The Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment was organized in June 1776 as
a light infantry unit of riflemen in the Continental Army during the
American Revolutionary War. The regiment consisted of nine
companies – four from Maryland and five from Virginia – and was
directly responsible to national authority as an Extra Continental
regiment. Most of the regiment surrendered to British and German forces
at the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. However, a
portion of the unit continued to serve actively in the Continental Army
throughout most of the remainder of the war. Elements of the regiment
served with George Washington's main army and participated in its major
engagements. Select members of the unit were also attached to Colonel
Daniel Morgan's elite Provisional Rifle Corps. The regiment was
reorganized in January 1779 and stationed at Fort Pitt, headquarters of
the Continental Army's Western Department, in present-day western
Pennsylvania. Disbanded in January 1781, it was the longest serving
Continental Army rifle unit of the war. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_and_Virginia_Rifle_Regiment>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
A British squadron under Charles Marsh Schomberg defeated a
French force off Tamatave, Madagascar, that was attempting to reinforce
the French garrison on Mauritius.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tamatave>
1943:
The Luttra Woman (skull pictured), a bog body from the Early
Neolithic period, was discovered near Luttra, Sweden.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luttra_Woman>
1996:
In deciding Romer v. Evans, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down
a constitutional amendment in Colorado that prevented protected status
under the law for homosexuals or bisexuals.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer_v._Evans>
2022:
Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claimed full control of Mariupol
after a nearly three-month siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shipshape and Bristol fashion:
1. (nautical) Of a vessel: tidy, and with its equipment in good order,
properly stowed, etc.; shipshape.
2. (figurative) Neatly and properly arranged or organized; neat and
tidy, tidy.
3. (chiefly UK, dated) In a neat and tidy, or proper, manner; properly,
tidily.
4. About Word of the Day
5. Nominate a word
6. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shipshape_and_Bristol_fashion>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All of us are responding to the fact there is no system that can keep
any promises. Everybody is fighting each other under the illusion that
it is the "other people" that are causing the problem. We don't realize
that we are all in the same boat. We are all suffering from the absence
of a system that can pull us together and assure us that the results of
each person's work will come back to him and enhance his life in some
way.
--Charles A. Reich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_A._Reich>
The Silverthrone Caldera is a poorly studied volcano in the Range 2
Coast Land District of British Columbia, Canada. It lies within the
Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains and reaches an elevation of 2,860
metres (9,380 feet), although some sources give an elevation as high as
3,160 m (10,370 ft). Deeply eroded, the caldera is about 25 by 20
kilometres (16 by 12 miles) in size and has a rugged topography. The
area is the origin of several streams and contains several named
mountains, including Silverthrone Mountain. Volcanic rocks deposited by
eruptions include rhyolites, dacites, andesites and basaltic andesites.
They are exposed in valleys, but at higher elevations they are largely
buried under glacial ice. The Silverthrone Caldera was a source of
obsidian for indigenous peoples during the pre-Columbian era. Geological
studies have been conducted at the volcano since at least the 1960s, but
its very remote location has impeded detailed fieldwork.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthrone_Caldera>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1655:
Anglo-Spanish War: English forces invaded Jamaica, then
administered by Spain as the Colony of Santiago, and captured it a week
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Jamaica>
1674:
John III Sobieski was elected by the szlachta as the monarch
of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_Sobieski>
1776:
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of
Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Cedars>
1991:
Breakup of Yugoslavia: With the local Serb population
boycotting the referendum, Croatians voted in favour of independence
from Yugoslavia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Croatian_independence_referendum>
2015:
A corroded pipeline near Refugio State Beach, California,
spilled 142,800 gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto the Gaviota
Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
importunity:
1. (uncountable) Constant and insistent demanding or proposing,
especially if regarded as annoying or upsetting; also, the character of
such behaviour; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (obsolete)
3. (uncountable) The fact of being at an inappropriate or unsuitable
time; unseasonableness.
4. (uncountable) Persistence in behaviour; determination, perseverance,
stubbornness.
5. (uncountable) The quality of being annoying or troublesome;
difficulty, trouble; (countable) an instance of this.
6. About Word of the Day
7. Nominate a word
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<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/importunity>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
”
--Edward de Bono
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono>
The Sursock bronze is a gilded bronze sculptural group of Heliopolitan
Jupiter dating to the 2nd century AD. A miniature of the cult statue
that stood in the Great Temple of Baalbek, Lebanon, it depicts the god
as a beardless youth wearing a kalathos, a basket-shaped headdress, and
an ependytes, a close-fitting dress, under ornate armor. The front of
the armor bears busts of seven deities associated with celestial
bodies—Sol, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Juno (replacing Venus), and
Saturn—arranged in an order encoding both the Chaldean sequence of
planets and the days of the Roman week. The piece illustrates the
syncretism of Canaanite, Greek, and Roman traditions, tracing the
evolution of Heliopolitan Jupiter from the Canaanite storm god Baal
Hadad into a cosmic deity of planetary order and prophecy. Named after
its former owner, the Beiruti aristocrat Charles Sursock, and acquired
by the Louvre in 1939, the piece inaugurated the first issue of Syria,
the leading French journal of Levantine archaeology, in 1920.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sursock_bronze>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1926:
Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was reportedly
kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles before reappearing five weeks
later in Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson>
1936:
In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover,
cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days
until her arrest.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sada_Abe>
2006:
The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King
Gyanendra of many of his powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Nepalese_revolution>
2018:
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las
Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport,
killing 112 of the 113 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n_Flight_0972>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tyro:
1. A beginner; a novice.
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<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tyro>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All unhappiness depends upon some kind of disintegration or lack of
integration; there is disintegration within the self through lack of
coordination between the conscious and the unconscious mind; there is
lack of integration between the self and society where the two are not
knit together by the force of objective interests and affections. The
happy man is the man who does not suffer from either of these failures
of unity, whose personality is neither divided against itself nor pitted
against the world. Such a man feels himself a citizen of the universe,
enjoying freely the spectacle that it offers and the joys that it
affords, untroubled by the thought of death because he feels himself not
really separate from those who will come after him. It is in such
profound instinctive union with the stream of life that the greatest joy
is to be found.
--Bertrand Russell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell>
"All Hell Breaks Loose" is the third-season finale of Charmed, an
American fantasy series that aired on The WB. It follows Prue (Shannen
Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs), and Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa
Milano), three sisters who discover they are witches and use their
powers to protect innocents from demons. "All Hell Breaks Loose" was
written by Brad Kern and directed by Doherty (pictured), and aired on
May 17, 2001. It was the third episode of the series directed by
Doherty. In the episode, Prue and Piper are caught using their powers on
live television, which proves to have deadly consequences. During
filming, Doherty used a Salvador Dalí painting as inspiration for the
episode's aesthetic, and helped her co-stars shoot emotionally
challenging scenes. A week prior to the episode's airing, Doherty was
fired from the series due to a feud with Milano, which resulted in her
character being killed off. "All Hell Breaks Loose" has been cited as
one of the show's best episodes, with critics highlighting Prue's death.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Hell_Breaks_Loose_%28Charmed%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1521:
Edward Stafford, whose father had been beheaded for rebelling
against King Richard III of England, was himself executed for treason
against King Henry VIII.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stafford,_3rd_Duke_of_Buckingham>
1900:
Second Boer War: The Siege of Mafeking in South Africa was
lifted after 217 days, a decisive victory for the British against the
Boers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking>
1974:
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of
car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 34 people and
injuring almost 300 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings>
1995:
Six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama
selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, was kidnapped by the Chinese
government, who advocated a proxy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
heteronormative:
1. Of or relating to the institutions and practices that privilege or
value heterosexuality, heterosexual relationships, and traditional
gender roles as fundamental and “natural” within society.
2. About Word of the Day
3. Nominate a word
4. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heteronormative>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The universal problem into which modern life, as well as past life,
rushes and embroils and rends itself, can only be dispersed by a
universal means which reduces each nation to what it is in truth; which
strips from them all the ideal of supremacy stolen by each of them from
the great human ideal; a means which, raising the human ideal definitely
beyond the reach of all those immoderate emotions, which shout together
"Mine is the only point of view," gives it at last its divine unity.
--Henri Barbusse
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse>
Erik Campbell is a character in Final Destination Bloodlines (2025), the
sixth film in the supernatural horror franchise Final Destination, and
was portrayed by Richard Harmon (pictured). Introduced as a grandson of
Iris Campbell, who escaped Death in the 1960s, Erik is revealed to have
been conceived out of his mother's affair and thus not in any danger.
Despite this, while trying to help his brother cheat Death, Erik is
sucked into an MRI machine by a wheelchair that crushes and impales him.
The reveal of Erik's parentage was due to the film's crew wanting to
subvert the audience's expectations regarding the order of deaths; a
discarded idea involved twins. The directors were initially apprehensive
about incorporating an MRI-machine death, but chose to include it due to
positive feedback from the production team. Critics responded positively
to Erik, describing him as a fan favorite and Bloodlines' best
character, as well as praising his death scene and Harmon's performance.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Campbell_%28Final_Destination%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
Peninsular War: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces
clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera (depicted) fought
south of Badajoz, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Albuera>
1925:
The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il
ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_ritorno_d%27Ulisse_in_patria>
1961:
Led by Park Chung Hee, the Military Revolution Committee
carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Po-sun in
Seoul, ending the Second Republic of Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_16_coup>
2014:
At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two
bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gikomba_bombings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sultanate:
1. A sovereign or vassal princely state—usually Muslim—where the ruler
is styled sultan.
2. The office or position of a sultan.
3. About Word of the Day
4. Nominate a word
5. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sultanate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
”
--William H. Seward
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_H._Seward>
Operation Brevity was an offensive conducted in May 1941, during the
Western Desert campaign of the Second World War, against Axis front-line
forces in the Sollum–Capuzzo–Bardia area of the border between Egypt
and Libya (map pictured). British Middle East Command general Archibald
Wavell defined Operation Brevity's main goals as the acquisition of
territory from which to launch a further planned offensive toward
Tobruk. On 15 May, Brigadier William Gott attacked in three columns
with a mixed infantry and armoured force. The Halfaya Pass was taken
against stiff Italian opposition, and Fort Capuzzo deeper inside Libya
was captured, but German counter-attacks under Colonel Maximilian von
Herff regained the fort during the afternoon. Gott conducted a staged
withdrawal to the Halfaya Pass on 16 May, and Operation Brevity ended.
The Halfaya Pass was recaptured 11 days later during Operation Skorpion,
a German counter-attack. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Brevity>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1891:
Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum novarum, which
addressed the condition of the working classes and is considered to be
the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_novarum>
1966:
Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the
Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
ordered an attack on his forces and ousted Đính from his post.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B4n_Th%E1%BA%A5t_%C4%90%C3%ADnh>
2001:
A runaway train loaded with hazardous chemicals traveled
driverless for 66 miles (106 km) through Ohio before being stopped near
Kenton.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident>
2010:
Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson
arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted around the
world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Watson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
materteral:
1. (chiefly humorous, rare) Of or relating to, or in the manner of, an
aunt.
2. About Word of the Day
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4. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/materteral>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
”
--Katherine Anne Porter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter>
The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow-gauge preserved railway in Wales
running for 7.25 miles (11.67 km) from Tywyn on the Mid Wales coast to
Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line was opened in
1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was
the first narrow-gauge railway in Britain authorised by act of
Parliament to carry passengers using steam haulage. Despite severe
under-investment, the line remained open, and on 14 May 1951 it became
the first railway in the world to be operated as a heritage railway by
volunteers. Since preservation, the railway has operated as a tourist
attraction, significantly expanding its rolling stock through
acquisition and an engineering programme to build new locomotives and
carriages. The fictional Skarloey Railway, which formed part of the
Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W Awdry, was based on the
Talyllyn Railway. The preservation of the line inspired the Ealing
comedy film The Titfield Thunderbolt. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talyllyn_Railway>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1856:
Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34
camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps>
1868:
Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the
Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Utsunomiya_Castle>
1980:
Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador
across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and
Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumpul_River_massacre>
2008:
On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between
football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester
Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_UEFA_Cup_final_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unmet:
1. Not met.
2. (archaic) Not encountered; unencountered.
3. (figurative) Not achieved; unfulfilled.
4. About Word of the Day
5. Nominate a word
6. Leave feedback
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unmet>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it
was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have
been ahead of my time.
--Robert Owen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Owen>
Splatoon 3: Side Order is an expansion pack for the single-player mode
of Splatoon 3 (logo pictured). It is the second half of the Splatoon 3
Expansion Pass and was released on 22 February 2024. Side Order follows
Agent 8, who finds themselves trapped in the featureless Memverse. They
uncover Order, a rogue artificial intelligence who threatens to abduct
souls to remove their free will and instigate a world of pure
orderliness; Agent 8 journeys up a thirty-floor spire to destroy Order.
Development began after the release of Splatoon 3 in 2022. The team
sought to reinvent the traditional structure of Splatoon single-player
campaigns, such as having the player's death causing the loss of
progress from their current climb, and the option to purchase upgrades
to ease future attempts. Side Order received favorable reviews from
critics, with praise given to its art direction and integration of
Splatoon's gameplay mechanics into the roguelike genre. Some critics
were displeased with a perceived lack of level diversity.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splatoon_3:_Side_Order>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1725:
Johann Sebastian Bach first performed the church cantata Sie
werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183 in Leipzig, Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sie_werden_euch_in_den_Bann_tun,_BWV_183>
1958:
The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin became the only person to
circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over
80,000 kilometres (50,000 miles) by land and sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin>
1985:
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were
killed when a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter dropped a bomb on
their house during a raid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE_%28Philadelphia_organization%29>
2005:
Uzbek Interior Ministry and State Security Service troops fired
at protesters in Andijan, killing between 187 and 1,500 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andijan_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ravin:
1. (transitive, archaic)
2. Sometimes followed by away or from: to obtain or seize (something,
especially property) by force or violence; to plunder.
3. Sometimes followed by down, up, or (obsolete) in: to eat (something,
such as food or prey) greedily; to devour, to wolf down.
4. (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information)
greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
5. (intransitive)
6. Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something,
especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to
move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
7. To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey
on.
8. Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food
or prey ravenously.
9. Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or
craving for food or prey.
10. Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be
ravenous.
11. (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
12. (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong
craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to
yearn. [...]
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<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ravin>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to
grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part,
we be often dead as to man’s doom in earth; but in the sight of God
the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be.
--Julian of Norwich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich>
The Golden Bough is a fantastical object in the Aeneid, an epic poem by
the 1st century BCE Roman poet Virgil. The Trojan hero Aeneas is tasked
to find the bough and remove it from its host tree to prove his divine
favour before his journey into the Underworld. It briefly resists as he
does so – the implications of which have been widely debated in
scholarship. In the medieval period, commentators often interpreted the
bough allegorically and as a symbol of wisdom. More recent scholars have
viewed the episode as reflecting Virgil's ambivalence towards the Roman
Empire, and connected it to the deaths of two of Aeneas's antagonists,
Dido and Turnus. The bough has been widely referenced in art and
literature. It was used by James Frazer for the title of his 1890 work
on comparative religion, is recalled in Dante's Divine Comedy, and was
the subject of an 1834 painting by J. M. W. Turner. It is also a
recurring motif in the "Byzantium" poems of W. B. Yeats and in the
poetry of Seamus Heaney. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bough_%28Aeneid%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
The Donner Party, an American pioneer group which became known
for resorting to cannibalism when they became trapped in the Sierra
Nevada, left Independence, Missouri, for California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party>
1926:
The crew of the airship Norge, led by Roald Amundsen, became
the first people to make a verified trip to the North Pole.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norge_%28airship%29>
1941:
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working
programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists
in Berlin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29>
2015:
A train derailment killed eight people and injured more than
200 others in Philadelphia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Philadelphia_train_derailment>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sniff test:
1. An inspection of an object by smelling it, as for cleanliness of
clothing or freshness of food.
2. (figurative) An informal check of whether an idea or proposal is
credible, ethical, etc., using one's common sense or sense of propriety.
3. (medicine) A medical procedure involving a person taking quick, short
sniffs which cause contraction of the diaphragm during a fluoroscopy,
enabling abnormalities of the diaphragm to be detected; diaphragm
fluoroscopy.
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no
power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether.
Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will;
anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.
--Florence Nightingale
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale>
The Japan Cup is a Group 1 horse race in Japan, held annually on the
last Sunday of November at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchū, Tokyo. It is a
flat race run over a distance of 2400 metres (about .mw-parser-output
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idth:1px}1+1⁄2 miles), with a maximum of 18 horses. First run in 1981,
the Japan Cup was created by the Japan Racing Association and extends
invitations to top-performing horses aged 3 and above from around the
world. The race has had a total prize purse of over one billion yen
since 2023, and is the middle leg of the informal "Autumn Triple Crown"
along with the Tennō Shō (Autumn) and the Arima Kinen. The Japan Cup
is regularly ranked highly in the International Federation of
Horseracing Authorities' "Top 100 Group 1 Races of the Year" compilation
due to the high quality and depth of racers, and has had winners from
all over the world. Initially, the race was dominated by foreign horses,
with 8 of the first 10 winners coming from abroad, however, in the last
twenty years only one horse from outside Japan has won.
(Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Cup>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1894:
In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car
Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west
of Chicago to a halt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike>
1981:
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (performers pictured), opened at the
New London Theatre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_%28musical%29>
2011:
An earthquake registering Mw 5.1, the worst to hit the region
for more than 50 years, struck near Lorca, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Lorca_earthquake>
2022:
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and
killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin
refugee camp.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shireen_Abu_Akleh>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kempt:
1. (archaic)
2. Of a person's beard or hair: combed.
3. (spinning) Of wool or other fibres: combed.
4. (figurative, now usually humorous) Neat and tidy.
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<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kempt>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Throwing down your own sword is also an art of war. If you have attained
mastery of swordlessness, you will never lack for a sword. The
opponent's sword is your sword. This is acting at the vanguard of the
moment.
--Yagyū Munenori
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yagy%C5%AB_Munenori>