Loveless is the second studio album by Irish rock band My Bloody
Valentine. It was released on 4 November 1991 in the United Kingdom by
Creation Records and in the United States by Sire Records. The album was
recorded between February 1989 and September 1991. The band cycled
through 19 different studios and several engineers during the album's
recording; one magazine estimated the production costs at close to
£250,000. Loveless peaked at number 24 on the UK Albums Chart, and was
widely praised by critics for its sonic innovations and the guitar work
of Kevin Shields (pictured). After the album's release, Creation owner
Alan McGee found Shields too difficult to work with and dropped the band
from the label. My Bloody Valentine struggled to record a follow-up to
the album and broke up in 1997. Loveless has been widely cited by
critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2013, the album
was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveless_%28album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry
division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville,
Tennessee, resulting in the capture of 150 prisoners.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Johnsonville>
1938:
The deportation of several thousand Jews from Slovakia by the
Hlinka Guard and police began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_deportation_of_Jews_from_Slovakia>
1970:
Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child
known as Genie, who had spent almost her entire life in social
isolation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_%28feral_child%29>
1995:
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by
ultranationalist Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at Kings of Israel
Square in Tel Aviv.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
othering:
(philosophy, politics) gerund of other: the process of perceiving or
portraying someone or something as essentially alien or different.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/othering>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In the present stages of spiritual experience, the believer's
interior comfort, and his exterior lustre, greatly depend on the
position of his heart toward the uncreated sun of righteousness. How
obscure and benighted are our views, and how languid our exercise of
grace, when an unbelieving, a worldly, or a careless spirit, interrupts
our walk with God! But, if the out-goings of our souls are to him, and
if the in-pourings of his blessed influence be felt, we glow, we kindle,
we burn, we shine.
--Augustus Toplady
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustus_Toplady>
William Henry Harrison's 1840 presidential campaign elevated Harrison,
who had served as a general and in the U.S. Congress, to the presidency
after at least four years of seeking the office. In the election,
Harrison defeated the incumbent Democrat, President Martin Van Buren, in
a campaign that broke new ground in American politics. Among other
firsts, Harrison's victory was the first time the Whig Party won the
presidency. Harrison gained the nomination over Henry Clay and Winfield
Scott. Many of his rallies took on a carnival atmosphere, growing to
unprecedented size. He made speeches to some of them, breaking the
custom that presidential hopefuls not campaign. Harrison's death in
April 1841 marked the first time an American president failed to
complete his term; he was succeeded by Vice President John Tyler. The
unofficial campaign motto, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", has been called
the most famous presidential campaign slogan in U.S. history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison_1840_presidential_camp…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1881:
Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of
Araucanía by Chile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_uprising_of_1881>
1943:
The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces
began at Majdanek concentration camp.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Harvest_Festival>
1957:
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog
Laika (depicted) as the first living creature to enter orbit around
Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika>
1996:
Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey
Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a
scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized
crime.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susurluk_scandal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
attainable:
Able to be accomplished, achieved, or obtained.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attainable>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I contend to be a fighter for pureness and truth. I hesitate,
because I am afraid of you and your attitude towards truth. To say the
truth about you is dangerous to life.
--Wilhelm Reich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich>
Dali is a hunting goddess from the mythology of the Georgian people. The
patron of hoofed wild mountain animals, she was said to reward hunters
who obeyed her taboos and to punish violators. She was usually described
as a beautiful nude woman with golden hair and glowing skin, although
she sometimes took on the form of her favored animals. Stories depict
her taking human lovers and jealously killing them, and later clashing
with her rival Saint George. After the rise of Christianity in Georgia,
the stories told about Dali changed; Saint George was presented as
having the power to overrule her, and she began to be conflated with a
malicious nature spirit called the ali. As a patron of the hunt, she has
been compared with Artemis of Greek mythology, a hag in Scottish
mythology called the glaistig, and a maiden from folklore who tames a
unicorn. Her associations with gold, seduction, and the morning star
have led scholars to draw connections with goddesses such as Aphrodite
and Ishtar.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dali_%28goddess%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1932:
The Australian military began a "war against emus" (man with
dead emu pictured), flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage
to crops in Western Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War>
1960:
In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books
was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's
Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd>
1995:
Former South African minister of defence Magnus Malan and 19
others were arrested and charged with 13 murders in the KwaMakhutha
massacre of 1987, for which they were all acquitted.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Malan>
2016:
The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in the 2016
World Series, ending the longest championship drought in Major League
Baseball history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_World_Series>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
amaranth:
1. (dated, poetic) An imaginary flower that does not wither.
2. Any of various herbs of the genus Amaranthus.
3. The characteristic purplish-red colour of the flowers or leaves of
these plants. amaranth:
4. (chemistry) A red to purple azo dye used as a biological stain, and
in some countries in cosmetics and as a food colouring.
5. (cooking) The seed of these plants, used as a cereal.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amaranth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your
prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may
find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made
of feather beds.
--Lois McMaster Bujold
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold>
Typhoon Gay was a small but powerful tropical cyclone that caused more
than 800 fatalities in and around the Gulf of Thailand in
November 1989. The worst typhoon to affect the Malay Peninsula in
35 years, Gay rapidly intensified from a monsoon trough, and on
3 November became the first typhoon since 1891 to make landfall in
Thailand. It re-emerged into the Bay of Bengal and reorganized as it
approached southeastern India. The typhoon moved ashore near Kavali,
Andhra Pradesh, and dissipated over Maharashtra early on 10 November.
The typhoon's rapid development took seafarers by surprise, leading to
275 offshore fatalities. Across the Malay Peninsula, 588 people died
from various storm-related incidents and several towns were destroyed.
Losses throughout Thailand totaled ฿11 billion (US$497 million). In
India, Gay damaged or destroyed about 20,000 homes in Andhra Pradesh.
It left 100,000 people homeless, caused 69 deaths, and was responsible
for ₹410 million (US$25.3 million) in damage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Gay_%281989%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1503:
Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, taking the name
Julius II in emulation of Julius Caesar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1503_papal_conclave>
1914:
World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian
Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Australian_Imperial_Force>
1950:
Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate U.S.
president Harry S. Truman.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Harry_S._Truman>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cherub:
1. (biblical) A winged creature attending on God, described by Pseudo-
Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest
order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a
lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in
later texts.
2. An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a
winged child or a child's head with wings but no body.
3. (figurative) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly
angelic or innocent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cherub>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I got my break — big break — when I was five years old. And
it's taken me more than seventy years to realize it. You see, at five, I
learned to read. It's that simple, and it's that profound. I left school
at thirteen, I didn’t have a formal education, and I believe I would
not be standing here tonight, without the books, the plays — the
scripts. It's been a long journey from Fountainbridge to this evening,
with you all. Though my feet are tired, my heart is not.
--Sean Connery
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sean_Connery>
Bill Kibby (15 April 1903 – 31 October 1942) was a British-born
Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for
gallantry in the face of the enemy that could be awarded to a member of
the Australian armed forces during World War II. In 1940, Kibby
enlisted in the all-volunteer Second Australian Imperial Force and
joined the 2/48th Infantry Battalion. He was injured before the Siege of
Tobruk, but was with the battalion during the First Battle of El Alamein
in July 1942. In October, the battalion was committed to the Second
Battle of El Alamein. Between 23 and 31 October, Kibby went forward
alone and silenced an enemy machine gun post, mended a telephone line
under heavy fire, and pressed forward under withering machine gun fire
to help his company capture its objective. After this final action
ultimately cost him his life, the Victoria Cross was awarded for his
inspirational leadership.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kibby>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1913:
Public-transportation workers in Indianapolis went on strike,
shutting down mass transit in the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_streetcar_strike_of_1913>
1973:
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from
Mountjoy Prison in Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in
the prison's exercise yard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountjoy_Prison_helicopter_escape>
1999:
All 217 people on board EgyptAir Flight 990 perished when the
aircraft suddenly crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of
Nantucket, Massachusetts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bunny boiler:
(slang, humorous, derogatory) A person who acts (or may supposedly act)
obsessively or even dangerously towards another person with whom they
were previously, or wish to be, in a relationship.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bunny_boiler>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
From ghoulies and ghosties, And long-leggedy beasties, And
things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
--prayer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Prayer>
The European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a small, square-
tailed seabird with a fluttering flight. It is black except for a white
rump and a white band under its wings. Most birds breed on islands off
western Europe, with a separate subspecies occurring in the
Mediterranean. The storm petrel lays a single white egg in a burrow. The
adults share incubation and feeding the chick. This bird is oceanic
outside the breeding season, wintering off the western coasts of Africa.
It feeds on small fish, and can find oily edible items by smell. The
chick is fed with an oily liquid regurgitated by the adults. Silent at
sea, the storm petrel has a chattering call given during courtship, and
the male has a purring song. The storm petrel cannot survive where rats
or cats have been introduced, and it is killed by large birds such as
gulls. It is classified by the IUCN as being of least concern. Folklore
claiming that the bird can foretell or cause bad weather has led to its
use as a symbol by some revolutionary groups.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_storm_petrel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1950:
Blanca Canales led the Jayuya Uprising against the
U.S.-supported Puerto Rican government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayuya_Uprising>
1960:
Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney
transplant in the United Kingdom at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woodruff>
1993:
The Troubles: Three members of the Ulster Defence Association
opened fire in a crowded pub during a Halloween party, killing eight
people and wounding nineteen others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greysteel_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
escarole:
(Canada, US) A subspecies or variety of broad-leaved endive (Cichorium
endivia subsp. endivia, syn. Cichorium endivia var. latifolium), which
is eaten as a vegetable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escarole>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will
never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience,
than the consent of governors and governed.
--John Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Adams>
Portrait of Mariana of Austria is a 1652 or 1653 oil-on-canvas painting
by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Its
subject, Dona Mariana (known as Maria Anna), was the daughter of Emperor
Ferdinand III and Maria Anna of Spain, and was nineteen years old when
the painting was completed. Although vivacious and fun-loving in life,
she is given an unhappy expression in Velázquez's portrait. The
painting is bathed in harmonious shades of black and red, and her face
is heavily made up. Her right hand rests on the back of a chair, and she
holds a lace handkerchief in her left hand. Her bodice is decorated with
jewellery, including a gold necklace, bracelets and a large gold brooch.
The clock placed on the scarlet drapery behind her indicates her status.
Three full-length versions of the portrait survive, as well as a number
of half-length variants. The version in the Museo del Prado (detail
pictured) is known to be the original and is dated on the basis of a
matching description of a canvas sent to Ferdinand in Vienna in
December 1651.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Mariana_of_Austria>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1618:
English courtier and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed
in London after King James I reinstated a fifteen-year-old death
sentence against him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh>
1948:
Arab–Israeli War: As the Israel Defense Forces captured the
Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf, they massacred at least 52
villagers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safsaf_massacre>
1960:
A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team
crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S.,
resulting in 22 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Polytechnic_State_University_footb…>
2013:
The first phase of the Marmaray project (train pictured) opened
with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaray>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
signage:
1. (uncountable) Signs, particularly those imparting commercial,
directional, or road traffic information, taken collectively.
2. (countable, chiefly India, elsewhere regarded as nonstandard) A
sign, a signboard.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/signage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A wise man ought not to desire to inhabit that country where men
have more authority than laws.
--Walter Raleigh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh>
Cetiosauriscus was a sauropod dinosaur that lived between 166 and
164 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic. It was a herbivore
with a moderately long tail and long forelimbs, compared to other
sauropods. It has been estimated at about 15 metres (49 ft) long and
between 4 and 10 tonnes (3.9 and 9.8 long tons; 4.4 and 11.0 short tons)
in weight. Its only known fossil includes a hindlimb and most of the
rear half of a skeleton. Found in Cambridgeshire, England, in the 1890s,
it was described by Arthur Smith Woodward in 1905 as a new specimen of
the species Cetiosaurus leedsi, which was moved to the new genus
Cetiosauriscus in 1927 by Friedrich von Huene. In 1980, Alan Charig
proposed the current name Cetiosauriscus stewarti. The fossil was found
in the marine deposits of the Oxford Clay Formation alongside many
invertebrate groups, marine ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and crocodylians,
a single pterosaur, and various dinosaurs, including an ankylosaur,
stegosaurs, and an ornithopod.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetiosauriscus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1707:
The Hōei earthquake ruptured all segments of the Nankai
megathrust simultaneously – the only earthquake known to have done
this.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1707_H%C5%8Dei_earthquake>
1918:
The Czechoslovak provisional government declared the country's
independence from Austria-Hungary, forming the First Czechoslovak
Republic in Prague.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_declaration_of_independence>
1940:
World War II: Italy invaded Greece after Greek prime minister
Ioannis Metaxas rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding the
cession of Greek territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Italian_War>
1995:
A fire broke out on a Baku Metro train in Azerbaijan's capital,
killing 289 people and injuring 270 others in the world's deadliest
subway disaster.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Baku_Metro_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
townland:
(Ireland) A geographical unit of land smaller than a parish.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/townland>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a
nuclear war. That’s why we had a barrel … down in our basement,
filled with cans of food and water. When the nuclear attack came, we
were supposed to go downstairs, hunker down, and eat out of that barrel.
Today, the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn’t look like this.
… If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,
it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.
Not missiles, but microbes.
--Bill Gates
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates>
The first game in the history of the Wales national football team was in
1876, making Wales the third-oldest side in international association
football, after Scotland and England. Wales played annual games against
Scotland, England, and later Ireland, which became the British Home
Championship. Wales won their first championship in the 1906–07
tournament, three more titles during the 1920s, and four in the six
years prior to World War II. After the war, Wales played teams from
other European nations and began competing in the FIFA World Cup, but
failed to qualify in 1950 and 1954. Wales qualified in 1958, being
defeated by Brazil in the quarter-final. The side declined in the 1960s,
failing to qualify for a World Cup or the European Nations' Cup. Wales
won their last British Championship during the 1969–70 season, before
the competition was discontinued. Manager Mike Smith led the side to the
quarter-finals of the 1976 European Championships in their centenary
year, when they were defeated by Yugoslavia.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Wales_national_football_team_%…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy achieved a Pyrrhic
victory against the United States at the Battle of the Santa Cruz
Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Santa_Cruz_Islands>
1967:
American Catholic priest Philip Berrigan led a protest against
the Vietnam War by pouring blood over Selective Service records in
Baltimore, Maryland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Berrigan>
1999:
Armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan attacked the National Assembly
of Armenia, killing prime minister Vazgen Sargsyan, president of the
National Assembly Karen Demirchyan, and six others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vazgen_Sargsyan>
2011:
Michael D. Higgins was elected president of Ireland with far
more votes than any politician in the country's history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Irish_presidential_election>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
get a word in edgewise:
(US, usually in the negative) To break into or participate in a
conversation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_a_word_in_edgewise>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being
of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to
look upward to the celestial crown above them. … If they gradually
grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of
usefulness is gone.
--Theodore Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>
William Anderson (1840 – October 26, 1864), known as "Bloody Bill"
Anderson, was one of the deadliest pro-Confederate guerrilla leaders of
the American Civil War, leading a band of volunteer partisans who
targeted Union loyalists and federal soldiers in Missouri and Kansas.
After his father was killed by a Union loyalist judge during the war,
Anderson killed the judge and fled to Missouri where he robbed travelers
and killed several Union soldiers. In 1863 he took a leading role in the
Lawrence massacre and later participated in the Battle of Baxter
Springs. By 1864 Anderson was the leader of a group of raiders in
Missouri. In September 1864, he led a raid on the town of Centralia,
where his men captured a passenger train; they executed 24 unarmed Union
soldiers in the Centralia Massacre. Later that day they killed more than
a hundred Union militiamen in an ambush. Anderson died in battle a month
later.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Anderson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1892:
Ida B. Wells began to publish her research on lynching in the
United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize
in 2020.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells>
1955:
Ngô Đình Diệm proclaimed himself president of the newly
created Republic of Vietnam after defeating former emperor Bảo Đại
in a fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_State_of_Vietnam_referendum>
1994:
Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, settling relations
between the two countries and pledging that neither would allow its
territory to become a staging ground for military strikes by a third
country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_treaty>
2000:
Following protests against military leader Robert Guéï,
Laurent Gbagbo became the first elected president of Ivory Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Gbagbo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sheepshank:
(nautical) A type of knot which is useful for shortening a rope or
taking up slack without cutting it.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheepshank>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to
change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.
--Hillary Clinton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton>