The 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl was a postseason bowl game between the
college football teams South Carolina Gamecocks and Connecticut Huskies
on January 2, 2010, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama; it ended in
a 20–7 victory for Connecticut. Both teams had a 7–5 regular season
record. Connecticut's tumultuous season had seen a victory at Notre
Dame, and the murder of Jasper Howard, their cornerback. Connecticut
scored twice in the first quarter: on a one-handed 37-yard touchdown
reception by wide receiver Kashif Moore and then on a 33-yard field goal
after South Carolina failed to convert a fourth-down play at its 32-yard
line. Andre Dixon, Connecticut's running back, scored on a 10-yard rush
early in the fourth quarter. South Carolina scored its sole touchdown on
a two-yard run by Brian Maddox after the game had effectively been
decided. Dixon was named player of the game, and finished with 126
rushing yards and one touchdown.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_PapaJohns.com_Bowl>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began
with an engagement in which both sides would suffer their highest
casualty rates in the American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stones_River>
1965:
Central African military officers led by Jean-Bédel Bokassa
began a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Sylvestre_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1986:
Three disgruntled employees set fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel
in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing more than 90 people and injuring 140
others (rescue efforts depicted), making it the second-deadliest hotel
fire in United States history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Plaza_Hotel_arson>
1998:
The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates
of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the
euro.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechanism>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
auld lang syne:
(idiomatic) Days gone by; former times.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auld_lang_syne>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The authoritarian impulse is reasserting itself, to challenge
free people and free societies, everywhere. In our own country, from
the trivial to the truly dangerous, it is the range and regularity of
the untruths we see that should be cause for profound alarm, and spur to
action. Add to that the by-now predictable habit of calling true things
false, and false things true, and we have a recipe for disaster. As
George Orwell warned, "The further a society drifts from the truth, the
more it will hate those who speak it." … The question of why the truth
is now under such assault may well be for historians to determine. But
for those who cherish American constitutional democracy, what matters is
the effect on America and her people and her standing in an increasingly
unstable world — made all the more unstable by these very
fabrications. What matters is the daily disassembling of our democratic
institutions. We are a mature democracy — it is well past time that
we stop excusing or ignoring — or worse, endorsing — these attacks
on the truth. For if we compromise the truth for the sake of our
politics, we are lost.
--Jeff Flake
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeff_Flake>
Jamiroquai are an English funk and acid jazz band from London. Formed in
1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the
London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on
their acid jazz sound in their early releases and later drew from rock,
disco, electronic and Latin music. Lyrically, they have addressed social
and environmental justice. The band made their debut under Acid Jazz
Records, but they subsequently found mainstream success under Sony.
Three of their albums have charted at number one in the UK under this
label: Emergency on Planet Earth, Synkronized and A Funk Odyssey. The
band's 1998 single "Deeper Underground" was also number one in their
home country. Jamiroquai has sold more than 26 million albums
worldwide. Their third album, Travelling Without Moving, received a
Guinness World Record for the best-selling funk album in history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
War of 1812: British forces captured Buffalo, New York, and
engaged in considerable plundering and destruction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buffalo>
1969:
Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos began his second term
after being re-elected by a landslide, but economic unrest led him to
declare martial law within a year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_term_of_the_presidency_of_Ferdinand_Ma…>
2006:
Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq, was executed
after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special
Tribunal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Saddam_Hussein>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hyperthymesia:
(neuroscience) A rare condition in which an individual possesses a
superior autobiographical memory and is able to recall the vast majority
of personal events and experiences in life.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperthymesia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I said … unprepared, unscripted, that, "I know how to fight and
I know how to dance, and I'd much rather dance than fight." ... What I
didn't tell everybody was I was always a better fighter than dancer.
--Harry Reid
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Reid>
Ezra Meeker (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American
pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon in 1852,
migrating from Iowa to the Oregon Territory with his wife and newborn
son. The entire Meeker party survived the difficult six-month journey.
In 1862, he settled at the present site of Puyallup, Washington, where
he grew hops for brewing beer, and served as Puyallup's first mayor. An
infestation of hop aphids in 1891 took much of his fortune. He made
four trips to the Klondike during its gold rush, bringing groceries in
an unsuccessful attempt to recoup his losses. In 1906–1908, convinced
that the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, Meeker retraced his steps
along the Trail by wagon despite being in his late 70s, seeking to build
monuments in communities along the way. He reached New York and
Washington, D.C., where he met President Theodore Roosevelt. He wrote
several books, and traveled the Trail several more times, including by
airplane in 1924.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Meeker>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1890:
Sioux Wars: The United States Army killed 250 to 300 Lakota
men, women and children at the Wounded Knee Massacre, beginning the
Ghost Dance War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre>
1911:
Sun Yat-sen was elected the provisional president of the
Republic of China in Nanjing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen>
1959:
American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled
"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the
field of nanotechnology.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom>
1996:
Peace accords were signed under the leadership of President
Álvaro Arzú and guerrilla leader Rolando Morán, ending the 36-year-
long Guatemalan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
succour:
1. (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
2. (transitive, military) To provide aid or assistance in the form of
military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place
under siege.
3. (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To protect, to shelter; to
provide a refuge.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/succour>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Winnow the chaff of a hundred creeds Beyond these systems,
hollow as reeds, Turn unhorizened to where Truth leads, To be
unhoused, O my soul!
--Kuvempu
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kuvempu>
Pepi I Meryre was the third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling
for more than 40 years around the second half of the 24th century BC.
Pepi was the son of the dynasty's founder Teti, had at least six queens,
and was succeeded by son Merenre Nemtyemsaf I. Confronted with the
decline of the pharaoh's power at the expense of local officials, Pepi
reacted with a vast architectural program involving the construction of
temples and numerous chapels throughout Egypt, reinforcing his presence
in the provinces. Egypt's prosperity allowed Pepi to become the most
prolific builder of the Old Kingdom period. His external policy included
military campaigns against Nubia, the Sinai and the southern Levant.
Trade with Byblos, Ebla and the oases of the Western Desert flourished
while Pepi launched mining and quarrying expeditions to Sinai and
further afield. Pepi had a pyramid complex built for his funerary cult
in Saqqara next to which he built at least a further six pyramids for
his queens.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepi_I_Meryre>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1832:
John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United
States to resign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Calhoun>
1918:
Irishwoman Constance Markievicz was elected to the House of
Commons as the first female British member of Parliament, although she
never took her seat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz>
1943:
World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house
fighting, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division captured the town of
Ortona, Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ortona>
2011:
Kurdish–Turkish conflict: Acting on information that Kurdish
militants were crossing the border from Iraqi territory, two Turkish
F-16 jets fired at a group of villagers, killing 34 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboski_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
forthcoming:
1. (not comparable) Approaching or about to take place.
2. Available when needed; in place, ready.
3. Willing to co-operate or provide information; candid, frank,
responsive.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forthcoming>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Forgiveness is one of the key ideas in this world. Forgiveness is
not just some nebulous, vague idea that one can easily dismiss. It has
to do with uniting people through practical politics. Without
forgiveness there is no future.
--Desmond Tutu
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu>
Sesame Street research concerns the children's television show Sesame
Street, which premiered in 1969. Unlike earlier children's programming,
producers used research and more than 1,000 studies and experiments to
create the show and test its impact on its young viewers' learning. By
the end of the program's first season, the organization founded to
oversee Sesame Street production, Children's Television Workshop (CTW),
had developed what came to be called the "CTW model": a system of
planning, production, and evaluation that combined the expertise of
researchers and early childhood educators with that of the program's
writers, producers, and directors. CTW utilized independent summative
evaluations conducted by the Educational Testing Service during the
show's first two seasons to measure the program's educational
effectiveness. Based on these findings, the researchers compiled a body
of data and the producers changed the show accordingly. The formative
research on Sesame Street was the first time children's television
viewing was studied scientifically.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street_research>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1845:
John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News,
argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon
Country "by the right of our manifest destiny", popularizing the term's
use.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny>
1904:
The stage play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, by
Scottish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie, premiered in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy>
1929:
Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a
class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous
peasants (poster pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization>
2007:
Riots erupted in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki was declared
the winner of the presidential election—the first event in a
political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_Kenyan_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
golden touch:
(idiomatic) Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial
reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/golden_touch>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and
how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
--Louis Pasteur
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur>
The Battle of Panormus was fought on Sicily in 250 BC during the First
Punic War between a Roman army led by Lucius Caecilius Metellus and a
Carthaginian force led by Hasdrubal. The Romans captured the major
Sicilian city of Panormus in 254 BC. Thereafter they avoided battle for
fear of the Carthaginian war elephants. In 250 BC Hasdrubal led out his
army to devastate the crops of Rome's allied cities. The Romans withdrew
to Panormus and Hasdrubal pressed on to the city walls. Once he arrived,
Metellus countered the elephants with a hail of javelins from earthworks
dug near the walls. Infuriated by this missile fire, the elephants fled
through the Carthaginian infantry. The Roman infantry then charged the
Carthaginian left flank, which broke, along with the rest of the
Carthaginians. The elephants were captured and later slaughtered in the
Circus Maximus (commemorative coin pictured). This was the last
significant land battle of the war, which ended nine years later in a
Roman victory.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Panormus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
Thespis, the first comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan,
premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thespis_%28opera%29>
1946:
American gangster Bugsy Siegel opened The Flamingo Hotel &
Casino in Las Vegas, the oldest casino still in operation on the Las
Vegas Strip.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Las_Vegas>
1996:
The Federation of Korean Trade Unions called on its
1.2 million members to refuse to work, beginning the largest organized
strike in South Korean history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%931997_strikes_in_South_Korea>
2006:
Two earthquakes occurring off the southwest coast of Taiwan
damaged submarine communications cables, disrupting Internet services in
Asia and seriously affecting financial transactions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Hengchun_earthquakes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
take the gilt off the gingerbread:
(idiomatic) To take away the most attractive or appealing qualities of
something; to destroy an illusion.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_the_gilt_off_the_gingerbread>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The fight for ideals can no longer take the form of fight between
nations, because the lines of division on moral questions are within the
nations themselves and intersect the political frontiers.
--Norman Angell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Angell>
The Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110, by Ludwig van
Beethoven (pictured) was published in 1822; the autograph score bears
the date 25 December 1821. Though the sonata was commissioned in 1820,
Beethoven did not begin work on Op. 110 until the latter half of 1821
due to factors such as his work on the Missa solemnis and his
deteriorating health. The piece is in three movements. The Moderato
first movement follows a typical sonata form with an expressive and
cantabile opening theme. The Allegro second movement begins with a terse
but humorous scherzo, which Martin Cooper believes is based on two folk
songs, followed by a trio section. The last movement comprises multiple
contrasting sections: a slow introductory recitative, an arioso dolente,
a fugue, a return of the arioso, and a second fugue that builds to a
passionate and heroic conclusion. The sonata has been recorded by
pianists such as Artur Schnabel, Glenn Gould, and Alfred Brendel.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._31_%28Beethoven%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful
eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_War>
1927:
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, a revolutionary socialist
political party that sought Vietnamese independence from French colonial
rule, was formed in Hanoi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam_Qu%E1%BB%91c_D%C3%A2n_%C4%90…>
1941:
Second World War: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began
when Mark Aitchison Young, the Governor of Hong Kong, surrendered the
territory to Japan after 18 days of fierce fighting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong>
1991:
In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as
President of the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Kris Kringle:
1. Synonym of Christkind (“a personification of the baby Jesus who, in
German-speaking parts of Europe, takes the place of Santa Claus in
bringing gifts to people at Christmastime”)
2. Synonym of Santa Claus
3. Synonym of secret Santa (“a Christmas tradition where a group of
people give anonymous gifts to each other, with each person randomly
selected to give a gift to one other person; a person who anonymously
gives a present to another in such a gift exchange”)
4. A gift given in a Kris Kringle or secret Santa gift exchange.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kris_Kringle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He HADN'T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME! Somehow or
other, it came just the same! And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-
cold in the snow, Stood puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?
"It came without ribbons! It came without tags! "It came without
packages, boxes, or bags!" And he puzzled and puzzled, till his puzzler
was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe
Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more."
--Dr. Seuss
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss>
The Soiscél Molaisse ('Gospel of St. Molaisse') is a cumdach, a
medieval Irish carrying case for a holy book, decorated in the Insular
style. Until the late 18th century, the case held a now-lost companion
text, meant to be carried as a pocket gospel book, as indicated by the
cumdach's small size. The text is presumed to be a small illuminated
gospel book associated with Saint Laisrén mac Nad Froích of the 6th
century, also known as Mo Laisse. The 8th-century original wooden box
was embellished between 1001 and 1025 with a silver frame, including
embossed silver plates, a front piece depicting a cross, the figures and
symbols of the evangelists, and Latin inscriptions. During the 15th
century further silver elements were incorporated, though most have been
lost. The Soiscél Molaisse is the earliest and smallest surviving
cumdach. It is now in the collection of the archaeology branch of the
National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soisc%C3%A9l_Molaisse>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, made its
debut in Cairo, Egypt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida>
1914:
World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted fighting
to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce>
1953:
A railway bridge at Tangiwai on New Zealand's North Island was
damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train, killing 151
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster>
2008:
The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began
attacks on several villages in the north of the Democratic Republic of
the Congo, killing hundreds and committing numerous atrocities.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Christmas_massacres>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
party spirit:
1. A feeling or sense of celebration or enjoyment.
2. (politics) The feeling of common purpose and togetherness experienced
or shown by members or supporters of a group, especially a political
party, sometimes accompanied by unreasonable animosity towards members
or supporters of other groups.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/party_spirit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and
the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for
hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery,
culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for
sweetness and light.
--Matthew Arnold
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold>
The 1916 Texas hurricane was an intense and quick-moving tropical
cyclone that caused widespread damage in Jamaica and South Texas in
August 1916. A Category 4 hurricane upon landfall in Texas, it was the
strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United States in three decades.
Throughout its eight-day trek across the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico,
and Texas, the hurricane caused 37 fatalities and inflicted
$11.8 million in damage. Becoming a small tropical storm by August 12,
it skirted the southern coast of Jamaica as a hurricane on August 15,
killing 17 people and causing extensive damage to crops and buildings.
The storm then moved into the Gulf of Mexico and intensified into the
equivalent of a major hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson
scale. On the evening of August 18, it struck South Texas near Baffin
Bay with winds of 130 mph (215 km/h). The storm's evolution has been
inferred from scant historical weather data analyzed by the Atlantic
hurricane reanalysis project in 2008.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Texas_hurricane>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1793:
French Revolution: A Royalist counter-revolutionary army was
decisively defeated at the Battle of Savenay, although fighting
continued in the War in the Vendée for years afterward.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e>
1938:
The first living specimen of a coelacanth (example pictured),
long believed to be extinct, was discovered in a South African
fisherman's catch.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth>
1984:
An engine fire caused Aeroflot Flight 3519 to crash shortly
after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk, USSR, killing all but one of the 111
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_3519>
2008:
The Guinean military engineered a coup d'état, announcing that
it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential
election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
run someone ragged:
(originally US, idiomatic) To exhaust; to demand excessive effort or
work from somebody.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/run_someone_ragged>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I think we're at a time in American history that's probably
analogous to, maybe, Rome before the first emperors, when the Republic
started to fall … I think if you look at the pattern of events, if you
look at the disputed election of 2000, can you imagine? In America,
people are trying to recount ballots and a partisan mob is pounding on
the glass and threatening the counters? Can you imagine that? Can you
imagine a political party which does its best to keep any
representatives from another party — who've even been affiliated with
another party — from getting a business job in the nation's capital?
Can you imagine a political party that wants to redistrict so that its
opponents can be driven out entirely? … it's a different time in
America and the Republic is — this election is about a lot more than
jobs. I'm not sure everybody in America sees it right now. But I see it,
I feel it.
--Wesley Clark
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark>
"This Dust Was Once the Man" is an elegy poem written by Walt Whitman in
1871. The poem is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of
the United States, whom Whitman greatly admired. The poem was written
six years after Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 at the hands of
John Wilkes Booth. Whitman had written three previous poems about
Lincoln, all in 1865: "O Captain! My Captain!", "When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd", and "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day". The poem has not
attracted much individual attention, though it was generally positively
received and has been analyzed several times, generally as an epitaph
for Lincoln. The poem describes Lincoln as having saved the union of the
United States from "the foulest crime in history", a line that scholars
have conflicting interpretations of. It is generally seen as referring
to either the secession of the Confederate States of America or the
assassination of Lincoln. (This article is part of a featured topic:
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Walt_Whitman_and_Ab…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1807:
In an effort to avoid engaging in the Napoleonic Wars, the
United States Congress passed the Embargo Act, forbidding American ships
from engaging in trade with foreign nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embargo_Act_of_1807>
1971:
Two groups of French doctors involved in humanitarian aid
merged to form Médecins Sans Frontières.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res>
1984:
While riding a New York City Subway train, Bernhard Goetz shot
four African-American youths who had attempted to rob him, sparking a
nationwide debate on vigilantism, racism, and the legal limits of self-
defense.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shooting>
2001:
Richard Reid unsuccessfully attempted to detonate a bomb in his
shoe on a transatlantic flight from Paris to Miami.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lotologist:
A person who collects lottery tickets.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lotologist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds, and
until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of
outward with inward facts, which constitutes a man’s critical actions,
it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character.
--George Eliot
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot>