Sirius, designated Alpha Canis Majoris, is the brightest star in the
night sky with a visual magnitude of −1.46. It is a close binary star
system, consisting of Sirius A, a white main-sequence star, and a faint
companion white dwarf, Sirius B, which was originally a massive bluish
star that became a red giant before shedding its outer layers and
collapsing to a white dwarf. It is one of Earth's near neighbors, at 2.6
parsecs (8.6 light-years). Sirius A is about twice as massive as the
Sun and has an absolute magnitude of 1.42. It is 25 times more luminous
than the Sun but has a lower luminosity than other bright stars. The
system is 200 to 300 million years old. Sirius is known as the "Dog
Star", due to its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major. The
rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and
the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the
Polynesians it was important for Pacific navigation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States
of America, gave an extemporaneous speech laying out the Confederacy's
rationale for seceding from the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech>
1968:
War of Attrition: The Battle of Karameh took place between the
Israel Defense Forces and allied troops of the Palestine Liberation
Organization and the Jordanian Armed Forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karameh>
2006:
A man smashed the statue of Phra Phrom at the Erawan Shrine in
Bangkok, Thailand, with a hammer, and was subsequently beaten to death
by bystanders.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erawan_Shrine>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carceral:
(formal or literary) Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carceral>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Everything rhythmically organic is true. Everything, which
results from the proper feeling for rhythmically organized spiritual
units, is true and alive — alive within itself. When we lose the sense
for such true beauty we lose our natural sense for the rich flavor of
life, which is the basis for all inspirational work.
--Hans Hofmann
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Hofmann>
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany was opposed by
the British government, which feared that Nazi Germany would use the
visit for propaganda. After Edward had abdicated the British throne in
December 1936, his brother George VI became king. Given the title Duke
of Windsor, Edward married Wallis Simpson in June 1937. He appeared to
have been sympathetic to Germany in this period and announced his
intention to travel there privately to tour factories. He promised the
British government that he would keep a low profile, and the tour went
ahead between 12 and 23 October. The Duke and Duchess visited
factories, many of which were producing materiel for the war effort, and
the Duke inspected German troops (pictured). The Windsors dined with
prominent Nazis including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Joachim von
Ribbentrop, and Albert Speer; they also had tea with Adolf Hitler at his
house at Berchtesgaden.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_and_Duchess_of_Windsor%27s_1937_tour_of_…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1883:
Eleven countries signed the Paris Convention for the Protection
of Industrial Property, one of the first intellectual-property treaties.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Indust…>
1939:
Germany issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding the return
of the Klaipėda Region under threat of invasion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_German_ultimatum_to_Lithuania>
1987:
The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (chemical structure
depicted) became the first treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration for HIV/AIDS.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine>
2014:
Taliban militants carried out a mass shooting at the Kabul
Serena Hotel in Afghanistan, killing nine civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
felicity:
1. (uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.;
(countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
3. (uncountable, rare) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of
unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
4. (uncountable, semiotics) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
5. (countable) Something that is either a source of happiness or
particularly apt.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/felicity>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In
the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring
a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young
man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
--Locksley Hall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Locksley_Hall>
University of Washington is a light rail station located on the
University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington, United States.
The station is served by Sound Transit's Link light rail system and is
the current northern terminus of Line 1. University of Washington
station is located adjacent to Husky Stadium and the University of
Washington Medical Center. It consists of an underground island platform
connected to a surface entrance by elevators and escalators. A
pedestrian bridge over Montlake Boulevard connects the station to the
University of Washington campus, the Burke–Gilman Trail, and a set of
bus stops served by King County Metro and Sound Transit Express routes.
Light rail trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; the
headway between trains is six minutes during peak periods with reduced
frequency at other times. The station was built as part of the
University Link Extension, which began construction in 2009 and opened
on March 19, 2016.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1563:
The Edict of Amboise was signed, ending the first war in the
French Wars of Religion and inaugurating a period of official peace that
lasted until 1567.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Amboise>
1911:
Established by Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, and others,
International Women's Day was first observed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Zetkin>
1979:
The American cable television network C-SPAN, dedicated to
airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public-affairs
programming, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN>
2011:
First Libyan Civil War: The French Air Force launched
Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Harmattan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
skulduggery:
1. (countable) A devious device or trick.
2. (uncountable) Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or
behaviour.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skulduggery>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are
incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous
experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories
of your imaginings of the facts.
--Philip Roth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Roth>
The Wells and Wellington affair was a dispute involving the Australian
Journal of Herpetology, a scientific journal on the study of amphibians
and reptiles published beginning in 1981 by the Australian
Herpetologists' League. Richard Wells, a student, served as the editor-
in-chief of the peer-reviewed periodical, with an editorial board of
three researchers. Wells stopped communicating with his board for two
years before publishing three unreviewed papers in the journal in 1983
and 1985 which he coauthored with teacher C. Ross Wellington. The
papers reorganized the taxonomy of Australia's and New Zealand's
amphibians and reptiles, and proposed over 700 changes to their
scientific names. The herpetological community brought a case to the
ICZN to suppress the new names, but the commission eventually opted not
to decide, leaving some of Wells and Wellington's names available. As of
2020, 24 of their specific names remained valid senior synonyms (example
pictured).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_and_Wellington_affair>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1793:
War of the First Coalition: Habsburg and Dutch Republic troops
repulsed a series of French assaults after bitter fighting near
Neerwinden in present-day Belgium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Neerwinden_%281793%29>
1938:
Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas established Pemex
(headquarters pictured), the state-owned petroleum company, by
expropriating foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemex>
1977:
The punk group the Clash released their first single, "White
Riot", described as their "most controversial song".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Riot>
1996:
The deadliest fire in Philippine history broke out at a
nightclub in Quezon City, causing 162 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_Disco_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jar:
1. (transitive) To preserve (food) in a jar. […]
2. (transitive) To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a
quivering or vibrating movement.
3. (transitive) To harm or injure by such action.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To shock or surprise.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To act in disagreement or opposition, to
clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause something to) give forth a
rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound
discordantly or harshly.
7. (intransitive) To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
8. (intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of
people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly
from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jar>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A real reconciliation of East and West is impossible and
inconceivable on the basis of a materialistic Communism, or of a
materialistic Capitalism, or indeed of a materialistic Socialism. The
third way will neither be "anti-Communist" nor "anti-Capitalist". It
will recognize the truth in liberal democracy, and it will equally
recognize the truth in Communism. A critique of Communism and Marxism
does not entail an enmity towards Soviet Russia, just as a critique of
liberal democracy is not entail enmity towards the west. … But the
final and most important justification of a "third way" is that there
must be a place from which we may boldly testify to, and proclaim,
truth, love and justice. No one today likes truth: utility and self
interest have long ago been substituted for truth.
--Nikolai Berdyaev
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev>
"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended-metaphor poem written by Walt
Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well
received upon publication, the poem was Whitman's most popular during
his lifetime. Whitman was employed by the federal government in
Washington, D.C., through much of the Civil War, and, though he never
met Lincoln, Whitman felt a connection to him and was greatly moved by
his assassination. "My Captain" was first published in The Saturday
Press on November 4, 1865, and appeared in Sequel to Drum-Taps later
that year. He later included it in the collection Leaves of Grass and
recited the poem at several lectures on Lincoln's death. Critical
opinion has shifted since the mid-20th century, with scholars deriding
its conventionality and unoriginality. In popular culture, the poem
experienced renewed attention after it was featured in Dead Poets
Society (1989), and is frequently associated with the star of that film,
Robin Williams.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain!>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
New Zealand Wars: A property dispute between the colonial
government and Māori landowners in Waitara instigated the First
Taranaki War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taranaki_War>
1957:
A plane crash (wreckage pictured) on the slopes of Mount
Manunggal killed Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Cebu_Douglas_C-47_crash>
1991:
In a referendum, nearly 70 percent of voters in nine Soviet
republics agreed that the Soviet Union should be preserved.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum>
2011:
First Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council
adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing military intervention in Libya to
protect civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_19…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
clarsach:
(music) A small triangular wire-strung harp of Gaelic origin; a Celtic
harp.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clarsach>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom! O Liberty, how
many crimes are committed in thy name!
--Madame Roland
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madame_Roland>
Zino's petrel (Pterodroma madeira) is a species of small seabird,
endemic to Madeira. This gadfly petrel is grey above with a dark "W"
across the wings. The wings are mainly blackish below, and the belly is
white. It is very similar in appearance to Fea's petrel, both being
formerly considered to be subspecies of the soft-plumaged petrel, but
Zino's was raised to a species on criteria including morphology and
mitochondrial DNA. Its breeding areas are a few ledges high in the
mountains of Madeira, where it nests in burrows which are visited only
at night. The single white egg is incubated by both adults, one sitting
while the other feeds on fish and squid at sea. This species is subject
to predation by introduced cats and rats, and in the past by humans.
Predator control and the removal of grazing animals has enabled the
population to recover although it remains listed as endangered on the
IUCN Red List. There was a major setback in 2010 when fires killed three
adults and 65 percent of the chicks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zino%27s_petrel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1621:
Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth
Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (depicted).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoset>
1689:
The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest line-infantry
regiments of the British Army, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers>
1918:
Finnish Civil War: The Whites won the Battle of Länkipohja,
after which they executed at least 70 Reds.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%A4nkipohja>
2003:
American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by
an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah while protesting the
demolition of a Palestinian house.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
growl:
1. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to
give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
2. (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched
rumbling sound.
3. (intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl
software library.
4. (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
5. (transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a
low-pitched rumbling sound.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/growl>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become
successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things
like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond
the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in
importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep
striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.
--Richard Stallman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman>
The Battle of Halmyros was fought on 15 March 1311 between the
Frankish Duchy of Athens and the Catalan Company (seal depicted). The
Catalans were mercenaries hired by the Byzantine emperor to combat the
increasing power of the Turks in Anatolia. After the Byzantines murdered
the Catalan leader, Roger de Flor, the company crossed the southern
Balkans and arrived in southern Greece in 1309. The new Duke of Athens,
Walter of Brienne, hired them to attack Thessaly. The Catalans conquered
much of the region, but Walter refused to pay them and prepared to
forcibly expel them. The two armies met at Halmyros in southern
Thessaly. The Catalans positioned themselves behind marshy terrain, but
the Franks, confident in the prowess of their heavy cavalry, charged
headlong against the Catalan line. The marsh impeded their attack, and
the Frankish army was routed. Walter and almost all of his knights fell
in the field, allowing the Catalans to take over the Duchy of Athens and
rule it until the 1380s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halmyros>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1783:
George Washington delivered a speech to Continental Army
officers in Newburgh, New York, asking them to support the supremacy of
the Congress of the Confederation, defusing a potential coup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy>
1927:
In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the inaugural edition
of the Women's Boat Race.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Boat_Race>
1951:
The Iranian oil industry was nationalized in a movement led by
Mohammad Mosaddegh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_the_Iranian_oil_industry>
2019:
A lone gunman carried out two consecutive mass shootings during
Friday prayers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, resulting in 51
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
slugabed:
(archaic, now chiefly Canada, US) A lazy person who lies in bed after
the usual time for getting up; a sluggard.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slugabed>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that
will lead others to join you.
--Ruth Bader Ginsburg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg>
Nasr (1287–1322) was the son of Muhammad II al-Faqih and the fourth
Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada on the Iberian Peninsula. When he
ascended the throne on 14 March 1309 after his brother Muhammad III
was dethroned in a palace revolution, Granada faced a three-front war
against Castile, Aragon and the Marinid Sultanate (map pictured). He
made peace with all three over the following year with minimal losses.
Despite this, Nasr was unpopular at court due to his excessive
concentration on science and astronomy, and his perceived pro-Christian
sympathies. A rebellion started by his brother-in-law Abu Said Faraj and
nephew Ismail ended in Nasr's abdication in 1314 in favour of Ismail,
now Ismail I. He was allowed to rule the eastern province of Guadix,
and attempted – fruitlessly – to regain the throne with help from
Castile. Nasr died without an heir in 1322.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasr_of_Granada>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1757:
Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad for
failing to "do his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca at the start of
the Seven Years' War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng>
1931:
Alam Ara, the first Indian sound film, premiered at the
Majestic Cinema in Bombay.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alam_Ara>
1972:
Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, known for his
translation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago after it had been
smuggled out of the Soviet Union, died in a mysterious explosion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giangiacomo_Feltrinelli>
1988:
China defeated Vietnam in a naval battle as the former
attempted to establish oceanographic observation posts on the Spratly
Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_South_Reef_Skirmish>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Pi Day:
March 14th, an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pi_Day>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The God Spinoza revered is my God, too: I meet Him everyday in
the harmonious laws which govern the universe. My religion is cosmic,
and my God is too universal to concern himself with the intentions of
every human being. I do not accept a religion of fear; My God will not
hold me responsible for the actions that necessity imposes. My God
speaks to me through laws.
--Albert Einstein
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein>
The Lewis and Clark Exposition gold dollar is a commemorative coin
struck in 1904 and 1905 as part of the United States Government's
participation in the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. That fair
was held in 1905 in Portland, Oregon, to mark the centennial of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition. Designed by United States Bureau of the Mint
Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, the coin did not sell well with less
than a tenth of the authorized mintage of 250,000. They were, for the
most part, sold to the public by numismatic promoter Farran Zerbe, who
had also vended the Louisiana Purchase Exposition gold dollar. As he was
unable to sell much of the issue, surplus coins were melted by the Mint.
The coins have continued to increase in value, and today are worth
between hundreds and thousands of dollars, depending on condition. The
Lewis and Clark Exposition dollar is the only American coin to be "two-
headed", with a portrait of one of the expedition leaders on each side.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Exposition_gold_dollar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus from the garden
of his house in Bath, England, initially considering it to be a comet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus>
1943:
The Holocaust: Nazi troops began liquidating the Kraków Ghetto
in Poland, sending about 2,000 Jews to the Płaszów labor camp
(deportation pictured), with the remaining 5,000 either killed or sent
to Auschwitz.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Ghetto>
1986:
Claiming the right of innocent passage, the American warships
Yorktown and Caron entered Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Black_Sea_incident>
2013:
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis, making
him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first
from the Southern Hemisphere.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ledger:
1. A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting
records; a record book, a register.
2. A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
3. (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits
and debits.
4. (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for
attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof
rafters) to a building.
5. (fishing) Short for ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating
line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line
(“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ledger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires
emphasizing. The simple fact of existing, of living in time, can
comprise a religious dimension. This dimension is not always obvious,
since sacrality is in a sense camouflaged in the immediate, in the
"natural" and the everyday. The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is
not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of
sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the
majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the
Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the
wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant.
--Mircea Eliade
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade>
Limusaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now
China during the Late Jurassic, around 161 to 157 million years ago.
The only species, Limusaurus inextricabilis, was described in 2009 from
specimens (diagram shown) found in the Upper Shishugou Formation in the
Junggar Basin. Limusaurus was a small, slender animal, about 1.7 m
(5 ft 7 in) in length and 15 kg (33 lb) in weight, with a long neck
and legs but small forelimbs. It underwent a drastic morphological
transformation as it aged: while juveniles were toothed, the teeth were
completely lost and replaced by a beak. This probably corresponded to a
dietary shift from omnivory to herbivory. Since many specimens were
found together, it is possible Limusaurus lived in groups. As referenced
in its genus name, which means "mud lizard", specimens of Limusaurus
appear to have been mired in mud pits created by the footprints of giant
sauropod dinosaurs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limusaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1913:
At a ceremony at Kurrajong Hill, Lady Denman, wife of Governor-
General Lord Denman, announced that Canberra would be the name of the
future capital of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra>
1933:
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his
fireside chats, addressing the nation directly via radio.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_chats>
1952:
British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary
general of NATO.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Ismay,_1st_Baron_Ismay>
1971:
The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum",
forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorandum>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
impostor syndrome:
(psychology) A psychological phenomenon in which a person is unable to
internalize his or her accomplishments, remaining convinced that he or
she does not deserve any accompanying success.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impostor_syndrome>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what
God had wrought when He made life so sad.
--On the Road
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/On_the_Road>