Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American
novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical,
understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century
writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and
outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were
published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s; these included seven
novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His debut
novel The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926. His wartime experiences
as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I formed the
basis for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms, and he drew on his
experience as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War for his 1940 novel
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway was with Allied troops as a
journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. He was
awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1378:
Unrepresented labourers revolted and violently took over the
government of the Republic of Florence (depicted), demanding that they
be granted political office.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciompi_Revolt>
1946:
After weeks of unrest, rioters lynched Bolivian president
Gualberto Villarroel, desecrating and hanging his corpse in the streets
of La Paz.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_La_Paz_riots>
1959:
The inaugural International Mathematical Olympiad, the leading
mathematical competition for pre-university students, began in Romania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad>
1977:
Libyan forces carried out a raid at Sallum, sparking a four-day
war with Egypt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Libyan_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
man in the moon:
1. An image of a man perceived in the dark maria (plains or "seas") and
light highlands or other features of the Moon, originally regarded as a
man with a burden on his back or accompanied by a small dog, and now
more commonly as a man's face in the full moon or his profile in a
crescent moon; hence, an imaginary man thought to be living on the Moon.
2. (obsolete, figurative) An imaginary person; also (UK politics,
slang), an unidentified person who illegally pays for election
expenditure and electors' expenses, as long as the latter vote as the
person wishes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man_in_the_moon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very
abrasive situations.
--Marshall McLuhan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan>
The Alpine ibex (Capra ibex), also known as the steinbock, is a species
of goat that lives in the Alps of Europe. Its closest living relative is
the Iberian ibex. They have brownish-grey coats and sharp hooves adapted
to steep, rough terrain. Found at elevations as high as 3,300 metres
(10,800 ft), they are active throughout the year, primarily feeding on
grass in open alpine meadows. Adult males, which are larger than the
females, segregate from them for most of the year, coming together only
during the breeding season, when they fight for access to the females
using their long horns. The Alpine ibex has been successfully
reintroduced to parts of its historical range, but all individuals
living today descend from a population bottleneck of fewer than 100
individuals from Gran Paradiso National Park in Italy. The species has
few predators and is not threatened, but it has very low genetic
diversity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_ibex>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
The United States Congress established the Indian Peace
Commission to seek peace treaties with a number of Native American
tribes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Peace_Commission>
1917:
Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić and Yugoslav Committee
president Ante Trumbić signed the Corfu Declaration, agreeing to seek
the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfu_Declaration>
1969:
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of
Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men
to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later (bootprint pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
oosphere:
(botany, mycology) A large nonmotile egg cell, especially of an alga or
fungus, formed in an oogonium and ready for fertilization.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oosphere>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the
same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an
understanding of them at all.
--Cormac McCarthy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy>
John D. Whitney (July 19, 1850 – November 27, 1917) was an American
Catholic priest who was the president of Georgetown University from 1898
to 1901. Born in Massachusetts, he joined the United States Navy at the
age of sixteen. He became a Jesuit in 1872 and spent the next twenty-
five years studying and teaching mathematics at Jesuit institutions in
Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States. He became the vice
president of Spring Hill College in Alabama before becoming the
president of Georgetown. He oversaw the completion of Gaston Hall, the
construction of the entrances to Healy Hall, and the establishment of
Georgetown University Hospital and what would become the School of
Dentistry. Afterwards, Whitney became the treasurer of Boston College
and then engaged in pastoral work in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and
Baltimore, where he became the prefect of St. Ignatius Church.
(This article is part of a featured topic: Presidents of Georgetown
University.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Presidents_of_Georg…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1545:
The English warship Mary Rose sank outside Portsmouth during
the Battle of the Solent; it was raised from the seabed in 1982
(remnants pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose>
1916:
First World War: The "worst 24 hours in Australia's entire
history" occurred when Australian forces unsuccessfully attacked German
defences at Fromelles, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_at_Fromelles>
1957:
The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert
Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ordeal_of_Gilbert_Pinfold>
2014:
Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan
Desert near Farafra, killing 22 soldiers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Farafra_ambush>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
intensive:
1. Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
2. Being made more intense.
3. Making something more intense; intensifying.
4. (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity
of an area of land.
5. (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
6. Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly
concentrated.
7. Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather
than outward extent.
8. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring
a great amount of something; demanding.
9. (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving
a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in
order to manage life-threatening conditions.
10. (obsolete)
11. That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
12. Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of
feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”)
13. A thing which makes something more intense; specifically
(linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense
than the root on which it is built.
14. (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in
a short period of time.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intensive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Humor is a very, very important part of our life. It's not just
laughing at a joke, it's an attitude toward life. And as the world gets
crazier, it's more important to laugh at it. It's a survival technique.
--Bob Newhart
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Newhart>
John Glenn (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States
Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, and politician. Before joining NASA,
Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, the Chinese
Civil War and the Korean War. In 1957, he made the first supersonic
transcontinental flight across the United States. He was one of the
Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the
nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the
Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth,
and the fifth person and third American in space. After retiring from
NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic U.S. senator from
Ohio. In 1998, Glenn flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95,
making him the oldest person to enter Earth orbit and the only person to
fly in both Project Mercury and the Space Shuttle program. He received
the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, was crowned (depicted)
at the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_II_of_Brazil>
1949:
Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed
forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of President Juan José
Arévalo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Javier_Arana>
1984:
A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at a
McDonald's restaurant in the district of San Ysidro of San Diego,
California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre>
2019:
An arson attack at the studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan led
to the deaths of 36 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carrion:
1. (uncountable)
2. Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.
3. (figurative) Corrupt or horrid matter.
4. (obsolete, figurative) Filth, garbage.
5. (obsolete, figurative, derogatory) The flesh of a living human body;
also (Christianity), sinful human nature.
6. (countable, obsolete)
7. A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.
8. (figurative) An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also,
an animal which is a pest or vermin.
9. (figurative, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
10. (chiefly derogatory) Pertaining to, or made up of, rotting flesh.
11. (figurative)
12. Disgusting, horrid, rotten.
13. (derogatory) Of the living human body, the soul, etc.: fleshly,
mortal, sinful.
14. (obsolete)
15. Very thin; emaciated, skeletonlike. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrawny
16. Of or pertaining to death.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carrion>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily
out of favour during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the acid era — but
nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of
hangover; a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in
anything.
--Hunter S. Thompson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson>
Cora Agnes Benneson (1851–1919) was an American attorney, lecturer,
and writer. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earning a
Bachelor of Arts in 1878, a Bachelor of Laws in 1880, and a Master of
Arts in 1883, and was licensed to practice law in Illinois and Michigan.
>From 1883 to 1885, she traveled the world to learn about legal cultures
and how they affected women. When she returned to the United States, she
undertook a nationwide lecture tour to speak about her travels and
observations. In 1886 Benneson briefly worked as an editor of West
Publishing's law reports before taking up a history fellowship at Bryn
Mawr College under then-professor Woodrow Wilson. In 1888 she moved to
Boston, where she continued to write and lecture. She was licensed in
Massachusetts in 1894 and opened a law practice. She was made a fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1899 and
elected secretary of its Social and Economic Science Section in 1900.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Agnes_Benneson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British
member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_garrotting_panics>
1918:
Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II and his family were
murdered by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Romanov_family>
1944:
Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at
the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and
injuring more than 400 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster>
2014:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern
Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
on a mission:
Actively and determinedly engaged on a task. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_a_mission>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.
--Martin Farquhar Tupper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Farquhar_Tupper>
The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in
Benton County in the US state of Washington, established in early 1943
as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Plutonium
manufactured at the HEW was used in the atomic bomb detonated in the
Trinity test on 16 July 1945, and the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing
of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. DuPont was the prime contractor for its
design, construction and operation. The land acquisition was one of the
largest in US history. The construction workforce reached a peak of
nearly 45,000 in June 1944. B Reactor, the world's first full-scale
plutonium production nuclear reactor, went critical in September 1944,
followed by D and F Reactors in December 1944 and February 1945,
respectively. The HEW suffered an outage on 10 March 1945 due to a
Japanese balloon bomb. The total cost of the HEW up to December 1946
was more than $348 million (equivalent to $4.1 billion in 2023).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Engineer_Works>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1782:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail
premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked
that it had "too many notes".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail>
1950:
Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners
of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain%E2%80%93Medic_massacre>
1994:
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the
planet Jupiter (impact site pictured), with the first impact causing a
fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9>
2004:
Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of
the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the public.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Park>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Zeligesque:
Of a person: appearing at a surprisingly wide variety of historic events
and/or with a diverse group of historic figures.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zeligesque>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are to be needed, but I'm not sure for what.
--Sheri S. Tepper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper>
Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) was a German-born French composer,
cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of
the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
Beginning as a cellist and conductor, Offenbach first wrote small-scale
one-act pieces, limited by theatrical licensing laws. These eased by
1858 when he premiered his first full-length operetta, Orphée aux
enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld). La belle Hélène (1864) and other
successes followed. The risqué humour (often about sexual intrigue) and
gentle satire in these pieces, together with Offenbach's facility for
melody, made them internationally known, and he was a powerful influence
on later operetta and musical theatre composers. His best-known works
were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his
operettas continue to be staged in the 21st century. The Tales of
Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay
Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba>
1943:
The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was
formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Plater_Independent_Women%27s_Battalion>
2009:
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran,
killing all 168 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Airlines_Flight_7908>
2012:
South Korean rapper Psy released his hit single "Gangnam
Style".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cisalpine:
1. On this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is
located).
2. Alternative letter-case form of Cisalpine (“of or pertaining to
Gallicanism (“the doctrine that the church of France is autonomous,
especially in relation to the pope”); of or pertaining to cisalpinism
(“a movement in 18th–19th century Britain among Roman Catholics which
took the view that allegiance to the Crown was compatible with
allegiance to the pope, and that Roman Catholics should be emancipated
from various legal restrictions”)”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cisalpine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The choice we make in this election will shape the future of
America and the world for decades to come. I believe that with all my
soul. I know that millions of my fellow Americans believe it as well.
And some have a different view as to the direction our country should
take. Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy. It is part of
human nature. Politics must never be a killing field. I believe politics
ought to be an arena for peaceful debate, to pursue justice, to make
decisions guided by the Declaration of Independence and our
constitution. We stand for an America not of extremism and fury, but of
decency and grace. All of us now face a time of testing as the election
approaches. The higher the stakes, the more fervent the passion becomes.
This places an added burden on each of us to ensure no matter how strong
our convictions, we must never descend into violence.
--Joe Biden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden>
The UEFA Euro 2004 final was the final match of Euro 2004, the 12th
European Championship, organised by UEFA for the senior men's national
association football teams of its member associations. The match was
played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, and contested by
Portugal and Greece. The two defences ensured that goal-scoring
opportunities were limited, and the score was 0–0 at half-time. Greece
scored the only goal of the match after 57 minutes when Angelos Basinas
took a corner kick to Angelos Charisteas, who sent a header past
goalkeeper Ricardo. Several pundits labelled Greece's tournament win the
greatest upset in the history of the European Championship, with their
pre-tournament bookmakers' odds at 150–1. Greece subsequently failed
to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and did not successfully defend
their European Championship in 2008. Portugal eventually won the
European Championship in 2016.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2004_final>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1874:
A fire destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people in
Chicago, leading to reforms in the city's fire-prevention and
firefighting efforts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Fire_of_1874>
1902:
An expedition led by Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín
Lizárraga discovered the Incan city of Machu Picchu (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn_Liz%C3%A1rraga>
1950:
Korean War: North Korean troops began attacking the
headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in present-day
Daejeon, South Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taejon>
2003:
Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and
published by journalist Robert Novak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cataphile:
1. A type of urban explorer who visits the ancient catacombs and
quarries linked by tunnels beneath Paris, France.
2. (by extension) An individual who explores subterranean catacombs,
mines, or quarries.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cataphile>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them
swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own
mistakes, that — I use to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul
off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mind and
heart, by drawing it up into a hard knot, and not having any more hopes
or dreams at all. Pull in my feelings, and call back all of my
sentiments — and not let any earthly event move me in either
direction, either cause me to hate, to fear, to love, to care, to take
sides, to argue the matter at all — and, yet … there are certain
good times, and pleasures that I never can forget, no matter how much I
want to, because the pleasures, and the displeasures, the good times and
the bad, are really all there is to me. And these pleasures that you
cannot ever forget are the yeast that always starts working in your mind
again, and it gets in your thoughts again, and in your eyes again, and
then, all at once, no matter what has happened to you, you are building
a brand new world again, based and built on the mistakes, the wreck, the
hard luck and trouble of the old one.
--Woody Guthrie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie>
Alan Wace (13 July 1879 – 9 November 1957) was an English
archaeologist who served as director of the British School at Athens
between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and
Egypt, and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. Along with Carl
Blegen, Wace argued against the established scholarly view that Minoan
Crete had dominated mainland Greek culture during the Bronze Age. His
excavations at Mycenae in the early 1920s established a chronology for
the site's domed tombs that largely proved his theory correct. Wace
served as the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the
University of Cambridge between 1934 and 1944, and ended his career at
Alexandria's Farouk I University. During both world wars, he worked for
the British intelligence services, including as a section head for MI6
during the Second World War. His daughter, Lisa French, also became an
archaeologist and excavated at Mycenae.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wace>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
Wallachian officials adopted the Regulamentul Organic, which
engendered a period of reforms that provided for the westernization of
the local society.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulamentul_Organic>
1943:
World War II: Operation Fustian, an Allied operation to
capture the Primosole Bridge in Sicily, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fustian>
1962:
In an unprecedented reshuffle, British prime minister Harold
Macmillan dismissed seven members of his cabinet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives_%281962%29>
1992:
Croatian War of Independence: The Croatian Army concluded
Operation Tiger, advancing 17 kilometres (11 miles) into the Dubrovnik
hinterland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tiger_%281992%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enby:
1. (neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: a non-binary
person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male;
one who is outside of the gender binary.
2. (neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: non-binary;
having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or
male, that is, outside of the gender binary.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enby>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have no idea where we are going, and sweeping, confident
articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable
of all forms of public utterance.
--Kenneth Clark
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clark>
Hypericum sechmenii (Seçmen's St John's wort) is a rare species of
flowering plant in the St John's wort family that is found in
Eskişehir Province in central Turkey. It was first described and
assigned to the genus Hypericum in 2009, and was later placed into the
section Adenosepalum. H. sechmenii is a perennial herb that grows 3 to
6 centimeters (1 to 2 inches) tall and blooms in June and July. The
stems of the plant are smooth and hairless, while the leaves are
leathery and lack leafstalks. Its flowers are arranged in corymbs, and
each has five bright yellow petals. Similar species are H. huber-
morathii, H. minutum, and H. thymopsis. Found among limestone rocks,
H. sechmenii has an estimated distribution of less than 10 square
kilometers (4 square miles), with fewer than 250 surviving plants.
Despite containing druse crystals and toxic chemicals that may deter
herbivory, the species is threatened by overgrazing, as well as climate
change and habitat loss.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum_sechmenii>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1488:
Choe Bu, an official of the Joseon dynasty, returned to Korea
after months of shipwrecked travel in China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe_Bu>
1801:
French Revolutionary Wars: A squadron of British ships of the
line defeated a larger squadron of Spanish and French vessels in the
Strait of Gibraltar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Algeciras>
1948:
Arab–Israeli War: Israel Defense Forces officer Yitzhak Rabin
signed an order to expel Palestinians from the towns of Lydda and Ramle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_from_Lydda_and_Ram…>
1962:
The English rock band the Rolling Stones played their first
concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
public:
1. (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the
community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any
particular group.
2. (countable)
3. Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a
group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer,
a writer, etc.; an audience, a following.
4. (informal) Short for public house (“an inn, a pub”); also (dated), in
full public bar: the more basic bar in a public house, as contrasted
with the lounge bar or saloon bar which has more comfortable seats,
personalized service, etc.
5. (often public relations) Often preceded by the and a qualifying word:
a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the
population, sharing some common characteristic.
6. (sociology) A group of people sharing some common cultural,
political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any
interactions with each other.
7. (obsolete)
8. Chiefly preceded by the: a collective body of a politically organized
nation or state; a body politic, a nation, a state; also, the interest
or well-being of such a collective body; the common good.
9. (US, university slang) At Harvard University: a penalty imposed on a
student involving a grade reduction which is communicated to the
student's parents or guardian.
10. (uncountable) Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or
people generally; the open. [...]
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