Still Reigning is a live performance DVD by the thrash metal band
Slayer, released in 2004 through American Recordings. Filmed at the
Augusta Civic Center on July 11, 2004, the performance showcases Reign
in Blood (1986), Slayer's third studio album and its first to enter the
Billboard 200. The album was played in its entirety with the four
original band members on a set resembling their 1986 Reign in Pain Tour.
Still Reigning was voted "best live DVD" by the readers of Revolver
magazine, and received gold certification in 2005. In the finale, the
band is covered in stage blood while performing the song "Raining
Blood", leading to a demanding audio mixing process plagued by
production and technical difficulties. The DVD's producer Kevin Shirley
spent hours replacing cymbal and drum hits one-by-one. Later, Shirley
publicly aired his financial disagreements with the band and criticized
the quality of the recording.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Reigning>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
British soldier Frederick John White died after a flogging,
leading to a campaign to end the practice in the British Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Frederick_John_White>
1864 :
A riot broke out in Leicester, England, at the failed
launching of a hot air balloon (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_balloon_riot>
1928:
Ukrainian archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval
skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton as
Germanic or Slavic in origin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Castle_skeleton>
1936:
New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine
ever built", opened to traffic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Bridge>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
yessum:
1. (US, dialectal, dated) Used to express agreement with a woman (and,
somewhat less commonly, a man): yes, ma'am.
2. (Australia) Alternative form of yes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yessum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle
of the ring and laugh at the folks.
--Harper Lee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harper_Lee>
DeLancey W. Gill (1859–1940) was an American drafter, landscape
painter, and photographer. As a teenager, he moved in with an aunt in
Washington, D.C., after his mother and stepfather traveled west. He
eventually found himself employed as an architectural draftsman for the
Treasury. He created sketches and watercolor paintings of the city, with
a particular focus on the still-undeveloped rural and poorer areas of
the district. While working as an illustrator for the Smithsonian's
Bureau of American Ethnology in the 1890s, he was appointed as the
agency's photographer without prior photographic training. He took
portrait photographs that circulated widely of thousands of Native
American delegates to Washington, including notable figures such as
Chief Joseph and Geronimo. These photographs have come under modern
criticism for his frequent use of props and clothing, sometimes outdated
or inauthentic, given to the delegates.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLancey_W._Gill>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1942:
An American naval aviator discovered a downed Japanese
Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, which was later rebuilt
and flown to devise tactics against the aircraft during World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akutan_Zero>
1966:
Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago
Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil-rights campaigns in
the northern United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Freedom_Movement>
1999:
The United States defeated China in the final match of the
third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and
television ratings for women's sports.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup>
2006:
Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages
across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ewiniar_%282006%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pet shop:
A shop that sells animals kept as domestic pets, and products for caring
for and feeding them.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pet_shop>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of
us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for
everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or
the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts
of other people. Even the simple act which we describe as "seeing some
one we know" is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the
physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have
already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we
compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In
the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to
follow so exactly the line of his nose, they blend so harmoniously in
the sound of his voice that these seem to be no more than a transparent
envelope, so that each time we see the face or hear the voice it is our
own ideas of him which we recognise and to which we listen.
--Marcel Proust
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust>
The oceanic whitetip shark is a large requiem shark inhabiting tropical
and warm temperate seas. It has a stocky body with long, white-tipped,
rounded fins. The species is typically solitary but can congregate
around food concentrations. It is found worldwide between 45°N and
43°S latitudes in deep, open oceans. Bony fish and cephalopods are the
main components of its diet. Females give live birth after a gestation
period of nine to twelve months. Though slow-moving, it is
opportunistic, aggressive, and reputed to be dangerous to shipwreck
survivors. The shark was once extremely common and widely distributed;
up to the 16th century, mariners noted that this species was the most
common ship-following shark. The species has now been listed as
critically endangered, and recent studies show steeply declining
populations worldwide as the sharks are harvested for their fins and
meat, like many other shark species.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_whitetip_shark>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1877:
The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the world's oldest tennis
tournament, began in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877_Wimbledon_Championship>
1896:
Politician William Jennings Bryan made his Cross of Gold speech
advocating bimetallism, considered one of the greatest political
speeches in American history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech>
1958:
An earthquake struck Lituya Bay, Alaska; the subsequent
megatsunami, the largest in modern times, reached an elevation of
1,720 ft (524 m).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami>
1962:
In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup
Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
berth:
1. (nautical) Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for
a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in
the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.
2. (by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
3. (by extension) A room in a vessel in which the officers or company
mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a
vessel for storage.
4. (by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the
side of a cabin.
5. (by extension) A job or position on a vessel.
6. (by extension)
7. An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn
coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.
8. A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.
9. (road transport) A place for a vehicle on land to park.
10. (figurative)
11. An appointment, job, or position, especially one regarded as
comfortable or good.
12. Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space for manoeuvring or safety.
13. (chiefly nautical, slang) A proper place for a thing.
14. (sports)
15. A position or seed in a tournament bracket.
16. A position on a field of play.
17. (transitive)
18. (nautical) To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun
sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
19. (specifically, astronautics) To use a device to bring (a spacecraft)
into its berth or dock.
20. (by extension, chiefly passive voice) To assign (someone) a berth
(noun sense 1.3 or sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train,
etc.
21. (figurative) To provide (someone) with a berth (noun sense 3.3) or
appointment, job, or position.
22. (intransitive)
23. (reflexive, nautical) Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
24. (by extension) Of a person: to occupy a berth. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/berth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff
he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
--David Hockney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hockney>
RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul
Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Set in a
crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, it centers on police officer
Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller (pictured), who is murdered by a
gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer
Products as a cyborg. The director emphasized violence throughout the
film, making it so outlandish that it became comical. RoboCop was a
financial success upon its release in July 1987, earning
$53.4 million. Reviewers praised it as a clever action film with deeper
philosophical messages and satire, but were conflicted about the
violence. The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. RoboCop
has been critically reevaluated since its release and hailed as one of
the best films of the 1980s for its depiction of a cyborg coming to
terms with the lingering fragments of its humanity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1874:
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began
their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_West>
1947:
Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S.
Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated
that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident>
1966:
King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi was deposed in a coup d'état by
his son, Prince Charles Ndizi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mwambutsa_IV_of_Burundi>
2014:
German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport,
Bulgaria; his last known movements were widely watched on YouTube.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lars_Mittank>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
outlandish:
1. (archaic) Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native;
alien, foreign.
2. (by extension)
3. Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
4. Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous,
strange. [from late 16th c.]
5. (derogatory) Of a place: far away from where most people are located;
in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.
6. (obsolete) A foreign language.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outlandish>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
--Jean de La Fontaine
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Fontaine>
Tales of Monkey Island is a graphic adventure video game developed by
Telltale Games under license from LucasArts. It is the fifth game in the
Monkey Island series, released a decade after the previous installment.
The game was released in five episodic segments between July and
December 2009. Players assume the role of Guybrush Threepwood, who
accidentally releases a voodoo pox and seeks a cure. The game was
conceived in late 2008 following renewed interest in adventure game
development within LucasArts. Production began in early 2009, led by
Dave Grossman (pictured). The game received generally positive reviews,
with praise for its story, writing, humor, voice acting and
characterization. Complaints focused on the quality of the game's puzzle
design, a weak supporting cast in the early chapters, and the game's
control system. Tales of Monkey Island garnered several industry awards
and was Telltale's most commercially successful project until Back to
the Future: The Game.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Monkey_Island>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1798:
Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its
treaties with France, resulting in the undeclared Quasi-War, fought
entirely at sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War>
1907:
Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld_Jr.>
1963:
The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief
political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm,
attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest
during the Buddhist crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Seven_Day_scuffle>
1991:
Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the
Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioni_Agreement>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cahoots:
(originally US) Collaboration or collusion, chiefly for a nefarious
reason. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cahoots>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not
bother trying to say it in music.
--Gustav Mahler
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler>
"Wildest Dreams" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor
Swift (pictured); it is the fifth single from her fifth studio album,
1989 (2014). Described by critics as synth-pop, dream pop, and
electropop, the song was written by Swift and its producers Max Martin
and Shellback. The lyrics feature Swift pleading with a lover to
remember her even after their relationship ends. Retrospectively,
critics have described "Wildest Dreams" as one of Swift's most memorable
songs. The single peaked within the top five on charts in Australia,
Canada, Poland, South Africa, and also the United States, where it
became 1989's fifth consecutive top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100.
The track was certified four-times platinum. The music video depicts
Swift as a classical Hollywood actress who falls in love with her co-
star; media publications praised the production as cinematic but accused
the video of glorifying colonialism. (This article is part of a
featured topic: 1989 (album).).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/1989_%28album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
American Revolutionary War: American troops at Fort Ticonderoga
in New York completed a retreat from advancing British forces, causing
an uproar among the American public.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Ticonderoga_%281777%29>
1809:
Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian
army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of
the Fifth Coalition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wagram>
1936:
A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England
sent millions of gallons of water cascading 300 feet (90 m) into the
River Irwell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Bolton_%26_Bury_Canal>
2009:
Jadranka Kosor became the first female prime minister of
Croatia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadranka_Kosor>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
termagant:
1. (archaic) Having the temperament of a termagant (noun sense 1); bad-
tempered, brawling, boisterous, turbulent. [...]
2. (archaic) A brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing.
[...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/termagant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our country has voted decisively for change, for national renewal
and a return of politics to public service … we can make a start today
with the simple acknowledgement that public service is a privilege and
that your government should treat every single person in this country
with respect. If you voted Labour yesterday, we will carry the
responsibility of your trust as we rebuild our country. But whether you
voted Labour or not — in fact, especially if you did not — I say to
you directly, my government will serve you. Politics can be a force for
good. We will show that.
--Keir Starmer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Keir_Starmer>
Ed Bradley (1941–2006) was an American broadcast journalist best known
for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News. Bradley started his
television news career in 1971 as a stringer for CBS at the Paris Peace
Accords. He won Alfred I. duPont and George Polk awards for his coverage
of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. Returning to the United
States, he became CBS's first Black White House correspondent. Bradley
joined 60 Minutes in 1981 and reported on more than 500 stories with the
program during his career, the most of any of his colleagues. Known for
his fashion sense and disarming demeanor, Bradley won numerous
journalism awards for his reporting, which has been credited with
prompting federal investigations into psychiatric hospitals, lowering
the cost of drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS, and ensuring that the accused
in the Duke lacrosse case received a fair trial. He died of lymphocytic
leukemia in 2006.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bradley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1924:
Brazilian Army rebels launched an uprising in São Paulo
against President Artur Bernardes, who authorized the bombing of the
city in response.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Revolt_of_1924>
1969:
Two days after the death of their founder Brian Jones, the
Rolling Stones performed at a free festival in Hyde Park, London, in
front of more than a quarter of a million fans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stones_in_the_Park>
2009:
The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon
gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items (examples
pictured), was found near Hammerwich in Staffordshire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_Hoard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stampede:
1. A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals,
usually caused by fright.
2. (by extension)
3. A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the
same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic.
4. (Canada, US) An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo.
5. (figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of
persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
6. (transitive)
7. To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a
wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
8. To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this
manner.
9. (by extension) To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same
direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
10. (by extension) To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly.
11. (figurative) To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner
due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
12. (intransitive)
13. Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild,
headlong manner, usually due to fright.
14. (by extension) Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction
at the same time, especially due to panic.
15. (figurative) Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due
to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stampede>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always
save Barabbas.
--Jean Cocteau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau>
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal
neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New
York City. The copper statue, an 1886 gift to the United States from the
people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste
Bartholdi, and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. It is a
figure of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty, holding a torch and a
tablet bearing the date of the United States Declaration of
Independence. A broken chain and shackle lie at her feet as she walks
forward, commemorating the national abolition of slavery following the
American Civil War. After its dedication the statue became an icon of
freedom and of the United States, and it was later seen as a symbol of
welcome to immigrants arriving by sea. Its completion was marked by New
York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over
by President Grover Cleveland.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1054:
Chinese astronomers recorded the sudden appearance of a "guest
star", later identified as the supernova that created the Crab Nebula
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula>
1863:
American Civil War: Confederate forces failed in an attempt to
recapture the Union-occupied Helena, Arkansas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Helena>
1954:
In what is known as "The Miracle of Bern", West Germany
defeated Hungary 3–2 to win the FIFA World Cup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup_final>
1954:
CIA officers arrived in Guatemala City to begin Operation
PBHistory in an attempt to justify the overthrowing of Guatemalan
president Jacobo Árbenz one week earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBHistory>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
big tent:
(idiomatic, also attributive) A group, philosophy, or social or
political movement that encompasses or seeks to attract a broad range of
constituents or members, or views.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/big_tent>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are not likely to improve our own condition or help humanity
very much until we come to the sympathetic understanding that human
nature is about the same everywhere, that it is rather evenly
distributed over the surface of the earth, and that we are all united in
a common brotherhood. We can only make America first in the true sense
which that means by cultivating a spirit of friendship and good will, by
the exercise of the virtues of patience and forbearance, by being
"plenteous in mercy," and through progress at home and helpfulness
abroad standing as an example of real service to humanity.
--Calvin Coolidge
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge>
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the tenth novel and eleventh book in
Ian Fleming's James Bond series. First published in 1963, it centres on
Bond's search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the events depicted in
Thunderball (1961). In the novel, Bond falls in love with Tracy di
Vicenzo during the story. The pair marry, but hours afterwards Blofeld
and his partner, Irma Bunt, attack them and kill Tracy. Fleming
developed Bond's character within the book, showing an emotional side
that was not previously present. The novel is one of three Bond stories
to deal with the disruption of markets and the economy, in this case
Blofeld's planned disruption to the food supply by bioterrorism. The
novel received broadly positive reviews. In 1969, the book was adapted
as the sixth film in Eon Productions' James Bond film series. It was the
only film to star George Lazenby as Bond. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and short stories.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Ian_Fleming%27s_Jam…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1754:
French and Indian War: George Washington surrendered Fort
Necessity in Pennsylvania, the only military surrender in his career.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Necessity>
1940:
Second World War: The Royal Navy attacked the French fleet at
Mers El Kébir, fearing that the ships would fall into Axis hands after
the French–German armistice.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir>
1970:
Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashed into the slopes of the Montseny
Massif in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan-Air_Flight_1903>
1979:
U.S. president Jimmy Carter signed a presidential finding,
authorizing covert operations to aid the mujahideen against the Soviet-
backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
goropism:
1. A hypothesis, similar to the one originally propounded by Goropius
which is now discredited, that some attested or modern language such as
Dutch, Hebrew, or Turkish was the original language of human beings.
2. An absurd etymology proposed as part of such a hypothesis.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goropism>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything
in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind.
The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march.
But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
--Tom Stoppard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard>
Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the
English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury. He helped build the
case for the annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
He established the first doctrinal and liturgical structures of the
Church of England and published the Exhortation and Litany. When
Edward VI was king, Cranmer published the Book of Common Prayer,
changed doctrine or discipline in several areas, and promulgated the new
doctrines through the Homilies. Upon the accession of Mary I, Cranmer
was put on trial for treason and heresy. While imprisoned he made
recantations and reconciled himself with the Catholic Church. Mary
pushed for his execution, and he was burned at the stake after
withdrawing his recantations. Cranmer's death was immortalised in Foxe's
Book of Martyrs and his legacy continues through the Book of Common
Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1644:
First English Civil War: The combined forces of Scottish
Covenanters and English Parliamentarians defeated Royalist troops at the
Battle of Marston Moor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marston_Moor>
1724:
On the Feast of the Visitation, Bach led the first performance
of his Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, based on the German
Magnificat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meine_Seel_erhebt_den_Herren,_BWV_10>
1881:
U.S. president James A. Garfield was fatally shot by Charles J.
Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington,
D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_James_A._Garfield>
1964:
The Civil Rights Act was signed into law, outlawing segregation
in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the
general public in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mullered:
1. Badly damaged or completely destroyed; ruined, trashed, wrecked.
2. Drunk, inebriated.
3. (often sports) Of a sportsperson, a team, etc.: utterly defeated or
outplayed; destroyed, thrashed, trounced. [...]
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The going's rough, and so we need the laugh of bright incisors,
molars of goodwill. Our times are still not safe and sane enough for
faces to show ordinary sorrow.
--Wisława Szymborska
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