Treat Myself is the third major-label studio album by American singer-
songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured). Epic Records released it on
January 31, 2020, after delaying it for over a year while Trainor wrote
more songs. She worked with producers including Mike Sabath and Tyler
Johnson, and featured artists including Nicki Minaj and the Pussycat
Dolls. The album is a pop, doo-wop, funk, and R&B; album, with themes
such as female duality, body image, self-esteem issues, and
relationships. Trainor promoted it with public appearances and televised
performances. Treat Myself includes the singles "No Excuses", "Wave",
and "Nice to Meet Ya". Some reviewers thought the album effectively
showcased Trainor's artistic range; others criticized its production
choices and lyrical themes. It debuted at number 25 on the US
Billboard 200 and peaked within the top 40 in Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Meghan Trainor albums.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Meghan_Trainor_albu…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow,
Scotland, quelled only when the British government sent tanks to restore
order.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square>
1997:
Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy
franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII>
2007:
Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED
placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs,
causing a panic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
truant:
1. An idle or lazy person; an idler.
2. (specifically) A student who is absent from school without
permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from
business or duty.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able
to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless
person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
4. Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle;
loitering.
5. (specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.
6. (obsolete) Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.
7. (intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to
shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to
be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To idle away or waste (time).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/truant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's a misperception of me that I am a wild man — I wish I
still were. I'm 68 years old. The rage now is, oh, so deep it's almost
comfortable. It has even approached the point where I can live with it
philosophically. The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one
ever said I had the right to design the world.
--Norman Mailer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer>
Ancient Egyptian literature was written in the Egyptian language from
Ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination.
Along with Sumerian literature, it is considered the world's earliest
literature. Writing in Ancient Egypt (sample pictured) first appeared in
the late 4th millennium BC. By the Old Kingdom, literary works included
funerary texts, epistles and letters, religious hymns and poems, and
commemorative autobiographical texts. Middle Egyptian, the spoken
language of the Middle Kingdom, became a classical language preserving a
narrative Egyptian literature during the New Kingdom, when Late Egyptian
first appeared in writing. Scribes of the New Kingdom canonized and
copied many literary texts written in Middle Egyptian, which remained
the language used for oral readings of sacred hieroglyphic texts.
Ancient Egyptian literature has been preserved on papyrus scrolls and
packets, limestone and ceramic ostraca, wooden writing boards,
monumental stone edifices, and coffins.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_literature>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1661:
Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were
exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike
above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell%27s_head>
1945:
World War II: Allied forces liberated more than 500 prisoners
of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan>
2020:
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic to
be a public health emergency of international concern.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
softnose:
1. (firearms) Of a bullet: lacking a jacketed nose and thereby deforming
greatly on impact, causing a large amount of damage and imparting a
great deal of momentum to the target; soft-nosed.
2. (firearms, countable) A bullet of this kind; (uncountable) bullets of
this kind collectively.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/softnose>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I wish I could keep war from all Nations; but that is beyond my
power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States
helps to produce or to promote war. I can at least make clear that the
conscience of America revolts against war and that any Nation which
provokes war forfeits the sympathy of the people of the United States.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt>
Angel Reese (born 2002) is an American college basketball player for the
Louisiana State University Tigers (LSU) of the Southeastern Conference
(SEC). At Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, she was ranked
the number two player nationally in the class of 2020 by ESPN. Reese
joined the Maryland Terrapins as the highest-ranked recruit in program
history, and was named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press
as a sophomore. In her junior season, Reese transferred to LSU and was a
unanimous first-team All-American selection. She led LSU to its first
national championship, where she was Most Outstanding Player. Reese set
the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) single-season record
in double-doubles and the SEC single-season record in rebounds. At the
international level, Reese helped the United States win a silver medal
at the 2023 FIBA Women's AmeriCup. She is estimated to be one of the top
earners among college athletes from name, image and likeness deals.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Reese>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1967:
The Mantra-Rock Dance (poster pictured), called the "ultimate
high" of the hippie era, took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami
Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra-Rock_Dance>
1991:
The first major ground engagement of the Gulf War began with
the Iraqi invasion of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, recaptured three days later
by Coalition forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khafji>
2013:
Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed
near Almaty, Kazakhstan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAT_Airlines_Flight_760>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
beauty sleep:
1. (uncountable) Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief
that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly
humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful;
(countable) an instance of such sleep.
2. (uncountable, chiefly humorous) Extra sleep; also (generally), any
sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beauty_sleep>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals
themselves despicable.
--Anton Chekhov
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov>
Nicholas Hoult (born 1989) is an English actor. He has performed in
supporting roles in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles
in independent projects in the American and British film industries. He
made his screen debut at the age of six in the 1996 film Intimate
Relations. In 2002 he portrayed Marcus Brewer in the comedy-drama film
About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie
Award for Best Young Performer. He played Tony Stonem in the E4 teenage
drama series Skins (2007–2008), and earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award
nomination for the 2009 drama film A Single Man. Cast as the mutant Hank
McCoy in Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, he
continued the role in later instalments of the series. In 2013, Hoult
starred as a zombie in the romantic comedy Warm Bodies. He played Robert
Harley, Earl of Oxford, in the historical black comedy The Favourite
(2018) and the writer J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien (2019).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hoult>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1754:
The word serendipity, derived from the Persian fairy tale The
Three Princes of Serendip, was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter to a
friend.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole>
1933:
Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for
the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed
"Pakstan".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Declaration>
1964:
Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner
were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany,
by a Soviet MiG-19.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_T-39_shootdown_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
presumptive:
1. Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
2. Often postpositive, as in heir presumptive: of an heir or heiress:
presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior
entitlement is born.
3. (embryology) Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but
is presumed to develop into a particular body part.
4. Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or
assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and
thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”)
5. (often law) Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable
basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/presumptive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
--José Martí
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD>
The Civil Service Rifles War Memorial is a First World War memorial
located at Somerset House in London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens and unveiled by Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1924, the memorial
commemorates the 1,240 members of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service
Rifles regiment killed in the war. The memorial takes the form of a
rectangular column surmounted by a sculpture of an urn and flanked by
painted stone flags, a feature seen in other memorials by Lutyens. A
scroll of the names of the fallen was placed inside the memorial. Those
who served in the regiment were Territorial Force reservists, drawn
largely from the British Civil Service with many staff based in Somerset
House. The memorial was initially located in the quadrangle, which had
been used by the regiment as a parade ground. It was later moved to the
riverside terrace and rededicated in 2002. Upgraded to Grade II*
listed-building status in 2015, it forms part of a national collection
of war memorials by Lutyens.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_Rifles_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
Yugoslavian troops shot at protesters advocating for the
incorporation of Maribor into the Republic of German-Austria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg%27s_Bloody_Sunday>
1996:
Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of
Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military
coup d'état.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamane_Ousmane>
2011:
Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor
with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000
kelvins (360,000 °F).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Minor>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
peashooter:
1. A toy weapon consisting of a tube through which dried peas or small
objects are blown.
2. A person who uses such a device.
3. (slang) Any small or ineffective gun or weapon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peashooter>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
"It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one
wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by
mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole —
and yet — and yet — it's rather curious, you know, this sort of
life! I do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to read
fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I
am in the middle of one!"
--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland>
W. Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an
English writer. He achieved national celebrity as a playwright; by 1908
he had four plays running simultaneously in London's West End. After
1933 he concentrated on novels and short stories. His popularity
provoked adverse reactions from highbrow critics, and many belittled him
as merely competent. More recent assessments generally rank Of Human
Bondage as a masterpiece, and his short stories are held in high
critical regard. Maugham's plain prose became known for its lucidity,
but his reliance on clichés attracted adverse critical commentary.
During World War I Maugham worked for the British Secret Service, later
drawing on his experiences for stories published in the 1920s. He
married Syrie Wellcome in 1917, and they had a daughter, Liza. However,
his principal partner was Gerald Haxton; after Haxton's death, Alan
Searle became Maugham's secretary and companion. Maugham gave up writing
novels after World War II and died in 1965.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1944:
Representatives of the Chetnik movement began a four-day
congress to organise political opposition to the Allied support of the
communist-led Yugoslav Partisans in Yugoslavia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_Congress>
1971:
Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a
coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Ugandan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1993:
Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot five people outside the
Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, killing
two.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_headquarters_shooting>
2011:
The Egyptian revolution began with protests (protester
pictured) on the "Day of Anger", eventually leading to the removal of
President Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Egyptian_revolution_of_2011>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
epistle:
1. A literary composition in the form of a letter or series of letters,
especially one in verse.
2. (chiefly literary or humorous) A letter, especially one which is
formal or issued publicly.
3. (specifically, historical) Chiefly with a qualifying word, as in
epistle dedicatory: a letter of dedication addressed to a patron or
reader published as a preface to a literary work.
4. (Christianity)
5. One of the books of the New Testament which was originally a letter
issued by an apostle to an individual or a community.
6. An extract from a New Testament epistle (sense 3.1) or book other
than a gospel which is read during a church service, chiefly the
Eucharist.
7. (transitive)
8. (chiefly literary or humorous) To write (something) in, or in the
form of, a letter.
9. (chiefly literary or humorous, archaic) To write a letter to
(someone).
10. (rare) To write (something) as an introduction or preface to a
literary work; also, to provide (a literary work) with an introduction
or preface.
11. (intransitive, chiefly literary or humorous)
12. To write a letter.
13. To communicate with someone through a letter.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epistle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
--W. Somerset Maugham
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham>
Fluorine is an extremely reactive chemical element with atomic number 9.
At standard conditions, pure fluorine is a toxic pale yellow diatomic
gas. Fluorite, the element's primary mineral source, was first described
in 1529, and fluorine was proposed as an element in 1810. As the
lightest halogen and most electronegative reactive element, it is
difficult to separate from its compounds, and several early
experimenters died or were injured in the attempt. French chemist Henri
Moissan finally succeeded in 1886 using low-temperature electrolysis, a
process still used today. Global fluorochemical sales amount to more
than US$15 billion a year, including in toothpaste and water
fluoridation, refrigerants, Teflon for electrical insulation and
cookware, pharmaceuticals, aluminium refining and steelmaking.
Fluorocarbon gases are generally greenhouse gases. Fluorine has no known
metabolic role in mammals, but a few plants and sea sponges synthesize
poisonous fluorocarbons to deter predators.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1536:
King Henry VIII of England suffered a serious accident while
jousting, receiving injuries which may have caused his later obesity and
erratic personality.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII>
1848:
James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma,
California, leading to the California gold rush.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush>
1972:
Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungles of
Guam, where he had been hiding since the end of World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi>
1977:
During the Spanish transition to democracy, neo-fascists
attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Atocha_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rhombicosidodecahedron:
(geometry) An Archimedean solid with 62 regular faces (20 triangles, 30
squares, and 12 pentagons), 60 vertices and 120 edges.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhombicosidodecahedron>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you don’t want to be replaced by a machine, don’t try to
act like one!
--Arno Allan Penzias
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arno_Allan_Penzias>
Nyctibatrachus major, the Malabar night frog, is a species in the robust
frog family. First described in 1882 by George Albert Boulenger, it is a
large Nyctibatrachus frog, with an adult snout–vent length of
31.5–52.0 mm (1.24–2.05 in) for males and 43.7–54.2 mm
(1.72–2.13 in) for females. It is mainly brownish to greyish in
colour, with a greyish-white underside, light grey sides, and grey or
brown markings. Sexes can be told apart by the bulbous glands near the
inner thigh in males. The species is endemic to the Western Ghats
mountain range of India, in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. Adults
are nocturnal and inhabit fast-moving forest streams at elevations of up
to 900 m (3,000 ft). The diet mainly consists of other frogs and
insect larvae. On hatching, tadpoles drop from leaves or rocks into a
water source. The species is vulnerable: threats include habitat loss,
increased human presence, and possibly nitrate pollution caused by
fertiliser overuse.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctibatrachus_major>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would become
the home of the future Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic
university in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University>
1902:
In the most fatal recorded mountaineering accident, 199 of the
210 members of an Imperial Japanese Army unit perished in a blizzard on
the Hakkōda Mountains.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakk%C5%8Dda_Mountains>
1957:
American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying
disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee"
(example pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbee>
2001:
Five people attempted to set themselves on fire in Tiananmen
Square, Beijing, an act that many later claimed to have been staged by
the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their
persecution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
coincident:
1. Of two or more objects: being in the same location.
2. Of two or more events: occurring at the same time; contemporaneous.
3. Of two or more things: having the same qualities; being in
accordance; consonant, matching.
4. (obsolete) Chiefly followed by to: accompanying, concomitant,
incident.
5. (obsolete) One of multiple incidents or things which coincide with
each other; a concomitant.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coincident>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Despise the glare of wealth. That people who pay greater respect
to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost
deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be
acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
--John Hancock
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Hancock>
Edward Oxford (1822–1900) was an English man who made an assassination
attempt on Queen Victoria in 1840. After losing a series of jobs in pubs
due to erratic and violent behaviour, he bought two pistols and fired
twice at the queen and her husband, Prince Albert; neither shot hit
anyone. Charged with high treason, he was found by a jury to be not
guilty by reason of insanity, and was detained at Bethlem Royal Hospital
and Broadmoor Hospital. Offered exile in 1867, he settled in Melbourne,
Australia, under a new name. He worked as a decorator, married and
became a respected figure at his local church. He began writing stories
for The Argus on the seedier aspects of Melbourne, and later published a
book, Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life. Oxford's trial and the 1843
trial of Daniel M'Naghten, who killed civil servant Edward Drummond,
prompted the judiciary to frame the M'Naghten rules on instructions to
be given to a jury for a defence of insanity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Oxford>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1924:
Ramsay MacDonald took office as the first prime minister of the
United Kingdom from the Labour Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald>
1943:
World War II: The Battle of Buna–Gona on New Guinea ended
with an Allied victory after two months of difficult fighting against
well-prepared Japanese defence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buna%E2%80%93Gona>
1968:
Apollo 5, the first flight of NASA's Lunar Module, lifted off
from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_5>
1979:
Uganda–Tanzania War: After surrounding Mutukula the previous
day, Tanzanian forces attacked the town in the Battle of Mutukula and
caused Ugandan forces to flee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mutukula>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
poetic justice:
1. (narratology) Synonym of poetical justice (“the idea that in a
literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice
punished”)
2. (by extension, generally) The fact of someone experiencing what they
deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic
manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poetic_justice>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. And certainly
there is a great difference, between a cunning man, and a wise man; not
only in point of honesty, but in point of ability. There be, that can
pack the cards, and yet cannot play well; so there are some that are
good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men.
--Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essays_%28Francis_Bacon%29>
"Never Forget You" is a song recorded by American singer Mariah Carey
(pictured) for her third studio album Music Box. Carey co-wrote the slow
jam with Babyface and the pair produced it with Daryl Simmons. Columbia
Records released the song on January 21, 1994, as the B-side to "Without
You" and promoted it to American urban contemporary radio stations as
the album's fourth single. The lyrics lament the end of a romance.
Strings, synthesizers, and percussion characterize the composition;
Jermaine Dupri altered them for remixes. Music critics deemed "Never
Forget You" unremarkable and derivative. The song peaked at numbers one
and three on the US urban contemporary radio charts published by Radio &
Records and the Gavin Report, respectively. It also reached number three
on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seven on the Billboard Hot R&B;
Singles chart. Combined with "Without You", the single sold 600,000
copies in the US throughout 1994.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Forget_You_%28Mariah_Carey_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
The First Dáil convened at the Mansion House in Dublin and
adopted a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of
the Irish Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_D%C3%A1il>
1968:
A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed onto sea
ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing localized radioactive
contamination.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash>
1997:
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand
Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the
House to be so disciplined.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich>
2011:
Demonstrations in Tirana against alleged corruption in the
Albanian government led to the killings of four protesters by the
Republican Guard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Albanian_opposition_demonstrations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carp:
1. (intransitive)
2. To complain or criticize about a fault, especially for frivolous or
petty reasons; to cavil.
3. (obsolete) To speak, to talk; also, to talk about a subject in speech
or writing.
4. (obsolete) To talk much but to little purpose; to chatter, to
prattle.
5. (obsolete) Of a bird: to sing; of a person (such as a minstrel): to
sing or recite.
6. (transitive, obsolete)
7. To say or tell (something).
8. To find fault with (someone or something); to censure, to criticize.
9. An instance of, or speech, complaining or criticizing about a fault,
especially for frivolous or petty reasons; a cavil. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Who would imagine that the Deity conducts his providence similar
to the detestable despots of this world? Oh horrible, most horrible
impeachment of Divine Goodness! Rather let us exaltedly suppose that God
eternally had the ultimate best good of beings generally and
individually in his view, with the reward of the virtuous and the
punishment of the vicious, and that no other punishment will ever be
inflicted, merely by the divine administration, but that will finally
terminate in the best good of the punished, and thereby subserve the
great and important ends of the divine government, and be productive of
the restoration and felicity of all finite rational nature.
--Ethan Allen
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