Tropical Storm Carlotta was a tropical cyclone that caused flooding in
several states in southwestern and central Mexico. The system
strengthened into a tropical storm on June 15, 2018. It reached peak
intensity two days later with reported maximum sustained winds of
65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 997 millibars
(29.44 inHg) when it was only 30 mi (50 km) south-southeast of
Acapulco. Interaction with the land and wind shear weakened the storm to
a tropical depression later in the day, and on June 19 the storm
dissipated. Carlotta prompted the issuance of watches and warnings for
the southern coast of Mexico. The storm caused three deaths, two in
Aguascalientes and the other in Oaxaca. Flooding and landslides also
occurred throughout the states of Aguascalientes, Guerrero, Michoacán,
Oaxaca, and Puebla, as well as in the Yucatán Peninsula. Damage from
the system was reported to be minor.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Carlotta_%282018%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
American Civil War: The Union Army captured Columbia, South
Carolina, from the Confederacy, while a large fire of unknown origin
destroyed much of the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Columbia>
1904:
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (title
character shown) premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing
him to revise the opera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly>
1964:
Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but
France, honoring a 1960 treaty, would forcibly reinstate him two days
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Gabonese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1974:
A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it
on the South Lawn of the White House.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_White_House_helicopter_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hobbyist:
A person who is interested in an activity or a subject as a hobby.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobbyist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political
action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral
command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is
unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to
obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as
though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than
they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.
--Hans Morgenthau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Morgenthau>
Marvel's Spider-Man is a 2018 action-adventure game developed by
Insomniac Games for the PlayStation 4 console. In the main storyline,
the crime lord Mister Negative threatens to release a deadly virus;
Spider-Man, voiced by Yuri Lowenthal (pictured), must confront him and
protect New York City. Shown in third-person perspective, the superhero
can move freely around the city, interacting with characters,
undertaking missions, and casting webs to incapacitate foes. Development
began in 2014 and took approximately four years. Reviewers praised the
game for its narrative, characterization, combat, and web-swinging
traversal mechanics, although some criticized its open-world design for
lacking innovation. Spider-Man became one of the best-selling
PlayStation 4 games of all time, and the fastest-selling superhero game
in the United States. It was followed by the downloadable, story-based
Spider-Man: The City that Never Sleeps, which was released monthly from
October to December 2018.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_%282018_video_game%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1804:
First Barbary War: Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a U.S. Navy
raid to destroy the captured USS Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli
(depicted), denying her use to the Barbary States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Philadelphia_%281799%29>
1936:
In the Spanish general election, the Popular Front coalition of
left-wing parties came to power, precipitating the Spanish Civil War
five months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Spanish_general_election>
1985:
The Lebanese Shia political and paramilitary organization
Hezbollah released a manifesto describing its ideology and goals.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_Hezbollah>
2005:
The Kyoto Protocol, an extension to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, entered into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deglutition:
(physiology) The act or process of swallowing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deglutition>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned,
especially if he has doubts about it himself.
--Henry Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams>
Roger B. Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an
American naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut in the
Apollo program. He died in a fire along with Gus Grissom and Ed White
during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1. Before joining NASA, Chaffee
obtained his private pilot's license and graduated from Purdue
University in 1957. Joining the U.S. Navy as an ensign, he trained to
fly the T-34, T-28, and A3D. Serving as quality and safety control
officer for Heavy Photographic Squadron 62, he took crucial photos of
Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, earning him the Air Medal. He
joined NASA's Astronaut Group 3 in 1963 and served as capsule
communicator at Mission Control Center in Houston for the Gemini 3 and
Gemini 4 missions. He was given his first spaceflight assignment in
1966 as the third-ranking pilot on Apollo 1 and was promoted soon after
to lieutenant commander in the Navy. He was posthumously awarded the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor and a second Air Medal.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Chaffee>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1796:
French Revolutionary Wars: Johan van Angelbeek, the Batavian
governor of Ceylon, surrendered Colombo to British forces, ending the
Invasion of Ceylon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Ceylon_%281795%29>
1907:
Japan and the United States signed a gentleman's agreement
whereby the former would not permit further emigration to the U.S.,
while the latter would not limit Japanese immigration.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_Agreement_of_1907>
1995:
Kevin Mitnick, the most wanted computer hacker at the time in
the U.S., was arrested and charged with computer fraud and wire fraud.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick>
2010:
Two passenger trains collided in Halle, Belgium, when one
driver failed to stop at a red signal, resulting in 19 deaths and 171
injuries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_train_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
meet cute:
(intransitive, informal) Of characters in a story or people in real
life: to meet each other in an adorable, amusing, or cute way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meet_cute>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
People think that foot pain is a fact of life, but life is
actually better than that.
--Me and You and Everyone We Know
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Me_and_You_and_Everyone_We_Know>
Love It to Death is the third studio album by the American rock band
Alice Cooper (pictured), released in March 1971. The band took the name
Alice Cooper in 1968 and became known for its outrageous theatrical live
shows, but its first two albums failed to find an audience. In 1970 the
band's single "I'm Eighteen" achieved top-forty success, peaking at No.
21 in the US and No. 7 in Canada. This convinced Warner Bros. that
Alice Cooper had the commercial potential to release an album. Love It
to Death reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has
since been certified platinum. In addition to "I'm Eighteen", a second
track from the album, "Caught in a Dream", was released as a single and
charted at No. 94 in the US. The album is seen as a foundational
influence on hard rock, punk, and heavy metal. Several tracks have
become live Alice Cooper standards and are frequently covered by other
bands.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_It_to_Death>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1852:
The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England
to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, was founded in
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital>
1914:
The animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was released, later
greatly influencing future animators such as the Fleischer brothers and
Walt Disney.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur>
1990:
NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the iconic Pale Blue Dot
photograph of Earth at a record distance of 40.5 au (6.06 billion km;
3.76 billion mi).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot>
2011:
Arab Spring: A "Day of Rage" marked the beginning of the
Bahraini uprising.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahraini_uprising_of_2011>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
love interest:
1. Especially of a character in film or literature: one who is of
interest as a (potential) partner in love.
2. A romantic relationship; a romance.
3. (film, literature, specifically) A romantic plot or subplot in a film
or book.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/love_interest>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is
mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
--As You Like It
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It>
The Unconquered is a three-act play written by Russian-American author
Ayn Rand as an adaptation of her 1936 novel We the Living. Producer
George Abbott staged the play on Broadway in February 1940, featuring
Helen Craig (pictured) as Kira Argounova, a young woman living in the
Soviet Union in the 1920s. Her lover Leo Kovalensky develops
tuberculosis. To get money for his treatment, Kira has an affair with a
Communist official, Andrei Taganov. After Leo recovers from his illness,
he becomes involved with black market food sales that Andrei is
investigating. When Andrei realizes that Kira loves Leo, he helps his
rival avoid prosecution, then commits suicide. Leo leaves Kira, who
decides to risk her life escaping the country. The production was
troubled by problems with the script and the cast. When the play opened
at the Biltmore Theatre, it was a critical and financial failure, and
closed in less than a week. It was the last of Rand's plays produced
during her lifetime.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unconquered_%281940_play%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1867:
Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted
main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the
city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne>
1960:
African-American college students staged the first of the
Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, as
part of a nonviolent direct-action campaign to end racial segregation in
the U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins>
1970:
The English rock band Black Sabbath released their eponymous
debut album, which is generally accepted as the first heavy-metal album.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath>
2010:
A terrorist bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in
Pune, India, killed 17 people and injured 60 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pune_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shock stall:
(aviation) A stall (“sudden loss of efficiency”) caused when the airflow
over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a
specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic
speeds.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shock_stall>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Lying has always been a highly approved Nazi technique. Hitler,
in Mein Kampf, advocated mendacity as a policy. … Nor is the lie
direct the only means of falsehood. They all speak with a Nazi double
meaning with which to deceive the unwary. … Before we accept their
word at what seems to be its face value, we must always look for hidden
meanings. … Besides outright false statements and those with double
meanings, there are also other circumventions of truth in the nature of
fantastic explanations and absurd professions. … Even Schacht showed
that he, too, had adopted the Nazi attitude that truth is any story
which succeeds. Confronted on cross-examination with a long record of
broken vows and false words, he declared in justification — and I
quote from the record: "I think you can score many more successes when
you want to lead someone if you don't tell them the truth than if you
tell them the truth." This was the philosophy of the National
Socialists. When for years they have deceived the world, and masked
falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they
continue that habit of a lifetime in this dock? Credibility is one of
the main issues of this trial. Only those who have failed to learn the
bitter lessons of the last decade can doubt that men who have always
played on the unsuspecting credulity of generous opponents would not
hesitate to do the same now.
--Robert H. Jackson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson>
Arthur Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English
composer best known for his operatic collaborations with the dramatist
W. S. Gilbert. Among his early works were a ballet, a symphony, a cello
concerto and a one-act comic opera, Cox and Box, which is still widely
performed. He wrote his first opera with Gilbert, Thespis, in 1871. In
1875 the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte engaged Gilbert and Sullivan to
create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury. Its box-office success led the
partners to collaborate on 12 full-length comic operas, including
H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Sullivan's
only grand opera, Ivanhoe, though initially successful in 1891, has
rarely been revived. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral
works, 10 choral works and oratorios, 2 ballets, incidental music to
several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber
pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and
"The Lost Chord".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1909:
The ferry SS Penguin struck a rock in Wellington Harbour and
sank, killing 75 people in New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the
20th century.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Penguin>
1946:
African-American U.S. Army veteran Isaac Woodard was severely
beaten by a South Carolina police officer, losing sight in both eyes, an
incident that galvanized the civil rights movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Woodard>
1968:
Vietnam War: Unarmed citizens in the villages of Phong Nhị
and Phong Nhất were massacred, allegedly by South Korean Marines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_Nh%E1%BB%8B_and_Phong_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_mass…>
2016:
In the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church
and the Russian Orthodox Church, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of
Moscow signed the Havana Declaration at José Martí International
Airport in Cuba.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Declaration_of_Pope_Francis_and_Patriar…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
living fossil:
1. (evolutionary theory) Any species discovered first as a fossil and
believed extinct, but which is later found living; an organism that has
remained unchanged over geological periods.
2. (evolutionary theory) Any living species which very closely resembles
fossil relatives in most anatomical details.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/living_fossil>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he
shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do
so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such
purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you
can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him
so much as you propose. If, to-day, he should choose to say he thinks it
necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how
could you stop him? You may say to him, "I see no probability of the
British invading us" but he will say to you, "Be silent; I see it, if
you don't." The provision of the Constitution giving the war making
power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following
reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people
in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the
people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most
oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the
Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this
oppression upon us.
--Abraham Lincoln
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>
The Yeomanry Cavalry was the mounted component of the British Volunteer
Corps, a military auxiliary established in the late 18th century. When
the Volunteer Corps was disbanded after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815,
the yeomanry – recruited from the middle and upper classes – was
retained as a politically reliable institution that could act as a
mounted police force. It became infamous after playing a leading part in
the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, and its policing role declined as
civilian police forces were established in the mid-19th century. The
yeomanry struggled to find a place in the military establishment, and it
survived largely because of its members' political influence and
willingness to subsidise it financially. It found a new relevance when
the Second Boer War revealed a need for mounted infantry. It was
reorganised in 1901 as the Imperial Yeomanry, and in 1908 it ceased to
be a discrete institution when all volunteer auxiliaries were
amalgamated into the Territorial Force.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomanry_Cavalry>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1968:
Following the deaths of two employees on the job, black
sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, agreed to begin a strike that
would last more than two months.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_sanitation_strike>
1990:
Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, having been a political
prisoner for 27 years, was released from Victor Verster Prison near
Paarl, South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela>
2001:
The Anna Kournikova computer worm, which went on to affect
millions of users worldwide, was released by a 20-year-old Dutch
student.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova_%28computer_virus%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
radium:
1. The chemical element (symbol Ra) with an atomic number of 88. It is a
soft, shiny and silvery radioactive alkaline earth metal.
2. (textiles, dated) A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn,
often with a shiny appearance.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our
house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of
energy — sun, wind and tide. … I'd put my money on the sun and solar
energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil
and coal run out before we tackle that.
--Thomas Edison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison>
Abby is an American sitcom created by Nat Bernstein and Michael Katlin
that aired for one season on UPN from January 6, 2003, to March 4, 2003.
The show features Sydney Tamiia Poitier (pictured) as television
producer Abby Walker and Kadeem Hardison as her ex-boyfriend Will
Jeffries. After they break up in the pilot episode, they agree to live
together as friends in their rent-controlled San Francisco apartment.
Bernstein and Katlin had intended to feature an interracial couple,
casting Sean O'Bryan as Will. After a negative response from test
audiences, they gave the role to Hardison and recast O'Bryan as a
supporting character, along with Randy J. Goodwin and Tangie Ambrose.
Despite UPN's heavy promotion, the show attracted a weekly average of
just 1.7 million viewers, making it the lowest-performing show tracked
by Nielsen Holdings at the time. Critical responses were primarily
negative; commentators praised Poitier's acting but criticized the
show's reliance on sexual humor.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_%28TV_series%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1840:
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married Queen Victoria
at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London, becoming prince
consort.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort>
1930:
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên
Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%AAn_B%C3%A1i_mutiny>
1940:
Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was
released to theaters.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_Gets_the_Boot>
1962:
Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged
for Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been
shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
body camera:
A video recording system worn on the body, typically used by law
enforcement officers to record their interactions with the public, and
gather video evidence at crime scenes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/body_camera>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in
time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
--Boris Pasternak
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak>
Adele Spitzeder (9 February 1832 – 27 or 28 October 1895) was a German
actress, folk singer, and confidence trickster. Initially a promising
young actress, Spitzeder became a private banker in Munich when her
theatrical success dwindled. Running what was possibly the first
recorded Ponzi scheme, she offered large returns on investments by
continually using the money of new investors to pay back the previous
ones. At the height of her success, contemporary sources considered her
the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, although she maintained the persona of
a pious Christian woman who helped the poor. Brought to trial in 1872,
she was convicted of bad accounting and mishandling customers' money,
since Ponzi schemes were not yet illegal, and sentenced to three years
in prison. In her later years, Spitzeder performed as a folk singer,
living off friends and benefactors, but never completely left her
criminal life, resulting in further trials and periods of incarceration.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Spitzeder>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1920:
The Svalbard Treaty was signed in Paris, recognizing Norwegian
sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard>
1945:
World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully
attacked a German destroyer in Førde Fjord, Norway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%281945%29>
2001:
The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally collided
with the Ehime Maru (wreckage pictured), a Japanese training vessel
operated by a high school, sinking the latter ship and killing nine
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gassy:
1. Having the nature of, or containing, gas.
2. (specifically) Of a beverage: containing dissolved gas (usually
carbon dioxide); fizzy.
3. (specifically) Of a person: tending to burp; burpy.
4. (specifically) Of a person: tending to release flatus; flatulent.
5. Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence.
6. (figuratively, informal) Tending to be long-winded or wordy,
especially in a boastful and vain manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gassy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think
that the king’s firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our
time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be
the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the
best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or
other and thus forestalling civil conflict.
--J. M. Coetzee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee>
Baden-Powell House is a Scouting hostel and conference centre in South
Kensington, London. Built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder
of Scouting, it is owned by The Scout Association. The house was
designed in 1956 in the modern architectural style by Ralph Tubbs, whose
works included the Dome of Discovery, the highlight of the 1951 Festival
of Britain. Olave Baden-Powell laid the foundation stone in 1959, and
the building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. A granite statue
of Baden-Powell, sculpted by Don Potter, was unveiled at the opening.
The building has been refurbished several times, and now provides
lodging for Scouts, Girl Guides and the general public. A collection of
Baden-Powell memorabilia formerly displayed at the site, including
several first editions of his books and many of his drawings and
letters, has been moved to the headquarters for Scouting in the UK at
Gilwell Park.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_House>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1879:
At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and
inventor Sandford Fleming proposed the idea of standard time zones based
on a single universal world time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time>
1960:
The official groundbreaking for the Walk of Fame took place in
Hollywood, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame>
2010:
A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan
triggered a series of avalanches that buried over 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of
road, killed 171 people and trapped more than 2,500 travellers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Salang_avalanches>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pipe:
1. (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with
holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the
tube. […]
2. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in
plumbing and numerous other applications. […]
3. (Australia, colloquial, now historical) An anonymous satire or essay,
insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which
was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus
spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has
been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human
words. Precisely for that reason it is the b imperishable and
unavoidable. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's
nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk
that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have
addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and
really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou
of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands
in a relationship that includes all others.
--Martin Buber
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Buber>