Persoonia linearis, the narrow-leaved geebung, is a shrub native to New
South Wales and Victoria in eastern Australia. It reaches 3 m
(9.8 ft), or occasionally 5 m (16 ft), in height and has thick, dark
grey papery bark. The leaves are linear in shape, up to 9 cm (3.5 in)
long, and 0.1 to 0.7 cm (0.04 to 0.28 in) wide. The small yellow
flowers appear from December to July, followed by small green fleshy
fruits. P. linearis interbreeds with several other Persoonia species
where they grow together. This shrub is found in dry forest on poor
sandstone-based soils, and is adapted to a fire-prone environment; the
plants resprout epicormic buds from beneath their thick bark after
bushfires. The fruit are consumed by vertebrates such as kangaroos,
possums and currawongs. P. linearis is rare in cultivation as it is
very hard to propagate by seed or by cuttings, but once propagated, it
adapts readily, preferring acidic soils with good drainage and at least
a partly sunny aspect.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persoonia_linearis>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1393:
King Charles VI of France was nearly killed when several
dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_des_Ardents>
1813:
The novel Pride and Prejudice by English author Jane Austen
(portrait shown) was published, using material from an unpublished
manuscript that she originally wrote between 1796 and 1797.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice>
1933:
Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for
the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed
"Pakstan".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Declaration>
1964:
An unarmed U.S. Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission
was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing all
three aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_T-39_shootdown_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
caliginous:
(archaic or literary) Dark, obscure; murky.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caliginous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whoever brushes aside even a part of the truth, whether through
intention or oversight, is doomed to fall. The truth he lacks thrives on
negligence, and brings down whatever is built without it. It is easy to
resolve our problem knowing its components than resolve them without
knowing them.
--José Martí
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD>
Hyūga was the second of two Ise-class battleships built for the
Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1910s. The battleship supported
Japanese forces in the early 1920s during the Siberian intervention in
the Russian Civil War, and assisted survivors of the Great Kantō
earthquake in 1923. The ship was partially modernised between 1927 and
1932 and rebuilt in the pagoda mast style, with further improvements in
1934–1936. Hyūga played a minor role in the Second Sino-Japanese War,
but was considered obsolete by the eve of the Pacific War. Following the
loss of most of the navy's large aircraft carriers during the Battle of
Midway in mid-1942, the battleship was rebuilt with a flight deck, but
lacked aircraft and qualified pilots throughout the war. In late 1944
the ship helped to decoy an American carrier fleet away from the landing
beaches at Leyte. Hyūga was sunk during American airstrikes in July
1945. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of
Japan.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Battleships_of_Japan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1820:
A Russian expedition led by naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von
Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev became the first explorers to sight
the coast of Antarctica.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica>
1945:
The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind
by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance pictured), in
present-day Oświęcim, Poland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp>
1980:
Assisted by Canadian government officials, six American
diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to
Zürich, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper>
2010:
Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new President of Honduras, ending
the constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was
forcibly removed from office.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
looking glass:
1. A piece of glass with a reflective surface that one may look into to
see an image of oneself; a mirror.
2. A way into a bizarre world.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/looking_glass>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I was young, my mindset was image, image, image. I took that
approach with the media. As I became more experienced I realized: No
matter what, people are going to like you or not like you. So be
authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are. At
that point, I started keeping all of my answers blunt and
straightforward. I would mix in some humor and sarcasm, too. I think
fans and reporters came to appreciate that, came to appreciate the real
me.
--Kobe Bryant
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant>
Walter Krueger (26 January 1881 – 20 August 1967) was an American
soldier who commanded the Sixth United States Army in the South West
Pacific Area during World War II, rising from private to general in his
army career. A child immigrant born in Flatow, West Prussia, he served
in the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War and was
promoted to second lieutenant in 1901. When the U.S. entered World
War I in 1917, he was assigned to the 84th Infantry Division as
assistant chief of staff, later as chief of staff. In October 1918, he
commanded the Tank Corps. Between the wars, he served in various roles,
and in 1941 he assumed command of the Third Army. In 1943 he was sent to
the South West Pacific Area as commander of the Sixth Army, which he led
in a series of victorious campaigns against the Japanese. In the Battle
of Luzon in 1945 he was finally able to maneuver his army as he had in
1941 against a Japanese army under Tomoyuki Yamashita. (This article is
part of a featured topic: Command in the South West Pacific Area.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Command_in_the_Sout…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong
Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bremer>
1945:
Audie Murphy engaged in action at the Colmar Pocket that won
him a Medal of Honor and made him one of the most famous and decorated
U.S. soldiers of World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy>
1972:
JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the
only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell
10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest
fall without a parachute.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87>
2001:
An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least
13,000 people, injured another 167,000 and destroyed nearly 400,000
homes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Gujarat_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
emu:
1. (obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
2. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius
novaehollandiae.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emu>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried — tried to be part
of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried
to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human
being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.
--Paul Newman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Newman>
Æthelbald, King of Wessex (died 860) was the second of five sons of
King Æthelwulf of Wessex. Æthelbald's elder brother Æthelstan
defeated the Vikings in 850 in the first recorded sea battle in English
history, and probably died in the early 850s. The next year Æthelwulf
and Æthelbald inflicted another defeat on the Vikings at the Battle of
Aclea. In 855 Æthelwulf went on pilgrimage to Rome and appointed
Æthelbald king of Wessex, while Æthelberht, the next oldest son,
became king of Kent, which had been conquered by Wessex thirty years
earlier. Æthelbald refused to give up his throne when his father
returned to England in 856, and continued as king either of west Wessex
or the whole territory until his father died in 858. Æthelbald then
married his father's widow, Judith, a great-granddaughter of
Charlemagne, to the scandal of later monastic chroniclers, and ruled
Wessex until his own death. Æthelberht now re-united Wessex and Kent
under his sole rule and they were never again divided.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelbald,_King_of_Wessex>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1792:
Thomas Hardy founded the London Corresponding Society to seek a
"radical reform of parliament", later influencing the reform movements
of early 19th-century England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Corresponding_Society>
1971:
Idi Amin seized power from Ugandan president Milton Obote in a
coup d'état, beginning eight years of military rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Ugandan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1993:
Five people were shot by Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi
outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley,
Virginia, resulting in two deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_shootings_at_CIA_Headquarters>
2010:
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa, crashed
into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon,
killing all 90 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_409>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Burns night:
An event held on the evening of 25th January in celebration of the
Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (born on that day in 1759),
usually involving Scottish foods and recitals of his poetry.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Burns_night>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, 'Tis he
fulfills great Nature's plan, And none but he!
--Robert Burns
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Burns>
The decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts was accomplished in the
early nineteenth century by several European scholars, especially Jean-
François Champollion (pictured) and Thomas Young. Egyptian writing,
which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to
be understood in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Afterwards, it was
believed that Egyptian scripts were exclusively ideographic,
representing ideas, rather than phonetic, representing sounds. The
Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, bore a parallel text in hieroglyphic,
demotic and Greek, but deciphering the Egyptian text through its Greek
translation proved difficult. Young, building on the work of Antoine-
Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and Johan David Åkerblad, identified several
phonetic signs in demotic. In the early 1820s Champollion realised the
hieroglyphic script had both phonetic and ideographic elements. He
identified the meanings of most phonetic hieroglyphs and established
much of the grammar and vocabulary of ancient Egyptian.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egyptian_scripts>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1848:
James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma,
California, leading to the California Gold Rush.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush>
1978:
The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up
during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across
Canada's Northwest Territories.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954>
1990:
Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft, the first lunar probe
launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiten>
2011:
A North Caucasian jihadist carried out a suicide bombing at
Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, killing 37 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airport_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brumous:
(literary) Foggy or misty; wintry.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brumous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If we don’t have an informed electorate we don’t have a
democracy. So I don’t care how people get the information, as long as
they get it. I’m just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I
can do it the way I want to do it.
--Jim Lehrer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer>
Suillus luteus is a bolete fungus common in its native Eurasia and
widely introduced elsewhere. English names such as "slippery jack"
refer to the brown cap, which is slimy in wet conditions. The mushrooms
are edible, though not highly regarded, and are often eaten in soups,
stews or fried dishes. The fungus grows in coniferous forests in its
native range, and pine plantations where introduced. It forms symbiotic
associations with living trees by enveloping the underground roots. The
fungus produces spore-bearing mushrooms above ground in summer and
autumn. The cap often has a distinctive conical shape before flattening
with age. Instead of gills, the underside of the cap has pores with
tubes extending downward that allow mature spores to escape. The pore
surface is yellow, and covered by a membranous partial veil when young.
The stalk is pale with small dots near the top. It bears a distinctive
ring that is tinged brown to violet on the underside.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus_luteus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
American Indian Wars: The United States Army massacred a
friendly band of Piegan Blackfeet in Montana Territory, resulting in
about 200 deaths, mostly of women, children and elderly men.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marias_Massacre>
1909:
Two Jewish Latvian immigrants committed an armed robbery in
Tottenham, London, and led police on a two-hour tram chase (illustration
shown), ending in the perpetrators' suicides and increased anti-
immigrant sentiment in the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenham_Outrage>
1942:
World War II: Japan began its invasion of the island of New
Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rabaul_%281942%29>
1993:
The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and
Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser and
Gopher client.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gigot:
1. A leg of lamb or mutton.
2. (fashion) Short for gigot sleeve (“a type of sleeve shaped like a leg
of mutton”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigot>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Perhaps you and I were born too late to explore the world and too
early in history to explore the stars, but we were born at just the
right time, which is pretty much all times ever — to explore language
— to explore what can be said. What should be said? What should we
send out to space? What, that can be said, will you be the first to say?
--Michael Stevens
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Stevens_%28educator%29>
Muhammad II was the Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada in Al-
Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula from 1273 until his death in 1302.
Succeeding his father Muhammad I, he maintained Granada's independence
in the face of its larger neighbours, the Christian kingdom of Castile
and the Muslim Marinid state of Morocco. He added the Tower of the
Ladies and the Tower of the Points to his father's palace and fortress
complex, the Alhambra (pictured). To defend Granada against the
Christians, he recruited soldiers from North Africa and organized them
into the Volunteers of the Faith. He instituted the Nasrid royal
protocol and the court chancery and increased the importance of the
vizier in government. Muhammad II built a series of strongholds in
strategic positions that remained for centuries as the backbone of
Granadan border defences. He was known by the epithet al-Faqih, the
canon lawyer, reflecting his education and his support for scholars and
poets.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_II_of_Granada>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
The Convention Parliament met to decide the fate of the English
throne after James II, the last Catholic monarch, had fled to France as
a result of the Glorious Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England>
1905:
Russian Revolution: Unarmed demonstrators, led by Russian
Orthodox priest Georgy Gapon, were massacred by the Imperial Guard
outside the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281905%29>
1970:
The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial
airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747>
2006:
Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming
the country's first democratically elected indigenous leader.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
skimble-skamble:
Confused, chaotic, disorderly, senseless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skimble-skamble>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it
were, grades of ambition in mankind. The first is of those who desire to
extend their own power in their native country, a vulgar and degenerate
kind. The second is of those who labor to extend the power and dominion
of their country among men. This certainly has more dignity, though not
less covetousness. But if a man endeavor to establish and extend the
power and dominion of the human race itself over the universe, his
ambition (if ambition it can be called) is without doubt both a more
wholesome and a more noble thing than the other two. Now the empire of
man over things depends wholly on the arts and sciences. For we cannot
command nature except by obeying her.
--Francis Bacon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon>
Onychopterella was a predatory aquatic arthropod of the order of
eurypterids, often called sea scorpions. Fossils of the species
O. kokomoensis (pictured) and O. pumilus have been found in the United
States, and fossils of O. augusti in South Africa. Onychopterella (from
Greek for 'claw wing') lived from the Late Ordovician to the Late
Silurian, from 444 to 422 million years ago. The head was almost
rectangular, with bean-shaped compound eyes. The limbs were generally
long and narrow with a spine on the tip, and the body was ornamented
with small, pointed scales. Lengths ranged from 16 cm (6.3 in) for
O. kokomoensis to 4 cm (1.6 in) for O. pumilus. Onychopterella was
able to swim, and probably able to walk on the seabed with its spines
and dig with its head. The best-preserved specimens of O. augusti show
similarities to modern scorpions in their alimentary canal, limb
musculature and respiratory system.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychopterella>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1919:
The First Dáil convened at the Mansion House in Dublin and
adopted a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of
the Irish Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_D%C3%A1il>
1941:
World War II: Sparked by the murder of a German officer on the
previous day in Bucharest, Romania, members of the Iron Guard began a
rebellion and pogrom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom>
1968:
Cold War: A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed
onto sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing localized
radioactive contamination.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash>
1981:
The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car
of the DMC DeLorean (example pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pomander:
1. (countable, uncountable, historical) A mixture of aromatic
substances, made into a ball and carried by a person to impart a sweet
smell or as a protection against infection.
2. (countable, historical) A small case in which an aromatic ball was
carried.
3. (countable) A perforated container filled with pot-pourri for placing
in a drawer, wardrobe, room, etc., to provide a sweet smell.
4. (countable) An apple or orange studded with cloves used for the same
purpose.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pomander>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Reason spoiled, marred, or robbed of its perfection, ceaseth to
be rational, and should not be called reason; inasmuch as it is premised
to be depraved, or degenerated from a rational nature; and in
consequence of the deprivation of its nature, should also be deprived of
its name, and called subterfuge, or some such like name, which might
better define its real character. Those who invalidate reason, ought
seriously to consider, "whether they argue against reason, with or
without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that
they are laboring to dethrone;" but if they argue without reason,
(which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they
are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a
rational argument.
--Ethan Allen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen>
Buzz Aldrin (born January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut and
fighter pilot. As lunar module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and
Neil Armstrong were the first humans to land on the Moon. A graduate of
West Point and MIT, where he earned a doctorate in astronautics, Aldrin
served as an Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War, flying 66
combat missions and shooting down two MiGs. He was selected as an
astronaut with NASA's third group in 1963. His first spaceflight was in
1966 on Gemini 12, during which he spent over five hours outside the
spacecraft. He set foot on the Moon on July 21, 1969 (UTC), nine
minutes after Armstrong. He left NASA in 1971 and became commandant of
the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. His autobiographies Return to
Earth and Magnificent Desolation recount his struggles with depression
and alcoholism. He developed the Aldrin cycler, a Mars spacecraft
trajectory, and continues to advocate for space exploration,
particularly a human mission to Mars.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
World War II: Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8
million people from East Prussia in anticipation of the advancing Soviet
Red Army, an operation that took nearly two months to complete.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_East_Prussia>
1968:
The Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins in what became known
as the "Game of the Century", ending the Bruins' 47-game winning streak,
and establishing college basketball as a sports commodity on American
television.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_the_Century_%28college_basketball%29>
2018:
A group of Taliban gunmen attacked the Inter-Continental Hotel
in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left 42 people
dead and more than 14 others injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
acquit:
1. (transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
2. (transitive) To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear
off, to pay off; to fulfil.
3. (transitive) Followed by of (and formerly by from): to discharge,
release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or
from an accusation or charge.
4. (reflexive) To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.
5. (reflexive) To clear oneself.
6. (transitive, archaic) past participle of acquit.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To release, to rescue, to set free.
8. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acquit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started
with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love
with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being
jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.
--David Lynch
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Lynch>
Jill Valentine is a fictional character in Resident Evil, a survival
horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom.
Appearing in the original Resident Evil (1996), she featured as the
protagonist in several later games in the series. From 2002 onward, she
was drawn to resemble Canadian model and actor Julia Voth (pictured).
Valentine also appears in the Resident Evil film series, portrayed by
actor Sienna Guillory, and in several other game franchises, including
Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom and Project X Zone. Video game
publications praised Valentine as the most likable and consistent
Resident Evil character. Several publications praised the series for
making Valentine as competent and skilled as her male counterparts and
for avoiding sexual objectification; others criticized her costumes as
overtly sexual, and argued that her role as a heroine was weakened by
her unrealistic features.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Valentine>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1795:
The Batavian Republic was established, a day after Prince
William V (portrait shown) fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the
Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavian_Revolution_in_Amsterdam>
1920:
The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors
of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union>
1930:
In Watsonville, California, tensions between nativists and
Filipino Americans escalated into riots that later spread to other
cities in the state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watsonville_riots>
1975:
An earthquake registering 6.8 Ms struck northern Himachal
Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Kinnaur_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gumption:
1. (Britain) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
2. (US) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
3. (US) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gumption>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don’t want much outa life, I never wanted a mansion in the
south. I just-a want to find someone sincere Who’d treat me like he
talks, One good man.
--Janis Joplin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin>