Joseph A. Lopez (October 4, 1779 – October 5, 1841) was a Mexican
Catholic priest who became a prominent ally of Emperor Agustín de
Iturbide. As a priest in Peribán, he tried to arrest the first leader
of the Mexican War of Independence, Miguel Hidalgo. Unsuccessful, he
fled and became acquainted with Ana María Huarte, the wife of the
future emperor of Mexico, Agustín de Iturbide. As a result, he was sent
to Madrid to act as Iturbide's attorney and political informant, before
returning to Mexico as chaplain and educator of the imperial family. He
fled with the exiled family to Europe in 1823, and then returned to
Mexico. Following Iturbide's execution in 1824, Lopez fled with the
family to Washington, D.C., where he became chaplain to the Georgetown
Visitation Monastery, and became a Jesuit. In 1840, Lopez was named the
acting president of Georgetown University, becoming the first Latin
American president of a university in the United States. He soon fell
ill and was sent to St. Inigoes, Maryland, where he died.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_A._Lopez>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: The Allies devastated the German defence at
the Battle of Broodseinde, prompting a crisis among their commanders and
causing a severe loss of morale in the 4th Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Broodseinde>
1957:
The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 (replica pictured), the first
artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1>
2003:
A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured 60 others inside
a restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_restaurant_suicide_bombing>
2010:
A waste-reservoir dam in western Hungary collapsed, freeing
1 million m3 (35 million cu ft) of red mud, which flooded nearby
communities and killed ten people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajka_alumina_plant_accident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
orient:
1. (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
2. (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so
that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward
the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to
rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction
between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction
in nature.
3. (transitive) To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
4. (transitive, reflexive) To determine which direction one is facing.
5. (transitive, often reflexive, figurative) To familiarize (oneself or
someone) with a circumstance or situation.
6. (transitive, figurative) To set the focus of (something) so as to
appeal or relate to a certain group.
7. (intransitive) To change direction to face a certain way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orient>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when
it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit
when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated.
Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I
suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are
sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.
--Rutherford B. Hayes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes>
Antiochus XI Epiphanes (died 93 BC) was a Seleucid monarch who reigned
as King of Syria in 94–93 BC, during the Hellenistic period. He ruled
at a time of civil war, waged by several claimants to the throne. At
first a follower of his eldest brother Seleucus VI, Antiochus XI
declared himself king jointly with his twin Philip I after Seleucus VI
was killed in 94 BC by a cousin, Antiochus X. The twins destroyed the
city of Mopsuestia, whose citizens played a part in Seleucus VI's
death, then marched on the Syrian capital Antioch and expelled
Antiochus X in 93 BC. Though unrecorded by ancient historians, the
reign of Antiochus XI as a senior king in Antioch is confirmed through
numismatic evidence (coin pictured). Philip I kept his royal title and
remained in Cilicia. In the autumn of the same year, Antiochus X
regrouped and counterattacked; Antiochus XI drowned in the Orontes
River as he tried to flee.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_XI_Epiphanes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1951:
In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson
hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run, to win
the National League pennant.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_%28baseball%29>
1991:
Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer>
2003:
Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy
(both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage
on the Las Vegas Strip.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_%26_Roy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
festschrift:
A collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial
or tribute to an academic or some other respected person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festschrift>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in
general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they
don't have to").
--Gore Vidal
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal>
The vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus) is a tyrant flycatcher
found in South America and southern North America. The male (pictured)
has a bright red crown and underparts, and brownish wings and tail;
females lack the red coloration. The male's chirpy song is used in
establishing a territory in riparian or semi-open habitat. Its diet of
insects are caught in flight. Although monogamous, females may lay their
eggs in another pair's nest, and extra-pair copulation occurs. Females
build cup nests and are fed by the male while they incubate the two to
three speckled whitish eggs; two broods are laid in a season. Both
parents feed the chicks, which are ready to fledge after fifteen days. A
long molt begins in summer. The species was first described from
specimens caught by Charles Darwin. The taxonomy of the genus was
revised in 2016, creating several new species from this flycatcher's
former subspecies. Populations have declined because of habitat loss,
although numbers remain in the millions.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_flycatcher>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1879:
Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian
Empire, but the terms were so unfavorable to China that their
negotiator, Chonghou, was later sentenced to death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Livadia>
1925:
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the
first television picture with a greyscale image.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird>
2007:
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Military
Demarcation Line on his way to the second inter-Korean summit with North
Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_inter-Korean_summit>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Chanakya:
(India) A shrewd politician or, in general, a cunning person; a
Machiavelli.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chanakya>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sooner or later...one has to take sides — if one is to remain
human.
--Graham Greene
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Graham_Greene>
The Rwandan Civil War was a conflict between the Hutu-led Rwandan Armed
Forces and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), founded by Tutsi
refugees. The war began on 1 October 1990 with an RPF invasion but the
army, assisted by French troops, had largely defeated the RPF by the end
of the month. Paul Kagame (pictured, left) took command of the rebels
and in a few months began a multi-year guerrilla war. In 1992, after a
series of protests, Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured,
right) began peace negotiations with the RPF and domestic opposition
parties. Despite disruption by the extremist group Hutu Power and a
fresh RPF offensive, the Arusha Accords were signed in August 1993.
United Nations peacekeepers were installed, but Hutu Power was steadily
gaining influence. After the assassination of Habyarimana in
April 1994, between half a million and a million Tutsi and moderate
Hutu were killed in the Rwandan genocide. The RPF quickly resumed the
war, capturing the capital and taking control of the country by July.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Civil_War>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1940:
The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, one of the
United States' first long-distance limited-access highways, opened to
traffic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Turnpike>
1998:
Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, was formed with the
ratification of the Europol Convention by all member states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europol>
2018:
The International Court of Justice ruled that Chile was under
no obligation to restore Bolivia's access to the Pacific Ocean, which it
had lost in the 19th century.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligation_to_Negotiate_Access_to_the_Pacific…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
witch doctor:
A person who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical
powers; a shaman.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/witch_doctor>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I still have complete confidence that the United States, if given
time, will resolve its problems. We have always been able to do that in
the past, whenever we faced difficult questions. The United States still
has that innate strength.
--Jimmy Carter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter>
Herbert Maryon (1874–1965) was an English sculptor, conservator,
goldsmith, archaeologist and authority on ancient metalwork. Maryon was
the first director of the Arts and Crafts–inspired Keswick School of
Industrial Art, then taught at the universities of Reading and Durham
until 1939. During this time he designed the University of Reading War
Memorial, excavated one of the oldest gold artefacts in Britain, and
authored the standard Metalwork and Enamelling. Maryon left retirement
to join the British Museum, and is best known for his conservation work
on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, including restorations of the shield, the
drinking horns, and the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet. In other work he
restored a Roman helmet, coined the term pattern welding, and wrote a
paper influencing a painting by Salvador Dalí. Maryon was appointed to
the Order of the British Empire in 1956; asked by Queen Elizabeth II
what he did, Maryon responded: "Well, Ma'am, I am a sort of back room
boy at the British Museum.".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1551:
Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan,
led a coup against the daimyō, Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the
latter's forced suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainei-ji_incident>
1939:
Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski became the first
prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski>
1955:
American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a
head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_James_Dean>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Plutonian:
1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of or relating to Pluto, the Greek
and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal.
2. (by extension) Of, relating to, or having characteristics associated
with the underworld; dark, gloomy; mournful.
3. (by extension, geology) Synonym of plutonic (“of or pertaining to
rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust, rather than by volcanoes at the
surface of the Earth”)
4. (by extension, geology, historical) Synonym of plutonic (“of,
pertaining to, or supporting plutonism, the theory that the rocks of the
Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing
gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea
bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and
raised again”) [...]
5. (astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of Pluto,
formerly regarded as a planet.
6. (astronomy) Of or relating to the dwarf planet Pluto.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Plutonian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance
of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not
create human society on mounds of corpses.
--Louis Lecoin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Lecoin>
Valston Hancock (31 May 1907 – 29 September 1998) was a senior
commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). A graduate of the
Royal Military College, Duntroon, Hancock transferred to the RAAF in
1929 and qualified as a pilot. After fifteen years of occupying staff
and training posts, he saw combat in the Aitape–Wewak campaign of the
Pacific War during 1945. Flying Bristol Beaufort light bombers, he led
No. 100 Squadron, and later No. 71 Wing, earning the Distinguished
Flying Cross. After the war, Hancock became the inaugural commandant of
RAAF College, followed by a succession of senior positions, before being
promoted to air marshal and serving as Chief of the Air Staff from 1961
to 1965. He was knighted in 1962. In his role as the Air Force's senior
officer, Hancock continued the policy of developing a chain of forward
airfields in Northern Australia. He also evaluated potential
replacements for the RAAF's English Electric Canberra bomber.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valston_Hancock>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1940:
Two Avro Ansons of the Royal Australian Air Force collided in
mid-air over Brocklesby, but locked together and were landed safely.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision>
1962:
Alouette I, Canada's first satellite, and the first
constructed by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United
States, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alouette_1>
1963:
The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England,
after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as
the 19th century.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_East_Anglia>
1990:
The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its
first flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-22>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Neptunian:
1. (Roman mythology) Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh
water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon.
2. (by extension, rare) Of or pertaining to water or the sea.
3. (by extension, geology) Formed by the action of water.
4. (by extension, geology, historical) Of, pertaining to, or supporting
Neptunism (“a discredited theory that rocks were formed from the
crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans”). [...]
5. (astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet
Neptune.
6. (astronomy) Of or pertaining to the planet Neptune.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Neptunian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man sees, hears, touches, tastes and smells that which it is
necessary for him to see, hear, touch, taste and smell in order to
preserve his life. The decay or loss of any of these senses increases
the risks with which his life is environed, and if it increases them
less in the state of society in which we are actually living, the reason
is that some see, hear, touch, taste and smell for others. A blind man,
by himself and without a guide, could not live long. Society is an
additional sense; it is the true common sense.
--Miguel de Unamuno
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno>
Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion,
approximately 860 light-years (260 pc) from Earth. It is the brightest
and most massive component of a star system of at least four stars that
appear as a single blue-white point of light to the naked eye. A star of
spectral type B8Ia, Rigel is calculated to be anywhere from 61,500 to
363,000 times as luminous as the Sun, and 18 to 24 times as massive. Its
radius is over 70 times that of the Sun, and its surface temperature is
12,100 K. Rigel varies slightly in brightness, its apparent magnitude
ranging from 0.05 to 0.18. It is classified as an Alpha Cygni variable.
It is generally the seventh-brightest star in the night sky and is
usually the brightest star in Orion, though it is occasionally outshone
by Betelgeuse. With an estimated age of 7 to 9 million years, Rigel has
exhausted its core hydrogen fuel, expanded and cooled to become a
supergiant. It will end its life as a type II supernova.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1912:
Over 470,000 people from Ulster, Ireland, signed the Ulster
Covenant in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Covenant>
1963:
Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important
works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New
York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaam!>
2014:
Hong Kong protests: Unhappy with the direction of electoral
reform, Occupy Central with Love and Peace began a civil disobedience
campaign to fight for equal suffrage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Central_with_Love_and_Peace>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Uranian:
1. (comparable, literary, poetic) Celestial, heavenly; uranic.
2. (comparable, literary, archaic) Homosexual; (specifically) relating
to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys; pederastic; also, of poetry:
conveying appreciation for young men.
3. (not comparable, Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite
Urania, the heavenly aspect of Greek goddess of beauty and love
Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus: heavenly, spiritual, as
contrasted with the earthly aspect of Aphrodite Pandemos.
4. (not comparable, Greek mythology, dated) Relating to Urania, the Muse
of astronomy.
5. (not comparable, by extension, historical, rare) Of or pertaining to
astronomy; astronomical. [...]
6. (not comparable, astronomy) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Uranian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If every man did the little he could — what a different world!
--Evelyn Beatrice Hall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall>
Margaret Macpherson Grant (1834–1877) was a Scottish heiress and
philanthropist. Born in Aberlour parish to a local surgeon, she was
educated in Hampshire and inherited a large fortune from her uncle,
Alexander Grant, a planter and merchant who had become rich in Jamaica.
Macpherson Grant took up residence in Aberlour House, which had been
built for her uncle by William Robertson. She lived unconventionally for
a woman of her time, entering into what was described as a form of
marriage with a female companion, Charlotte Temple, whom she met in
London in 1864. Macpherson Grant donated generously to charitable
enterprises, establishing an orphanage (now the Aberlour Child Care
Trust) and founding St Margaret's Episcopal Church in Aberlour. She
made several wills over the course of her life that would have left her
estate to Temple, but after Temple left her to marry a man, Macpherson
Grant revoked her will, and the bulk of her fortune went to cousins, who
were probably unknown to her.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Macpherson_Grant>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1875:
The Ellen Southard was wrecked in a storm at Liverpool,
England; the U.S. Congress subsequently awarded 27 gold Lifesaving
Medals to the men who rescued her crew.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Southard>
1908:
The first production Ford Model T, the car credited with
initiating the mass use of automobiles in the United States, was
completed at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Piquette_Avenue_Plant>
1940:
World War II: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of
Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin, officially forming a
military alliance known as the Axis powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact>
1983:
Software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the
Unix-like GNU operating system, the first free software developed by the
GNU Project.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
saturnine:
1. (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter,
gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.
2. (comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
3. (comparable, chemistry, archaic) Of, pertaining to, or containing
lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by
alchemists).
4. (not comparable, pathology) Of a disease: caused by lead poisoning
(saturnism); of a person: affected by lead poisoning.
5. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological
influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person
under such influence (see sense 1).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saturnine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty
is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified
by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.
--Samuel Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams>
Banksia blechnifolia is a species of flowering plant that was first
described by Victorian state botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1864. Its
leaves are reminiscent of the fern genus Blechnum. B. blechnifolia is
one of several closely related species that grow as prostrate shrubs,
with horizontal stems and thick, leathery upright leaves. The red-brown
flower spikes are up to 20 centimetres (8 in) high and appear from
September to November. As the spikes age, they turn grey and develop as
many as 25 woody seed pods. Insects such as bees, wasps, ants and flies
pollinate the flowers. Found in sandy soils in the south coastal region
of Western Australia in the vicinity of Lake King, B. blechnifolia is
non-lignotuberous, regenerating by seed after bushfire. The plant adapts
readily to cultivation, growing in well-drained sandy soils in sunny
locations. It is suitable for rockeries and as a groundcover.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_blechnifolia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1875:
Billy the Kid was arrested for the first time after stealing
clothes from a laundryman, beginning his life as an infamous American
outlaw and gunman.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid>
1944:
World War II: The Soviet Army completed the Tallinn Offensive,
driving German forces out of Estonia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn_Offensive>
2010:
Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues
were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Linda_Norgrove>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
learn the ropes:
1. (originally nautical, informal) To learn the basics or master
introductory knowledge.
2. (informal) To learn some skill requiring specialist knowledge.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/learn_the_ropes>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every thinking of being, all philosophy, can never be confirmed
by "facts," ie, by beings. Making itself intelligible is suicide for
philosophy. Those who idolize "facts" never notice that their idols only
shine in a borrowed light. They are also meant not to notice this; for
thereupon they would have to be at a loss and therefore useless. But
idolizers and idols are used wherever gods are in flight and so announce
their nearness.
--Martin Heidegger
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger>
The Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission
memorials in Trinity Square, on Tower Hill in London, England. The
memorials, one for the First World War and one for the Second,
commemorate more than 36,000 men and women of the Merchant Navy and
fishing fleets who were killed as a result of enemy action and have no
known grave. The dead are named on bronze panels ordered by the ships
they served on. The first memorial, the Mercantile Marine War Memorial
(pictured), was commissioned following the heavy losses sustained by
merchant shipping in the First World War. It was designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens and unveiled by Queen Mary in 1928. The second, the Merchant
Seamen's Memorial, is a semi-circular sunken garden designed by Sir
Edward Maufe and unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in November 1955. A
third memorial, commemorating merchant sailors who were killed in the
1982 Falklands War, was added to the site in 2005. The memorials to the
world wars are listed buildings.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Hill_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1396:
Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I
defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary near present-
day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nicopolis>
1977:
About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago
Marathon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Marathon>
1990:
The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to
erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid,
began in the Indian state of Gujarat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Rath_Yatra>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jovial:
1. (comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.
2. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological
influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person
under such influence (see sense 1).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jovial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they
are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the
truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and
natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
--William Faulkner
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Faulkner>