WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station broadcasting in Detroit,
Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS News and
Stations group, with studios in the suburb of Southfield. Channel 62 was
founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks as the first Black-owned
television station in the continental United States. It produced its own
shows and helped launch the careers of Black television hosts and
executives such as Pat Harvey, Shaun Robinson, Sharon Dahlonega Bush,
and Amyre Makupson. In 1994, when a major affiliation switch threatened
to leave CBS without an affiliate station in Detroit, the network moved
to buy WGPR-TV and dropped the existing programming in favor of CBS and
syndicated programs, later changing the call letters to WWJ-TV. The
station's original studios (pictured) are listed on the National
Register of Historic Places and preserved as a museum that opened on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January 2017. A full news department
began operation in January 2023.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWJ-TV>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1934:
At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering
8.0 Mw struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Nepal%E2%80%93India_earthquake>
1974:
American serial killer Dennis Rader bound, tortured, and killed
his first four victims, earning him the nickname "BTK killer".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader>
1991:
The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted by letters
patent; the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross
award in its honours system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia>
2009:
US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during
its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the
Hudson River (featured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ooch:
1. (transitive)
2. (also reflexive) To move or slide (oneself or someone, or something)
by a small amount.
3. (also reflexive, figurative) To cause (oneself or someone, or
something) to change or progress by a small amount or in small
increments.
4. (figurative) To force (someone or something) to move without
noticeable disruption or opposition; to nudge.
5. (intransitive)
6. To move or slide by a small amount; to scooch, to scoot.
7. To move around in a restricted or small space; to squeeze, to squirm.
8. (figurative) To change or progress by a small amount or in small
increments; to nudge.
9. (figurative) To force to move without noticeable disruption or
opposition.
10. (sailing) To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back
and forth.
11. A small amount by which something has changed or moved.
12. (figurative) A small change or small amount of progress.
13. (sailing) An act of propelling a boat or sailboard forward by
rocking one's body. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ooch>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
God is not interested merely in freeing black men and brown men
and yellow men, but God is interested in freeing the whole human race.
We must work with determination to create a society, not where black men
are superior and other men are inferior and vice versa, but a society in
which all men will live together as brothers and respect the dignity and
worth of human personality.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.>
Fleetwood Park was a 19th-century American harness racing track in the
Bronx, New York City. The races were a popular form of entertainment,
drawing crowds as large as 10,000. The one-mile (1.6 km) course
described an unusual shape, with four turns in one direction and one in
the other. For the last five years of operation, Fleetwood was part of
trotting's Grand Circuit, one travel guide calling it "the most famous
trotting track in the country". The track operated under several
managements between 1870 and 1898, most notably the New York Driving
Club, consisting of many wealthy New York businessmen, including members
of the Vanderbilt and Rockefeller families as well as former US
president Ulysses S. Grant and Robert Bonner, owner of the New York
Ledger. Economic pressures forced the track to close in 1898, and
within two years the property was being subdivided into residential
building lots. The meandering route of modern 167th Street runs along a
portion of the old racecourse.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Park_Racetrack>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby
Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the
Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Kiel>
1969:
A major fire and series of explosions aboard the U.S. Navy
aircraft carrier USS Enterprise killed 28 sailors, injured 314 others,
and destroyed 15 aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_fire>
1970:
The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria
surrendered to the federal government less than three years after
declaring independence, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War>
2018:
In the "Minneapolis Miracle", American football player Stefon
Diggs caught a 61-yard touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota
Vikings' victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff
game.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Miracle>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
siglum:
1. A letter or other symbol that stands for a name or word;
specifically, one used in a modern literary work to refer to an early
version of a text.
2. (figurative) A thing which represents something else; a sign, a
symbol.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/siglum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become
lost in war and through politics. We have reached the point of regarding
each other only as members of a people either allied with us or against
us and our approach; prejudice, sympathy, or antipathy are all
conditioned on that. Now we must rediscover the fact that we — all
together — are human beings, and that we must strive to concede to
each other what moral capacity we have.
--Albert Schweitzer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer>
Carucage was a medieval English land tax based on the size of the
taxpayer's estate. It was levied six times: by Richard I in 1194 and
1198, John in 1200, and Henry III in 1217, 1220, and 1224. The taxable
value of an estate was initially assessed from the Domesday Book survey,
but other methods were later employed, such as valuations based on the
sworn testimony of neighbours or the number of plough-teams (example
depicted) the taxpayer used. Carucage never raised as much as other
taxes, but it helped fund the ransom for Richard's release in 1194, the
tax John paid to Philip II of France on land he inherited in that
country, and the cost of Henry III's military campaigns in England and
continental Europe. The tax was an attempt to secure new sources of
revenue when new demands were being made on royal finances. Unlike the
older danegeld tax, carucage was an experiment in revenue collection and
only levied for specific purposes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carucage>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1953:
Nine Moscow doctors were accused of a plot to poison members of
the Soviet political and military leadership.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot>
1968:
American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At
Folsom Prison live at Folsom Prison in California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Folsom_Prison>
1972:
Ghanaian military officer Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup
to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward
Akufo-Addo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Kutu_Acheampong>
2000:
Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive
officer of Microsoft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ascendant:
1. Moving upward; ascending, rising.
2. (figurative) Controlling, dominant, surpassing.
3. (astronomy) Rising towards the zenith.
4. (astrology) In an eastern direction rising just above the horizon.
5. (botany, physiology) Of a part of an organism: synonym of ascending
(“leading or sloping upwards”)
6. (genealogy, archaic or obsolete) Synonym of ascending (“of or
pertaining to one's ancestors”)
7. (astrology, also figurative) The degree of the zodiac or point of the
ecliptic which rises in an eastern direction above the horizon at a
particular moment (especially the moment of a person's birth), which is
supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's fortune and life;
a horoscope.
8. (by extension)
9. Chiefly in in the ascendant: an act of ascending or rising.
10. (figurative) Synonym of ascendancy (“commanding influence; dominant
control; superiority, supremacy”)
11. (genealogy) An ancestor.
12. (obsolete)
13. A person who ascends or goes up; specifically (usually followed by
to), a person who ascends to a throne or assumes some other position of
power.
14. Something which is higher than the things around it; a peak, a
summit; specifically (typography), synonym of ascender (“the portion of
a lowercase letter that extends above the midline”)
15. Something which leads or slopes upwards, such as a flight of stairs
or an upward incline.
16. (rare) A person who supports a policy of ecclesiastical or national
supremacy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ascendant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Don't judge a man by the tales of others.
--G. I. Gurdjieff
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff>
SMS Prinz Adalbert was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for
the German Kaiserliche Marine, and was named after Prince Adalbert of
Prussia, the former commander-in-chief of the Prussian Navy. Her class
included a second ship, Friedrich Carl. Prinz Adalbert was built at the
Imperial Dockyard in Kiel. Her keel was laid in April 1900 and she was
commissioned on 12 January 1904. She served as a gunnery training ship
and made several visits to foreign countries. After the outbreak of
World War I in July 1914 she served in the Baltic Sea, and after her
sister ship was sunk in November 1914, she became the flagship of a
cruiser squadron in the Baltic, conducting operations against Russian
forces. She was torpedoed twice by British submarines in 1915. On the
second occasion she sank quickly with heavy loss of life; from a crew of
675 men, only 3 were rescued. This was the worst German naval disaster
in the Baltic during the war. (This article is part of a featured
topic: Armored cruisers of Germany.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Armored_cruisers_of…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1879:
Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops
defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_Sihayo%27s_Kraal>
1899:
During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station
transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to
rescue a damaged schooner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynmouth_Lifeboat_Station>
1969:
British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album, Led
Zeppelin, in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_%28album%29>
2007:
Comet McNaught reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet
in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
psychrometry:
(meteorology, thermodynamics) Synonym of psychrometrics (“the
measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the
atmosphere and its water vapour”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psychrometry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the
pure and sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and
mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiva is useless. The
prayers of those that are pure in mind and body will be answered by
Shiva, and those that are impure and yet try to teach religion to others
will fail in the end. External worship is only a symbol of internal
worship; but internal worship and purity are the real things. Without
them, external worship would be of no avail.
--Swami Vivekananda
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda>
The rock parrot (Neophema petrophila) is a species of grass parrot
native to Australia. Described by John Gould in 1841, it is a small
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9+1⁄2 in) long and weighing 50 to 60 g (1+3⁄4 to 2 oz) with
predominantly olive-brown upperparts and more yellowish underparts. Its
head is olive with light blue forecheeks and lores, and a dark blue
frontal band line across the crown with lighter blue above and below.
The sexes are similar in appearance, although the female tends to have a
duller frontal band and less blue on the face. The preferred habitats
are rocky islands and coastal dune areas from Lake Alexandrina in
southeastern South Australia westwards across coastal South and Western
Australia to Shark Bay. Unlike other grass parrots, it nests in burrows
or rocky crevices mostly on offshore islands such as Rottnest Island.
Seeds of grasses and succulent plants form the bulk of its diet. The
species is not threatened, but it has suffered in the face of feral
mammals.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_parrot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1693:
The most powerful earthquake recorded in Italy, registering
7.4 Mw, struck the island of Sicily.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake>
1914:
The Karluk, the flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition,
sank after being crushed by ice.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_voyage_of_the_Karluk>
1964:
In a landmark report (cover pictured), U.S. surgeon general
Luther Terry issued a warning that tobacco smoking may be hazardous to
health, concluding that it has a causative role in lung cancer, chronic
bronchitis, and other illnesses.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_and_Health>
2003:
After Chicago police detective Jon Burge was discovered to have
forced confessions from more than 200 suspects, the governor of Illinois
commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners and pardoned four others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ornery:
1. (originally and chiefly US, especially Appalachia, informal)
Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
2. (Southern US, humorous, informal) Troublesome to deal with in a good
way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
3. (obsolete) Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking,
unpleasant.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ornery>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an
information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the
formulation of any creed.
--Abraham Joshua Heschel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel>
The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian
composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of
Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was
by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois and others on a
scenario based on the Russian fairy tales of the magical Firebird and
the blessing and curse it possesses for its owner. Set in the evil
immortal Koschei's castle, the ballet follows Prince Ivan, who battles
Koschei with the help of the Firebird. It was an immediate success,
catapulting Stravinsky to international fame and leading to future
collaborations between Diaghilev and Stravinsky, like Petrushka (1911)
and The Rite of Spring (1913). Other choreographers have reinterpreted
the music with new productions, settings and themes. Stravinsky's 1919
concert suite remains the most popular today. A film version with the
original choreography, featuring what is now the Royal Ballet, was
created in 1959.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firebird>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1812:
New Orleans, the first steamship on the Mississippi River,
arrived at New Orleans to complete its maiden voyage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_%28steamboat%29>
1929:
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the first volume of The
Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, began
serialisation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%C3%A9>
1993:
The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever
recorded in the North Atlantic, reached peak intensity.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braer_Storm>
2004:
Helge Fossmo, the village priest of Knutby, Sweden,
orchestrated the murders of his wife and his neighbor, a crime that
shocked the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knutby_murder>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
backfriend:
1. A friend who supports someone; a person who has someone's back; a
backer, a supporter.
2. Synonym of hangnail (“a loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding
from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or
toenail”)
3. (obsolete) A person who pretends to be someone's friend; a false
friend, a secret enemy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/backfriend>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He takes it in the naked ecstasy; it breaks in his hand, the atom
is broken, the power that massed it Cries to the power that moves the
stars, "I have come home to myself, behold me. I bruised myself in the
flint mortar and burnt me In the red shell, I tortured myself, I flew
forth, Stood naked of myself and broke me in fragments, And here am I
moving the stars that are me." I have seen these ways of God: I know of
no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.
--Robinson Jeffers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers>
Communication is usually understood to be the transmission of
information. Many models of communication describe it in terms of a
source using a coding system to express ideas in the form of a message.
The message is sent through a channel to a receiver who decodes it to
understand it. For verbal communication, the message is articulated in
linguistic form, including regular speech and writing. Nonverbal
communication, including body language, touch, and facial expressions,
does not rely on a linguistic system. The history of human communication
was shaped by the development of technologies such as writing, printing,
radio, and the internet. Communication also happens among animals and
plants, for example when birds sing to attract mates. Interspecies
communication occurs between distinct species, such as flowers using
distinctive colors to signal to bees where nectar is located. The main
discipline investigating communication is called communication studies.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: Troops of the British Empire defeated Ottoman
forces at the Battle of Rafa on the Sinai–Palestine border in present-
day Rafah.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rafa>
1972:
The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association
lost to the Milwaukee Bucks, ending a 33-game winning streak, the
longest in major American professional team sports.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers>
1975:
In Central and Southeastern United States, a Great Storm formed
the first of forty-five tornados over a three-day period.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Storm_of_1975>
1992:
Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced
the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12
(depicted), considered to be the first definitive detection of
exoplanets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
slightingly:
(archaic) In a slighting manner; belittlingly, contemptuously.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slightingly>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the
right to impose its will or rule on another by force. We shall
continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of
nuclear arms, and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the
great powers. We shall do our share in defending peace and freedom in
the world. But we shall expect others to do their share. The time has
passed when America will make every other nation's conflict our own, or
make every other nation's future our responsibility, or presume to tell
the people of other nations how to manage their own affairs. Just as we
respect the right of each nation to determine its own future, we also
recognize the responsibility of each nation to secure its own future.
Just as America's role is indispensable in preserving the world's peace,
so is each nation's role indispensable in preserving its own peace.
Together with the rest of the world, let us resolve to move forward from
the beginnings we have made. Let us continue to bring down the walls of
hostility which have divided the world for too long, and to build in
their place bridges of understanding — so that despite profound
differences between systems of government, the people of the world can
be friends.
--Richard Nixon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon>
Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New
York Supreme Court decision. It was the first case in the United States
dealing with moral rights in authorship. The Soviet composers Dmitri
Shostakovich (pictured), Aram Khachaturian, Sergei Prokofiev, and
Nikolai Myaskovsky sued Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation for using
their compositions in the film The Iron Curtain. Although their
compositions were in the public domain in the United States, the
composers argued that the film violated their moral rights by using
their works in a manner contrary to their beliefs. The court rejected
the composers' argument, holding that there was no clear standard for
adjudicating moral rights and that moral rights conflict with free use
of public domain works. The decision has been criticized for
misunderstanding moral rights and praised for upholding the right of the
public to use public domain works over the rights of authors to censor
uses that they disagree with.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shostakovich_v._Twentieth_Century-Fox_Film_Co….>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
Blackstone Library, the first branch of the Chicago Public
Library system, was dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Library>
1977:
Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across
Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Moscow_bombings>
1981:
In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO
sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully
documented sighting of all time".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-en-Provence_case>
2011:
Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a public meeting held by U.S.
representative Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and
injuring twelve others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pendeloque:
(also attributive) A drop-shaped diamond or other gem used as a pendant;
also, a piece of jewellery in pendant form.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pendeloque>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The goal of a free nation is to reveal by example the enlightened
possibilities of the human race, not to wield its power of destruction
and death over the helpless, the poor, the starving and the war torn
masses. The goal of a free nation must be no different outside its
borders than within them. In America we do not massacre whole towns
because they may be the chosen domicile of a criminal or a conspiracy of
criminals. Instead we carefully root out the felons and bring them to
justice. In the same way, the goal of a free nation must be to first
view all people as members of the human race, and, as such, to insist
that they possess fundamental human rights. They are, as we, citizens of
the world. The rule of law shows us the way.
--Gerry Spence
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerry_Spence>
Daisy Bacon (1898–1986) was an American pulp fiction magazine editor
and writer, best known as the editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to
1947. She was hired in 1926 to assist with "Friends in Need", an advice
column in the magazine, by Street & Smith, a major pulp magazine
publisher. Two years later she was promoted to editor. Love Story was
one of the most successful pulp magazines, and Bacon was frequently
interviewed about her role and her opinions of modern romance. Street &
Smith gave Bacon other magazines to edit, including Ainslee's in the
mid-1930s and Pocket Love in the late 1930s. From 1940 to 1947 she took
over as editor of Romantic Range, which featured love stories set in the
American West, and in 1941 she was also given the editorship of
Detective Story. In late 1948 she became the editor of both The Shadow
and Doc Savage, but Street & Smith shut down all their pulps the
following April.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bacon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
The Marconi International Marine Communication Company
specified CQD (audio featured) as the distress signal to be used by its
operators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD>
1939:
French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last
element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francium>
1979:
The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the
end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War>
2020:
After 253 days without an operational government, a second
round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government
since the Second Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Spanish_government_formation>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shelve:
1. (transitive)
2. To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library,
etc.) with bookshelves.
3. To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange
(books) on a bookshelf.
4. (figurative) To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a
shelf. [...]
5. (figurative) To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
6. To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter
for discussion, a project, etc.).
7. (also reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang over or project like a shelf; to
overhang.
9. (transitive, Britain, dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge
its contents.
10. (intransitive)
11. Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.
12. (obsolete) To be in an inclined or sloping position. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shelve>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
--Zora Neale Hurston
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston>
A supernova is a powerful explosion of a star, usually a star that is
unable to produce sufficient energy from nuclear fusion to counteract
its own gravity. Its remnant will become a diffuse nebula, neutron star
or black hole. The peak optical luminosity of a supernova can be
comparable to that of an entire galaxy before fading over several weeks
or months. Supernovae occur in the Milky Way on average about three
times every century; the last one directly observed was Kepler's
Supernova (remnant pictured) in 1604. The most recent naked-eye
supernova from another galaxy was SN 1987A, the explosion of a blue
supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite of the Milky
Way. Supernovae can expel several solar masses of material at velocities
up to several percent of the speed of light. They are a major source of
cosmic rays, and also the chemical elements from oxygen to rubidium on
the periodic table. White dwarfs can also produce supernovae, if they
gain enough mass to trigger runaway fusion.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1724:
Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, a Bach cantata for Epiphany,
was first performed in Leipzig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sie_werden_aus_Saba_alle_kommen,_BWV_65>
1912:
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of
continental drift, the precursor of plate tectonics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift>
1953:
The inaugural Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of
socialist political parties, opened in Rangoon with 177 delegates,
observers and fraternal guests.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Socialist_Conference>
2014:
The first episode of the documentary series Benefits Street
aired on Channel 4, prompting discussion in the United Kingdom about
welfare dependency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefits_Street>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kitchendom:
(dated) The domain of the kitchen or people who work there.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kitchendom>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and
incited and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the
throat of America, at American democracy. They didn't come here out of
patriotism or principle. They came here in rage. Not in service of
America but rather in service of one man. Those who incited the mob, the
real plotters who are desperate to deny the certification of this
election, and defy the will of the voters. But their plot was foiled;
congressmen, Democrats, Republicans stayed. Senators, representatives,
staff, they finished their work the Constitution demanded. They honored
their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and
domestic. Look folks, now it's up to all of us — to We the People
— to stand for the rule of law, to preserve the flame of democracy, to
keep the promise of America alive.
--Joe Biden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden>