In fiction, the planet Mars, fourth from the Sun, has appeared as a
setting in at least 5,000 works, portrayed differently as planetary
science has advanced. It became the most popular celestial object in
fiction in the late 1800s as it became clear there is no life on the
Moon. Mars then was a setting for utopian fiction. The War of the Worlds
(1897), H. G. Wells's novel about an invasion of Earth by sinister
Martians, had a major influence on science fiction. After 1900, life on
Mars was often depicted as decadent, as in Edgar Rice Burroughs's
Barsoom series. Exotic life appeared in stories like Stanley G.
Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey". Later in the 20th century, Mars
colonization became a popular theme, as it became clear Mars is
lifeless, though some works, like Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles,
feature native life. Terraforming Mars became a major theme in works
like Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and some works depict an
initial expedition to the planet.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_in_fiction>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The body of Mary Ann Nichols, the alleged first victim of an
unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (depicted), was
found in Buck's Row, London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper>
1942:
The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest
tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after
causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_Matagorda_hurricane>
1969:
On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, an event
attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan
appeared in his first gig in three years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_Festival_1969>
2019:
A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of
Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Alta_helicopter_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kampung:
1. (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) A traditional village.
2. (Singapore) A district or suburb where a former village once stood.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kampung>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as
real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing
at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of
art — that is, the meaningful-real.
--William Saroyan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Saroyan>
The Next Day is the 25th studio album by the English musician David
Bowie (pictured), released in March 2013. It was his first studio
release in ten years, as Bowie had retreated from public view after
undergoing surgery for a blocked artery in 2004. Co-produced by Bowie
and Tony Visconti, the album was recorded in secret in New York City
between May 2011 and October 2012. Primarily an art-rock album, The
Next Day references Bowie's earlier glam and funk releases. The album
was released through ISO Records in association with Columbia Records.
The lead single, "Where Are We Now?", and news of the album were posted
online on 8 January 2013, Bowie's 66th birthday, surprising fans who
thought that he had retired from music. The Next Day topped charts
worldwide and debuted at number one and two on the UK Albums Chart and
the US Billboard 200, respectively. Bowie's highest-charting US album
to date, it was praised by critics as Bowie's best in decades and placed
on several year-end lists.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Day>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1574:
Guru Ram Das became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual
masters of Sikhism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Ram_Das>
1594:
James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince
Henry, his first child.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masque_at_the_baptism_of_Prince_Henry>
1959:
South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected
to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote
multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Quang_%C4%90%C3%A1n>
2007:
A heavy bomber plane that had been unintentionally loaded with
nuclear missiles transported them from North Dakota to Louisiana before
they were recognized.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
conduce:
1. (transitive, obsolete)
2. To cause (something) to occur; to bring about.
3. To contribute (something).
4. (also figurative) To conduct or lead (someone or something).
5. (rare) To advantage or benefit (someone or something).
6. (rare, possibly) To carry on or continue (an activity).
7. (intransitive)
8. To contribute or lead to a specific result.
9. (obsolete) To be advantageous to; to advantage, to benefit.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conduce>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it
is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on
society. It is like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn
into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do
nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the
GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I
would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or
teaching, or nursing]. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of
those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm
going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my
wife and I die.
--Warren Buffett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett>
Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and
directed by Sofia Coppola (pictured). Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a
fading American movie star who travels to Tokyo and befriends Charlotte,
played by Scarlett Johansson. The film explores themes of alienation and
disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan.
Coppola started writing the film after spending time in Tokyo and
becoming fond of the city. She kept a flexible schedule during filming
and allowed a significant amount of improvisation. Lost in Translation
premiered on August 29, 2003, at the Telluride Film Festival and had a
theatrical release on September 12, 2003. Critics praised the
performances of Murray and Johansson, as well as the writing and
direction of Coppola; minor criticism was given to the film's depiction
of Japan. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as
well as three Golden Globe Awards and three British Academy Film Awards.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Translation_%28film%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1786:
Farmers in western Massachusetts angered by high tax burdens
and disfranchisement began an armed uprising led by Daniel Shays against
the U.S. federal government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Shays>
1831:
Michael Faraday first experimentally demonstrated
electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of
induction named after him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s_law_of_induction>
1960:
Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff
Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_343>
2016:
Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of
Xinjiang, later overseeing the creation of the Xinjiang internment
camps.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Quanguo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
intense:
1. Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree;
severe; also, excessive.
2. Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high
or strong degree.
3. Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest,
passionate.
4. Of a person: very emotional or passionate.
5. (also figurative) Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed,
tense.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a
world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world
filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled
with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
--Michael Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson>
USS Marmora was a sternwheel steamer serving in the Union Navy from
1862 to 1865 in the American Civil War. Built in 1862 as a civilian
vessel, she was bought for military service in September, and converted
into a tinclad warship. Commissioned on October 21, she served on the
Yazoo River and was on the Yazoo during the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in
December. She was assigned in 1863 to a fleet operating against Fort
Hindman, but was absent when the fort surrendered on January 11. From
February to April, she participated in the Yazoo Pass expedition, and in
June burned two Arkansas settlements. In August, she saw action on the
White River when the Little Rock campaign was beginning, and patrolled
on the Mississippi River late that year. She fought in the Battle of
Yazoo City on March 5. She was declared surplus in May 1865 and put in
reserve status at Mound City, Illinois. She was decommissioned in July,
and sold at auction on August 17, after which nothing is known.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Marmora_%281862%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then
the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of
Saturn, later named Enceladus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus>
1909:
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest
Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000
people throughout Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909_Monterrey_hurricane>
1963:
American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered
the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for
civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream>
1987:
Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the
tallest building in North Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
contraction:
1. Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into,
especially entering into a contract.
2.
3. An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring
something (generally negative).
4. (archaic) An act of entering into a contract or agreement;
specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a
betrothal.
5. (biology, medicine) The process of contracting or becoming infected
with a disease.
6. Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
7. A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope,
size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
8. (archaic or obsolete) An abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.;
an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness.
9. (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound
edges are gradually pulled together.
10. (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use;
specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine
muscles prior to or during childbirth.
11. (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
12. (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free
morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound
morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
13. (linguistics, phonology, prosody) Synonym of syncope (“the elision
or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel
sound with loss of a syllable”)
14. (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word,
often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical
mark.
15. (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the
purpose of brevity.
16. (obsolete, rare) An act of collecting or gathering.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contraction>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations
of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is
something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold
which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our
rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek
to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness
and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of
dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to
degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the
majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.>
The CBS Building is a 38-story tower at 51 West 52nd Street in Midtown
Manhattan, New York City. Built from 1962 to 1965, it is the
headquarters of the American broadcasting network CBS, which owned the
structure until 2021. The only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen, the
building occupies the eastern side of Sixth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd
Streets, near the Museum of Modern Art. The interior spaces and
furnishings were designed by Saarinen and Florence Knoll Bassett. Its
nickname, "Black Rock", is derived from the design of its facade, which
consists of angled dark-gray granite piers alternating with dark tinted
glass. The CBS Building has won several architectural awards, but
according to critic Ada Louise Huxtable, "The dark dignity that appeals
to architectural sophisticates puts off the public, which tends to
reject it as funereal." The New York City Landmarks Preservation
Commission designated the CBS Building as a city landmark in 1997.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Building>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
In the shortest recorded war in history, the Sultanate of
Zanzibar surrendered to the United Kingdom after less than an hour of
conflict.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War>
1955:
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was
published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records>
1964:
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a
triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện
Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, both of whom had been involved in plots to
unseat Khánh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_V%C4%83n_Minh>
2003:
The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost
60,000 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bumbershoot:
(originally and chiefly US, slang, humorous) An umbrella.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bumbershoot>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended
to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience
and history teach is this, that peoples and governments never have
learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a
condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be
regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. It
is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past. The pallid
shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the
Present.
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel>
Frank Bladin (26 August 1898 – 2 February 1978) was a senior
commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Born in rural
Victoria, he graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in
1920 and transferred to the RAAF in 1923. He took command of No. 1
Squadron in 1934. Ranked wing commander at the outbreak of World
War II, by September 1941 Bladin was promoted to acting air commodore.
He became Air Officer Commanding (AOC) North-Western Area in
March 1942, and earned the US Silver Star. In 1943, he was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire and posted to No. 38 Group
RAF in Europe. Promoted acting air vice-marshal in 1946, Bladin was
among the senior officers who helped shape the post-war RAAF, serving as
Chief of Staff of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan,
AOC Eastern Area, and Air Member for Personnel. Appointed a Companion of
the Order of the Bath in 1950, he retired from the RAAF in 1953. He was
also active in veterans' affairs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bladin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of
the Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the
people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_C…>
1940:
The 1940 New England hurricane formed over the Atlantic Ocean;
it would go on to cause widespread damage despite never making landfall
in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_New_England_hurricane>
1968:
The Beatles released "Hey Jude", which became the then-longest
single to top the UK charts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Jude>
1980:
A bomb was planted at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline,
Nevada, which the FBI later described as the most complex improvised
explosive device ever created.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gazehound:
Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed,
instead of by scent and endurance”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazehound>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute
between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
--John Buchan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Buchan>
The 1998 FIFA World Cup final was the final match of the 32-team 1998
FIFA World Cup, played on 12 July at the Stade de France (pictured) in
Paris, France, between defending champions Brazil and hosts France.
Before the match, speculation surrounded the fitness of striker Ronaldo,
who was at first left out of Brazil's starting line-up, only to be
restored before kick-off. France took the lead shortly before the half-
hour mark, when Zinedine Zidane outjumped Leonardo to connect with a
header from an in-swinging corner from the right taken by Emmanuel
Petit. Zidane scored again, with another header from a corner, shortly
before half-time to give France a 2–0 lead. Petit then added a third
goal in second-half injury time, striking the ball low into the net
following a pass by Patrick Vieira, to complete a 3–0 win for France,
giving them their first World Cup title. Zidane was named the man of the
match, while Ronaldo was awarded the Golden Ball as FIFA's outstanding
player of the tournament.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_final>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1537:
The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving
regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter by
Henry VIII.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honourable_Artillery_Company>
1875:
Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English
Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Webb>
2001:
American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record
company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after
taking off from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Marsh_Harbour_Cessna_402_crash>
2012:
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made
object to enter interstellar space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
storm:
1. (impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have
strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or
snow.
2. (transitive)
3. To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or
something) violently.
4. (figurative)
5. To disturb or trouble (someone).
6. To use (harsh language).
7. (chiefly military) To violently assault (a fortified position or
stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
8. (figurative, often poetic) To assault or gain control or power over
(someone's heart, mind, etc.).
9. (Britain, dialectal, agriculture) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy
weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
10. (intransitive)
11. Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually
lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
12. To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
13. (figurative)
14. To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun sense 1), usually in
a state of anger or uproar.
15. (by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in the course of an
assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
16. To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
17. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or
unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface
involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually
lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.
18. (by extension) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow)
or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm,
rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
19. (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting
of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric
pressure”)
20. (by extension, Canada, Scotland, US, dated) A period of frosty
and/or snowy weather.
21. (meteorology) A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe
or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind
speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour;
10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103
and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale,
known as a "violent storm").
22. (figurative)
23. A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are
thrown, etc.).
24. A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or
political commotion.
25. A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.;
also, an outpouring of emotion.
26. (pathology) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of
diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
27. (Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) Ellipsis of storm window (“a
second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a
window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of
still air between the outside and inside”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/storm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The nature of man remains ever the same: in the ten thousandth
year of the World he will be born with passions, as he was born with
passions in the two thousandth, and ran through his course of follies to
a late, imperfect, useless wisdom. We wander in a labyrinth, in which
our lives occupy but a span; so that it is to us nearly a matter of
indifference, whether there be any entrance or outlet to the intricate
path.
--Johann Gottfried Herder
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder>
The Epsom riot took place on 17 June 1919 when between 300 and 800
soldiers of the Canadian Army rioted and attacked the police station in
Epsom in Surrey, England. With the First World War over, discipline at
Canadian camps was relaxed. Delays in repatriation caused discontent
among Canadian troops. The riot began when two Canadian servicemen were
arrested following a disturbance at a local public house. Their comrades
marched on the town police station to demand their release. In the
ensuing fighting, Private Allan McMaster, a former blacksmith, picked up
a metal bar and struck Station Sergeant Thomas Green (pictured), a
British police officer, on the head. Green died the following day.
Several men, including McMaster, appeared in court, were found guilty of
rioting but acquitted of manslaughter, and served several months in
prison. Ten years after returning to Canada, McMaster confessed to the
killing. As he had already been found not guilty of manslaughter, he was
not returned to the UK.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsom_riot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1643:
A Dutch expedition arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River,
in present-day Chile, to establish a new colony in the ruins of the
abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_expedition_to_Valdivia>
1662:
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer was legally enforced as the
liturgy of the Church of England, precipitating the Great Ejection of
Dissenter ministers from their benefices.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer_%281662%29>
1963:
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to
oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his
unofficial position of power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_243>
2006:
The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution
redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
requite:
1. (transitive)
2. To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone
for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
3. To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward
(someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
4. To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love
which has been shown).
5. To do or give a thing in return for (something).
6. To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to
avenge.
7. To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a
wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
8. (obsolete)
9. To greet (someone) in return.
10. To make up for (something); to compensate.
11. To respond to (a question, a statement, etc.).
12. To take the place of (someone or something); to replace.
13. (reflexive) Of an action, a quality, etc.: to be a reward for
(itself).
14. (intransitive)
15. To recompense, to repay.
16. To retaliate, to seek revenge.
17. Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital
(“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense,
repayment, reward”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/requite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Russian Defense Ministry is trying to deceive the President
and the public and tell them there was insane aggression on the part of
Ukraine and they were going to attack us together with the entire NATO
bloc. So, the so-called "special operation" on February 24 was launched
for completely different reasons. Why was the war needed? The war was
needed so that a handful of scumbags could have a blast and get PR
attention showing how strong the army is … The war was not started …
in order to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine.
--Yevgeny Prigozhin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin>
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber (1764–1804) was a German translator, diplomat,
playwright, literary critic, and journalist. Born in Paris to the
Bavarian-born writer Michael Huber and his French wife, he grew up
bilingual in French and German and published translations from English
and French from an early age. When he lived in Leipzig and Dresden as a
young man, he and his fiancée Dora Stock were both close friends of the
poet Friedrich Schiller. From 1788, Huber served as a diplomat in Mainz,
where he met world traveller Georg Forster and started an affair with
his wife Therese. He and Therese later married after escaping from
revolutionary Mainz to Switzerland, where Huber was active as a
journalist and reviewer, and as translator of the works of Isabelle de
Charrière. In 1798, Huber returned to Germany as an editor for Johann
Friedrich Cotta's newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung. Having fallen into
relative obscurity after his death, he is studied mostly for his
friendships and his literary criticism.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Ferdinand_Huber>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1873:
The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened
to traffic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London>
1933:
The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer
Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47 deaths in the
U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Chesapeake%E2%80%93Potomac_hurricane>
1943:
Second World War: A decisive Soviet victory against German
forces at the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative
for the rest of the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk>
2006:
Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten in
Vienna, escaped from her captor's house in Strasshof an der Nordbahn
after more than eight years in captivity.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
panda car:
(Britain, law enforcement, informal) A police car; specifically
(historical), one with a broad white stripe painted around its middle on
a darker-coloured or, originally, black background.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panda_car>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we
join a burning belief in duty, and a deep spiritual ideal of life. And
we have more than an abstract belief in duty, we do not hesitate to
unite the advocacy of social reform with an appeal to the various
classes who compose society to perform those duties without which all
social reform must be merely delusive.
--Arnold Toynbee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arnold_Toynbee>
The Supermarine S.4 was a 1920s British single-engined monoplane built
by Supermarine to race in the 1925 Schneider Trophy contest. To reduce
drag forces and thereby increase speed, the company's chief designer,
R. J. Mitchell, produced a floatplane of revolutionary design. Built of
wood, and with an unbraced cantilever wing, it was powered by a Napier
Lion engine developed to produce 700 horsepower (520 kW) over a short
racing period. Less than a month after its maiden flight on 24 August
1925, it raised the world's seaplane speed record to 226.752 miles per
hour (364.922 km/h). On 23 October, during navigation trials prior to
the contest, the aircraft was performing well when, for reasons that
have not been fully explained, it went out of control and was destroyed
when it dived into the sea from 100 feet (30 m), injuring the pilot.
Mitchell used the practical experience gained from his work on the S.4
when designing its immediate successor, the Supermarine S.5.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_S.4>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1642:
King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham,
marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War>
1914:
First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British
forces on the Western Front.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_shot_memorial>
1943:
Ian Stephens, editor of The Statesman, defied British
censorship to publish pictures of death and misery (example pictured) on
Calcutta's streets, informing the world of the Bengal famine of 1943.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943>
1984:
The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to
defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which had hitherto
entirely comprised members of the People's Action Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-constituency_Member_of_Parliament>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
in weal and woe:
In both prosperity and adversity; in good times and bad.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_weal_and_woe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in
ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or
paid for in factories.
--Ray Bradbury
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury>