Aftermath is a 1966 album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.
Following a newfound success that rivalled their contemporaries in the
Beatles, the album is the Stones' first to consist entirely of original
songs, all credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (both pictured),
who wrote dark, sarcastic, provocative lyrics about love, desire, power
and dominance, modern society and rock stardom. Brian Jones experimented
with instruments not usually associated with popular music, including
the sitar, Appalachian dulcimer and marimbas, which expanded the band's
music beyond their blues and R&B; influences. An immediate success
rivalling the Beatles' Rubber Soul (1965), Aftermath reflected youth
culture in the Swinging London scene and countercultural values while
pioneering the album era and subversive content in punk and glam rock.
It is considered the most formative of the Stones' early music and their
first classic album, frequently appearing on professional rankings of
the greatest albums.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_%28Rolling_Stones_album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1738:
Serse (audio featured), an opera by Baroque composer George
Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serse>
1936:
A group of Arabs in British Mandatory Palestine killed two Jews
at a roadblock, an act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within
the Arab revolt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tulkarm_shooting>
1958:
On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and
San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the
U.S. West Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mummy brown:
1. (painting, historical) A brown pigment originally prepared from the
ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with
bitumen, etc.
2. The colour of this pigment, a variable brown intermediate between raw
umber and burnt umber. mummy brown:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mummy_brown>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all
discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent
value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as
instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.
--Henry James
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James>
Dreamsnake is a 1978 science fiction novel by American writer Vonda N.
McIntyre. It is an expansion of her Nebula Award–winning 1973
novelette "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand". The main character, Snake, is
a healer who uses genetically modified serpents to cure sickness in the
aftermath of a nuclear holocaust on Earth. The titular "dreamsnake" is
an alien serpent whose venom gives dying people pleasant dreams. The
novel follows Snake as she seeks to replace her dead dreamsnake. The
book is an example of second-wave feminism in science fiction. McIntyre
subverted gendered narratives, including by placing a woman at the
center of a heroic quest. Dreamsnake also explored social structures and
sexuality from a feminist perspective, and examined themes of healing
and cross-cultural interaction. The novel won the 1978 Nebula Award, the
1979 Hugo Award, and the 1979 Locus Poll Award. Snake's strength and
self-sufficiency were noted by commentators, while McIntyre's writing
and the book's themes also received praise.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamsnake>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally
shot U.S. president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln>
1909:
Following a reactionary military revolt against the Committee
of Union and Progress, a mob began a massacre of Armenian Christians in
the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adana_massacre>
1967:
After leading a military coup three months earlier, Gnassingbé
Eyadéma installed himself as President of Togo, a post that he held
until 2005.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnassingb%C3%A9_Eyad%C3%A9ma>
2014:
Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a
government secondary school in the town of Chibok, Nigeria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibok_schoolgirls_kidnapping>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enfeoff:
1. (transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow
with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold
interest.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To give up completely; to surrender, to
yield.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enfeoff>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The purblind majority quite honestly believed that literature was
meant to mimic human life, and that it did so. And in consequence, their
love-affairs, their maxims, their so-called natural ties and instincts,
and above all, their wickedness, became just so many bungling
plagiarisms from something they had read, in a novel or a Bible or a
poem or a newspaper. People progressed from the kindergarten to the
cemetery assuming that their emotion at every crisis was what books
taught them was the appropriate emotion, and without noticing that it
was in reality something quite different. Human life was a distorting
tarnished mirror held up to literature: this much at least of Wilde's
old paradox — that life mimicked art — was indisputable. Human life,
very clumsily, tried to reproduce the printed word.
--James Branch Cabell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell>
Argentinosaurus is a genus of giant sauropod dinosaur that lived during
the Late Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. It was one of the largest
land animals of all time, and possibly the largest, with length
estimates ranging from 30 to 39.7 metres (98 to 130 ft) and weight
estimates from 50 to 100 tonnes (55 to 110 short tons). It was a member
of Titanosauria, the dominant group of sauropods during the Cretaceous.
The first Argentinosaurus bone was discovered in 1987 by a farmer near
the city of Plaza Huincul in the Huincul Formation, which is rich in
dinosaur fossils. A scientific excavation of the site led by the
Argentine palaeontologist José Bonaparte was conducted in 1989,
yielding several back vertebrae and parts of a sacrum—fused vertebrae
between the back and tail vertebrae. Additional specimens include a
complete femur (thigh bone) and the shaft of another. The fragmentary
nature of the remains makes their interpretation difficult.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1946:
Nakam, a Jewish organization seeking revenge for the Holocaust,
attempted to poison SS prisoners at Langwasser internment camp, but did
not kill anyone.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam>
1956:
The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cụt, a military
commander of the Hòa Hảo religious sect, which ran a de facto state
in South Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_C%E1%BB%A5t>
1997:
In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to
win the Masters Tournament, breaking its record for the lowest four-
round score.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Department of Redundancy Department:
(humorous) A fictitious department that is cited to draw attention to
needless repetition or excessiveness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Department_of_Redundancy_Department>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If we do not learn to sacrifice small differences of opinion, we
can never act together. Every man cannot have his way in all things. If
his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing
that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition
we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.
--Thomas Jefferson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft
system operated from April 12, 1981, to July 21, 2011, by the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. Launched from
the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, five Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles
flew on a total of 135 missions during 30 years. They conducted science
experiments in orbit, helped build the International Space Station, and
launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble
Space Telescope. Four fully operational orbiters were initially built:
Columbia, Challenger, Discovery (pictured), and Atlantis. Lost in
mission accidents were Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003, with a
total of fourteen astronauts killed. A fifth operational orbiter,
Endeavour, was built in 1991 to replace Challenger. The Space Shuttle
was retired from service upon the conclusion of Atlantis's final flight.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
Broughton Suspension Bridge near Manchester, England,
collapsed, reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops
marching in step across the bridge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge>
1861:
Confederate forces began bombarding Fort Sumter in the harbor
of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter>
1961:
Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the
first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin>
2013:
Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by
jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Kidal_suicide_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
push the envelope:
(intransitive, idiomatic, originally aeronautics) To go beyond
established limits; to pioneer.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/push_the_envelope>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have heard something said on this and a former occasion about
allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to
which I owe any allegiance. I owe allegiance to two sovereignty, and
only two: one is the sovereignty of this Union, and the other is the
sovereignty of the state of Kentucky. My allegiance is to this Union and
to my state; but if gentlemen suppose they can exact from me an
acknowledgement of allegiance to any ideal or future contemplated
confederacy of the South, I here declare that I owe no allegiance to it;
nor will I, for one, come under any such allegiance if I can avoid it.
--Henry Clay
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Clay>
The 2015 Boat Races took place on 11 April. The Boat Race is an annual
side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford
and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River
Thames. For the first time ever, the men's, women's and both reserve
races were all held on the Tideway. In the men's reserve race,
Cambridge's Goldie faced Oxford's Isis after the women's race, as a
preliminary to the main men's race, while the women's reserve race, held
the day before, saw Oxford's Osiris race against Cambridge's Blondie.
Oxford's women won the first running of the Women's Boat Race on the
Tideway, and the 70th overall, by 6.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:
0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;po
sition:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap} 1⁄2 lengths, to take
the overall record in the event to 41–29 in Cambridge's favour. Oxford
also won the men's reserve race, with Isis winning by 3 lengths. In the
main men's race, umpired by Boris Rankov, Oxford (crew pictured) won by
6 1⁄2 lengths, taking the overall record in the event to 81–79
in Cambridge's favour. The women's reserve race was won by Osiris by 15
lengths, making the overall record 21–20 to Cambridge. .
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Rankov>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, considered one of the world's
finest concert halls, was inaugurated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertgebouw>
1921:
Emir Abdullah established the first centralised government in
the recently created British protectorate of Transjordan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan>
1951:
U.S. president Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur of his commands for making public statements about the
Korean War that contradicted the administration's policies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur>
2001:
In a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, Australia defeated
American Samoa by a score of 31–0, the largest margin of victory ever
in an international football match.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_31%E2%80%930_American_Samoa>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
flabbergast:
(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or
stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flabbergast>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever,
God forbid, I hope someone will say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really
knows? I could have dreamed all this. My epitaph in any case?
"Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt." I will have gotten off so
light, whatever the heck it is that was going on.
--Kurt Vonnegut
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut>
Isopogon anethifolius is a shrub in the family Proteaceae. The species
is found only in coastal areas near Sydney in New South Wales, and to
the immediate west. It occurs naturally in woodland, open forest and
heathland on sandstone soils. An upright shrub, it can reach to 3 m
(10 ft) in height, with terete leaves that are divided and narrow. The
yellow flowers appear from September to December and are prominently
displayed. They are followed by round grey cones, which give the plant
its common name of drumsticks. The small hairy seeds are found in the
old flower parts. I. anethifolius regenerates after bushfire by
resprouting from its woody base, known as a lignotuber, as well as from
seed. It was described by Richard Salisbury in 1796, and was first grown
in the United Kingdom the same year. One of the easiest members of the
genus Isopogon to cultivate, I. anethifolius grows readily in the
garden if located in a sunny or partly shaded spot with sandy soil and
good drainage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopogon_anethifolius>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1826:
Greek War of Independence: Inhabitants of the Greek town of
Missolonghi attempted to escape a year-long siege, but were caught and
killed by Ottoman forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_siege_of_Missolonghi>
1925:
The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott
Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby>
2019:
Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project published
the first image of a black hole (depicted), located at the center of the
galaxy M87.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deem:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to
sentence.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
4. (transitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a
conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs;
to account.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an
opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is an old cliché to say that the future is in the hands of
the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or
the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is
in our hands now.
--Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh>
The six episodes of the first season of Parks and Recreation originally
aired in the United States on the NBC television networks on Thursdays
between April 9 and May 14, 2009. The comedy series was created by
Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, who served as executive producers with
Howard Klein. The season stars Amy Poehler (pictured), Rashida Jones,
Paul Schneider, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, and Aubrey Plaza, and
focuses on Leslie Knope (Poehler), the deputy director of the parks and
recreation department of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Early
test screenings were poor, and many critics and industry observers were
skeptical about the show's chances of success. The premiere episode was
watched by 6.77 million viewers, but the ratings declined to a season
low of 4.25 million viewers for the final episode, "Rock Show". Even
so, "Rock Show" received the best reviews of the season and convinced
some critics that the series had found the right tone.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation_%28season_1%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of
attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge>
1948:
Palestine war: Fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups
Irgun and Lehi attacked Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem, killing
more than 100 Palestinian Arabs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre>
1967:
The first Boeing 737 took its maiden flight, eventually
becoming the most produced commercial passenger jet airliner in the
world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737>
1993:
Iranian filmmaker Morteza Avini was killed by a land mine in
Fakkeh while producing a documentary.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morteza_Avini>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
grandfather:
1. (transitive, chiefly US, law) To retain existing laws or rules for (a
person or organization previously affected by them).
2. (intransitive, chiefly US, law) To retain existing laws or rules only
for people or organizations previously affected by them, and to apply
new laws or rules to the unaffected people or organizations.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grandfather>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.
--François Rabelais
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais>
The République class consisted of a pair of pre-dreadnought
battleships—République and Patrie (pictured)—built for the French
Navy in the early 1900s. They were a significant improvement over
previous French battleships, with the same four 305 mm (12 in) guns
and eighteen 164 mm (6.5 in) guns, but with most of the 164 mm guns
mounted in gun turrets rather than in casemates. They also had more
effective armored protection. Both ships entered service in
January 1907, shortly after the British HMS Dreadnought made all
existing battleships obsolescent. During World War I, both ships
operated in the Mediterranean. Patrie supported the Gallipoli campaign
from May 1915 and République joined her in January 1916. Both ships
then became involved in Greece, where they assisted a coup against the
neutral but pro-German government that ultimately led to Greece's entry
into the war on the side of the Allies. Neither ship saw any further
action. République was decommissioned in 1921, and Patrie not until
1937.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9publique-class_battleship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at
the Battle of Shiloh, the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time,
in Hardin County, Tennessee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh>
1896:
An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen
reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest
North latitude.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen>
1994:
Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after
the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of
thousands killed in the following 100 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide>
2017:
A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along
Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Stockholm_truck_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chivvy:
1. (transitive, Britain) To coerce or hurry along, as by persistent
request.
2. (transitive, Britain) To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
3. (transitive, Britain) To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
4. (transitive, Britain) To pursue as in a hunt.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chivvy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the
religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue
among the religions. There will be no dialogue among the religions
without global ethical standards. There will therefore be no survival of
this globe without a global ethic.
--Hans Küng
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_K%C3%BCng>
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris
season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, with choreography
by Vaslav Nijinsky and stage designs and costumes (pictured) by Nicholas
Roerich. The ballet caused a near-riot in the audience when first
performed, on 29 May 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in
Paris, but rapidly achieved success, and later became recognised as one
of the most influential musical works of the 20th century. The score has
many novel features, including experiments in tonality, metre, rhythm,
stress and dissonance. The scenario is the celebration of spring by
various primitive rituals, at the end of which a sacrificial victim
dances herself to death. After its explosive premiere the ballet was not
performed until the 1920s, when Léonide Massine's rechoreographed
version was the first of many innovative productions directed by the
world's leading choreographers. Providing "endless stimulation for
performers and listeners" alike, The Rite is among the most recorded
works in the classical repertoire.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1808:
John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits
from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor>
1896:
The first modern Olympic Games (cover of official report shown)
opened in Athens, with athletes from 14 nations participating in 43
events.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics>
1941:
World War II: German forces invaded Greece, beginning
Operation Marita.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Greece>
2009:
Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the
parliamentary election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2009_Moldovan_parliamentary_election_pr…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wieldy:
1. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) Able to wield one's body well;
active, dexterous.
2. Capable of being easily wielded or managed; handy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wieldy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without
evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. ... As our
opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the
evidence of our opinions is to be indifferent about the consequences of
our actions. But the consequences of our actions are the good and evil
of our fellow-creatures. The habit of the neglect of evidence,
therefore, is the habit of disregarding the good and evil of our fellow-
creatures.
--James Mill
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Mill>
Siegfried Lederer escaped from Auschwitz on the night of 5 April 1944,
wearing an SS uniform provided by Viktor Pestek, a guard at the
concentration camp (gate pictured). Pestek opposed the Holocaust because
of his Catholic faith and infatuation with Renée Neumann, a Jewish
prisoner. Lederer, a former Czechoslovak Army officer and a Jewish
member of the Czech resistance, tried unsuccessfully to warn the Jews at
Theresienstadt Ghetto about the mass murders at Auschwitz. After he and
Pestek returned to Auschwitz in an attempt to rescue Neumann and her
mother, Pestek was arrested and later executed. Lederer returned to
occupied Czechoslovakia, where he rejoined the resistance movement and
attempted to smuggle a report on Auschwitz to the International
Committee of the Red Cross in Switzerland. After the war he remained in
Czechoslovakia. The story of the escape was retold by Lederer, historian
Erich Kulka, and other writers.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1710:
The Statute of Anne, the first legislation in Great Britain
providing for copyright regulated by the government and courts, received
royal assent and went into effect five days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne>
1936:
An F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, and killed at least
216 people during the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tupelo%E2%80%93Gainesville_tornado_outbr…>
1966:
During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime
minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of
the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_Uprising>
1998:
The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the
world, linking Awaji Island and Kobe in Japan, opened to traffic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashi_Kaiky%C5%8D_Bridge>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
whelm:
1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to
cover it.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whelm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding;
or some error in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect
in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion.
--Thomas Hobbes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes>