Nihonium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Nh and atomic
number 113. It is extremely radioactive; its most stable known isotope,
nihonium-286, has a half-life of about 10 seconds. In the periodic
table, nihonium is a transactinide element at the intersection of
period 7 and group 13. Its creation was reported in 2003 by a
Russian–American collaboration at the Joint Institute for Nuclear
Research in Dubna, Russia, and in 2004 by a team of Japanese scientists
at Riken in Wakō, Japan. The discoveries were confirmed by independent
teams working in the United States, Germany, Sweden, and China. In 2015
the element was officially recognised by the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working
Party; naming rights were assigned to Riken, as they were judged to have
been first to confirm their discovery. The name, approved in the same
year (announcement pictured), derives from a Japanese word for Japan,
Nihon. Few details are known about nihonium, as it has only been formed
in very small amounts that decay away within seconds.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the
Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as
many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway
accident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloeil_train_disaster>
1889:
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be
annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United
States and the second-largest by population.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Township,_Cook_County,_Illinois>
1927:
The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise
landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the
first transpacific flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_Paradise_%28aircraft%29>
1995:
Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the
Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle%E2%80%93Mir_program>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sengi:
1. An elephant shrew (family Macroscelididae).
2. (historical) A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one
hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued
only in ten sengi coins.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sengi>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is
still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his
entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone
who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the
American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for
his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much
is at stake in November.
--Barack Obama
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>
"Well he would, wouldn't he?" is an aphorism that is commonly used as a
retort to a self-interested denial. It was said by the model Mandy Rice-
Davies (pictured) while giving evidence at the 1963 trial of Stephen
Ward, who had been accused of living off money paid to Rice-Davies and
her friend Christine Keeler for sex: part of the larger Profumo affair.
While being cross-examined Rice-Davies was told that Lord Astor, who
owned the Cliveden estate on which Ward rented a cottage, had denied an
affair with her; she replied: "Well he would, wouldn't he?" Political,
communications and psychological experts have interpreted it as a phrase
which indicates the speaker believes a person is making a self-
interested, obvious or irrelevant denial. They have also stated it
functions as a retort to mistruths made by public figures.
Linguistically, it has been noted for its use of the modal verb would to
create rhetorical effect. The phrase has been included in The Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations since 1979.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_he_would,_wouldn%27t_he%3F>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant
ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North
Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norge>
1914:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of
Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav
nationalist, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip>
1969:
In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York
City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a
watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots>
1989:
President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech at Gazimestan in
which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of
Serbia's national development.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazimestan_speech>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bisexual lighting:
(LGBT, often art, film, television) The simultaneous use of pink,
purple, and blue lighting, often to indicate bisexuality.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bisexual_lighting>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose
breathes of love;O, the red rose is a falcon,And the white rose is a
dove.But I send you a cream-white rosebudWith a flush on its petal
tips,For the love that is purest and sweetestHas a kiss of desire on the
lips.
--John Boyle O'Reilly
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Boyle_O%27Reilly>
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English author who wrote 34 novels,
7 volumes of short stories and a daily journal of more than a million
words. He also wrote or co-wrote 13 plays, wrote articles and stories
for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran
the UK's Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for
the cinema in the 1920s. He was the most financially successful British
author of his day. Because his books appealed to a wide public rather
than to literary cliques and élites, and for his adherence to realism,
Virginia Woolf and other writers and supporters of the modernist school
belittled him, and his fiction became neglected after his death. Studies
of his writing since the 1970s have led to a re-evaluation of Bennett's
work, and his finest novels, including Anna of the Five Towns (1902),
The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910) and Riceyman Steps (1923),
are now widely recognised as major works.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bennett>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
A. E. J. Collins scored 628 runs not out, the highest
recorded score in cricket until being surpassed in 2016.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._J._Collins>
1954:
Jacobo Árbenz resigned as President of Guatemala following a
CIA-led coup against his administration.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1957:
Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana
border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron,
Louisiana, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Audrey>
2017:
Websites of Ukrainian organizations were swamped by a massive
cyberattack, blamed on Russian military hackers, using the malware
Petya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petya_%28malware_family%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
prior:
1. (Christianity) A high-ranking member of a religious house or
religious order.
2. In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as
his deputy; a prior claustral.
3. The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an
abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
4. The head friar of a house of friars.
5. The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly
Premonstratensian religious orders.
6. An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
7. (historical)
8. A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is
now Italy.
9. The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some
countries in Europe and South America.
10. (obsolete)
11. A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the
chief.
12. (business) The head of a company. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prior>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow
far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social.
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the
foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.
--Emma Goldman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman>
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a
person for various reasons, including punishment, extracting a
confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third
parties. Some definitions of torture are restricted to acts carried out
by the state, but others include non-state organizations. A variety of
methods of torture are used, including psychological methods to provide
deniability. Beating is the most common form of physical torture. Most
victims of torture are poor and marginalized people suspected of crimes,
although torture against political prisoners or during armed conflict
has received disproportionate attention. Torture is prohibited under
international law for all states under all circumstances and is
explicitly forbidden by several treaties. Opposition to torture
stimulated the formation of the human rights movement after World
War II, and torture continues to be an important human rights issue.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1844:
Julia Gardiner married President John Tyler at the Church of
the Ascension in New York, becoming the first lady of the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gardiner_Tyler>
1889:
Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central
African Republic, was founded in French Congo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangui>
1907:
Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others,
Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-
day Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery>
1997:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the
Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
distance:
1. (transitive)
2. Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance
(noun sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
3. To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative)
unfamiliar.
4. To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction;
specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to
outpace, to outstrip.
5. (figurative)
6. To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person
or people.
7. To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to
outstrip.
8. (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away from someone or something,
especially because one does not want to be associated with that person
or thing.
9. (chiefly US, horse racing, archaic) Of a racehorse: to beat (another
horse) by a certain distance; also (passive voice), to cause (a horse)
to be disqualified by beating it by a certain distance.
10. (obsolete)
11. To cover the entire distance to (something).
12. To depart from (a place); to leave (a place) behind.
13. To indicate or measure the distance to (a place).
14. To set (two or more things) at regular distances from each other; to
space, to space out.
15. (intransitive, reflexive) Often followed by from.
16. To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move
away from someone or something.
17. (figurative) To keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from
another person or people; to keep one's distance. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/distance>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be
self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious,
endlessly rich, infinitely desirable. At present, because he is in a
midway position between the brute and the truly human, he is always
getting bored, depressed, weary of life. He has become so top-heavy with
civilisation that he cannot contact the springs of pure vitality.
--Colin Wilson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson>
Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress. She began
her career at the age of five, making her onscreen debut in the sitcom
Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014). In 2017, she starred as a child prodigy
in the drama film Gifted, a breakthrough for which she received a
nomination for a Critics' Choice Movie Awards. Grace subsequently
appeared in the films I, Tonya (2017), Troop Zero (2019), and Captain
Marvel (2019). During this time, she appeared in several horror
projects, including The Bad Seed (2018), The Haunting of Hill House
(2018), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). For playing an abused teenager
in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), Grace was nominated for the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
She garnered further recognition for her appearances in the supernatural
comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen
Empire (2024), and portrayed Jan Broberg in the miniseries A Friend of
the Family (2022).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mckenna_Grace>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which
prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act>
1944:
World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded
Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of
Cherbourg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Cherbourg>
1950:
The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82
condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_82>
2009:
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of
drugs in his body.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Jackson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
plain sailing:
1. (nautical)
2. The navigation of waters free from hazards or unfavourable winds.
3. Obsolete spelling of plane sailing (“a technique for navigation using
the assumption that the journey occurs over a plane or flat surface
rather than the actual curved surface of the Earth, which is
sufficiently accurate over short distances”).
4. (figurative) Something that is easy, simple, or straightforward;
something that offers no difficulties or trouble.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plain_sailing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I
suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that
happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no
reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of
stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell,
especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back
to you, you're actually in the past.
--George Orwell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell>
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June 24: Etika
by English Wikipedia Article of the Day
24 Jun '24
24 Jun '24
Desmond Daniel Amofah (1990–2019), known as Etika, was an American
YouTuber and live streamer, known online for his enthusiastic reactions
to Super Smash Bros. character trailers and Nintendo Direct
presentations. The son of Ghanaian politician Owuraku Amofah, he resided
in Brooklyn. Starting his online career in 2007, Amofah created his main
YouTube channel, EWNetwork (Etika World Network), in 2012. He garnered
popularity following the release of Super Smash Bros. 4, primarily
stemming from his reaction videos of news surrounding the game.
Beginning in October 2018, Amofah showed signs of mental distress, and
was reported missing on June 20, 2019. Officials confirmed his death on
June 25, finding it to be a suicide by drowning. His death was met with
shock and grief by fans and fellow YouTubers, with many commenting that
Amofah's mental deterioration had been dismissed or ignored. Numerous
commemorations were held to honor Amofah, including fan-made memorials
and murals.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etika>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1717:
The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge
of England, was founded in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Grand_Lodge_of_England>
1724:
On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first
performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third
cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_unser_Herr_zum_Jordan_kam,_BWV_7>
1943:
Amid racial tensions, U.S. Army military police shot and killed
a black serviceman after a confrontation at a pub in Bamber Bridge,
England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge>
2010:
Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister
of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership
spill in the Labor Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cochineal:
1. (countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native
to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear
cacti (genus Opuntia).
2. (uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal
insects.
3. (uncountable) The vivid red colour of this dye. cochineal:
4. Possessing a vivid red colour, as or as if produced from dyeing with
cochineal dye (noun sense 2).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cochineal>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which
we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the
Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two
grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing
the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and
disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is
the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches
Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the
sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples
of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday,
the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one — the knowledge and
the dream.
--Ambrose Bierce
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce>
Cyclone Taylor (June 23, 1884 – June 9, 1979) was a Canadian
professional ice hockey player and civil servant. Born and raised in
Southern Ontario, Taylor moved to Houghton, Michigan, and played in the
International Hockey League for two years. He then joined the Ottawa
Senators, winning the Stanley Cup with the team in his second year.
While in Ottawa he began working as an immigration clerk. Two years
later he signed with the Renfrew Creamery Kings, becoming the highest-
paid athlete in the world on a per-game basis. He then played for the
Vancouver Millionaires until 1922, where he won five scoring
championships and his second Stanley Cup victory with the team. In 1914
Taylor was the first Canadian official to board the Komagata Maru, a
major incident relating to Canadian immigration. In 1946 he was named a
member of the Order of the British Empire for his services as an
immigration officer and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Taylor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1894:
Led by French historian Pierre de Coubertin, an international
congress at the Sorbonne in Paris formed the International Olympic
Committee to revive the ancient Olympic Games.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin>
1944:
The Holocaust: After a closely supervised visit to
Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Red Cross
official Maurice Rossel reported that conditions there were "almost
normal".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rossel>
2014:
Under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 2118, the
last of Syria's declared chemical weapons were shipped out for
destruction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wigglesome:
(informal) Characterized or marked by wiggling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wigglesome>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I go forth to seek — To seek and claim the lovely magic garden
Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.
--Anna Akhmatova
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anna_Akhmatova>
Capri-Sun is a brand of juice concentrate–based drinks manufactured
by the German company Wild and regional licensees. Rudolf Wild invented
the drink in 1969 and introduced it in West Germany as Capri-Sonne. It
is now sold in more than 100 countries, with licensees including Kraft
Foods in the United States and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners in parts
of Europe. It is one of the most popular juice brands in the world, with
orange its best-known flavor. As of 2023, roughly 6 billion pouches are
sold per year globally, packaged in laminated foil vacuum Doy-N-Pack
pouches, with which the brand has become strongly associated. Capri-
Sun's main products are high in sugar, although lower than many
competitors. Marketing to children and use of the term "all-natural"
have led to conflict in several countries. It is one of the most
favorably rated brands among Generation Z Americans; in France, it
figures prominently in rap music.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capri-Sun>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1911:
King George V and Queen Mary (both pictured) were crowned at
Westminster Abbey in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck>
1941:
World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the
Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to
liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Uprising_in_Lithuania>
1979:
Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted
of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a
relationship with him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair>
2002:
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northwestern Iran, killing at
least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others; the official response,
perceived to be slow, later caused widespread public anger.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bou%27in-Zahra_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
heft:
1. (uncountable)
2. The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
3. (dated except UK, dialectal and US) The force exerted by an object
due to gravitation; weight.
4. (figurative) Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
5. (figurative) Importance, influence; weight.
6. (US, informal, dated) The greater part of something; the bulk, the
mass.
7. (countable)
8. (UK, dialectal) An act of lifting; a lift.
9. (obsolete) An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance
of violent exertion or straining. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heft>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I’m really hoping that in some movie I’m doing, I die — but
I die, me, Donald — and they’re able to use my funeral and the
coffin … That would be absolutely ideal. I would love that.
--Donald Sutherland
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Sutherland>
The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus
Giraffa. It is known for its extremely long neck and legs, its horn-like
ossicones, and its spotted coat patterns. Traditionally, giraffes have
been thought of as one species, but more recent evidence has proposed
dividing them into multiple species. Giraffes usually inhabit savannahs
and woodlands. Their food source is leaves, fruits, and flowers of woody
plants, primarily acacia species, which they browse at heights most
other herbivores cannot reach. Giraffes live in herds of related females
and their offspring or bachelor herds of unrelated adult males, but are
gregarious and may gather in large aggregations. Females bear sole
responsibility for rearing the young. Giraffes have been featured in
paintings, books, and cartoons. Giraffes are assessed as vulnerable to
extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They
are found in numerous national parks and game reserves.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1848:
In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and
Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government in present-day
Romania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848>
1898:
In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the
United States captured Guam from Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Guam>
1919:
During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the
Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with
clubs and revolvers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_general_strike>
1948:
The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first
stored-program computer, ran its first program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
face the music:
(idiomatic) To accept or confront the unpleasant consequences of one's
actions.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/face_the_music>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I wasn't the best hitter, Ted Williams was. I wasn't the best
fielder, Roberto Clemente was. I wasn't the best base stealer, Maury
Wills was. But I was among the best in everything.
--Willie Mays
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willie_Mays>
Hiyō (Flying Hawk) was the name ship of her class of two aircraft
carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Begun as the ocean liner Izumo
Maru in 1939, she was purchased by the Navy Ministry in 1941 for
conversion to an aircraft carrier. Completed shortly after the Battle of
Midway in June 1942, she participated in the Guadalcanal campaign, but
missed the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October because of an
electrical generator fire. The carrier's aircraft were disembarked
several times and used from land bases in battles in the South West
Pacific. Hiyō was torpedoed in mid-1943 and spent three months under
repair. She spent most of the next six months training and ferrying
aircraft before returning to combat. She was sunk by a gasoline-vapour
explosion caused by an American torpedo hit during the Battle of the
Philippine Sea on 20 June 1944 with the loss of 247 officers and
ratings, about a fifth of her complement. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Hiyō class aircraft carrier.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Hiy%C5%8D_class_air…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1921:
British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by
the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanton_Lambert>
1959:
The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the
Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, causing 22 fishing boats to capsize and
killing 35 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Escuminac_disaster>
1979:
Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by
Nicaraguan Guardia forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stewart_%28journalist%29>
1982:
The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the
first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish
attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the
Armenian genocide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_on_the_Holocaust_and…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
take French leave:
1. To leave quietly and unnoticed, without asking for permission or
informing anyone; to slip out.
2. (specifically, chiefly military, euphemistic) To desert or be
temporarily absent from duty or service without permission; to go absent
without leave or AWOL.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_French_leave>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
June with her glancing grasses, June with a smiling
sky,June, brown as the country lasses Or wings of the dragon-fly!The
mown hay lies like sedges Or weed of the seashore strewn;Abrim with
corn to the hedges The fields are filled in June.
--Walter Headlam
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Headlam>