The Siege of Lilybaeum lasted from 250 to 241 BC, as the Roman army
laid siege to the Carthaginian-held Sicilian city of Lilybaeum (modern
Marsala; reconstruction pictured) during the First Punic War. Lilybaeum
was well-fortified and situated on the coast, where it could be supplied
and reinforced by sea. In mid–250 BC the Romans besieged the city
with more than 100,000 men. They made a concerted effort to take it by
assault, but were unsuccessful. The Romans then attacked the
Carthaginian fleet, but their fleet was itself destroyed in the naval
battles of Drepana and Phintias. In 242 BC, the Romans built a new
fleet and cut off supplies. The Carthaginians reconstituted their fleet
and despatched it to Sicily loaded with provisions. The Romans met it
not far from Lilybaeum and defeated it at the Battle of the Aegates in
241 BC. The Carthaginians sued for peace and the war ended after 23
years with a Roman victory; by the terms of the Treaty of Lutatius
Carthage evacuated the city.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lilybaeum_%28250%E2%80%93241_BC%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1744:
War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking
the rear of a combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off
the French coast near Toulon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toulon_%281744%29>
1921:
The Bogd Khan was reinstalled as emperor after White Russian
forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drove the Chinese out of
Mongolia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg>
2006:
At least six men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at
a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_depot_robbery>
2011:
An earthquake registering 6.3 ML struck Christchurch, New
Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vamp:
1. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
2. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together
(something) from existing material, or by adding new material to
something existing.
3. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
4. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a
repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or
while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […]
8. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vamp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is
this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at
last.
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>
The 2015 Formula One World Championship was the 69th season of FIA
Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2015 Formula One World
Championship as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing
cars. Twenty-two drivers representing ten teams contested nineteen
Grands Prix, starting in Australia on 15 March and ending in Abu Dhabi
on 29 November as they competed for the World Drivers' and World
Constructors' championships. The calendar featured two changes from the
2014 season: the return of the Mexican Grand Prix for the first time
since 1992 and the cancellation of the German Grand Prix, leaving
Germany without a World Championship event for the first time in fifty-
five years. Lewis Hamilton secured his third Drivers' Championship, and
the runner-up was his teammate Nico Rosberg, with Ferrari's Sebastian
Vettel third. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (car pictured) clinched
the Constructors' Championship ahead of Ferrari and Williams, and ended
the season with a record 703 points. Hamilton also won the FIA Pole
Trophy, with a total of 11 pole positions in the season, and the DHL
Fastest Lap Award. Ferrari won the inaugural DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Formula_One_World_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to
gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of
Valverde.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valverde>
1929:
In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern
Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong
rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA
troops.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Rebellion_in_northeastern_Shandong>
1958:
British artist Gerald Holtom unveiled a logo for the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament that later became internationally recognised as
the peace sign (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols>
1973:
After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace,
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft,
killing 108 of the 113 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
matrilingual:
(rare) Pertaining to one's mother tongue.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matrilingual>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek
the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to
uphold them.
--John Rawls
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rawls>
Evelyn Mase (1922–2004) was a South African nurse who was the first
wife of the anti-apartheid activist and later president Nelson Mandela,
to whom she was married from 1944 to 1958. Born in Engcobo, Transkei,
Mase moved to Johannesburg to train as a nurse, and there met and
married Mandela. Living together in Soweto, they raised four children;
three of them—Thembekile, Makgatho, and Makaziwe—survived into
adulthood. In the 1950s, her relationship with Mandela became strained;
they separated in 1956 and divorced in 1958. Mase moved to Cofimvaba
with the children and opened a grocery store. She spoke to reporters in
1990, when Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, and in 1994,
when he was elected as South Africa's first Black president. In 1998 she
married a businessman, Simon Rakeepile. Her 2004 funeral attracted
international media attention and was attended by Mandela, his second
wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and his third wife, Graça Machel.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Mase>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
Polish insurgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising
to incite a fight for national independence, which was put down by the
Austrian Empire nine days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_uprising>
1943:
A fissure opened in a cornfield in the Mexican state of
Michoacán and continued to erupt for nine years, forming the cinder
cone Parícutin (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin>
1988:
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast voted to secede from
Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War>
2009:
The Tamil Tigers attempted to crash two aircraft loaded with
C-4 in suicide attacks on Colombo, Sri Lanka, but the planes were shot
down before they reached their targets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_suicide_air_raid_on_Colombo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
womannap:
(transitive, informal) To abduct or kidnap a woman.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/womannap>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can
see out the little window all I like.
--Richard Matheson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson>
SS Mauna Loa was a steam-powered cargo ship of the Matson Navigation
Company that was sunk in the Bombing of Darwin in February 1942. Built
in 1919 for the United States Shipping Board, she was christened West
Conob and renamed Golden Eagle in 1928, sailing for a variety of owners.
In 1934, she was taken over by the Matson Navigation Company for service
between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland and renamed Mauna Loa. Shortly
before the United States' entry into World War II, Mauna Loa was
chartered by the United States Department of War to carry supplies to
the Philippines. The ship was part of an aborted attempt to reinforce
Allied forces under attack by the Japanese on Timor in mid-
February 1942. After the return of her convoy to Darwin, Northern
Territory, Mauna Loa was one of eight ships sunk in Darwin Harbour in
the first Japanese bombing attack on the Australian mainland on
19 February. The remains of her wreck and her cargo are a dive site in
the harbor.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Mauna_Loa>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
Charles II of England signed the Treaty of Westminster to end
the Third Anglo-Dutch War, confirming English and Dutch sovereignty over
New Netherland and Surinam, respectively.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Dutch_War>
1811:
Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard
Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the
Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora>
1910:
Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester,
England, hosted its inaugural match, between Manchester United and
Liverpool.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Trafford>
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:
rainmaker:
1. Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
2. An African or Native American medicine man who seeks to induce rain
through performing rituals.
3. A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods,
such as cloud seeding.
4. (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the
ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success
for a company, organization, etc.
5. (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the
air.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rainmaker>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love is always before you. Love it.
--André Breton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Breton>
Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane to affect the Bahamas,
causing catastrophic damage in September 2019. Dorian originated from a
tropical wave off the western coast of Africa on August 19 and became a
tropical storm on August 24. It strengthened over the next few days and
on August 27 made landfalls on Barbados and Saint Lucia before entering
the Caribbean Sea, where it became a Category 1 hurricane as it moved
over the United States Virgin Islands. Dorian achieved Category 5
intensity on September 1 and peak intensity with winds of 185 mph
(295 km/h) and a central pressure of 910 mbar (hPa; 26.87 inHg) while
making landfall at Elbow Cay in the Bahamas. Weakening steadily
throughout the next day, the storm's forward momentum slowed drastically
while it was crossing over Grand Bahama. On September 6, Dorian made
landfall at Cape Hatteras as a Category 2 hurricane. It transitioned
into a post-tropical cyclone on September 7 just before passing over
Nova Scotia and was absorbed by a larger extratropical cyclone on
September 9.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Dorian>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1766:
Captive Malagasy on a slave ship 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:
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, delivered a
speech calling for a "total war" to motivate the German people as the
tide of World War II turned against Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech>
1977:
NASA's first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, made its first test
flight atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (both pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise>
2001:
Inter-ethnic violence between the Dayak and the Madurese broke
out in Sampit, Indonesia, ultimately causing more than 500 deaths and
the displacement of 100,000 Madurese from their homes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampit_conflict>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
husbandry:
1. The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of
crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
2. The prudent management or conservation of resources.
3. (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day
matters.
4. (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/husbandry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You know, I have a philosophy there’s good that happens in
everything. It may not reveal itself immediately, and even in the most
dire circumstances, if you just wait, if you just remain open to things,
the good in it will reveal itself. And that has happened to me as well
in countless, countless ways.
--Rush Limbaugh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh>
Planet of the Apes is an American science-fiction media franchise
consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media
about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control.
Based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des
singes, its 1968 film adaptation, Planet of the Apes, was a critical and
commercial hit. From 1970 to 1973 four sequels followed the original
film: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the
Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of
the Apes. They did not approach the critical acclaim of the original,
but were commercially successful, spawning two television series in 1974
and 1975. Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes film was released in 2001. A
reboot film series began in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes,
which was followed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in 2014 and War for
the Planet of the Apes in 2017. The films have grossed over $2 billion
worldwide.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1859:
Cochinchina campaign: French Navy forces captured the Citadel
of Saigon (ruins pictured), defended by 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers of the
Nguyễn dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Saigon>
1913:
The Armory Show, the first large modern-art exhibition in the
United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armory_Show>
1978:
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a
bomb at the La Mon restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing
twelve people and injuring thirty others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mon_restaurant_bombing>
2011:
Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in
a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while a "Day of Rage"
took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's
government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Libyan_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hobbyist:
A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobbyist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The people in the government who were voted into power are lying
to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice — and our
parents — to call BS. Companies trying to make caricatures of the
teenagers these days, saying that all we are self-involved and trend-
obsessed and they hush us into submission when our message doesn't reach
the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call BS. Politicians who sit
in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us
nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call BS. They say
tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS. They say a
good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS. They say
guns are just tools like knives and are as dangerous as cars. We call
BS. They say no laws could have prevented the hundreds of senseless
tragedies that have occurred. We call BS. That us kids don't know what
we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the
government works. We call BS. If you agree, register to vote. Contact
your local congresspeople. Give them a piece of your mind.
--Emma González
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Gonz%C3%A1lez>
Dermotherium is a genus of fossil mammals closely related to the living
colugos, a small group of gliding mammals from Southeast Asia. The two
species are known from Thailand; D. major from the late Eocene, based
on a fragment of the lower jaw, and D. chimaera from the late Oligocene
from three jaw fragments and two molars. Another upper molar from the
early Oligocene of Pakistan may be from a putative D. chimaera. The
animals probably lived in forested environments, like living colugos,
but whether they could glide is unknown. The fossil teeth differ from
those of living colugo species (example pictured), and they lack their
comblike dental features involving the lower incisors, canines, and
third premolars. The fossil species differ from each other in their
tooth structure. The front part of the lower chewing teeth, the
trigonid, is broader in D. chimaera than in D. major.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermotherium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1918:
The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence,
proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Independence_of_Lithuania>
1936:
The Popular Front, a coalition of left-wing parties, came to
power in the Spanish general election, precipitating the Spanish Civil
War five months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Spanish_general_election>
1961:
The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study and
conservation of African American history, culture, and art, was
chartered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuSable_Museum_of_African_American_History>
1996:
Eleven people died in a train collision in Silver Spring,
Maryland, leading to the creation of comprehensive U.S. federal rules
for the design of passenger cars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Maryland_train_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deglutition:
(physiology) The act or process of swallowing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deglutition>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of
forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force,
massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the
men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to
succumb to their own motive forces.
--Henry Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams>
The Silesian Wars were a series of three wars fought between Prussia
(under King Frederick the Great) and Austria (under Archduchess Maria
Theresa) for control of the Central European region of Silesia (now in
south-west Poland). The First (1740–1742) and Second Silesian Wars
(1744–1745) formed parts of the War of the Austrian Succession, in
which Prussia was one member of an anti-Austrian coalition. The Third
Silesian War (1756–1763) was one theatre of the global Seven Years'
War, in which Austria led a coalition aiming to seize Prussian
territory. All three ended in Prussian victories, and their overall
territorial result was Austria's cession of the majority of Silesia to
Prussia, which emerged from the Silesian Wars as a new European great
power. Austria's defeat by a lesser German power significantly damaged
its prestige. The conflict foreshadowed a century-long Austria–Prussia
rivalry for hegemony over the German-speaking peoples. (This article is
part of a featured topic: Silesian Wars.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Silesian_Wars>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1823:
James McBrien made the first official discovery of gold in
Australia at Fish River in New South Wales.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_gold_rushes>
1961:
All 72 people on board Sabena Flight 548, including the entire
U.S. figure-skating team, and one person on the ground were killed when
the aircraft crashed on approach to Brussels Airport.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabena_Flight_548>
2013:
A previously undetected meteor exploded (video featured) over
Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia; the resulting shock wave injured about 1,500
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meet cute:
(intransitive, informal) Of characters in a story or people in real
life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meet_cute>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington!
And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would
have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
--Daniel Webster
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster>
Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American rock band
Marilyn Manson, released on October 6, 2017. The record was initially
scheduled to be issued on Valentine's Day, but was delayed by the death
of the father of lead singer Marilyn Manson (pictured). It features many
of the musicians who performed on previous album The Pale Emperor,
including producer Tyler Bates. "We Know Where You Fucking Live" and
"Kill4Me" were issued as singles; the latter was their highest-peaking
entry on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart. Music videos for the album
featured Johnny Depp, Courtney Love, and Lisa Marie Presley. The record
received positive reviews, with multiple publications saying it
continued a creative resurgence that began with The Pale Emperor. It was
also a commercial success, debuting in the top ten of the
Billboard 200. To promote the album, the band embarked on the Heaven
Upside Down Tour as well as two co-headlining tours with Rob Zombie.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Upside_Down>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1779:
Native Hawaiians killed English explorer Captain James Cook
(depicted) after he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling
chief of the island of Hawaii.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook>
1919:
The Battle of Bereza Kartuska, the first serious armed conflict
of the Polish–Soviet War took place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bereza_Kartuska>
1961:
Lawrencium, the metallic radioactive synthetic element with
atomic number 103, was first synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation
Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrencium>
2011:
Arab Spring: The Bahraini uprising began with youth-organized
protests on the Day of Rage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Rage_%28Bahrain%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
love interest:
1. Especially of a character in film or literature: one who is of
interest as a (potential) partner in love.
2. A romantic relationship; a romance.
3. (film, literature, specifically) A romantic plot or subplot in a film
or book.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/love_interest>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that
themselves commit.
--The Merchant of Venice
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice>
Saturn was an American magazine published from 1957 to 1965. It was
launched as a science-fiction magazine, but sales were weak, and after
five issues the publisher, Robert C. Sproul, switched the magazine to
hardboiled detective fiction that emphasized sex and sadism. Sproul
renamed the magazine several times, settling on Web Terror Stories in
1962, and the contents became mostly weird-menace tales—a genre in
which apparently supernatural powers are revealed to have a logical
explanation at the end of the story. Donald A. Wollheim was the editor
for the first five issues; he published material by several well-known
authors, including Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, and Harlan
Ellison, but was given a low budget and could not always find good-
quality stories. It is not known who edited the magazine after the
science fiction issues, but themes of violence, torture and sex
continued to the end of the magazine's run. Sproul finally cancelled the
title in 1965 after a total of 27 issues.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1692:
Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
were massacred allegedly for failing to pledge allegiance to the new
monarchs, William III and Mary II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe>
1961:
Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what
they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug
encased within.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_artifact>
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors
destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of streets in Louisville,
Kentucky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions>
2017:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-
un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shock stall:
(aviation) A stall (“sudden loss of efficiency”) caused when the airflow
over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a
specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic
speeds.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shock_stall>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so
calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot
tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being
repeated.
--Robert H. Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson>