The polar bear is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
Closely related to the brown bear, the polar bear is the largest extant
species of bear and land carnivore, with adult males weighing 300 to
800 kg (700 to 1,800 lb). It has white or yellowish fur with black
skin and a thick layer of fat. Polar bears live both on land and on sea
ice, and usually live solitarily. They mainly prey on seals, especially
ringed seals. Male bears guard females during the breeding season and
defend them from rivals. Mothers give birth to cubs in maternity dens
during the winter. The International Union for Conservation of Nature
considers polar bears a vulnerable species. Their biggest threat is
climate change as global warming has led to a decline in sea ice in the
Arctic. They have been hunted for their coats, meat and other items.
They have been kept in captivity and have played important roles in
culture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
Peninsular War: In the south of France, Spanish, British and
Portuguese soldiers under the command of Arthur Wellesley defeated
French soldiers in the Battle of Orthez, causing the French to retreat
east.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orthez>
1972:
The Sunday People revealed that James Humphreys, a notorious
pornographer, had bribed a senior London police officer with a holiday
to Cyprus and Beirut.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Humphreys_%28pornographer%29>
1988:
The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the target
of a violent pogrom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumgait_pogrom>
1996:
The multimedia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release
of the video games Pocket Monsters Red and Green.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red,_Blue,_and_Yellow>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
take the shilling:
1. (Britain, military, historical) To enlist as a soldier in the British
army or navy by accepting a shilling from a recruiting officer.
2. (by extension)
3. (military, dated) To enlist as a soldier of any military force; to
join the armed forces.
4. (generally) To be on the payroll of an organization; to work for an
organization.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_the_shilling>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles
the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of
wildflowers hidden in the grass.
--John Steinbeck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck>
"Last Gasp" is the fourth episode of the first series of the British
black comedy anthology television programme Inside No. 9. It first
aired on 26 February 2014 on BBC Two. Written by Steve Pemberton and
Reece Shearsmith, the story revolves around the birthday of the severely
ill Tamsin—played by Lucy Hutchinson—whose parents arrange for the
singer Frankie J Parsons (David Bedella) to visit their daughter through
the charity WishmakerUK. Frankie dies after blowing up a balloon,
leading to arguments between Tamsin's father (Pemberton), the
WishmakerUK representative Sally (Tamsin Greig, pictured), and Frankie's
assistant Si (Adam Deacon) over the now-valuable balloon containing
Frankie's last breath. The story was inspired by someone Pemberton had
seen on Swap Shop who collected air from different places. The episode
is a morality tale that satirizes and critiques celebrity culture.
Pemberton subsequently sold a balloon containing his breath on eBay,
with proceeds going to a Sport Relief charity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Gasp_%28Inside_No._9%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1914:
RMS Britannic, the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner
of the White Star Line after RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, was launched
at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic>
1979:
The Superliner railcar entered revenue service with Amtrak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superliner_%28railcar%29>
2014:
Former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Kevin
Lau was stabbed, prompting concerns and protests about media freedom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_attack_on_Kevin_Lau>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
latibulum:
(obsolete) A concealed hiding place, especially of an animal; a burrow,
hole, or lair.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/latibulum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Poetry will take a great step, a decisive step, a step which,
like the upheaval of an earthquake, will change the whole face of the
intellectual world. It will set about doing as nature does, mingling in
its creations — but without confounding them — darkness and light,
the grotesque and the sublime; in other words, the body and the soul,
the beast and the intellect; for the starting-point of religion is
always the starting-point of poetry. All things are connected.
--Victor Hugo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo>
The Benty Grange hanging bowl is a fragmentary Anglo-Saxon artefact from
the seventh century CE. All that remains are parts of two escutcheons:
bronze frames that are usually circular and elaborately decorated, and
that sit along the outside of the rim or at the interior base of a
hanging bowl. A third disintegrated soon after excavation. The
escutcheons were found in 1848 by an antiquary, Thomas Bateman, in a
tumulus in north-western Derbyshire. The grave also contained the boar-
crested Benty Grange helmet. The surviving escutcheons are made of
enamelled bronze and are 40 mm (1.6 in) in diameter. They show three
dolphin-like creatures arranged in a circle, each biting the tail of the
one ahead of it (design shown). Their bodies and the background are made
of enamel, likely all yellow, with the creatures' outlines and eyes
tinned or silvered, as are the borders of the escutcheons. The third
escutcheon was of a different size and style and it may have originally
been placed at the bottom of the bowl.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benty_Grange_hanging_bowl>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1933:
USS Ranger, the United States Navy's first purpose-built
aircraft carrier, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ranger_%28CV-4%29>
1951:
After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural Pan
American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Games>
1994:
Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim Arabs
praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29
people and wounding 125 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre>
2009:
At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh
Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Rifles_revolt>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
simulacrum:
1. A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.
2. A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not
its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation,
a semblance.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simulacrum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Give me love, give me peace on earth, Give me light, give me
life, keep me free from birth, Give me hope, help me cope, with this
heavy load, Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.
--George Harrison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Harrison>
Nestor Makhno (1888–1934) was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and
the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the
Ukrainian Civil War. Born into a poor peasant family in southern
Ukraine, Makhno became involved in the local anarchist movement and was
imprisoned for his activities. Following the 1917 Revolution, he
returned to his hometown and became a local revolutionary leader,
spearheading anarchist resistance to Ukrainian nationalists and the
White movement. Upon defeating his enemies in battle, he established the
Makhnovshchina, a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish
anarchist communism in Ukraine, coming to control much of the southern
and eastern part of the country. After he collaborated with the
Bolsheviks to defeat the Whites, his former allies turned on him, and he
was wounded and driven into exile in 1921. He died in Paris from
tuberculosis.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
Napoleonic Wars: French admiral Villaret de Joyeuse
unconditionally surrendered to the British, which ended the British
invasion of Martinique and began a five-year occupation of the island.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Martinique_%281809%29>
1979:
Uganda–Tanzania War: Ugandian government forces fled Masaka,
Uganda, as the Tanzania People's Defence Force bombarded and captured
the town.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Masaka>
1989:
United Airlines Flight 811 experienced uncontrolled
decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii,
blowing seats out of the aircraft and killing nine passengers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fraught:
1. (nautical) Of a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.
2. (figurative)
3. Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually
something negative); accompanied by; entailing.
4. (specifically) Carrying or loaded with anxiety, fear, or stress, for
example, due to complexity or difficulty; distressed; also, causing
distress; distressing.
5. Followed by with: furnished, provided. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fraught>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sir Walter Raleigh declared in the early 17th century that
"whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the
trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently
the world itself." This principle is as true today as when uttered, and
its effect will continue as long as ships traverse the seas.
--Chester W. Nimitz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz>
"Open Arms" is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA (pictured) from
her second studio album, SOS (2022), featuring American rapper Travis
Scott. It is one of the album's guitar-backed acoustic ballads,
exploring a style of music that departs from SZA's usual R&B;-leaning
sound. Her deceased grandmother, whose vocals were in the album
preceding SOS, appears in the song as a way of paying tribute. With
lyrics about trying to stay with an ex-lover, "Open Arms" is addressed
to a subject whom the narrator eventually leaves to fix her self-esteem
despite persistent feelings of attachment to him. Upon release, it
charted in the United States, Canada, and Australia, and it peaked at
number 67 on the Billboard Global 200. The song is SZA's fourth
collaboration with Scott, whose uncharacteristically gentle delivery on
his verse was received positively by critics. A solo version was
released in January 2023 as a track on the website-exclusive digital
edition of SOS.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Arms_%28SZA_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive
method of producing aluminium (sample pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Martin_Hall>
1944:
In response to an insurgency in Chechnya, the Soviet Union
began the forced deportation of the native Chechen and Ingush of North
Caucasus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Chechens_and_Ingush>
1987:
SN 1987A, a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, was
observed from Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A>
2021:
Caused by gang rivalries, riots in four Ecuadorian prisons
resulted in the deaths of 79 inmates.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2021_Ecuadorian_prison_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
selfbow:
(archery) A bow made from a single piece of wood (often referred to as a
bow stave).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/selfbow>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Today for the first time in more than a half century, the US has
returned to the moon. Today, for the first time in the history of
humanity, a commercial company — an American company — launched and
led the voyage up there. And today is a day that shows the power and
promise of NASA's commercial partnerships. … What a triumph! Odysseus
has taken the moon. This feat is a giant leap forward for all of
humanity.
--Bill Nelson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson>
Dookie is the third studio album by the American rock band Green Day,
released on February 1, 1994, by Reprise Records. The band's major
label debut, it was recorded in mid-1993 and is heavily based around
frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's personal experiences, with themes such
as boredom, anxiety, relationships, and sexuality. After several years
of grunge's dominance in popular music, the album brought a livelier,
more melodic rock sound to the mainstream. Considered one of the
defining albums of the 1990s and punk rock in general, Dookie was also
pivotal in solidifying the genre's mainstream popularity. The album
influenced a new wave of pop-punk bands, such as Blink-182, Sum 41, and
Fall Out Boy. Though the band was labeled a sell-out by some of the
band's original fans, the record received critical acclaim upon its
release and won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1995.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dookie>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1959:
Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the
Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Daytona_500>
1974:
Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at
Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of
crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but was
killed by police.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck>
2019:
A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid and stole
several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blight:
1. (transitive)
2. (phytopathology) To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with
a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast,
to mildew, to smut.
3. (by extension, pathology, dated) To affect (a body part) with a
disease.
4. (figurative) To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of
life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.
5. (intransitive) Of a plant: to suffer blight (noun sense 1.1).
6. (phytopathology)
7. A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete
and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as
floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a
fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut.
8. The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be
airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus;
also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees.
9. (by extension)
10. A state of cloudy, humid weather.
11. (pathology, dated) A diseased condition of the face or skin;
specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin
rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold.
12. (figurative)
13. Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other
aspect of life.
14. (specifically) A rundown and unsightly condition of an urban area;
also, such an area.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blight>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished, that the
manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce,
would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; that the
swords might be turned into plough-shares, the spears into pruning
hooks, and, as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no
more."
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>
Donald Hardman (21 February 1899 – 2 March 1982) was a senior Royal
Air Force (RAF) commander. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and
flew fighters over the Western Front, achieving nine victories to become
a decorated ace. Between the wars he saw service with RAF squadrons in
India and Egypt. At the outbreak of World War II, Hardman was a wing
commander, attached to the Air Ministry. In 1944 he commanded No. 232
(Transport) Group during the Burma campaign. He served successively as
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, Commandant of RAF Staff College,
Bracknell, and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Home Command. He
was knighted in 1952. Hardman was Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal
Australian Air Force from 1952 to 1954, and was responsible for
reorganising its geographically based command-and-control system into a
functional structure. After returning to Britain, he joined the Air
Council in May 1954, and was promoted to air chief marshal the following
year. He retired from the RAF in 1958.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hardman>
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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>
1952:
A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of
Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East
Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language_movement>
1965:
American Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while
giving a speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X>
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:
phonology:
1. (uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages,
including accent, intonation, phonemes, stress, and syllable structure,
and which sounds are distinctive units within a language; (countable)
the way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
2. (by extension, uncountable) The study of the way components of signs
function in a sign language, and which components are distinctive units
within the language; (countable) the way components of signs function
within a given sign language.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phonology>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that
the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
--W. H. Auden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._H._Auden>
The quarter sovereign is a British gold coin issued by the Royal Mint
since 2009. It has been issued as a bullion coin and as a collector's
coin. The smallest in the sovereign range, it has a face value of 25
pence. In 1853, the Royal Mint produced two patterns for a quarter
sovereign for circulation, with one denominated as five shillings. These
coins never went into production. In 1979, the Royal Mint began to sell
sovereigns to those wishing to own gold coins, by the following year
selling four different denominations, ranging from the half sovereign to
the five pound gold coin. In 2009, a quarter sovereign was introduced as
an extension of this range. It shares the same design as the larger
coins, depicting Elizabeth II on the obverse, or since 2022,
Charles III. Although there are some one-year designs, the one most
often used on the reverse is Benedetto Pistrucci's depiction of Saint
George and the Dragon (shown), which was first used on the sovereign in
1817.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_sovereign>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1959:
Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro
CF-105 Arrow interceptor-aircraft program amid much political debate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow>
1970:
The Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani province, one of the
largest Buddhist temples in Thailand, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_Dhammakaya>
1998:
At the age of 15, American figure skater Tara Lipinski became
the youngest gold-medal winner in the history of the Winter Olympic
Games at the time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Lipinski>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
for good:
(idiomatic) In a way that is conclusive and final.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_good>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I spend most of my day screaming — and then over time I get
tired and then when I'm tired, I start thinking of the jokes. … That's
what I always loved about comedy, it is a way for us to just, you know,
to numb the pain, to process what we're going through without feeling
every single inkling of it.
--Trevor Noah
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Trevor_Noah>
The Teloschistaceae are a family of mostly lichen-forming fungi with a
cosmopolitan distribution, mostly in temperate regions. Most either live
on rock or on bark, and many are orange to yellow from anthraquinone
which protects them from ultraviolet light, enabling expansion into arid
and sunny ecosystems. They have a thallus that is leafy, bushy, or
crusty, and partner with photosynthetic Trebouxia algae. A 2013 revision
recognised three subfamilies and created or resurrected 31 more genera.
Since then, many new genera have been added and DNA studies are giving
insights into relationships within this family's more than 800 species
and around 120 genera. It remains underexplored in vast regions like
South America and China. Several rock-dwelling species are known to
damage marble surfaces, and others are used in some traditional
medicines. One member, Rusavskia elegans, is used in research as a model
organism to investigate resilience against the harsh conditions of outer
space.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teloschistaceae>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1903:
A blockade against Venezuela (depicted), caused by President
Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts, is lifted.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_of_1902%E2%80%931903>
1942:
World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation of over
112,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066>
1948:
The Southeast Asian Youth Conference, which is believed to have
inspired armed communist rebellions in different Asian countries, opened
in Calcutta, India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_of_Youth_and_Students_of_Southeast…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cater-cousin:
1. A person who, while not being a blood relation, is regarded as close
enough to be called a cousin; a (very) close or good friend; a bosom
friend.
2. (figurative) A thing which is closely associated with or related to
another thing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cater-cousin>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Then the rainstorm came over me And I felt my spirit break I
had lost all of my belief, you see And realized my mistake But time
threw a prayer to me And all around me became still I need love,
love's divine Please forgive me, now I see that I've been blind Give
me love, love is what I need to help me know my name.
--Seal
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seal_%28musician%29>
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle
of Ages are two 2001 action-adventure games in The Legend of Zelda
series, developed by Flagship, a subsidiary of Capcom (head office
pictured), and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color. The player
controls the protagonist Link from an overhead perspective as he
collects various items hidden in dungeons and guarded by bosses. After
experimenting with porting the original Legend of Zelda to the Game Boy
Color, the Flagship team, supervised by Yoshiki Okamoto, began
developing three interconnected Zelda games that could be played in any
order; they later canceled one of the games. Both Seasons and Ages were
critical successes, and sold 3.96 million units each. Critics
complimented the gameplay, colorful designs and graphic quality, but
criticized the inconsistent sound quality. Both games were re-released
on the Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS in May 2013, and on the
Nintendo Switch Online service in July 2023.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Oracle_of_Seasons_and_Or…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered
at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly>
1964:
Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but
French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Gabonese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1974:
A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it
on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_White_House_helicopter_incident>
2011:
Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in
a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of
Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar
Gaddafi's government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_%282011%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
crowbill:
1. (surgery) A kind of forceps for extracting bullets, etc., from
wounds.
2. (weaponry, historical) A bec de corbin (“poleaxe with a modified
hammerhead and a spike mounted on the top of the pole”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crowbill>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I want Putin and his entourage, Putin’s friends, his government
to know — that they will have to pay for what they’ve done with our
country, with my family, and my husband. And that day will come very
soon. I want to call on the entire world community, everyone present
here, people all over the world — so that we shall all together defeat
this evil, defeat the terrifying regime that is currently in Russia.
This regime and Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for all the
horrors they are doing to my country, to our country — to Russia.
--Yulia Navalnaya
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yulia_Navalnaya>