The Nuremberg trials were held jointly by the United States, Soviet
Union, France, and the United Kingdom against representatives of the
defeated Nazi Germany in the aftermath of World War II. Between
20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, the International Military
Tribunal tried 22 of the most important surviving Nazi leaders, with the
main charge the newly invented and retroactively applied crime of
plotting and carrying out invasions, although various German atrocities
(especially the Holocaust) were also condemned. The purpose of the trial
was not just to convict the defendants but also to assemble irrefutable
evidence of Nazi crimes, offer a history lesson to the defeated Germans,
and delegitimize the traditional German elite. Although criticized at
the time for legal innovation and selective prosecution, the trial has
come to be recognized as "the true beginning of international criminal
law".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: The Battle of Cambrai began with British
forces having initial success over Germany's Hindenburg Line.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cambrai_%281917%29>
1985:
Windows 1.0 was released, the first Microsoft Windows operating
system available to the public.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0>
1990:
Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific
serial killers, was arrested in Novocherkassk.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo>
2003:
Suicide bombers blew up the British consulate and the
headquarters of HSBC Bank in Istanbul, killing 31 people, including
consul general Roger Short and actor Kerem Yılmazer.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Istanbul_bombings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unfledged:
1. Not having feathers.
2. Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become
able to fly.
3. (figurative)
4. Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking life experience,
like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to
youth.
5. Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete,
unfinished.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unfledged>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to
run against government than to try to make government work.
--Joe Biden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden>
"Water Under the Bridge" is a song by the English singer Adele
(pictured) from her third studio album 25 (2015). Adele wrote the song
with its producer, Greg Kurstin. Columbia Records released the track as
the album's fourth single on 14 November 2016. A mid-tempo pop, soul
and soft-rock song, "Water Under the Bridge" incorporates influences of
1980s music, R&B; and a gospel choir over guitars and snare drums.
Inspired by her relationship with the charity founder Simon Konecki, who
Adele dated for seven years and married in 2018, the song speaks of
forgiveness and details the crucial point in a courtship of determining
whether one's partner is willing to put in the work to make it succeed.
Music critics praised Adele's vocal performance, though some thought it
was too loud and criticised some of the production choices. It reached
number one in Israel and the top ten in Poland, Belgium and Iceland and
gained Platinum or higher certifications in Canada, Mexico and the
United Kingdom.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Under_the_Bridge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1942:
World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the
Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning
the tide of the battle in their favour.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Uranus>
1985:
The first of five summits between Soviet general secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Summit_%281985%29>
2005:
Iraq War: A group of United States Marines massacred 25 people
in the town of Haditha.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre>
2010:
The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in
the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a
century.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_River_Mine_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
man engine:
(historical) A mechanical lift for raising and lowering people through
considerable distances; specifically (mining), a device by which miners
ascend or descend in a shaft, consisting of a series of landings or
sollars in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the
successive landings. A person steps from a landing to a shelf and is
raised or lowered to the next landing, upon which they then step, and so
on, travelling by successive stages.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man_engine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma
that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman
of liberty.
--James A. Garfield
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield>
Alicella gigantea is a giant species of amphipod that lives in the deep
sea. It is sometimes referred to as the "supergiant amphipod", with some
individuals of this species reaching 34 cm (13 in) in length, making it
the world's largest species of amphipod. The large body size is
sometimes presented as an example of abyssal gigantism, though the
specifics of this trait remain under investigation. Its genome is
exceptionally large, which may be linked to the large size of the body.
The species lives only at 4,850–7,000 m (15,910–22,970 ft) in depth.
Although rarely encountered, A. gigantea is considered cosmopolitan and
may inhabit up to 59% of the world’s oceans. It is primarily a
scavenger of carrion, although the diet varies with age. It has been
inferred that individuals of this species have long life spans and can
live for over 10 years. Despite its isolation from the surface, human
pollutants such as DDT and chlordane have been detected in specimens.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicella>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1921:
Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward,
Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_riots>
1943:
World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on
Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle
of Sattelberg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sattelberg>
1950:
The 14th Dalai Lama assumed full temporal power as ruler of
Tibet at the age of 15.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama>
2013:
Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted
landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on
board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating
certificate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarstan_Airlines_Flight_363>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
foreshadow:
1. To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to
presage.
2. (rare) Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about
(something); to forebode.
3. A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foreshadow>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In everything that lives, if one looks searchingly, is limned the
shadow line of an idea — an idea, dead or living, sometimes stronger
when dead, with rigid, unswerving lines that mark the living embodiment
with the stern immobile cast of the non-living. Daily we move among
these unyielding shadows, less pierceable, more enduring than granite,
with the blackness of ages in them, dominating living, changing bodies,
with dead, unchanging souls. And we meet, also, living souls dominating
dying bodies — living ideas regnant over decay and death. Do not
imagine that I speak of human life alone. The stamp of persistent or of
shifting Will is visible in the grass-blade rooted in its clod of earth,
as in the gossamer web of being that floats and swims far over our heads
in the free world of air. Regnant ideas, everywhere! Did you ever see a
dead vine bloom? I have seen it.
--Voltairine de Cleyre
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre>
Black Widow is a superhero appearing in American comic books published
by Marvel Comics. Created by editor Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico, and
artist Don Heck, the character debuted as an enemy of Iron Man in 1964.
She reformed into a hero in The Avengers in 1966. Black Widow has been
the main character in several comic titles since 1970, receiving her own
Black Widow series in 1999. She also frequently appears as a supporting
character in The Avengers and Daredevil. Natalia Alianovna "Natasha
Romanoff" Romanova was introduced as a spy for the Soviet Union until
she defected to the United States. Her stories often explore her
struggle to define her own identity as a spy and the trauma she endured
from her life of training in the Red Room, a Soviet training facility.
Black Widow has been adapted into a variety of other media, including
film, animated series, and video games. A version of the character was
portrayed by Scarlett Johansson (pictured) in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_%28Natasha_Romanova%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1885:
After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion,
Louis Riel, a Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba", was
hanged for high treason.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel>
1938:
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic
drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD>
1967:
Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo
Airport, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_2230>
1981:
About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke
Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in
the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_and_Laura>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Spanish dancer:
1. A species of nudibranch sea slug, Hexabranchus sanguineus, commonly
growing up to a length of 25 centimetres (about 9.8 inches), with some
in the Red Sea up to 40 centimetres (15.7 inches).
2. A species of deep-sea sea cucumber, Enypniastes eximia, with webbed
swimming fin-like structures at the front and back of its body.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Spanish_dancer>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the
light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and
coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere
animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what
they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more.
--Robert Nozick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Nozick>
The Aston Martin DB11 is a two-door grand touring car. It was
manufactured as both a coupe and a convertible, the latter known as the
Volante. The British carmaker Aston Martin produced the DB11 from 2016
to 2023 and was replaced by the DB12. The DB11 succeeded the DB9, which
was made between 2004 and 2016. Designed by Marek Reichman, who became
Aston Martin's lead designer in 2005, the DB11 debuted at the Geneva
Motor Show in March 2016. The first model of Aston Martin's "second-
century plan", the DB11 incorporates aluminium extensively throughout
its body. Manufacture of the DB11 began at the Aston Martin facility in
Gaydon, Warwickshire, in September 2016. Two engine configurations of
the DB11 were available: a 4.0-litre V8-engine model produced by
Mercedes-AMG and a 5.2-litre V12-engine model produced by Aston Martin.
In 2018, Aston Martin replaced the DB11 V12 with the DB11 V12 AMR,
which brought an increased engine output.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB11>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
American Civil War: Union army general William Tecumseh Sherman
began his March to the Sea, inflicting significant damage to property
and infrastructure using scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta
to Savannah, Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman>
1908:
As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo
Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State>
1922:
Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated
as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great
Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Time>
2000:
Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni
Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo_Agnelli>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
last:
1. (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of
footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is
being manufactured or repaired.
2. (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot
or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last
(noun sense 1). [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/last>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because
words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws
are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends
on our understanding of them.
--Felix Frankfurter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter>
Elinor Fettiplace (c.1570 – in or after 1647) was an English cookery
book writer. Probably born in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, into an upper-
class land-owning farming family, she married into the well-connected
Fettiplace family and moved to a manor house in the Vale of White Horse,
Berkshire. In common with many ladies of the Elizabethan era, Fettiplace
wrote a manuscript book with details of recipes for dishes and meals,
medical remedies and tips for running the household. She dated the work
1604, but it is possible that she began writing it several years
earlier, when she was still living with her mother. The book was passed
down through her family, initially to her niece, until it was handed to
the husband of the twentieth-century writer Hilary Spurling.
Fettiplace's husband died in 1615; she moved back to Gloucestershire and
married a local man, Edward Rogers, who died in 1623. She lived until at
least 1647.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Fettiplace>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a
ship, flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads,
Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Burton_Ely>
1967:
American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his
ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_laser>
1970:
Southern Airways Flight 932, chartered by the Marshall
University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West
Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Airways_Flight_932>
2010:
Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers'
Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the
youngest Formula One champion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Vettel>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gruesome:
1. Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
2. (informal, loosely) Awful, terrible.
3. (archaic, rare) Of a person: filled with fear; afraid, fearful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gruesome>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to
envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet
exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the
cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in
art and religion.
--Karen Armstrong
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong>
270 Park Avenue, also known as the JPMorgan Chase Tower and the Union
Carbide Building, was a skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood
of New York City. Built in 1960 for Union Carbide, it was designed by
the architects Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings
& Merrill (SOM). The 52-story skyscraper, which later became the global
headquarters for JPMorgan Chase, was demolished in 2021 to make way for
a taller skyscraper at the same address. At that time, the Union Carbide
Building was the tallest voluntarily demolished building in the world.
The building occupied a full city block bounded by Madison Avenue, 48th
Street, Park Avenue, and 47th Street. It included a 52-story tower
facing Park Avenue to the east and a 12-story annex facing Madison
Avenue to the west, along with public plazas. About two-thirds of 270
Park Avenue was built atop two levels of underground railroad tracks,
which feed into the nearby Grand Central Terminal.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/270_Park_Avenue_%281960%E2%80%932021%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolutionary War: Patriot forces captured Montreal
without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_%281775%29>
1940:
Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with
stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_%281940_film%29>
1985:
The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic
mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately
23,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armero_tragedy>
2015:
Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the
Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
disinvite:
(transitive) To cancel or withdraw an invitation to (someone).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disinvite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government
officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are
commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the
government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law
scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For
good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt
for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites
anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the
end justifies the means — to declare that the government may commit
crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal — would
bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court
should resolutely set its face.
--Louis Brandeis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis>
Bejeweled is a 2000 match-three video game developed and published by
PopCap Games. The game involves lining up three or more multi-colored
gems to clear them from the game board, and was inspired by a similar
browser game, titled Colors Game. Originally released in 2000 under the
title Diamond Mine as a browser game on the team's official website,
Bejeweled was licensed to be hosted on MSN Games under its current name.
PopCap released a retail version titled Bejeweled Deluxe in May 2001.
Bejeweled has since been ported to many platforms, particularly mobile
devices. The game has been commercially successful, having sold more
than 10 million copies and been downloaded more than 150 million
times. It is credited with popularizing match-three video games and
launching the casual games industry, which grew to be worth $3 billion
within a decade. The game was followed by a commercially successful
series of sequels and spin-offs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejeweled_%28video_game%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1920:
The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east
of the Adriatic Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rapallo_%281920%29>
1940:
World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy
France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gabon>
1970:
The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the
coast of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing at least
250,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bhola_cyclone>
2011:
An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the
deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan
Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Tehrani_Moghaddam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cybersynagogue:
(Internet, Judaism) A synagogue that exists only in cyberspace or on the
Internet.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cybersynagogue>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as
grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who
haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.
--The Neverending Story
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Neverending_Story>
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November
when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam of the
Australian Labor Party (ALP) as prime minister and appointed Malcolm
Fraser, the opposition leader, as caretaker. The Whitlam government had
been rocked by scandals and political miscalculations. In October, the
Opposition blocked bills in the Senate financing the government, and
urged Kerr to dismiss Whitlam unless he agreed to call an election for
the House of Representatives. On 11 November, Whitlam intended to call
a half-Senate election instead, but when he met with Kerr to seek his
approval, Kerr dismissed him as prime minister. Before the ALP
parliamentarians knew what had happened, Fraser and his allies secured
passage of the appropriation bills and Kerr dissolved Parliament. Fraser
and his government were returned with a large majority in the following
month's election. Kerr resigned early as governor-general and lived much
of his remaining life abroad.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1920:
In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior
was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Warrior>
1940:
Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-
aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in
the Battle of Taranto.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto>
1960:
A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against
President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after he falsely promised
reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt>
1965:
Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally
declared independence from the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia%27s_Unilateral_Declaration_of_Indepe…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
death penny:
1. (historical, usually in the plural) A coin placed on the eyelid of a
deceased person to keep the eye closed.
2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Synonym of Charon's obol (“a coin
placed in or on the mouth of a deceased person as a bribe or payment for
Charon, the ferryman of Hades”).
3. (UK, World War I, numismatics, informal) The memorial plaque, a
circular bronze plaque presented to the next of kin of British Empire
personnel killed in World War I.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/death_penny>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with
ardor and attended to with diligence.
--Abigail Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abigail_Adams>
Merenre Nemtyemsaf I (died c. 2272 BC) was an Ancient Egyptian
pharaoh, the fourth king of the Sixth Dynasty. He ruled Egypt for six to
eleven years in the early 23rd century BC, toward the end of the Old
Kingdom period. He was the son of his predecessor Pepi I Meryre and
queen Ankhesenpepi I, and was in turn succeeded by Pepi II Neferkare,
who might have been his son or less probably his brother. Pepi I may
have shared power with Merenre in a co-regency at the very end of the
former's reign. Merenre is frequently called Merenre I by
Egyptologists. Merenre's rule saw profound changes in the administration
of the southern provinces of Egypt, with a marked increase in the number
of provincial administrators and a concurrent steep decline in the size
of the central administration in the capital Memphis. A pyramid complex
was built for Merenre in Saqqara, and likely completed prior to his
death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merenre_Nemtyemsaf_I>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1975:
SS Edmund Fitzgerald (ship banner depicted) sank in Lake
Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald>
1995:
Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight
others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were
executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa>
2020:
The British government announced that it had removed the last
land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the
1982 Falklands War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mines_in_the_Falkland_Islands>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
radar:
1. (uncountable) In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant
object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics
by analysing radio waves (usually microwaves) which are sent towards the
object and which reflect off its surfaces; also, the field of study of
this method.
2. (uncountable, by extension) In full secondary radar: a method of
detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or
other characteristics by analysing signals transmitted by the object in
response to radio waves sent towards the object.
3. (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a system using one
of the above detection methods, differentiated by configuration or
platform, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
4. (countable) An installation of the apparatus for operating one of the
above detection systems.
5. (uncountable, by extension) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a
natural (for example, in an animal such as a bat) or human-made
detection method based on the analysis of reflected signals other than
radio waves, as light waves or sound waves; (countable) an instance of
this.
6. (countable, figurative) A superior ability to detect something; an
awareness, an intuition.
7. (transitive) To use a radar apparatus (noun sense 1, sense 1.1, or
sense 2) on (someone or something); to scan (someone or something) with,
or as if with, radar.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radar>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If my dream was true, then everything we know, everything we
think we know is a lie. It means the world's about as solid and as
reliable as a layer of scum on the top of a well of black water which
goes down forever, and there are things in the depths that I don't even
want to think about. It means that we're just dolls. We don't have a
clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in
control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would
drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and
move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're
tired, or bored.
--The Sandman
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