Swift Justice is an American detective drama television series created
by Dick Wolf (pictured) and Richard Albarino that aired for one season
on UPN from March 13 to July 17, 1996. It follows former Navy SEAL Mac
Swift (James McCaffrey), a private investigator who was fired from the
New York City Police Department. He receives support from his former
partner Detective Randall Patterson (Gary Dourdan) and his father Al
Swift (Len Cariou). Episodes were filmed on location in New York.
Critics noted its emphasis on violence, specifically in the pilot
episode's opening sequence, comparing it to the crime drama The
Equalizer (1985–1989) and the 1988 film Die Hard. UPN canceled the
program after receiving complaints from viewers, advertisers, and
critics of its violent scenes. Wolf considered the cancellation a
mistake due to the show's good ratings. The series was praised for its
visuals and McCaffrey's performance, but criticized as being either too
violent or formulaic. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Justice>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The eruption of Ritter Island triggered tsunamis that killed up
to 3,000 people on nearby islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888_Ritter_Island_eruption_and_tsunami>
1986:
Claiming the right of innocent passage, the American warships
Yorktown and Caron entered Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Black_Sea_incident>
2013:
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis,
making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the
first from the Southern Hemisphere.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
forty winks:
1. (idiomatic, informal) A short sleep, especially when taken during the
day; a nap.
2. About Word of the Day
3. Nominate a word
4. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forty_winks>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is
grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something
religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of
physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any
other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element
in it — the element of the sacred.
--Mircea Eliade
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade>
The Young Head coinage consists of the issues of British coins with an
obverse bust of Queen Victoria first used in 1838 while she was still a
teenager. The bust was designed by William Wyon and remained on some
British coins until 1887, by which time she was almost 70 years of age
and had ceased to resemble her depiction. The young queen sat for Wyon
in August and September 1837. Wyon then created his coinage portrait of
her, which was approved in February 1838, and production began later
that year. Some of the new coins had reverses by Wyon, others by Jean
Baptiste Merlen. The new issue produced generally favourable reactions,
especially the Una and the Lion reverse used for the five-pound piece.
The Young Head portrait was finally replaced by the Jubilee bust in
1887. Wyon's Young Head bust was reproduced on coins for British
dependencies and imitated on private issues of tokens. Both the portrait
and the Una reverse appeared on British commemorative coins in 2019.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Head_coinage>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1913:
At a ceremony at Kurrajong Hill, Lady Denman, wife of Governor-
General Lord Denman, announced that the future capital of Australia
would be called Canberra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra>
1940:
The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War
between Finland and the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War>
1971:
The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum",
forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorandum>
2006:
U.S. Army soldiers gang-raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and
murdered her along with her family members.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
protrude:
1. (transitive)
2. To cause (something) to extend above, beyond, or from a boundary or
surface; to cause (something) to project or stick out.
3. (obsolete)
4. (also figurative) To thrust (someone or something) forward; to drive
or force along.
5. (figurative) To put forward (an opinion, etc.) in an overly assertive
manner; to obtrude.
6. (rare) To cause (something) to emerge.
7. (intransitive)
8.
9. To extend above, beyond, or from a boundary or surface; to bulge
outward, to project, to stick out.
10. (obsolete) To emerge with some speed; to shoot out.
11. About Word of the Day
12. Nominate a word
13. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/protrude>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship
between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually
true.
--Edward Albee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Albee>
The Duckport Canal was constructed by Union forces during the Vicksburg
campaign of the American Civil War. Ordered built in late March 1863 by
Major General Ulysses S. Grant, the canal stretched from the Mississippi
River near Duckport, Louisiana, to New Carthage, Louisiana, and utilized
a series of bayous for much of its path. It was intended to provide a
water-based supply route for a southward movement against Confederate-
held Vicksburg, Mississippi (area map shown), as high water levels made
overland travel difficult. The digging was done by 3,500 soldiers from
Grant's army and was finished on April 12. The next day, the levee
separating the canal cut and the river was breached, and water flowed
into the canal. Trees in the bayous and water levels as low as 6 inches
(15 cm) hampered the use of the canal, and the project was abandoned on
May 4. Only one vessel ever passed from the river to New Carthage
through the canal. After a lengthy siege, Vicksburg surrendered on July
4. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckport_Canal>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1968:
Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao
forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of
Lima Site 85.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lima_Site_85>
1977:
Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered
a faint ring system around Uranus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Uranus>
2008:
The New York Times revealed that Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New
York, had patronized a prostitution ring.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal>
2019:
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after take-
off from Addis Ababa International Airport due to a fault within the
software of the plane, resulting in the deaths of all 157 people on
board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
telephone:
1. (transitive)
2. To convey (information, a message, news, etc.) using a telephone
(noun sense 1).
3. To (attempt to) contact (someone) using a telephone.
4. (obsolete)
5. To provide (a place) with a telephone system.
6. To transmit (sounds) over a distance.
7. (intransitive) To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone; to
make a telephone call.
8. About Word of the Day
9. Nominate a word
10. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telephone>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in
the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a
fiery stream of eternal creation.
--Friedrich Schlegel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schlegel>
The Zungeni Mountain skirmish took place on 5 June 1879 between British
and Zulu forces in what is now South Africa during the later stages of
the Anglo-Zulu War. British irregular cavalry discovered a force of 300
Zulus at the settlement of eZulaneni near Zungeni Mountain. The horsemen
charged and scattered the Zulus, burnt the settlement, and withdrew
after coming under fire from Zulus who threatened to surround them.
Reinforced by more irregulars and a force of regular cavalry, two
British squadrons approached the Zulu position, but could not close as
the Zulus were in an area of bushes and long grass. Zulu fire killed a
British officer; the British withdrew after the Zulus moved to outflank
them. British casualties were one killed and two wounded; two months
later, the remains of 25 Zulus were found on the battlefield. After the
skirmish the British paused before proceeding further into Zululand,
where they decisively defeated the Zulus at the 4 July Battle of Ulundi.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zungeni_Mountain_skirmish>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1891:
Kaʻiulani was appointed the heir apparent to the throne of the
Hawaiian Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%CA%BBiulani>
1925:
The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign
against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South
Waziristan, present-day Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%27s_War>
1956:
In Tbilisi, Georgia, soldiers suppressed mass demonstrations
against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations>
1957:
The Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Hawaii and the Aleutian
Islands, causing more than $5 million in damage from ground movement
and a destructive tsunami.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Andreanof_Islands_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
economics:
1. (dated) Now chiefly home economics: the art or science of household
management, especially relating to the appropriate organization of
resources; housekeeping.
2. Management of household finances; also, the financial situation of a
household.
3. (by extension, social sciences) The study of resource and wealth
allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment,
and of management of the factors of production.
4. Chiefly with a descriptive word: the application of this study to a
particular domain.
5. The financial situation of a nation, state, etc.
6. (with plural agreement) Chiefly followed by of: the financial aspects
of an activity, enterprise, etc.
7. About Word of the Day
8. Nominate a word
9. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/economics>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me
I don't give a damn Next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six, seven,
open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopie! We're all gonna die!
--Country Joe McDonald
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Country_Joe_McDonald>
Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) was a Puerto Rican labor organizer,
writer, and cigar factory reader—a person whose job is to read aloud
to cigar factory workers. She began writing for her local paper in 1904.
In 1905, she became involved with a local anarcho-syndicalist union,
organizing an agricultural strike in her hometown of Arecibo and
eventually becoming a leader in the union. Starting in 1912, she
journeyed across the Atlantic and Caribbean, organizing workers, and in
1915, she was arrested in Cuba for wearing trousers. She was deported
back to Puerto Rico but continued to travel and organize until her
death. Capetillo published four books in her lifetime, covering a wide
variety of forms, genres, and topics. She advocated for free love,
universal education, and women's liberation. Interest in her life surged
in 1990 with the publication of a biography by journalist Norma Valle
Ferrer. Capetillo is considered one of Puerto Rico's earliest feminists.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Capetillo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to
receive a pilot's licence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymonde_de_Laroche>
1963:
The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of
quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National
Council for the Revolutionary Command.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1979:
Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on
Io, a moon of Jupiter.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Io>
2014:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris
subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
executrix:
1. (archaic, rare) A female person who executes or carries out
something.
2. (specifically, law) A female person appointed to execute the wishes
of a deceased person as stated in their will; a female executor.
3. About Word of the Day
4. Nominate a word
5. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/executrix>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Definitions, like questions and metaphors, are instruments for
thinking. Their authority rests entirely on their usefulness, not their
correctness. We use definitions in order to delineate problems we wish
to investigate, or to further interests we wish to promote. In other
words, we invent definitions and discard them as suits our purposes. And
yet, one gets the impression that... God has provided us with
definitions from which we depart at the risk of losing our immortal
souls. This is the belief that I have elsewhere called "definition
tyranny," which may be defined … as the process of accepting without
criticism someone else's definition of a word or a problem or a
situation. I can think of no better method of freeing students from this
obstruction of the mind than to provide them with alternative
definitions of every concept and term with which they must deal in a
subject. Whether it be "molecule," "fact," "law," "art," "wealth,"
"gene," or whatever, it is essential that students understand that
definitions are hypotheses, and that embedded in them is a particular
philosophical, sociological, or epistemological point of view.
--Neil Postman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Postman>
"Mean" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter
Taylor Swift (pictured), and is from her third studio album, Speak Now
(2010). Big Machine Records released it to US country radio on March 7,
2011. Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, "Mean" is a six-string
banjo-led country, country pop, and bluegrass track that incorporates
fiddles and mandolins. In the lyrics, Swift addresses her detractors and
strives to overcome the criticism and achieve success. Several
publications have listed "Mean" as one of the best country songs. It won
Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance at the 2012 Grammy
Awards. The track received certifications in Australia, Brazil, Canada,
New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The music video,
which features themes of self-empowerment and anti-bullying, garnered
multiple industry nominations. Swift included "Mean" in the set lists of
the Speak Now World Tour (2011–2012) and the Red Tour (2013–2014).
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_%28song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1900:
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the
first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_der_Grosse>
1936:
Nazi German forces re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland,
violating both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties that
were signed after World War I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remilitarisation_of_the_Rhineland>
1945:
World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied
forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly
hastened the war's conclusion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen>
1968:
Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began
Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong
Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Truong_Cong_Dinh>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ignominiously:
1. In a manner which is ignominious (“especially of a person: deserving
of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable; (generally) causing
or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also
(loosely), humiliating, shameful”).
2. About Word of the Day
3. Nominate a word
4. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignominiously>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant
or trifling.
--John Herschel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Herschel>
Paradises Lost is a science fiction novella by American author Ursula K.
Le Guin (pictured), first published in 2002 in the collection The
Birthday of the World. Set during a multigenerational voyage from Earth
to a potentially habitable planet, it follows two members of the fifth
generation born aboard the vessel as the ship's society responds to the
prospect of landing on a planet after generations spent in space. The
novella explores the isolation brought on by space travel, as well as
themes of religion and utopia. It has elements of ecocriticism, a
critique of the idea that human beings are altogether separate from
their natural environment. Scholar Max Haiven described the novella as
"a chastening lesson in both the potential and the perils of freedom",
while author Margaret Atwood said that it "shows us our own natural
world as a freshly discovered Paradise Regained, a realm of wonder". The
novella has been anthologized as well as adapted into an opera of the
same name. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradises_Lost>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1447:
Tommaso Parentucelli was elected as Pope Nicholas V in Rome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_V>
1904:
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs
Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land was discovered by the Scotia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Speirs_Bruce>
1988:
The Troubles: In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service
killed three volunteers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flavius>
2000:
The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of
which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Parade_Community_Building>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
forbearance:
1. (uncountable) The action of forbearing (“abstaining or refraining
from doing something”); (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable) The action of refraining from enforcing something which
is due (such as a debt or obligation) or a right which one has;
(countable) an instance of this.
3. (uncountable) Restraint and tolerance under provocation; patient
self-control; indulgence, lenity.
4. About Word of the Day
5. Nominate a word
6. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbearance>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I reiterate, . . nothing's small! No lily-muffled hum of a
summer-bee, But finds some coupling with the spinning stars; No pebble
at your foot, but proves a sphere; No chaffinch, but implies the
cherubim: And, — glancing on my own thin, veined wrist, — In such
a little tremour of the blood The whole strong clamour of a vehement
soul Doth utter itself distinct. Earth's crammed with heaven, And
every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his
shoes, The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, And daub their
natural faces unaware More and more, from the first similitude.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning>
Elizabeth Lyon (fl. c. 1722–1726) was an English thief and
prostitute. By 1723, she was working in London as a prostitute at the
Black Lyon alehouse, where she began a relationship with Jack Sheppard.
At Lyon's instigation, Sheppard stole from places where he worked, then
moved to housebreaking; Lyon became an accomplice to his crimes.
Sheppard was arrested on several occasions and broke out soon after
incarceration, often assisted by Lyon. In May 1724, she was arrested
when visiting him in prison, and the pair broke out of New Prison
(pictured). After Sheppard's execution in November 1724, Lyon entered
into relationships with other men who were, or became, involved in
housebreaking, and she sometimes assisted them. She was arrested in
March 1726 and was transported to Maryland. Lyon's notoriety is based
on her connection to Sheppard; in the years following his execution,
novels were published and plays performed that retold their story.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lyon_%28criminal%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1825:
Roberto Cofresí, one of the last Caribbean pirates, was
apprehended after his flagship sloop Anne was captured by authorities.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_sloop_Anne>
1936:
The prototype of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first
time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire>
1981:
The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by
Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units
around the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
aflame:
1. Often preceded by set: in or into flames; so as to be burned by fire.
2. (figurative) Often preceded by set.
3. In or into a colour like that of a flame.
4. In or into a state of great activity or emotion (anger, excitement,
etc.).
5. With flames coming from it; burning, flaming, in flames, on fire.
6. (figurative)
7. Having the colour of a flame.
8. In a state of great activity or emotion (anger, excitement, etc.).
9. (transitive) Synonym of inflame (“to set (something) on fire;
(figurative) to intensify or kindle (a feeling, such as appetite or
passion); to intensify or kindle a feeling in (someone)”).
10. (intransitive) Chiefly in the present participle: to be in flames or
on fire; to blaze, to flare up.
11. About Word of the Day
12. Nominate a word
13. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aflame>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
For 50 million years our biggest problems were too few calories,
too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been
too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I
believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while
we’re adjusting.
--Penn Jillette
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Penn_Jillette>
The Montana class was a planned class of battleships for the United
States Navy; five ships were approved for construction during World
War II, but none were built. With increased anti-aircraft capability
and thicker armor in all areas, the Montanas would have been the largest
and most heavily armed US battleships ever, and rivaled Japan's Yamato-
class battleships in terms of displacement. The first two vessels were
approved by Congress in 1939 following the passage of the Naval Act of
1938. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor delayed the construction of
the Montana class. The importance of carrier combat at the Battle of the
Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway diminished the perceived value of the
battleship, and the US Navy chose to cancel the Montana class before any
keels were laid in favor of more urgently needed aircraft carriers as
well as amphibious and anti-submarine vessels. Instead, the Navy
continued production of Essex-class aircraft carriers and Iowa-class
battleships. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana-class_battleship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1773:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart departed Italy after the last of his
three journeys there.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_in_Italy>
1899:
Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Queensland, killing more
than 300 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in Australian
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Mahina>
1918:
A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas,
conventionally marking the beginning of the Spanish flu pandemic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu>
2017:
Construction began on a 69-metre (226 ft) statue of the Buddha
at Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen in Bangkok.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Paknam_Bhasicharoen>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pig iron:
1. (metallurgy) A brittle, impure form of iron produced by smelting iron
ore which is often shaped into blocks; it is unsuitable for working but
suitable for casting, and so is commonly used as an industrial raw
material.
2. (cooking, obsolete) An iron plate which is hung between a piece of
meat and the fire used to cook it to prevent the meat from burning if
the fire is too hot.
3. About Word of the Day
4. Nominate a word
5. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pig_iron>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to
realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they
had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their
habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be
anything new.
--P. D. Ouspensky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky>
John Tonkin (1902–1995) was the premier of Western Australia from
3 March 1971 to 8 April 1974. Born and receiving most of his education
in the Goldfields town of Boulder, Tonkin became a member of the Labor
Party and a minister in the Willcock, Wise and Hawke governments. He was
a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1933 to
1977, making him the longest-serving member of the Parliament of Western
Australia as of 2021. Tonkin became premier after the 1971 state
election, but with a majority of only one seat. The Tonkin government's
achievements included reforms in industrial relations and employment,
and the passing of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. Labor was defeated
in the 1974 state election, and Tonkin was succeeded as premier by
Charles Court. Tonkin was made a companion of the Order of Australia in
1977, and has been honoured with the naming of the Tonkin Highway and
John Tonkin College. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tonkin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1875:
The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the Victoria
Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and students of McGill
University.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_indoor_ice_hockey_game>
1933:
The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce
overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohra_concentration_camp>
1945:
A Polish Home Army unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian
civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw%C5%82okoma_massacre>
1986:
The American heavy metal band Metallica released their third
studio album, Master of Puppets, considered one of the greatest in the
genre's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Puppets>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lone wolf:
1. A wolf that is not part of a pack.
2. (figurative)
3. A person who avoids the company of others; an independent or solitary
person; a loner.
4. (crime) A criminal who acts alone, not as part of a group.
5. About Word of the Day
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of
penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that
are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything
that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to
the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its
capacity as life.
--Asger Jorn
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