The Fall of Kampala was a battle during the Uganda–Tanzania War in
April 1979, in which the combined forces of Tanzania and the Uganda
National Liberation Front (UNLF) attacked and captured the Ugandan
capital, Kampala. Tanzanian forces were repulsing an invasion launched
by Ugandan President Idi Amin (pictured). After routing the Ugandans and
their Libyan allies in Entebbe, the Tanzanians moved on Kampala. They
entered the city with UNLF forces on 10 April, facing minimal resistance
but hampered by their lack of maps. The fall of the city was announced
the next day. The Tanzanians cleared out the remaining pockets of
opposition, while jubilant civilians celebrated through indiscriminate,
destructive looting. Amin was deposed, his forces were scattered, and a
new government was installed. The battle marked the first time in the
modern history of the continent that an African state seized the capital
of another African country and deposed its government.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kampala>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1858:
Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in
London, was cast after the original bell cracked during testing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben>
1925:
The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first
published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby>
1959:
Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded
Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Michiko>
2009:
Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced that he had
suspended the constitution and assumed all governance in the country
after it was ruled that the government of Prime Minister Frank
Bainimarama was illegal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fijian_constitutional_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deem:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to
sentence.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
4. (transitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a
conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs;
to account.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; to
decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
6. (intransitive) To have or hold as an opinion; to judge; to think.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is … no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a
fancied exemption from all prejudice.
--William Hazlitt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt>
Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet in the outer region of the Solar
System. Its gravitational effects could explain the unlikely clustering
of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects, bodies with
average distances from the Sun that are more than 250 times that of
Earth. These objects tend to make their closest approaches to the Sun in
one sector, and their orbits are similarly tilted. Their improbable
alignments suggest that an undiscovered planet may be shepherding the
orbits of the most distant known Solar System objects. Planet Nine would
have a predicted mass five to ten times that of Earth, and an elongated
orbit extending 400 to 800 times as far from the Sun as the Earth's. It
may have been ejected from its original orbit by Jupiter during the
genesis of the Solar System, wrested from another star, captured as a
rogue planet, or pulled into an eccentric orbit by a passing star.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of
attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge>
1942:
World War II: Japanese forces defeated Allied troops at the
Battle of Bataan on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines before
beginning to forcibly transfer more than 90,000 prisoners of war to
prison camps in the Bataan Death March.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March>
1959:
NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven, the first
astronauts in Project Mercury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Seven>
1999:
President of Niger Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was shot to death
by soldiers in Niamey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Bar%C3%A9_Ma%C3%AFnassara>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
grandfather:
1. (transitive, chiefly US, law) To retain existing laws or rules for (a
person or organization previously affected by them).
2. (intransitive, chiefly US, law) To retain existing laws or rules only
for people or organizations previously affected by them, and to apply
new laws or rules to the unaffected people or organizations.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grandfather>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The
Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a
fundamentalist.
--Tom Lehrer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer>
Billy Martin (1928–1989) was an American Major League Baseball second
baseman and the on-again, off-again manager of the New York Yankees.
Known first as a scrappy infielder on the championship Yankee teams of
the 1950s, he built a reputation as a manager who would initially make
bad teams good, and then be fired amid dysfunction. In each of his
stints with the Yankees, he led them to winning records before being
fired or forced to resign by team owner George Steinbrenner. Martin led
the team to consecutive American League pennants in 1976 and 1977; they
lost in the 1976 World Series but triumphed over the Los Angeles Dodgers
in 1977, Martin's only World Series championship as a manager. He was
forced to resign midway through the 1978 season, returned in 1979, and
was fired at season's end. From 1980 to 1982, he managed the Oakland
A's, earning a division title with an aggressive style of play known as
"Billyball". After the A's fired him, he managed the Yankees three more
times.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Martin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1271:
The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers to
the army of the Mamluk sultan Baibars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers>
1740:
War of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captured the
Spanish ship of the line Princesa, which was later mustered into British
service.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Princess_%281740%29>
1904:
France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale,
agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent
conflict.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_Cordiale>
1959:
A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the
creation of a common business-oriented programming language that became
COBOL.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
comply:
1. To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt
oneself, to conform.
2. (archaic) To accomplish, to fulfil. [from late 16th c.]
3. (archaic) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
4. (archaic) To enfold; to embrace.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comply>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone
pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and
unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that
it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were
someday to disappear.
--Emil Cioran
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran>
Sabre Wulf is an action-adventure game by Ultimate Play the Game,
initially released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum home computer. The player
navigates the pith-helmeted Sabreman through a colourful 2D jungle maze
to collect amulet pieces, avoid enemies, and bypass the guardian at its
exit. With no explicit guidance on how to play, the player is left to
decipher the game's objectives through trial and error. The game
developers had finished Sabre Wulf's sequels in advance of its release
but—in keeping with their penchant for secrecy—chose to withhold
them until later that year. They hired outside developers to port the
game to several other computing platforms. Sabre Wulf was a bestseller
and a financial success. It was recommended by reviewers, who also noted
its difficult gameplay and praised its graphics. Retrospective critics
remember Sabre Wulf as among the Spectrum's best releases.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Wulf>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1949:
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29>
1994:
The Rwandan genocide began, a few hours after the assassination
of President Juvénal Habyarimana; an estimated 500,000–1,000,000
Rwandans were killed in the following 100 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide>
2017:
A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along
Drottninggatan in Stockholm killing five people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Stockholm_truck_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chivvy:
1. (transitive, Britain) To coerce or hurry along, as by persistent
request.
2. (transitive, Britain) To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
3. (transitive, Britain) To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
4. (transitive, Britain) To pursue as in a hunt.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chivvy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music;
there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant
elements, makes them cling together In one society.
--William Wordsworth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth>
The Rogožarski IK-3 was a 1930s Yugoslav monoplane single-seat fighter,
designed as a successor to the Ikarus IK-2 fighter. Coming into service
in 1940, it was considered comparable to foreign aircraft such as the
Messerschmitt Bf 109E. Although the prototype crashed during testing, a
total of twelve production aircraft had been delivered by July 1940. Six
IK-3s were serviceable when the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia began on 6
April 1941. All six were in service with the 51st Independent Fighter
Group at Zemun near Belgrade. Pilots flying the IK-3 claimed 11 aircraft
shot down during the 11-day conflict. According to one account, to
prevent them from falling into German hands, the surviving aircraft and
incomplete airframes were destroyed by their crews and factory staff.
Another account suggests that one aircraft survived the invasion and was
later destroyed by sabotage. The IK-3 design was the basis for the post-
war Yugoslav-built Ikarus S-49 fighter.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogo%C5%BEarski_IK-3>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1812:
Peninsular War: After a three-week siege, the Anglo-Portuguese
Army, under the Earl of Wellington, captured Badajoz, Spain, and forced
the surrender of the French garrison.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Badajoz_%281812%29>
1941:
World War II: The Axis Powers began both Operation Marita and
Operation 25, invading Greece and Yugoslavia, respectively.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia>
1970:
Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a
shootout after a traffic stop in the Newhall area, north of Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhall_incident>
2009:
A 6.3 Mw earthquake struck the region of Abruzzo in central
Italy (damage pictured), killing 308 people and injuring more than 1,500
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L%27Aquila_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wieldy:
1. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) Able to wield one's body well;
active, dexterous.
2. Capable of being easily wielded or managed; handy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wieldy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of
acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
--James Mill
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Mill>
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.
Set in London, the US and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by
Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. Fleming wrote the novel at his Goldeneye
estate in Jamaica before his first book, Casino Royale, was published.
The story centres on Bond's pursuit of Mr Big, who has links to an
American criminal network, the world of voodoo and SMERSH—an arm of
the Russian secret service—all of which are threats to the West. Bond
becomes involved in the US through Mr Big's smuggling of 17th-century
gold coins from British territories in the Caribbean. The novel deals
with themes of the ongoing East–West struggle of the Cold War,
including British and American relations, Britain's position in the
world, race relations and the struggle between good and evil. It was
adapted in 1973 as the eighth film in the Eon Productions Bond series
and the first to star Roger Moore (pictured) as Bond.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_%28novel%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1710:
The Statute of Anne, the first fully fledged law regulating
copyright, received royal assent and went into effect five days later in
Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne>
1986:
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin,
killing 3 people and injuring 229 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing>
2000:
Before a semi-final of the 2000 UEFA Cup in Istanbul, violence
broke out that resulted in two Leeds United fans being stabbed to death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_UEFA_Cup_semi-final_violence>
2009:
The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from
the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking
concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used
to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
whelm:
1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to
cover it.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whelm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To promise that which is known to be impossible is no covenant.
But if that prove impossible afterwards, which before was thought
possible, the covenant is valid and bindeth, though not to the thing
itself, yet to the value; or, if that also be impossible, to the
unfeigned endeavour of performing as much as is possible, for to more no
man can be obliged. Men are freed of their covenants two ways; by
performing, or by being forgiven. For performance is the natural end of
obligation, and forgiveness the restitution of liberty, as being a
retransferring of that right in which the obligation consisted.
--Thomas Hobbes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes>
Roberto Luongo (born April 4, 1979) is a professional ice hockey
goaltender for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic Hockey Team, where he won his
second Olympic gold medal in a largely backup role to Carey Price. He
employs the butterfly style of goaltending and has previously played in
the NHL for the New York Islanders and the Vancouver Canucks. Luongo is
a two-time NHL Second All-Star (2004 and 2007) and a winner of the
William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest
goals-against average in the league (2011). He has been a finalist for
the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender (2004, 2007 and 2011),
the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers (2004
and 2007) and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable
player (2007). Luongo is second all-time in games played as an NHL
goaltender, and is third all-time in wins.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Luongo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. President to die
in office, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions of
presidential succession that were left unanswered by the U.S.
Constitution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO,
an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby
its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by
any external party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
2002:
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty,
agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long
Angolan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War>
2013:
A building collapsed on tribal land in Mumbra, a suburb of
Thane in Maharashtra, India, causing 74 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Thane_building_collapse>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sensical:
That makes sense; showing internal logic; rational, sensible.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sensical>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Freedom is inseparable from conscience. And even if it is true
that all the ideas developed by the social consciousness are the product
of evolution, conscience at least has nothing to do with the historic
process. Conscience, both as a sense and as a concept, is a priori
immanent in man, and shakes the very foundations of the society that has
emerged from our ill-conceived civilisation.
--Andrei Tarkovsky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky>
The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a large plover found in the
Americas. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758
by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae. Subspecies
breed from southeastern Alaska and southern Canada to Mexico, in the
West Indies, and in and around Peru. The non-breeding habitat includes
coastal wetlands, beach habitats, and coastal fields. Although it is a
shorebird, it does not necessarily nest close to water. Both parents
incubate the young for 22 to 28 days on average. The killdeer primarily
feeds on insects, although other invertebrates and seeds are eaten. It
forages almost exclusively in fields, especially those with short
vegetation and with cattle and standing water. It has a range of
responses to predation by birds and mammals, including charging at
intruders, which can be fatal for the killdeer. The species is declining
but not yet threatened.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdeer>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1895:
The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde began,
eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of
gross indecency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde>
1946:
Imperial Japanese Army officer Masaharu Homma was executed for
war crimes relating to the Bataan Death March.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Homma>
1981:
The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was
unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1>
2009:
A gunman opened fire at an American Civic Association
immigration center in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing thirteen and
wounding four before committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shootings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
loggerhead:
1. (obsolete) A stupid person; a blockhead, a dolt.
2. A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made
hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a
liquid) to melt or heat it.
3. (nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
4. (botany, Midlands, dialectal) Often in plural: a thistle-like
flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed
(Centaurea nigra).
5. (zoology) Used as the name of various animals with large heads.
6. The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus;
formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the
Falkland Islands.
7. The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to
the Caribbean and West Indies.
8. The rufous-tailed flycatcher (Myiarchus validus), a bird endemic to
Jamaica.
9. The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North
America.
10. The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor), a large-headed
turtle endemic to the United States.
11. The loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an
oceanic turtle found throughout the world.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loggerhead>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with
nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth
that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those
young people as I can through my own efforts.
--Jane Goodall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall>
Jørgen Jensen (1891–1922) was a Danish-born Australian recipient of
the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in battle that could
be awarded to a member of the Australian armed forces at that time.
Jensen enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in March 1915, serving
with the 10th Battalion during the latter stages of the Gallipoli
Campaign. After the Australian force withdrew to Egypt, he was
transferred to the newly formed 50th Battalion, and sailed for France
with the unit in June 1916. On the Western Front, he was wounded during
the battalion's first serious action, the Battle of Mouquet Farm in
August, and only returned to his unit in late January 1917. On 2 April,
his battalion attacked the Hindenburg Outpost Line at Noreuil, where his
actions led to the capture of over fifty German soldiers and resulted in
the award of the Victoria Cross. Jensen survived the war, despite a
severe head wound in April 1918, but died in 1922.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Jensen_%28soldier%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
In Richmond, Virginia, U.S., about 5,000 people, mostly poor
women, rioted in protest of the exorbitant price of bread.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_bread_riots>
1976:
Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia
and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk>
1979:
Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military
research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg),
resulting in approximately 100 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak>
2015:
Four elderly men burgled items worth up to £200 million from a
safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in the "largest
burglary in English legal history."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatton_Garden_safe_deposit_burglary>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
imburse:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply
with money.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay back money that is owed; to refund, to
repay, to reimburse.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imburse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who
can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up,
to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in
this there is something always a little mad.
--Kenneth Tynan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tynan>
The Siege of Aiguillon commenced on 1 April 1346 during the Hundred
Years' War, when a French army commanded by John, Duke of Normandy, laid
siege to the Gascon town of Aiguillon. The town, with strategic command
of the rivers Garonne and Lot, was defended by Anglo-Gascon forces under
Ralph, Earl of Stafford. The garrison, some 900 men, sortied repeatedly
to interrupt the French operations, while Henry, Earl of Lancaster,
concentrated the main Anglo-Gascon force at La Réole as a threat. Duke
John, the son and heir of Philip VI, was never able to fully blockade
the town. By August, the seriously harassed French supply lines had
broken down, there was a dysentery epidemic in their camp, desertion was
rife, and Philip was demanding that John's force join up with the main
French army. On 20 August the French abandoned the siege and marched
away. Six days later Philip's army was decisively beaten by the main
English army in the Battle of Crécy, two weeks before John's force
arrived in the north.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Aiguillon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
American Civil War: The Union Army inflicted over 1,000
casualties on the Confederates led by George Pickett and took between
2,400 and 4,000 prisoners in the Battle of Five Forks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Forks>
1947:
The main mutiny in a series of mutinies of the Royal New
Zealand Navy began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Royal_New_Zealand_Navy_mutinies>
1969:
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter
aircraft with vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) capabilities,
entered service with the Royal Air Force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
couth:
1. (obsolete) Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
2. (Scotland) Variant of couthie.
3. Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
4. Comfortable; cosy, snug. […]
5. Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured,
refined.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There's not a thing on Earth, that I can name, So foolish, and
so false, as common fame. It calls the courtier knave, the plain man
rude, Haughty the grave, and the delightful lewd, Impertinent the
brisk, morose the sad, Mean the familiar, the reserv'd-one mad.
--John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester>