Lock Haven is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, in the
U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Located near the confluence of the West
Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city
of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area, in a combined
statistical area that includes Williamsport. Its population in 2010 was
9,772. Built on a site long favored by pre-Columbian peoples, Lock Haven
began in 1833 as a timber town and a haven for loggers, boatmen, and
other travelers on the river or the West Branch Canal. Resource
extraction and efficient transportation financed much of the city's
growth through the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, a
light-aircraft factory, a college, and a paper mill contributed to the
economy. The city has three sites on the National Register of Historic
Places: Memorial Park Site, a significant pre-Columbian archaeological
find; Heisey House, a Victorian-era museum; and Water Street District
(courthouse pictured), with a mix of 19th- and 20th-century
architecture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_Haven,_Pennsylvania>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
War of the Sixth Coalition: French troops led by Napoleon
forced the Army of Bohemia to retreat after having advanced dangerously
close to Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montereau>
1878:
Competition between two merchants in Lincoln County, New Mexico
Territory, U.S., turned into a range war when a member of one faction
was murdered by the other.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County_War>
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the systematic
extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching>
2010:
WikiLeaks published the first of hundreds of thousands of
classified documents disclosed by Chelsea Manning (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
husbandry:
1. The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of
crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
2. The prudent management or conservation of resources.
3. (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day
matters.
4. (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/husbandry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Tongue-suicide is not only the choice of children. It is common
among the infantile heads of state and power merchants whose evacuated
language leaves them with no access to what is left of their human
instincts for they speak only to those who obey, or in order to force
obedience. The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the
tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery
properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more
than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the
limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state
language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud
but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language
of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or
language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist
plunder in its literary cheek — it must be rejected, altered and
exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities,
tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and
patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the
bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language
— all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do
not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
--Toni Morrison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison>
Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-
of-paradise, and its name (from Greek for "without feet") was chosen
because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet.
First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was
charted on a star atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria
(pictured). The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
charted the brighter stars and gave them Bayer designations in 1756. The
five brightest stars are all reddish in hue. Shading the others at
apparent magnitude 3.8 is Alpha Apodis, an orange giant that has around
48 times the diameter and 928 times the luminosity of the Sun.
Marginally fainter is Gamma Apodis, another ageing giant star. Delta
Apodis is a double star, the two components of which are 103 arcseconds
apart and visible with the naked eye. Two star systems have been found
to have planets.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1859:
The French Navy captured the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress that
was manned by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering
Saigon and other regions of southern Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Saigon>
1904:
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (Geraldine
Farrar in the title role pictured) premiered at La Scala in Milan,
generating negative reviews that forced him to rewrite the opera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly>
1974:
A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it
on the White House South Lawn.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_White_House_helicopter_incident>
2006:
A massive landslide in the Philippine province of Southern
Leyte killed over 1,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Southern_Leyte_mudslide>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hobbyist:
A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobbyist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nature is not merely present, but is implanted within things,
distant from none; naught is distant from her except the false, and that
which existed never and nowhere — nullity. And while the outer face of
things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more
intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all
kinds, Mind, God, Being, One, Truth, Destiny, Reason, Order.
--Giordano Bruno
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>
Pseudoryzomys is a rodent from south-central South America in the family
Cricetidae. Found in lowland palm savanna and thorn scrub habitats, it
is a medium-sized rat, weighing about 50 grams (1.8 oz). It has gray-
brown fur, long and narrow hindfeet with small membranes between the
toes, and a tail that is about as long as the head and body. Its
conservation status has been assessed as least concern, although almost
nothing is known of its diet or reproduction. Its closest living
relatives are the large semiaquatic rats Holochilus and Lundomys. These
three genera form an assemblage within the oryzomyine tribe, a diverse
group including over one hundred species, mainly in South America. This
tribe is part of the subfamily Sigmodontinae and family Cricetidae,
which include many more species, mainly from Eurasia and the Americas.
The species Pseudoryzomys simplex was first described in 1888 on the
basis of subfossil cave specimens from Brazil (as Hesperomys simplex).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoryzomys>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: A Union victory in the Battle of Fort
Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional
Surrender".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson>
1923:
Howard Carter, the English Egyptologist and archaeologist,
unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun (mask pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun>
1983:
The Ash Wednesday bushfires burned over half a million acres
(over 2,000 km2) each in both South Australia and Victoria, killing 75
people and injuring 2,676 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_bushfires>
1996:
Two trains collided in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S., killing
11 people and leading to the creation of comprehensive federal rules for
passenger car design.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Maryland_train_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deglutition:
(physiology) The act or process of swallowing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deglutition>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Boys never see a conclusion; only on the edge of the grave can
man conclude anything; but the first impulse given to the boy is apt to
lead or drive him for the rest of his life into conclusion after
conclusion that he never dreamed of reaching.
--Henry Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams>
No Way Out (2004) was an American professional wrestling pay-per-view
event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), held on February
15 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. Sponsored by THQ, it was
the sixth event produced under the No Way Out name and starred wrestlers
from the SmackDown! brand. In the main event, Eddie Guerrero (pictured)
defeated WWE Champion Brock Lesnar to win the title, his sole world
championship before his death in 2005. In the undercard, Kurt Angle
defeated Big Show and John Cena in a Triple Threat match to earn a title
match for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XX. In a separate
storyline, Chavo Guerrero Jr. defeated Rey Mysterio. No Way Out grossed
more than $450,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of approximately
11,000 and received 350,000 pay-per-view buys, contributing to WWE's
increased pay-per-view revenue for the year. The event and its DVD
received favorable reviews.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Way_Out_%282004%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1949:
Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations
at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank, the location of the
first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves>
1979:
Don Dunstan resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a
decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Dunstan>
1999:
Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founding members of the militant
organization the Kurdistan Workers' Party, was arrested by Turkish
security forces in Nairobi, Kenya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%96calan>
2010:
Two passenger trains collided in Halle, Belgium, when one
driver failed to stop at a red signal, resulting in 19 deaths and 171
injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_train_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meet cute:
(intransitive, informal) Of characters in a story or people in real
life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meet_cute>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What I like best is the kind of complicated messed up truth, you
know … the one that's so imperfect that you know it's true.
--Miranda July
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miranda_July>
Chains of Love is an American dating game show that aired for six
episodes in April and May 2001 on the United Paramount Network (UPN).
Adapted from a Dutch television series, it presents a man or woman who
is chained to four members of the opposite sex over four days and
nights. This person, identified as the Picker, is given $10,000 and can
remove three contestants one at a time. The Picker can give a portion of
the money to each eliminated participant. When left with a single
partner, the Picker can choose to either split the money or keep it.
Madison Michele (pictured) hosted each episode. Originally ordered by
NBC, it was produced by UPN as part of a campaign to run more unscripted
programming to boost the network's ratings. Media outlets have
identified Chains of Love as part of a renaissance in reality
television. The show's premise divided television critics, who compared
it in structure and tone to Blind Date and The Dating Game.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chains_of_Love_%28TV_series%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1852:
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, the first
hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for
children, was founded in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital>
1924:
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was renamed to
International Business Machines, which grew into one of the world's
largest companies by market capitalization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM>
1979:
Adolph Dubs, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, was
kidnapped by unknown agents and killed during a gun battle between
Afghan police and the perpetrators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Dubs>
1989:
A fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie for
authoring The Satanic Verses, a novel Islamic fundamentalists considered
blasphemous.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
love interest:
1. Especially of a character in film or literature: one who is of
interest as a (potential) partner in love.
2. A romantic relationship; a romance.
3. (film, literature, specifically) A romantic plot or subplot in a film
or book.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/love_interest>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is
tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not,; lust
like a glutton dies, Love is all truth; lust full of forged lies.
--William Shakespeare
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare>
The Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar was struck in 1928 by the United
States Mint in honor of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of
Europeans. It depicts Captain James Cook on the obverse and a Hawaiian
chieftain on the reverse. Only 10,000 coins were struck for the public,
making them rare and valuable. In 1927, the legislature of the Territory
of Hawaii passed a resolution calling on the U.S. government to produce
a commemorative coin for the anniversary. Treasury Secretary Andrew
Mellon thought the occasion important enough that, unusually for him, he
was not opposed to the new coin. Sculptor Chester Beach made the plaster
models for the coins from sketches by Juliette May Fraser. Approval for
his designs was delayed by concerns raised by the Mint and by Victor S.
K. Houston, Hawaii Territory's delegate to Congress. Although the issue
price, at $2, was the highest for a commemorative half dollar to that
point, the coins sold out quickly and have risen in value to over $1000.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Sesquicentennial_half_dollar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted
main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the
city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne>
1913:
Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declared the independence
of Tibet from the Republic of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Dalai_Lama>
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors
destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of streets in Louisville,
Kentucky, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions>
2017:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-
un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
caressive:
1. Having the nature of a caress; gentle, soothing.
2. (linguistics) Of a diminutive: indicating affection or endearment.
3. (linguistics) A type of diminutive indicating affection or
endearment.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caressive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine,
what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world
cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their
reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one
person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other;
and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the
time came.
--Eleanor Farjeon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon>
The goldcrest (Regulus regulus) is a very small bird in the kinglet
family. Named for its colourful golden crest feathers, it is called the
"king of the birds" in European folklore. Several subspecies are
recognised across a very large distribution range that includes much of
Eurasia and the islands of Macaronesia. This kinglet has greenish upper-
parts and whitish under-parts, with two white wingbars. It has a bright
head crest, orange and yellow in the male and yellow in the female,
which is displayed during breeding. The song is a repetition of high
thin notes. It breeds in coniferous woodland and gardens, building its
compact, three-layered nest on a tree branch. Ten to twelve eggs are
incubated by the female alone, and the chicks are fed by both parents;
second broods are common. The bird is constantly on the move as it
searches for insects to eat. Because of its large range and population,
it presents no significant conservation concerns.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldcrest>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was
founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United
States' first agricultural college.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_State_University>
1909:
New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century took
place when 75 people died after the ferry SS Penguin struck a rock in
Wellington Harbour and sank.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Penguin>
1947:
The French fashion company Christian Dior unveiled a "New Look"
that revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center
of the fashion world after World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior_SE>
2009:
Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo Niagara
International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house in
Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49
people on board the aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
living fossil:
1. (evolutionary theory) Any species discovered first as a fossil and
believed extinct, but which is later found living; an organism that has
remained unchanged over geological periods.
2. (evolutionary theory) Any living species which very closely resembles
fossil relatives in most anatomical details.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/living_fossil>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In vain were all her sighs and tears, In vain were all his
anxious fears: All, insubstantial, doomed to pass, As moonlight
mirrored in the water, Or flowers reflected in a glass.
--Dream of the Red Chamber
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber>
The characters of Final Fantasy VIII include an elite group of
mercenaries called SeeD, as well as soldiers, rebels, and political
leaders of various nations and cities. Thirteen weeks after the 1999
North American release of Final Fantasy VIII, a role-playing video game
by Square, it had earned more than $50 million in sales, making it the
fastest selling Final Fantasy title at the time. The game's characters,
created by Tetsuya Nomura under the direction of Yoshinori Kitase
(pictured), are the first in the series to be realistically proportioned
in all aspects of the game. This graphical shift, as well as the cast
itself, have received generally positive reviews from gaming magazines
and websites. The six main playable characters are the loner Squall
Leonhart, the passionate Rinoa Heartilly, the instructor Quistis Trepe,
the martial artist Zell Dincht, the cheerful pilot Selphie Tilmitt, and
the marksman Irvine Kinneas.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Final_Fantasy_VIII>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1851:
As part of the celebration of the separation of Victoria from
New South Wales, the initial first-class cricket match in Australia
started at the Launceston Racecourse in Tasmania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_Land_v_Port_Phillip,_1851>
1919:
Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the German
Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ebert>
1979:
The Pahlavi dynasty of Iran effectively collapsed when the
military declared itself "neutral" after rebel troops overwhelmed forces
loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in armed street fighting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution>
2015:
A Turkish student was murdered during a rape attempt, sparking
mass demonstrations across the nation after her body was discovered two
days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_%C3%96zgecan_Aslan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
boffin:
1. (Australia, Britain, informal) An engineer or scientist, especially
one engaged in technological or military research.
2. (Australia, Britain, informal, by extension) A person with
specialized knowledge or skills, especially one who is socially awkward;
(in a weaker sense) an intellectual; a smart person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boffin>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do not lie without need.
--Leó Szilárd
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd>
Damageplan was an American heavy metal supergroup from Dallas, Texas,
formed in 2003. Following the demise of their previous group Pantera,
brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul started a new band with bassist
Bob Kakaha and vocalist Patrick Lachman, a guitarist formerly with
Diesel Machine and Halford. They released their only studio album, New
Found Power, in the United States on February 10, 2004; it debuted at
number 38 on the Billboard 200. Later that year Damageplan was promoting
the album at a concert at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, when a man
climbed on stage, killed Darrell and three others, and wounded another
seven before being fatally shot by a police officer. Some witnesses said
that the assailant blamed the brothers for Pantera's breakup and
believed that they had stolen his lyrics. Paul and Kakaha later joined
the band Hellyeah (pictured). Damageplan has been inactive since the
incident.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damageplan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1763:
Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to end
the Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the French
colonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of an
extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281763%29>
1939:
Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of
Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_Offensive>
1962:
Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it
included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben Day
dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Mickey>
2009:
The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact
satellites in low Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251
collided, destroying each other.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
body camera:
A video recording system worn on the body, typically used by law
enforcement officers to record their interactions with the public, and
gather video evidence at crime scenes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/body_camera>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant
duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you
say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you
dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our
nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and
our souls exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in the mouth.
It can't forever be violated with impunity.
--Boris Pasternak
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak>
Radcliffe is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater
Manchester, England. It lies in the Irwell Valley 2.5 miles (4 km)
south-west of Bury and 6.5 miles (10 km) north-northwest of Manchester.
The disused Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal bisects the town.
Historically a part of Lancashire, the town and its surroundings show
evidence of Mesolithic, Roman and Norman activity. A Roman road passes
along the border between Radcliffe and Bury. In the High Middle Ages,
the town was recorded in an entry of the Domesday Book as "Radeclive";
it formed a small parish and township centred on the Church of St Mary
(current church pictured) and the manorial Radcliffe Tower, both of
which are Grade I listed buildings. Coal was mined nearby during the
Industrial Revolution, providing fuel for the cotton-spinning and
papermaking industries. By the mid-19th century, Radcliffe was an
important mill town with cotton mills and bleachworks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe,_Greater_Manchester>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1907:
More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March,
the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_%28suffragists%29>
1920:
The Svalbard Treaty was signed, recognizing Norwegian
sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard>
1950:
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy accused 205 employees of the State
Department of being communists, sparking a period of strong anti-
communist sentiment that became known as McCarthyism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism>
1996:
Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
in Darmstadt, Germany, first created the chemical element copernicium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gassy:
1. Having the nature of, or containing, gas.
2. (specifically) Of a beverage: containing dissolved gas (usually
carbon dioxide); fizzy.
3. (specifically) Of a person: tending to burp; burpy.
4. (specifically) Of a person: tending to release flatus; flatulent.
5. Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence.
6. (figuratively, informal) Tending to be long-winded or wordy,
especially in a boastful and vain manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gassy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.
--J. M. Coetzee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee>