Plants vs. Zombies is a 2009 tower defense video game developed and
published by PopCap Games. First released for Windows and Mac OS X, the
game has since been ported to consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices.
In Plants vs. Zombies, the player takes the role of a homeowner in the
midst of a zombie apocalypse. As a horde of zombies approaches along
several parallel lanes, the player must defend the home by putting down
plants, which fire projectiles at the zombies or otherwise detrimentally
affect them. The game was designed by George Fan (pictured) as a sequel
to Insaniquarium. Fan took inspiration from the games Magic: The
Gathering and Warcraft III and the movie Swiss Family Robinson. The
game was positively received by critics and was nominated for multiple
awards. It quickly became the best-selling game developed by PopCap
Games. Plants vs. Zombies was followed by a series of games after the
acquisition of PopCap Games by Electronic Arts.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants_vs._Zombies_%28video_game%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1801:
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons co-discovered the first of
his 37 comets, more than any other person in history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Pons>
1921:
Former president William Howard Taft was sworn in as Chief
Justice of the United States, making him the only person to date to have
held both offices.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft>
1991:
Shortly after taking off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria
Airways Flight 2120 caught fire and crashed, killing all 261 people on
board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways_Flight_2120>
2011:
An explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 13
people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelos_Florakis_Naval_Base_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
athanor:
(historical) A furnace or stove designed and used to maintain uniform
heat, primarily used by alchemists.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/athanor>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time.
You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the
most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and
generally congenial readers on earth. They accept, almost without
question, anything you present them with, as long as it is presented
honestly, fearlessly, and clearly.
--E. B. White
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White>
The MAX Orange Line is a light rail service in Portland, Oregon, United
States, operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It
connects Portland City Center to Portland State University, Southeast
Portland, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove. The Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail
Project was the second and final phase of the South Corridor Project
that in its first phase expanded light rail services to Interstate 205
and the Portland Transit Mall. The extension, which followed years of
failed light rail plans for Clackamas County, began construction work in
mid-2011. As part of the project, TriMet built Tilikum Crossing
(pictured), billed as "the largest car-free bridge in the United
States", over the Willamette River. The extension opened to Orange Line
service on September 12, 2015. The line serves 17 stations and runs for
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a minimum headway of 15 minutes during most of the day.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_Orange_Line>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1806:
Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at
Vellore Fort.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore_mutiny>
1921:
Irish War of Independence: One day after a truce was agreed
between the Irish Republican Army and British forces, violence broke out
between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281921%29>
1941:
The Holocaust: Ethnic Poles murdered at least 340 Jewish
residents of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedwabne_pogrom>
2018:
The last members of a junior football team and their coach were
rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gorge:
1. (intransitive, reflexive) Often followed by on: To stuff the gorge or
gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large
mouthfuls or quantities.
3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
4. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or
obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or
passage, causing an obstruction.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gorge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what
another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes
of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon. Thanks to
art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as
many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal,
differing more widely from each other than those which roll round the
infinite and which, whether their name be Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us
their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they
emanate is extinguished. This labour of the artist to discover a means
of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something
different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the
operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly
engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion,
accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for
practical ends which we falsely call life.
--Marcel Proust
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust>
The red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) is a species of
elapid snake native to Australia. Described by George Shaw in 1794, it
is one of eastern Australia's most commonly encountered snakes.
Averaging around 1.25 metres (4 ft) in length when fully grown, it has
glossy black upperparts, bright red or orange flanks and a pink or dull
red belly. It generally avoids people, but can attack if provoked.
Although its venom is capable of causing significant illness, containing
neurotoxins, myotoxins, coagulants and haemolysins, it is less venomous
than that of other Australian elapid snakes, and no humans have been
confirmed to have died from its bite. The snake forages in bodies of
shallow water, commonly with tangles of water plants and logs, where it
hunts frogs, its main prey item, as well as fish, reptiles and small
mammals. Its numbers are thought to be declining due to habitat
fragmentation and falling frog populations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-bellied_black_snake>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1790:
Russo-Swedish War: During the Battle of Svensksund in the
Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captured a third of the Russian fleet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Svensksund>
1958:
An earthquake struck Lituya Bay, Alaska; the subsequent
megatsunami, the largest in modern times, reached an elevation of
1,720 ft (524 m).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami>
1981:
Nintendo released the arcade game Donkey Kong (cabinet
pictured), which featured the debut of Mario, one of the most famous
characters in video-game history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario>
1995:
Sri Lankan Civil War: After advising civilians to take shelter
in places of worship, the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed a church in Navaly,
killing at least 147 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navaly_church_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hyperparasite:
1. (biology) Any parasite whose host is a parasite.
2. (entomology, specifically) An insect that parasitizes another
parasitic insect.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperparasite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I cherish the mercy and the grace of women’s work. But I know
there is new work that we must undertake as well: that new work will
make defeat detestable to us. That new women’s work will mean we will
not die trying to stand up: we will live that way: standing up. I came
too late to help my mother to her feet. By way of everlasting thanks to
all of the women who have helped me to stay alive I am working never to
be late again.
--June Jordan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/June_Jordan>
George Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American
businessman and Republican Party politician, and the father of Mitt
Romney. George Romney was born to Americans living in the Mormon
colonies in Mexico. He spent much of his youth in Salt Lake City, but
moved to Detroit in 1939, working in the automotive industry, and rising
to lead American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962. Entering politics
at a 1961 Michigan state constitutional convention, he was elected
governor in 1962, 1964, and 1966. He ran for the Republican nomination
for president in 1968, but was defeated by Richard Nixon. President
Nixon appointed Romney as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Romney's plans, which included housing for the poor and the
desegregation of suburbs, were modestly successful. He left office in
1973, returning to the private sector. Devoutly religious, he presided
over the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, serving as a regional representative of the Twelve within his
church.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1709:
Great Northern War: Swedish forces under Charles XII were
defeated by Russian troops led by Peter the Great at the Battle of
Poltava, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major European power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava>
1947:
Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S.
Army Air Force personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military said
that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident>
1994:
Upon the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il became the supreme
leader of North Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pessimize:
1. (transitive) To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative
or pessimistic way.
2. (transitive) To make (something) pessimal or the worst; (in a weaker
sense) to make (something, such as a computer program) less efficient.
3. (intransitive) To think like a pessimist; to believe the worst.
4. (intransitive) To become pessimal or the worst.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pessimize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Purity of heart will not make us poor. The exaltation of poverty
as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting
from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of
moral authority, that worldly success is a natural result. Give all
your gifts away in service to the world. If you want to paint, don’t
wait for a grant. Paint a wall in your town that looks drab and
uninviting. You never know who’s going to see that wall. Whatever it
is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.
--Marianne Williamson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson>
The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars between
Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in
the 3rd century BC. For 23 years they struggled for supremacy,
primarily on the island of Sicily and its surrounding waters, and also
in North Africa. After immense losses on both sides the Carthaginians
were defeated. The war began with the Romans gaining a foothold on
Sicily. In 260 BC they built a navy to challenge Carthage's, and
inflicted several defeats. Taking advantage of their naval victories,
the Romans launched an invasion of North Africa, which failed. In
249 BC they besieged the last two Carthaginian strongholds on Sicily.
After several years of stalemate, the Romans rebuilt their fleet and
blockaded the Carthaginian garrisons. A Carthaginian fleet attempted to
relieve them, but the fleet's destruction in 241 BC forced the cut-off
Carthaginian troops to negotiate for peace. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Punic Wars.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Punic_Wars>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with
American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more than 200
men at the Battle of Hubbardton.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hubbardton>
1937:
The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League
of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable and recommended
the partition of British-administered Mandatory Palestine into two
states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission>
1991:
Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the
Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioni_Agreement>
2016:
A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police
officers (memorial service pictured) in Dallas, Texas, killing five of
them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to
a police robot.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hebdomad:
1. (obsolete) A group of seven.
2. A period of seven days; a week.
3. (Gnosticism) A group of seven world-creating archons (supernatural
beings) often regarded as somewhat hostile; also, a term of address for
the Demiurge (“a being sometimes seen as the creator of evil”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hebdomad>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I would be disappointed if everything I saw turned out to be
something Western Electric will build once Bell Labs works the bugs out.
There ought to be some magic, somewhere, just for flavor.
--Glory Road
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glory_Road>
Two Lion-class battlecruisers were built for the Royal Navy before World
War I. Lion served as the flagship of the British Grand Fleet's
battlecruisers during most of the war, and Princess Royal became the
flagship of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron in 1915. The two ships were a
significant improvement over their predecessors in terms of speed,
armament and armour. They both participated in the Battle of Heligoland
Bight in 1914, where Lion sank the German light cruiser Cöln. In the
Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915, Lion was badly damaged and Princess Royal
scored several hits, one crippling the German armoured cruiser Blücher,
which allowed the enemy vessel to be caught and sunk. At the Battle of
Jutland in 1916, Lion suffered a serious cordite fire that could have
destroyed the ship, and Princess Royal was moderately damaged. They were
both put into reserve in 1920, and were sold for scrap a few years
later. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battlecruisers of the
world.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Battlecruisers_of_t…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1892:
During a steelworkers' strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a
day-long battle between strikers and Pinkerton agents resulted in ten
deaths and dozens of people wounded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike>
1936:
A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England
sent millions of gallons of water cascading 300 feet (90 m) into the
River Irwell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Bolton_%26_Bury_Canal>
1971:
After visiting several Asian communist countries, Romanian
leader Nicolae Ceaușescu gave a speech on a number of neo-Stalinist and
socialist-realist ideals, which became known as the July Theses.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Theses>
1997:
The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of
unrest began in Irish-nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Northern_Ireland_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ensorcell:
1. (transitive) To bewitch or enchant.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To captivate, entrance, fascinate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ensorcell>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am optimistic that the ancient values that have sustained
mankind are today reaffirming themselves to prepare us for a kinder,
happier twenty-first century. I pray for all of us, oppressor and
friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through
human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the
pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
--Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama>
Imaginative Tales was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine
launched in September 1954 by William Hamling's Greenleaf Publishing
Company. It began as a vehicle for novel-length humorous fantasy, with
initial issues featuring stories by Charles F. Myers and Robert Bloch.
After a year, Hamling switched the focus to science fiction, and it
became similar in content to its sister magazine Imagination, publishing
routine space operas. In 1958, with public interest in space high,
Hamling changed the title to Space Travel, but there was little effect
on sales. Magazine circulation was suffering because of the rise of the
paperback, and the liquidation in 1957 of American News Company, a major
magazine distributor, made it even harder for small magazines to
survive. Hamling eventually folded both Imaginative Tales and
Imagination in 1958, preferring to invest the money in Rogue, a men's
magazine he had started in imitation of Playboy in 1955.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginative_Tales>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
Thomas Cook, founder of the travel company Thomas Cook & Son,
organised his first excursion, escorting about 500 people from Leicester
to Loughborough.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook>
1946:
Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test
Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was
introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini>
1954:
Elvis Presley recorded his first single, "That's All Right", at
Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_All_Right>
2006:
The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting
hours after North Korea reportedly tested at least seven separate
ballistic missiles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_missile_test>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
coffee table book:
A large book, usually with lavish illustrations, typically displayed on
a coffee table.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coffee_table_book>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is
truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this
fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading
honors on your head.
--Jean Cocteau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau>
Fort Concho is a former United States Army installation and a National
Historic Landmark located in San Angelo, Texas. It was established in
1867 and was an active military base for 22 years. The fort was the
base of the 4th Cavalry from 1867 to 1875, and of the "Buffalo Soldiers"
of the 10th Cavalry from 1875 to 1882. The fort was abandoned in
June 1889 and over the next twenty years was divided into residences
and businesses, with the buildings repurposed or recycled for their
materials. Efforts to preserve and restore Fort Concho began in the
1900s and the Fort Concho Museum was founded in 1928. Fort Concho was
named a National Historic Landmark District on July 4, 1961, and is one
of the best-preserved examples of the military installations built by
the US Army in Texas.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Concho>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
The first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was
published, and it went on to become one of the most important
collections of American poetry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
1941:
The Holocaust: During the German occupation of Latvia, a number
of synagogues in Riga were set on fire, killing many Jews who were
confined within.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Riga_synagogues>
1951:
William Shockley announced the invention of the junction
transistor (example pictured), for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter
Houser Brattain later won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
all-American:
1. Comprising things that are wholly from the United States of America;
completely made in the United States.
2. Regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States;
(specifically) of a person: courageous, heroic; honest, wholesome, etc.
3. (US, chiefly sports) Of a person or a team, or some other thing:
regarded as the best in the United States.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all-American>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The
general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every
view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with
saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to
ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope
for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever
refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion
to them.
--Thomas Jefferson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>
Ambulocetus natans is a species of early amphibious archaeocete cetacean
from the Kuldana Formation in Pakistan during the early Eocene, 48 or
47 million years ago. It is among the most completely known Eocene
cetaceans, vital to the study of cetacean evolution and the transition
from land to sea. Ambulocetus probably had a long, broad, and powerful
snout, and eyes near the top of the head. It may have hunted like a
crocodile, waiting near the water's surface and ambushing large mammals,
using the jaws to clamp onto and drown or thrash prey. It may have swum
like a river otter, alternating beats of the hind limbs while keeping
the forelimbs tucked in for most of its propulsive power, simultaneously
undulating the torso and tail. It had four functional limbs and may have
walked much like a sea lion. It possibly had webbed feet and lacked a
tail fluke. It lived in a hot, coastal swamp, probably in a river mouth.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
Pickett's Charge, a futile Confederate infantry assault against
Union Army positions, occurred during the final and bloodiest day of
fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg, marking a turning point in the
American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickett%27s_Charge>
1940:
Second World War: The Royal Navy attacked the French fleet at
Mers El Kébir (ship pictured), fearing that the ships would fall into
Axis hands after the French–German armistice.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir>
1970:
Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashed into the slopes of the Montseny
Massif in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan-Air_Flight_1903>
2013:
General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to depose Egyptian
president Mohamed Morsi in a coup d'état, suspending the constitution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Egyptian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ambivert:
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor
introverted, but has characteristics of each.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambivert>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why
the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things
worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
--Franz Kafka
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka>
The green rosella (Platycercus caledonicus) is a parrot native to the
Australian state of Tasmania and some Bass Strait islands. The species
was described by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
At up to 37 cm (14.5 in) long, it is the largest species in its genus.
Its underparts, neck and head are yellow, with a red band above the beak
and violet-blue cheeks. The back is mostly black and green, and its long
tail blue and green. The female has duller yellow plumage and more
prominent red markings, as well as a smaller beak. Found in a wide range
of habitats with some form of tree cover, the green rosella is
predominantly herbivorous, consuming seeds, berries, nuts, fruits, and
flowers, but it may also eat insect larvae and insects such as psyllids.
Nesting takes place in tree hollows. The green rosella is widespread
across Tasmania, but the King Island subspecies has been classed as
vulnerable.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_rosella>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1816:
The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of
present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft,
depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa>
1881:
U.S. president James A. Garfield was fatally shot at the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_James_A._Garfield>
1941:
An SS unit arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and began the
systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over the next three years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponary_massacre>
2013:
The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth
and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and
Styx, respectively.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_%28moon%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tinge:
1. (transitive) To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension)
to add a small amount of some other thing.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To affect or alter slightly, particularly
due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
3. (intransitive) To change slightly in shade due to the addition of
colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition
of some other thing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tinge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone
provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect
doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of
yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is
lived, not taught.
--Hermann Hesse
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse>