Portraits of Odaenathus, the king of Palmyra from 260 to 267 CE,
include sculptures, seal impressions, and mosaic pieces. As a client
king for Rome, Odaenathus came to dominate the Roman East after
defeating Shapur I of Persia in 260 and assuming the title King of
Kings. Several limestone head portraits from Palmyra were identified by
twentieth-century scholars as depicting Odaenathus, based on criteria
such as the size and the presence of a wreath, but more recent research
indicates that these pieces were probably funerary objects depicting
private citizens. Two marble heads, both reflecting a high level of
individuality, depicting Eastern royal attributes such as the tiara and
diadem, are more likely to be portraits of the king. Also, two Palmyrene
tesserae (example pictured) bear a probable depiction of the king,
bearded and wearing a diadem and an earring. In addition, Odaenathus is
likely the subject of two mosaic panels glorifying his victories.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_of_Odaenathus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
Four days after the Court of King's Bench upheld an English
murder suspect's right to a trial by battle in Ashford v Thornton, the
plaintiff declined to fight, allowing the defendant to go free.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton>
1914:
A fire and a gun battle between the Colorado National Guard and
striking coal miners led to 17 deaths in the Ludlow Massacre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre>
1978:
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was shot down after violating
Soviet airspace, forcing it to make an emergency landing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902>
2008:
Fernando Lugo became the first non–Colorado Party candidate
to be elected President of Paraguay in 61 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Paraguayan_general_election>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nauplius:
(zoology) A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs
(corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye,
and little or no segmentation of the body.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nauplius>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff) Good God I gotta'
take a lift (lift) From reality I just can't drift (drift) That's why
I am staying with this riff (riff) Take it easy, easy skanking Got to
take it easy, easy skanking.
--Bob Marley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Marley>
League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena video game
developed and published by Riot Games and released in 2009. Two teams of
five players battle in player-versus-player combat, with each player
controlling a character with a unique play style and abilities. At
launch, the game was generally well-received; later critical
reappraisals, arising as a result of the game's long lifespan, have
trended positively, noting the regular content updates. In 2019 the game
routinely recorded 8 million concurrent players, and its popularity and
longevity have led to various tie-ins, including virtual groups like
K/DA, narrative collaborations with Marvel Comics, spin-off video games,
and an upcoming animated series. The game is played professionally, and
is frequently cited as the world's largest esport; the 2019 League of
Legends World Championship had over 100 million unique viewers, peaking
at a concurrent 44 million viewers, with a minimum prize pool of
US$2.5 million.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
War of the Fifth Coalition: The French won a hard-fought
victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from
the field of battle that evening.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen>
1927:
American actress Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for
"corrupting the morals of youth" for her play Sex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West>
1971:
The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, USSR.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_1>
1984:
"Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer
Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as
Australia's national anthem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Australia_Fair>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Bronx cheer:
(US, idiomatic) Synonym of raspberry (“a sound intended to resemble
flatulence made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is
protruding from and pressed against the lips, used humorously or to
express disdain or scorn”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bronx_cheer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. …
In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature,
all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they
see and understand nature.
--Albert Hofmann
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann>
Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the
nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series
of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. The city has been Rwanda's
economic, cultural, and transport hub since it became the capital
following independence from Belgium in 1962. It is one of five provinces
into which Rwanda was repartitioned in 2006. Kigali is divided into
three districts—Gasabo, Kicukiro, and Nyarugenge—which historically
had control of significant areas of local governance. Reforms in
January 2020 transferred much of the districts' power to the city-wide
council. The city also hosts the main residence and offices of the
president of Rwanda and most government ministries. It was founded in
1907 as the headquarters of the German colonial resident. It grew slowly
during the following decades, but since the Rwandan Civil War and the
genocide it has experienced rapid population growth, with much of the
city rebuilt. The largest contributor to Kigali's GDP is the service
sector..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_sector_of_the_economy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1915:
World War I: Hit by ground fire, French aviation pioneer Roland
Garros landed his aircraft behind enemy lines and was taken prisoner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garros_%28aviator%29>
1938:
Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of DC Comics,
made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true superhero comic
book.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Comics_1>
1980:
Robert Mugabe became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe after
the Lancaster House Agreement brought an end to the unrecognized state
of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe>
1996:
Operation Grapes of Wrath: Israeli forces shelled Qana,
Lebanon, killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 110
others at a United Nations compound.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
footbath:
1. The act of soaking or washing the feet.
2. A small basin or bath designed for soaking or washing the feet.
3. A liquid mixture, often medicinal, for soaking or washing the feet
with.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footbath>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The greatest artist is he who is greatest in the highest reaches
of his art, even although he may lack the qualities necessary for the
adequate execution of some minor details. It is not by his faults, but
by his excellences, that we measure a great man. The strength of a beam
is measured by its weakest part, of a man by his strongest.
--George Henry Lewes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Henry_Lewes>
Zagreb was the second of three Beograd-class destroyers built for the
Royal Yugoslav Navy. She was designed to be deployed as part of a
division led by the flotilla leader Dubrovnik. The first warship built
in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Zagreb entered service in August 1939,
was armed with a main battery of four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns in single
mounts, and had a top speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). Yugoslavia
entered World War II due to the German-led Axis invasion in
April 1941. During the invasion, two of her officers scuttled her at
the Bay of Kotor on 17 April 1941 to prevent her capture by Italian
forces and were both killed by the explosion of the scuttling charges. A
French film was made in 1967 about her demise and the deaths of the two
officers. In 1973, on the thirtieth anniversary of the formation of the
Yugoslav Navy, both men were posthumously awarded the Order of the
People's Hero by President Josip Tito. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Ships_of_the_Royal_…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1362:
Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, forces of the
Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction
pictured), which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kaunas>
1907:
Minas Geraes, the first of three Brazilian dreadnought
battleships, was laid down, sparking a vastly expensive South American
naval arms race with Argentina and Chile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_dreadnought_race>
1951:
The Peak District was designated the first national park in the
United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_District>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
implacable:
1. Not able to be placated or appeased.
2. Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
3. Adamant; immovable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/implacable>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is
nothing if it is not ridiculous.
--Thornton Wilder
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder>
Persuasion is a 1995 period-drama film directed by Roger Michell and
based on Jane Austen's 1817 eponymous novel. Amanda Root stars as
protagonist Anne Elliot, while Ciarán Hinds plays her romantic
interest, Frederick Wentworth. The film, adapted by the writer Nick
Dear, is set in 19th-century England, eight years after Anne was
persuaded to reject Wentworth's marriage proposal. Persuasion follows
the two as they become reacquainted, while other characters try to
interfere. Persuasion was shot chronologically, allowing Root to portray
Anne's emotional development. The BBC, the original producer, later
partnered with the US WGBH Boston and the French Millesime. This
released a larger budget and allowed filming in locations including Lyme
Regis and Bath (location pictured). Costume designer Alexandra Byrne
produced clothing that appeared "lived-in", winning a BAFTA for her
work. The film aired on 16 April 1995 on BBC Two and Sony released the
film in US cinemas on 27 September 1995. Persuasion received generally
positive reviews, with many praising Root's performance.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion_%281995_film%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
New Zealand Wars: A minor Māori chief was accidentally shot by
a junior British Army officer in the settlement of Whanganui on New
Zealand's North Island, triggering the Whanganui campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whanganui_campaign>
1917:
Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, where he
joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin>
1963:
In response to an open letter written by white clergymen,
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in defence
of the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail>
2014:
The ferry MV Sewol sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing
304 of 476 passengers on board, most of whom were students from Danwon
High School.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
boiling frog:
(idiomatic, often attributively) A person who, or thing which, is in a
gradually worsening situation without any realization of the peril until
it is too late.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boiling_frog>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
--Anatole France
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France>
Aftermath is a 1966 album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.
Following a newfound success that rivalled their contemporaries in the
Beatles, the album is the Stones' first to consist entirely of original
songs, all credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (both pictured),
who wrote dark, sarcastic, provocative lyrics about love, desire, power
and dominance, modern society and rock stardom. Brian Jones experimented
with instruments not usually associated with popular music, including
the sitar, Appalachian dulcimer and marimbas, which expanded the band's
music beyond their blues and R&B; influences. An immediate success
rivalling the Beatles' Rubber Soul (1965), Aftermath reflected youth
culture in the Swinging London scene and countercultural values while
pioneering the album era and subversive content in punk and glam rock.
It is considered the most formative of the Stones' early music and their
first classic album, frequently appearing on professional rankings of
the greatest albums.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_%28Rolling_Stones_album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1738:
Serse (audio featured), an opera by Baroque composer George
Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serse>
1936:
A group of Arabs in British Mandatory Palestine killed two Jews
at a roadblock, an act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within
the Arab revolt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tulkarm_shooting>
1958:
On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the
U.S. West Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mummy brown:
1. (painting, historical) A brown pigment originally prepared from the
ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with
bitumen, etc.
2. The colour of this pigment, a variable brown intermediate between raw
umber and burnt umber. mummy brown:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mummy_brown>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all
discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent
value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as
instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
--Henry James
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James>
Dreamsnake is a 1978 science fiction novel by American writer Vonda N.
McIntyre. It is an expansion of her Nebula Award–winning 1973
novelette "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand". The main character, Snake, is
a healer who uses genetically modified serpents to cure sickness in the
aftermath of a nuclear holocaust on Earth. The titular "dreamsnake" is
an alien serpent whose venom gives dying people pleasant dreams. The
novel follows Snake as she seeks to replace her dead dreamsnake. The
book is an example of second-wave feminism in science fiction. McIntyre
subverted gendered narratives, including by placing a woman at the
center of a heroic quest. Dreamsnake also explored social structures and
sexuality from a feminist perspective, and examined themes of healing
and cross-cultural interaction. The novel won the 1978 Nebula Award, the
1979 Hugo Award, and the 1979 Locus Poll Award. Snake's strength and
self-sufficiency were noted by commentators, while McIntyre's writing
and the book's themes also received praise.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamsnake>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally
shot U.S. president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln>
1909:
Following a reactionary military revolt against the Committee
of Union and Progress, a mob began a massacre of Armenian Christians in
the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adana_massacre>
1967:
After leading a military coup three months earlier, Gnassingbé
Eyadéma installed himself as President of Togo, a post that he held
until 2005.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnassingb%C3%A9_Eyad%C3%A9ma>
2014:
Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a
government secondary school in the town of Chibok, Nigeria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibok_schoolgirls_kidnapping>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enfeoff:
1. (transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow
with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold
interest.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To give up completely; to surrender, to
yield.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enfeoff>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The purblind majority quite honestly believed that literature was
meant to mimic human life, and that it did so. And in consequence, their
love-affairs, their maxims, their so-called natural ties and instincts,
and above all, their wickedness, became just so many bungling
plagiarisms from something they had read, in a novel or a Bible or a
poem or a newspaper. People progressed from the kindergarten to the
cemetery assuming that their emotion at every crisis was what books
taught them was the appropriate emotion, and without noticing that it
was in reality something quite different. Human life was a distorting
tarnished mirror held up to literature: this much at least of Wilde's
old paradox — that life mimicked art — was indisputable. Human life,
very clumsily, tried to reproduce the printed word.
--James Branch Cabell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell>
Argentinosaurus is a genus of giant sauropod dinosaur that lived during
the Late Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. It was one of the largest
land animals of all time, and possibly the largest, with length
estimates ranging from 30 to 39.7 metres (98 to 130 ft) and weight
estimates from 50 to 100 tonnes (55 to 110 short tons). It was a member
of Titanosauria, the dominant group of sauropods during the Cretaceous.
The first Argentinosaurus bone was discovered in 1987 by a farmer near
the city of Plaza Huincul in the Huincul Formation, which is rich in
dinosaur fossils. A scientific excavation of the site led by the
Argentine palaeontologist José Bonaparte was conducted in 1989,
yielding several back vertebrae and parts of a sacrum—fused vertebrae
between the back and tail vertebrae. Additional specimens include a
complete femur (thigh bone) and the shaft of another. The fragmentary
nature of the remains makes their interpretation difficult.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1946:
Nakam, a Jewish organization seeking revenge for the Holocaust,
attempted to poison SS prisoners at Langwasser internment camp, but did
not kill anyone.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam>
1956:
The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cụt, a military
commander of the Hòa Hảo religious sect, which ran a de facto state
in South Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_C%E1%BB%A5t>
1997:
In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to
win the Masters Tournament, breaking its record for the lowest four-
round score.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Department of Redundancy Department:
(humorous) A fictitious department that is cited to draw attention to
needless repetition or excessiveness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Department_of_Redundancy_Department>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If we do not learn to sacrifice small differences of opinion, we
can never act together. Every man cannot have his way in all things. If
his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing
that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition
we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.
--Thomas Jefferson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft
system operated from April 12, 1981, to July 21, 2011, by the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. Launched from
the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, five Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles
flew on a total of 135 missions during 30 years. They conducted science
experiments in orbit, helped build the International Space Station, and
launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble
Space Telescope. Four fully operational orbiters were initially built:
Columbia, Challenger, Discovery (pictured), and Atlantis. Lost in
mission accidents were Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003, with a
total of fourteen astronauts killed. A fifth operational orbiter,
Endeavour, was built in 1991 to replace Challenger. The Space Shuttle
was retired from service upon the conclusion of Atlantis's final flight.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
Broughton Suspension Bridge near Manchester, England,
collapsed, reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops
marching in step across the bridge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge>
1861:
Confederate forces began bombarding Fort Sumter in the harbor
of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter>
1961:
Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the
first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin>
2013:
Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by
jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Kidal_suicide_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
push the envelope:
(intransitive, idiomatic, originally aeronautics) To go beyond
established limits; to pioneer.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/push_the_envelope>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have heard something said on this and a former occasion about
allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to
which I owe any allegiance. I owe allegiance to two sovereignty, and
only two: one is the sovereignty of this Union, and the other is the
sovereignty of the state of Kentucky. My allegiance is to this Union and
to my state; but if gentlemen suppose they can exact from me an
acknowledgement of allegiance to any ideal or future contemplated
confederacy of the South, I here declare that I owe no allegiance to it;
nor will I, for one, come under any such allegiance if I can avoid it.
--Henry Clay
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Clay>
The 2015 Boat Races took place on 11 April. The Boat Race is an annual
side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford
and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River
Thames. For the first time ever, the men's, women's and both reserve
races were all held on the Tideway. In the men's reserve race,
Cambridge's Goldie faced Oxford's Isis after the women's race, as a
preliminary to the main men's race, while the women's reserve race, held
the day before, saw Oxford's Osiris race against Cambridge's Blondie.
Oxford's women won the first running of the Women's Boat Race on the
Tideway, and the 70th overall, by 6.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:
0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;po
sition:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap} 1⁄2 lengths, to take
the overall record in the event to 41–29 in Cambridge's favour. Oxford
also won the men's reserve race, with Isis winning by 3 lengths. In the
main men's race, umpired by Boris Rankov, Oxford (crew pictured) won by
6 1⁄2 lengths, taking the overall record in the event to 81–79
in Cambridge's favour. The women's reserve race was won by Osiris by 15
lengths, making the overall record 21–20 to Cambridge. .
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Rankov>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, considered one of the world's
finest concert halls, was inaugurated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertgebouw>
1921:
Emir Abdullah established the first centralised government in
the recently created British protectorate of Transjordan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan>
1951:
U.S. president Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur of his commands for making public statements about the
Korean War that contradicted the administration's policies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur>
2001:
In a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, Australia defeated
American Samoa by a score of 31–0, the largest margin of victory ever
in an international football match.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_31%E2%80%930_American_Samoa>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
flabbergast:
(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or
stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flabbergast>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever,
God forbid, I hope someone will say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really
knows? I could have dreamed all this. My epitaph in any case?
"Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt." I will have gotten off so
light, whatever the heck it is that was going on.
--Kurt Vonnegut
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut>