Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane to affect the Bahamas,
causing catastrophic damage in September 2019. Dorian originated from a
tropical wave off the western coast of Africa on August 19 and became a
tropical storm on August 24. It strengthened over the next few days and
on August 27 made landfalls on Barbados and Saint Lucia before entering
the Caribbean Sea, where it became a Category 1 hurricane as it moved
over the United States Virgin Islands. Dorian achieved Category 5
intensity on September 1 and peak intensity with winds of 185 mph
(295 km/h) and a central pressure of 910 mbar (hPa; 26.87 inHg) while
making landfall at Elbow Cay in the Bahamas. Weakening steadily
throughout the next day, the storm's forward momentum slowed drastically
while it was crossing over Grand Bahama. On September 6, Dorian made
landfall at Cape Hatteras as a Category 2 hurricane. It transitioned
into a post-tropical cyclone on September 7 just before passing over
Nova Scotia and was absorbed by a larger extratropical cyclone on
September 9.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Dorian>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1766:
Captive Malagasy on a slave ship began a mutiny that led to the
ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the
recapture of the instigators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meermin_slave_mutiny>
1943:
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, delivered a
speech calling for a "total war" to motivate the German people as the
tide of World War II turned against Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech>
1977:
NASA's first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, made its first test
flight atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (both pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise>
2001:
Inter-ethnic violence between the Dayak and the Madurese broke
out in Sampit, Indonesia, ultimately causing more than 500 deaths and
the displacement of 100,000 Madurese from their homes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampit_conflict>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
husbandry:
1. The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of
crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
2. The prudent management or conservation of resources.
3. (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day
matters.
4. (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/husbandry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You know, I have a philosophy there’s good that happens in
everything. It may not reveal itself immediately, and even in the most
dire circumstances, if you just wait, if you just remain open to things,
the good in it will reveal itself. And that has happened to me as well
in countless, countless ways.
--Rush Limbaugh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh>
Planet of the Apes is an American science-fiction media franchise
consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media
about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control.
Based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des
singes, its 1968 film adaptation, Planet of the Apes, was a critical and
commercial hit. From 1970 to 1973 four sequels followed the original
film: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the
Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of
the Apes. They did not approach the critical acclaim of the original,
but were commercially successful, spawning two television series in 1974
and 1975. Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes film was released in 2001. A
reboot film series began in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes,
which was followed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in 2014 and War for
the Planet of the Apes in 2017. The films have grossed over $2 billion
worldwide.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1859:
Cochinchina campaign: French Navy forces captured the Citadel
of Saigon (ruins pictured), defended by 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers of the
Nguyễn dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Saigon>
1913:
The Armory Show, the first large modern-art exhibition in the
United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armory_Show>
1978:
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a
bomb at the La Mon restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing
twelve people and injuring thirty others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mon_restaurant_bombing>
2011:
Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in
a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while a "Day of Rage"
took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's
government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Libyan_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hobbyist:
A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobbyist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The people in the government who were voted into power are lying
to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice — and our
parents — to call BS. Companies trying to make caricatures of the
teenagers these days, saying that all we are self-involved and trend-
obsessed and they hush us into submission when our message doesn't reach
the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call BS. Politicians who sit
in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us
nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call BS. They say
tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS. They say a
good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS. They say
guns are just tools like knives and are as dangerous as cars. We call
BS. They say no laws could have prevented the hundreds of senseless
tragedies that have occurred. We call BS. That us kids don't know what
we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the
government works. We call BS. If you agree, register to vote. Contact
your local congresspeople. Give them a piece of your mind.
--Emma González
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Gonz%C3%A1lez>
Dermotherium is a genus of fossil mammals closely related to the living
colugos, a small group of gliding mammals from Southeast Asia. The two
species are known from Thailand; D. major from the late Eocene, based
on a fragment of the lower jaw, and D. chimaera from the late Oligocene
from three jaw fragments and two molars. Another upper molar from the
early Oligocene of Pakistan may be from a putative D. chimaera. The
animals probably lived in forested environments, like living colugos,
but whether they could glide is unknown. The fossil teeth differ from
those of living colugo species (example pictured), and they lack their
comblike dental features involving the lower incisors, canines, and
third premolars. The fossil species differ from each other in their
tooth structure. The front part of the lower chewing teeth, the
trigonid, is broader in D. chimaera than in D. major.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermotherium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1918:
The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence,
proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Independence_of_Lithuania>
1936:
The Popular Front, a coalition of left-wing parties, came to
power in the Spanish general election, precipitating the Spanish Civil
War five months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Spanish_general_election>
1961:
The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study and
conservation of African American history, culture, and art, was
chartered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuSable_Museum_of_African_American_History>
1996:
Eleven people died in a train collision in Silver Spring,
Maryland, leading to the creation of comprehensive U.S. federal rules
for the design of passenger cars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Maryland_train_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deglutition:
(physiology) The act or process of swallowing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deglutition>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of
forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force,
massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the
men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to
succumb to their own motive forces.
--Henry Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams>
The Silesian Wars were a series of three wars fought between Prussia
(under King Frederick the Great) and Austria (under Archduchess Maria
Theresa) for control of the Central European region of Silesia (now in
south-west Poland). The First (1740–1742) and Second Silesian Wars
(1744–1745) formed parts of the War of the Austrian Succession, in
which Prussia was one member of an anti-Austrian coalition. The Third
Silesian War (1756–1763) was one theatre of the global Seven Years'
War, in which Austria led a coalition aiming to seize Prussian
territory. All three ended in Prussian victories, and their overall
territorial result was Austria's cession of the majority of Silesia to
Prussia, which emerged from the Silesian Wars as a new European great
power. Austria's defeat by a lesser German power significantly damaged
its prestige. The conflict foreshadowed a century-long Austria–Prussia
rivalry for hegemony over the German-speaking peoples. (This article is
part of a featured topic: Silesian Wars.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Silesian_Wars>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1823:
James McBrien made the first official discovery of gold in
Australia at Fish River in New South Wales.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_gold_rushes>
1961:
All 72 people on board Sabena Flight 548, including the entire
U.S. figure-skating team, and one person on the ground were killed when
the aircraft crashed on approach to Brussels Airport.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabena_Flight_548>
2013:
A previously undetected meteor exploded (video featured) over
Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia; the resulting shock wave injured about 1,500
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meet cute:
(intransitive, informal) Of characters in a story or people in real
life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meet_cute>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington!
And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would
have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
--Daniel Webster
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster>
Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American rock band
Marilyn Manson, released on October 6, 2017. The record was initially
scheduled to be issued on Valentine's Day, but was delayed by the death
of the father of lead singer Marilyn Manson (pictured). It features many
of the musicians who performed on previous album The Pale Emperor,
including producer Tyler Bates. "We Know Where You Fucking Live" and
"Kill4Me" were issued as singles; the latter was their highest-peaking
entry on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart. Music videos for the album
featured Johnny Depp, Courtney Love, and Lisa Marie Presley. The record
received positive reviews, with multiple publications saying it
continued a creative resurgence that began with The Pale Emperor. It was
also a commercial success, debuting in the top ten of the
Billboard 200. To promote the album, the band embarked on the Heaven
Upside Down Tour as well as two co-headlining tours with Rob Zombie.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Upside_Down>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1779:
Native Hawaiians killed English explorer Captain James Cook
(depicted) after he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling
chief of the island of Hawaii.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook>
1919:
The Battle of Bereza Kartuska, the first serious armed conflict
of the Polish–Soviet War took place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bereza_Kartuska>
1961:
Lawrencium, the metallic radioactive synthetic element with
atomic number 103, was first synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation
Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrencium>
2011:
Arab Spring: The Bahraini uprising began with youth-organized
protests on the Day of Rage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Rage_%28Bahrain%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
love interest:
1. Especially of a character in film or literature: one who is of
interest as a (potential) partner in love.
2. A romantic relationship; a romance.
3. (film, literature, specifically) A romantic plot or subplot in a film
or book.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/love_interest>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that
themselves commit.
--The Merchant of Venice
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice>
Saturn was an American magazine published from 1957 to 1965. It was
launched as a science-fiction magazine, but sales were weak, and after
five issues the publisher, Robert C. Sproul, switched the magazine to
hardboiled detective fiction that emphasized sex and sadism. Sproul
renamed the magazine several times, settling on Web Terror Stories in
1962, and the contents became mostly weird-menace tales—a genre in
which apparently supernatural powers are revealed to have a logical
explanation at the end of the story. Donald A. Wollheim was the editor
for the first five issues; he published material by several well-known
authors, including Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, and Harlan
Ellison, but was given a low budget and could not always find good-
quality stories. It is not known who edited the magazine after the
science fiction issues, but themes of violence, torture and sex
continued to the end of the magazine's run. Sproul finally cancelled the
title in 1965 after a total of 27 issues.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1692:
Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
were massacred allegedly for failing to pledge allegiance to the new
monarchs, William III and Mary II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe>
1961:
Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what
they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug
encased within.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_artifact>
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors
destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of streets in Louisville,
Kentucky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions>
2017:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-
un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shock stall:
(aviation) A stall (“sudden loss of efficiency”) caused when the airflow
over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a
specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic
speeds.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shock_stall>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so
calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot
tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being
repeated.
--Robert H. Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson>
The Grant Memorial gold dollar and silver half dollar were struck by the
United States Bureau of the Mint in 1922 in honor of the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant, a leading Union general
during the Civil War and later the 18th president of the United States.
The two coins are identical in design and were sculpted by Laura Gardin
Fraser. The Ulysses S. Grant Centenary Memorial Association wanted to
sell 200,000 gold dollars to pay for projects in the areas of Grant's
birthplace and boyhood home. Congress authorized 250,000 half dollars,
but only 10,000 gold dollars. About 5,000 of each denomination were
struck with a special mark, a star (example pictured). All of the gold
dollars and most of the half dollars sold. The half dollar with star has
long been priced higher than most commemoratives; its rarity has also
caused it to be counterfeited. Money from the coins was used to help
preserve Grant's birthplace, but other planned projects were not
completed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Memorial_coinage>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1924:
George Gershwin's composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered at
Aeolian Hall, New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue>
1947:
The French fashion company Dior unveiled its New Look
collection (suit pictured), which revolutionized women's dress and re-
established Paris as the centre of the fashion world after World
War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior>
1968:
Following the deaths of two employees on the job, black
sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, began a strike that lasted
more than two months.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_sanitation_strike>
2001:
The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros,
becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Darwinian:
1. Senses relating to Charles and Erasmus Darwin.
2. Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English
biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his
theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of
inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete,
survive, and reproduce.
3. (by extension) Of or pertaining to Darwinism, which includes the
theories of Charles Darwin and other scientists.
4. (by extension) Competitive, especially in a ruthless manner.
5. (by extension) Exhibiting an ability to adapt or develop in order to
survive; adaptable.
6. (chiefly historical) Of or pertaining to the philosophical and
scientific views, or poetic style, of the natural philosopher,
physiologist, and poet Erasmus Darwin.
7. Of or pertaining to Darwin, the capital city of the Northern
Territory, Australia.
8. Senses relating to Charles and Erasmus Darwin.
9. An adherent of Charles Darwin's theory of the origin of species, or
of Darwinism.
10. (obsolete, rare) An adherent of the philosophical and scientific
views, or poetic style, of Erasmus Darwin.
11. A native or resident of Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Darwinian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our popular Government has often been called an experiment. Two
points in it our people have already settled — the successful
establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains
— its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to
overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those
who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion; that
ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that
when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided there can be no
successful appeal back to bullets; that there can be no successful
appeal except to ballots themselves at succeeding elections. Such will
be a great lesson of peace, teaching men that what they can not take by
an election neither can they take it by a war; teaching all the folly of
being the beginners of a war.
--Abraham Lincoln
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>
Bernard A. Maguire (February 11, 1818 – April 26, 1886) was a
Catholic priest and Jesuit who twice served as the president of
Georgetown University. Maguire emigrated with his family from Ireland to
Maryland at the age of six, where he studied under the Jesuits at Saint
John's College, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1837. He then
continued his education at Georgetown University, where he eventually
became a teacher and prefect. As prefect, Maguire was responsible for
quelling an uprising of 40 students who were unhappy with rules over the
meeting times of the Philodemic Society. In 1852, he became the
president of Georgetown University, and oversaw the partial separation
of the preparatory division from the college. He left in 1858 to do
pastoral work, but returned as president in 1866. Maguire directed the
university's rebuilding after the Civil War and the establishment of the
law school. His tenure ended in 1870, and he spent the rest of his life
in pastoral ministry.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_A._Maguire>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1851:
As part of celebrations marking the separation of Victoria from
New South Wales, the inaugural first-class cricket match in Australia
began at the Launceston Racecourse in Tasmania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_Land_v_Port_Phillip,_1851>
1938:
The BBC aired an adaptation of a section of Czech writer Karel
Čapek's play R.U.R. in the first broadcast of science fiction on
television.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.>
1991:
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization was
established in The Hague to represent the interests of indigenous
peoples, minorities, occupied nations, and other areas lacking
international recognition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrepresented_Nations_and_Peoples_Organization>
2001:
The computer worm Anna Kournikova, which would affect millions
of users worldwide, was released by a 20-year-old Dutch student.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova_%28computer_virus%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
radium:
1. The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a
soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal.
2. (textiles, dated) A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn,
often with a shiny appearance.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than
other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them.
--Leó Szilárd
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd>
Operation PBHistory was a covert operation carried out in Guatemala by
the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It followed Operation
PBSuccess, which led to the overthrow of Guatemalan president Jacobo
Árbenz (pictured) in June 1954 and ended the Guatemalan Revolution.
PBHistory attempted to use documents left behind by Árbenz's
government, police agencies, trade unions and the communist Guatemalan
Party of Labour to demonstrate that the Guatemalan government had been
under the influence of the Soviet Union. The documents uncovered by the
operation proved useful to the Guatemalan intelligence agencies,
enabling the creation of a register of suspected communists. The
operation did not find evidence that the Guatemalan communists were
controlled by the Soviet government, and could not counter the narrative
that the United States had toppled the Árbenz government to serve the
interests of the United Fruit Company.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBHistory>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon
effectively destroyed a small Russian corps commanded by Zakhar
Dmitrievich Olsufiev.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Champaubert>
1919:
The Inter-Allied Women's Conference opened as a counterpart to
the Paris Peace Conference, marking the first time that women were
allowed formal participation in an international treaty negotiation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Allied_Women%27s_Conference>
1964:
The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier Melbourne collided
with and sank the destroyer Voyager in Jervis Bay, killing 82 crew
members aboard the latter ship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%E2%80%93Voyager_collision>
2008:
The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's
National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Namdaemun_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pulse:
1. (uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and
peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals;
(countable) such a plant; a legume.
2. (uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants,
especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of
such a grain or seed.
3. (physiology)
4. A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for
example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart
pumping blood through them.
5. The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's
health.
6. (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such
beats or throbs.
7. (figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place,
or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place;
the heartbeat.
8. (chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance
(such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
9. (cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which
causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously,
in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use
of this setting.
10. (music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse;
also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
11. (physics)
12. A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves,
etc.
13. Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that
arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to
mechanisms of self-organization”)
14. (also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical
signal; an impulse.
15. (transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in
pulses or waves.
16. (transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something,
especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as
a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
17. (transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some
ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
18. (transitive, electronics, physics)
19. To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to
(something).
20. To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so
that it is emitted in pulses.
21. (intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and
contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or
the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
22. (intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to
bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pulse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace
the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
--Boris Pasternak
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak>
Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed
mission in the United States Apollo program, and the third to land on
the Moon. Commander Alan Shepard (pictured), Command Module Pilot Stuart
Roosa, and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell overcame a series of
malfunctions en route to the Moon that, after the failure of Apollo 13,
might have resulted in a second consecutive aborted mission, and
possibly the premature end of the Apollo program. Shepard and Mitchell
made their lunar landing on February 5 in the Fra Mauro formation,
where they undertook two extravehicular activities (EVAs or moonwalks).
In Apollo 14's most famous incident, Shepard hit two golf balls he had
brought with him with a makeshift club. Roosa remained in lunar orbit,
where he took photographs of the Moon and performed experiments. After
liftoff from the surface and a successful docking, the mission returned
to Earth, splashing down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
A series of hoof-like marks were discovered in the snow in
Devon, England, continuing throughout the countryside for some 40 to 100
miles (60 to 160 km).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Footprints>
1907:
More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March,
the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_%28suffragists%29>
1971:
A 6.6 Mw earthquake struck the northern San Fernando Valley
near the Los Angeles district of Sylmar, killing 65 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_San_Fernando_earthquake>
1996:
Breaking a seventeen-month ceasefire, the Provisional Irish
Republican Army detonated a powerful truck bomb in Canary Wharf, London,
killing two people and injuring more than a hundred others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gassy:
1. Having the nature of, or containing, gas.
2. (specifically) Of a beverage: containing dissolved gas (usually
carbon dioxide); fizzy.
3. (specifically) Of a person: tending to burp; burpy.
4. (specifically) Of a person: tending to release flatus; flatulent.
5. Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence.
6. (figuratively, informal) Tending to be long-winded or wordy,
especially in a boastful and vain manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gassy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When my mother was dying in the hospital, he thought, when she
knew her end was coming, it was not me she looked to but someone who
stood behind me: her mother or the ghost of her mother. To me she was a
woman but to herself she was still a child calling to her mother to hold
her hand and help her. And her own mother, in the secret life we do not
see, was a child too. I come from a line of children without end.
--J. M. Coetzee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee>