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>
SMS Friedrich Carl was an armored cruiser of the Imperial German Navy.
A member of the Prinz Adalbert class, the ship was intended to act as a
scout for the fleet's battleships and to patrol the German colonial
empire. The Prinz Adalbert class was based on the earlier armored
cruiser Prinz Heinrich, but with improved armament and armor. Built in
the early 1900s, Friedrich Carl served in the German fleet from 1904 to
1909, which included a period as flagship of the reconnaissance squadron
and a cruise to the Mediterranean Sea. The ship was then used as a
torpedo test vessel from 1909 until the start of World War I in
July 1914. Friedrich Carl was assigned to the Cruiser Division of the
Baltic Sea, serving as its flagship. On 17 November 1914, the ship
struck a Russian naval mine off Memel and sank, though only seven or
eight men were killed in the sinking. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Armored cruisers of Germany.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Armored_cruisers_of…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1894:
H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, was
arrested in Boston after killing at least nine people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes>
1968:
NBC controversially cut away from an American football game
between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi,
causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic
ending.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game>
1989:
Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres,
beginning the Disney Renaissance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid_%281989_film%29>
2009:
Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic
Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and
thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stagflation:
(economics) Prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth,
often with recession and high unemployment.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stagflation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved
through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents
the 1% of your work which results only from the 99% that is called
failure.
--Soichiro Honda
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Soichiro_Honda>
Atrociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived during the
Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada. The first specimen was
discovered in 1995 by the fossil collector Wayne Marshall in the
Horseshoe Canyon Formation. In 2004, this became the holotype of the new
genus and species Atrociraptor marshalli; the generic name is Latin for
'savage robber'. It is estimated to have measured 1.8 to 2 m (5.9 to
6.6 ft) in length and weighed 15 kg (33 lb). It would have had a
large sickle-claw on the second toe and pennaceous feathers.
Atrociraptor has a deeper face and more strongly backwards-inclined
teeth than its contemporary relatives. It is thought to have been
specialised for attacking larger prey due to its deep snout. Studies
suggest dromaeosaurids used their sickle-claws to restrain prey while
dismembering them with the mouth. Atrociraptor dates from around 72.2 to
71.5 million years ago; it survived for more than 2 million years and
across a wide geographic area.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrociraptor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1532:
Spanish conquest of Peru: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro
orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, capturing the Inca emperor,
Atahualpa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca>
1914:
World War I: Austro-Hungarian forces launched an assault
against Serbian defensive positions at the Kolubara river, beginning the
Battle of Kolubara.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kolubara>
1944:
World War II: Operation Queen commenced with one of the
heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets
in the Rur valley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Queen>
1959:
The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based
on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
twinge:
1. (intransitive)
2. To have a sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the
body, like a twitch.
3. (obsolete except UK, dialectal) To pull and twist.
4. (transitive, obsolete)
5. (except UK, dialectal) To pull and twist (someone or something); to
pinch, to tweak, to twitch, to wring.
6. To affect or torment (someone, their mind, or part of their body)
with one or more sudden, pinching or sharp pains; to irritate.
7. (figurative) To prick or stimulate (one's conscience).
8. A sudden, pinching or sharp pain in a specific part of the body,
especially one lasting for a short time.
9. (rare, also figurative) A turn, a twist.
10. (figurative)
11. A sudden, sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of
guilt or sadness; a pang, a paroxysm, a throe; also, a prick of the
conscience.
12. A sudden, sharp occurrence of something; a nip.
13. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of earwig (“insect of the order Dermaptera”)
14. (obsolete) An act of pulling and twisting; a pinch, a tweak, a
twitch.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twinge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical,
stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are
malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth. We say
to the confused, Know thyself, as if knowing yourself was not the fifth
and most difficult of human arithmetical operations, we say to the
apathetic, Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as if the brute
realities of the world did not amuse themselves each day by turning that
phrase on its head, we say to the indecisive, Begin at the beginning, as
if that beginning were the clearly visible point of a loosely wound
thread and that all we had to do was to keep pulling until we reached
the other end, and as if, between the former and the latter, we had held
in our hands a smooth, continuous thread with no knots to untie, no
snarled to untangle, a complete impossibility in the life of a skien, or
indeed, if we may be permitted on more stock phrase, in the skien of
life. … These are the delusions of the pure and unprepared, the
beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is
a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order
to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its
way along the path ahead like a blind man, the beginning is just the
beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.
--José Saramago
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago>
The Walden–Wallkill Rail Trail, also known as the Jesse McHugh Rail
Trail, is a 3.22-mile (5.18 km) rail trail between the village of Walden
and the hamlet of Wallkill. The two communities are located in Orange
County and Ulster County, respectively, in upstate New York. The trail
is part of the former Wallkill Valley Railroad's rail corridor. The
railway was the first to operate in Ulster County. Passenger service
ended in 1937; the opening of the New York State Thruway and decreased
freight traffic caused the line to close in 1957. The land was purchased
by the towns of Montgomery and Shawangunk in 1985 and converted to a
public trail. The portion of the trail in Shawangunk was formally opened
in 1993 and named after former town supervisor Jesse McHugh. After seven
years of discussion, the route was paved between 2008 and 2009. The
trail includes an unofficial, unimproved section to the north of
Wallkill, and is bounded by NY 52 and NY 208.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden%E2%80%93Wallkill_Rail_Trail>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1859:
Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first
modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappas_Olympics>
1889:
Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by
Deodoro da Fonseca, while the country was proclaimed a republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_and_fall_of_Pedro_II_of_Brazil>
1922:
During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and
military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Guayaquil_general_strike>
1959:
Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas; the events became
the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a
pioneering work of the true crime genre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Cold_Blood>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pervious:
1. Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or
substance, such as air or water; admitting passage; permeable.
2. (figurative)
3. Capable of being seen through; open to being examined; patent,
unconcealed.
4. Capable of being penetrated mentally; intelligible, understandable.
5. Of a person, etc.: susceptible to being influenced by arguments,
ideas, etc.; impressionable, tractable.
6. (obsolete)
7. Capable of penetrating or permeating.
8. (botany, zoology) Of a body structure (especially the nostril of a
bird): having a hole, perforate; also, wide open.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pervious>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things
and not only their manifestations.
--Daniel Barenboim
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Barenboim>
Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown
Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several
locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue.
Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New
York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker, novelists, and
cartoonists, including the author Ernest Hemingway, the cartoonist James
Thurber, the journalist John McNulty, the poet Brendan Behan, the short-
story writer John O'Hara, and the writers Maeve Brennan and A. J.
Liebling. The bar is also known for having been home to a wall where
Thurber drew a cartoon depiction of the "Battle of the Sexes" at some
point between 1934 and 1935; the cartoon was destroyed, illustrated
again, and then lost in the 1990s. A wall illustrated in 1976 by several
cartoonists, including Bill Gallo, Stan Lee, Mort Walker, Al Jaffee,
Sergio Aragonés, and Dik Browne, is still on display at the bar's final
location.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costello%27s>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1969:
Apollo 12 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the
second crewed flight to land on the Moon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12>
1990:
Music producer Frank Farian admitted that the German R&B; duo
Milli Vanilli did not sing the vocals on their album Girl You Know It's
True.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli>
1992:
In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines
Flight 474 crashed near Nha Trang, killing 30 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Forrest>
2003:
Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L.
Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_%28dwarf_planet%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mind's ear:
(idiomatic) The mental faculty or inner sense with which one produces or
reproduces imagined or recalled sounds solely within the mind; the
supposed organ within the mind which experiences such sounds.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mind%27s_ear>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of
portraits to the wall.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru>