Tolui (c. 1191 – 1232) was a prominent general and prince of the
early Mongol Empire. The fourth son of Genghis Khan and his first wife
Börte, Tolui came to prominence in 1221 during the Mongol invasion of
the Khwarazmian Empire—contemporary chroniclers claimed that his army
killed more than three million people while capturing Merv and Nishapur
in Khorasan. While modern historians consider this figure exaggerated,
Tolui's campaign was undoubtedly brutal. A candidate to inherit his
father's empire, Tolui was passed over in favour of his brother Ögedei;
Tolui served as regent between Genghis's death in 1227 and Ögedei's
coronation in 1229. He was instrumental in subduing the Chinese Jin
dynasty, before dying in mysterious circumstances in 1232—explanations
range from his self-sacrifice in a shamanic ritual to being poisoned by
Ögedei. Led by his wife Sorghaghtani Beki, Tolui's family would become
very influential—their sons Möngke and Kublai both acceded to the
Mongol throne.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolui>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1940:
The superhero Captain America made his first published
appearance in the comic book Captain America Comics #1.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America>
1980:
NBC aired the American football match between the New York Jets
and the Miami Dolphins without announcers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcerless_game>
1995:
Mandated by the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War,
the NATO-led Implementation Force (troops pictured) began peacekeeping
operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation_Force>
1999:
Portugal transferred the sovereignty over Macau, which it had
administered since the mid–16th century, to China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wrath:
1. (uncountable, formal) Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable) Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from
anger; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (uncountable, obsolete) Great ardour or passion.
4. (transitive)
5. To anger (someone); to enrage.
6. To become angry with (someone).
7. (intransitive) To become angry.
8. (archaic or obsolete) Synonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrath>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which
any answer to it — right or wrong — may be given.
--Susanne Langer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susanne_Langer>
C. O. Brocato (1929–2015) was an American scout, coach and football
player best known for his work with the Houston Oilers (later the
Tennessee Titans), for which he was a scout from 1974 to 1976, and again
from 1981 until his death. A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Brocato
attended St. John's High School and played college football for Baylor.
Drafted in 1953 by the Chicago Cardinals, he left during training camp
to pursue a coaching career. He spent eleven years as head coach at his
high school alma mater. He was defensive coordinator for Northern
Arizona from 1969 to 1970, and for Texas–Arlington from 1971 to 1973.
He then joined the Oilers as a scout and became regarded as one of the
greatest in history in that role. Brocato helped his team draft several
players who went on to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He also invented
the three-cone drill, one of the main events at the NFL Scouting
Combine. He was a semifinalist for induction to the Hall of Fame for the
classes of 2023 and 2024.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._O._Brocato>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1843:
A Christmas Carol (illustration pictured), a novella by Charles
Dickens about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after
being visited by ghosts, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol>
1983:
The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the FIFA World
Cup, was stolen from the offices of the Brazilian Football
Confederation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy>
1997:
SilkAir Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River in Indonesia,
killing 104 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185>
2013:
The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with
the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue
ever made.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28spacecraft%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
orotund:
1. Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and
strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong
voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.
2. (by extension)
3. Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
4. (derogatory) Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.
5. (countable) A voice characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness,
and strength of sound.
6. (uncountable) The quality of clarity, effectiveness, and power in
speech or writing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orotund>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Show me a country where the bombs had to fall Show me the ruins
of buildings so tall And I'll show you a young land With many reasons
why There but for fortune, go you or I.
--Phil Ochs
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs>
Not My Responsibility is a 2020 American short film written and
produced by singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. A commentary on body
shaming and double standards placed upon young women's appearances, it
features a monologue from Eilish about the media scrutiny surrounding
her body. The film is spoken-word and stars Eilish in a dark room, where
she gradually undresses before submerging herself in black substance.
The film premiered during Eilish's Where Do We Go? World Tour on
March 9, 2020, as a concert interlude, and was released online on
May 26, 2020. Critics gave positive reviews, praising the commentary
and tone, which they considered empowering. The film's audio was later
included as a song on Eilish's second studio album, Happier Than Ever
(2021). Some music journalists described it as the album's thematic
centerpiece; others questioned its appearance on the tracklist, feeling
that it lost its emotional impact without the visuals.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_My_Responsibility>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1932:
Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American
football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in
the first playoff game of the National Football League.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_NFL_Playoff_Game>
1958:
The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's
first communications satellite.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORE_%28satellite%29>
1963:
Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in
Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student
Edmund Assare-Addo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Moscow_protest>
2017:
An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont,
Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
narrow escape:
A situation in which some danger or unfortunate circumstance is only
just missed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/narrow_escape>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't know how to feel But I wanna try I don't know how to
feel But someday I might Someday I might Think I forgot how to be
happy Something I'm not, but something I can be Something I wait for
Something I'm made for.
--Billie Eilish
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish>
The Oppenheimer security hearing, conducted by the US Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC) in 1954, explored the background, actions and
associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer (pictured). He had headed the Los
Alamos Laboratory during World War II, playing a key part in the
Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. Doubts about
Oppenheimer's loyalty dated back to the 1930s, when he was associated
with Communist Party USA members, including his wife Katherine. He was
involved in disputes over the types of nuclear weapons the country
required, technical disputes over the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb,
and personal conflict with AEC commissioner Lewis Strauss. The panel
found that he was loyal and discreet, but did not recommend that he
regain his security clearance. This ended his role in government, and he
became an academic exile, cut off from his former career and the world
he had helped to create. The findings were seen as fair by some and as
an expression of McCarthyism by others.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_security_hearing>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1948:
The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist
leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Security_Intelligence_Service>
1967:
Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while
swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt>
1970:
Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging
from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass
anti-communist protests across the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Polish_protests>
2010:
Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set
himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the
Tunisian Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
croon:
1. (transitive)
2. To hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low
pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song)
in a low, mellow voice.
3. To soothe (a person or an animal) by singing softly.
4. (intransitive)
5. To hum or sing, or to speak, softly in a low pitch or in a
sentimental manner; specifically, to sing a popular song in a low,
mellow voice.
6. (Northern England, Scotland) To lament, to moan.
7. (Northern England, Scotland) To make a continuous hollow low-pitched
moan, as of cattle; to bellow, to low; also, of a large bell: to make a
low-pitched sound.
8. A soft, low-pitched sound; specifically, a soft or sentimental hum,
song, or tune.
9. (Northern England, Scotland) A continuous hollow low-pitched moan, as
of cattle; a bellow; also, a low-pitched sound of a large bell.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/croon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do you know how many children have died in Gaza in this last war?
More than 3,000. It is incredible, but it is the reality … And in
Ukraine there are more than 500, and in Yemen, in years of war,
thousands … Their memory leads us to be ourselves lights for the
world, to touch the hearts of many people, especially those who can stop
the whirlwind of violence.
--Pope Francis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pope_Francis>
Lever House is an office building at 390 Park Avenue in Midtown
Manhattan, New York City, that was originally the US headquarters of the
soap company Lever Brothers, a subsidiary of Unilever. Constructed from
1950 to 1952, the building is 307 feet (94 m) tall and has 21 office
stories topped by a triple-height mechanical section. It was designed by
Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in
the 20th-century modern International Style. Lever House was the second
skyscraper in New York City with a glass curtain wall, after the United
Nations Secretariat Building. The skyscraper was nearly demolished in
the 1980s before being designated as a city landmark. After the
construction of Lever House, many masonry residential structures on Park
Avenue in Midtown were replaced with largely commercial International
Style office buildings. Its design was also copied worldwide by
buildings such as the Emek Business Center in Ankara, Turkey.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_House>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1773:
American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea
into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation without representation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party>
1938:
Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German
Mother as an order of merit for German mothers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_Mother>
1997:
Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the
British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human
consumption.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_Bones_Regulations_1997>
2012:
A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi,
generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape_and_murder>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
seethe:
1. (intransitive)
2. Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be
boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
3. (figurative)
4. Of a liquid, vapour, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or
froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
5. Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a
way that is not obvious to others.
6. Of a place: to be filled with many people or things moving about
actively; to buzz with activity; also, of people or things: to move
about actively in a crowd or group.
7. Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to
be in a state of unrest.
8. (transitive)
9. (archaic, chiefly passive voice)
10. To overboil (something) so that it loses its flavour or texture;
hence (figurative), to cause (the body, the mind, the spirit, etc.) to
become dull through too much alcoholic drink or heat.
11. To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
12. (obsolete)
13. To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or
stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.
14. (obsolete, physiology) Of the stomach: to digest (food).
15. (chiefly figurative) A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition,
seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seethe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and
very often, in fact almost … perpetually, he deliberately deceives
himself about that precious little fragment as well.
--Philip K. Dick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick>
T1 was a seagoing torpedo boat, operational between 1914 and 1955.
Built as 76 T for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and armed with two 66 mm
(2.6 in) guns and four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes, she could
carry 10 to 12 naval mines. During World War I she performed convoy,
escort and minesweeping tasks, anti-submarine operations and shore
bombardment missions. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918 she and
seven other 250t-class boats were allocated to the Royal Yugoslav Navy,
as its only modern sea-going vessels. Renamed T1, she was involved in
training exercises and cruises. Captured by the Italians during the Axis
invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she served with the Royal Italian
Navy. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was
returned to the Yugoslav Navy. After World War II she was refitted and
served as Golešnica until 1955. Sunk as a target ship in the Bay of
Kotor, she is now a recreational dive site. (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:
1871:
Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed
message from Arizona Territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Stewart_Udall>
1943:
World War II: Australian and American forces began the Battle
of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a
larger landing at Cape Gloucester.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arawe>
1970:
The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of
Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another
planet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_7>
2013:
The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition
leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council
in Juba.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudanese_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shire:
1. (Britain)
2. (chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about
the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and
jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area
corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially
(England), a county having a name ending in -shire.
3. (by extension) The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered
collectively.
4. (by extension, informal) The general area in which a person comes
from or lives.
5. (by extension) An administrative area or district in other countries.
6. (Australia, often attributive) An outer suburban or rural local
government area which elects its own council.
7. Short for shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed,
usually bay, black, or grey”).
8. (obsolete)
9. A district or province governed by a person; specifically
(Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
10. (by extension, generally) A region; also, a country.
11. (transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region)
into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shire>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and
the sources of poetry. They are everyday, these sources, as the sources
of peace are everyday, infinite and commonplace as a look, as each new
sun.
--Muriel Rukeyser
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser>
The Temple of Apollo Palatinus was a temple to the god Apollo in Rome,
constructed on the Palatine Hill on the initiative of Augustus between
36 and 28 BCE. It was associated with Augustus's victories at the
battles of Naulochus and Actium; the latter was extensively memorialised
through its decoration. The temple represented the restoration of Rome's
golden age and Augustus's devotion to religious and political duty. Its
precinct was used for diplomatic functions and meetings of the Roman
Senate. Augustan poets frequently praised the temple and its lavish
artistic decoration and statuary. The temple was destroyed in a fire in
363 CE, which was rumoured to be an act of arson committed by
Christians. The incomplete remains of the temple have been excavated and
partially restored since the nineteenth century. Modern assessments of
the temple have variously treated it as a Hellenising break with Roman
tradition and as a conservative attempt to reassert the values of the
Roman Republic.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_Palatinus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1836:
The Toledo War, a mostly bloodless territorial dispute between
Ohio and the Michigan Territory, was unofficially ended with a
resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War>
1913:
Haruna, the fourth and last Japanese battlecruiser of the
Kongō class, was launched and went on to serve in both world wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D-class_battlecruiser>
1918:
Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Schicchi>
2008:
During a press conference in Baghdad, Iraqi journalist
Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush and
Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, yelling "This is for the widows
and orphans and all those killed in Iraq".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rub elbows:
(idiomatic, intransitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by with: to
associate closely; to consort, mingle, or socialize.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rub_elbows>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I was grounded While you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by
truth You cut through lies I saw the lone empty valley You saw
Brigadoon I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon.
--Mike Scott
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Scott_%28Scottish_musician%29>
The half sovereign is a British gold coin denominated at one-half of a
pound sterling. It was first struck in 1544, but was discontinued after
1604. In 1817, as part of the Great Recoinage, half sovereigns and
sovereigns were reintroduced. Until the half sovereign was discontinued
as a currency coin, it was struck in most years and circulated widely.
In addition to being coined in London, it was struck at the colonial
mints in Australia and South Africa. It was replaced in Britain from
1914 by paper currency, and was discontinued in Australia in 1920 and
South Africa in 1926. After that, it was struck in the coronation years
of 1937 and 1953. It has been struck for sale by the Royal Mint as a
collector's piece since 1980, and as a bullion coin since 1982; it does
not circulate due to the value of the gold it contains. In addition to
the portrait of the reigning monarch, the coin features in most years an
image of Saint George and the Dragon, designed by Benedetto Pistrucci.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_sovereign>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1928:
An American in Paris, a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by
George Gershwin, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_in_Paris>
1960:
With Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, out of the country,
four conspirators staged a coup attempt to install Crown Prince Asfaw
Wossen on the throne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Ethiopian_coup_attempt>
1991:
Croatian War of Independence: The Croatian Army retreated after
the failure of Operation Whirlwind, destroying their tanks to avoid
their capture.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Whirlwind>
2013:
Beyoncé released her fifth studio album without any prior
announcement or promotion; it sold 2.3 million copies before the end of
the year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9_%28album%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
buckle:
1. A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or
strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to
fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something
else.
2. (by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things
together.
3. (Canada, heraldry) An image of a clasp (sense 1) used as the brisure
of an eighth daughter.
4. A great conflict or struggle.
5. (countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
6. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane,
frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate
movement of the roof assembly.
7. (countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive
word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel
topping.
8. (countable, obsolete) A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl
formerly worn; also (countable, uncountable), the state of hair being
curled in this manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buckle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident
generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have
learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that
the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful
trampoline of progress.
--Aga Khan IV
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_IV>
The City Hall and Raffles Place MRT stations are paired cross-platform
interchanges on the North–South line (NSL) and East–West line (EWL)
of the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. Both are situated in
the Downtown Core district: City Hall station is near landmarks such as
the former City Hall, St Andrew's Cathedral and the Padang, while
Raffles Place station serves Merlion Park, The Fullerton Hotel and the
Asian Civilisations Museum. The stations were first announced in 1982.
Constructing the tunnels between the City Hall and Raffles Place
stations required the draining of the Singapore River. The stations
opened on 12 December 1987 as part of the MRT extension to Outram Park
station. Cross-platform transfers between the NSL and EWL began on
28 October 1989, ahead of the split of the MRT network into two lines.
Both stations are designated Civil Defence shelters. City Hall station
features a mural by Simon Wong which depicts government buildings in the
area, while two murals at Raffles Place station by Lim Sew Yong and
Thang Kiang How depict scenes of Singapore's history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_Place_MRT_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1936:
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China was
kidnapped by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, a former warlord of Manchuria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Incident>
1988:
Three trains collided near Clapham Junction railway station in
London, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash>
2000:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount
of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped,
effectively making George W. Bush the winner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore>
2021:
At the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Max Verstappen
overtook Lewis Hamilton in the final lap to become the World Drivers'
Champion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Abu_Dhabi_Grand_Prix>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nosocomial:
1. (pathology) Of an infection or its cause: arising from the
environment of, or treatment in, a hospital.
2. (medicine, uncommon) Of, relating to, or happening in a hospital.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nosocomial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our
democracy: whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal
prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally
protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not
convicted before the criminal proceedings begin. The district court
rejected respondent's claims, correctly recognizing that former
Presidents are not above the law and are accountable for their
violations of federal criminal law while in office. … It is of
imperative public importance that respondent's claims of immunity be
resolved by this Court and that respondent's trial proceed as promptly
as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected. Respondent's claims
are profoundly mistaken, as the district court held. But only this Court
can definitively resolve them.
--Jack Smith
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Smith>
Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French
Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as Harold
in Italy, choral pieces including his Requiem and L'enfance du Christ,
and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et
Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La damnation de Faust. Expected to
enter medicine, Berlioz defied his family by taking up music, and won
the Prix de Rome in 1830. Berlioz married the Irish Shakespearean
actress Harriet Smithson, who inspired his first major success, the
Symphonie fantastique, in which an idealised depiction of her occurs
throughout. His first opera, Benvenuto Cellini, was a failure. The
second, the epic Les Troyens, was so large in scale that it was never
staged in its entirety during his lifetime. Meeting only occasional
success in France as a composer, Berlioz turned to conducting, in which
he gained an international reputation. He also wrote musical journalism
throughout much of his career.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as Dial
Square, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Arsenal_F.C._%281886%E2%80%931966%…>
1920:
Irish War of Independence: Following an Irish Republican Army
ambush of an Auxiliary patrol, British forces burned and looted numerous
buildings in Cork.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Cork>
2006:
Criticized worldwide as a "meeting of Holocaust deniers", the
International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust
opened in Tehran.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_to_Review_the_Global…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
filthy lucre:
(idiomatic, derogatory, often humorous in modern use) Money, especially
if obtained dishonestly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filthy_lucre>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer
in all circumstances — from my grave even more successfully and more
irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and
to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be
that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s
pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn>