Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American
Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his
admirers, he advocated for the rights of African Americans and indicted
white America for their actions against black Americans. His detractors
accused him of preaching racism and violence. After living in foster
homes, Malcolm X was involved in criminal activity in Boston and New
York. In 1945, he was sentenced to prison, where he became a member of
the Nation of Islam. After his parole, he became one of the Nation's
leaders, its chief spokesmen, and its public face. Tension between
Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, head of the Nation of Islam, led to
Malcolm X's departure from the organization in March 1964. Afterwards,
he became a Sunni Muslim and made a pilgrimage to Mecca. He founded
Muslim Mosque, Inc., a religious organization, and the secular, black
nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity. He was assassinated
while giving a speech in New York.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1743:
French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin published the design of a
mercury thermometer using the centigrade scale, with 0 representing the
melting point of water and 100 its boiling point.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius>
1828:
The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the
nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the
American South.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_Abominations>
1915:
First World War: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the
third attack on Anzac Cove, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking
Ottoman forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_attack_on_Anzac_Cove>
2018:
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured)
took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_Markle>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
spiky:
1. Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in
which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
2. Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).
3. Having one or more spikes; spiny.
4. Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.
5. (figurative)
6. Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive,
hostile, unfriendly.
7. Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.
8. (Anglicanism, derogatory, slang) Strongly high church (“practising a
formal style of liturgy and emphasizing continuity with Catholicism”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spiky>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and
think.
--Lorraine Hansberry
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry>
Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an
American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. She opened the
first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned
Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth
control pill. She was an important first-wave feminist and believed that
women should be able to decide if and when to have children. Sanger
campaigned for the legalization of contraceptives by giving speeches,
writing books, and breaking laws – leading to eight arrests. She
endorsed both the Malthusianism and eugenics movements, believing that
they would generate support for birth control. She established a network
of dozens of birth control clinics, which provided services to hundreds
of thousands of patients. She discouraged abortion, and her clinics
never offered abortion services during her lifetime. Her activism led to
the Griswold v. Connecticut decision, which legalized contraception.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1695:
An earthquake measuring '"`UNIQ--
templatestyles-00000001-QINU`"'Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern
China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695_Linfen_earthquake>
1927:
Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off
explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the
Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan,
killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United
States history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster>
2009:
The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader
and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to
the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velupillai_Prabhakaran>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
parish-pump:
(UK, often politics, dated, derogatory, figurative) Of local interest or
significance only; petty, parochial.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parish-pump>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon. But Napoleon envied
Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied
Hercules, who never existed. You cannot, therefore, get away from envy
by means of success alone, for there will always be in history or legend
some person even more successful than you are. You can get away from
envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work
that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you
imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.
--The Conquest of Happiness
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Happiness>
TRAPPIST-1 is a cool red dwarf star with seven known exoplanets. It lies
in the constellation Aquarius about 40.66 light-years away from Earth.
It has a mass of about 9% of the Sun and is estimated to be 7.6 billion
years old, making it older than the Solar System. The discovery of the
star was first published in 2000. Observations in 2016 from the
Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) led to
the discovery of two orbiting terrestrial planets, and five more were
found in 2017. It takes the seven planets between about 1.5 and 19 days
to orbit around the star. They are likely tidally locked to TRAPPIST-1,
leading to permanent day on one side and night on the other. Their
masses are comparable to that of Earth. Up to four of the planets orbit
at distances where temperatures are suitable for the existence of liquid
water (diagram pictured), and are thus potentially hospitable to life.
This has drawn interest from both researchers and popular culture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
American Civil War: At the Battle of Big Black River Bridge in
Mississippi, Union forces under John A. McClernand defeated a
Confederate rearguard and captured around 1,700 men.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Big_Black_River_Bridge>
1900:
The first copies of the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz by L. Frank Baum were printed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz>
1954:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Brown v.
Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in public schools
because "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and
therefore unconstitutional.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education>
1987:
An Iraqi jet fired two Exocet missiles at the American frigate
USS Stark, killing 37 personnel and injuring 21 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
T-ray:
(electrical engineering, electromagnetism, also attributive, chiefly in
the plural) An electromagnetic wave with a frequency intermediate
between, and sharing the properties of, short radio waves and long
infrared waves, generally in the 0.1 to 10 terahertz (THz) band of
frequencies.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/T-ray>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we
must be more than what we are.
--Lloyd Alexander
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander>
The iMac G4 is an all-in-one personal computer produced by Apple
Computer from January 2002 to August 2004. It comprises a hemispheric
base that holds the computer components and a flatscreen liquid-crystal
display (LCD) mounted above. The iMac G3, first released in 1998, helped
save Apple from bankruptcy. Development of the iMac G4 took roughly two
years, with Apple's designers exploring multiple ways of marrying the
display screen with the computer components. Its shape was inspired by a
sunflower, with the display connected to the base via an adjustable
stainless-steel arm that allows the monitor to be freely tilted and
swiveled. The product was a critical and commercial success for Apple,
selling more than 1.3 million units in its first year, and it was
updated with faster components and larger displays before being replaced
by the iMac G5 in September 2004. The machine is held in the
collections of multiple museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and
Museums Victoria.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1605:
After a scuffle in which one cardinal received broken bones, a
papal conclave convened in Rome elected Camillo Borghese as Pope
Paul V.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1605_papal_conclave>
1929:
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Academy_Awards>
1975:
Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach
the summit of Mount Everest.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wand of peace:
(Scotland, law, historical) A wand or staff with a silver tip which was
given to an outlaw as a sign that they were restored to the king's or
queen's peace; and also carried by a messenger of the monarch as a
symbol of office, to be broken in protest in cases of deforcement
(“resistance to the execution of the law”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wand_of_peace>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether lawfully
acquired or seized by usurpation. The constitution regulates our
stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice,
to defense, to welfare and to liberty. But there is a higher law than
the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and
devotes it to the same noble purposes.
--William H. Seward
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_H._Seward>
The Merchant's House Museum is a historic house museum at 29 East
Fourth Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
The four-story edifice, built by the hatter Joseph Brewster between 1831
and 1832 as a speculative development, was sold in 1835 to the merchant
Seabury Tredwell. It was the Tredwell family's residence for almost a
century, with the structure remaining in the family until the death of
the youngest child in 1933. A distant relative purchased the building
and in 1936 transformed it into a museum. It is the only 19th-century
residence in Manhattan with its original exterior and interior intact.
The museum's collection has more than 4,500 items owned by the Tredwell
family, including pieces of furniture, clothing, household items, and
personal items. The building's facade and interior are New York City
designated landmarks, and the building is a National Historic Landmark.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%27s_House_Museum>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1725:
Bach led the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein guter
Hirt, BWV 85, about Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_guter_Hirt,_BWV_85>
1855:
Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train
travelling from London to Folkestone, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery>
1864:
American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included
cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union army out
of the Shenandoah Valley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Market>
1916:
Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was
lynched in Waco, Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
warm the cockles of someone's heart:
1. Especially of food or drink (particularly an alcoholic beverage): to
cause someone to feel deeply warm and comfortable; to comfort, to
satisfy.
2. (figurative) To provide someone with a deep feeling of contentment or
happiness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/warm_the_cockles_of_someone%27s_heart>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use
jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language
that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and
the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the
highest intelligence.
--Katherine Anne Porter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter>
Nasutoceratops is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in North
America about 76.0 to 75.5 million years ago. The first known specimens
were discovered in Utah in 2006. A subadult skull with a partial
postcranial skeleton and rare skin impressions was made the holotype of
the new genus and species Nasutoceratops titusi. It later featured in
the Jurassic World films. The holotype skull of Nasutoceratops is
approximately 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long, and its body length has been
estimated at 4.5 m (14.8 ft) and its weight at 1.5 tonnes. Its brow
horns are notable for pointing forward and being approximately 40
percent of total skull length. The functions of ceratopsian frills and
horns have been debated: suggestions include signalling, combat, and
species recognition; the forward oriented brow horns of Nasutoceratops
may have enabled interlocking with opponents. During Nasutoceratops's
lifetime its environment was dominated by wetlands supporting a diverse
fauna, including other ceratopsians.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasutoceratops>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1958:
US vice president Richard Nixon's motorcade was attacked by a
mob in Caracas, Venezuela.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcade>
2000:
An explosion (aftermath pictured) at a fireworks factory in
Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately
€450 million in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster>
2008:
Nine bombs placed by the Indian Mujahideen, then an unknown
terrorist group, exploded in a 15-minute period in Jaipur, India,
killing 80 people and injuring more than 200 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur_bombings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
weather-gaw:
1. An instance of some phenomenon in the sky said to signal bad weather,
such as an incomplete or secondary rainbow, or a parhelion or sun dog; a
weather-gall or water-gall.
2. A period of fine weather in the midst of bad weather.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weather-gaw>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I saw full surely that where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken
and wrath hath no place. For I saw no manner of wrath in God, neither
for short time nor for long; — for in sooth, as to my sight, if God
might be wroth for an instant, we should never have life nor place nor
being.
--Julian of Norwich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich>
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Veiqia is a female tattooing practice in Fiji. The term refers to both
the practice and to the tattoos. Women or adolescent girls who have
reached puberty may be tattooed in the groin and buttocks area by older
female tattooing specialists called dauveiqia or daubati. The practice
was common prior to the arrival in the 1830s of Christian missionaries
who discouraged it, but it was revived in the twenty-first century. In
Fijian culture, the tattoos were considered to heighten a woman's beauty
and could be an important factor that enabled her to marry. Receiving
veiqia was highly ritualised, with many regional variations. Preparation
for the process could include abstinence from food or from sexual
relations, or inducing vomiting to purge the body. The process of
tattooing was closely associated with the gift of a young woman's first
fringed skirt to wear once her veiqia was complete. Motifs for tattoos
included turtles, wandering tattlers, pottery and basketwork.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veiqia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1938:
During an exercise to demonstrate air power, United States Army
Air Corps bomber aircraft intercepted the Italian ocean liner SS Rex 620
nautical miles (1,100 km) off the US Atlantic coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interception_of_the_Rex>
1948:
The United Kingdom publicly announced that it was independently
developing nuclear weapons, after the US Atomic Energy Act of 1946 ended
cooperation on the matter.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Explosive_Research>
1968:
Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force began the defence of
Fire Support Base Coral in the largest unit-level action of the war for
the Australian Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Coral%E2%80%93Balmoral>
1998:
Four students were shot and killed by Indonesian soldiers at
Trisakti University in Jakarta, which led to widespread riots and the
resignation of President Suharto nine days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisakti_shootings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
musth:
(also attributive, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by in or on: the state
each year during which a male animal (usually a camel or an elephant)
exhibits increased aggressiveness and sexual activity due to a high
level of testosterone; (countable) an instance of this.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/musth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Law is the continuous manifestation of God's presence — not
reason for believing him absent. Great confusion arises from our using
the same word law in two totally distinct senses … as the cause and
the effect. It is said that to "explain away" everything by law is to
enable us to do without God. But law is no explanation of anything; law
is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause,
nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a
general formula, a statistical table. Law brings us continually back to
God instead of carrying us away from him.
--Florence Nightingale
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale>
"Mother" is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor
(pictured) from the deluxe edition of her fifth major-label studio
album, Takin' It Back (2022). She wrote the song with Sean Douglas, and
its producers, Gian Stone, and her brother Justin. Epic Records released
it as the lead single on March 27, 2023. A pop song with doo-wop
influences, "Mother" interpolates "Mr. Sandman". Inspired by men who
said Trainor's pregnancy would end her career, the song is about women's
empowerment; she asks the male subject to stop mansplaining and to
listen to her. Critics were complimentary about the composition but
criticized the use of the term "mother". The song reached the top 30 in
Belgium, Ireland, Suriname, and the United Kingdom. Charm La'Donna
directed the music video, which stars Kris Jenner; critics praised the
fashion choices and described it as glamorous. Trainor performed the
song on Today, Capital's Summertime Ball, and the Timeless Tour (2024).
(This article is part of a featured topic: Takin' It Back.) .
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Takin%27_It_Back>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1889:
Bandits attacked a U.S. Army paymaster's escort in the Arizona
Territory, stealing more than $28,000.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham_Paymaster_robbery>
1970:
Lubbock, Texas, was struck by a tornado that left 26 people
dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock_tornado>
2010:
Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a coalition
agreement with the Liberal Democrats.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_government_formation>
2022:
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israel Defense Forces in Jenin
refugee camp.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh>
2022:
Myanmar civil war: Government troops killed 37 unarmed
civilians in Mondaingbin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_Taing_Pin_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
close-knit:
Of a group: closely connected or linked, as by a common bond, culture,
or identity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/close-knit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He who is on the Path exists not for himself, but for others; he
has forgotten himself, in order that he may serve them. He is as a pen
in the hand of God, through which His thought may flow, and find for
itself an expression down here, which without a pen it could not have.
Yet at the same time he is also a living plume of fire, raying out upon
the world the Divine Love which fills his heart. The wisdom which
enables you to help, the will which directs the wisdom, the love which
inspires the will — these are your qualifications. Will, Wisdom and
Love are the three aspects of the Logos; and you, who wish to enroll
yourselves to serve Him, must show forth these aspects in the world.
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti>
The Tesla Model S is a battery-electric, four-door full-size car,
produced by Tesla since 2012. Considered by critics as one of the most
influential electric cars, Tesla began developing the Model S around
2007. To produce the Model S, Tesla acquired a facility in Fremont,
California; mass production of the car began there in June 2012. Tesla
carried out final assembly for European markets at its facilities in
Tilburg, the Netherlands, between 2013 and 2021. Changes to the car have
included the introduction of Tesla Autopilot—a partial vehicle
automation advanced driver-assistance system, released in 2015. That
year, the Model S was the world's best-selling plug-in electric vehicle.
The car has received accolades, including the Motor Trend Car of the
Year award in 2013. Time named it one of the Best 25 Inventions of the
Year 2012 and later included it on its list of the 10 Best Gadgets of
the 2010s in 2019. To charge the Model S, Tesla operates a network of
fast-charging stations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolutionary War: A small force of Patriots led by
Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga (depicted) in
New York, without significant injury or incident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Fort_Ticonderoga>
1933:
Thousands of books on the history and healthcare of transgender
people, taken from the Institute for Sexual Science, were burned by
Nazis in Bebelplatz Square for being "un-German".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany>
1940:
British prime minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and
formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain>
2005:
Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S. president
George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi
using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arutyunian>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
for the birds:
(idiomatic, originally US military slang, informal) Not deserving
serious consideration; unimportant; useless, worthless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_the_birds>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whatever court we are in, whatever we are doing, whether we are
in a trial court or an appellate court, at the end of our task some
human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be
changed in some way by what we do, whether we do it as trial judges or
whether we do it as appellate judges, as far removed from the trial
arena as it is possible to be. And so we had better use every power of
our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.
--David Souter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Souter>
Metrosideros bartlettii, commonly known as Bartlett's rātā, is a rare
species of tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is only found in three
patches of dense forest remnants near Piwhane / Spirits Bay in New
Zealand's North Island. It reaches a height of up to 30 metres (100
feet) with a trunk diameter of 1 to 1.5 metres (3.3 to 4.9 feet). The
species is known for its distinct whitish, paper-like bark and small
white flowers. Bartlett's rātā was accidentally discovered in 1975 by
John Bartlett near Cape Reinga and first described by John Dawson in
1985. Bartlett's rātā typically begins life growing on another plant,
inhabits lowland forests, and grows near wet areas. A 2018 article
documented 13 adult trees in the wild, down from 31 in 2000. Its decline
has been attributed to land use changes and the introduction of common
brushtail possums. In 2013, it was listed as a critically endangered
species on the IUCN Red List, with a decreasing population trend.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosideros_bartlettii>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1944:
World War II: The Japanese Take Ichi convoy arrived at
Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies after losing many ships and thousands
of troops to Allied attacks while attempting to carry two divisions of
troops from China to New Guinea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Ichi_convoy>
1977:
The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire, leaving 33
people dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Polen_fire>
1980:
Part of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida collapsed after a
pier was struck by the MV Summit Venture, killing 35 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge>
2001:
Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear
gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stampede that
killed 126 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra_Sports_Stadium_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mozzetta:
(Roman Catholicism) A short cape covering the shoulders and buttoned in
front, with a hood, which is worn by the pope, cardinals, bishops, and
other senior clergy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mozzetta>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Peace be with you all! Dear brothers and sisters, this is the
first greeting of the Risen Christ, the good shepherd who gave his life
for the flock of God. I too would like this greeting of peace to enter
your heart, to reach your families, to all people, wherever they are, to
all peoples, to all the earth. Peace be with you!
--Pope Leo XIV
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV>