The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914), headed by Douglas
Mawson, explored the largely uncharted coast of Antarctica due south of
Australia. Mawson was inspired to lead his own venture by his
experiences on Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition in 1907–1909.
During its time in Antarctica, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition's
sledging parties covered around 2,600 miles (4,180 km) of unexplored
territory. Its ship, SY Aurora (pictured), navigated 1,800 miles
(2,900 km) of unmapped coastline. Scientific activities included
meteorological measurements, magnetic observations, an expansive
oceanographic program, and the collection of many biological and
geological samples, including the discovery of the first meteorite found
in Antarctica. The expedition was the first to establish and maintain
wireless contact between Antarctica and Australia. Its broad exploration
program laid the groundwork for Australia's later territorial claims in
Antarctica.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_Antarctic_Expedition>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1799:
War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated troops of
the French Army of the Danube, capturing the strategically important
Swiss town of Winterthur.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Winterthur>
1917:
Pope Benedict XV promulgated the Pio-Benedictine Code, the
first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Code_of_Canon_Law>
1940:
World War II: Ninety-seven soldiers of the British Royal
Norfolk Regiment were executed after surrendering to German forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Paradis_massacre>
1995:
American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse,
leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of
people with spinal cord injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gouge:
1. (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or
as if with a gouge.
2. (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an
unfairly or unreasonably high price.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as
if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push
the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
4. (intransitive) To use a gouge.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gouge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are certain injustices in this life you’ve got to do
something about. You can’t just say that you can’t fight it, or
it’s too much trouble, or that you don’t have the time or the
effort, or that you can’t win. Forget all that. Fight them all!
--Harlan Ellison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison>
Paul E. Patton (born May 26, 1937) is an American politician who served
as the 59th governor of Kentucky from 1995 to 2003. He became wealthy
operating coal mines for 20 years, then sold most of his coal interests
in the late 1970s and entered politics. After serving briefly in the
cabinet of Governor John Y. Brown Jr. and chairing the state Democratic
Party, he was elected lieutenant governor in 1991. Four years later, he
was elected governor over the Republican Party's Larry Forgy. The major
achievement of Patton's first term was overhauling higher education,
including making the state's community colleges and technical schools
independent of the University of Kentucky and organizing them into the
Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Because of a 1992
amendment to the Kentucky Constitution, he was the first governor
eligible to succeed himself in office since James Garrard in 1800, and
he was re-elected in 1999.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_E._Patton>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1822:
The deadliest fire in Norwegian history occurred at a church in
Grue, killing at least 113 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_Church_fire>
1938:
The House Un-American Activities Committee was established to
investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities by people or
organizations in the U.S. suspected of having communist or fascist ties.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee>
2002:
Barges being towed destroyed part of a bridge (aftermath
pictured) near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, causing 11 vehicles to fall into
Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-40_bridge_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
facticity:
1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact.
2. (uncountable, specifically, philosophy) In existentialism, the state
of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or
of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over.
3. (countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be
true without further evaluation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facticity>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The world wants oatmeal. It is not my job to give the world
oatmeal. It is my job not to be a hack. It is my job to try to make the
world chew, lest its lazy jaw muscles atrophy and its collective
mandible withers and all its teeth fall out. It is my job, as a writer,
to give the world toffee and peanut brittle and tough steak and celery.
I write peanut butter sandwiches, not oatmeal. And every time some dolt
whines, "I'm confused" or "I don't understand" or "This doesn't make any
sense," I should smile and know that I'm doing my job. Not because it is
my job to be opaque, but because it is not my job to be transparent.
--Caitlín R. Kiernan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan>
Hurricane Fred was the easternmost Atlantic hurricane ever to form in
the tropics, and the first to move through Cape Verde since 1892. The
second hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, Fred became a
Category 1 hurricane on August 31 as it approached Cape Verde, which
was placed under a hurricane warning for the first time ever. The
Barlavento Islands endured gales and flooding rains as the eye of the
hurricane paralleled their shorelines. Structural damage across Boa
Vista and Sal presented as leveled roofs, damaged homes and toppled
utility poles. Farmers on São Nicolau suffered crop and livestock
losses when they saw their lands flood. Fred's rains, though
destructive, alleviated a drought across the Sotavento Islands of Cape
Verde. Elsewhere, violent seas along the West African shoreline
destroyed fishing villages and submerged homes in Senegal. Between the
coasts of West Africa and Cape Verde, nine people died in maritime
incidents.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fred_%282015%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1810:
The Primera Junta, the first independent government in
Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking
the end of the May Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Revolution>
1878:
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at
the Opera Comique in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore>
1962:
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight
steamboat service in the U.S., went out of business.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Steam_Packet_Company>
2012:
SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to
rendezvous with the International Space Station.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_COTS_Demo_Flight_2>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
overt:
Open and not concealed or secret.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overt>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than
luxury, and refinement rather than fashion: to he worthy, not
respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk
gently, act frankly; to have an oratory in my own heart, and present
spotless sacrifices of dignified kindness in the temple of humanity; to
spread no opinions glaringly out like show-plants, and yet leave the
garden gate ever open for the chosen friend and the chance acquaintance:
to make no pretenses to greatness; to seek no notoriety; to attempt no
wide influence; to have no ambitious projects; to let my writings be
the daily bubbling spring flowing through constancy, swelled by
experiences, into the full, deep river of wisdom; to listen to stars and
buds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do
all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; … in a word, to let the
spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is
to be my symphony.
--William Henry Channing
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Henry_Channing>
On 24 May 1979, in a game against Worcestershire, Somerset County
Cricket Club captain Brian Rose chose to declare his team's innings
closed after one over, throwing the game to manipulate a loophole in the
rules. He was aiming to avoid elimination on a strike rate tie-breaker
from the quarterfinals of the 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup, a one-day
cricket competition for counties in England and Wales. After Somerset
scored one run and declared, Worcestershire scored the two runs they
needed to win. The match at New Road (pictured) in Worcester was
completed in 18 minutes, with only 16 legal deliveries. Although
Somerset's declaration was within the Laws of Cricket, Rose was
condemned by the press and cricket officials. Just over a week after the
match, the Test and County Cricket Board met for an emergency session
and voted to eject Somerset from the competition by a vote of seventeen
to one. The Laws were later changed to ban declarations in professional
one-day cricket.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_v_Somerset,_1979>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1830:
The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published
as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb>
1930:
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the
first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Johnson>
1970:
On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola
Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,262 metres
(40,230 ft), making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the
deepest artificial point on Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole>
2014:
A gunman who had links to radical Islamists opened fire at the
Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_of_Belgium_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
consilience:
1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different
data sets. [from mid 19th c.]
2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the
waters Around you have grown. And accept it that soon You'll be
drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin' Then you
better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they
are a-changin'.
--Bob Dylan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan>
Anne Hathaway (born 1982) is an American actress. The recipient of
multiple awards, she was one of the highest-paid actresses in the world
in 2015, and her films have earned more than $6.8 billion worldwide.
She made her breakthrough in The Princess Diaries (2001). After roles in
the 2005 dramas Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, she played an assistant to
a fashion magazine editor in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and a
recovering alcoholic in Rachel Getting Married (2008). She starred in
the romantic films Bride Wars (2009), Valentine's Day (2010), and Love &
Other Drugs (2010), and in the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010).
In 2012, Hathaway starred as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises and as
Fantine in the musical drama Les Misérables, for which she won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played a scientist in
Interstellar (2014), the owner of an online fashion site in the comedy
The Intern (2015), and a haughty actress in the heist film Ocean's 8
(2018).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1533:
Thomas Cranmer (portrait shown), Archbishop of Canterbury,
annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon,
beginning a chain of events that would culminate in the English
Reformation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformation>
1934:
American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed
and killed by police on a desolate road near their hideout in Bienville
Parish, Louisiana.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde>
2008:
The International Court of Justice awarded the Middle Rocks to
Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore, resolving a 29-year-old
territorial dispute in the Singapore Strait.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Branca_dispute>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pall:
1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or
spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
2. (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose
life, spirit, strength, or taste.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pall>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Act in such a way that your heart may be free from hatred. Let
not your heart be offended with anyone. If someone commits an error and
wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him. Do not complain of
others. Refrain from reprimanding them, and if you wish to give
admonition or advice, let it be offered in such a way that it will not
burden the bearer. Turn all your thoughts toward bringing joy to hearts.
Beware! Beware! Lest ye offend any heart. Assist the world of humanity
as much as possible. Be the source of consolation to every sad one,
assist every weak one, be helpful to every indigent one, care for every
sick one, be the cause of glorification to every lowly one, and shelter
those who are overshadowed by fear.
--`Abdu'l-Bahá
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/%60Abdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1>
The 1962 Tour de France was the 49th edition of the Tour de France, one
of cycling's Grand Tours. The 4,274-kilometre (2,656 mi) race consisted
of 22 stages, including two split stages, starting in Nancy on 24 June
and finishing at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 15 July. For the
first time since 1929, the Tour was contested by trade teams instead of
national teams. Victory in the individual time trial of stage 20 put
Jacques Anquetil (pictured) in the general classification leader's
yellow jersey, which he held until the conclusion of the race to win his
third Tour de France, defending his title. Jef Planckaert placed second,
and Raymond Poulidor third. In the other race classifications, Rudi
Altig won the points classification, and Federico Bahamontes won the
mountains classification. Anquetil's team Saint-
Raphaël–Helyett–Hutchinson won the team classification, and Eddy
Pauwels won the award for most combative rider. Altig and Emile Daems
won the most stages, with three each.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Tour_de_France>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
The first Blackwall Tunnel (construction pictured) under the
River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwall_Tunnel>
1960:
The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, registering
approximately 9.5 Mw, struck near Valdivia, Chile, generating tsunamis
that reached Hawaii and Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake>
1980:
Location testing for Pac-Man, a Japanese arcade game that
became an icon of 1980s popular culture, began in Shibuya, Tokyo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man>
2010:
Upon landing in Mangalore, Air India Express Flight 812
overshot the runway and fell down a hillside, killing 158 of the 166
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Express_Flight_812>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mouthbrooder:
(zoology) Any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or
juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mouthbrooder>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To glimpse one’s own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a
place East of the Sun, West of the Moon — the homegoing that needs no
home, like that waterfall on the upper Suli Gad that turns to mist
before touching the earth and rises once again into the sky.
--Peter Matthiessen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Matthiessen>
Marcel Lihau (1931–1999) was a Congolese jurist, law professor, and
politician who helped create two constitutions for the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. He attended the Université catholique de Louvain
in Belgium, becoming one of the first Congolese to study law, and was
made dean of the law faculty at Lovanium University in 1963. The
following year, he helped deliver the Luluabourg Constitution, which the
Congolese adopted by referendum. In 1965, Joseph-Desiré Mobutu seized
control of the country and directed him to produce a new constitution.
Lihau was First President of the new Supreme Court of Justice of the
Congo from 1968 until 1975, when Mobutu summarily removed him from his
post and placed him under house arrest. After Lihau helped found the
reform-oriented Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social, Mobutu
suspended his rights and banished him to a rural village. Lihau
eventually moved to the United States, where he continued to advocate
for political reform in the Congo until his death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lihau>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1703:
English writer Daniel Defoe was imprisoned for seditious libel
after publishing a pamphlet that was perceived to satirise the Tories.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shortest_Way_with_the_Dissenters>
1851:
The Congress of Colombia passed a law abolishing slavery in the
country, to take effect at the beginning of the new year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Colombia>
1924:
University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard
Loeb (both pictured) murdered a 14-year-old boy in a thrill killing out
of a desire to commit a "perfect crime".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb>
1998:
Indonesian president Suharto resigned following the collapse of
support for his presidency amid economic and political crises.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
orature:
The oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk
songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in
writing. […]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orature>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That
mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
--Alexander Pope
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope>
Aitraaz (Objection) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller
film directed by Abbas–Mustan. It stars Akshay Kumar and Priyanka
Chopra (pictured), along with Kareena Kapoor Khan, Amrish Puri, Paresh
Rawal and Annu Kapoor. It was produced by Subhash Ghai, with a
screenplay by Shyam Goel and Shiraz Ahmed, and soundtrack by Himesh
Reshammiya. In the film, a man is accused of sexual harassment by his
female superior. It was released to positive reviews, and to widespread
critical acclaim for Chopra's performance as Sonia Roy. Aitraaz was a
commercial success, grossing over ₹260 million at the box office
against a budget of ₹110 million. At the 50th Filmfare Awards, Chopra
was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and won Best Performance in a
Negative Role for her work. She also won the Bengal Film Journalists'
Association Award for Best Actress and the Screen Award for Best Actor
in a Negative Role. The film received ten nominations at the 2005
International Indian Film Academy Awards, winning three.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitraaz>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1570:
The "first modern atlas", Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (world map
pictured) by Abraham Ortelius, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Ortelius>
1741:
War of Jenkins' Ear: Having lost more than 9,500 men, mostly
from yellow fever, British forces were forced to withdraw, ending the
two-month-long Battle of Cartagena de Indias against Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias>
1882:
The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
was formed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_%281882%29>
1996:
In deciding Romer v. Evans, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down
an amendment in Colorado that prevented protected status under the law
for homosexuals or bisexuals.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer_v._Evans>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wheelhouse:
1. A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the
water wheel of a mill.
2. (automotive) The partially enclosed structure above and around a
wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender
panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the
panel.
3. (nautical) An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a
fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which
it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
4. (nautical) The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a
steamboat.
5. (archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in
Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a
circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis
for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
6. (Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location
which is favourable to the hitter.
7. (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wheelhouse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
--Michael Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson>
Peresvet was the lead ship of the three pre-dreadnought battleships of
the Peresvet class built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the
nineteenth century. The ship was transferred to the Pacific Squadron
upon completion and based at Port Arthur from 1903. During the Russo-
Japanese War of 1904–05, she participated in the Battle of Port Arthur
and was seriously damaged during the Battle of the Yellow Sea and again
in the Siege of Port Arthur. The ship was scuttled before the Russians
surrendered, then salvaged by the Japanese and placed into service with
the name Sagami. Partially rearmed, Sagami was reclassified by the
Imperial Japanese Navy as a coastal defence ship in 1912. In 1916, the
Japanese sold her to the Russians, their allies since the beginning of
World War I. En route to the White Sea in early 1917, she sank off Port
Said, Egypt, after striking mines laid by a German submarine.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Peresvet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of
Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Cedars>
1845:
Captain John Franklin (engraving shown) departed Greenhithe,
England, on an expedition to the Canadian Arctic; all 129 men were later
lost when their ships became icebound in Victoria Strait.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition>
2015:
A corroded oil pipeline near Refugio State Beach, California,
spilled 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto one of
the most biologically diverse coastlines of the U.S. West Coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugio_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gnomon:
1. An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the
shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a
sundial.
2. An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the
meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it
reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the
observer's latitude.
3. The index of the hour circle of a globe.
4. (geometry) A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a
corner of a larger parallelogram.
5. (mathematics, by extension) A number representing the increment
between two figurate numbers (“numbers equal to the numbers of dots in
geometric figures formed of dots”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gnomon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school
graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new
ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only
see what it is prepared to see.
--Edward de Bono
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono>
The Bath School disaster was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by
Andrew Kehoe in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed
38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least
58 other people. On the morning of May 18, 1927 – having previously
murdered his wife at their farm – Kehoe set off almost simultaneous
explosions at his home and at the Bath Consolidated School (pictured).
His devices destroyed the farm's buildings and ripped through the north
wing of the school. As rescuers began working at the school, Kehoe drove
up to the schoolyard and set off dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled
truck, killing himself and several others nearby. During the rescue and
recovery efforts, searchers discovered 500 pounds (230 kg) of
unexploded dynamite and pyrotol in the south wing of the school that had
been set to detonate at the same time as the north wing explosions.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1926:
Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was reportedly
kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles before reappearing five weeks
later in Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_kidnapping_of_Aimee_Semple_McPherson>
1944:
The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of
Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars>
1980:
Mount St. Helens explosively erupted, killing approximately 57
people in southern Washington state, reducing hundreds of square miles
to wasteland, and causing more than US$1 billion in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
schlubby:
(chiefly US, informal) Clumsy, oafish, or socially awkward; unattractive
or unkempt.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schlubby>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,Some letter of that After-
life to spell,And by and by my Soul returned to me,And answered, I
Myself am Heav'n and Hell: Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill's Desire,
And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire Cast on the Darkness into which
Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire.
--Omar Khayyám
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m>