Typhoon Maemi was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea since
records began in 1904. Maemi formed on September 4, 2003 in the western
Pacific and became a typhoon on September 8. Passing over the Japanese
island of Miyako-jima on September 10, it left 95 percent of residents
without power and caused 58.5 mm (2.30 in) of rainfall in an hour and
402.5 mm (15.85 in) in 24 hours. Maintaining much of its intensity, it
made landfall west of Busan, South Korea, on September 12, where winds
reached 154 km/h (96 mph). The port sustained heavy damage,
restricting exports for months. On Jeju Island, it produced a peak wind
gust of 216 km/h (134 mph) and a minimum pressure of 950 mbar
(28 inHg), both records for the country. Nationwide, high winds
destroyed about 5,000 houses and damaged 13,000 buildings, leaving
25,000 people homeless. Crop damage resulted in the poorest rice harvest
in 23 years. Across South Korea, Maemi killed 117 people, and damage
totaled 5.52 trillion won (US$4.8 billion).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Maemi>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1851:
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto premiered at
La Fenice in Venice.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoletto>
1946:
Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration
camp, was captured by British troops.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%C3%B6ss>
1978:
After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the
Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout
with police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the
perpetrators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Road_massacre>
2011:
A massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan
(damage pictured) and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jibe:
1. (transitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock,
to taunt.
2. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
3. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. […]
4. (intransitive, Canada, US, informal) To accord or agree.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jibe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget
to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner.
It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.
--Libba Bray
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Libba_Bray>
The Battle of the Aegates was a naval battle fought on
10 March 241 BC between the fleets of Carthage and Rome. It took
place among the Aegates Islands, off the western coast of Sicily. The
Carthaginians were commanded by Hanno, and the Romans were under the
overall authority of Gaius Lutatius Catulus, but Quintus Valerius Falto
had the battle command. It was the final battle of the 23-year-long
First Punic War. The Roman army had been blockading the Carthaginians in
their strongholds on the west coast of Sicily. Almost bankrupt, the
Romans borrowed money to build a fleet, with which they extended the
blockade to the sea. The Carthaginians assembled a larger fleet to run
supplies into Sicily. It was intercepted and in a hard-fought battle the
better-trained Romans defeated the undermanned and ill-trained
Carthaginians. As a direct result, Carthage sued for peace and agreed to
the Treaty of Lutatius, surrendering Sicily to Rome and paying
substantial reparations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Aegates>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces conducted a
firebombing raid on Tokyo that killed at least 90,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_%2810_March_1945%29>
1959:
An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans
surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from
leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Tibetan_uprising>
1990:
Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted
as the military head of state of Haiti.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Avril>
2006:
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression
pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
audiation:
(music) The comprehension and internal realization of music by an
individual in the absence of any physical sound.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/audiation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite
the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the
soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in
which inner mankind first acts.
--Friedrich Schlegel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schlegel>
Paper Mario: The Origami King is a cross-genre video game, developed by
Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo; it was released
exclusively for the Nintendo Switch console in July 2020. The story
follows Mario teaming up with his new ally Olivia to prevent the
Mushroom Kingdom from being folded entirely into origami. The game is
designed to look entirely like paper, with multiple open-world areas
allowing for exploration and puzzle-solving. Turn-based combat is
organized into circular rings, which can be rotated to line up enemies
to deal more damage. The producer, Kensuke Tanabe (pictured),
anticipating that he could not satisfy every fan, opted for entirely new
gameplay and concepts compared to previous games in the series. The game
received generally positive reviews, being praised for its graphics,
writing and characters, and critiqued for the lack of other elements of
role-playing games, such as experience points. Reception on gameplay,
mainly the puzzle-style combat, was mixed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Mario:_The_Origami_King>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
Awaking from a nap under a tree at Rancho San Francisco,
Francisco López made the first popularly documented discovery of gold
in California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_San_Francisco>
1946:
Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden
Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnden_Park_disaster>
1967:
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alliluyeva>
1978:
The Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia,
was inaugurated by President Suharto.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagorawi_Toll_Road>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ply:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to
adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to
submit.
2. (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way
or yield (to a force, etc.). […]
3. (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
4. (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or
vigorously.
5. (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
6. (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the
purpose of inducement or persuasion.
7. (transitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
9. (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so
that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to
the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ply>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
America has always been a nation of fearless explorers who dream
bigger and reach further than others imagined. … There are no limits
so open your eyes and open your imagination. The next great discovery
could be yours.
--Barack Obama
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>
The women's poll tax repeal movement in the United States was the
attempt, predominantly led by women, to secure the abolition of poll
taxes as a prerequisite for voting in the Southern states. After women
were granted the right to vote in 1920, some Southern states introduced
or expanded poll tax statutes in order to disenfranchise them. In
response, women began organizing to repeal these laws (poster pictured),
initially to little effect. During the Great Depression of the 1930s,
both black and white women pressed at state and national levels for the
abolition of these laws, and also filed lawsuits. Louisiana abandoned
its poll tax law in 1932, and the number of women voters increased by 77
percent. Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas followed. In 1964, the Twenty-
fourth Amendment was passed, prohibiting poll taxes as a barrier to
voting in federal elections. The Supreme Court finally ended the
struggle after four decades in its ruling on Harper v. Virginia State
Board of Elections in 1966.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_poll_tax_repeal_movement>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1658:
After a devastating defeat in the Second Northern War, King
Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his
Danish territory to Sweden to save the remainder.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Roskilde>
1910:
French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to
receive a pilot's licence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymonde_de_Laroche>
1924:
Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah,
killed all 171 miners working there.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Gate_Mine_disaster>
1966:
Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of
Lord Nelson in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%27s_Pillar>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle:
(figuratively, humorous, simile) A woman is capable of living a complete
and independent life without a man.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_woman_without_a_man_is_like_a_fish_without…>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Survival in a stable environment depends almost entirely on
remembering the strategies for survival that have been developed in the
past, and so the conservation and transmission of these becomes the
primary mission of education. But, a paradoxical situation develops when
change becomes the primary characteristic of the environment. Then the
task turns inside out — survival in a rapidly changing environment
depends almost entirely upon being able to identify which of the old
concepts are relevant to the demands imposed by the new threats to
survival, and which are not.
--Neil Postman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Postman>
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and
directed by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble
cast as Monsieur Gustave H., renowned concierge of a fictional European
mountainside resort. When Gustave is framed for the murder of a wealthy
dowager (Tilda Swinton), he embarks on a quest for fortune and a
priceless Renaissance painting with his recently befriended lobby boy
(Tony Revolori). Thematic analysis focuses on the function of color as a
storytelling device and the film's exploration of fascism, nostalgia,
friendship, and loyalty. The Grand Budapest Hotel was based on Anderson
and longtime collaborator Hugo Guinness's vision of a fragmented tale of
a character inspired by a mutual friend. Filming took place in Germany
over ten weeks, in the regions around Berlin and Saxony. After
premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014,
the film grossed more than $172 million at the global box office. The
Grand Budapest Hotel was released to highly positive reviews, and won
four Academy Awards for music and technical achievement.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1850:
United States senator Daniel Webster delivered a speech
advocating compromise on slavery, which proved to be unpopular with
abolitionists in his home state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster>
1871:
José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year
premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in
the state's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Paranhos,_Viscount_of_Rio_Branco>
1941:
The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats
of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-47_%281938%29>
2009:
Dissident Irish republican campaign: Two off-duty British Army
soldiers were shot dead by Real IRA paramilitaries outside Massereene
Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massereene_Barracks_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nervous:
1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
3. Relating to or affecting the nerves.
4. (archaic) Having nerves; nervose.
5. (obsolete) Showing nervous strength; sinewy, vigorous.
6. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nervous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In whatever state of knowledge we may conceive man to be placed,
his progress towards a yet higher state need never fear a check, but
must continue till the last existence of society.
--John Herschel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Herschel>
The northern voalavo (Voalavo gymnocaudus) is a rodent found in the
highlands of northern Madagascar first discovered in 1994. It is the
type species of the genus Voalavo, and its closest relative is the
eastern voalavo of the Central Highlands. It is found at 1,250 to
1,950 m (4,100 to 6,400 ft) above sea level in montane wet and dry
forests in the northern massifs. It is nocturnal, solitary and
terrestrial, but it can climb and probably eats plant matter. Despite
having a small range, the species is classified as being of least
concern because it lacks obvious threats and lives mainly in protected
areas. It is a small, mouse-like rodent with soft, gray fur, only
slightly darker above than below. The ears are short and rounded. The
long tail appears mostly naked and lacks a distinct tuft. The skull is
delicate, with a long, narrow front part, narrow space between the eyes,
and no development of ridges on the braincase. The molars are relatively
high-crowned. It has a body mass of 17 to 25.5 g (0.60 to 0.90 oz).
(This article is part of a featured topic: Voalavo.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Voalavo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1836:
Texas Revolution: Mexican troops captured the Alamo Mission in
San Antonio from Texian forces after a 13-day siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo>
1902:
The Spanish professional football club Real Madrid, one of the
world's richest, was founded as Madrid Football Club.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Madrid_CF>
1953:
Following Joseph Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov succeeded him
as Premier of the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Malenkov>
1988:
The Troubles: In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service
killed three volunteers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flavius>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
periodic table:
(chemistry) A tabular chart of the chemical elements according to their
atomic numbers so that elements with similar properties are in the same
group (column).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/periodic_table>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality.
--Stanisław Jerzy Lec
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Jerzy_Lec>
The Riegelmann Boardwalk (also known as the Coney Island Boardwalk) is a
2.7-mile-long (4.3 km) boardwalk along the southern shore of the Coney
Island peninsula in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, adjacent to
the Atlantic Ocean. Opened in 1923, it has become an icon of Coney
Island, with appearances in the visual arts, music, and film. The
boardwalk has been considered the most important public works project in
Brooklyn since the Brooklyn Bridge, with an impact comparable to Central
Park. By the mid-19th century, the Coney Island waterfront was divided
by owners who erected barriers. First discussed in the late 1890s as a
means of uniting the different sections of Coney Island, the boardwalk
was designed by Philip P. Farley, and named for Brooklyn borough
president Edward J. Riegelmann, who championed its construction. Its
first portion opened in 1923, and it connects sites such as the New York
Aquarium, Luna Park and MCU Park.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegelmann_Boardwalk>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
Peninsular War: At the Battle of Barrosa, Anglo-Iberian forces
trying to lift the Siege of Cádiz defeated a French attack but could
not break the siege itself.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barrosa>
1943:
World War II: The Gloster Meteor, the Allies' only operational
jet aircraft, made its maiden flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor>
1963:
American country-music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas,
and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed when their PA-24 crashed shortly after
takeoff in Camden, Tennessee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Camden_PA-24_crash>
1981:
The ZX81 (example pictured), a pioneering British home
computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more
than 1.5 million units around the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dekulakize:
(transitive, historical) Usually with reference to the Soviet Union and
communist Eastern Europe: to dispossess (a kulak, that is, a prosperous
peasant) of his or her property and/or rights.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dekulakize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing
were passsed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There
might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense.
If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone
would find a way to figure it all out again.
--Penn Jillette
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Penn_Jillette>
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) was the 29th president of the United
States, serving from March 4, 1921, until his death in 1923. A member
of the Republican Party, Harding was defeated for Governor of Ohio in
1910, but was elected to the Senate in 1914. He ran for the Republican
nomination for president in 1920. Considered a long shot until after the
convention began, he was nominated on the tenth ballot. He conducted a
front porch campaign, running on the theme of a return to normalcy, and
won in a landslide, the first sitting senator to be elected president.
He appointed a number of well-regarded figures to his cabinet, including
Andrew Mellon at the Treasury Department, Herbert Hoover at Commerce,
and Charles Evans Hughes at State. After his death in San Francisco, a
number of scandals, including Teapot Dome, came to light, as did his
extramarital affair with Nan Britton, eroding his popular regard.
Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: Using artillery transported from
Ticonderoga, the Continental Army occupied Dorchester Heights, forcing
the British to abandon Boston two weeks later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification_of_Dorchester_Heights>
1918:
A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas,
conventionally marking the beginning of the Spanish flu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu>
1941:
Second World War: British Commandos successfully executed a
raid on the Lofoten Islands in German-occupied Norway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Claymore>
2009:
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan was indicted by the
International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against
humanity committed during the War in Darfur.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
not to put too fine a point on it:
(idiomatic) Used to apologize for a possibly impolite statement one is
making.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/not_to_put_too_fine_a_point_on_it>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Knowledge must start from some foundation, something must be
recognized as known; otherwise we shall be obliged always to define one
unknown by means of another.
--P. D. Ouspensky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky>
Carmen is an opera in four acts which Georges Bizet set to a libretto by
the team Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on Prosper Mérimée's
novella. When it was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3
March 1875, its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized its
first audiences. The opera was originally written with musical numbers
and spoken dialogue. Set in southern Spain, it tells of the downfall of
Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the fiery gypsy Carmen,
and finally kills her in a jealous rage. The depictions of proletarian
life, immorality, and lawlessness broke new ground in French opera.
Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work
would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years.
Carmen has become one of the most frequently performed operas, with the
"Habanera" and the "Toreador Song" among the best known of all operatic
arias. The music has been acclaimed for its brilliance of melody,
harmony, atmosphere and orchestration, and for Bizet's skill in
expressing the emotions and suffering of his characters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1924:
The Ottoman Caliphate, the world's last widely recognized
caliphate, was abolished.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_the_Caliphate>
1931:
"The Star-Spangled Banner", originally a poem written by
American author Francis Scott Key after witnessing the Battle of
Baltimore during the War of 1812, became the official national anthem of
the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner>
1991:
Motorist Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles Police
Department officers during an arrest, causing public outrage that
increased tensions between the African-American community and the police
department over police brutality and social inequality.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King>
2012:
Two passenger trains collided near Szczekociny, Poland,
resulting in 16 deaths and 58 injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szczekociny_rail_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
triangulation:
1. (uncountable, surveying) A technique in which distances and
directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the
principles of trigonometry; (countable) an instance of the use of this
technique.
2. (countable, surveying) The network of triangles so obtained, that are
the basis of a chart or map.
3. (countable, chess) A delaying move in which the king moves in a
triangular path to force the advance of a pawn.
4. (countable, geometry) A subdivision of a planar object into
triangles, and by extension the subdivision of a higher-dimension
geometric object into simplices.
5. (uncountable, navigation, seismology) A process by which an unknown
location is found using three known distances from known locations.
6. (uncountable, politics) The practice of repositioning one's group or
oneself on the political spectrum in an attempt to capture the centre.
7. (uncountable, qualitative research) The use of three (or more)
researchers to interview the same people or to evaluate the same
evidence to reduce the impact of individual bias.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triangulation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we
have.
--Émile Chartier
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Chartier>
Lionel Matthews (15 August 1912 – 2 March 1944) was an Australian Army
officer during World War II who was posthumously awarded the George
Cross, the highest non-combat award for heroism for members of the
Australian armed forces at the time. Matthews served in the 27th Brigade
during the Malayan campaign, and at the surrender of Singapore in 1942
became a prisoner of war (POW). He was awarded the Military Cross for
courage, energy and ability under fire during this fighting. At Sandakan
POW camp Matthews established an intelligence network, collecting
information, weapons, medical supplies and radio parts, and making
contact with organisations outside the camp. The group was betrayed, and
Matthews was arrested, beaten, tortured and starved. He refused to
provide any information, and was executed by firing squad. After the war
he was awarded the George Cross in recognition of his gallant and
distinguished services while in Japanese hands.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Matthews>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
New Zealand Wars: Carl Sylvius Völkner, a Protestant
missionary, was killed by Hauhau militants in Ōpōtiki for working as
an agent for George Grey, Governor-General of New Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sylvius_V%C3%B6lkner>
1937:
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, precursor to the United
Steel Workers of America, had a major success when it signed a
collective-bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Workers_Organizing_Committee>
1962:
Led by General Ne Win, the Burmese military seized power in a
coup d'état.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Burmese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2017:
A naming ceremony for the chemical elements moscovium,
tennessine, and oganesson took place at the Russian Academy of Sciences
in Moscow.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
conversely:
1. (often conjunctive) With a reversed relationship.
2. (conjunctive, loosely) From another point of view; on the other hand.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conversely>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the
comparison and conciliation of differences. And, ideally, peace means
the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
--Mikhail Gorbachev
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev>