treaty of Versailles signed at the end of World War I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe>
1979:
The Superliner railcar entered revenue service with Amtrak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superliner_%28railcar%29>
2012:
African-American teenager Trayvon Martin was killed while
walking in a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood, prompting a nationwide
controversy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
haul:
1. (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or
oxen, or a motor vehicle.
2. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
3. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that
the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
5. (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be
disciplined or held answerable for something.
6. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
7. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to
the wind.
8. (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the
bow).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haul>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the
hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long
paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.
--Johnny Cash
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash>
The Flood is a fictional parasitic alien life form. Flood-infected
creatures, also called Flood, in turn infect other sentient hosts. They
were introduced as a second enemy faction in the 2001 video game Halo:
Combat Evolved, the first game in Bungie's Halo multimedia franchise.
Their design and fiction was spearheaded by Bungie artist Robert McLees,
with sound design led by Martin O'Donnell. The ringworld setting of the
first Halo game was stripped of many of its large creatures for Halo 2
to make the Flood's surprise appearance more startling. For Halo 3,
Bungie environment artist Vic DeLeon spent six months of pre-production
time refining their fleshy aesthetic and designing the organic interiors
of Flood-infested space ships. Reaction to the Flood has varied; while
some reviewers found the creatures too derivative and a cliché element
of science fiction, others ranked them among the greatest video game
villains of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_%28Halo%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
Representing Mississippi in the Senate, Hiram Rhodes Revels
became the first African American to serve in the United States
Congress.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels>
1948:
Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest,
Czechoslovakian president Edvard Beneš ceded control over the
government to the Communist Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1994:
Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim Arabs
praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29
people and wounding 125 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre>
2009:
Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutinied at its headquarters
in Pilkhana, resulting in 74 deaths, in addition to 8 mutineers killed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Rifles_revolt>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stance:
1. The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
2. One's opinion or point of view.
3. A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
4. (specifically, climbing) A foothold or ledge on which to set up a
belay.
5. (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus
stop, a taxi rank.
6. (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a
street trader can carry on business.
7. (obsolete, rare) A stanza.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stance>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
More noise occurs from a single man shouting than a hundred
thousand who are quiet.
--José de San Martín
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn>
Plesiorycteropus was a mammal from Madagascar that became extinct
sometime after 200 BCE, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating. Upon its
description in 1895 by French naturalist Henri Filhol, Plesiorycteropus
was classified with the aardvark, but more recent studies have found
little evidence for that linkage. Molecular evidence instead suggests
that it is related to the tenrecs, in the order Afrosoricida. Two
species are recognized, the larger P. madagascariensis and the smaller
P. germainepetterae; subfossil remains of both species have been found
in the same site. Only limb and partial pelvis and skull bones have been
recovered to date. Plesiorycteropus was probably a digging animal that
fed on insects such as termites and ants. It also shows adaptations for
climbing and sitting. Estimates of its mass range from 6 to 18 kilograms
(13 to 40 lb). Forest destruction by humans may have contributed to its
extinction.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiorycteropus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1711:
George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo, the first Italian language
opera written specifically for the London stage, premiered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinaldo_%28opera%29>
1803:
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, declared an act
of Congress unconstitutional for the first time, forming the basis of
judicial review.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison>
1943:
World War II: The Battle of Kasserine Pass, the first major
engagement between American and Axis forces in Africa, ended with the
Allied forces suffering heavy losses.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kasserine_Pass>
1989:
United Airlines Flight 811 experienced an uncontrolled
decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii,
killing nine passengers when their seats were sucked out of the
aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
histrionic:
1. Of or relating to actors or acting.
2. (by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the
intention to draw attention.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/histrionic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water
or do you want a chance to change the world?
--Steve Jobs
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs>
Istanbul, Turkey, known before 330 as Byzantium and between 330 and 1930
as Constantinople, is a transcontinental city of Europe and Asia,
straddling the Bosporus strait between the Sea of Marmara and the Black
Sea. Its commercial and historical center lies on the European side;
about a third of its residents live on the Asian side. The population of
the city has increased tenfold since the 1950s to around 15 million,
making Istanbul one of the world's most populous cities and the fourth-
largest city proper. Founded on the Sarayburnu promontory around 660
BCE, the city grew in size and influence. It was an imperial capital for
almost 16 centuries, during the Roman and Byzantine (330–1204), Latin
(1204–1261), Palaiologos Byzantine (1261–1453) and Ottoman
(1453–1922) empires. Although Ankara was chosen as the new capital
after the Turkish War of Independence, Istanbul remains Turkey's
economic and cultural center.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive
method of producing aluminum (sample pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martin_Hall>
1909:
The Silver Dart was flown off the ice of Bras d'Or Lake on Cape
Breton Island, making it the first controlled powered flight in Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEA_Silver_Dart>
1947:
The International Organization for Standardization, responsible
for worldwide industrial and commercial standards, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>
1991:
The government of Thai prime minister Chatichai Choonhavan was
deposed in a bloodless coup by General Sunthorn Kongsompong.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatichai_Choonhavan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
navel-gazing:
1. Contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation.
2. (derogatory) Excessive focus on oneself; self-indulgent
introspection.
3. (sometimes derogatory) (Disproportionate) concentration on a single
issue.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/navel-gazing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will
destroy the United States. And when we call for education we mean real
education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not
necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal.
We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and
we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys
and girls simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of
other people. They have a right to know, to think, to aspire.
--W. E. B. Du Bois
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois>
M-28 is an east–west state trunkline highway that almost completely
traverses the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan, from
Wakefield to near Sault Ste. Marie. M-28 is the longest state trunkline
with the "M-" prefix at 290 miles (467 km). Three sections of the
highway are part of the Lake Superior Circle Tour, and two sections
carry memorial highway designations. M-28 passes through forested
woodlands, bog swamps, and urbanized areas. Sections of roadway cross
the Ottawa National Forest and both sections of the Hiawatha National
Forest. Other landmarks accessible from the highway include the Seney
National Wildlife Refuge and several historic bridges. M-28 dates to the
1919 formation of the state's trunkline system, though the original
highway was much shorter. It was expanded eastward to the Sault Ste.
Marie area in the late 1920s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-28_%28Michigan_highway%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1744:
War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking
the Spanish rear of a Franco-Spanish combined fleet in the Mediterranean
Sea off the French coast near Toulon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toulon_%281744%29>
1899:
Philippine–American War: Filipino forces launched their first
counterattack in a failed attempt to recapture Manila from the
Americans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Caloocan>
1959:
Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the
Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500>
2012:
A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer
stop at Once Station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more
than 700 injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Buenos_Aires_rail_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vamp:
1. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
2. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together
(something) from existing material, or by adding new material to
something existing.
3. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
4. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a
repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or
while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […]
8. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vamp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man,
that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his
friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far
from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own
experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be
placed upon them.
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>
SMS Kronprinz (Crown Prince) was the last battleship of the four-ship
König class of the Imperial German Navy, laid down in 1911 and launched
on 21 February 1914. The ship was armed with ten 30.5-centimeter
(12.0 in) guns in five twin turrets and could steam at a top speed of
21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). Along with her three sister ships, König,
Grosser Kurfürst and Markgraf, Kronprinz took part in most of the World
War I fleet actions, including the 1916 Battle of Jutland. She was
torpedoed by the British submarine HMS J1 in November 1916 during an
operation off the Danish coast. Following repairs, she participated in
Operation Albion, an amphibious assault in the Baltic, in October 1917.
After Germany's defeat in the war and the signing of the Armistice in
November 1918, Kronprinz and most of the capital ships of the High Seas
Fleet were interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow, and later scuttled
by their German crews.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Kronprinz>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1828:
The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first
newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix>
1919:
Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German
Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established
Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eisner>
1929:
In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion against the
Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by
Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Rebellion_in_northeastern_Shandong>
1973:
After accidentally having strayed into Israeli-occupied
airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Israeli
fighter aircraft, killing 108.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
analphabet:
A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or
wholly illiterate person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/analphabet>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast
hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more
than they revealed. But paradoxically, we create fiction out of human
concern for the victims of the revelations. This concern is at the root
of literature.
--Anaïs Nin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin>
Hurricane Juan was a large and erratic tropical cyclone that looped
twice near the Louisiana coast, causing widespread flooding. It was the
tenth named storm of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season, forming in the
central Gulf of Mexico in late October. Juan made landfall near Morgan
City. Weakening to tropical storm status over land, it turned back to
the southeast over open waters, crossing the Mississippi River Delta.
Turning to the northeast, it made its final landfall just west of
Pensacola, Florida. Juan was the last of three hurricanes to move over
Louisiana during the season, after Danny in August and Elena in early
September. Twelve people died in the storm, including nine in maritime
accidents off Louisiana. Rainfall and a high storm surge flooded
50,000 houses and many communities in southern Louisiana, causing
extensive agriculture losses. Juan directly inflicted about
$1.5 billion in damage, making it among the costliest United States
hurricanes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Juan_%281985%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1835:
An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.2 Ms devastated
Concepción, Chile, and the resulting tsunami destroyed the neighboring
city of Talcahuano.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1835_Concepci%C3%B3n_earthquake>
1872:
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, today the largest
art museum in the United States with a collection of over two million
works of art, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art>
1959:
The Canadian government under Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft program amid much
political debate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow>
2009:
The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft packed with
C-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot
down before they reached their targets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_suicide_air_raid_on_Colombo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
esurient:
(formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous;
(figuratively) avid, eager.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esurient>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Remember, stay ahead of them. Keep the mystery, always mystery.
Excess within control.
--Somewhere in Time
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time>
The Wales national rugby union team competes annually in the Six Nations
Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. The
governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union, was established in 1881, the same
year that Wales played their first international against England, on 19
February. They have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 26 times
outright, most recently in 2013. They had many dominant teams from 1900
to 1911 and from 1969 to 1980. Wales played in the inaugural Rugby World
Cup in 1987 where they achieved their best ever result of third. After
the sport started allowing professionalism in 1995, Wales hosted the
1999 World Cup. They won Six Nations Grand Slams in 2005, 2008 and 2012.
Their home ground is the Millennium Stadium (pictured). Eight former
Welsh players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame; ten
were inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame prior to its
2014 merger into the World Rugby Hall.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_national_rugby_union_team>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
Peninsular War: An outnumbered French force under Édouard
Mortier routed and nearly destroyed the Spanish at the Battle of the
Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora>
1942:
A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Day>
1965:
Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of
Vietnam, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm
attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_South_Vietnamese_coup>
1999:
U.S. President Bill Clinton issued a posthumous pardon to Henry
Ossian Flipper, the first African American graduate of West Point, who
had been accused of embezzlement in 1881.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossian_Flipper>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rainmaker:
1. Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
2. An African or Native American medicine man who seeks to induce rain
through performing rituals.
3. A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods,
such as cloud seeding.
4. (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the
ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success
for a company, organization, etc.
5. (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the
air.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rainmaker>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Crossing that bridge, With lessons I've learned. Playing with
fire, And not getting burned. I may not know what you're going
through. But time is the space, Between me and you. Life carries
on... it goes on.
--Seal
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seal_%28musician%29>