1080° Snowboarding is a 1998 snowboarding video game developed by
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and published by Nintendo.
It was released for the Nintendo 64 and re-released in 2008 for the
Wii's Virtual Console. In the game, the player controls one of five
snowboarders from a third-person perspective, using a combination of
buttons to snowboard past flags, jump and perform tricks over eight
levels. The objective is either to arrive quickly at a level's finish
line or to receive maximum points for grabbing or spinning the board in
trick combinations. 1080° was announced in November 1997 and developed
over the course of nine months; it garnered critical acclaim and won an
Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts &
Sciences. It sold over two million units, and a second installment,
1080° Avalanche, was released for the Nintendo GameCube in November
2003.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080%C2%B0_Snowboarding>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1874:
In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the
claimant in the Tichborne case was convicted of perjury for attempting
to assume the identity of the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_case>
1928:
Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered
what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the
first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman>
2001:
A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North
Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carbonado:
1. (dated) Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled. […]
2. A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also
containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carbonado>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living
consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may
have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it
is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number
of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can
imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually
going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company
will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world
go the self-same way?
--Michel de Montaigne
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne>
"The Body" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the
supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written
and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it originally aired on The
WB Television Network in the United States on February 27, 2001. In the
series, Buffy Summers is a teenager chosen by mystical forces and
endowed with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other
evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale. In "The Body", Buffy discovers
the body of her mother, who has died of a brain aneurysm. In the series
Buffy and her friends deal with death every week, often in gruesome and
fantastic ways, but in this episode they are bewildered by the natural
death of Buffy's mother and struggle to comprehend what the loss means
to them. Buffy must begin to face her life and her duties as the Slayer
without parental support and comfort. "The Body" is regarded by many
critics as one of the best episodes of the series.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory at the Battle of
Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the arrests of 850 Loyalists over the
following days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moore%27s_Creek_Bridge>
1933:
The Reichstag building, the seat of the German parliament in
Berlin, was set on fire in a pivotal event in the establishment of the
Nazi regime.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire>
1996:
The multimedia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release
of the video games Pocket Monsters: Red and Green.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pronoia:
1. (philosophy, theology) Divine providence, foreknowledge, foresight.
2. (historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of
temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land,
fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of
military service. […]
3. (psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people
conspire to do one good.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronoia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Time is the only critic without ambition.
--John Steinbeck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck>
Oryzomys gorgasi, also known as Gorgas's rice rat, is a rodent in the
genus Oryzomys of the family Cricetidae. First collected as a living
animal in 1967, it is known from only a few localities, including a
freshwater swamp in the lowlands of northwestern Colombia and a mangrove
islet in northwestern Venezuela. An extinct form from the island of
Curaçao off Venezuela has been described as a separate species,
O. curasoae, but does not differ morphologically from mainland
populations. It is a medium-sized, brownish species with large,
semiaquatically specialized feet. It differs from other Oryzomys species
in several features of its skull. Its diet includes crustaceans,
insects, and plant material, and parasitic nematodes infect it. The
species is listed as "Endangered" by the IUCN due to destruction of its
habitat and competition with the introduced black rat. (This article is
part of a featured topic: Oryzomys.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Oryzomys>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1815:
Napoleon escaped from the Italian island of Elba (depicted), to
which he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty of
Fontainebleau a year earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon>
1995:
Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared
insolvent after its head derivatives trader in Singapore, Nick Leeson,
lost £827 million while making unauthorised trades on futures
contracts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson>
2013:
A hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people
in the deadliest ballooning disaster in history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Luxor_hot_air_balloon_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
haul:
1. (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or
oxen, or a motor vehicle.
2. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
3. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that
the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
5. (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be
disciplined or held answerable for something.
6. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
7. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to
the wind.
8. (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the
bow).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haul>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Civil war? What does this mean? Is there any foreign war? Is not
every war between men, war between brothers? War is modified only by its
aim. There is neither foreign war, nor civil war; there is only unjust
war and just war.
--Les Misérables
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables>
The grey currawong (Strepera versicolor) is a large passerine bird
native to southern Australia, including Tasmania. One of three currawong
species, it is a large crow-like bird, around 48 cm (19 in) long, with
yellow irises, a heavy bill, and dark plumage, with a white undertail
and wing patches. The male and female are similar in appearance. The six
subspecies are distinguished by their overall plumage shade. They have a
distinctive loud ringing or clinking call. The currawong is generally
sedentary, although it is a winter visitor in south-easternmost
Australia. Much of its behaviour and habits is poorly known. It is a
ground-foraging omnivore and builds its nests high in trees. It is found
in forests and scrubland in drier regions. Unlike its more common
relatives, it has adapted poorly to human impact, and has declined in
much of its range.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_currawong>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1843:
Royal Navy captain Lord George Paulet began a five-month
occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulet_affair>
1951:
After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural Pan
American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina (flame ceremony
pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Games>
2009:
At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh
Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Rifles_revolt>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stance:
1. The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
2. One's opinion or point of view.
3. A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
4. (specifically, climbing) A foothold or ledge on which to set up a
belay.
5. (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus
stop, a taxi rank.
6. (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a
street trader can carry on business.
7. (obsolete, rare) A stanza.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stance>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Military people have a heavy investment in rules against torture,
not only because we want to protect our own POWs from reciprocal
brutalities… but also because war is so terrible that it desperately
requires any limits anyone can agree on, any gesture toward dignity, any
mitigation suggesting civilized scruple. There isn’t even persuasive
evidence that torture makes its victims tell their secrets, instead of
saying whatever we want to hear.
--John Leonard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Leonard>
The Portrait of a Musician is an unfinished painting widely attributed
to the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. His only known male
portrait painting, it was probably painted between 1483 and 1487 while
Leonardo was in Milan. It has been in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan
since at least 1672. Perhaps influenced by Antonello da Messina's
introduction of the Early Netherlandish style of portrait painting to
Italy, the work marks a shift from the profile portraiture that
predominated in 15th-century Milan. It shares many similarities with
other paintings Leonardo executed there, such as the Virgin of the Rocks
and the Lady with an Ermine. Most current scholarship attributes at
least the portrait's face to Leonardo, based on stylistic resemblances
to his other works. Uncertainty over the rest of the painting is due to
the stiff and rigid qualities of the body, which are uncharacteristic of
Leonardo's work.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Musician>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1826:
The Treaty of Yandabo was signed, ending the First Anglo-
Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war in the history of
British India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Yandabo>
1942:
World War II: The Canadian government ordered the removal of
"all persons of Japanese origin" to internment camps (example pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canadians>
1968:
Vietnam War: South Vietnamese forces led by Ngô Quang
Trưởng recaptured the citadel of Huế.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hu%E1%BA%BF>
1989:
United Airlines Flight 811 experienced uncontrolled
decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii,
blowing seats out of the aircraft and killing nine passengers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
histrionic:
1. Of or relating to actors or acting.
2. (by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the
intention to draw attention.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/histrionic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whoever, in the present juncture of our affairs, can proclaim his
entire political creed as frankly in Charleston as in Boston, can do it
only because he has stricken from the list our distinctive national
principle, without which we are not Americans at all — the natural
equal rights of men. If Washington or Jefferson or Madison should utter
upon his native soil today the opinions he entertained and expressed
upon this question, he would be denounced as a fanatical abolitionist.
To declare the right of all men to liberty is sectional, because slavery
is afraid of liberty and strikes the mouth that speaks the word.
--George William Curtis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_William_Curtis>
Margaret (born 1991) is a Polish singer and songwriter. Before her
mainstream debut, she performed with underground bands, recorded
soundtracks for television commercials and produced a fashion blog.
Through her blogging, she was discovered by music manager Sławomir
Berdowski and signed by the record label Extensive Music. Margaret
gained international recognition with her singles "Thank You Very Much"
(2013) and "Cool Me Down" (2016), the first of which was included on her
first extended play (EP) All I Need, and charted in several European
countries. In 2014, she released her debut studio album Add the Blonde,
which reached the top ten in the Polish charts. By re-releasing it in
2016, Margaret had her first Polish top five and Sweden-charting single
with "Cool Me Down". In 2015, she recorded a collaborative jazz album
with Matt Dusk titled Just the Two of Us. Her third studio album, Monkey
Business (2017), became her second top-ten album in Poland.
(This article is part of a featured topic: Overview of Margaret.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Overview_of_Margaret>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
The Orange River Convention was signed in Bloemfontein, with
Britain agreeing to recognise the independence of the Orange Free State
in present-day South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_River_Convention>
1903:
As part of a lease agreement with Cuba, the United States
assumed control of part of Guantánamo Bay to operate coaling and naval
stations, including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base>
1941:
Plutonium (sample pictured) was first chemically identified by
chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California,
Berkeley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium>
2008:
A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed on the runway shortly after
takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in the most expensive crash
in U.S. Air Force history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Andersen_Air_Force_Base_B-2_accident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
navel-gazing:
1. Contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation.
2. (derogatory) Excessive focus on oneself; self-indulgent
introspection.
3. (sometimes derogatory) (Disproportionate) concentration on a single
issue.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/navel-gazing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
--W. E. B. Du Bois
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois>
The Siege of Lilybaeum lasted from 250 to 241 BC, as the Roman army
laid siege to the Carthaginian-held Sicilian city of Lilybaeum (modern
Marsala; reconstruction pictured) during the First Punic War. Lilybaeum
was well-fortified and situated on the coast, where it could be supplied
and reinforced by sea. In mid–250 BC the Romans besieged the city
with more than 100,000 men. They made a concerted effort to take it by
assault, but were unsuccessful. The Romans then attacked the
Carthaginian fleet, but their fleet was itself destroyed in the naval
battles of Drepana and Phintias. In 242 BC, the Romans built a new
fleet and cut off supplies. The Carthaginians reconstituted their fleet
and despatched it to Sicily loaded with provisions. The Romans met it
not far from Lilybaeum and defeated it at the Battle of the Aegates in
241 BC. The Carthaginians sued for peace and the war ended after 23
years with a Roman victory; by the terms of the Treaty of Lutatius
Carthage evacuated the city.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lilybaeum_%28250%E2%80%93241_BC%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1744:
War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking
the rear of a combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off
the French coast near Toulon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toulon_%281744%29>
1921:
The Bogd Khan was reinstalled as emperor after White Russian
forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drove the Chinese out of
Mongolia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg>
2006:
At least six men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at
a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_depot_robbery>
2011:
An earthquake registering 6.3 ML struck Christchurch, New
Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vamp:
1. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
2. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together
(something) from existing material, or by adding new material to
something existing.
3. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
4. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a
repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or
while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […]
8. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vamp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is
this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at
last.
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>
The 2015 Formula One World Championship was the 69th season of FIA
Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2015 Formula One World
Championship as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing
cars. Twenty-two drivers representing ten teams contested nineteen
Grands Prix, starting in Australia on 15 March and ending in Abu Dhabi
on 29 November as they competed for the World Drivers' and World
Constructors' championships. The calendar featured two changes from the
2014 season: the return of the Mexican Grand Prix for the first time
since 1992 and the cancellation of the German Grand Prix, leaving
Germany without a World Championship event for the first time in fifty-
five years. Lewis Hamilton secured his third Drivers' Championship, and
the runner-up was his teammate Nico Rosberg, with Ferrari's Sebastian
Vettel third. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (car pictured) clinched
the Constructors' Championship ahead of Ferrari and Williams, and ended
the season with a record 703 points. Hamilton also won the FIA Pole
Trophy, with a total of 11 pole positions in the season, and the DHL
Fastest Lap Award. Ferrari won the inaugural DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Formula_One_World_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to
gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of
Valverde.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valverde>
1929:
In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern
Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong
rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA
troops.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Rebellion_in_northeastern_Shandong>
1958:
British artist Gerald Holtom unveiled a logo for the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament that later became internationally recognised as
the peace sign (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols>
1973:
After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace,
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft,
killing 108 of the 113 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
matrilingual:
(rare) Pertaining to one's mother tongue.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matrilingual>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek
the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to
uphold them.
--John Rawls
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rawls>
Evelyn Mase (1922–2004) was a South African nurse who was the first
wife of the anti-apartheid activist and later president Nelson Mandela,
to whom she was married from 1944 to 1958. Born in Engcobo, Transkei,
Mase moved to Johannesburg to train as a nurse, and there met and
married Mandela. Living together in Soweto, they raised four children;
three of them—Thembekile, Makgatho, and Makaziwe—survived into
adulthood. In the 1950s, her relationship with Mandela became strained;
they separated in 1956 and divorced in 1958. Mase moved to Cofimvaba
with the children and opened a grocery store. She spoke to reporters in
1990, when Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, and in 1994,
when he was elected as South Africa's first Black president. In 1998 she
married a businessman, Simon Rakeepile. Her 2004 funeral attracted
international media attention and was attended by Mandela, his second
wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and his third wife, Graça Machel.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Mase>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
Polish insurgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising
to incite a fight for national independence, which was put down by the
Austrian Empire nine days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_uprising>
1943:
A fissure opened in a cornfield in the Mexican state of
Michoacán and continued to erupt for nine years, forming the cinder
cone Parícutin (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin>
1988:
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from
Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War>
2009:
The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft loaded with
C-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot
down before they reached their targets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_suicide_air_raid_on_Colombo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
womannap:
(transitive, informal) To abduct or kidnap a woman.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/womannap>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can
see out the little window all I like.
--Richard Matheson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson>
SS Mauna Loa was a steam-powered cargo ship of the Matson Navigation
Company that was sunk in the Bombing of Darwin in February 1942. Built
in 1919 for the United States Shipping Board, she was christened West
Conob and renamed Golden Eagle in 1928, sailing for a variety of owners.
In 1934, she was taken over by the Matson Navigation Company for service
between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland and renamed Mauna Loa. Shortly
before the United States' entry into World War II, Mauna Loa was
chartered by the United States Department of War to carry supplies to
the Philippines. The ship was part of an aborted attempt to reinforce
Allied forces under attack by the Japanese on Timor in mid-
February 1942. After the return of her convoy to Darwin, Northern
Territory, Mauna Loa was one of eight ships sunk in Darwin Harbour in
the first Japanese bombing attack on the Australian mainland on
19 February. The remains of her wreck and her cargo are a dive site in
the harbor.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Mauna_Loa>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
Charles II of England signed the Treaty of Westminster to end
the Third Anglo-Dutch War, confirming English and Dutch sovereignty over
New Netherland and Surinam, respectively.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Dutch_War>
1811:
Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard
Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the
Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora>
1910:
Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester,
England, hosted its inaugural match, between Manchester United and
Liverpool.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Trafford>
2011:
Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single
collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first
exhibited in Singapore.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belitung_shipwreck>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rainmaker:
1. Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
2. An African or Native American medicine man who seeks to induce rain
through performing rituals.
3. A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods,
such as cloud seeding.
4. (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the
ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success
for a company, organization, etc.
5. (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the
air.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rainmaker>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love is always before you. Love it.
--André Breton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Breton>