Hume MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on
the Downtown Line (DTL) in Singapore. Featuring a colour scheme of
green, yellow, and white, the station has two exits and serves the Bukit
Timah Nature Reserve, the Rail Corridor, and the Former Ford Factory,
the latter of which is depicted in the Art-in-Transit artwork
Continuity. The station was initially built only with structural
provisions due to a lack of projected ridership, with works completed in
2014. Following petitions by nearby residents to improve connectivity
around the area, the government announced the start of construction of
the remaining facilities in March 2019. Fitting-out works began in
February 2021, and the station opened on 28 February 2025, ahead of
the original deadline of the second quarter of the same year. Hume was
the first underground infill station on the Singapore MRT network.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hume_MRT_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of
Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranavalona_III>
1928:
Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered
what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the
first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman>
1975:
A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal
Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash>
2002:
During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs
of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting
in 166 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbarg_Society_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
metamour:
1. (uncommon) In a polyamorous relationship: one's partner's partner,
with whom one is not directly involved.
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know, I know that
it's true. Don't say that this is the end Instead of breaking up I
wish that we were making up again.
--Neil Sedaka
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Sedaka>
Fort Southerland is a redoubt built during the American Civil War to
protect Camden, Arkansas. Confederate forces built it along with four
other redoubts in early 1864 after a Union victory in the Little Rock
campaign the previous year. Fort Southerland is about the size of a city
block and is roughly oval. It could hold three cannons. When Union
forces captured Camden in April 1864 during the Camden Expedition, they
improved the defenses of the five redoubts, which were not sufficient
for proper defense of the city. After the Confederates retook Camden
later that month, they continued to improve the city's defenses. The
fort lies within Fort Southerland Park, a municipal park dedicated in
1974. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994,
and is part of the Camden Expedition Sites National Historic Landmark.
Along with Fort Lookout, it is one of only two of the redoubts around
Camden still in existence. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Southerland>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
Peninsular War: In the south of France, Spanish, British and
Portuguese soldiers under the command of the Marquess of Wellington
defeated French soldiers in the Battle of Orthez, causing the French to
retreat east.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orthez>
1988:
The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the target
of a violent pogrom (memorial pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumgait_pogrom>
1996:
The multimedia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release
of the video games Pocket Monsters Red and Green.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red,_Blue,_and_Yellow>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
airing:
1. (uncountable) Exposure of something to the air, especially fresh or
warm air for the purpose of ventilating or drying; (countable) an
instance of this.
2. (countable) An act of taking an animal (especially a dog or horse)
into the open air for exercise.
3. (countable, dated) An act of riding or walking in the open air for
exercise or leisure.
4. (figurative)
5. (countable) An act of broadcasting a radio or television show; a
broadcasting.
6. (uncountable) Public disclosure or discussion of a subject, or
expression of an opinion; (countable) an instance of this.
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<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/airing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of
power.
--John Steinbeck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck>
Mary Fortune (1832–1911) was an Australian writer who was one of the
earliest female authors of detective fiction. Born in Ireland, she lived
in Canada before moving to the Australian goldfields in 1855. She began
writing for local newspapers soon after her arrival, and was a prolific
pseudonymous contributor to The Australian Journal for more than four
decades. Her writing primarily consisted of short crime stories –
including her best-known work, the 500-story series The Detective's
Album (pictured) – but also included serial novels, journalism,
poetry, and a memoir. She also wrote romances, Gothic fiction, and ghost
stories. Her writing drew on her experiences in the goldfields and in
Melbourne's rapidly urbanising environment; she often criticised
colonial society and its treatment of women. Despite her popularity as a
writer, Fortune experienced unstable housing and alcoholism, and died in
poverty. Her identity, obscured by pseudonyms, was not rediscovered
until the 1950s. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fortune>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1914:
RMS Britannic, the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner
of the White Star Line after RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, was launched
at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic>
1979:
The Superliner railcar entered revenue service with Amtrak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superliner_%28railcar%29>
1995:
Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared
insolvent after its head derivatives trader in Singapore, Nick Leeson,
lost £827 million while making unauthorised trades on futures
contracts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson>
2014:
Former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Kevin
Lau was stabbed, prompting concerns and protests about media freedom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_attack_on_Kevin_Lau>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
turn up one's nose:
1. To tilt one's face upwards slightly, thus raising one's nose, and
often to look downwards at someone, as a sign of contempt, disgust, or
scorn.
2. (idiomatic) Followed by at.
3. To refuse something offered, especially with contempt, disgust, or
scorn, or with apparent disregard about offending the offerer.
4. To regard or treat someone with contempt or scorn; to scorn; also, to
disregard or ignore someone in a contemptuous or scornful way.
5. About Word of the Day
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What a difference a president makes. A short time ago we were a
dead country, now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world, the
hottest. As thousands of new businesses are forming and factories,
plants and laboratories are being built, we have added 70,000 new
construction jobs in just a very short period of time. It's getting
bigger and bigger and stronger. Nobody can believe what they're
watching. American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a
day and we just received from our new friend and partner, Venezuela,
more than 80 million barrels of oil.
--Donald Trump
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Trump>
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
is a 2001 non-fiction book by the historian Eamon Duffy. It concerns
Morebath, England, during the English Reformation of the 16th century.
Using the churchwarden's accounts maintained by Sir Christopher Trychay,
the vicar of Morebath's parish, Duffy recounts the religious and social
implications of the Reformation in a small conservative Catholic
community through the reign of Henry VIII, during the violent 1549
Prayer Book Rebellion, and into the Elizabethan era. Trychay's
accounts – first reprinted in 1904 – had been used in other
scholarly works and were first encountered by Duffy in 1992. Duffy's
work depicts both Morebath and Trychay through their strong early
resistance to the Reformation to their eventual adoption of new
religious norms under the Protestant Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
In 2002, the work won the Hawthornden Prize and the book was shortlisted
for both the Samuel Johnson Prize and British Academy Book Prize.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voices_of_Morebath>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1933:
USS Ranger, the United States Navy's first purpose-built
aircraft carrier, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ranger_%28CV-4%29>
1951:
After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural
edition of the Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Games>
1994:
Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian
Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs,
killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre>
2009:
At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh
Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Rifles_revolt>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
atomy:
1. A tiny particle; an atom, a mote, a speck.
2. A floating mote or speck of dust.
3. (archaic) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of
something; an atom.
4. (figurative, archaic except UK, dialectal) A very small being; a
mite.
5. (archaic) A skeleton.
6. (figurative)
7. (UK, dialectal) A person who is very emaciated or thin; a skeleton.
8. (obsolete) Chiefly in the works of the English author Charles Dickens
(1812–1870): a thing which is very slender and weak.
9. About Word of the Day
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<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atomy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are too many ironies in the fire!
--John Leonard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Leonard>
Alan Kent Haruf (1943–2014) was an American writer born and raised in
Colorado. He wrote six novels and several short stories set on the High
Plains. As a young man Haruf enrolled in the Peace Corps in lieu of
military service before receiving a master's degree from the University
of Iowa. He initially struggled to establish a career as a writer. Haruf
spent years teaching English at a high school and at universities. His
writing was first published in 1984 when he was 41. Commercial success
eluded him until the publication of Plainsong in 1999, which became a
bestseller. Throughout Haruf's career, critics praised his spare and
elegant prose, authentic portrayals of rural life, and attention to the
beauty found in ordinary things, although he was occasionally criticized
for redundancy. A Colorado magazine, 5280, wrote that Haruf is "widely
considered Colorado's finest novelist", and the Dublin Review of Books
called his work "both uniquely American and profoundly universal".
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
Napoleonic Wars: The British invasion of Martinique ended with
the unconditional surrender of French admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de
Joyeuse, beginning a five-year occupation of the island.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29>
1979:
Uganda–Tanzania War: Ugandan government forces fled Masaka as
the Tanzania People's Defence Force bombarded and captured the town.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Masaka>
1989:
United Airlines Flight 811 experienced uncontrolled
decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii,
blowing seats out of the aircraft and killing nine passengers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
beset:
1. (transitive) Senses relating to surrounding.
2. To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about.
3. To occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to
prevent people from passing.
4. (chiefly passive voice) To decorate (someone or something) by
surrounding with accessories, etc.
5. (archaic) Followed by with: to encircle or surround (someone or
something); to hem in.
6. (nautical, chiefly passive voice) To trap (a ship) within frozen sea;
to ice in.
7. (figurative) Of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively
affect (someone or something); to trouble.
8. (often military, archaic) Of soldiers, etc.: to surround (a place) to
compel surrender; to besiege.
9. (obsolete) To capture (an animal); to ensnare, to entrap. [...]
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and
now they sleep side by side ...To them, we have a solemn obligation —
the obligation to ensure that their sacrifice will help make this a
better and safer world in which to live.
--Chester W. Nimitz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz>
The First Jewish–Roman War (66–73/74 CE) was the first of three
major Jewish rebellions against the Roman Empire. Fought in the province
of Judaea, it was bloodily supressed and resulted in the destruction of
Jerusalem and the Second Temple. After the client kingdom of Judaea was
annexed as a Roman province in 6 CE, tensions grew due to harsh
governance and social, ethnic, and religious divisions. Open revolt
erupted after the Roman governor Gessius Florus looted the temple in
Jerusalem and killed many civilians. Early rebel successes included the
defeat of Cestius Gallus at Bethoron, but Roman forces under Vespasian
and later his son Titus reconquered the province. Jerusalem fell in
70 CE after a devastating siege, and the last resistance ended with the
fall of Masada. The war profoundly reshaped Jewish history and religion,
accelerated the separation between early Christianity and Judaism,
strengthened the Flavian dynasty, and set the stage for the later
catastrophic Bar Kokhba revolt. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
The Orange River Convention was signed in Bloemfontein, with
the United Kingdom agreeing to recognise the independence of the Orange
Free State in present-day South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_River_Convention>
1886:
American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive
method of producing aluminium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martin_Hall>
1987:
SN 1987A, the first supernova that modern astronomers were
able to study in great detail, was observed from Earth occurring in the
Large Magellanic Cloud.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A>
2021:
Riots in four Ecuadorian prisons, caused by gang rivalries,
resulted in the deaths of 79 inmates.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2021_Ecuadorian_prison_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
plash:
1. (transitive)
2. (also figurative) To hit (someone or something) with water or some
other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
3. To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid
colouring matter.
4. (chiefly Shetland, archaic) To agitate or plunge into (water or some
other liquid), causing it to splash.
5. (intransitive)
6. To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing
sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
7. (also figurative) Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or
to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
8. (chiefly Shetland, archaic) To hit someone or something with water or
some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
9. A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other
liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act
causing this sound; a splash.
10. (UK, dialectal) A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
11. (figurative, obsolete, rare) A splash of light on a surface. [...]
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply
for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
--W. E. B. Du Bois
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois>
Donkey Kong is a character created by Shigeru Miyamoto (pictured) for
the Japanese video game company Nintendo. He stars in the Donkey Kong
franchise while also appearing in the Mario franchise. Donkey Kong is a
large, powerful gorilla who leads the Kong family of simians. Stubborn
and buffoonish, he attacks using barrels. Donkey Kong debuted as the
antagonist in Donkey Kong (1981), characterized as Mario's rebellious
pet. Since Donkey Kong Country (1994), he has appeared as a player
character protecting his stash of bananas. Donkey Kong has also appeared
in animation, comics, children's books, theme park attractions, and
merchandise such as Lego toys. Journalists regard Donkey Kong as one of
the greatest video game characters. The Donkey Kong franchise was
Nintendo's first major international success and remains one of its
bestselling franchises. Donkey Kong has been the subject of analysis
regarding his gender role and his transition from villain to hero.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_%28character%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1959:
Lee Petty won the first edition of the Daytona 500, a NASCAR
auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500>
1974:
Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at
Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of
crashing it into the White House to assassinate U.S. president Richard
Nixon, but he was stopped by police.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck>
2019:
A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain,
and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Hertz donut:
1. (US, humorous) A supposed snack offered to a person as a prank; if
they accept, they are punched or otherwise hurt in some way.
2. About Word of the Day
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<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hertz_donut>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Altho' I pretend to no peculiar information respecting commercial
affairs, nor any foresight into the scenes of futurity; yet as the
member of an infant-empire, as a Philanthropist by character, and (if I
may be allowed the expression) as a Citizen of the great republic of
humanity at large; I cannot help turning my attention sometimes to this
subject. I would be understood to mean, I cannot avoid reflecting with
pleasure on the probable influence that commerce may here after have on
human manners & society in general. On these occasions I consider how
mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties — I
endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is
evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must
still be progressive — that nations are becoming more humanized in
their policy — that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility
are daily diminishing — and in fine, that the period is not very
remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty
generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>
Zhang Jingsheng (20 February 1888 – 18 June 1970) was a Chinese
philosopher and sexologist. Born to merchants in rural Guangdong, he was
a militant supporter of the Tongmenghui revolutionaries. After being
expelled from school, Zhang entered Peking University and became an
advocate for European ideas of social Darwinism, scientific racism, and
eugenics. He changed his personal name to Jingsheng, meaning
'competition for survival'. After the 1911 Revolution, Zhang went to
France to study philosophy, receiving his doctorate in 1919. He soon
became a professor at Peking, publishing two books advocating for a
utopian society arranged around aesthetics. In 1926, he published the
sexology text Sex Histories. Zhang was ridiculed by the Chinese media
and academia for this work, and tabloids gave him the mocking nickname
Dr. Sex. After an unsuccessful bookstore venture in Shanghai, he
returned home and worked in obscurity. Zhang was persecuted during the
Cultural Revolution and died in confinement. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Jingsheng>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
Polish insurgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising
(depicted) attempting to incite a fight for national independence that
was put down by the Austrian Empire nine days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_Uprising>
1931:
Paraguayan anarchists briefly seized the city of Encarnación
as part of a larger plan to initiate a social revolution in the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_of_Encarnaci%C3%B3n>
1943:
The Saturday Evening Post published the first of Norman
Rockwell's Four Freedoms, among the most widely distributed paintings
ever produced, in support of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four
Freedoms.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms_%28Rockwell%29>
1965:
The NASA spacecraft Ranger 8 spacecraft transmitted 7,137
photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before
crashing as planned into Mare Tranquillitatis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_8>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
precarity:
1. (uncountable) Synonym of precariousness (“the state of being
uncertain or unstable”); (countable) an instance of this.
2. (sociology, specifically, uncountable) The condition of existence
without predictability or security, thus affecting material or
psychological welfare; (countable) an instance of this.
3. About Word of the Day
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Crimes have all had their defenses and apologies. Prejudice of
race and color has been equally upheld. The two best arguments in the
defense are, first, the worthlessness of the class against which it is
directed; and, second, that the feeling itself is entirely natural. The
way to overcome the first argument is to work for the elevation of those
deemed worthless, and thus make them worthy of regard, and they will
soon become worthy and not worthless. As to the natural argument, it may
be said that nature has many sides. Many things are in a certain sense
natural, which are neither wise nor best. It is natural to walk, but
shall men therefore refuse to ride? It is natural to ride on horseback,
shall men therefore refuse steam and rail?
--Frederick Douglass
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass>
"Mindful" is a hip-hop and R&B; song by American singer K. Michelle
(pictured) from her third studio album More Issues Than Vogue (2016).
T-Pain wrote and produced the song. Footage of Michelle recording the
song was used in an episode of her reality television series
K. Michelle: My Life. "Mindful" was released by Atlantic Records as the
album's third single on February 19, 2016. Throughout the track,
Michelle raps the lyrics and warns critics to be "mindful" of her. Some
reviewers noted that its uptempo production differed from Michelle's
previous singles, and she stated that it was one of the first times she
recorded a more light-hearted song. Critics praised Michelle's rapping
on "Mindful" and called it a highlight of her singles. The song's music
video, released on March 10, 2016, portrays Michelle arguing with women
in a trailer park, and was described by reviewers as colorful.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindful_%28song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1931:
The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (flag pictured) was
dissolved and reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist
Republic, an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhaz_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic>
1942:
A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Day>
2006:
A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva Rosita, Mexico,
trapped and killed 65 miners.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta_de_Conchos_mine_disaster>
2011:
Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single
collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first
exhibited in Singapore.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belitung_shipwreck>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
aardwolf:
1. A nocturnal, insectivorous mammal, Proteles cristatus, having
yellowish fur with vertical black stripes, and a long mane down the
midline of the neck and back; it is related to and resembles the hyena,
and is native to eastern and southern Africa.
2. About Word of the Day
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what
I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction, but only if
it kind of supplements what I want to do. If I have instincts that I
feel are right, I don’t want anybody to tamper with them.
--Robert Duvall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Duvall>
Ælfwynn (died 8 July 983) was a member of a wealthy Anglo-Saxon family
in Huntingdonshire. In about 932 she married Æthelstan, the powerful
ealdorman of East Anglia, who was called the Half-King because monarchs
were said to depend on his advice. Ælfwynn is chiefly known for having
been foster-mother to the future king, Edgar (ruled 959–975),
following his mother's death in 944, when he was an infant. Æthelstan
was a leading supporter of the monastic reform movement; Edgar's
upbringing in reforming circles profoundly influenced him, and he became
a strong ally of the movement as king. Ælfwynn had four sons, and the
youngest, Æthelwine, became the chief secular magnate and a leading
monastic reformer like his father. In 966 he was a co-founder of Ramsey
Abbey. Ælfwynn donated her estates to the foundation in the same year,
including one given to her by Edgar, and was probably buried there. She
may have played a crucial role in Ramsey's establishment.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfwynn,_wife_of_%C3%86thelstan_Half-King>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1766:
Enslaved Malagasy captives on the Dutch East India Company
slave ship Meermin began a mutiny that led to the ship's destruction on
Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the
instigators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meermin_slave_mutiny>
1943:
The core members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance
group, were arrested by the Gestapo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose>
1946:
President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, annulling
benefits payable to Filipino troops who fought for the U.S. during World
War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescission_Act>
2001:
American FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested for having spied
for the KGB and GRU over a 22-year period.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
smatter:
1. (transitive)
2. (also figurative, obsolete) To make (someone or something) dirty; to
bespatter, to soil.
3. (by extension, US) To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to
splash, to spatter.
4. (figurative)
5. To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to
dabble in.
6. To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of
it.
7. (intransitive)
8. (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
9. (figurative)
10. To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
11. (obsolete) To talk ignorantly or superficially; to babble, to
chatter.
12. Synonym of smattering.
13. A shallow or superficial knowledge of a subject.
14. A small amount or number of something.
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep
hope alive! Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive!
--Jesse Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson>