John J. Crittenden (September 10, 1787 – July 26, 1863) was an
American politician. He was the 17th governor of Kentucky, and
represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the
U.S. Senate. He also served as United States Attorney General in the
administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler and Millard
Fillmore. Lame duck president John Quincy Adams nominated Crittenden to
the U.S. Supreme Court on December 17, 1828, but supporters of
president-elect Andrew Jackson in the Senate voted to allow Jackson to
make his own nomination. While serving in the Senate in December 1860,
he authored the Crittenden Compromise, a series of resolutions and
constitutional amendments he hoped would avert the Civil War, but
Congress would not approve them. One of his sons, George B. Crittenden,
became a general in the Confederate Army. Another son, Thomas Leonidas
Crittenden, became a general in the Union Army.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Crittenden>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1547:
Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pinkie_Cleugh>
1946:
While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu,
later Mother Teresa, experienced what she later described as "the call
within the call", directing her to "leave the convent and help the poor
while living among them".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa>
1960:
Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics,
Abebe Bikila became the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win an
Olympic gold medal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Bikila>
2000:
Operation Barras freed six British soldiers held captive for
over two weeks, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barras>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
manacle:
1. A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined
rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle
to restrict free movement.
2. (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To confine with manacles.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manacle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to
creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising,
and gave to it neither power nor time.
--Mary Oliver
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver>
Ambondro mahabo is a mammal from the middle Jurassic (about 167 million
years ago) of Madagascar. The only species of the genus Ambondro, it is
known from a fragmentary lower jaw with three teeth (pictured),
interpreted as the last premolar and the first two molars. The premolar
consists of a central cusp with one or two smaller cusps and a cingulum
(shelf) on the inner, or lingual, side of the tooth. The molars have a
similar cingulum, three cusps at the front, and a talonid with a main
cusp, a smaller cusp, and a crest at the back. Features of the talonid
suggest that Ambondro had tribosphenic molars, the basic arrangement of
molar features also present in marsupial and placental mammals. It is
the oldest known mammal with putatively tribosphenic teeth; at the time
of its discovery it antedated the second oldest example by about
25 million years.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambondro_mahabo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
Ottoman wars in Europe: At the Battle of Krbava Field, a large
Croatian army intercepted an Ottoman force returning to the Sanjak of
Bosnia, but was defeated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Krbava_Field>
1892:
At the Lick Observatory, California, Edward Emerson Barnard
discovered Amalthea, the third moon of Jupiter and the last natural
satellite discovered by direct visual observation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalthea_%28moon%29>
1969:
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper
PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana,
destroying both planes and killing all 83 occupants of both aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853>
2001:
Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was
assassinated in Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
desideratum:
Something that is wished for, or considered desirable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desideratum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains
you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
--Cesare Pavese
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese>
Wipeout 3 is a racing video game developed by Psygnosis and published by
Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation console, first released
on 8 September 1999. In this third game in the Wipeout series, players
control extremely fast anti-gravity ships in a futuristic setting and
use weapons to force other contenders out of the race. Psygnosis hired
the British design studio Designers Republic to develop the game's look
and feel, wanting a futuristic yet plausible setting. The game's
soundtrack was assembled from electronica artists including The Chemical
Brothers and Orbital, as well as other performers. Critics praised
Wipeout 3's audiovisual presentation, with complaints leveled at the
game's unforgiving learning curve and controls. Despite overall positive
reception, the game was a financial disappointment. Wipeout 3 Special
Edition, featuring additional content, was released in 2000, and the
next entry in the series, Wipeout Fusion, was released for the
PlayStation 2 in 2002.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_3>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned king and
queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Saxe-Meiningen>
1900:
The Great Galveston hurricane, the deadliest disaster in U.S.
history, struck Galveston, Texas, with estimated winds of 135 miles per
hour (215 km/h) at landfall, killing at least 6,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane>
1966:
Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, suggesting that it
marked the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Bridge>
1994:
USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh
International Airport, resulting in 132 deaths and the longest accident
investigation in the history of the National Transportation Safety
Board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_427>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bottle episode:
(originally US, television) An episode of a television series designed
to be inexpensive and restricted in its use of sets, effects, cast
members, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bottle_episode>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Little tornado You and the hurricane Close your eyes and go
campaign Make it go faster Baby go faster Make it go twice the speed
of you and me
--Aimee Mann
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aimee_Mann>
George Hirst (7 September 1871 – 10 May 1954) was a professional
English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, mainly
between 1891 and 1921. He played in 24 Test matches for England, touring
Australia twice. He was a left arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed
batsman who completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a
season 14 times. He recorded 36,356 runs and 2,742 wickets taken in
first-class cricket and 790 runs and 59 wickets in Tests. Hirst was
regarded as a specialist batsman until around 1900, when he learned to
make the ball swing in flight, making his bowling difficult to counter.
He scored 341 runs in an innings against Leicestershire in 1905, and
made a unique double of 2,000 runs and 200 wickets in 1906. He played in
all England's home Test series between 1899 and 1909, although less
successfully than for his county. He played occasionally for Yorkshire
after the war, retiring to coach at Eton, while also training youths
from other social backgrounds.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hirst>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1778:
Anglo-French War: France invaded the island of Dominica
(depicted) and captured its British fort before the latter even knew
that France had allied with the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Dominica_%281778%29>
1901:
With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation
Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal
treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Protocol>
1999:
Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a
major earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate
"earthquake diplomacy".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%E2%80%93Turkish_earthquake_diplomacy>
2004:
Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least
85 percent of the island.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
spit:
1. A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking,
often over a fire.
2. A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. […]
3. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
4. (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of
rain or snow. […]
5. The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is
used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
6. The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget
everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it
so people will know how we used to live.
--Grandma Moses
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses>
The effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware were compounded by flooding
from the remnants of Tropical Storm Henri days before and resulted in a
presidential disaster declaration for the U.S. state. Hurricane Isabel
formed on September 6, 2003, in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and reached
recorded peak winds of 165 mph (265 km/h) on September 11. It made
landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with recorded winds of
105 mph (165 km/h) on September 18. It quickly weakened over land and
became extratropical over Pennsylvania the next day. Roughly six
million people were left without electric service in the eastern United
States from its strong winds. Sixteen deaths in seven states were
directly related to the hurricane, with 35 deaths in six states and one
Canadian province indirectly related, though none in Delaware. Overall
damage totalled about $5.5 billion, of which $40 million was
associated with Delaware.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Isabel_in_Delaware>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1946:
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announced that the U.S.
would follow a policy of economic reconstruction in post-war Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restatement_of_Policy_on_Germany>
1970:
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
hijacked four jet aircraft, landing two of them at Dawson's Field in
Zarqa, Jordan, and one in Beirut, with the last hijacking attempt
foiled.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings>
1976:
Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate,
Japan, declaring his intention to defect.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko>
2007:
The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on a suspected
nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate of Syria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outside_the_Box>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bray:
1. (intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the
ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
2. (intransitive, by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a
donkey's bray.
3. (transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly,
loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. [...]
4. (transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle
and mortar.
5. (transitive, Britain, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit
(someone or something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bray>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance
to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a
monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time
went and sorry that it's all gone.
--Robert M. Pirsig
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig>
In the 1950 United States Senate election in California, Republican
Richard Nixon (pictured) defeated Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas in a
campaign characterized by accusations and name-calling. Democratic
incumbent Sheridan Downey withdrew during the primary election campaign,
after which publisher Manchester Boddy joined the race; both attacked
Douglas as a leftist. Nixon and Douglas won the primaries, and at the
time of the Red Scare, tried to paint each other as sympathetic to
communism; Nixon had more success doing so. Democrats were slow to rally
to Douglas, and some even endorsed Nixon, who defeated Douglas by almost
20 percentage points in the November 7 election. Though Nixon was later
criticized for his tactics in the campaign, he defended his actions and
stated that Douglas was too far to the left for California's voters. The
campaign gave rise to two lasting political nicknames, "the Pink Lady"
for Douglas and "Tricky Dick" for Nixon.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_Califor…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1807:
Gunboat War: The Royal Navy concluded their bombardment of
Copenhagen and captured the Dano-Norwegian navy, leading to the term
"Copenhagenization".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_%281807%29>
1905:
Under the mediation of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the
Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of
Portsmouth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard near Portsmouth, New
Hampshire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Portsmouth>
1921:
Popular American comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle attended a
party during which a woman was fatally injured; although he was
eventually acquitted of manslaughter, the trial's scandal derailed his
career.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle>
1943:
World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at
Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Nadzab>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ascesis:
1. (Rigorous) self-discipline, particularly as a religious observance;
asceticism.
2. (Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, specifically) The praxis or
"exercise" of asceticism and self-denial of impulses or passions for the
sake of piety, theosis, and connection with God.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ascesis>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When you see your neighbors, their needs, their joys, their
sorrows, when you see them next door or halfway around the world, you
will know what to do. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas,
and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always
trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing
that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda. For
Christians, it is trusting in the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
--John Danforth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Danforth>
Sasha (born 4 September 1969) is a Welsh DJ and record producer, best
known for his live events, electronic music as a solo artist, and
collaborations with British DJ John Digweed. He topped DJ Magazine's Top
100 DJs poll in 2000, and is a four-time International Dance Music
Awards winner, four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee. He
began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s. In
1993 he partnered with Digweed, touring internationally. Sasha has
remixed tracks for artists including Madonna, The Chemical Brothers and
Hot Chip. He has produced three albums of original works: The Qat
Collection in 1994, Airdrawndagger in 2002 and Scene Delete in 2016. His
use of live audio engineering equipment helped popularise technological
innovations among DJs who formerly relied on records and turntables. In
2007 he formed a record label with Renaissance Records called emFire.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_%28DJ%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
Los Angeles (downtown pictured) was founded as El Pueblo de
Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles by forty-four Spanish settlers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles>
1839:
First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war
junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kowloon>
1912:
The Albanian revolt of 1912 came to an end when the Ottoman
government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_revolt_of_1912>
2010:
A 7.1 Mw earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand,
causing up to NZ$3.5 billion in damages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bread and circuses:
1. Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if
intended to placate the people.
2. (by extension) Grand spectacles staged or statements made to distract
and pacify people.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bread_and_circuses>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The issue which I propose for discussion should … be clear: how
to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon
commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either
grassland or roads — commons that are at least as valuable as silence.
Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary
for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape
people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for
speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for
moving. A transformation of the environment from a commons to a
productive resource constitutes the most fundamental form of
environmental degradation. This degradation has a long history, which
coincides with the history of capitalism but can in no way just be
reduced to it. Unfortunately the importance of this transformation has
been overlooked or belittled by political ecology so far. It needs to be
recognized if we are to organize defense movements of what remains of
the commons.
--Ivan Illich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich>
The September 2014 tour by the alternative rock band the Breeders
included thirteen concerts in the central and western United States. The
tour featured the lineup from their 1993 album Last Splash, with
Josephine Wiggs, Jim Macpherson, Kim Deal, and Kelley Deal (pictured
with Wiggs in 2009). Invited to open for Neutral Milk Hotel's September
18 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, they planned a tour to lead up to this
show, using the opportunity to practice some recent compositions. They
performed in eleven cities, including St. Louis, Denver, Seattle,
Portland, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. The group then played at the
Hollywood Bowl concert, and finished the tour on September 20 at the
Goose Island 312 Urban Block Party event in Chicago. As well as their
new songs, they performed numerous selections from Last Splash and Pod
(1990). Music critics commented that the performances were rousing, and
that the band was as good as—or better than—in its heyday.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breeders_Tour_2014>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1878:
The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River
Thames after colliding with a collier, killing over 600 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_SS_Princess_Alice>
1914:
World War I: The German army began an assault against French
positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Couronn%C3%A9>
1967:
Dagen H: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in
Sweden while drivers switched from the left-hand side of the road to the
right-hand side.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H>
2001:
The Troubles: Protestant loyalists began picketing a Catholic
primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_dispute>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bosk:
1. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
2. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bosk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant
hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and
impel it not to action?
--Louis Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan>
Lawrence Weathers (1890–1918) was an 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 the time. He
enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in early 1916, and joined the
43rd Battalion. His unit deployed to the Western Front in France and
Belgium in late December. Weathers took part in the Battle of Messines
in June 1917, and was wounded. Rejoining his unit in December, Weathers
fought during the German Spring Offensive, but was gassed in May and did
not return to his unit until the following month. He participated in the
Battle of Hamel in July, the Battle of Amiens in August, and the Battle
of Mont Saint-Quentin in September. At Mont Saint-Quentin, he was
recommended for the award of the Victoria Cross based on his actions on
2 September. He was mortally wounded by a shell on 29 September during
the Battle of St Quentin Canal, never having been aware that he was to
receive the Victoria Cross.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weathers>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III in
Sedan, France; the Second French Empire collapsed within days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sedan>
1912:
Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank
of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scout_%28Boy_Scouts_of_America%29>
1985:
Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone
that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf
Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 3 major
hurricane.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Elena>
2011:
Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force plane to crash in the
Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chilean_Air_Force_C-212_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
inthronize:
(obsolete) To enthrone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inthronize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the
scientific man is ignorance. On our plane knowledge and ignorance are
the immemorial adversaries.
--Frederick Soddy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Soddy>
The Mummy is a 1999 American action horror film written and directed by
Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser (pictured), Rachel Weisz,
John Hannah, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Arnold Vosloo. In this film, a loose
remake of a film of the same name from 1932, adventurers accidentally
awaken Imhotep, a high priest from Pharaoh Seti I's reign who has been
cursed for eternity. Filming began in Marrakesh, Morocco, in May 1998;
the crew had to endure dehydration, sandstorms, and snakes while filming
in the Sahara. The visual effects were provided by Industrial Light &
Magic, who blended film and computer-generated imagery to create the
mummy. The film opened on May 7, 1999, and went on to gross $416 million
worldwide. The box-office success led to two sequels, The Mummy Returns
(2001) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), as well as an
animated series, and a prequel, The Scorpion King. The film also
inspired a roller coaster, Revenge of the Mummy, in three Universal
Studios Theme Parks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_%281999_film%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1804:
German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the
largest main belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Juno>
1939:
German forces invaded multiple locations in Poland, including
Wieluń and Westerplatte, starting World War II in Europe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Westerplatte>
1969:
Muammar Gaddafi led a coup d'état to overthrow Idris I of
Libya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi>
1983:
A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air
Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific,
killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pandeism:
1. (religion) A belief in a god who is both pantheistic and deistic, in
particular a god who designed the universe and then became it and ceased
to exist separately and act consciously with respect to it.
2. (religion, rare) Worship which admits or tolerates favourable aspects
of all religions; omnitheism.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pandeism>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
People ask where writers get ideas. Take my advice. Some cool,
clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block
your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our
real neighborhood.
--C. J. Cherryh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._J._Cherryh>