King's Highway 420 is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of
Ontario that connects the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) with downtown
Niagara Falls. The roadway continues east as the limited-access
expressway Niagara Regional Road 420, which was transferred to the
jurisdiction of the Regional Municipality of Niagara in 1998; it
connects with the Rainbow Bridge at the border with the United States
over the Niagara River. King's Highway 420 has a speed limit of 80
kilometres per hour (50 mph), making it the only 400-series highway to
have a speed limit less than 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) for its
entirety. Originally constructed as a divided four-lane road with two
traffic circles, the route of Highway 420 formed part of the QEW
between 1941 and 1972. It was assigned a unique route number during its
reconstruction as a freeway and the construction of the large
interchange at its western terminus at Montrose Road.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_420>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1657:
Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet sank much of a Spanish
treasure fleet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands but was
unable to capture the treasure.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_%281657%29>
1828:
French explorer René Caillié became the first European to
enter Timbuktu and return safely, for which he received a 10,000-franc
prize from the Société de géographie.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cailli%C3%A9>
1939:
Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday was celebrated as a national
holiday in Nazi Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_50th_birthday>
1999:
Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarked on a massacre,
killing 13 people and wounding over 20 others before committing suicide
at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nauplius:
(zoology) A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs
(corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye,
and little or no segmentation of the body.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nauplius>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer
into fall, — So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so
swift, we know not that we move.
--Dinah Craik
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik>
Irritator was a spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil
about 110 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous. It is known
from a nearly complete skull found in the Romualdo Formation of the
Araripe Basin. The genus name reflects the irritation of paleontologists
who found that the skull had been heavily damaged and altered by
collectors. Estimated at between 6 and 8 meters (20 and 26 ft) in
length, Irritator weighed around 1 tonne (1.1 short tons), making it one
of the smallest spinosaurids known. Its long, shallow and slender snout
was lined with straight and unserrated conical teeth. Lengthwise atop
the head ran a thin sagittal crest, to which powerful neck muscles were
likely anchored. A generalist diet—like that of today's
crocodilians—has been suggested. Irritator inhabited the tropical
environment of a coastal lagoon surrounded by dry regions. It coexisted
with other carnivorous theropods as well as turtles, crocodyliforms, and
a large number of pterosaur and fish species.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irritator>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
War of the Fifth Coalition: The French won a hard-fought
victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from
the field of battle that evening.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen>
1956:
Actress Grace Kelly became Princess consort of Monaco upon
marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Kelly>
1971:
The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, USSR.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_1>
2015:
In Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., Freddie Gray died of injuries
sustained a week earlier while in the custody of the Baltimore Police
Department.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Bronx cheer:
(US, idiomatic) Synonym of raspberry (“a sound intended to resemble
flatulence made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is
protruding from and pressed against the lips, used humorously or to
express disdain or scorn”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bronx_cheer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles
with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this
passover with you before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not any
more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he
took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among
yourselves: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the
vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread, and gave
thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which
is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup
after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which
is shed for you.
--Gospel of Luke
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke>
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in
England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her
husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Designated Grade I on
Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens, it had nearly
200,000 visitors in 2017. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and
over the next thirty years, working with, and later succeeded by, a
series of notable head gardeners, she and Nicolson transformed a
farmstead of "squalor and slovenly disorder" into one of the world's
most influential gardens. The garden design is based on axial walks that
open onto enclosed gardens, termed "garden rooms", one of the earliest
examples of this gardening style. Following Sackville-West's death in
1962, the estate was gifted to the National Trust for Places of Historic
Interest or Natural Beauty. It is one of the Trust's most popular
properties.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissinghurst_Castle_Garden>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
Mexican–American War: Winfield Scott's United States troops
out-flanked and drove Santa Anna's larger Mexican army from a strong
defensive position in the Battle of Cerro Gordo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cerro_Gordo>
1915:
World War I: French aviator Roland Garros landed his aircraft
behind enemy lines and was taken prisoner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garros_%28aviator%29>
1949:
Ireland officially left the British Commonwealth and became a
republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland>
1955:
Representatives from 29 African and Asian countries met in the
inaugural Bandung Conference in Indonesia to promote economic and
cultural cooperation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung_Conference>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
footbath:
1. The act of soaking or washing the feet.
2. A small basin or bath designed for soaking or washing the feet.
3. A liquid mixture, often medicinal, for soaking or washing the feet
with.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footbath>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he
believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past
is the one who hunches the world along.
--Clarence Darrow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow>
Eliza Acton (17 April 1799 – 13 February 1859) was an English food
writer and poet. In 1845 her cookbook Modern Cookery for Private
Families was released. It was one of Britain's first cookbooks aimed at
the domestic reader and introduced the now-universal practice of listing
ingredients and giving suggested cooking times for each recipe. It
included the first recipes in English for Brussels sprouts and for
spaghetti, and contains the first printed reference to Christmas
pudding. Engagingly written, the book was well received by reviewers. It
was reprinted within the year and several editions followed until 1918.
In the later years of its publication, Modern Cookery was eclipsed by
the success of Isabella Beeton's bestselling Mrs Beeton's Book of
Household Management (1861), which included several recipes plagiarised
from Acton's work. Many English cooks have been influenced by Acton,
including Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, Delia Smith and Rick Stein.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Acton>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1797:
French Revolutionary Wars: British Lieutenant General Ralph
Abercromby and a force of 7,000 invaded Spanish-controlled Puerto Rico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_%281797%29>
1969:
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of United
States Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan>
1986:
Having supposedly been at war for 335 years without a single
shot having been fired and no casualties incurred, the Netherlands and
the Isles of Scilly declared peace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_and_Thirty_Five_Years%27_War>
2014:
NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f (artist's
impression shown), the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's
discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-186f>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
implacable:
1. Not able to be placated or appeased.
2. Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
3. Adamant; immovable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/implacable>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth
sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into
glory peep.
--Henry Vaughan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Vaughan>
Courbet was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships,
the first ones built for the French Navy. In World War I, after helping
to sink the Austro-Hungarian protected cruiser SMS Zenta in August
1914, she provided cover for the Otranto Barrage that blockaded the
Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea, and often served as a
flagship. Although upgraded several times before World War II, by the
1930s she was no longer considered to be a first-line battleship and
spent much of that decade as a gunnery training ship. A few weeks after
the German invasion of France on 10 May 1940, Courbet was hastily
reactivated. She supported Allied troops in the defence of Cherbourg
during mid-June. As part of Operation Catapult, she was seized in
Portsmouth by British forces on 3 July and was turned over to the Free
French a week later. She was used as a stationary anti-aircraft battery
and as an accommodation ship there.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Courbet_%281911%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of
Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Compensated_Emancipation…>
1919:
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna
offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilna_offensive>
1947:
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch
first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet
Union and the United States as a "cold war".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War>
2014:
The South Korean ferry MV Sewol sank 1.5 km (0.93 mi)
offshore of Donggeochado, Jindo County, with around 300 of the 476
onboard killed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
boiling frog:
(idiomatic, often attributively) A person who, or thing which, is in a
gradually worsening situation without any realization of the peril until
it is too late.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boiling_frog>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic
and sublime edifice. But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing
old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the
numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both
caused the venerable monument to suffer, without respect for
Charlemagne, who laid its first stone, or for Philip Augustus, who laid
the last. On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side
of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior; which
I should be glad to translate thus: time is blind, man is stupid.
--The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame>
The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon is a Gothic funerary monument in the
church of Saint-Étienne at Bar-le-Duc in northeastern France. It
consists of an altarpiece and a limestone statue of a putrefied and
skinless corpse which stands upright; its left arm is raised as if
gesturing towards heaven. Completed sometime between 1544 and 1557, the
majority of its construction is attributed to the French sculptor Ligier
Richier. Other elements, including the coat of arms and funeral drapery,
were added later. The tomb dates from a period of societal anxiety over
death, as plague, war and religious conflicts ravaged Europe. It was
commissioned as the resting place of René of Chalon, Prince of Orange,
brother-in-law of Duke Antoine of Lorraine. Unusually for contemporary
objects of this type, the skeleton is standing, making it a "living
corpse", an innovation that was to become highly influential. It was
designated a Monument historique on June 18, 1898.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Tomb_of_Ren%C3%A9_of_Chalon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1638:
A rebellion by Catholic Japanese peasants in Shimabara over
increased taxes was put down by the Tokugawa shogunate, resulting in
greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion>
1912:
The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty
minutes after colliding with an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic>
1952:
The B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered,
strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force for most of the
aircraft's history, made its first flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress>
1989:
A human crush during an FA Cup semi-final match between
Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield,
England, caused 96 deaths, making it the worst disaster in British
sporting history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mummy brown:
1. A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of
Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
2. The colour of this pigment, a variable brown nearly intermediate
between raw umber and burnt umber. mummy brown colour:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mummy_brown>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his
freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable
presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a
considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of
presumptions, and some of the most interesting experiments of which it
is capable are hidden in the bosom of common things.
--Henry James
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James>
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (Spurs) have a long history as an English
football club based in Tottenham, London. They came into existence in
1882, became professional in 1895, and in 1901 became the only non-
League club to win the FA Cup since the establishment of the Football
League. They have won the FA Cup a further seven times, the Football
League twice, the League Cup four times, the UEFA Cup twice and, in
1963, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. In 1960–61, they became the first
team to complete The Double in the 20th century. The club languished
mostly in the Second Division from the late 1920s until the 1950s before
peaking in the 1960s, with a resurgence in the 1980s. They have remained
a member of the Premier League since its formation in 1992, finishing in
mid-table most seasons. In 1899 the club moved from Northumberland Park
to a site that became known as White Hart Lane, and remained there until
2017. A new stadium has been built at the same site.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tottenham_Hotspur_F.C.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally
shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln>
1906:
The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread
of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival>
1944:
The freighter SS Fort Stikine, carrying a mixed cargo of cotton
bales, gold and ammunition, exploded in the harbour in Bombay, India,
sinking surrounding ships and killing about 800 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Bombay_explosion>
1999:
A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones in
Sydney (examples pictured) and along the east coast of New South Wales,
causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster
in Australian insurance history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Sydney_hailstorm>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pang:
(transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to
torture.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pang>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Everywhere in the world people were expecting the latter coming
of one or another kickshaw messiah who would remove the discomforts
which they themselves were either too lazy or too incompetent to deal
with; and nobody had anything whatever to gain with electing for
peculiarity among one's fellow creatures and a gloomier outlook.
--James Branch Cabell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell>
Joe Hewitt (13 April 1901 – 1 November 1985) rose to be an air vice-
marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Appointed the RAAF's
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1941, he was posted the following
year to Allied Air Forces Headquarters, South West Pacific Area, as
Director of Intelligence. In 1943, he took command of No. 9 Operational
Group, the RAAF's main mobile strike force, but was controversially
sacked by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal George Jones,
less than a year later over alleged morale and disciplinary issues. As
Air Member for Personnel from 1945 to 1948, he was directly responsible
for the consolidation of what was then the world's fourth largest air
force into a much smaller peacetime service. He was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951. Retiring from the
military in 1956, he went into business and later managed his own
publishing house. The book Adversity in Success is his first-hand
account of the South West Pacific air war.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hewitt_%28RAAF_officer%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces
conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound
Brook, New Jersey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bound_Brook>
1948:
Civil war in Mandatory Palestine: A convoy bringing supplies
and personnel to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital was ambushed by Arab
forces, leaving seventy-nine people dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_medical_convoy_massacre>
1973:
Catch a Fire, the landmark reggae album by Bob Marley and the
Wailers, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_a_Fire>
1997:
In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to
win the US Masters, breaking the tournament's record for the lowest
four-round score (270 strokes, 18 under par).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Department of Redundancy Department:
(humorous) A fictitious department that is cited to draw attention to
needless repetition or excessiveness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Department_of_Redundancy_Department>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything
likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond
knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the
incurious seeker.
--Samuel Beckett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett>
Allison Guyot is an undersea volcanic mountain with a flat top in the
Mid-Pacific Mountains. West of Hawaii and northeast of the Marshall
Islands, it rises 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) above the seafloor to a
platform 35 by 70 kilometres (22 mi × 43 mi) wide. It was probably
formed by a hotspot before plate tectonics moved it north to its
present-day location. Radiometric dating puts the formation of a
volcanic island at around 111 to 85 million years ago. The island was
eventually buried, forming an atoll-like structure and a carbonate
platform. The platform emerged above sea level at some time in the
Albian or Turonian ages before eventually drowning about 99 million
years ago for unknown reasons; it is possible that the emergence damaged
its reefs. After a hiatus lasting until the Paleocene, pelagic
sedimentation deposited limestone, ooze and sand, which bear traces of
climatic events and ocean currents.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Guyot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1807:
The Froberg mutiny at Fort Ricasoli in Malta came to a close
when the rebels blew up 600 barrels of gunpowder and escaped, although
they were later caught and executed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froberg_mutiny>
1831:
Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, collapsed,
reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops marching in
step over the bridge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge>
1910:
SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the
Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Zr%C3%ADnyi>
1980:
Terry Fox, an athlete with an artificial leg, began running his
"Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, intending
to reach Vancouver, to raise funds for cancer research.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
spraddle:
1. (transitive, Canada, Caribbean (West Indies), US) To spread apart
(the legs).
2. (transitive, Canada, Caribbean (West Indies), US) To spread apart
the legs of (someone or something).
3. (intransitive, Canada, Caribbean (West Indies), US) To lie, move, or
stand with legs spread.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spraddle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know
what ain't so.
--Josh Billings
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Josh_Billings>
Satellite Science Fiction was an American science fiction magazine,
published from October 1956 to April 1959 by Leo Margulies' Renown
Publications. It was edited initially by Sam Merwin, then Margulies, and
finally Frank Belknap Long. In addition to a handful of short stories,
initially each issue ran a full-length novel, including the original
version of Philip K. Dick's first novel The Cosmic Puppets, and well-
received work by Algis Budrys and Jack Vance, though the quality was not
always high. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and L. Sprague de Camp
were among the short story contributors. Sam Moskowitz wrote a series
of articles on the early history of science fiction for Satellite; these
were later to be revised as part of his book Explorers of the Infinite.
In 1958 Margulies tracked down the first magazine publication of H.G.
Wells' The Time Machine from 1894–1895, and reprinted a short excerpt
from it that had been omitted by every subsequent printing.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Science_Fiction>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, considered one of the world's
finest concert halls, was inaugurated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertgebouw>
1921:
Emir Abdullah established the first centralised government in
the recently created British protectorate of Transjordan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan>
1963:
Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris ("Peace on Earth"), the
first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than
only to Catholics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacem_in_terris>
2001:
In a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, Australia defeated
defeated American Samoa by a score of 31–0, the largest ever in an
international football match.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_31%E2%80%930_American_Samoa>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
flabbergast:
(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or
stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flabbergast>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Black holes ain't as black as they are painted. They are not the
eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black
hole, both to the outside, and possibly to another universe. So if you
feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.
--Stephen Hawking
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking>