Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, the false chanterelle, is a species of fungus
in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophoropsidaceae>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1925:
The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott
Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby>
1944:
The Holocaust: Slovak Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd
Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, later publishing a report that became
one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the camp's mass
killings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba>
1970:
In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul
McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney>
1992:
Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were
massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraga_massacre>
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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 have or hold as an
opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and
the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept
false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the
unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
--William Hazlitt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt>
Fir Clump Stone Circle was an ancient monument in Burderop Wood near
Wroughton, Wiltshire, in South West England. It was one of at least
seven stone circles known to have been built in northern Wiltshire
south of Swindon, but none of them remain. The ring was part of a
tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of
Britain, Ireland and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze
Age, between 3300 and 900 BCE. The purpose of such monuments is
unknown, although archaeologists speculate that the stones represented
supernatural entities. Around the 1860s, the megaliths in Fir Clump
Stone Circle were levelled, but some of them were rediscovered in 1965
by the archaeologist Richard Reiss, who described and measured the
monument. In 1969, these stones were removed during construction of the
M4 motorway.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir_Clump_Stone_Circle>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1940:
During the German invasion of Norway, Vidkun Quisling attempted
to seize power in the first coup to be broadcast over radio.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling>
1945:
The German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, the most successful
capital-ship surface raider of the Second World War, was sunk by British
bombers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Scheer>
1980:
Iraqi philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Amina
were executed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Baqir_al-Sadr>
2005:
Charles, Prince of Wales, married Camilla Parker Bowles in a
civil ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Charles_and_Camilla_Parker_…>
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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:
When I get to heaven, I'm gonna shake God's hand Thank him for
more blessings than one man can stand Then I'm gonna get a guitar and
start a rock-n-roll band Check into a swell hotel, ain't the afterlife
grand?
--John Prine
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Prine>
Gerard (died 1108) was Archbishop of York between 1100 and 1108 and Lord
Chancellor of England from 1085 until 1092. A Norman, he was a member of
the cathedral clergy at Rouen before becoming a royal clerk under King
William I of England, who appointed him Lord Chancellor. He continued
in that office under King William II Rufus, who rewarded him with the
Bishopric of Hereford in 1096. Soon after Henry I's coronation, Gerard
was appointed to the recently vacant see of York, and became embroiled
in the dispute between York and the see of Canterbury concerning which
archbishopric had primacy over England. He secured papal recognition of
York's jurisdiction over the church in Scotland but was forced to accept
Canterbury's authority over York. He also worked on reconciling the
Investiture Controversy between the king and the papacy over the right
to appoint bishops until the controversy's resolution in 1107. Because
of rumours, as a student of astrology, that he was a magician and a
sorcerer, and also because of his unpopular attempts to reform his
clergy, he was denied a burial inside York Minster but his remains were
later moved into the cathedral.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_%28archbishop_of_York%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1630:
Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany,
New York, to found the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, which became the most
successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Rensselaerswyck>
1911:
American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film
Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo_%281911_film%29>
1968:
BOAC Flight 712 experienced an engine fire shortly after take-
off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board,
including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was posthumously awarded a
George Cross for heroism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jane_Harrison>
2013:
Two Sunni Muslim extremist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Al-Nusra Front, merged to become the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
munshi:
1. (South Asia) A clerk or secretary.
2. (South Asia) A language teacher, especially one teaching Hindustani
or Persian.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/munshi>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against
time. Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a
dime?
--Yip Harburg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yip_Harburg>
South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work
was an immediate hit on Broadway in 1949, running for 1,925 performances
and winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The plot is based on several
stories in James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1947 book Tales
of the South Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein believed that the musical
could be successful and send a strong progressive message on racism.
They wrote several of the songs with the particular talents of their
stars, Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin, in mind. Most of its songs became
popular, including "Some Enchanted Evening" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man
Right Outa My Hair" (performance pictured). The original Broadway
production won ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical; its original
cast album was the bestselling record of the 1940s. The show has enjoyed
many successful revivals and tours, spawning a 1958 film and later
television adaptations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1724:
Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his St John Passion, a musical
setting of the Passion of Jesus, at Good Friday Vespers in St. Nicholas
Church, Leipzig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Passion>
1945:
World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato,
then the largest in the world, during Operation Ten-Go in the East China
Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ten-Go>
1995:
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre
of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samashki_massacre>
2010:
Violent protests started in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in
response to perceived corruption and rising living expenses, eventually
resulting in the collapse of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_Revolution_of_2010>
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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:
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the
impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science …
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of
laws and customs, — in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and
things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and
knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the
whole earth, and over all time … Poetry is the first and last of all
knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man.
--William Wordsworth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth>
Operation Retribution was the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade,
the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in retaliation for the coup
d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite
Pact. The bombing occurred in the first days of the invasion of
Yugoslavia by German-led Axis forces during World War II. The Royal
Yugoslav Army Air Force had only 77 modern fighter aircraft available to
defend Belgrade against the hundreds of German fighters and bombers that
struck in the first wave early on 6 April. Three days prior, Major
Vladimir Kren had defected to the Germans, elucidating the air force's
codes and disclosing the locations of military assets. Three more waves
of bombers attacked Belgrade on 6 April, and more attacks followed in
subsequent days. The attacks resulted in the paralysis of Yugoslav
civilian and military command and control, the widespread destruction of
Belgrade's infrastructure, and many civilian casualties.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Retribution_%281941%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
The first modern Olympic Games (official report cover shown)
opened in Athens, with 241 athletes from 14 nations participating in 43
events.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics>
1945:
Second World War: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville
Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th
Brigade against the Imperial Japanese Army's 6th Division.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Slater%27s_Knoll>
1970:
Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a
shootout following a traffic stop in Newhall, north of Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhall_incident>
2010:
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist
Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy
in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2010_Maoist_attack_in_Dantewada>
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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:
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But
if we are wise We know that there's always tomorrow. Lean on me, when
you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For
it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on.
--Bill Withers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Withers>
Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created
by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures
of a boy named Finn, voiced by Jeremy Shada (pictured), and his best
friend Jake, a dog who can change shape and size at will, voiced by John
DiMaggio. In the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, they interact with
Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the Ice King (Tom Kenny), Marceline
(Olivia Olson), and others. The series is based on a 2007 short for
Nicktoons and Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons. Premiering April 5,
2010, and ending September 3, 2018, each 11-minute episode took roughly
8–9 months to complete using hand-drawn animation. Adventure Time was
a ratings success for Cartoon Network with up to three million viewers.
It has received positive reviews from critics and won eight Primetime
Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, three Annie Awards, and two British
Academy Children's Awards. Four Adventure Time specials will air on HBO
Max starting in 2020.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first
publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park>
1936:
During the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history,
an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tupelo%E2%80%93Gainesville_tornado_outbr…>
1976:
The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime
triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the
Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Incident>
2000:
Before a semi-final of the UEFA Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, fan
violence broke out, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being
stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending
the second leg in England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_UEFA_Cup_semi-final_violence>
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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:
I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and
restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And
the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive
delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content
with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means
to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. And
from hence it is that kings, whose power is greatest, turn their
endeavours to the assuring it at home by laws or abroad by wars; and,
when that is done, there succeedeth a new desire, in some of fame from
new conquest, in others of ease and sensual pleasure, in others of
admiration or being flattered for excellence in some art or other
ability of the mind.
--Thomas Hobbes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes>
When You Get a Little Lonely is a studio album by American actor and
singer Maureen McCormick (pictured), her only solo album, released on
April 4, 1995, through the label Phantom Hill. While playing Marcia
Brady in the sitcom The Brady Bunch in the 1970s, McCormick recorded
four albums with the cast and a duet album with her co-star Christopher
Knight. In 1994, she signed with her brother's record label and recorded
When You Get a Little Lonely in Nashville, Tennessee, and Hollywood,
California. McCormick selected the final track listing, fusing other
genres into the album's overall country sound. Barry Coffing was the
executive producer, and arranged and produced all the songs. The title
track and "Tell Mama" were released as singles. The album received
mainly negative reviews. Since its release, McCormick has continued to
perform country music and has appeared on the reality television show
Gone Country.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Get_a_Little_Lonely>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1721:
Robert Walpole (portrait shown) took office as First Lord of
the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of
Commons, becoming Britain's first de facto prime minister.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing
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>
1975:
Vietnam War: On a mission to evacuate children from South
Vietnam, a U.S. Air Force plane crash-landed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base,
killing 153.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_T%C3%A2n_S%C6%A1n_Nh%E1%BB%A9t_C-5_accid…>
2002:
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a memorandum of
understanding, agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending
the 26-year-long Angolan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War>
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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:
⨀ Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of
mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
--Baruch Spinoza
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza>
The Rodrigues starling (Necropsar rodericanus) is an extinct species of
starling that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. Its
closest relatives were the Mauritius starling and the hoopoe starling
from nearby islands. The bird was reported by a French sailor Julien
Tafforet, who was marooned on the island from 1725 to 1726. He observed
it on the offshore islet of Île Gombrani. Subfossil remains (pictured)
from the mainland were described in 1879, and suggested to be of the
same species. Confusion about the bird and its taxonomic relations
persisted through the 20th century. This starling was 25–30
centimetres (10–12 inches) long, and had a stout beak. It was
described as having a white body, partially black wings and tail, and a
yellow bill and legs. Little is known about its behaviour, although its
diet included eggs and dead tortoises. Predation by rats introduced to
the area was probably responsible for the bird's extinction some time in
the 18th century, first on mainland Rodrigues, then on Île Gombrani.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues_starling>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
Emma Elizabeth Smith was killed in the first of eleven unsolved
murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel
district in the East End of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_murders>
1922:
Joseph Stalin became the first general secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin>
1948:
Division of Korea: A communist uprising began on Jeju Island,
eventually leading to the deaths of thousands of individuals and
atrocities committed by both sides, including the violent suppression of
the rebellion by South Korean forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising>
2000:
In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to
have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet
Explorer with its Windows operating system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.>
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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:
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
--Jane Goodall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall>
Hathor was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. As a sky deity,
she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra,
and the symbolic mother of their earthly representatives, the pharaohs.
She was one of several goddesses who acted as the Eye of Ra, Ra's
feminine counterpart, and in this form she had a vengeful aspect that
protected him from his enemies. Her beneficent side represented music,
dance, joy, love, sexuality and maternal care. These two aspects of the
goddess exemplified the Egyptian conception of femininity. Hathor
crossed boundaries between worlds, helping deceased souls in the
transition to the afterlife. She was often depicted as a cow, although
her most common form was a woman wearing a headdress of cow horns and a
sun disk. More temples were dedicated to her than to any other goddess;
her most prominent temple was Dendera. She was one of the deities
commonly invoked in private prayers and votive offerings, particularly
by women desiring children.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
American Civil War: On the third attempt, Union forces captured
Petersburg, Virginia, although Confederate officials and most of their
remaining troops were able to escape.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Petersburg>
1973:
The Liberal Movement, a South Australian political party, was
established following a split from the Liberal and Country League.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Movement_%28Australia%29>
1984:
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be
launched into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh_Sharma>
2002:
Operation Defensive Shield: Palestinian militants sought refuge
from advancing Israeli forces in the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem, beginning a month-long standoff.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_Church_of_the_Nativity_in_Bethle…>
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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:
We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we
were doing it.
--Kenneth Tynan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tynan>
Tirpitz was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi
Germany during World War II. The ship was laid down in November 1936 and
commissioned in February 1941. Tirpitz was armed with a main battery of
eight 38-centimetre (15 in) guns in four twin turrets. She was the
heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy. In early 1942, the
ship sailed to Norway to act as a fleet in being, forcing the British
navy to retain significant forces in the area. In September 1943,
Tirpitz, along with the battleship Scharnhorst, bombarded Allied
positions on Spitzbergen, the only time the ship's main battery was used
offensively. On 12 November 1944, British Lancaster bombers equipped
with 12,000-pound (5,400 kg) "Tallboys" bombed the ship, causing her to
capsize. A deck fire spread to an ammunition magazine causing a large
explosion. Between 1948 and 1957, the wreck was broken up in a salvage
operation. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of
Germany.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Battleships_of_Germ…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
The Duke of Buckingham formally opened the Brill Tramway
(locomotive pictured), a short railway line to transport goods between
his lands and the national rail network.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Tramway>
1918:
The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force was founded, towards the
end of the First World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force>
1970:
U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette
Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon
general be placed on cigarette packages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Cigarette_Smoking_Act>
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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:
When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man
looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute
accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because
of it.
--Anne McCaffrey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey>