William M. Branham (1909–1965) was an American Christian minister and
faith healer who initiated the healing revival movement after World
War II and left a lasting impact on televangelism and the modern
Charismatic movement. After claiming to have received an angelic
visitation on May 7, 1946, Branham launched his worldwide ministry and
campaigning career in June. His inter-denominational meetings were the
largest religious meetings that had ever been held in some American
cities. Branham was the first American deliverance minister to
successfully campaign in Europe. His ministry reached global audiences
with major campaigns held in North America, Europe, Africa, and India.
Crowds were drawn to his stories of angelic visitations and reports of
miracles happening at his meetings. His ministry spawned many emulators
and set in motion the broader healing revival that later became the
modern Charismatic movement.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Branham>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
The current flag of Japan was first adopted as a civil ensign
for Japanese merchant ships.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Japan>
1900:
FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club, was
founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bayern_Munich>
1940:
American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered
carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, which is now used
extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date
archaeological and geological samples.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-14>
2002:
Violent riots, perceived to have been instigated by a train
fire that killed 58 Hindu pilgrims, broke out in the Indian state of
Gujarat, killing at least 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, over three days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godhra_train_burning>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pronoia:
1. (philosophy, theology) Divine providence, foreknowledge, foresight.
2. (historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of
temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land,
fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of
military service. […]
3. (psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people
conspire to do one good.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronoia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I believe the great ones, Plato, Lao Tze, Buddha, Christ, Paul
and the great Hebrew prophets are not remembered for negation or denial.
Not that it is necessary to be remembered but there is one purpose in
writing I can see, beyond simply doing it interestingly. It is the duty
of the writer to lift up, to extend, to encourage. If the written word
has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half
developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean
on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength
in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice. And how any
negative or despairing approach can pretend to be literature I do not
know. It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but
if that is all we ever were, we would milleniums ago have disappeared
from the face of the earth, and a few remnants of fossilized jaw bones,
a few teeth in strata of limestone would be the only mark our species
would have left on the earth.
--John Steinbeck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck>
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a German silent horror film, first
released on 26 February 1920. It was directed by Robert Wiene and
written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential
work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane
hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to
commit murders. The film features a dark and twisted visual style. The
sets have sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, and structures
that lean and twist in unusual angles. The film's design team, Hermann
Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig, recommended a fantastic,
graphic style over a naturalistic one. With a violent and insane
authority figure as its antagonist, the film expresses the theme of
brutal and irrational authority. Considered a classic, it helped draw
worldwide attention to the artistic merit of German cinema and had a
major influence on American films, particularly in the genres of horror
and film noir.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1606:
Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon made the first recorded European
landing in Australia, although he believed that he was on New Guinea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janszoon_voyage_of_1605%E2%80%9306>
1936:
Imperial Japanese Army troops attempted a coup d'etat,
occupying parts of Tokyo, and killing several politicians, including
Finance Minister Takahashi Korekiyo (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26_Incident>
1995:
Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, collapsed
after its head derivatives trader in Singapore, Nick Leeson, lost £827
million while making unauthorized trades on futures contracts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
haul:
1. (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or
oxen, or a motor vehicle.
2. (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
3. (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that
the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
5. (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be
disciplined or held answerable for something.
6. (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
7. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to
the wind.
8. (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the
bow).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haul>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling nor more
dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,
more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle
grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander
than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. To write the poem of
the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the
most infamous of men, would be to swallow up all epics in a superior and
final epic.
--Les Misérables
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables>
The 2006 Bank of America 500 was the 31st stock car race of the 2006
NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the fifth in the ten-race season-ending
Chase for the Nextel Cup. It was held on October 14, 2006, before a
crowd of 175,000 in Concord, North Carolina, at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
The 334-lap race was won by Kasey Kahne (pictured) of the Evernham
Motorsports team, who started from second position. Jimmie Johnson
finished second and Jeff Burton was third. There were 10 cautions and 34
lead changes. The victory was Kahne's sixth of the season, and the
seventh since his NASCAR debut in 2004. After the race Burton maintained
his lead in the Drivers' Championship, which increased to 45 points over
his nearest rival Matt Kenseth. Kahne's victory moved him from ninth to
eighth, while Jeff Gordon dropped to tenth. Chevrolet maintained its
lead in the Manufacturers' Championship with five races left in the
season.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Bank_of_America_500>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first
African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels>
1956:
In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship
of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequenc…>
1986:
Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were
ousted from power by the non-violent People Power Revolution, with
Corazon Aquino succeeding as president.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution>
1992:
Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed at least 161
ethnic Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Khojaly in the Nagorno-
Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_Massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stance:
1. The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
2. One's opinion or point of view.
3. A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
4. (specifically, climbing) A foothold or ledge on which to set up a
belay.
5. (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus
stop, a taxi rank.
6. (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a
street trader can carry on business.
7. (obsolete, rare) A stanza.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stance>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral
consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
--John Leonard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Leonard>
Clare Stevenson (1903–1988) was the inaugural director of the Women's
Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF), from May 1941 to March 1946. As
such, she was described in 2001 as "the most significant woman in the
history of the Air Force". Formed as a branch of the Royal Australian
Air Force in March 1941, the WAAAF was the first and largest uniformed
women's service in Australia during World War II. Born and educated in
Victoria, Stevenson was an executive with the Berlei company when she
was appointed Director WAAAF. Initially ranked squadron officer, she
rose to become group officer by April 1942. Stevenson resumed her
civilian career following her discharge from the Air Force in 1946. Long
active in adult education and social welfare, she helped form aid
organisations including the Carers Association of New South Wales (now
Carers NSW) after retiring from Berlei in 1960.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Stevenson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1607:
Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, considered the
first fully developed opera, premiered in Mantua.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Orfeo>
1868:
Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Andrew_Johnson>
1875:
The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier
Reef at low tide and sank northwest of Holbourne Island, resulting in
more than 98 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Gothenburg>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
histrionic:
1. Of or relating to actors or acting.
2. (by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the
intention to draw attention.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/histrionic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am a white man, I believe. Will anybody undertake to teach me
what are the antipathies and loathings of white men? What mean whites
may or may not like is of small importance. But the generous soul of my
race, which has led the van in the great march of liberty and
civilization, and whose lofty path is marked by the broken chains of
every form of slavery, has an instinctive hatred of injustice, of
exclusive privilege, of arrogance, ignorance, and baseness, and an
instinctive love of honor, magnanimity and justice. The white soul of my
race naturally loves the man, of whatever race or color, who bravely
fights and gloriously dies for equal rights, and instinctively loathes
every man who, saved by the blood of such heroes, deems himself made of
choicer clay.
--George William Curtis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_William_Curtis>
The rainbow pitta (Pitta iris) is a small passerine bird in the pitta
family, Pittidae, endemic to northern Australia. The species is most
closely related to the superb pitta of Manus Island. A colourful bird,
it has a velvet black head with chestnut stripes above the eyes, olive
green upper parts, black underparts, a bright red belly and an olive
green tail. The rainbow pitta lives in the monsoon forests, as well as
some drier eucalypt forests. As with other pittas, it is a secretive and
shy bird. The diet consists mainly of insects, arthropods and small
vertebrates. Pairs defend territories and breed during the rainy season,
as this time of year provides the most food for nestlings. The female
lays three to four eggs with blotches inside its large domed nest. Both
parents defend the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the chicks. The
species is common within its range, and is not threatened.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_pitta>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
The Orange River Convention was signed in Bloemfontein, with
Britain agreeing to recognise the independence of the Orange Free State
in present-day South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Free_State>
1945:
Second World War: An Allied bombing run on Pforzheim, Germany,
killed approximately 31 percent of its population and destroyed about
83 percent of its buildings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Pforzheim_in_World_War_II>
2007:
A Virgin express train derailed (accident scene pictured) near
Grayrigg in North West England, killing one person and seriously
injuring thirty others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayrigg_derailment>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
navel-gazing:
1. Contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation.
2. (derogatory) Excessive focus on oneself; self-indulgent
introspection.
3. (sometimes derogatory) (Disproportionate) concentration on a single
issue.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/navel-gazing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our questions and answers are in part determined by the
historical tradition in which we find ourselves. We apprehend truth from
our own source within the historical tradition. The content of our
truth depends upon our appropriating the historical foundation. Our own
power of generation lies in the rebirth of what has been handed down to
us. If we do not wish to slip back, nothing must be forgotten; but if
philosophising is to be genuine our thoughts must arise from our own
source. Hence all appropriation of tradition proceeds from the
intentness of our own life. The more determinedly I exist, as myself,
within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the
language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
--Karl Jaspers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers>
Valley View is a mid-19th-century Greek Revival residence and farm
overlooking the South Branch Potomac River northwest of Romney, West
Virginia. Sitting atop a promontory where Depot Valley joins the South
Branch Potomac River valley, the house was built by James Parsons Jr. in
1855. It is a two-story brick structure with a rectangular architectural
plan. The front entrance is covered by a small portico, topped with a
pediment supported by wooden Doric columns. The rear of the house, with
a two-story wood porch stretching across it, faces Mill Creek Mountain.
Each of the eight large rooms of the original structure contains a
fireplace framed by a wooden trabeated mantelpiece with classical
elements. The original windows, wooden trim, and materials in the main
section of the house are intact. The house was listed on the National
Register of Historic Places in 2012 as a locally significant example of
Greek Revival architecture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_View_%28Romney,_West_Virginia%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1876:
A Swedish woman named Karolina Olsson went to sleep and
purportedly fell into a state of hibernation that lasted for the next
32 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolina_Olsson>
1944:
World War II: U.S. forces carried out a bombing raid on the
Nazi-occupied Dutch city of Nijmegen, killing at least 800 civilians by
accident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nijmegen>
1980:
At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United
States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory
that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice>
1997:
Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the
birth of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have
successfully been cloned from an adult cell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vamp:
1. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
2. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together
(something) from existing material, or by adding new material to
something existing.
3. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
4. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a
repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or
while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […]
8. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vamp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of
liberty abused to licentiousness.
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>
Wail al-Shehri (1973–2001) was one of five hijackers of American
Airlines Flight 11, which was flown into the North Tower of the World
Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks (memorial pictured). He
and his younger brother Waleed joined an Al-Qaeda training camp in
Afghanistan in March 2000. They were chosen, along with other Saudis, to
participate in the attacks. Shehri returned to Saudi Arabia in October
2000 to obtain a clean passport and went back to Afghanistan before
arriving in the United States in early June 2001. He stayed in motels in
the Boynton Beach area of south Florida. On September 5, 2001, Shehri
traveled to Boston and checked into a motel with his brother. Six days
later, he arrived early in the morning at Boston's Logan International
Airport and boarded American Airlines Flight 11. Shehri, his brother
and three other hijackers deliberately crashed the airliner into the
North Tower at 8:46 a.m.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wail_al-Shehri>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1437:
King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup
by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland>
1952:
A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of
Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East
Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language_movement>
1965:
Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a
speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X>
1973:
After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace,
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two Israeli fighter
aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
matrilingual:
(rare) Pertaining to one's mother tongue.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matrilingual>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world
it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
--Anaïs Nin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin>
An ashcan comic is a type of American comic book originally created
solely to establish trademarks on potential titles and not intended for
sale. It was developed by publishers including All-American Publications
(logo pictured) and Fawcett Comics to gain legal protection for
desirable titles. An ashcan comic was the same size as a regular comic
book and usually had a black and white cover. The practice became common
in the 1930s and 1940s when the comic book industry was in its infancy,
but was phased out after updates to US trademark law. The term "ashcan"
was revived in the 1980s by Bob Burden, who applied it to prototypes of
his self-published comic book. Since the 1990s, the term has been used
to describe promotional materials produced in large print runs and made
available for mass consumption. In the film and television industries,
the term has been adopted for low-grade material created to preserve a
claim to licensed property rights.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcan_comic>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1835:
An earthquake registering approximately 8.2 Ms devastated
Concepción, Chile, and triggered a tsunami that destroyed neighbouring
Talcahuano.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1835_Concepci%C3%B3n_earthquake>
1943:
A fissure opened in a cornfield in the Mexican state of
Michoacán and would continue to erupt for nine years, forming the
cinder cone volcano Parícutin (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin>
1965:
NASA's Ranger 8 spacecraft transmitted 7,137 photographs of the
Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing as planned
in Mare Tranquillitatis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_8>
1992:
Appearing on the talk show Larry King Live, U.S. industrialist
Ross Perot announced that he would begin a presidential campaign if
"ordinary people" wanted him to run for office.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_1992_presidential_campaign>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
womannap:
(transitive, informal) To abduct or kidnap a woman.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/womannap>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important,
sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by
ridiculousness and instant discredibility.
--Kurt Cobain
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain>
Kosmoceratops was a ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in what is now the
U.S. state of Utah about 76.4–75.5 million years ago, during the Late
Cretaceous. Specimens of the genus were discovered in Grand
Staircase–Escalante National Monument in 2006 and 2007. It had an
estimated length of 4.5 m (15 ft) and weight of 1.2 t (1.3 short
tons). Kosmoceratops (from Greek for "ornate horned face") was named for
its skull, the most ornamented of any known dinosaur, with fifteen well-
developed horns and horn-like structures. It had a triangular beak with
a pointed tip, a blade-like nasal horn, and two horns that pointed up
and to the sides, then downwards. The neck frill was short from front to
back, with eight hook-like processes on the hind margin curving
forwards, and two curving to the sides. Kosmoceratops grew rapidly and,
like modern birds and mammals, had an elevated metabolism. Its teeth
were adapted to chewing fibrous plants.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmoceratops>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard
Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the
Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora>
1937:
Italian forces began a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians following
an attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani, the viceroy of Italian
East Africa, in Addis Ababa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekatit_12>
1954:
The Soviet Union transferred the administration of the Crimean
Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, an act that remains
controversial today.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_transfer_of_Crimea>
2012:
Forty-four inmates died during a riot at a prison in Apodaca,
Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodaca_prison_riot>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rainmaker:
1. Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
2. An African or Native American medicine man who seeks to induce rain
through performing rituals.
3. A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods,
such as cloud seeding.
4. (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the
ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success
for a company, organization, etc.
5. (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the
air.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rainmaker>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects
you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.
--Laurell K. Hamilton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurell_K._Hamilton>
Neferefre was a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty of ancient Egypt in the
25th century BC, during the Old Kingdom period. Known as prince Ranefer
before he ascended the throne, he was probably the eldest son of pharaoh
Neferirkare Kakai and queen Khentkaus II. Neferefre started a pyramid
for himself in the royal necropolis of Abusir and was buried in it,
although it was unfinished. The pyramid was roughly completed by his
brother Nyuserre Ini, who succeeded him after the rule of Shepseskare.
Fragments of Neferefre's mummy indicate that he died in his early
twenties, after two years of reign. A single text shows that he had
planned or just started to build a sun temple called Hotep-Re, meaning
"Ra is content" or "Ra's offering table". Like other Fifth Dynasty
kings, he benefited from a funerary cult, but the cult was abandoned by
the late Old Kingdom. Because his pyramid and mortuary complex were
unfinished, they may have attracted less attention from grave and stone
robbers than nearby pyramids. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neferefre>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: A British expedition against Dutch
colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa landed in Elmina in
present-day Ghana.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%27s_Gold_Coast_expedition>
1873:
Vasil Levski, a national hero of Bulgaria, was executed in
Sofia by the Ottoman authorities for his efforts to establish an
independent Bulgarian republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasil_Levski>
1946:
President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, annulling
benefits payable to Filipino troops who fought for the U.S. during World
War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescission_Act_of_1946>
2010:
In a coup d'état, military rebels attacked the presidential
palace in Niamey, Niger, and replaced President Mamadou Tandja with a
ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Nigerien_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
husbandry:
1. The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of
crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
2. The prudent management or conservation of resources.
3. (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day
matters.
4. (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/husbandry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most
important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk
of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me,
beyond any other effect.
--Audre Lorde
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde>