The January 1908 Irish representative peer election was held to fill a
vacancy among the 28 Irish representative peers at the time elected for
life to the British House of Lords, with ballots sent by post to the 134
Irish peers eligible to vote. The winner was Lord Curzon (pictured), the
former viceroy of India, who had never been to Ireland and owned no
Irish lands. A former MP, he ran to return to parliament after being
denied an earldom by the prime minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
As he had not asked the House of Lords to affirm his right to vote in
Irish representative peer elections, as required to vote in them, some
stated that Curzon was ineligible for election. Despite a late start and
opposition to him as non-Irish, Curzon led with two votes more than Lord
Ashtown, who had two more than Lord Farnham, but the official return
noted Curzon was not among those who could vote. When the House of Lords
convened, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Loreburn, declared Curzon the
winner.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1908_Irish_representative_peer_electi…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1934:
Flying Scotsman became the first steam locomotive officially to
exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A3_4472_Flying_Scotsman>
1953:
Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and
exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaka_crisis>
1954:
A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and
hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured
by an extraterrestrial object.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_%28meteorite%29>
1999:
A series of protests by anti-globalization activists against
the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle
forced the cancellation of the opening ceremonies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
usquebaugh:
(chiefly Ireland, Scotland, dated or archaic) Whiskey or whisky.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/usquebaugh>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a
man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what
excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending
it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands
allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his
truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic,
besides?
--Mark Twain
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain>
The Suicidal Tour took place when Brazilian professional football club
Santa Cruz Futebol Clube toured the North Region of Brazil from
2 January to 29 April 1943. Over almost four months, they played
either 26 or 28 friendly matches in six cities. The tour gained its name
due to the misfortunes endured by the club. Looking to recover from a
financial crisis, Santa Cruz arranged five matches in Belém, Pará.
Traveling up the Amazon River for another round of matches, they first
started experiencing problems in Manaus, where two players left to play
for other clubs and seven members of the team's delegation caught
dysentery. Two players went on to contract typhoid fever and died.
Unable to return home through the sea, and needing to cover growing
costs, Santa Cruz had to return to Recife by land, playing matches along
the way to earn money. The return had further problems, including a fake
arrest warrant for a player, a trip alongside thieves, and two train
derailments.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_Tour>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1810:
Napoleonic Wars: British troops rendezvoused at Grand Baie to
launch an invasion of Isle de France, now known as Mauritius.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Isle_de_France>
1924:
The Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead
the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in the eastern US for three
years in a row.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_County_Bird_Club>
1963:
Five minutes after taking off from Montréal–Dorval, Trans-
Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed in bad weather, killing all 118
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831>
1972:
Atari announced the release of Pong (screenshot pictured), one
of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the
arcade and home-console markets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong>
2012:
In resolution 67/19, the United Nations General Assembly voted
to accord the status of a non-member observer state to Palestine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_67…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shopdropping:
(often art) The covert placing of items in retail stores as a form of
advertising, countercultural performance art, protest, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shopdropping>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof
that you were not.
--Prince Caspian
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia#Prince_Caspian_%2819…>
Susanna Lee Hoffs (born 1959) is an American singer-songwriter. With
Debbi Peterson and Vicki Peterson, she founded the Bangles in 1981.
Their second album, Different Light (1986), was warmly received by
critics and was certified triple-platinum in 1994. The group's third
album, Everything (1988), included the US-top-ten-charting "In Your
Room" and number-one "Eternal Flame", both written by Hoffs with Billy
Steinberg and Tom Kelly. Following tensions including resentment at
Hoffs's perceived leadership of the band and the stress of touring, the
band split in 1989, reforming in 1999. Hoffs's first solo album, When
You're a Boy (1991), was followed by Susanna Hoffs (1996). Neither of
the releases proved to be as popular as the Bangles's albums, although
they yielded two US-charting singles. Her most recent solo album is The
Deep End (2023), and her first novel, This Bird Has Flown, a romantic
comedy about a struggling musician, was published in the same year.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Hoffs>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1856:
William III unilaterally revised the constitution of
Luxembourg, greatly expanding his powers as grand duke.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_coup_of_1856>
1963:
President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the "Let Us Continue"
speech, in which he advocated for civil-rights legislation and national
cohesion, to a joint session of the U.S. Congress five days after the
assassination of John F. Kennedy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Us_Continue>
2009:
Lady Gaga performed the first concert of The Monster Ball Tour,
which became the highest-grossing tour in history for a debut headlining
artist.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_Ball_Tour>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
snifter:
1. (chiefly Northern England, Scotland) A sniff.
2. (figurative)
3. (chiefly Northern England, Scotland) A strong or severe wind.
4. (originally and chiefly US) A small, wide, pear-shaped glass used for
drinking aromatic liquors such as bourbon and brandy.
5. (originally US, informal) Synonym of nip (“a small amount of an
alcoholic beverage, especially one equivalent to what a snifter (sense
2.2) might hold”)
6. (US, slang) Synonym of cocaine addict; a sniffer.
7. (US, slang) A small amount of cocaine taken by inhaling through the
nose.
8. (US, slang) A handheld device used to detect signals from radio
transmitters; a sniffer.
9. (intransitive) To sniff; also, to snivel or snuffle.
10. (transitive, archaic, rare) Followed by out: to speak (words) in a
nasal, snuffling manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snifter>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
--Bruce Lee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee>
Heptamegacanthus is a genus of acanthocephalans (thorny- or spiny-headed
parasitic worms) containing a single species, Heptamegacanthus niekerki.
This worm is a parasite of the endangered giant golden mole (example
pictured) found only in isolated forests near East London and in the
Transkei, both in South Africa. The worms are about 4 millimetres
(0.2 in) long and 2 millimetres (0.08 in) wide with minimal sexual
dimorphism. Their body consists of a short trunk and a proboscis with 40
to 45 hooks arranged in rings, which are used to pierce and hold the
rectal wall of its host. The life cycle of H. niekerki remains unknown;
however, like other acanthocephalans, it likely involves complex
interactions with at least two hosts. Although the intermediate host for
Heptamegacanthus is not definitively identified, it is presumed to be an
arthropod, such as an insect, which is eaten by the giant golden mole.
The worms then mature and reproduce sexually within the mole's lower
gastrointestinal tract, creating eggs which are released in its feces.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptamegacanthus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by
Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male
institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame>
1942:
World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans
convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National
Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Fascist_Council_for_the_National_Liberat…>
1977:
A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association"
interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption>
2014:
The European Space Agency's probe Philae landed on the comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_%28spacecraft%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
arent:
(obsolete, rare) Drying out, parching, withering.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arent>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by
God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him
and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. I don’t share
this heresy. I’m too afraid! But I put it in a play called This
Extraordinary Brothel, in which the protagonist doesn’t talk at all.
There is a revolution, everybody kills everybody else, and he doesn’t
understand. But at the very end, he speaks for the first time. He points
his finger towards the sky and shakes it at God, saying, “You rogue!
You little rogue!” and he bursts out laughing. He understands that the
world is an enormous farce, a canular played by God against man, and
that he has to play God’s game and laugh about it.
--Eugène Ionesco
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco>
Sydney Newman (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian
film and television producer who played a pioneering role in British
television and Canadian cinema. During the 1950s and 60s, he held the
role of Head of Drama at ABC Weekend TV and later at the BBC. During
this time, he created the spy-fi series The Avengers and co-created the
science-fiction series Doctor Who. After his return to Canada in 1970,
Newman was appointed acting director of the Broadcast Programs Branch
for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and
then head of the National Film Board of Canada. He also occupied senior
positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, as well as acting as an advisor to the
Secretary of State. His obituary in The Guardian declared that "for ten
brief but glorious years, [he] ... was the most important impresario in
Britain", and that his death marked the "laying to rest of a whole
philosophy of popular art".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Newman>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1924:
The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble stating
that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky
Way, is in fact another galaxy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble>
2003:
Rose Revolution: Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as President of
Georgia following weeks of mass protests over disputed election results.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Shevardnadze>
2009:
A crowd of people on their way to register Esmael Mangudadatu's
candidacy for governor of Maguindanao, Philippines, were kidnapped and
killed by supporters of his rival, resulting in 58 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao_massacre>
2011:
Arab Spring: After months of protests in Yemen, President Ali
Abdullah Saleh agreed to transfer power to Vice President Abdrabbuh
Mansur Hadi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdrabbuh_Mansur_Hadi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rachitic:
1. (pathology) Of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets (“a disorder
of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing
soft or weak bones”).
2. (figurative) In a precarious or weak condition; likely to break down
or collapse; feeble, rickety.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rachitic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some
useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
--Alfonso X of Castile
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfonso_X_of_Castile>
In historical linguistics, Weise's law describes the loss of palatal
quality some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-
European language. In short, when the consonants represented by *ḱ *ǵ
*ǵʰ, called palatovelar consonants, are followed by *r, they lose
their palatal quality, leading to a loss in distinction between them and
the plain velar consonants *k *g *gʰ. Some exceptions exist, such as
when the *r is followed by *i or when the palatal form is restored by
analogy with related words. Although this sound change is most prominent
in the satem languages, it is believed that the change must have
occurred prior to the centum–satem division, based on an earlier sound
change which affected the distribution of Proto-Indo-European *u and *r.
The law is named after the German linguist Oskar Weise (epitaph
pictured), who first postulated it in 1881 as the solution to
reconciling cognates in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weise%27s_law>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1635:
Dutch colonial forces on Formosa launched a three-month
pacification campaign against Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_pacification_campaign_on_Formosa>
1963:
John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in
Dallas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th
president of the United States (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson>
1971:
In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five teenage
students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the
Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorm_Plateau_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deontology:
1. Synonym of ethics (“the study of principles relating to right and
wrong conduct”)
2. (specifically) The normative ethical theory that the morality of an
action should be based on whether the action follows certain obligations
or rules, rather than on either its inherent goodness or its
consequences.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deontology>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind
becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous;
the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of
stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand
too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the
mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.
--André Gide
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide>
MLS Cup 1999 was the fourth edition of the MLS Cup, the championship
match of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level soccer league of the
United States. It took place on November 21, 1999, at Foxboro Stadium
(pictured) in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and was contested by D.C.
United and the Los Angeles Galaxy in a rematch of the inaugural 1996
final played at the same venue. Both teams finished atop their
respective conferences during the regular season under new head coaches
and advanced through the first two rounds of the playoffs. D.C. United
won 2–0 with first-half goals from Jaime Moreno and Ben Olsen for
their third MLS Cup victory in four years; Olsen was named the most
valuable player of the match for his winning goal. The final was played
in front of 44,910 spectators – a record for the MLS Cup – and
drew 1.16 million viewers on its ABC television broadcast. It was also
the first MLS match to be played with a standard game clock and without
a tiebreaker shootout.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS_Cup_1999>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1959:
American disc jockey Alan Freed, who popularized the term rock
and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Freed>
1964:
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and
Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension
bridge in the world at the time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazzano-Narrows_Bridge>
1974:
Bombs exploded in two pubs in central Birmingham, England,
killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment of six people who were
later exonerated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_pub_bombings>
2009:
An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108
miners.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Heilongjiang_mine_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wharfinger:
1. (nautical, chiefly historical) The manager or owner of a wharf
(“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).
2. (by extension, England, rail transport) The manager of a wharf along
a railway line, that is, a place used for loading and unloading goods on
to trains.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wharfinger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on
this little globe of ours.
--Voltaire
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire>
The first Arab siege of Constantinople in 674–678 was a major conflict
of the Arab–Byzantine wars, and the first culmination of the Umayyad
Caliphate's expansionist strategy towards the Byzantine Empire. In
672–673 Arab fleets secured bases along the coasts of Asia Minor, and
set up a loose blockade around Constantinople. They used the peninsula
of Cyzicus near the city as a base to spend the winter, and returned
every spring to launch attacks against the city's fortifications.
Finally the Byzantines managed to destroy the Arab navy using a new
invention, the liquid incendiary substance known as Greek fire
(pictured). The Byzantines also defeated the Arab land army in Asia
Minor, forcing them to lift the siege. A peace treaty was signed, and
following the outbreak of another Muslim civil war, the Byzantines
experienced a brief period of ascendancy. The siege was the first major
Arab defeat in 50 years of expansion. Tales of a large-scale siege of
Constantinople even reached China.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_%28674%E2%80%93678%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1739:
War of Jenkins' Ear: A British naval force arrived at the
settlement of Portobello in the Spanish Main, capturing it the next day.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Porto_Bello_%281739%29>
1969:
A group of Native American activists began a 19-month
occupation (graffiti pictured) of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Alcatraz>
1979:
Armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in
Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied
redeemer of Islam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure>
1994:
In accordance with the Lusaka Protocol, the Angolan government
signed a ceasefire with UNITA rebels in a failed attempt to end the
Angolan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusaka_Protocol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
arctophile:
Someone who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arctophile>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is a Chinese curse which says, "May he live in interesting
times.” Like it or not we live in interesting times. They are times of
danger and uncertainty; but they are also more open to the creative
energy of men than any other time in history. And everyone here will
ultimately be judged — will ultimately judge himself — on the effort
he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to
which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.
--Robert F. Kennedy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy>
Edith Roosevelt (1861–1948; née Carow) was the second wife of
President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady of the United States
from 1901 to 1909. She grew up alongside the Roosevelt family, and
married Theodore Roosevelt in 1886, having five children. She became a
public figure when her husband became a war hero in the
Spanish–American War and was elected governor of New York. Theodore
became vice president in March 1901, and president after the
assassination of William McKinley in September. Edith controlled when
and how the press reported on the Roosevelts, and regulated Washington
social life, organizing weekly meetings of the cabinet members' wives,
and becoming the gatekeeper of who could attend formal events. Her
oversight of the 1902 White House renovations and her hiring the first
social secretary for a first lady, Belle Hagner, are considered enduring
legacies. She remained politically active, despite poor health from the
1910s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Roosevelt>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1824:
Temenggong Abdul Rahman of Johor and Sultan Hussein Shah of
Johor ceded the governance of Singapore to the British East India
Company.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Singapore>
1969:
Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9>
1991:
Mexican singer Luis Miguel released the album Romance, which
led to a revival of interest in bolero music.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_%28Luis_Miguel_album%29>
2002:
The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in two and sank off the
coast of Galicia after spilling 420 thousand barrels (17.8 million US
gallons) of oil, in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and
Portuguese history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jack of all trades:
(idiomatic) One competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not
excelling in any of them.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jack_of_all_trades>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in
the streets?
--Dick Cavett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dick_Cavett>
Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and
published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It
follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they set
out to recover their stolen banana hoard from the crocodile King K. Rool
and his army, the Kremlings. Nintendo commissioned Rare to revive the
dormant Donkey Kong franchise as it sought a game to compete with Sega's
Aladdin (1993). Donkey Kong Country was one of the first home-console
games to feature pre-rendered graphics, achieved through a compression
technique that converted 3D models into sprites with little loss of
detail. It was released on 18 November 1994 to acclaim. Critics hailed
its visuals as groundbreaking and praised its gameplay and music; it is
frequently listed as one of the greatest games of all time. Donkey Kong
Country re-established Donkey Kong as a popular Nintendo franchise and
was followed by sequels and ports for subsequent Nintendo consoles.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_Country>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1956:
At the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys,
prompting them to leave the room.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you>
1999:
Texas A&M; University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (aftermath
pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the
university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual
event.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Aggie_Bonfire_collapse>
2014:
Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a
synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight
deaths, including the attackers themselves.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Jerusalem_synagogue_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tempestuous:
1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; also, of a place:
frequently experiencing tempests; (very) stormy.
2. (figurative) Characterized by disorderly, frenetic, or violent
activity; stormy, tumultuous, turbulent; also, of a person, their
behaviour or nature, etc.: characterized by bouts of bad temper or
sudden changes of mood; impetuous, stormy, temperamental.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tempestuous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
While we labour to subdue our passions, we should take care not
to extinguish them. Subduing our passions, is disengaging ourselves from
the world; to which however, Whilst we reside in it, we must always bear
relation; and we may detach ourselves to such a degree as to pass an
useless and insipid life, which we were not meant to do. Our existence
here is at least one part of a system. A man has generally the good or
ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
--William Shenstone
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shenstone>