Stanley Green (1915–1993) was a sandwich man who became a well-known
figure in London during the latter part of the 20th century. For 25
years Green patrolled Oxford Street, carrying a placard that advocated
"Less Lust, By Less Protein: Meat Fish Bird; Egg Cheese; Peas Beans;
Nuts. And Sitting", with the wording and punctuation changing over the
years. Arguing that protein made people lustful and aggressive, his
solution was "protein wisdom", a low-protein diet for "better, kinder,
happier people". For a few pence, passers-by could buy his 14-page
pamphlet, Eight Passion Proteins with Care, which reportedly sold 87,000
copies over 20 years. He became one of London's much-loved eccentrics,
though his campaign was not invariably popular, leading to two arrests
for obstruction and the need to wear green overalls to protect himself
from spit. When he died at the age of 78, his pamphlets, placards, and
letters were passed to the Museum of London.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1850 – Ute Wars: On behalf of Utah territorial governor Brigham
Young, militia leader Daniel H. Wells drafted an order for the Utah
Territorial Militia to exterminate Timpanogos men deemed hostile,
leading to the Provo River Massacre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_at_Fort_Utah>
1900:
Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances
in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not
give up for five more years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Salleh_Rebellion>
2000:
Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its
horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa
Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261>
2010:
James Cameron's Avatar became the first film to earn over
US$2 billion worldwide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brim:
1. (transitive)
2. To fill (a container) to the brim (noun sense 1.1), top, or upper
edge.
3. (figurative) To fill (something) fully.
4. (intransitive, also figurative) To be full until almost overflowing.
5. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of
water; now, any border or edge.
6. The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped
like a container.
7. A projecting rim, especially of a hat. He turned the back of his brim
up stylishly.
8. (archaic or poetic) The upper edge or surface of water.
9. (obsolete)
10. The surface of the ground.
11. (figurative) A brink or edge. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brim>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count
most.
--Norman Mailer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer>
Nihilism (Spring/Summer 1994) is the third collection by the British
designer Alexander McQueen for his fashion house. An eclectic collection
with no straightforward theme, it pushed back against dominant
womenswear trends with its hard tailoring and aggressive, sexualised
styling. It was created in collaboration with McQueen's associates Simon
Ungless and Fleet Bigwood. McQueen's first professional runway show,
Nihilism included experimental techniques, silhouettes and materials,
such as dresses made from cellophane, stained with clay or adorned with
dead locusts. The styling was intended to be provocative and disturbing.
The clothing was highly sexualised: thin fabric that exposed the skin
underneath or garments cut to expose breasts and vulvas. The collection
received mixed reviews. Journalists had a difficult time deciding what
to make of it. McQueen returned to many of the ideas he explored in
Nihilism throughout his lifetime, especially the interplay of sexuality
and violence.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism_%28Alexander_McQueen_collection%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1607:
Low-lying areas flooded around the coasts of the Bristol
Channel in southwest England and south Wales, resulting in around 2,000
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1607_Bristol_Channel_floods>
1862:
The United States Navy launched USS Monitor, the first
American ironclad warship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor>
1964:
In a bloodless coup, Nguyễn Khánh overthrew Dương Văn
Minh's military junta in South Vietnam, less than three months after
Minh's own coup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1964_South_Vietnamese_coup>
2005:
Forty-six years to the day after the sinking of the Danish
ocean liner MS Hans Hedtoft, Queen Margrethe II unveiled a memorial in
Copenhagen to the 95 passengers and crew who perished.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Hans_Hedtoft>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unwisdom:
1. (uncountable) Lack of wisdom; unwise action or conduct; folly,
foolishness.
2. (countable)
3. An instance of a lack of wisdom; a foolish act.
4. (rare) A foolish or unwise being or force.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unwisdom>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Would an alien outsider judge America's performance by My Lai and
Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?
--Gregory Benford
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford>
Dominik Hašek (born 29 January 1965) is a Czech former ice hockey
goaltender. He won the Vezina Trophy six times with the National Hockey
League (NHL), the most under the award's current system. In 1998, he
became the first goaltender to win the Hart Memorial Trophy twice.
During the 1998 Winter Olympics, he led the Czech national ice hockey
team to its first Olympic gold medal. In 2002, Hašek became the first
European-trained starting goaltender to win the Stanley Cup and set a
record for shutouts in a postseason year. He was considered an
unorthodox goaltender, with a distinct style that led to him being
labeled a "flopper". He holds the highest career save percentage of all
time, and is the only goaltender to face the most shots per 60 minutes
and have the highest save percentage in the same season. Hašek was
inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and is a member of the Czech Ice
Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame. His number was retired by
the Buffalo Sabres and HC Pardubice.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik_Ha%C5%A1ek>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
946 – The Abbasid caliph, al-Mustakfi, was deposed, going on to spend
the rest of his life as a prisoner in the caliphal palace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mustakfi>
1907:
Kaw Nation citizen Charles Curtis of Kansas became the first
Native American U. S. Senator.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis>
2006:
India's Irfan Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test
cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfan_Pathan>
2017:
A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec
City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sublunary:
1. (chiefly historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between
the moon and the earth.
2. (by extension)
3. In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly,
terrestrial.
4. Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred,
or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.
5. (figurative) Inferior, subordinate.
6. A person or thing which is of the (material) world.
7. A less important person; an inferior, a subordinate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sublunary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Advances in AI are making it easier to spread false or
inauthentic information across the internet — and harder to detect it.
At the same time, nations are engaging in cross-border efforts to use
disinformation and other forms of propaganda to subvert elections, while
some technology, media, and political leaders aid the spread of lies and
conspiracy theories. This corruption of the information ecosystem
undermines the public discourse and honest debate upon which democracy
depends. The battered information landscape is also producing leaders
who discount science and endeavor to suppress free speech and human
rights, compromising the fact-based public discussions that are required
to combat the enormous threats facing the world. Blindly continuing on
the current path is a form of madness.
--Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists>
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia resulted in the deportation,
dispossession, and murder of most of the pre–World War II population
of Jews in the Czech lands that were annexed by Nazi Germany between
1939 and 1945. From the pre-war population of 118,310 some 30,000 Jews
managed to emigrate. Most of the remaining Jews were deported to other
Nazi-controlled territories, starting in October 1939 as part of the
Nisko Plan. In October 1941, mass deportations of Protectorate Jews
began. Beginning in November 1941, the transports departed for
Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Protectorate which was a stopping-point
before deportation to other ghettos, extermination camps, and other
killing sites. About 80,000 Jews from Bohemia and Moravia were murdered
in the Holocaust. After the war, many Jews faced obstacles in regaining
their property and pressure to assimilate into the Czech majority. Most
Jews emigrated; a few were deported as part of the expulsion of Germans
from Czechoslovakia.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Bohemia_and_Moravia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1825:
On the advice of John C. Calhoun, President James Monroe asked
Congress to organize Indian Territory (map pictured) west of the
Mississippi River, laying the groundwork for Indian removal in the
United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal>
1869:
Former members of the overthrown Tokugawa shogunate proclaimed
Japan's second-largest island, Hokkaido, to be the independent Republic
of Ezo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ezo>
1945:
The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind
by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp>
2010:
Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending
a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was
forcibly removed from office.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
populicide:
(archaic) The deliberate slaughter of a people or a nation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/populicide>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
"Thinking again?" the Duchess asked, with another dig of her
sharp little chin. "I've a right to think," said Alice sharply, for she
was beginning to feel a little worried. "Just about as much right,"
said the Duchess, "as pigs have to fly."
--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland>
"Telephone" is a song by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé (both pictured)
and released on January 26, 2010. "Telephone" conveys Gaga's fear of
not finding time for fun given the increasing pressure for her to work
harder. The song consists of an expanded bridge and verse-rap; Beyoncé
appears in the middle of the song, singing the verses in a "rapid-fire"
way, accompanied by double beats. "Telephone" received positive reviews
from critics who praised Gaga's chemistry with Beyoncé. It was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. The
song charted in many countries and sold 7.4 million digital copies
worldwide in 2010, making it the year's fourth best-selling single. The
music video follows Beyoncé as she bails Gaga out of prison for killing
her boyfriend and ends with the two trying to escape a high-speed police
chase. The video received generally positive reviews and was nominated
for three awards at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_%28song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1788:
Captain Arthur Phillip and the British First Fleet landed at
Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson, establishing the first
permanent European settlement in Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet>
1885:
Mahdist War: The siege of Khartoum ended as Mahdist forces
defeated the Egyptian garrison and captured the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Khartoum>
1934:
Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater in New York City
reopened as the Apollo Theater, becoming one of the nation's premier
venues for African-American performers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Theater>
2015:
A jet fighter crashed at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete,
Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Los_Llanos_Air_Base_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
larrikin:
1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) A young, brash, and
impertinent, and possibly violent, troublemaker, especially one who is a
gang member; a hooligan.
2. (by extension, Australia, slang) A high-spirited person who playfully
rebels against authority and conventional norms; a maverick.
3. (Australia, slang) Exhibiting the behaviour or characteristics of a
larrikin (noun sense)
4. (historical) Of or relating to, or behaving like, a hooligan;
hooliganistic, thuggish.
5. (by extension) Playfully rebellious against and contemptuous of
authority and convention; maverick.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/larrikin>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single
honor I've ever received.
--Paul Newman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Newman>
The new wave of British heavy metal began in the late 1970s and achieved
international attention by the early 1980s. Encompassing diverse
mainstream and underground styles, the music often infused 1970s heavy
metal music with the intensity of punk rock to produce fast and
aggressive songs. The do-it-yourself ethic of the new metal bands led to
the spread of raw-sounding, self-produced recordings and a proliferation
of independent record labels. Song lyrics were usually about escapist
themes from mythology, fantasy, horror or the rock lifestyle. The
movement involved mostly young, white, male musicians and fans of the
heavy metal subculture, whose behavioural and visual codes were quickly
adopted by metal fans worldwide after the spread of the music globally.
The movement spawned perhaps a thousand bands, but only a few survived
the rise of MTV and glam metal. Among them, Motörhead (singer
pictured) and Saxon had considerable success, and Iron Maiden and Def
Leppard became international stars.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_wave_of_British_heavy_metal>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1725:
Privateer Amaro Pargo was declared a hidalgo, a member of the
Spanish nobility.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaro_Pargo>
1765 – Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands,
was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Egmont>
1890:
American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of
the globe by land and sea in a then-record-breaking 72 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly>
1998:
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonated a truck bomb at
the sacred Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing 17 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Temple_of_the_Tooth_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tartan:
1. (uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of
coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with
Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates
from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions
having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
2. (countable) A pattern used on such fabric.
3. (uncountable) Clothing made from this fabric.
4. (figurative)
5. (countable) An individual who wears tartan (sense 1.2); specifically,
a Scottish Highlander, or a Scottish person (chiefly a Scotsman) in
general.
6. (countable, fishing) A type of fly used in fly fishing, often to
catch salmon.
7. (countable, UK) A young person who is a member of a Protestant gang
in Northern Ireland.
8. (uncountable) Preceded by the: a group of people customarily wearing
tartan; Scottish Highlanders or Scottish people collectively; also, the
soldiers of a Scottish Highland regiment collectively.
9. (uncountable, chiefly attributive) Originally a trade name in the
form Tartan: a synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, running tracks,
etc.
10. (uncountable, Scotland) Short for tartan-purry (“a porridge made
from cabbage mixed with oatmeal”).
11. Made of tartan (noun sense 1), or having a distinctive pattern of
coloured stripes intersecting at right angles like a that of a tartan.
12. (figurative, sometimes humorous) Of or relating to Scotland, its
culture, or people; Scottish.
13. To clothe (someone) in tartan (noun sense 1.2).
14. To apply a tartan pattern to (something).
15. (figurative) To make (something) Scottish, or more Scottish; to
tartanize. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tartan>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to
make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his
happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low
what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party
— for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not the
love of truth, but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter
and makes parish desire the downfall of parish. Each seeks peace of mind
and subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and exaltation of
virtue — But these moralities belong, and should be left to the
historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.
--Orlando: A Biography
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography>
Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the
Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed as
Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Battalion, the unit consisted of men
recruited in Missouri by Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback
(pictured) during Price's Raid in 1864. The battalion's first action was
at the Battle of Pilot Knob in September; it later participated in
actions at Sedalia, Lexington, and the Little Blue River. In October,
the unit was used to find an alternate river crossing during the Battle
of the Big Blue River and saw action at the battles of Westport,
Marmiton River, and Second Newtonia. Around February 1865, the
battalion reached regimental strength after more recruits joined. On
June 2, 1865, the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered.
The men of the regiment were located at different points in Louisiana
and Arkansas when they were paroled, leading the historian James McGhee
to believe that the regiment had disbanded before the surrender.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slayback%27s_Missouri_Cavalry_Regiment>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1848:
James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill
(reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the
California gold rush.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush>
1968:
Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation
Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coburg>
1977:
Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an
office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Atocha_massacre>
1987:
About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration
in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Forsyth_County_protests>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
old school:
1. Preceded by the: a group of people characterized by being
conservative or traditional; also, a method for accomplishing a task, a
style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era,
remembered either for its inferiority to the current method, or for its
superiority over the new way.
2. (music) A style of popular music regarded as more old-fashioned or
traditional, or not following newer trends; specifically (often old
skool), hip-hop or rap music of the late 1970s and 1980s (or more recent
music of this style) as contrasted with newer styles of such music.
3. Now often old-school: characteristic of a method for accomplishing a
task, a style, or a way of thinking that was employed in a former era,
remembered either for its inferiority to the current method, or for its
superiority over the new way.
4. (music) Of or relating to a style of popular music regarded as more
old-fashioned or traditional, or not following newer trends;
specifically (often old skool), of or relating to hip-hop or rap music
of the late 1970s and 1980s (or more recent music of this style) as
contrasted with newer styles of such music.
5. (US, Christianity, politics) Chiefly in the form Old School: having
conservative or traditional views on Christianity or politics.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/old_school>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm the innocent bystander Somehow I got stuck Between the rock
and the hard place And I'm down on my luck
--Warren Zevon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Zevon>
Castell Coch is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the
village of Tongwynlais in South Wales. The first castle on the site was
built by the Normans after 1081 to protect the newly conquered town of
Cardiff. The castle's earth motte was reused by Gilbert de Clare as the
basis for a new stone fortification, built between 1267 and 1277. John
Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, inherited the castle ruins in
1848. One of Britain's wealthiest men, he employed the architect William
Burges to reconstruct the castle as a summer residence. Burges rebuilt
the outside before his death in 1881, and the interior work was finished
by his team in 1891; it featured elaborate decorations including
extensive use of symbolism drawing on themes from classical mythology
and legend. Crichton-Stuart planted a vineyard just below the castle,
where wine production continued until the First World War. Castell Coch
is considered to be one of the best surviving examples of Victorian
architecture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell_Coch>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1571:
Queen Elizabeth I opened the Royal Exchange in London, giving
it its royal title.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Exchange,_London>
1846 – Ahmad Bey declared the legal abolition of slavery in Tunisia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Tunisia>
1870:
American Indian Wars: The United States Army killed about 200
Piegan Blackfeet, mostly women, children, and the elderly, in the Marias
Massacre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marias_Massacre>
1915:
Rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners,
beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilembwe_uprising>
2003:
The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe
Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from
Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
well-appointed:
Chiefly of accommodation: properly supplied with a complete set of
whatever furniture, equipment, etc., is needed; fully equipped or
fitted-out; also, beautifully decorated.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/well-appointed>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Objective evidence is the ultimate authority. Recorders may lie,
but Nature is incapable of it.
--Walter M. Miller, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_M._Miller,_Jr.>
Caitlin Clark (born January 22, 2002) is an American professional
basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National
Basketball Association (WNBA). In her college freshman season with the
Iowa Hawkeyes, she earned All-American honors; as a sophomore, Clark was
again first-team All-American and in her junior and senior seasons, she
was the national player of the year. She became the Division I women's
career and single-season leader in points and is regarded as one of the
greatest collegiate players of all time. Clark was selected first
overall by Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft. In her first season,
she won the WNBA Rookie of the Year award, made the All-WNBA First Team
and WNBA All-Star Game. At youth international level, Clark won three
gold medals with the United States, including two at the FIBA Under-19
Women's World Cup. Since her college career, she has helped to
popularize women's basketball, a trend known as the "Caitlin Clark
effect".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1273:
Muhammad II became Sultan of Granada after his father's death
in a riding accident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_II_of_Granada>
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo achieved a
decisive victory at the Battle of Isandlwana.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana>
1973:
The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade
struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of
pregnancy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade>
2006:
Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming
the country's first indigenous president.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales>
2012:
Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member
of the European Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Croatian_European_Union_membership_refer…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
somethingth:
(informal) Used to indicate the position of a number which is uncertain
or unimportant.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/somethingth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in
others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon
others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and
whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come
at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
--Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essays_%28Francis_Bacon%29>
Ada Wong is a fictional character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan),
a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company
Capcom. Ada was first mentioned in the original Resident Evil (1996),
before being introduced as a supporting character and antiheroine in
Resident Evil 2 (1998). The character was initially conceived as a
researcher named Linda for the prototype of the second game, but her
name was changed to Ada and she was rewritten as a spy and mercenary for
the final build to connect its story to that of the original. Over the
course of the series, Ada is often hired to steal biological weapons for
various organizations, although she betrays her employers on numerous
occasions to save protagonist Leon S. Kennedy from dire situations. Ada
is featured in several Resident Evil games, novelizations, and films,
and has also appeared in other game franchises such as Project X Zone,
Teppen, and Dead by Daylight.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Wong>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
The First Dáil convened at the Mansion House in Dublin and
adopted a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of
the Irish Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_D%C3%A1il>
1951:
Mount Lamington, a volcano in Papua New Guinea, erupted and
killed more than 2,900 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_eruption_of_Mount_Lamington>
1972:
Tripura, formerly part of the independent Twipra Kingdom,
became a state of India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripura>
2017:
Millions of people participated in the Women's March in
Washington, D.C., and around the world to advocate for legislation and
policies on human rights and other issues.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pipe dream:
(idiomatic) A desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or a plan
which is unlikely to work; a near impossibility.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipe_dream>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Princes may make laws and repeal them, but they can neither make
nor destroy virtue, and how indeed should they be able to do what is
impossible to the Deity himself? Virtue being as immutable in its nature
as the divine will which is the ground of it.
--Ethan Allen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen>