Kyla (born January 5, 1981) is a Filipino singer-songwriter. She is the
recipient of numerous accolades, including eleven Awit Awards and three
MTV Pilipinas Music Awards. She gained recognition in 2000 with her
debut album Way to Your Heart and its single "Hanggang Ngayon", which
won the International Viewer's Choice Award for Southeast Asia at the
2001 MTV Video Music Awards. She has collaborated with musicians such as
American singer-songwriter Brian McKnight and English boy band Blue.
Outside of music, she has starred in the drama series Dear Friend (2009)
and Villa Quintana (2013–2014), and has expanded her career into
reality television as a presenter of the talent competition show Popstar
Kids (2005–2007) and as a judge in the variety show singing contest
Tawag ng Tanghalan (since 2016). Kyla's music is primarily influenced by
R&B; and soul, and she has been credited with helping to redefine the
genres in the Philippines. (This article is part of a featured topic:
Overview of Kyla.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Overview_of_Kyla>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1869:
Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at
Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed
Constabulary.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ngatapa>
1919:
The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was
founded by Anton Drexler.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party>
1949:
In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S.
Truman announced: "Every segment of our population, and every
individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Deal>
2003:
The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with
an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground,
although no toxin was found.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Green_ricin_plot>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
a little bird told me:
(idiomatic, chiefly humorous) I received the information from a source
which I am not prepared to disclose.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_little_bird_told_me>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whatever the rhythm was, luck rewarded us, because, wanting
connections, we found connections — always, everywhere, and between
everything. The world exploded in a whirling network of kinships, where
everything pointed to everything else, everything explained everything
else…
--Foucault's Pendulum
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum>
Robert Nimmo (1893–1966) was a senior Australian Army officer and the
chief military observer (CMO) of the United Nations Military Observer
Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) from 1950 until his death. Nimmo
graduated early from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, to
participate in World War I, serving with the Australian Light Horse. He
remained in Australia in training and staff roles early in World
War II. He then administered command of Northern Territory Force before
commanding the logistics effort for the Bougainville campaign, and
served as a senior staff officer on First Australian Army headquarters
in New Guinea. He commanded a brigade of the British Commonwealth
Occupation Force in Japan, then returned to Australia to lead Northern
Command. In 1950, he was made Commander of the British Empire, retired
from the army, and was appointed as CMO of UNMOGIP, where he remained
until he died on 4 January 1966. Nimmo was the first Australian to
command a multinational peacekeeping force.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nimmo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1798:
After his appointment as Prince of Wallachia, Constantine
Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume the throne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Hangerli>
1936:
Billboard published its first music hit parade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_%28magazine%29>
1989:
Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Floggers
that appeared to be attempting to engage them over the Gulf of Sidra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_air_battle_near_Tobruk>
2004:
Spirit (artist's impression pictured), the first of two rovers
of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_%28rover%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lapidary:
1. A person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and
precious stones.
2. The field in which such a person works, a subfield of gemology.
3. (obsolete)
4. An expert in gems and precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary
work.
5. Gems and precious stones collectively; jewellery.
6. (except historical) A treatise on (precious) stones.
7. Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working
them.
8. Senses relating to inscriptions.
9. Of an inscription: engraved on stone.
10. Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or
suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of
inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
11. (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to stones in general.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lapidary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion
in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces
impressed upon it.
--Isaac Newton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton>
A 1–1 tie in 26 innings was played by the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston
Braves on May 1, 1920, at Braves Field in Boston, still the most
innings played in a Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Leon Cadore of
Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston each pitched 26 innings, also a one-
game record. Brooklyn scored its only run in the fifth inning, as did
Boston in the sixth, and, though both teams threatened to score again
several times, the game remained deadlocked. With darkness starting to
fall and no artificial lighting, the umpires called a halt after the
26th inning. Other records included Charlie Pick's 11 at bats in a game
without a base hit and first baseman Walter Holke's 42 putouts. There
have been claims that the long pitching appearances ruined the arms of
Oeschger and Cadore; this was not so as both pitched several more years
in MLB and Oeschger won 20 games in 1921. Their shared record of 26
innings pitched in an MLB game has been repeatedly cited as one that
will never be broken.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers_1,_Boston_Braves_1_%2826_inn…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1911:
An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw destroyed Almaty in Russian
Turkestan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Kebin_earthquake>
1938:
The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for
polio research.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Dimes>
1961:
All 25 people on board Aero Flight 311 died in Finland's worst
civilian air accident when the aircraft crashed near Kvevlax.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Flight_311>
2009:
The cryptocurrency network of bitcoin was created when Satoshi
Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
exoteric:
1. Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the
public without secrecy or other reservations.
2. (by extension) Of a person: not part of an enlightened inner circle;
not privy to esoteric knowledge.
3. Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public;
accessible; also, having an obvious application.
4. (archaic)
5. External.
6. (rare) Having wide currency; popular, prevalent.
7. A person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not
privy to esoteric knowledge; an outsider, an uninitiate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exoteric>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than
diseases of the body.
--Cicero
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero>
The Masked Singer is an American reality singing competition television
series that premiered on Fox on January 2, 2019. It is part of the
Masked Singer franchise and features celebrities singing songs while
wearing costumes to conceal themselves. The program employs panelists
who guess the celebrities' identities. In most episodes, after the last
performance, a vote of the panelists and the audience eliminates a
contestant, who is then revealed. The costumes were inspired by haute
couture and designed in the first six seasons by Marina Toybina
(pictured), who won a Costume Designers Guild Award and two Creative
Arts Emmy Awards. The first five seasons received the highest Nielsen
ratings for a non-sports program in the key demographic of adults
18–49. Its success has been credited to the growth of the Masked
Singer franchise and interest in adapting South Korean reality
television series and other television formats centered on costumes. The
tenth season premiered in September 2023.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masked_Singer_%28American_TV_series%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1959:
The Soviet Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity
of the Moon, was launched by a Vostok rocket from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_1>
1967:
Ronald Reagan began his career in government when he was sworn
in as the 33rd governor of California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>
1976:
An extratropical cyclone began affecting parts of western
Europe, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern portions of
the North Sea and leading to at least 82 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_of_January_1976>
2009:
Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan army captured the town of
Kilinochchi from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, concluding the
Battle of Kilinochchi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kilinochchi_%282008%E2%80%932009%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dragoon:
1. (military)
2. (weaponry, historical) Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a
short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling
fire like a mythical dragon”)
3. (by extension) Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a
dragoon musket (sense 1.1) who fought both on foot and mounted on a
horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed
with such muskets.
4. (by extension) A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a
dragoon (sense 1.2).
5. A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a
tumbler.
6. (Christianity, French politics, historical) To subject (a Huguenot)
to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681
to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by
billeting dragoons (noun sense 1.2) in their homes to abuse them and
destroy or steal their possessions”).
7. (by extension)
8. Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something
through harassment and intimidation; to coerce. Synonym: compel
9. (military, historical) To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dragoon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its
faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
--Isaac Asimov
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov>
The koala is an arboreal plant-eating marsupial native to Australia,
recognised worldwide as a symbol of the country. Its closest living
relatives are the wombats. It has a stout, tailless body and large head
with round, fluffy ears and a large, dark nose. The koala has a body
length of 60 to 85 cm (24 to 33 in) and weighs 4 to 15 kg (9 to
33 lb). Fur colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown. Koalas
typically inhabit open Eucalyptus woodlands, and the leaves of these
trees make up most of their diet. Because this eucalypt diet has low
nutritional and caloric content, koalas are largely sedentary and sleep
for up to 20 hours a day. They are asocial animals, and bonding only
exists between mothers and dependent offspring. They have few natural
predators or parasites but are threatened by various pathogens, as well
as by bushfires and droughts. The biggest threat to their existence is
habitat destruction due to agriculture and urbanisation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1808:
As a result of the lobbying efforts by the abolitionist
movement (emblem pictured), the importation of slaves into the United
States was officially banned, although slavery itself was not yet
abolished.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves>
1914:
The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of
Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg%E2%80%93Tampa_Airboat_Line>
1957:
The revised Thai criminal code came into force, strengthening
the law on lèse-majesté in Thailand to include insult and treating it
as a crime against national security.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand>
2019:
The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian
object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bright and early:
(idiomatic, originally US) (Very) early in the morning.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bright_and_early>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to
nuclear war.
--Leonid Brezhnev
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev>