Black Moshannon State Park is a 3,480-acre (1,410 ha) Pennsylvania
state park in Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
It is just west of the Allegheny Front, 9 miles (14 km) east of
Philipsburg on Pennsylvania Route 504, and is largely surrounded by
Moshannon State Forest. The park surrounds a lake formed by a dam on
Black Moshannon Creek. A bog in the park provides a habitat for diverse
wildlife not common in other areas of the state, such as carnivorous
plants, orchids, and species normally found farther north. The Seneca
tribe used the Black Moshannon area as hunting and fishing grounds.
European settlers clear-cut the vast stands of old-growth forest during
the late 19th century. The forests were rehabilitated by the Civilian
Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Many of the
buildings built by the Corps stand in the park today and are protected
on the National Register of Historic Places in three historic districts.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Moshannon_State_Park>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental
fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine>
1907:
Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others,
Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-
day Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery>
1945:
At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations
signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations>
2003:
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country
in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
indri:
One of the largest living lemurs, Indri indri, which is native to
Madagascar.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indri>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most extremely healthy people frequently experience of intense
affirmation and certainty; Maslow called these "peak experiences." No
one had made this discovery before because it had never struck anyone
that a science calling itself "psychology" and professing to be a
science of the human mind (not merely the sick mind), ought to form its
estimate of human beings by taking into account healthy minds as well as
sick ones. A sick man talks obsessively about his illness; a healthy man
never talks about his health; for as Pirandello points out, we take
happiness for granted, and only begin to question life when we are
unhappy.
--Colin Wilson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson>
The Thrill Book was an American pulp magazine published by Street &
Smith in 1919. The first eight issues, edited by Harold Hersey, were a
mixture of adventure and weird stories. Contributors included Greye La
Spina, Charles Fulton Oursler, J. H. Coryell, and Seabury Quinn.
Ronald Oliphant, Hersey's replacement, printed more science fiction and
fantasy, though this included two stories Hersey had purchased from
Murray Leinster. The best-known story from The Thrill Book is The Heads
of Cerberus, a very early example of a novel about alternate time
tracks, by Francis Stevens. Oliphant's larger budget attracted popular
writers such as H. Bedford-Jones, but the magazine ran for only eight
more issues, the last dated October 15, 1919. Historians regard The
Thrill Book as a forerunner of Weird Tales and Amazing Stories, the
first true specialized magazines in the fields of weird fiction and
science fiction, respectively.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrill_Book>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which
prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act>
1940:
Second World War: Operation Aerial, an evacuation of nearly
200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports, was completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aerial>
1960:
Two cryptographers working for the U.S. National Security
Agency left on vacation to Mexico, and proceeded to defect to the Soviet
Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_and_Mitchell_defection>
2006:
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured in a cross-border
raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing with the Gaza Strip, and held
hostage by Hamas until 2011.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Shalit>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
a mite:
(informal) To a small extent; in a small amount; rather.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_mite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Certainly we ought to be discontented, we ought not simply to
find out ways of making the best of a bad job, and yet if we kill all
pleasure in the actual process of life, what sort of future are we
preparing for ourselves? If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why
should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the
leisure that the machine will give him?
--George Orwell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell>
The Battle of Sluys was a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 between
England and France, in the roadstead of the since silted-up port of
Sluys. The English fleet of 120–150 ships was led by Edward III of
England and the 230-strong French fleet by Hugues Quiéret, Admiral of
France, and Nicolas Béhuchet, Constable of France. It was one of the
opening engagements of the Hundred Years' War. Edward sailed on 22 June
and encountered the French the next day; they had bound their ships into
three lines, forming large floating fighting platforms. The English were
able to manoeuvre against the French and defeat them in detail. Most of
the French ships were captured, and they lost 16,000–20,000 men
killed, against 400–600 for the English. The English were unable to
take strategic advantage, barely interrupting French raids on English
territories and shipping. Operationally the battle allowed the English
army to land and to then besiege the French town of Tournai, albeit
unsuccessfully.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sluys>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1314:
In the decisive battle of the First War of Scottish
Independence, Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated English
troops under Edward II near Bannockburn, Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bannockburn>
1717:
The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge
of England, was founded in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Grand_Lodge_of_England>
1940:
Second World War: The British Army carried out Operation
Collar, its first commando raid into German-occupied France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Collar_%28commando_raid%29>
2010:
Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister
of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership
spill in the Labor Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
adynaton:
(rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to
express impossibility; an instance of such hyperbole.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adynaton>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let us rejoice, O my Beloved! Let us go forth to see ourselves
in Thy beauty, To the mountain and the hill, Where the pure water
flows: Let us enter into the heart of the thicket.
--John of the Cross
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_of_the_Cross>
John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (c. 1315 – 1361), was a
prominent Essex landowner who waged an armed campaign against the
neighbouring town of Colchester. With connections to the powerful de
Clare family, who had arrived in England at the time of the Norman
conquest, the FitzWalter family was of a noble and ancient lineage. They
held estates across Essex, as well as properties in London and Norfolk.
John FitzWalter played a prominent role during the early years of King
Edward III's wars in France. FitzWalter's dispute with Colchester was
exacerbated when townsmen illegally entered his park in Lexden; in
return, he banned them from one of their own watermills. In 1342, he
ransacked Colchester, destroyed its market, and besieged the town,
preventing anyone from entering or leaving. In 1351, he was arrested and
imprisoned in the Marshalsea. He languished in the Tower of London for
over a year until the king agreed to pardon him.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_FitzWalter,_2nd_Baron_FitzWalter>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1887:
The Parliament of Canada passed the Rocky Mountains Park Act,
creating Banff National Park in Alberta as the country's first national
park.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banff_National_Park>
1956:
In a nationwide referendum, Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected
President of Egypt, a post he held until his death in 1970.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser>
1972:
President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into law as part of
the Education Amendments, prohibiting gender discrimination in any
educational program receiving U.S. federal funds.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX>
2014:
Under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 2118, the
last of Syria's declared chemical weapons were shipped out for
destruction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ithyphallic:
1. (historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that
was carried in bacchic processions.
2. (specifically) Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sung in
honour of the bacchic phallus.
3. Of or pertaining to an upward pointing, erect penis; (specifically)
of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure: possessing an erect
penis.
4. (by extension) Lascivious, obscene.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ithyphallic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.
--Joss Whedon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon>
Randall Davidson (1848–1930) was an Anglican priest who was Archbishop
of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928. Conciliatory by nature, he spent much
of his term of office striving to keep the Church together in the face
of deep and sometimes acrimonious divisions between evangelicals and
Anglo-Catholics. Under his leadership the Church gained some
independence from state control, but his efforts to modernise the Book
of Common Prayer were frustrated by Parliament. Though cautious about
bringing the Church into domestic party politics, Davidson did not shy
away from larger political issues. He urged moderation on both sides in
the conflict over Irish independence and campaigned against immoral
methods of warfare in the First World War. He played a key role in the
passage of the Parliament Act 1911 and led efforts to resolve the 1926
General Strike. He was the longest-serving Archbishop of Canterbury
since the Reformation, and also the first to retire from the office.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Davidson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack,
Laura Secord walked 20 mi (32 km) from Queenston, Upper Canada, to
warn British lieutenant James FitzGibbon (depicted).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Secord>
1948:
More than 800 West Indian immigrants disembarked from the
British troopship HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury, England, becoming
known as the "Windrush generation".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMT_Empire_Windrush>
1986:
Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the "hand of
God" goal and the "Goal of the Century" against England during a
quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina_v_England_%281986_FIFA_World_Cup%29>
2009:
Two Metro trains in Washington, D.C., collided, killing nine
people and injuring eighty others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2009_Washington_Metro_train_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
smorgasbord:
1. A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and
other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes.
2. (figuratively) An abundant and diverse collection of things.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smorgasbord>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea
lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in
such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it
otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?
--Giuseppe Mazzini
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Mazzini>
High Explosive Research was the independent British project to develop
atomic bombs after the Second World War. The decision to undertake it
was made in 1947 and publicly announced in 1948. The project was a
civil, not a military, one. Production facilities were constructed under
the direction of Christopher Hinton, including a uranium metal plant at
Springfields, nuclear reactors and a plutonium processing plant at
Windscale, and a gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facility at
Capenhurst, near Chester. The first nuclear reactor in the UK went
critical at Harwell on 15 August 1947. William Penney directed bomb
design from Fort Halstead, and later Aldermaston in Berkshire. The first
British atomic bomb was successfully tested in Operation Hurricane
(pictured) off the Monte Bello Islands in Australia on 3 October 1952.
Britain thereby became the third country to test nuclear weapons. The
project concluded with the delivery of the first Blue Danube atomic
bombs to Bomber Command in 1953.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Explosive_Research>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
New Zealand Wars: A British victory against the Māori King
Movement brought the Tauranga campaign to an end.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga_campaign>
1919:
During a general strike (newsreel featured) in Winnipeg,
Canada, members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd
of strikers, armed with clubs and revolvers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_general_strike>
1940:
World War II: The main offensive of the unsuccessful Italian
invasion of France began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_France>
2000:
President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian
Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, for actions
during World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_Pacific_American_Medal_of_Honor…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ski-through:
1. (skiing) Of a ski lodge or other hotel establishment: providing
skiers with the service of transporting their equipment, luggage, and
vehicles to other establishments so they can ski directly to those
establishments.
2. (skiing) Of a restaurant, shop, or other establishment or facility:
providing service to skiers while they are still wearing their skis.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ski-through>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social
impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. Reason may
extend and stabilise, but it does not create, the capacity to affirm
other life than his own.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr>
State Route 76 (SR 76) is a state highway 52.63 miles (84.70 km) long
in the U.S. state of California. It is a much-used east–west route in
the North County region of San Diego County that begins in Oceanside
near Interstate 5 (I-5) and continues east. It passes through the
community of Bonsall and provides access to Fallbrook. East of the
junction with I-15, SR 76 goes through Pala and Pauma Valley before
terminating at SR 79. A route along the corridor has existed since the
early 20th century, as has the bridge over the San Luis Rey River near
Bonsall. The route was added to the state highway system in 1933, and
was officially designated by the California State Legislature as SR 76
in the 1964 state highway renumbering. Originally, the entire highway
was two lanes wide. Conversion of the highway to an expressway west of
I-15 was completed in May 2017. East of I-15, SR 76 is mostly a two-
lane highway.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_76>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1900:
Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army began a 55-day siege
of the Legation Quarter in Beijing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_International_Legations>
1960:
The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but
dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Federation>
2009:
Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during
the presidential election protests; footage of her death was widely
distributed over the Internet, making it "probably the most widely
witnessed death in human history".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
steatopygous:
(physiology) Pertaining to steatopygia; having fat or prominent
buttocks.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/steatopygous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The colours of the pales are those used in the flag of the United
States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness
& valor, and Blue, the colour of the Chief signifies vigilance,
perseverance & justice. The Olive branch and arrows denote the power of
peace & war which is exclusively vested in Congress. The Constellation
denotes a new State taking its place and rank among other sovereign
powers. The Escutcheon is born on the breast of an American Eagle
without any other supporters to denote that the United States of America
ought to rely on their own Virtue.
--Charles Thomson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Thomson>
George Washington was a slaveowner and Founding Father who became uneasy
with the institution of slavery but provided for the emancipation of his
slaves only after his death. Most of his slaves worked on his Mount
Vernon estate. They built their own community around marriage and
family, and resisted the system by various means, from feigning illness
to absconding. As a young planter, Washington demonstrated no qualms
about slavery. His first doubts about the institution were economic,
prompted when the transition from tobacco to grain crops in the 1760s
left him with a costly surplus of slaves. After the American Revolution,
he privately expressed support for the abolition of slavery by a gradual
legislative process but never spoke publicly on the issue. In the mid-
1790s, he considered plans to free his slaves, but his business remained
dependent on slave labor. He stipulated in his will that his slaves were
to be freed on the death of his wife.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
Second French intervention in Mexico: Emperor Maximilian I of
Mexico was executed by firing squad in Querétaro City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I_of_Mexico>
1970:
The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed,
providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect
inventions in each of its contracting states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Cooperation_Treaty>
1978:
Garfield, created by Jim Davis, debuted in American newspapers
nationwide, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely
syndicated comic strips.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield>
2010:
The royal wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and
Daniel Westling took place in Stockholm Cathedral.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Victoria,_Crown_Princess_of_Sweden…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Juneteenth:
(US) Also more fully as Juneteenth Day: a holiday celebrated in many
states of the United States of America on June 19, commemorating the end
of slavery.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Juneteenth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Hope remains even in the most difficult of times … I hope today
serves as a reminder that however hard things get, we will meet again.
--Vera Lynn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vera_Lynn>
Meinhard Moser (1924–2002) was an Austrian mycologist. His work
principally concerned the taxonomy, chemistry, and toxicity of gilled
mushrooms (Agaricales), especially the genus Cortinarius. Moser
completed his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck in 1950, then
briefly worked in England. He joined Austria's Federal Forestry Research
Institute in 1952, conducting research on the use of mycorrhizal fungi
in reforestation. He began lecturing at Innsbruck in 1956, becoming a
professor in 1964. He became the inaugural head of Austria's first
Institute of Microbiology in 1972. He remained with the Institute until
his retirement in 1991, and his scientific studies continued until his
death in 2002. He was an influential mycologist, describing around
500 new fungal taxa and publishing several important books. In
particular, his 1953 book on European mushrooms, published in English as
Keys to Agarics and Boleti, saw several editions both in German and in
translation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meinhard_Michael_Moser>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1858:
Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist
Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged Darwin to
publish his theory of evolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace>
1940:
World War II: Charles de Gaulle gave his Appeal of 18 June
speech, often considered to be the origin of the French Resistance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_of_18_June>
1983:
Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were
hanged in Shiraz because of their membership in the Baháʼí Faith.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Mahmudnizhad>
2012:
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed crown prince of
Saudi Arabia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_of_Saudi_Arabia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meet one's Waterloo:
To be decisively defeated by an encounter with a powerful opponent or a
problem that is too difficult.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meet_one%27s_Waterloo>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it
better.
--Paul McCartney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney>
Nestor Lakoba (1893–1936) was an Abkhaz Communist leader. In the
aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Lakoba helped establish Bolshevik
power in Abkhazia in the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union. As the
head of Abkhazia after its conquest by the Bolshevik Red Army in 1921,
Lakoba saw that Abkhazia was initially given autonomy as the Socialist
Soviet Republic of Abkhazia. Though nominally a part of the Georgian
Soviet Socialist Republic with a special status of "union republic",
Abkhazia was effectively a separate republic, made possible by Lakoba's
close relationship with Joseph Stalin. In 1931 Lakoba was forced to
accept a downgrade of Abkhazia's status to that of an autonomous
republic within Georgia. Another confidant of Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria,
summoned Lakoba to visit him in Tbilisi in December 1936. Lakoba was
poisoned, allowing Beria to consolidate his control over Abkhazia and
all of Georgia.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Lakoba>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1795:
French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal
Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fended off a numerically
superior French Navy fleet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwallis%27s_Retreat>
1940:
Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft
near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's
worst maritime disaster.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria>
1952:
Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed
Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres
(0.91 km2) in area to local peasants.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_900>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gastrodiplomacy:
A type of cultural diplomacy where relations between representatives of
different cultures are improved by the means of gastronomy and the
promotion of national cuisines.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gastrodiplomacy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The politicians' stirring phrases are meant to keep our eyes
averted from the reality of war — to make us imagine heroic young men
marching in parades, winning glorious battles, and bringing peace and
democracy to the world. But war is something quite different from that.
It is your children or your grandchildren dying before they're even
fully adults, or being maimed or mentally scarred for life. It is your
brothers and sisters being taught to kill other people — and to hate
people who are just like themselves and who don't want to kill anyone
either. It is your children seeing their buddies' limbs blown off their
bodies. It is hundreds of thousands of human beings dying years before
their time. It is millions of people separated forever from the ones
they love. It is the destruction of homes for which people worked for
decades. It is the end of careers that meant as much to others as your
career means to you. It is the imposition of heavy taxes on you and on
other Americans and on people in other countries — taxes that remain
long after the war is over. It is the suppression of free speech and the
jailing of people who criticize the government. It is the imposition of
slavery by forcing young men to serve in the military. It is goading
the public to hate foreign people and races — whether Arabs or
Japanese or Cubans or Serbs. It is numbing our sensibilities to
cruelties inflicted on foreigners. It is cheering at the news of enemy
pilots killed in their planes, of young men blown to bits while trapped
inside tanks, of sailors drowned at sea. Other tragedies inevitably
trail in the wake of war. Politicians lie even more than usual.
Secrecy and cover-ups become the rule rather than the exception. The
press becomes even less reliable. War is genocide, torture, cruelty,
propaganda, and slavery. War is the worst cruelty government can
inflict upon its subjects. It makes every other political crime —
corruption, bribery, favoritism, vote-buying, graft, dishonesty — seem
petty.
--Harry Browne
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Browne>