Pari Khan Khanum (1548–1578) was a Safavid princess, the daughter of
the second Safavid shah, Tahmasp I, and of his Circassian consort,
Sultan-Agha Khanum. Pari Khan played a central role in the succession
crisis after her father's death in 1576. She thwarted the plans of her
brother Haydar Mirza and enthroned her favoured brother, Ismail Mirza,
as Ismail II. Instead of gratitude, she received restrictions and house
arrest, and may have been behind his death in 1577. She endorsed her
brother Mohammad Khodabanda, who was almost blind, expecting to rule
behind the scenes, but his wife, Khayr al-Nisa Begum, emerged as a rival
and procured her killing. Regarded as the most powerful woman in Safavid
history, Pari Khan was able to dominate the ineffective Safavid court in
a society that imposed harsh restrictions on high-class women. Praised
by her contemporaries for her intelligence, in later chronicles she was
portrayed as a villain who murdered two brothers and tried to usurp the
throne.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pari_Khan_Khanum>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1905:
Nadir of American race relations: A mob of white Americans
killed eight people in Oconee County, Georgia, as part of a mass
lynching.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkinsville_lynching>
1960:
The Belgian Congo gained independence from colonial rule,
beginning a period of instability that would lead to the dictatorship of
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis>
1963:
The coronation of Pope Paul VI took place, the last such
ceremony before its abandonment by later popes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Pope_Paul_VI>
2015:
An Indonesian Air Force military transport aircraft crashed
near a residential neighborhood in Medan, killing 139 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Sumatra_Indonesian_Air_Force_C-130_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scandalous:
1. Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so
immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.
2. Of a person: delighted by scandal.
3. Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.
4. (figurative) Exceeding reasonable limits; outrageous.
5. (archaic or obsolete) Of a person: guilty of extremely disgraceful
conduct or some misconduct; infamous; also, unfit for their office or
position due to misconduct, etc.
6. (law) Of information, a statement, etc.: not pertinent to a matter;
irrelevant.
7. (obsolete)
8. Causing offence or trouble.
9. (pathology, uncertain) Of a disease or symptom: putrid, rotting.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scandalous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like
to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure
the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes
introduced from above.
--Czesław Miłosz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz>
The Orphic Hymns are a collection of 87 hymns in ancient Greek,
addressed to various deities. Attributed in antiquity to the mythical
poet Orpheus, they were composed in Asia Minor (in modern-day Turkey),
most likely around the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD, and seem to have
belonged to a cult community which used them in ritual. The collection
is preceded by a proem (or prologue) in which Orpheus addresses the
legendary poet Musaeus. The hymns in the collection, all of which are
brief, typically call for the attention of the deity they address,
describing them and their divinity, and appealing to them with a
request. The first codex containing the Orphic Hymns to reach Western
Europe arrived in Italy in the first half of the 15th century, and in
1500 the first printed edition of the Hymns was published in Florence.
During the Renaissance, some scholars believed that the hymns were a
genuine work of Orpheus; later, a more sceptical wave of scholarship
argued for a dating in late antiquity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphic_Hymns>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1764:
One of the strongest tornadoes in history struck Woldegk in
present-day northeastern Germany, killing one person.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1764_Woldegk_tornado>
1950:
The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in
one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v_England_%281950_FIFA_World_Cu…>
1967:
Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their
driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her
children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor
injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield>
2020:
Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule
violations and antagonizing the company.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mangrove:
1. Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees
chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in
clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of
various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove
(Rhizophora mangle).
2. (by extension)
3. A forest of such shrubs or trees.
4. Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of
genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in
appearance and habitat.
5. (ecology, also attributive) Synonym of mangal (“a tropical and
subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by
mangroves (sense 1) or similar shrubs and trees”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mangrove>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Confuse not love with the ravings of possession, which bring the
worst sufferings. For contrary to the general opinion, love does not
cause suffering. But the instinct of ownership causes suffering, which
is the contrary of love.
--Antoine de Saint Exupéry
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry>
HMS Neptune was a dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in
the first decade of the 20th century, the sole ship of her class. Laid
down at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth, in January 1909, she was the first
British battleship to be built with superfiring guns. Shortly after her
completion in 1911, she carried out trials of an experimental fire-
control director and then became the flagship of the Home Fleet. Neptune
became a private ship in early 1914 and was assigned to the 1st Battle
Squadron. The ship became part of the Grand Fleet when it was formed
shortly after the beginning of the First World War in August 1914.
Aside from participating in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, and the
inconclusive action of 19 August several months later, her service
during the war generally consisted of routine patrols and training in
the North Sea. Neptune was deemed obsolete after the war and was reduced
to reserve before being sold for scrap in 1922 and subsequently broken
up.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Neptune_%281909%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1895:
The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis's
claim to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) of land in present-day Arizona and
New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reavis>
1904:
In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant
ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North
Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Norge>
1950:
Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre,
summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean
sympathizers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre>
1969:
In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York
City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a
watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Pride:
1. A festival or other event, usually involving a march or parade and
organized annually within a city, to celebrate the experiences and
identities of LGBTQ people and to promote their interests and rights.
2. A movement encouraging a positive approach to personal identity
amongst LGBTQ people.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pride>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in
whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty,
to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of
salvation.
--John Wesley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wesley>
Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people are drawn to
professions that fit their name. The term was first used in the magazine
New Scientist in 1994, after its humorous Feedback column mentioned a
book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology
by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. The hypothesis had been
suggested by psychologist Carl Jung, citing as an example Sigmund Freud
(German for 'joy'), who studied pleasure. A few recent empirical studies
have indicated that certain professions are disproportionately
represented by people with appropriate surnames, though the methods of
these studies have been challenged. One explanation for nominative
determinism is the theory of implicit egotism, which states that humans
have an unconscious preference for things they associate with
themselves. An alternative explanation is genetic: an ancestor might
have been named Smith or Taylor according to their occupation, and the
genes they passed down might correlate to aptitudes for those
professions.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1800:
War of the Second Coalition: French forces won a victory at the
Battle of Neuburg, ending Austrian control over the River Danube.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Neuburg_%281800%29>
1905:
First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship
Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Potemkin>
1950:
Korean War: Five North Korean aircraft attacked an American air
convoy above Suwon Air Base in the first air engagement of the Korean
War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Battle_of_South_Korea>
2015:
Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in
New Taipei City, Taiwan, killing 12 people and injuring more than 400
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_New_Taipei_water_park_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
allegory:
1. (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted
to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one,
about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of
such symbols.
2. (countable, by extension)
3. A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more
characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader
message about real-world issues and occurrences.
4. A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or
something else; an emblem, a symbol.
5. (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the
structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing
a high-level generalization of that category.
6. (archaic) Synonym of allegorize.
7. (transitive) To interpret (a picture, story, or other form of
communication) to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world
issues and occurrences.
8. (transitive) To create an allegory (noun sense 2.1) from (a
character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more
symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and
occurrences).
9. (transitive, chiefly religion) Followed by away: to treat (something)
as allegorical or symbolic rather than as truth.
10. (intransitive) To interpret an allegory.
11. (intransitive) To create or use allegory.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allegory>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is happening here. Democracy in America has been a series of
narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to
save us. For that, we have only ourselves
--Bill Moyers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Moyers>
Donkey Kong Land is a platform game developed by Rare and published by
Nintendo for the Game Boy (pictured). Released on June 26, 1995, it
condenses the side-scrolling gameplay of Donkey Kong Country with a
different level design and boss fights. The player controls Donkey Kong
and Diddy Kong as they recover their stolen banana hoard from King K.
Rool. Development began in 1994: Rare's Game Boy programmer, Paul
Machacek, developed Land as an original game rather than a port of
Country, believing that it would be a better use of resources. Land
features pre-rendered graphics converted to sprites through a
compression technique. Rare retooled Country's gameplay to account for
the lower-quality display, and David Wise and Graeme Norgate converted
the soundtrack to the Game Boy's sound chip. Critics praised it as
successfully translating Country's gameplay, visuals, and music to the
Game Boy. Land was rereleased for the Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo
Switch.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_Land>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations
signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations>
1950:
A Douglas DC-4 Skymaster aircraft crashed after departing from
Perth, becoming the worst aviation accident in Australia's peacetime
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Australian_National_Airways_Douglas_DC-4…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
by no means:
(idiomatic) Certainly not; definitely not; not at all.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_no_means>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As social animals, we live in a narrow but apparently logical
world with a well-defined identity and position. But man is the
satellite of a double-star; there is also an inner-world that seems to
have a completely different set of laws from the rational universe. And
in fact, if we judge this 'rational universe' by its own laws, we see
that it is not self-complete and self-explanatory; space must end
somewhere, time must have a stop; but the alternative propositions sound
equally 'logical': space is infinite; time has neither beginning nor
end. The answer to these paradoxes must be that the outer universe is
not self-complete; it is only half a universe. The inner world is the
other half. But at present we know very little about this inner world.
It is only within the present century that its existence has been
clearly recognized by psychology.
--Colin Wilson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson>
The period between 1701 and 1870 saw an expansion in access to formal
education in Wales, though schooling was not yet universal. Several
philanthropic efforts were made to provide education to the poor during
the 18th century. In the early to mid-19th century, charitable schools
were established to provide a basic education. Private schools aimed at
the working classes also existed. State funding was introduced to
schools from 1833. Some use of the Welsh language was made in 18th-
century philanthropic education, at a time when most agricultural
workers in Wales spoke only Welsh, and public opinion was keen for
children to learn English. Many schools punished children for speaking
Welsh, despite government studies that found such methods ineffective.
The government did little to promote bilingual education. Grammar
schools experienced difficulties and, by the end of the period,
secondary education was limited. Dissenter academies and theological
colleges offered higher education.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_Wales_%281701%E2%80%9…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which
prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act>
1944:
World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded
Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of
Cherbourg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Cherbourg>
1978:
The rainbow flag (original version pictured) representing gay
pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_%28LGBTQ%29>
2009:
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of
drugs in his body.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Jackson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
quine:
1. (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.
2. To append (a text) to a quotation of itself.
3. (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of (something
obviously real or important).
4. (botany, obsolete, rare) Of leaves: arranged in whorls of five.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not
as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac …
The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they
see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.
--George Orwell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell>
A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-
degenerate matter, supported against its own gravity only by electron
degeneracy pressure. A white dwarf is very dense: in an Earth sized
volume, it contains a mass comparable to the Sun. What light it radiates
is from its residual heat. White dwarfs are thought to be the final
evolutionary state of stars whose mass is insufficient for them to
become a neutron star or black hole. This includes more than 97% of the
stars in the Milky Way. After the hydrogen-fusing period of such a main-
sequence star ends, it will expand to a red giant and shed its outer
layers, leaving behind a core which is the white dwarf. This, very hot
when it forms, cools as it radiates its energy until its material begins
to crystallize into a cold black dwarf. The oldest known white dwarfs
still radiate at temperatures of a few thousand kelvins, which
establishes an observational limit on the maximum possible age of the
universe.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1717:
The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge
of England, was founded in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Grand_Lodge_of_England>
1724:
On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first
performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third
cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_unser_Herr_zum_Jordan_kam,_BWV_7>
1943:
Amid racial tensions, U.S. Army military police shot and killed
a black serviceman after a confrontation at a pub in Bamber Bridge,
England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge>
2010:
Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister
of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership
spill in the Labor Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
supracargo:
1. (historical) An officer on board a merchant ship who is in charge of
the cargo and its sale; also, if there are two of such officers, the
senior one, the other being the subcargo.
2. (obsolete) An agent or representative of a company in charge of its
overseas business.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supracargo>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Revelation, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine
concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators,
who know nothing.
--Ambrose Bierce
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce>
The Battle of Groix was fought on 23 June 1795 off the Biscay coast of
Brittany between elements of the British Channel Fleet, commanded by
Admiral Lord Bridport, and the French Atlantic Fleet, under Vice-admiral
Villaret de Joyeuse. The British fleet of 14 ships of the line was
covering an invasion convoy when it encountered the 12 French ships of
the line returning to base at Brest. Villaret ordered his force to take
shelter in protected coastal waters, but several ships fell behind.
After fierce fights, three French ships were captured; the remainder
became scattered and were vulnerable, but Bridport, concerned by the
rocky coastline, called off the action. Most historians have considered
Bridport's retirement from the battle to be premature, and concluded
that an opportunity to destroy the French fleet may have been
squandered. The French were trapped in Lorient where food supplies ran
out, crippling the fleet. Several French captains were court-martialled
following the battle.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Groix>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1894:
Led by French historian Pierre de Coubertin, an international
congress at the Sorbonne in Paris formed the International Olympic
Committee to revive the ancient Olympic Games.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin>
1985:
A bomb attributed to the Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa
destroyed Air India Flight 182 above the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 329
on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182>
2014:
Under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 2118, the
last of Syria's declared chemical weapons were shipped out for
destruction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
glass ceiling:
1. An unrecognized or unwritten barrier to further progression or
promotion, in employment and elsewhere, for a member of a specific
demographic group (originally women).
2. (figurative) A barrier to progression that is not obvious.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glass_ceiling>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace.
This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not
be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites
conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral
responsibility to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an
irreparable chasm. There are no "distant" conflicts when human dignity
is at stake. War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies
them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take
generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of
mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence
the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not
with violence and bloodstained conflicts!
--Pope Leo XIV
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV>
Scott Carpenter (1925–2013) was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts
selected for NASA's Project Mercury. In 1962, Carpenter flew the
Mercury-Atlas 7 mission to become the second American to orbit Earth
and the fourth to fly into space. His spacecraft, which he named
Aurora 7, malfunctioned and landed 250 miles (400 km) from its
intended splashdown point. In 1964, Carpenter took a leave of absence to
join the U.S. Navy's SEALAB project. During aquanaut training, he
suffered injuries that grounded him, making him unavailable for further
spaceflights. In 1965, he spent 28 days on the ocean floor as part of
SEALAB II. He returned to NASA as Executive Assistant to the Director
of the Manned Spacecraft Center. He retired from NASA in 1967 and the
Navy in 1969, with the rank of commander. Carpenter became a consultant
on space flight and oceanography. He appeared in television commercials
and wrote a pair of technothrillers and an autobiography.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Carpenter>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1911:
King George V and Queen Mary (both pictured) were crowned at
Westminster Abbey in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck>
1941:
World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the
Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to
liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Uprising_in_Lithuania>
1979:
Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted
of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a
relationship with him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair>
2002:
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northwestern Iran, killing at
least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others; the official response,
perceived to be slow, later caused widespread public anger.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bou%27in-Zahra_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
modder:
(informal) Often preceded by a descriptive word: one who modifies a
mass-manufactured object, especially computer hardware or software, or a
motor vehicle.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/modder>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Art is no isolated, unconnected, or inexplicable phenomenon. It
draws its life from the life of the universe, and with the universe it
ascends from epoch to epoch towards the Almighty. It owes its power over
the souls of men to that collective life — even as the trees and
plants draw their life from earth, the common mother; and its power
would be destroyed should it attempt to forsake its source.
--Giuseppe Mazzini
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Mazzini>
Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798) was a German pastor and
naturalist. After studying theology at the University of Halle, Forster
was hired in 1765 by Russia to inspect its colonies on the Volga; his
report was critical and he left for England unpaid. Forster succeeded
Joseph Priestley at Warrington Academy, and published a mineralogy
textbook and translations of foreign works. After Joseph Banks withdrew
from James Cook's second voyage, Forster became the naturalist on Cook's
ship. On the journey, they made the first recorded crossing of the
Antarctic Circle and observations and discoveries in New Zealand and
Polynesia. Amid disputes with Cook over who should publish accounts of
the journey, Forster published his scientific Observations Made During a
Voyage Round the World. Having alienated many powerful men in England,
Forster returned to Germany, becoming a professor at Halle; he died in
1798. He is commemorated in the names of species, including the genera
Forstera and Forsterygion.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Reinhold_Forster>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1848:
In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and
Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government in present-day
Romania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848>
1898:
In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the
United States captured Guam from Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Guam>
1919:
During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the
Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with
clubs and revolvers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_general_strike>
1948:
The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first
stored-program computer, ran its first program.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tickle the ivories:
(intransitive, music, informal) To play a piano or other keyboard
instrument.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tickle_the_ivories>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the
mind and the harmony of the soul creates the symphony of life.
--B. K. S. Iyengar
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar>