The Cerro Blanco is a caldera in the Andes, located in Argentina's
Catamarca Province. Part of the Andes Central Volcanic Zone, it is a
volcano collapse structure located at an altitude of 4,670 metres
(15,320 ft) in a depression. It has been active for the last eight
million years and its eruptions have created several ignimbrites. An
eruption 73,000 years ago formed the Campo de la Piedra Pómez
ignimbrite layer, while another eruption in 2,300 ± 160 BCE became the
largest volcanic eruption of the Central Andes, and reached the highest
level in the Volcanic Explosivity Index, ejecting an estimated 170 cubic
kilometres (41 cu mi) of tephra. This eruption led to the formation of
the most recent caldera, as well as thick ignimbrite layers. However,
the Cerro Blanco has been dormant since then, although some deformation
and geothermal activity have been recorded. The volcano is also known
for giant ripple marks that have formed on its ignimbrite fields.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Blanco_%28volcano%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered
to be the first American novel, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy>
1919:
The First Dáil (members pictured) convened at the Mansion
House in Dublin and adopted a declaration of independence calling for
the establishment of the Irish Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_D%C3%A1il>
1972:
Tripura, formerly part of the independent Twipra Kingdom,
became a state of India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripura>
2017:
Millions of people participated in the worldwide Women's March,
to advocate for legislation and policies on human rights and other
issues.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cold weapon:
(weaponry) A weapon that does not use explosives or fire.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cold_weapon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a crucial moment. Russia is
regrouping, recruiting, and trying to re-equip. This is not a moment
to slow down. It's a time to dig deeper. The Ukrainian people are
watching us. The Kremlin is watching us. And history is watching us.
So we won't let up. And we won't waver in our determination to help
Ukraine defend itself from Russia's imperial aggression.
--Lloyd Austin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin>
Burnley F.C.'s 1920–21 season was the 29th of their seasons in the
Football League, and their 4th consecutive season in the Football League
First Division. After losing their first three games, Burnley had a
30-match unbeaten league run, winning the First Division and becoming
English champions for the first time in their history. Their unbeaten
run stood as a Football League record for more than 80 years. Burnley
ended the 1920–21 season on 59 points, having won 23 games, drawn
13, and lost 6. They reached the third round of the FA Cup, defeating
Leicester City away and Queens Park Rangers at home, before unexpectedly
losing to Hull City of the Second Division. Burnley used 23 players
during the season. Their top scorer was Scottish forward Joe Anderson,
with 31 competitive goals. Eight new players were signed by Burnley, and
eleven left the club. Match attendances were the highest they had been
at the club's home ground, Turf Moor, with an average gate of more than
30,000 and a highest attendance of 42,653.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%E2%80%9321_Burnley_F.C._season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1877:
The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers
declaring the need for political reforms, which the Ottoman Empire
refused to undertake, later resulting in the Russo-Turkish War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Conference>
1942:
The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi
officials met at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin to discuss the
implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference>
1992:
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges while circling to
land at Strasbourg Airport, France, resulting in 87 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Inter_Flight_148>
2009:
In Washington, D.C., more than one million people attended the
inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of
the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
back-ganging:
1. Behind or late in payment or rent; in arrears.
2. Not in a good financial state; unprosperous.
3. Not in good health; sickly, unhealthy.
4. A going back; a returning; also, the way back.
5. A deterioration, especially in circumstances or health; a relapse, a
retrograde.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/back-ganging>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last
words.
--David Crosby
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Crosby>
The 2020 Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held
from 12 to 19 January 2020 at Alexandra Palace in London, England. It
was the 46th Masters tournament, and the second of three Triple Crown
events in the 2019–20 snooker season, following the 2019 UK
Championship and preceding the 2020 World Snooker Championship. The
knockout tournament involved the top 16 players in the snooker world
rankings. Organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker
Association, it was broadcast by the BBC and Eurosport in Europe. Judd
Trump was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the first round.
The previous year's finalist, Ronnie O'Sullivan, chose not to
participate, thus giving his entry to Ali Carter, who reached the final
(pictured) but lost to Stuart Bingham. Claiming his first Masters title,
Bingham became the oldest Masters champion, at the age of 43 years and
243 days, beating the previous record set by Ray Reardon in 1976.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Masters_%28snooker%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1511:
War of the League of Cambrai: Troops led by Pope Julius II
captured Mirandola after a brief siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mirandola_%281511%29>
1920:
The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors
of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union>
1972:
The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS
officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living
in Peru.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie>
2012:
The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut
down by the FBI.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chambers:
1. (archaic) A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a
residential apartment.
2. (by extension, law)
3. Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for
hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
4. (Britain) Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one
or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or
more barristers in any building.
5. Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and
urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used
by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).
6. (Britain, historical) In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next
to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines
connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive
jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the
territorial sea. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chambers>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Mobilization of the world must outpace the next military
mobilization of our joint enemy. The supplying of Ukraine with air
defense systems must outpace Russia’s next missile attacks. The
supplies of Western tanks must outpace another invasion of Russian
tanks. The restoration of security and peace in Ukraine must outpace
Russia’s attack on security and peace in other countries. A tribunal
for military crimes must prevent new ones.
--Volodymyr Zelenskyy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy>
Peloneustes is a genus of pliosaurid plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic
of England, known from the Oxford Clay Formation. Its sole species was
originally named Plesiosaurus philarchus by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869
before Richard Lydekker gave it its own genus in 1889. It is known from
many specimens, some very complete. It had a total length of 3.5 to 4
metres (11 to 13 ft), and a large, triangular skull elongated into a
narrow snout with conical teeth. The two sides of its mandible (lower
jaw) were fused into a long symphysis at the front. Its neck was short
for a plesiosaur and its limbs were modified into flippers, with the
back pair larger than the front. Peloneustes is classified in
Thalassophonea with other short-necked pliosaurids. It was well-adapted
to aquatic life, using its flippers for swimming, and its skull was
reinforced against the stresses of feeding. Peloneustes's long, narrow
snout could have been swung through the water to catch fish with its
sharp teeth.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloneustes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1535:
Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day
Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish
crown.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lima>
1788:
The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First
Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Supply_%281759%29>
1958:
Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the
National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in
the NHL.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_O%27Ree>
1990:
In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry, the
mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
endian:
(computing) Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing
multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory
address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the
largest address (little-endian).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/endian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the
ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
--Daniel Webster
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster>
The 1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held by the
Pennsylvania General Assembly starting on January 17, 1899, to fill the
Senate seat occupied by Matthew Quay, the state's Republican political
boss. Quay sought election to a third term, but was damaged by an
indictment for financial irregularities. Although Republicans had a
majority in the legislature, enough were opposed to Quay to deny him re-
election. After 79 ballots, the session ended on April 20, the day Quay
was acquitted, without the election of a senator. Governor William A.
Stone appointed Quay to the seat, but the Senate refused to seat him.
Quay blamed his fellow Republican boss, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, for
this and revenged himself at the 1900 Republican National Convention by
backing Thomas C. Platt's scheme to politically sideline Governor
Theodore Roosevelt of New York by making him vice president, over
Hanna's strong objection. The 1901 legislature elected Quay to the
Senate and he served there until his death in 1904.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_United_States_Senate_election_in_Pennsyl…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1773:
On James Cook's second voyage, his vessel HMS Resolution
became the first vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_James_Cook>
1912:
Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition reached
the South Pole, only to find that Roald Amundsen's team had beaten them
by 33 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition>
1961:
Patrice Lumumba, a former prime minister of
Congo-Léopoldville, was murdered in circumstances suggesting the
support and complicity of the Belgian and US governments and the UN.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba>
2002:
Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, began an eruption that killed hundreds and left about 120,000
people homeless in the nearby town of Goma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
crunkmeister:
(music, slang, rare) A performer of crunk music.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crunkmeister>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The greatest worldly distinctions and discrepancies of rank,
birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of
accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathising hearts
and souls.
--Anne Brontë
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB>
Cliff Thorburn (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired
professional snooker player. Nicknamed "the Grinder" because of his
slow, determined style of play, he won the 1980 World Snooker
Championship, becoming the first world champion in snooker's modern era
from outside the United Kingdom. He remains the sport's only world
champion from the Americas. Ranked world number one during the 1981–82
season, he was the first non-British player to top the world rankings.
In 1983, Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break in a
World Championship. He is the first player to win the Masters three
times (in 1983, 1985, and 1986) and the first to retain the title. He
retired from the main professional tour in 1996. Inducted into Canada's
Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Snooker Hall of Fame in 2014, he
competed in Snooker Legends events and on the World Seniors Tour,
winning the 2018 Seniors Masters. He retired from competitive snooker
after the 2022 UK Seniors Championship.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Thorburn>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1780:
Anglo-Spanish War: The Royal Navy gained their first major
naval victory over their European enemies in the war when they defeated
a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_%281780%29>
1883:
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United
States Civil Service, is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform_Act>
1905:
Despite being blind in one eye, ice hockey player Frank McGee
set the record for most goals in a Stanley Cup game when he scored 14
against the Dawson City Nuggets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McGee_%28ice_hockey%29>
2016:
After gunmen took hostages the previous night at a restaurant
in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, government commandos stormed the premises
to bring the situation to an end.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ouagadougou_attacks>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tractile:
1. Capable of being drawn or stretched out in length.
2. Pertaining to traction or pulling.
3. (dated) Capable of being guided, influenced, or led.
4. (obsolete, rare) Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured
from a place of deposit; liquid.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tractile>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our main goal should be to establish a precedent for a new post-
Cold War era, in which the community of nations, working through the
United Nations and other organizations, can insure that would-be
aggressors do not profit from invasion, coercion and force.
--Paul Nitze
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Nitze>
James Ashley was killed in a police raid in the English town of St
Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, on 15 January 1998. An inquiry found
that using armed officers breached guidelines, the raid team was
inadequately trained, and officers in charge misrepresented intelligence
to gain raid authorisation. A second inquiry accused chief officers of
colluding to obstruct the first inquiry. The officer who shot Ashley was
charged with murder but acquitted on the grounds of self-defence. The
officers who led the operation, charged with misconduct in public
office, were also acquitted. Ashley's family sued the police for
negligence and battery; the case was heard by the House of Lords who
ruled that the threshold for pleading self-defence in a civil case was
higher than in a criminal one and that the litigants should decide which
causes of action to pursue. Ashley's death was considered in a report
that recommended stronger control of armed operations and equipping
officers with non-lethal alternatives.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_James_Ashley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1937:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both
withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the
Corunna Road.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Corunna_Road>
1947:
The mutilated corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman
whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United
States, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia>
1962:
The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving
manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derveni_papyrus>
1975:
Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the
FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvor_Agreement>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
siege engine:
(weaponry, historical) A large weapon of war used during ancient and
medieval times to batter fortifications, settlements, etc.;
specifically, a trebuchet or other type of catapult.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/siege_engine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of
love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the
future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let
us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the
power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will
be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make
men better. Love is the only way.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.>
Shannon Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and
retired NASA astronaut. Lucid earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in
1963, a master's degree in biochemistry in 1970, and a PhD in
biochemistry in 1973. In 1978, she was recruited by NASA for astronaut
training in the first class to include women. She flew on STS-51-G,
STS-34, STS-43, STS-58, and completed a six-month mission aboard the
Russian space station Mir in 1996, traveling there on the Space Shuttle
Atlantis with STS-76 and returning with STS-79. Lucid is the only
American woman to have stayed on Mir. From 1996 to 2007, she held the
record for the longest duration spent in space by an American and by a
woman. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in
December 1996, making her the tenth person and the first woman to be
accorded the honor. Lucid was NASA Chief Scientist from 2002 to 2003 and
a capsule communicator at Mission Control for numerous Space Shuttle
missions, including STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle
program. She announced her retirement from NASA in 2012.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Lucid>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1900:
Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by
French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in
Rome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca>
1939:
Norway claimed Queen Maud Land, a 2.7-million km2
(1.0-million sq mi) region of Antarctica, as a dependent territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Maud_Land>
1957:
Hindu spiritual leader Kripalu Maharaj was named the fifth
original jagadguru, meaning 'world teacher'.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadguru_Shri_Kripalu_Ji_Maharaj>
1973:
Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was
broadcast live to audiences in Asia and Oceania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_from_Hawaii_via_Satellite>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
go pear-shaped:
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, idiomatic) To go awry;
to go wrong.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_pear-shaped>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't ask tabloids to chase me around every week. But at the
same time, I would never take back any part of who I am or where I came
from. I would never want to be part of anything else. I'm honored and
proud of my family and my dad.
--Lisa Marie Presley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lisa_Marie_Presley>
Zork is a text-based adventure game first released in 1977 by Tim
Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for mainframe
computers. Developed between 1977 and 1979 at MIT, and inspired by
Colossal Cave Adventure (1976), it was split into three episodes for
personal computers (PCs) by Infocom. In Zork, the player searches for
treasure in the abandoned Great Underground Empire, moving between the
game's hundreds of locations and interacting with objects by typing
commands in natural language that the game interprets. Zork was a
massive success, with sales increasing for years as the market for PCs
expanded. The first episode sold over 38,000 copies in 1982, and around
150,000 copies in 1984. Infocom was purchased by Activision in 1986,
leading to new Zork games beginning in 1987. Critics regard it as one of
the greatest games ever and foundational to the adventure game genre. In
2007, the Library of Congress deemed Zork as one of the ten most
important video games of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in
the British Army, was the sole European of the 14,000 people retreating
from Kabul to Jalalabad who evaded capture or death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brydon>
1915:
About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the
Province of L'Aquila in Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Avezzano_earthquake>
1963:
Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio, was assassinated by
military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne
Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Togolese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2012:
The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef
and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cryptovirus:
1. (biology) A kind of plant virus associated with latent infection of
the host, and not transmissible by many means.
2. (computing) A type of malware that is used for extortion by
encrypting user files and asking for payment in exchange for the
decryption key.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptovirus>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and
functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself
and he will always remain a slave.
--G. I. Gurdjieff
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff>
The Farseer trilogy is a series of fantasy novels by American author
Robin Hobb (pictured). Set in and around the fictional realm of the Six
Duchies, it tells the story of FitzChivalry Farseer (known as Fitz), an
illegitimate son of a prince. Fitz is trained as an assassin and
possesses two forms of magic: the telepathic Skill that runs in the
royal line, and the socially despised Wit that enables a bond between
Fitz and the wolf Nighteyes. Through her portrayal of the Wit, Hobb
examines otherness and ecological themes. Societal prejudice against the
ability exposes Fitz to persecution and shame, and he leads a closeted
life as a Wit user, which scholars see as an allegory for queerness. The
series follows his life as he seeks to restore stability to the kingdom.
Published between 1995 and 1997, the Farseer trilogy was Margaret Astrid
Lindholm Ogden's first work under the pen name Robin Hobb. It met with
critical and commercial success, and led to several other series in the
same setting.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farseer_trilogy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
Mission Santa Clara de Asís, a Spanish mission in California
that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara and Santa Clara
University, was established by the Franciscans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Santa_Clara_de_As%C3%ADs>
1918:
An underground explosion at a coal mine in Staffordshire,
England, killed 155 men and boys.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Pit_Disaster>
1964:
Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown by rebels led by
John Okello, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar_Revolution>
2010:
Iranian physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated while
leaving his home for the University of Tehran, where he was a professor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massoud_Ali-Mohammadi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
by a long chalk:
(Britain, informal) To a great extent; by far.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_a_long_chalk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A solo should do something; it shouldn't just be there as a
cosmetic. It should have some aim, take the tune somewhere. I'm not
saying I can do it, but I try and take the tune somewhere.
--Jeff Beck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeff_Beck>