The 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division of the British Territorial
Army was formed in September 1939 during the Second World War.
Initially raised in Staffordshire, the division began as a second-line
duplicate of the 55th (West Lancashire) Motor Division. It was tasked
with anti-invasion and guard duties until late June 1944, when it was
assigned to the Second Army and transferred to France to take part in
the Battle of Normandy. On 8 July, the division helped capture Caen
during Operation Charnwood; a week later, it assaulted the town of
Noyers in Operation Pomegranate. In late July, when the German frontline
was crumbling, the division captured a bridgehead over the River Orne
and fended off counter-attacks to maintain its hold. Its final combat
was a protracted battle to capture the town of Thury-Harcourt.
Historians have praised the effort of the division in these battles,
during which it suffered several thousand casualties.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_%28Staffordshire%29_Infantry_Division>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
Four days after the Court of King's Bench upheld an English
murder suspect's right to a trial by battle in Ashford v Thornton, the
plaintiff declined to fight, allowing the defendant to go free.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton>
1841:
Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue,
described as the first modern work of detective fiction, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue>
1942:
World War II: German and Italian forces began a large-scale
counter-insurgency operation in occupied Yugoslavia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trio>
1968:
South African Airways Flight 228 crashed shortly after take-
off from Windhoek in South West Africa, resulting in 123 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_228>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
capitalist roader:
(China, Maoism, chiefly historical, derogatory) One (especially a
Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois
forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist
direction.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capitalist_roader>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished.
--The Last Unicorn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_%28film%29>
Logan is an 1822 Gothic novel by American writer John Neal (depicted).
The book is inspired by the true story of Mingo leader Logan, but weaves
a fictionalized story set just before the Revolutionary War. It depicts
the genocide of Native Americans as the heart of the American story and
follows a long cast of characters connected to each other in a complex
web of overlapping love interests, family relations, rape, and
(sometimes incestuous) sexual activity. Scholars criticize the story's
profound excessiveness and incoherence, but praise its pioneering and
successful experimentation with psychological horror, verisimilitude,
sexual guilt in male characters, impacts of intergenerational violence,
documentation of interracial relationships, and intersections between
sex and violence on the American frontier. The novel is considered
important by scholars studying the roles of Gothic literature and
Indigenous identities in fashioning an American national identity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_%28novel%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout
defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the
main French army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen>
1927:
American actress Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for
"corrupting the morals of youth" for her play Sex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West>
1989:
A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa
exploded, killing 47 sailors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wretched:
1. Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very
miserable.
2. Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible,
lowly.
3. Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry,
worthless.
4. Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner deserving contempt; base,
despicable, wicked.
5. Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
6. (informal) Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or
something: bloody, damned.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wretched>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural
to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
--Paolo Veronese
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paolo_Veronese>
The Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W;) is an American Class II
railroad operating 612 miles (985 km) of tracks in Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. It was formed in 1844 to
connect its eponymous cities, and ran its first trains in 1847. P&W;
later built a branch to East Providence, Rhode Island, and double-
tracked its main line after a fatal train collision. P&W; remained
independent until 1888, when the New York, Providence and Boston
Railroad leased it; the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (the
New Haven) assumed the lease in 1892. P&W; remained leased until the New
Haven was merged into Penn Central (PC) in 1968. When PC threatened to
abandon the line, P&W;'s shareholders convinced regulators to give them
back their railroad, and P&W; returned to independence in 1973 after 85
years. P&W; grew from under 100 miles (161 km) by purchasing other
lines, expanding more than sixfold. In 2016, P&W; was purchased by
railroad holding company Genesee & Wyoming.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_and_Worcester_Railroad>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1938:
Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of DC Comics,
made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true superhero comic
book.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Comics_1>
1946:
The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva,
with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets to the United
Nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations>
1980:
Robert Mugabe became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe,
beginning a 37-year period in power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe>
2007:
A ladle spilled 30 tonnes (33 tons) of molten steel in a
factory in Liaoning, China, killing 32 workers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghe_Special_Steel_Corporation_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vetero-testamentary:
Of or pertaining to the Old Testament of the Bible.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vetero-testamentary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great desire of this age is for a Doctrine which may serve to
condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so
that Conduct may really be the consequence of Belief.
--George Henry Lewes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Henry_Lewes>
The Roanoke Island, North Carolina, half dollar is a commemorative coin
issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Mint in 1937. It commemorated the 350th
anniversary of the Roanoke Colony, depicting on one side Sir Walter
Raleigh (pictured), and on the other Eleanor Dare, holding her child,
Virginia Dare, the first child of English descent born in an English
colony in the Americas. The coin was one of many commemorative issues
authorized by Congress in 1936. As the colony was founded in 1587, the
coins were struck in 1937. William Marks Simpson, a sculptor who created
several commemorative coins of the era, designed the coin. His work
required only slight modification by the Commission of Fine Arts. The
legislation allowed the Roanoke Island Memorial Association to buy at
least 25,000 coins at a time before July 1937; they placed two orders
for the minimum amount. Eventually, 21,000 were returned to the Mint for
redemption and melting. Numismatic catalogs value the coin in the low
hundreds of dollars.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Island,_North_Carolina,_half_dollar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1783:
The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by
Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden human,
began a tour of Europe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk>
1809:
Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, a British squadron
under Alexander Cochrane captured the French ship-of-the-line D'Hautpoul
off Puerto Rico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troude%27s_expedition_to_the_Caribbean>
1973:
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment entitled
The Star Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_%28film%29>
1984:
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed
while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London's St
James's Square, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and
a breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hostage to fortune:
1. (chiefly Britain) An action, promise, or remark that is considered
unwise because it could be difficult to fulfil or could cause trouble
later on.
2. (chiefly US) A person or thing whose fate is seen as dependent on
chance or luck.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hostage_to_fortune>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on
that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential
character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in
immediate spontaneity … The theater is supremely fitted to say:
"Behold! These things are."
--Thornton Wilder
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder>
John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1347–1375), was an English
nobleman and soldier. At the age of one he became a ward of King
Edward III. The King arranged for his daughter Margaret to marry
Hastings. They married in 1359, but Margaret died two years later. The
Hundred Years' War reignited in France, and in 1369 Pembroke journeyed
to Aquitaine. There he took part in raids, sieges, and counter-measures
against the French, with both notable successes and failures. In 1371 he
was summoned to Parliament. There he was responsible for forcing the
King's ecclesiastical ministers from power. In 1372 Pembroke returned to
France with a small fleet. His arrival had been anticipated by the
Castilian navy. Outnumbered and outgunned, he was forced to fight the
Battle of La Rochelle, where he suffered a crushing defeat and was
captured. After three years a large ransom was negotiated and in 1375 he
was finally released. Returning to England through France, he was taken
ill near Paris and died, aged 27.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hastings,_2nd_Earl_of_Pembroke>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of
Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Compensated_Emancipation…>
1945:
Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the
Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Arnhem>
1948:
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation,
headquartered in Paris, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD>
2014:
The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South
Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High School.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mussitate:
1. (transitive) To say (words, etc.) indistinctly; to mutter.
2. (intransitive) To talk indistinctly; to mutter.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mussitate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of
labor by taking up another.
--Anatole France
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France>
Louis H. Bean (April 15, 1896 – August 5, 1994) was an American
economic and political analyst. Born in Lithuania, then part of the
Russian Empire, Bean migrated to the United States in 1906 with his
family. In 1923, he became a member of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, working on estimates of
farm income and price indices. Bean's charts were used in Congress in
discussions about the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill. He was closely
associated with Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Bean wrote for The
Review of Economics and Statistics. During the late 1930s, Bean
developed an interest in political analysis. After his successful near-
unique prediction of Harry S. Truman's victory in the 1948 presidential
election, Life called him the "Lone Prophet" of Truman's victory. Bean
wrote many books, notably Ballot Behavior and How to Predict Elections.
He continued making electoral analyses and projections in the 1950s and
1960s, most of which were accurate.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_H._Bean>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1923:
Ten Japanese-American children were killed in a racially
motivated arson attack on a school in Sacramento, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Sh%C5%8Dgakk%C5%8D_fire>
1936:
Two Jews were killed near Tulkarm in Mandatory Palestine, an
act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within the Arab revolt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tulkarm_shooting>
1989:
The Hillsborough disaster, a human crush that caused 97 deaths
in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an FA
Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster>
2019:
A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the
cathedral's timber spire and much of the roof.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
furlong:
1. A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or
201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and
horse racing.
2. (dated)
3. A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about
four hectares).
4. (Britain, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
5. (historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on
standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”)
6. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal, agriculture)
7. Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”)
8. Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows; any of
several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/furlong>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if
you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct
yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
--Leonardo da Vinci
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci>
The Longing is a 2020 point-and-click adventure game by independent game
developer Studio Seufz. The player controls the Shade, a creature tasked
with watching over a sleeping king in an underground kingdom for 400
days. Developer Anselm Pyta conceived of The Longing after hearing the
Kyffhäuser legend while visiting the Barbarossa Cave (pictured). Pyta
sought to explore emotional themes in a narrative-driven story, and used
time as a game mechanism. As the primary developer for most of the
game's six-year production, he had to rely upon intuition to design the
pacing due to playtesting difficulties. The Longing was released for
Windows, macOS, and Linux on March 5, 2020, and for the Nintendo Switch
on April 14, 2021. It gained praise for its soundtrack, visuals, and
experimental nature, but the slow-paced gameplay divided critics.
Released during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was compared by many to life
under quarantine, and won the "Best Debut" award at the 2020 Deutscher
Computerspielpreis.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longing>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1944:
The freighter SS Fort Stikine, carrying cotton bales, gold and
ammunition, exploded in the harbour of Bombay, India, sinking
surrounding ships and killing about 800 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Bombay_explosion>
1970:
After an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, causing the
spacecraft to lose most of its oxygen and electrical power, astronaut
Jack Swigert reported: "Houston, we've had a problem" (audio featured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_we_have_a_problem>
1983:
Let's Dance, David Bowie's best-selling album, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Dance_%28David_Bowie_album%29>
1994:
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict: In a friendly-fire incident during
Operation Provide Comfort, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot
down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Black_Hawk_shootdown_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
seventh art:
(film) Chiefly preceded by the: the art of making motion pictures;
filmmaking.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seventh_art>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the
saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.
--James Branch Cabell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell>
Al-Hafiz (c. 1075 – 1149) was the eleventh caliph of the Fatimids
from 1132 until his death. He rose to power as regent after his cousin
al-Amir was killed in 1130 leaving an infant son. The army seized power,
imprisoning al-Hafiz, but he was freed a year later. In 1132, he
proclaimed himself caliph and imam. Many Isma'ili followers abroad
refused to recognize him as imam, breaking away as the Tayyibi sect.
There were repeated uprisings even in Egypt, although his reign saw
little foreign aggression. He tried to restrain his overmighty viziers,
with mixed success. He was repeatedly forced to give way to the demands
of various military factions, and although for the last decade of his
reign he ruled without a vizier, he was ultimately unable to halt the
evolution of the vizierate into a de facto sultanate, independent of the
caliph. His successors would be reduced to puppets at the hands of
powerful viziers, until the end of the Fatimid Caliphate in 1171.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hafiz>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1943:
The Neoclassical Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., was
formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Memorial>
1946:
Nakam, a Jewish organization seeking revenge for the Holocaust,
attempted to poison thousands of SS prisoners at Langwasser internment
camp, but did not kill anyone.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam>
1953:
Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published as the first
work to feature his British spy character James Bond.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_%28literary_character%29>
2017:
War in Afghanistan: In an airstrike in Nangarhar Province, the
U.S. military dropped the most powerful conventional bomb ever used in
combat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
amaze:
1. (transitive)
2. To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound,
to surprise.
3. (obsolete) To stun or stupefy (someone).
4. (obsolete, also reflexive) To bewilder or perplex (someone or
oneself).
5. (obsolete, poetic) To fill (someone) with panic; to panic, to
terrify.
6. (intransitive, archaic) To experience amazement; to be astounded.
7. (archaic)
8. (except poetic, uncountable) Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an
instance of this.
9. (uncountable) Fear, terror.
10. (obsolete, uncountable) Stupefaction of the mind; bewilderment;
(countable) an instance of this.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amaze>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
--Thomas Jefferson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>
Banksia brownii, commonly known as feather-leaved banksia or Brown's
banksia, is a species of shrub that grows in the southwest of Western
Australia. A banksia with fine feathery leaves and large red-brown
flower spikes, it usually grows as an upright bush around two metres
(7 ft) high, but can also occur as a small tree or a low spreading
shrub. First collected in 1829, it is placed in Banksia subgenus
Banksia, section Oncostylis, series Spicigerae. It is considered
critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of
Nature; all major populations are threatened by Phytophthora cinnamomi
dieback, a disease to which the species is highly susceptible. Other
threats include habitat loss, commercial exploitation and changes to the
fire regime. Highly valued by Australia's horticultural and cut flower
industries, B. brownii is cultivated in areas not exposed to dieback.
It prefers a sheltered position in soil with good drainage, and must be
provided with some moisture over summer.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_brownii>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
The Broughton Suspension Bridge near Manchester, England,
collapsed, reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops
marching in step across it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge>
1993:
Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight (aircraft
pictured) to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered
by the United Nations Security Council.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deny_Flight>
2012:
The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a
presidential election, later handing power to a transitional
administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Guinea-Bissau_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2013:
Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by
jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Kidal_suicide_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rocket scientist:
1. An aerospace engineer.
2. (hyperbolic, chiefly in the negative) One qualified to handle or
understand things which are very complex or confusing; a very
intelligent person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rocket_scientist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The one Reality takes manifold names and forms as a result of
human ignorance. It is one and the same Thing that a Bhakta calls God, a
Jnani calls Brahman, a Shakta calls Shakti, an Atheist calls Nature, a
Scientist calls Force or Energy, a Christian calls Father in Heaven, a
Mussulman calls Allah, some others call Infinity or Truth and a Vedantin
calls Atman or Self. Whatever different names there may be, the fact
remains that the Thing is one and the same. The difference is only in
names. The Absolute Thing, which is beyond name and form, is birthless,
growthless, decayless, deathless, sexless, All-pervading, All-knowing,
All-blissful, without beginning, without end, changeless, beyond time,
space and causation. The One Thing or the Ocean of Consciousness by
Itself is ever the same — One only without a second.
--Swami Narayanananda
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Swami_Narayanananda>
Science Fiction Monthly was a British science fiction magazine published
from 1974 to 1976 by New English Library (NEL). It was launched in
response to demand from readers for posters of the cover art of NEL's
science fiction paperbacks. The magazine was published in tabloid
format, with high-quality colour reproduction; it was not stapled, so
that it could be disassembled and the artwork used as posters. It was
initially very successful, its circulation reportedly reaching 150,000
by the third issue. It reprinted artwork by Chris Foss, Jim Burns,
Bruce Pennington, Roger Dean, and many others. Well-known writers whose
work appeared in its pages included Brian Aldiss (pictured), Bob Shaw,
Christopher Priest, and Harlan Ellison. The high production costs meant
that a high circulation was necessary to sustain profitability, and when
circulation fell to about 20,000 after two years NEL ceased publication.
A new magazine, S.F. Digest, was launched in its stead, but lasted only
one issue.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_Monthly>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
Napoleonic Wars: A hastily assembled Royal Navy fleet launched
an assault against the main strength of the French Atlantic Fleet; an
incomplete victory led to political turmoil in Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Basque_Roads>
1951:
U.S. president Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur of his commands for making public statements about the
Korean War that contradicted the administration's policies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur>
1973:
Future Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il's treatise On
the Art of the Cinema, a justification for film propaganda in support of
the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Art_of_the_Cinema>
2001:
In a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, Australia defeated
American Samoa by a score of 31–0, the largest margin of victory ever
in an international football match.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_31%E2%80%930_American_Samoa>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tort:
1. (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as
non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can
be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
2. (obsolete) An injury or wrong. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tort>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is no path to peace except as the will of peoples may open
to it. The way of peace is through agreement, not through force.
--Charles Evans Hughes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes>