Sixteen grounds have hosted the Wales national football team in
international association football competitions. The team played its
first match in 1876 against Scotland before hosting its first home match
the following year at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, the world's
oldest international football ground still in use. The ground hosted all
of Wales's matches until 1890. Matches were held in several parts of the
country, including Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea, over the following two
decades. Ninian Park in Cardiff hosted its first international in 1911,
and Vetch Field in Swansea hosted its first in 1921; they shared Wales's
home matches with the Racecourse for nearly a century. In 1989 the team
began playing at the National Stadium in Cardiff, and in 2000 the
Millennium Stadium became the team's new home ground. After a gradual
drop in attendance, Cardiff City Stadium (pictured) was designated
Wales's permanent home venue. The Racecourse has held more matches (94)
than any other venue.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_national_football_team_home_stadium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1326:
King Edward II of England issued a royal charter confirming
Adam de Brome's foundation of Oriel College, Oxford.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriel_College,_Oxford>
1941:
World War II: Sparked by the murder of a German officer the
previous day, members of the Iron Guard began a rebellion and pogrom in
Bucharest, Romania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom>
1981:
The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car
of the DMC DeLorean (example pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean>
2011:
Demonstrations in Tirana against alleged corruption in the
Albanian government led to the killings of three protesters by the
Republican Guard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Albanian_opposition_demonstrations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pomander:
1. (countable, uncountable, historical) A mixture of aromatic
substances, made into a ball and carried by a person to impart a sweet
smell or as a protection against infection.
2. (countable, historical) A small case in which an aromatic ball was
carried.
3. (countable) A perforated container filled with pot-pourri for placing
in a drawer, wardrobe, room, etc., to provide a sweet smell.
4. (countable) An apple or orange studded with cloves used for the same
purpose.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pomander>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light.
If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be
it.
--Amanda Gorman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amanda_Gorman>
John Neal (1793–1876) was an American writer, critic, editor,
lecturer, and activist. He delivered speeches and published essays,
novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s. Neal
advanced American art, advocated the end of slavery and racial
prejudice, and helped establish the American gymnastics movement. The
first American author to use natural diction, he was also the first to
use "son-of-a-bitch" in a work of fiction. He attained his greatest
literary achievements between 1817 and 1835 as the first American
published in British literary journals, author of the first history of
American literature, America's first art critic, and a forerunner of the
American Renaissance. One of the first men to advocate women's rights in
the US, he affirmed intellectual equality between men and women, fought
coverture laws, and demanded equal pay, better education and suffrage
for women, declaring "I tell you there is no hope for woman, till she
has a hand in making the law".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neal_%28writer%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1877:
The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers
declaring the need for political reforms, which the Ottoman Empire
refused to undertake and later resulting in the Russo-Turkish War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Conference>
1969:
Bengali student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman was shot and
killed by East Pakistani police, an event that led to the Bangladesh
Liberation War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanullah_Asaduzzaman>
2009:
During a national financial crisis, thousands of people
protested at the Icelandic parliament in Reykjavík.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Icelandic_financial_crisis_protests>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
acquit:
1. (transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
2. (transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear
off, to pay off; to fulfil.
3. (transitive) Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge,
release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or
from an accusation or charge.
4. (reflexive) To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.
5. (reflexive) To clear oneself.
6. (transitive, archaic) past participle of acquit.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To release, to rescue, to set free.
8. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acquit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must restore the soul of America. Our nation is shaped by
the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses.
It is time for our better angels to prevail. Tonight, the whole world
is watching America. I believe at our best America is a beacon for the
globe. And we lead not by the example of our power, but by the power of
our example. … Now, together — on eagle's wings — we embark on the
work that God and history have called upon us to do. With full hearts
and steady hands, with faith in America and in each other, with a love
of country — and a thirst for justice — let us be the nation that we
know we can be. A nation united. A nation strengthened. A nation
healed. The United States of America.
--Joe Biden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden>
Alexander II Zabinas (c. 150 BC – 123 BC) was a Seleucid monarch
of the Hellenistic period who reigned as King of Syria between 128 BC
and 123 BC. Most historians, ancient and modern, maintain that he was a
pretender to the throne, although his coinage suggests that he claimed
descent from Antiochus IV (died 164 BC), the brother of King
Seleucus IV (died 175 BC). Descendants of both brothers were
contending for the throne. In 128 BC, King Demetrius II of Syria, the
representative of Seleucus IV's line, invaded Egypt to support his
mother-in-law Cleopatra II in a civil war. Demetrius was killed while
trying to find refuge in the city of Tyre, and Alexander II became the
master of the kingdom. Egypt's Ptolemy VIII did not want a strong king
on the Syrian throne, and in 124 BC an alliance was established between
Egypt and Cleopatra Thea, ruling jointly with Antiochus VIII, her son
by Demetrius II. Alexander II was defeated and was probably executed
by Antiochus VIII.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_Zabinas>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1795:
The Batavian Republic was established the day after William V
fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in
Amsterdam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavian_Revolution_in_Amsterdam>
1915:
World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing
campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns
in Norfolk.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_strategic_bombing_during_World_War_I>
1996:
A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island,
U.S., spilling an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3,130,000 l) of home
heating oil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape_oil_spill>
2007:
Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant
Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Hrant_Dink>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gumption:
1. (Britain) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
2. (US) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
3. (US) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gumption>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are here knowing that we are at an inflection point in the
history of our world. We are at an inflection point in in the history of
our nation. We are here because the American Dream and our American
democracy are under attack and on the line like never before. We are
here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental
question: Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So, let’s answer that
question. To the world. And each other. Right here. And, right now. …
We can heal our nation. We can give our children the future they
deserve. We can reclaim the American Dream for every single person in
our country. We can restore America’s moral leadership on this planet.
So let’s do this. And let’s do it together. And let's start now.
--Kamala Harris
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris>
Porlock Stone Circle, on Exmoor in the south-western English county of
Somerset, is 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 3,300 and 900 BCE. The purpose
of such monuments is unknown, although archaeologists speculate that the
stones represented supernatural entities for the circles' builders. Many
monuments were built in Exmoor during the Bronze Age, but the only other
surviving stone circle in the area is the one near Withypool. The circle
near Porlock is about 24 metres (79 feet) in diameter and has thirteen
green micaceous sandstone rocks. Directly to the north-east of the ring
is a cairn apparently connected to a linear stone row. A small lead
wheel inside the circle suggests that the site was visited during the
Romano-British period. The site was rediscovered in the 1920s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porlock_Stone_Circle>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
A number of independent German states unified to form the
German Empire, with King Wilhelm I of Prussia as emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany>
1915:
Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One
Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One_Demands>
1943:
World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a
narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted
German siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iskra>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
banausic:
1. (formal) Of or pertaining to technical matters; mechanical.
2. (formal) Uncultured, unrefined, utilitarian.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banausic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
History will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol,
incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about
the outcome of a lawful election, as a moment of great dishonor and
shame for our nation. … I've been heartened to see many members of
the President's party speak up forcefully today. Their voices add to the
examples of Republican state and local election officials in states like
Georgia who've refused to be intimidated and have discharged their
duties honorably. We need more leaders like these — right now and in
the days, weeks, and months ahead as President-Elect Biden works to
restore a common purpose to our politics. It's up to all of us as
Americans, regardless of party, to support him in that goal.
--Barack Obama
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>
Elizabeth Willing Powel (February 21, 1743 – January 17, 1830) was
an American socialite and a prominent member of the Philadelphia upper
class of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. After the American
Revolutionary War, she established a salon of the Republican Court of
leading intellectuals and political figures. She corresponded widely,
including with the political elite of the time. A close friend to George
Washington, she was among those who convinced him to continue for a
second term as president. She wrote extensively, but privately, on a
wide range of subjects, including politics, the role of women, medicine,
education, and philosophy. Powel is said to be the person who asked
Benjamin Franklin "What have we got, a republic or a monarchy?", to
which he replied "A republic ... if you can keep it"; over time the
role played by Powel in this exchange has been all but removed. Hundreds
of her letters and several of her portraits survive.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Willing_Powel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1893:
Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety
led the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the government of Queen
Liliʻuokalani.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom>
1946:
The United Nations Security Council (chamber pictured), the
organ of the United Nations charged with the maintenance of
international peace and security, held its first meeting at Church
House, Westminster.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council>
2002:
Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began
erupting, killing hundreds and leaving about 120,000 people homeless in
the nearby town of Goma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
snatch and run:
An unsophisticated method of committing robbery by grabbing someone's
property and attempting to flee with it.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snatch_and_run>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When people ask me whether being in the White House has changed
my husband, I can honestly say that when it comes to his character, and
his convictions, and his heart, Barack Obama is still the same man I
fell in love with all those years ago. He's the same man who started
his career by turning down high paying jobs and instead working in
struggling neighborhoods where a steel plant had shut down, fighting to
rebuild those communities and get folks back to work … because for
Barack, success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the
difference you make in people's lives.
--Michelle Obama
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama>
John C. Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an
American lawyer, politician, and soldier. He represented Kentucky in
both houses of Congress and became the youngest-ever vice president of
the United States. He was elected to the House of Representatives in
1850 as a Democrat. He served as vice president from 1857 to 1861
alongside President James Buchanan. In 1859, he was elected senator for
Kentucky. The Southern Democrats held two rival conventions; one
nominated Breckinridge for president, who carried most of the Southern
states. With the southern vote split, Abraham Lincoln won the election.
Taking his Senate seat, Breckinridge urged compromise. When the Civil
War broke out, Breckinridge fled to the Confederacy. He fought in
numerous engagements as a general officer. In 1865 he was appointed
secretary of war and urged the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis,
to arrange a national surrender. After the war he lived abroad,
returning in 1869.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1942:
World War II: During the Battle of Bataan, U.S. Army sergeant
Jose Calugas organized a squad of volunteers to man an artillery
position under heavy fire, which later earned him the Medal of Honor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Calugas>
1964:
The musical Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre on
Broadway, and went on to win ten Tony Awards, a record that stood for 37
years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_%28musical%29>
2018:
In Mrauk U, Myanmar, police fired into a crowd protesting the
ban of an event to mark the anniversary of the end of the Kingdom of
Mrauk U, resulting in seven deaths and twelve injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrauk_U_riot>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bounden:
1. (dated) Now chiefly in the term bounden duty: made obligatory;
binding.
2. (obsolete) Bound.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bounden>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but
suffering that degrades.
--Susan Sontag
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag>
The Mercenary War, also known as the Truceless War, was a mutiny by
troops employed by Carthage at the end of the First Punic War (264 to
241 BC), backed by an uprising of African settlements against
Carthaginian control. The war began in 241 BC as a dispute over wages
owed to 20,000 foreign soldiers. It erupted into a full-scale mutiny
that included 70,000 Africans from Carthage's oppressed dependent
territories, bringing supplies and finance. The Carthaginian general
Hamilcar Barca initially demonstrated leniency to woo the rebels over,
but pursued the war with great brutality after they tortured 700
Carthaginian prisoners to death. It ended in late 238 or early 237 BC
with a Carthaginian victory. An expedition was then prepared to reoccupy
Sardinia, where all Carthaginians had been killed. However, Rome
declared that this would be an act of war and occupied both Sardinia and
Corsica, in contravention of the recent peace treaty. (This article is
part of a featured topic: Punic Wars.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Punic_Wars>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1934:
At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering
8.0 Mw struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Nepal%E2%80%93India_earthquake>
1951:
Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and
Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a
West German court.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch>
1981:
The American serial police-procedural television show Hill
Street Blues aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Station>
1991:
Queen Elizabeth II signed letters patent instituting the
Victoria Cross for Australia; the country became the first Commonwealth
realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
field of vision:
The area that a person, an animal, etc., can see with its eyes (or each
eye individually) without turning the head.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/field_of_vision>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the
narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the
broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of
life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above
self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They
end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. … These are
the people who cannot face disappointments. These are the people who
cannot face being defeated. These are the people who cannot face being
criticized. These are the people who cannot face these many experiences
of life which inevitably come because they are too centered in
themselves.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.>
James Hagerstrom (January 14, 1921 – June 25, 1994) was a fighter
ace of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) in World War II and the U.S.
Air Force (USAF) in the Korean War. He is one of seven American pilots
to have achieved ace status in two different wars. Hagerstrom joined the
USAAF in 1941, and fought in the New Guinea campaign of World War II.
There he shot down six Japanese aircraft, including four in one morning.
After the war, he joined the Texas Air National Guard and participated
in several air races. By 1950 he was in command of the 111th Fighter-
Bomber Squadron, which was deployed to Korea during the Korean War. He
transferred to the USAF and flew an F-86 Sabre jet in "MiG Alley", the
area around the northern border of North Korea with China, destroying
8.5 Chinese, Soviet, and North Korean MiG-15s. In 1965, he served in
several command roles during the Vietnam War while flying 30 combat
missions. Hagerstrom died in Shreveport of stomach cancer in 1994.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Hagerstrom>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1933:
The England cricket team employed bodyline tactics against
Australia during a Test match at the Adelaide Oval, the peak of a major
controversy in the sport.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline>
1943:
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle,
and Henri Giraud met in Casablanca to plan the Allies' European strategy
for the next phase of World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_Conference>
1953:
Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first president of
Yugoslavia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
darkly:
1. With a dark appearance.
2. Faintly seen in the dark.
3. (figuratively) In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.
4. (figuratively) Mysteriously; forebodingly, ominously.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/darkly>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United
States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity
of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of
power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed
his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the
United States.… Donald John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial,
removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office
of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
--The United States House of Representatives
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/United_States_Congress>
The York City War Memorial is a First World War memorial designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens and located in York, in the north of England. A public
meeting in January 1920 to decide how to commemorate York's war dead
opted for a monument, over a more utilitarian memorial. Lutyens was
engaged, and his first design was approved, but it was perceived to
clash with York's existing architecture, and the proposed site was
abandoned in favour of one just outside the city walls. Lutyens
submitted a new design, of a war cross and stone of remembrance, that
was scaled back to the cross alone due to lack of funds. Prince Albert,
Duke of York (later King George VI), unveiled the memorial on
25 June 1925. It consists of a stone cross 33 feet (10 metres) high on
three stone blocks and a stone base, mounted on two further blocks and
two shallow steps. It sits in a memorial garden, with an entrance
designed by Lutyens. The memorial itself is a Grade II* listed
building.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_City_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1884:
Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to
cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent
trial, which eventually led to the legalisation of cremation in the
United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Price_%28physician%29>
1953:
An article published in Pravda accused nine eminent doctors in
Moscow of taking part in a plot to poison members of the top Soviet
political and military leadership.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot>
1968:
American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At
Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Folsom_Prison>
2001:
The first of two large earthquakes struck El Salvador, killing
at least 944 people and destroying over 100,000 homes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2001_El_Salvador_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
walk-on girl:
(darts) A woman who escorts a player to the stage at a darts event.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walk-on_girl>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Rosalynn and I are troubled by the violence at the U.S. Capitol
today. This is a national tragedy and is not who we are as a nation.
Having observed elections in troubled democracies worldwide, I know that
we the people can unite to walk back from this precipice to peacefully
uphold the laws of our nation, and we must. We join our fellow citizens
in praying for a peaceful resolution so our nation can heal and complete
the transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.
--Jimmy Carter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter>
Hurricane Alex in 2016 was the first Atlantic hurricane in January since
Alice in 1955. Alex originated as a non-tropical low near the Bahamas on
January 7. It briefly acquired hurricane-force winds on January 10,
then weakened slightly before acquiring more tropical weather
characteristics. The system transitioned into a subtropical cyclone on
January 12 well south of the Azores, becoming the first North Atlantic
tropical or subtropical cyclone in January since Tropical Storm Zeta of
2006. Alex transitioned into a fully tropical cyclone on January 14. It
peaked in strength as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson
scale with reported maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) and a
central pressure of 981 mbar (hPa; 28.97 inHg). Alex weakened to a
high-end tropical storm before making landfall on Terceira Island on
January 15. After leaving the Azores, it reverted to a non-tropical
cyclone.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Alex_%282016%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1808:
John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church in Reculver
from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the
church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Reculver>
1916:
Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann became the first German
aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military
honour.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Immelmann>
1967:
Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford
became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of
future resuscitation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics>
2007:
Comet McNaught reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet
in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2006_P1_%28McNaught%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
charlotte russe:
A dessert of custard or whipped cream enclosed in sponge cake, often in
the form of ladyfingers.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/charlotte_russe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We faced an unprecedented assault on our Capitol, our
Constitution, and our country. The assault was fueled by more than four
years of poison politics spreading deliberate misinformation, sowing
distrust in our system, and pitting Americans against one another. The
match was lit by Donald Trump and his most ardent enablers, including
many in Congress, to overturn the results of an election he lost. The
election was free, the count was fair, the result is final. We must
complete the peaceful transfer of power our Constitution mandates.
--Bill Clinton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton>