The Delaware Tercentenary half dollar is a commemorative fifty-cent coin
designed by Carl L. Schmitz and minted by the United States Bureau of
the Mint to mark the 300th anniversary of New Sweden, the first
successful European settlement in Delaware. Also known as the Swedish
Delaware half dollar, the coin was produced by the Philadelphia Mint in
March 1937, though that year appears nowhere on the piece. The obverse
(pictured) shows Wilmington's Old Swedes Church, one of the oldest
Protestant churches in the United States still standing, while the
reverse features the ship Kalmar Nyckel, which carried emigrants to New
Sweden. Schmitz won a competition to design the coin. The half dollars
were sold to the public by the Delaware Swedish Tercentenary Commission
for $1.75 each, and more than 20,000 coins were sold of the 25,000 coins
minted for sale. The profits were used to help fund the tercentenary
celebrations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Tercentenary_half_dollar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1521:
Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in the
first Catholic Mass in the Philippines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Mass_in_the_Philippines>
1800:
After fighting through the night the French Navy ship of the
line Guillaume Tell surrendered to a British squadron in the Malta
Channel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Malta_%281800%29>
1930:
To avoid government censorship, Hollywood movie studios
instituted their own set of industry censorship guidelines, popularly
known as the Hays Code.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code>
1942:
Second World War: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers
against their British officers, Japanese troops captured Christmas
Island without any resistance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Christmas_Island>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unobtrusive:
Not obtrusive; not blatant or noticeable; discreet, inconspicuous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unobtrusive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it
well.
--Discourse on the Method
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Method>
23 Wall Street, also known as the J.P. Morgan Building, is an office
building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, at the
southeast corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. The four-story
building, designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in the Neoclassical style,
was constructed between 1913 and 1914. When it was damaged during the
Wall Street bombing in 1920, J.P. Morgan & Co. refused to make repairs
to defy the bombers. The building was the firm's headquarters until
1989, when the company moved to 60 Wall Street. During the 2000s, there
were plans to convert 23 Wall Street into condominiums. The building
was sold in 2008 to interests associated with the billionaire
industrialist Sam Pa. It has mostly remained empty, although it has been
used for events. The building is a New York City designated landmark and
is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP); it is also
a contributing property to the NRHP-listed Wall Street Historic
District.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Wall_Street>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the
purchase of Alaska from Russia for US$7.2 million.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase>
1921 :
The Australian Air Corps was disbanded, to be replaced the
following day by the Australian Air Force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Air_Corps>
1950:
Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as
the first Indonesian film.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darah_dan_Doa>
1981:
John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded U.S. president Ronald
Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton (immediate
aftermath pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
prognosis:
1. A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on
what is presently known; a prediction.
2. (medicine) A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or
disorder based on current medical knowledge.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prognosis>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good
thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is
that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more
and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength
of the heart is developed.
--Vincent van Gogh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh>
Proteus is a 2013 exploration and walking simulator video game designed
and created by Ed Key and David Kanaga for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and
Linux. Versions for the PlayStation 3 video game console and the Vita
handheld console were developed by Curve Studios. Key first conceived
Proteus as an open-ended role-playing game, but redesigned it to be
"nontraditional and nonviolent", without prescribed goals. The flora and
fauna of the procedurally generated world (pictured) emit unique musical
signatures that trigger changes to the background music as the player
moves about the world. Before its full release, Proteus won the prize
for Best Audio at the 2011 IndieCade awards. In 2012 it was a finalist
for the Independent Games Festival's Nuovo Award and was featured in an
exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Following its release,
critics praised the game, especially for its audio features, although
some criticised its brevity and limited replayability. Journalists
debated whether Proteus should be described as a video game.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_%28video_game%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1461:
During the Wars of the Roses, Yorkist troops defeated
Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton in Yorkshire, England, one of
the largest land battles ever fought in England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Towton>
1951:
The King and I, a musical about Mongkut of Siam, by Rodgers
and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I>
1974:
A group of farmers in Shaanxi province, China, discovered a
vast collection of terracotta statues depicting the armies of the first
Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army>
2017:
British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the
Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's
withdrawal from the European Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_invocation_of_Article_50_of_th…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
implore:
1. (transitive)
2. To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
3. To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to
beseech, to entreat.
4. (intransitive) Chiefly followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to
express an earnest or urgent plea.
5. (obsolete, rare) An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently;
an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/implore>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A slow singer, but loading each phrase With history’s
overtones, love, joy And grief learned by his dark tribe In other
orchards and passed on Instinctively as they are now, But fresh always
with new tears.
--R. S. Thomas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas>
An enzyme inhibitor is a molecule that binds to an enzyme's active site,
or another site on the enzyme, and blocks the enzyme's catalysis of the
reaction. Enzyme inhibitors are generally specific to one enzyme and
control that enzyme's activity. They also control essential enzymes such
as proteases or nucleases that, if left unchecked, may damage a cell.
Many poisons produced by animals or plants are enzyme inhibitors, and
many drug molecules are enzyme inhibitors that inhibit an aberrant human
enzyme or an enzyme critical for the survival of a pathogen. Since anti-
pathogen inhibitors generally target only one enzyme, such drugs are
highly specific and generally produce few side effects in humans.
Medicinal enzyme inhibitors often have low dissociation constants,
meaning a minute amount of the inhibitor will inhibit the enzyme. The
discovery of enzyme inhibitors and their refinement are researched in
biochemistry and pharmacology.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme_inhibitor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1802:
German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered
Pallas, the second asteroid ever identified, although it was considered
to be a planet at the time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas>
1933:
After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of
airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke
apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Imperial_Airways_Diksmuide_crash>
1997:
In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla
collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the
latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_Otranto>
2015:
A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which
began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the
Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makka_al-Mukarama_hotel_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lengthman:
(nautical, rail transport, road transport, chiefly historical) A man
responsible for the care and maintenance of a length of canal, railway,
or road.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lengthman>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes I'm on the
right track, baby, I was born this way Don't hide yourself in regret,
just love yourself, and you're set I'm on the right track, baby, I was
born this way.
--Lady Gaga
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga>
USS Princess Matoika was a transport ship for the United States Navy
during World War I. Before the war, she was a Barbarossa-class ocean
liner for the Hamburg America Line and North German Lloyd. Interned with
the outbreak of World War I, she was seized by the U.S. in 1917 and
carried more than 50,000 U.S. troops between 1918 to 1919. As a U.S.
Army transport ship, in July 1920, she was a last-minute substitute to
carry much of the U.S. team to the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. From
the perspective of the team, the trip was disastrous; athletes published
their grievances in an action known today as the mutiny of the Matoika.
In civilian service, she was SS Princess Matoika until 1922,
SS President Arthur until 1927, and SS City of Honolulu until she was
scrapped in 1933. On her maiden voyage in 1924 as President Arthur of
the Jewish-owned American Palestine Line, she reportedly became the
first ocean liner to fly the Zionist flag at sea and the first ocean
liner to have female officers.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Princess_Matoika>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1836:
At least 425 Texian prisoners of war were executed in the
Goliad massacre, under orders from Mexican president Antonio López de
Santa Anna.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliad_massacre>
1941:
World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the
Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia
joined the Axis powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2009:
A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake
in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situ_Gintung>
2015:
Himeji Castle, the largest and most visited Japanese castle,
re-opened after five years of restoration work.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bestow:
1. To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
2. (specifically, obsolete) To apply (money) for some purpose; to
expend, to spend.
3. To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone
or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give.
4. (archaic)
5. To place or put (someone or something) somewhere or in a certain
situation; to dispose of.
6. To deposit (something) for safekeeping; to lay up (something) in
store; to stow.
7. (also reflexive) To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation;
to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter.
8. (obsolete)
9. (reflexive) To behave or conduct (oneself); to acquit.
10. (also reflexive) To give (someone or oneself) in marriage.
11. (obsolete, rare) An act of presenting a thing to someone or
something, especially as a gift or an honour; a bestowal.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestow>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or
phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain,
the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in
these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or
religious causes, or both combined.
--Charles Mackay
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Mackay>
Tell All Your Friends is the debut studio album by American rock band
Taking Back Sunday, released on March 26, 2002, through Victory
Records. Forming in 1999, the group underwent several line-up changes
before settling on vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist and vocalist John
Nolan (pictured), guitarist Eddie Reyes, bassist Shaun Cooper, and
drummer Mark O'Connell. They recorded the album with producer Sal
Villanueva at Big Blue Meenie Recording Studio in New Jersey. After the
release, they promoted it with various tours of the US alongside Brand
New and the Used. Nolan and Cooper then left the group in 2003 and were
replaced by Fred Mascherino and Matt Rubano, respectively. Soon
afterwards, they went on a co-headlining tour with Saves the Day to
close out the year. The album is the longest-running release of Victory
Records on the US Billboard magazine's Heatseekers and Independent
Albums charts at 68 and 78 weeks, respectively. Certified gold in the
US, it has sold a million copies worldwide.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_All_Your_Friends>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1873:
A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh,
the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning
the Aceh War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh_War>
1896:
An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal
miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mine_disaster>
1917:
First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the
British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Gaza>
1953:
Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine
on a small group of adults and children.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nonplussed:
1. Unsure how to act or respond; bewildered, perplexed.
2. (chiefly US, informal, nonstandard) Unaffected, unfazed; unimpressed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonplussed>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and
God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
--A. E. Housman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._E._Housman>
Jim Lovell (born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut. The
first person to fly four times in space, he commanded Apollo 13 (1970),
which suffered a failure en route and looped around the Moon. Lovell
also flew twice during Project Gemini, and flew with Frank Borman and
William Anders on Apollo 8 (1968), the first crewed mission to orbit
the Moon. Lovell was the first person to fly to the Moon twice, though
due to the Apollo 13 abort, he never landed on it. A graduate of the
Naval Academy class of 1952, Lovell became a test pilot, and missed
selection by NASA as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts due to a
temporarily high bilirubin count. He was accepted in September 1962 as
a member of NASA's second group of astronauts, and is a recipient of the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of
Freedom. He co-authored the book Lost Moon, the basis for the film
Apollo 13, in which he appeared in a cameo. (This article is part of a
featured topic: NASA Astronaut Group 2.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/NASA_Astronaut_Grou…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1410:
The Yongle Emperor of Ming China launched the first of his
military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the
Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Emperor%27s_campaigns_against_the_Mong…>
1807:
The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the Atlantic slave
trade in the British Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_1807>
1903:
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition anchored in the
South Orkney Islands with the intention of establishing the first
weather station in Antarctic territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Antarctic_Expedition>
1934:
Enrico Fermi published his discovery of neutron-induced
radioactivity, for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Augean stables:
1. An extremely filthy or untidy place or situation.
2. (figuratively) A place or situation characterized by corruption or
moral decay.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Augean_stables>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human
misery.
--Norman Borlaug
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug>
Nelson's Pillar was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio
Nelson, erected in the centre of O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland, in
1809. It was severely damaged by explosives in March 1966 and demolished
a week later. The monument was erected after the euphoria following
Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It proved a popular
tourist attraction but provoked aesthetic and political controversy, and
there were frequent calls for it to be removed, or replaced with a
memorial to an Irish hero. Nevertheless it remained. Its destruction
just before the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising was, on the whole,
well received by the Irish public. The police could identify no one
responsible; when in 2000 a former republican activist admitted planting
the explosives, he was not charged. Relics of the Pillar are found in
various Dublin locations, and its memory is preserved in numerous works
of Irish literature.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%27s_Pillar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
Japanese chief minister Ii Naosuke was assassinated by rōnin
samurai upset with his role in opening Japan to foreign powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuradamon_Incident_%281860%29>
1946:
The British Cabinet Mission arrived in New Delhi to discuss the
transfer of power from the colonial government to Indian leadership.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Cabinet_Mission_to_India>
1980:
One day after making a plea to Salvadoran soldiers to stop
carrying out the government's repression, Archbishop Óscar Romero was
assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero>
2008:
Led by Jigme Thinley, the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party won
45 of 47 seats in the country's first National Assembly election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Bhutanese_National_Assembly_election>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dephlogisticated air:
(chemistry, historical) Oxygen gas, as originally thought to be air
deprived of phlogiston (“the hypothetical fiery principle formerly
assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be
given up by them in burning”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dephlogisticated_air>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The first thing I remember about the world — and I pray that it
may be the last — is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which
everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and
desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that
I can detect in my life.
--Malcolm Muggeridge
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malcolm_Muggeridge>
Herbie Hewett (1864–1921) was an English amateur cricketer who played
first-class cricket for Somerset, captaining them from 1889 to 1893, as
well as for Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. A
battling left-handed opening batsman, Hewett could post a large score in
a short time against even the best bowlers. Capable of hitting the ball
powerfully, he combined an excellent eye with an unorthodox style to be
regarded at his peak as one of England's finest batsmen. Educated at
Harrow School, Hewett won a Blue at Oxford in 1886 and played for
Somerset from 1884. In 1892, he made 1,407 runs at an average of more
than 35, and was named as one of the "Five Batsmen of the Year" by
Wisden in 1893. England did not play any Test matches at home in 1892,
or else Hewett would probably have won a Test cap; instead his highest
accolade was being selected to play for the Gentlemen against the
Players at Lord's in 1894. Hewett practised as a barrister, having been
called to the bar at the Inner Temple.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Hewett>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1839:
An earthquake struck central Burma, causing significant damage
and killing an estimated 300 to 400 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839_Ava_earthquake>
1862:
American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the
Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was
still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula
campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Kernstown>
1919:
Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani
di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasci_Italiani_di_Combattimento>
1993:
The demolition of Kowloon Walled City, a densely crowded slum
in Hong Kong, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hoar frost:
1. Originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed
surfaces.
2. (specifically, meteorology) Water vapour which has undergone
deposition or desublimation (“transformation directly into ice crystals
without first turning into liquid water”) when the air is cold and moist
to form a white deposit on exposed surfaces.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hoar_frost>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism have in common that they offered
the atomized individual a new refuge and security. These systems are the
culmination of alienation. The individual is made to feel powerless and
insignificant, but taught to project all of his human powers into the
figure of the leader, the state, the "fatherland," to whom he has to
submit and whom he has to worship. He escapes from freedom and into a
new idolatry. All the achievements of individuality and reason, from the
late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century are sacrificed on the altars
of the new idols. ...built on the most flagrant lies, both with regard
to their programs and to their leaders.
--The Sane Society
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Sane_Society>
The 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the
Union Army in the American Civil War. Formed mostly from a militia unit
in Norristown in southeastern Pennsylvania, the regiment enlisted at the
start of the war in April 1861 for a three-month period of service
under the command of Colonel John F. Hartranft. The regiment served as
part of the garrison of Washington, D.C., until late June, when it was
sent into Northern Virginia to join the army of Brigadier General Irvin
McDowell. The regiment suffered its only combat casualties in a picket
action on June 30 and was sent back to be mustered out on the eve of
the First Battle of Bull Run owing to disagreement among the men over
remaining after their term of service expired. Its men were denounced as
cowards for being members of the only regiment to refuse to fight at the
July 21 battle. Hartranft and a company commander stayed with the army
and both later received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Bull
Run.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Pennsylvania_Infantry_Regiment>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1784:
The Emerald Buddha, considered to be the sacred palladium of
Thailand, was installed in its current location at Wat Phra Kaew on the
grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha>
1942:
Second World War: British and Italian naval forces fought the
Second Battle of Sirte in the Gulf of Sidra north of Libya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Sirte>
1992:
USAir Flight 405 crashed in Flushing Bay shortly after takeoff
from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 people, and leading
to studies into the effects of ice on aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_405>
2014:
A massive landslide in Oso, Washington, killed 43 people after
engulfing a rural neighborhood, the largest death toll for a standalone
landslide in U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
winterbourne:
(Britain) A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather,
particularly in an area rich in limestone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/winterbourne>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
How much of what we do is free will, and how much is programmed
in our genes? Why is each people so narrow that it believes that it, and
it alone, has all the answers? In religion, is there but one road to
salvation? Or are there many, all equally good, all going in the same
general direction? I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their
beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no
book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many
times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to
learn.
--Louis L'Amour
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour>