The surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of
World War II to a close. Together with the British Empire and China,
the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese
armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945. Japan's
leaders privately made entreaties to the publicly neutral Soviet Union
to mediate more favorable peace terms. On August 6, the United States
detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. On August 8, the Soviet Union
invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Hours later, the United
States dropped a second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito
intervened and ordered that the Allies' terms for ending the war be
accepted. Hirohito gave a recorded radio address transmitted across the
Empire on August 15, announcing the surrender of Japan. The surrender
ceremony was held aboard the battleship USS Missouri, at which
officials from the Japanese government signed the Japanese Instrument of
Surrender (pictured).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1461:
Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The Empire of Trebizond, the longest-
surviving Byzantine successor state, was conquered by Ottoman forces
following a month-long siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Trebizond_%281461%29>
1914:
On the day of his dismissal, an employee at Taliesin, Frank
Lloyd Wright's estate, killed seven people with a hatchet and set the
house on fire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliesin_%28studio%29>
1975:
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding leader, was
assassinated with most of his family in a military coup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_August_1975_Bangladesh_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2005:
The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the
Government of Indonesia was signed, ending more than 28 years of
fighting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Aceh>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
neroli:
More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from
the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium
subsp. amara) used to make perfumes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neroli>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic
fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for
us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the
marvelous.
--Napoleon I of France
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France>
Almost There is the first studio album by the American Christian rock
band MercyMe (singer and drummer pictured), released on August 14,
2001, by INO Records. Characterizing it as contemporary worship and pop
rock, music critics praised the album's songwriting, especially on "I
Can Only Imagine", but gave its sound mixed reviews, ranging from
"fresh" and "innovative" to derivative. CCM Magazine cited it in the
25th anniversary edition of their 100 Albums You Need to Own list.
"Bless Me Indeed (Jabez's Song)" was released as the album's lead
single, but it underperformed on the charts. The second single, "I Can
Only Imagine", boosted sales for the album, and crossed over to
mainstream radio in 2003. The album peaked at number 39 on the
Billboard 200 and number one on the Billboard Christian Albums chart.
Billboard ranked it as the fourth best-selling Christian album of
2000–2009 in the United States. Both the album and the single "I Can
Only Imagine" have sold more than 3 million copies.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_There_%28album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
One of the first music recordings ever made, of Arthur
Sullivan's "The Lost Chord" (audio featured), was played at a press
conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Chord>
1941:
After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British prime minister
Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the
Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post–World War II
world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter>
2010:
The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in
Singapore for athletes between 14 and 18 years old.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Olympic_Games>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
en masse:
In a single body or group; as one, together.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_masse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of all kinds of human energy, Art is surely the most free, the
least parochial; and demands of us an essential tolerance of all its
forms. Shall we waste breath and ink in condemnation of artists, because
their temperaments are not our own?
--John Galsworthy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy>
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish in northeast Kent,
England, with a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census. It is within the
Thanet local government district and borders the larger seaside resort
of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have attracted tourists since the
town's development in the 1860s from a small farming community. The
local St Mildred's Bay was the site of a Royal Naval Air Service
seaplane base, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal towns during
World War I. The town is the subject of John Betjeman's poem "Westgate-
on-Sea". Residents have included the 19th-century surgeon Erasmus Wilson
and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist William
Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known pictures while
living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke and Eton
headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench attended local schools as children
during the early 20th century.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgate-on-Sea>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1650:
General George Monck founded the predecessor to the Coldstream
Guards (soldier pictured), the oldest regiment of the British Army in
continuous active service.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards>
1704:
War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough led
Allied forces to a crucial victory at the Battle of Blenheim.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blenheim>
1868:
A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an
estimated 25,000 deaths; the subsequent tsunami caused considerable
damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_Arica_earthquake>
1906:
Members of the U.S. Army's all-black 25th Infantry Regiment
were accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police
officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville_affair>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meteorwrong:
(humorous) A rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact
terrestrial in origin; a pseudometeorite.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteorwrong>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not possible to enter into the nature of the Good by
standing aloof from it — by merely speculating upon it. Act the Good,
and you will believe in it. Throw yourself into the stream of the
world's good tendency and you will feel the force of the current and the
direction in which it is setting. The conviction that the world is
moving toward great ends of progress will come surely to him who is
himself engaged in the work of progress. By ceaseless efforts to live
the good life we maintain our moral sanity. Not from without, but from
within, flow the divine waters that renew the soul.
--Felix Adler
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Felix_Adler>
Nyuserre Ini was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, the sixth ruler of the
Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom period. The younger son of
Neferirkare Kakai and queen Khentkaus II and the brother of the short-
lived king Neferefre, Nyuserre probably lived in the second half of the
25th century BCE and reigned for more than two decades. He was
succeeded by Menkauhor Kaiu, who could have been his nephew and a son of
Neferefre. Nyuserre built three pyramids for himself and his queens and
completed a further three for his father, mother and brother, all in the
necropolis of Abusir. His temple dedicated to the sun god Ra was named
Shesepibre or "Joy of the heart of Ra"; it is the largest such temple
that survives from the Old Kingdom. He also completed the Nekhenre, the
Sun Temple of Userkaf in Abu Gorab, and the valley temple of Menkaure in
the Giza necropolis. The state-sponsored funerary cult established at
Nyuserre's death lasted until the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyuserre_Ini>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1914:
World War I: Belgian troops were victorious at the Battle of
Halen, but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of the
country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halen>
1945:
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project,
written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the
public just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smyth_Report>
1969:
Riots erupted in the Bogside area of Derry and spread across
much of Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Northern_Ireland_riots>
1990:
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue
Hendrickson found one of the most complete discovered skeletons of
Tyrannosaurus rex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_%28dinosaur%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sericulture:
(agriculture) The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sericulture>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our
American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who
we are. That’s not our America.Our United States of America is not
about us versus them. It’s about We the people!And in this moment, we
must all speak truth about what’s happening.Seek truth, speak truth
and fight for the truth.
--Kamala Harris
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris>
The MAX Yellow Line is a light rail service in Portland, Oregon, United
States, operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It
connects North Portland to Portland City Center and Portland State
University. Following years of failed attempts to construct the
South/North Line between Clackamas County and Clark County, Washington,
Portland business leaders and local residents persuaded TriMet to build
a light rail extension from the city center to North Portland in 1999.
The line began construction in 2001 and opened on May 1, 2004. As a
source of funding, the city created an urban renewal area, which has
been blamed for gentrifying historically black inner-city neighborhoods;
about 10,000 people of color left Portland's Central City between 2000
and 2010. The line serves 17 stops and runs for approximately 21 hours
daily with a minimum headway of 15 minutes during most of the day.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_Yellow_Line>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a
crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at least one death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_pogrom>
1977:
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
initiated an investigation into the alleged vulnerability of the Ford
Pinto (example pictured) to fuel leakage and fire in a rear-end
collision.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto>
2012:
At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a
pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_East_Azerbaijan_earthquakes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Weimarization:
(politics, American spelling, Oxford British English) A state of
economic crisis leading to political upheaval and extremism.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Weimarization>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The rose has told In one simplicity. That never life
Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.
--Nathalia Crane
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathalia_Crane>
The Battle of Azaz was fought in 1030 in northern Syria between the
Byzantine army, led by Emperor Romanos III Argyros, and the Mirdasid
forces of the Emirate of Aleppo, under the personal command of Shibl al-
Dawla Nasr. Romanos aimed to conquer Aleppo, long a flashpoint between
Byzantium and its Arab neighbours. At the head of a large army and
confident of success, the Emperor rejected Mirdasid peace offers, as
well as his generals' advice to avoid action in the hot and dry Syrian
summer. After the Byzantines camped near Azaz, the considerably smaller
Mirdasid army, mostly Bedouin light cavalry, harassed the imperial camp
and kept the heavier Byzantine troops from foraging. Romanos ordered his
hungry and thirsty army to withdraw to Antioch, but the retreat soon
collapsed into chaos, and the Byzantines were routed by the Arabs.
Humiliated, Romanos returned to Constantinople, but his generals later
managed to restore the Byzantine position, and Nasr concluded a treaty
with Byzantium.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Azaz_%281030%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1628:
The Swedish warship Vasa sank shortly after departing on her
maiden voyage from Stockholm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_%28ship%29>
1793:
The Louvre (Louvre Pyramid pictured) in Paris, today the
world's most visited museum, officially opened with an exhibition of
537 paintings and 184 objets d'art.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre>
1904:
Russo-Japanese War: The first major confrontation between
modern steel battleship fleets took place in the Battle of the Yellow
Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yellow_Sea>
1988:
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing
reparations to surviving Japanese Americans interned during World
War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sere:
1. (archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.
2. (obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out. [...]
3. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Individual, separate, set apart.
4. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Different; diverse.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sere>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Tribalism is now not just one force in American politics, it’s
the overwhelming one, and tribalism abhors reality if it impugns the
tribe. But you can’t have both tribalism and public health. When you
turn wearing a simple face mask into a political and cultural symbol of
leftism, when you view social distancing as a concession to your
enemies, you deeply undermine the power of millions of small impediments
to viral outbreak. What we are seeing is whether this tribalism can be
sustained even when it costs tens of thousands of lives, even when it
means exposing yourself to a deadly virus, even when it is literally
more important than your own life.
--Andrew Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan>
The 2nd Red Banner Army was a Soviet field army of World War II that
was formed at Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East in July 1938. It spent
most of the war guarding the border in the Blagoveshchensk area, sending
formations to the Eastern Front while undergoing several
reorganizations. At the time of its creation, the unit was part of the
army group known as the Far Eastern Front. The unit was designated as
the 2nd Army and was led by corps commander Ivan Konev (pictured). It
became the 2nd Independent Red Banner Army in September 1938 when the
front was dissolved and its troops were split into two independent
armies, and was redesignated in June 1940 as the 2nd Red Banner Army. In
August 1945, the army fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria,
capturing the Japanese fortified regions of Aihun and Sunwu adjacent to
its sector of the border, and advancing into Manchuria to Qiqihar. The
army was disbanded after the war in late 1945.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Red_Banner_Army>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: After nearly being driven from the field in
the early part of the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate troops
counter-attacked and achieved a victory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cedar_Mountain>
1942:
World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the
Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the U.S. Navy to withdraw from the
Solomon Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Savo_Island>
1960:
The unrecognized region of South Kasai seceded from the former
Republic of the Congo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Kasai>
2006:
British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate
liquid explosives carried on board airliners travelling from the UK to
the US and Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
merlion:
1. An imaginary creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.
2. (Singapore, specifically) Often Merlion: such a creature which is one
of the national symbols of Singapore; a depiction of this creature.
[...]
3. (heraldry) A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow
with stylized feet; a martlet.
4. (rare) Alternative form of merlin (“a small falcon, Falco
columbarius”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/merlion>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it
next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we
mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
--Izaak Walton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Izaak_Walton>
Cyril Bassett (1892–1983) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria
Cross, the Commonwealth's highest combat award for gallantry at the
time. He was the only soldier serving with the New Zealand
Expeditionary Force in the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War to
receive this award. Born in Auckland, Bassett was a bank worker when the
First World War began. Posted to the New Zealand Divisional Signal
Company of the Territorial Force as a sapper, he saw action on the
opening day of the Gallipoli campaign. It was during the Battle of
Chunuk Bair in August 1915 that he performed the actions that led to his
award. Medically evacuated due to sickness shortly after the battle, he
later served on the Western Front and finished the war as a second
lieutenant. Recalled to active duty during the Second World War, he
served in the Home Guard as a commander of signals in the Northern
Military District, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Bassett>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1576:
The cornerstone of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory
Uraniborg was laid on the island of Hven.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uraniborg>
1929:
The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin embarked on a flight
to circumnavigate the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin>
1956:
A mining disaster killed 262 workers, mainly Italian nationals,
at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Belgium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_du_Cazier>
2010:
A massive mudslide in Zhouqu County in the Chinese province of
Gansu killed at least 1,471 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Gansu_mudslide>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sidle:
1. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to)
move sideways.
2. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) In the intransitive
sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy,
furtive, or unobtrusive manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sidle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,— You are my
deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold.
--Sara Teasdale
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sara_Teasdale>
The Second Silesian War (1744–1745) was a conflict between Prussia and
Austria which confirmed Prussia's control of Silesia (now in south-
western Poland). The war was fought mainly in Silesia, Bohemia, and
Upper Saxony and formed one theatre of the wider War of the Austrian
Succession. The Habsburg Monarchy's fortunes had improved since the end
of the First Silesian War two years earlier. Prussia entered an alliance
with Austria's enemies and rejoined the war, invading Habsburg Bohemia
in mid-1744 to prevent a resurgent Austria from taking back Silesia. The
war ended in a Prussian victory with the Treaty of Dresden in
December 1745. Continuing conflict over Silesia would draw Austria and
Prussia into the Third Silesian War a decade later. The Second Silesian
War repeated the earlier defeat of the Habsburg Monarchy by a lesser
German power and contributed to the Austria–Prussia rivalry that would
shape German politics for more than a century. (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:
1782:
The Badge of Military Merit, the precursor to the U.S. Purple
Heart, was established as a military decoration of the Continental Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_of_Military_Merit>
1946:
The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the
latter was handling the Turkish Straits no longer represented the
security interests of its fellow Black Sea nations, escalating the
Turkish Straits crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Straits_crisis>
1970:
Jonathan Jackson kidnapped Harold Haley, a judge in Marin
County, California, to coerce the release of the Soledad Brothers,
including Jackson's brother George.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_County_Civic_Center_attacks>
1985:
Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a
farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Farm_murders>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
calabash:
1. A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to
Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida,
bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit
of this tree.
2. The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), a vine
believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that
are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of
this plant.
3. A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of
the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some
other material.
4. A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
5. (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made
from a calabash fruit.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calabash>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The primary issue is how seriously we take our chosen obligations
to people in the developing world who do not have Internet connections.
… Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not
for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the
lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's
empowered with the knowledge to do so.
--Jimmy Wales
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales>
The Russell family is a fictional family on the American soap opera
Passions, which aired on NBC (1999–2007) and on DirecTV (2007–2008).
Created by the soap's founder and head writer James E. Reilly, the
family originally consisted of the married couple Eve and T. C. Russell
and their children, Whitney and Simone. Later characters included Eve's
vengeful adoptive sister Liz Sanbourne, Whitney's husband Chad Harris-
Crane, Eve's aunt Irma Johnson, and Eve's child with Julian Crane,
Vincent Clarkson, whose alter ego Valerie was played by Daphnée Duplaix
(pictured). The cast was frequently nominated for NAACP Image Awards and
featured prominently in a series of public service announcements for
Black History Month in 2003. The show drew mixed critical attention for
storylines involving Chad's affair with the intersex Vincent, but won
the award for Outstanding Daily Drama at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2006
for its portrayal of Simone's sexuality. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Russell family (Passions).).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Russell_family_%28P…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped
the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (mushroom cloud
pictured), killing about 70,000 people instantly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy>
1996:
A team of researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001,
discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of
life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001>
2010:
Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh
region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ladakh_floods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
planning permission:
(Britain, construction, law) Legal permission granted by a government
authority to construct on one's land, or to change the use of the land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/planning_permission>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and
moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively
consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result —
ruthlessness in political life.
--Richard Hofstadter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter>