Roberto Luongo (born April 4, 1979) is a professional ice hockey
goaltender for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic Hockey Team, where he won his
second Olympic gold medal in a largely backup role to Carey Price. He
employs the butterfly style of goaltending and has previously played in
the NHL for the New York Islanders and the Vancouver Canucks. Luongo is
a two-time NHL Second All-Star (2004 and 2007) and a winner of the
William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest
goals-against average in the league (2011). He has been a finalist for
the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender (2004, 2007 and 2011),
the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers (2004
and 2007) and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable
player (2007). Luongo is second all-time in games played as an NHL
goaltender, and is third all-time in wins.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Luongo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1841:
William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. President to die
in office, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions of
presidential succession that were left unanswered by the U.S.
Constitution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO,
an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby
its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by
any external party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
2002:
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty,
agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long
Angolan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War>
2013:
A building collapsed on tribal land in Mumbra, a suburb of
Thane in Maharashtra, India, causing 74 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Thane_building_collapse>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sensical:
That makes sense; showing internal logic; rational, sensible.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sensical>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Freedom is inseparable from conscience. And even if it is true
that all the ideas developed by the social consciousness are the product
of evolution, conscience at least has nothing to do with the historic
process. Conscience, both as a sense and as a concept, is a priori
immanent in man, and shakes the very foundations of the society that has
emerged from our ill-conceived civilisation.
--Andrei Tarkovsky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky>
The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a large plover found in the
Americas. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758
by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae. Subspecies
breed from southeastern Alaska and southern Canada to Mexico, in the
West Indies, and in and around Peru. The non-breeding habitat includes
coastal wetlands, beach habitats, and coastal fields. Although it is a
shorebird, it does not necessarily nest close to water. Both parents
incubate the young for 22 to 28 days on average. The killdeer primarily
feeds on insects, although other invertebrates and seeds are eaten. It
forages almost exclusively in fields, especially those with short
vegetation and with cattle and standing water. It has a range of
responses to predation by birds and mammals, including charging at
intruders, which can be fatal for the killdeer. The species is declining
but not yet threatened.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdeer>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1895:
The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde began,
eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of
gross indecency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde>
1946:
Imperial Japanese Army officer Masaharu Homma was executed for
war crimes relating to the Bataan Death March.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Homma>
1981:
The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was
unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1>
2009:
A gunman opened fire at an American Civic Association
immigration center in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing thirteen and
wounding four before committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shootings>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
loggerhead:
1. (obsolete) A stupid person; a blockhead, a dolt.
2. A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made
hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a
liquid) to melt or heat it.
3. (nautical) A post on a whaling boat used to secure the harpoon rope.
4. (botany, Midlands, dialectal) Often in plural: a thistle-like
flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed
(Centaurea nigra).
5. (zoology) Used as the name of various animals with large heads.
6. The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus;
formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the
Falkland Islands.
7. The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to
the Caribbean and West Indies.
8. The rufous-tailed flycatcher (Myiarchus validus), a bird endemic to
Jamaica.
9. The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North
America.
10. The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor), a large-headed
turtle endemic to the United States.
11. The loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an
oceanic turtle found throughout the world.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loggerhead>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with
nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth
that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those
young people as I can through my own efforts.
--Jane Goodall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall>
Jørgen Jensen (1891–1922) was a Danish-born Australian recipient of
the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in battle that could
be awarded to a member of the Australian armed forces at that time.
Jensen enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in March 1915, serving
with the 10th Battalion during the latter stages of the Gallipoli
Campaign. After the Australian force withdrew to Egypt, he was
transferred to the newly formed 50th Battalion, and sailed for France
with the unit in June 1916. On the Western Front, he was wounded during
the battalion's first serious action, the Battle of Mouquet Farm in
August, and only returned to his unit in late January 1917. On 2 April,
his battalion attacked the Hindenburg Outpost Line at Noreuil, where his
actions led to the capture of over fifty German soldiers and resulted in
the award of the Victoria Cross. Jensen survived the war, despite a
severe head wound in April 1918, but died in 1922.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Jensen_%28soldier%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
In Richmond, Virginia, U.S., about 5,000 people, mostly poor
women, rioted in protest of the exorbitant price of bread.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_bread_riots>
1976:
Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia
and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk>
1979:
Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military
research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg),
resulting in approximately 100 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak>
2015:
Four elderly men burgled items worth up to £200 million from a
safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in the "largest
burglary in English legal history."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatton_Garden_safe_deposit_burglary>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
imburse:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply
with money.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay back money that is owed; to refund, to
repay, to reimburse.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imburse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who
can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up,
to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in
this there is something always a little mad.
--Kenneth Tynan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tynan>
The Siege of Aiguillon commenced on 1 April 1346 during the Hundred
Years' War, when a French army commanded by John, Duke of Normandy, laid
siege to the Gascon town of Aiguillon. The town, with strategic command
of the rivers Garonne and Lot, was defended by Anglo-Gascon forces under
Ralph, Earl of Stafford. The garrison, some 900 men, sortied repeatedly
to interrupt the French operations, while Henry, Earl of Lancaster,
concentrated the main Anglo-Gascon force at La Réole as a threat. Duke
John, the son and heir of Philip VI, was never able to fully blockade
the town. By August, the seriously harassed French supply lines had
broken down, there was a dysentery epidemic in their camp, desertion was
rife, and Philip was demanding that John's force join up with the main
French army. On 20 August the French abandoned the siege and marched
away. Six days later Philip's army was decisively beaten by the main
English army in the Battle of Crécy, two weeks before John's force
arrived in the north.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Aiguillon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
American Civil War: The Union Army inflicted over 1,000
casualties on the Confederates led by George Pickett and took between
2,400 and 4,000 prisoners in the Battle of Five Forks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Forks>
1947:
The main mutiny in a series of mutinies of the Royal New
Zealand Navy began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Royal_New_Zealand_Navy_mutinies>
1969:
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter
aircraft with vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) capabilities,
entered service with the Royal Air Force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
couth:
1. (obsolete) Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
2. (Scotland) Variant of couthie.
3. Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
4. Comfortable; cosy, snug. […]
5. Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured,
refined.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There's not a thing on Earth, that I can name, So foolish, and
so false, as common fame. It calls the courtier knave, the plain man
rude, Haughty the grave, and the delightful lewd, Impertinent the
brisk, morose the sad, Mean the familiar, the reserv'd-one mad.
--John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester>
The Car Barn is a historic building in the Georgetown neighborhood of
Washington, D.C. Designed by the American architect Waddy Butler Wood,
it was built between 1895 and 1897 by the Capital Traction Company as a
union terminal for several Washington and Virginia streetcar lines. The
Exorcist steps, later named after their appearance in William Friedkin's
1973 horror film The Exorcist, were built during the initial
construction to connect M Street with Prospect Street. Almost
immediately after its construction, it was converted to accommodate
electric streetcars. The building has undergone several renovations, the
most extensive in 1911, when the original Romanesque Revival façade was
significantly modified and the interior was almost completely gutted.
Changing ownership over time, it maintained its original function of
housing streetcars until 1950, when it was redeveloped as office space.
Today, it is used as an academic building by Georgetown University.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Car_Barn>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction
pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed the Convention of Kanagawa,
forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_Kanagawa>
1889:
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in Paris, becoming a global
cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in
the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower>
1901:
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Black Sea, the most
powerful ever recorded in the area.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_Black_Sea_earthquake>
1942:
Second World War: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers
against their British officers, Japanese troops captured Christmas
Island without any resistance.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Christmas_Island>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
verklempt:
1. (US, colloquial) Overcome with emotion, choked up.
2. (US, colloquial) Flustered, nervous, overwhelmed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verklempt>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am a man: little do I last and the night is enormous. But I
look up: the stars write. Unknowing I understand: I too am written,
and at this very moment someone spells me out.
--Octavio Paz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz>
Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English
hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that
ended in 1956. His first execution was in December 1932, assisting his
uncle Thomas. His father Henry had also been a hangman. In October 1941
he undertook his first hanging as lead executioner. During his tenure he
hanged 200 people who had been convicted of war crimes in Germany and
Austria, as well as several high-profile murderers—including Gordon
Cummins (the Blackout Ripper), John Haigh (the Acid Bath Murderer) and
John Christie (the Rillington Place Strangler). He undertook several
contentious executions, including Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley and Ruth
Ellis. He executed William Joyce (also known as Lord Haw-Haw) and John
Amery for high treason, and Theodore Schurch for treachery. In the 2005
film Pierrepoint he was portrayed by Timothy Spall.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pierrepoint>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
British chemist William Crookes announced his discovery of
thallium, which he had done using flame spectroscopy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium>
1918:
Fighting began during the March Days revolt in Baku,
Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Days>
1964:
Jeopardy! (host Alex Trebek pictured), the popular American
game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television
network.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!>
2009:
Twelve gunmen attacked the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore,
Pakistan, and held it for several hours before security forces could
retake it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Lahore_police_academy_attacks>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pseudopatient:
1. (dated) A person who pretends to be ill, especially to gain some
benefit.
2. (medicine) A person who poses as a patient so that research may be
conducted or staff trained.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pseudopatient>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be
dethrimental to keep it.
--Seán O'Casey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_O%27Casey>
The Referendum Party was a Eurosceptic political party, active in the
United Kingdom from 1994 to 1997. The party's sole objective was a
referendum on the nature of the UK's membership in the European Union.
It was founded in November 1994 by the Anglo-French multi-millionaire
businessman and politician James Goldsmith, an elected Member of the
European Parliament for the Movement for France party. In the build-up
to the 1997 general election, the Referendum Party spent more on press
advertising than either the incumbent Conservatives or the Labour
Party. It stood more candidates than any minor party had ever fielded in
a UK election (in 547 of the 659 constituencies), and won 2.6% of the
vote nationally, but failed to win any seats in the House of Commons.
Support was strongest in southern and eastern England, and weakest in
inner London, northern England, and Scotland. Goldsmith died in July
1997, and the party disbanded shortly after.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum_Party>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1638:
Swedish settlers founded New Sweden near Delaware Bay, the
first Swedish colony in America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden>
1941:
The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement to define
technical standards for AM band radio stations came into effect.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Regional_Broadcasting_Agreement>
1969:
The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of
the Philippines, was formed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army>
1999:
The strongest earthquake to hit the foothills of the Himalayas
in more than 90 years killed at least 100 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Chamoli_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chaotic:
1. Filled with chaos.
2. Extremely disorganized or in disarray.
3. (mathematics) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a
small change to them may yield a very different outcome.
4. (role-playing games) Aligned against following or upholding laws and
principles.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chaotic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering
after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the
miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as
your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
--R. S. Thomas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas>
William Matthews (1770–1854) was the first person born in British
America to be ordained a Catholic priest. Originally from the colonial
Province of Maryland, he became influential in the establishment of
Catholicism in Washington, D.C. through his parochial service and
founding of several educational institutions. He was the second pastor
of St. Patrick's Church, the President of Georgetown College (later
known as Georgetown University), and the head of the Washington Catholic
Seminary, which became Gonzaga College High School, in addition to being
co-founder and president of the Washington Library Company, the first
public library in the District of Columbia. He founded several
orphanages, schools, and parishes, and was co-director of the District
of Columbia Public Schools. In 1832 he officiated at the wedding of a
French diplomat and Mary Anne Lewis, a ward of President Andrew Jackson,
in the first Catholic ceremony to be held in the White House.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Matthews_%28priest%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1802:
German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 2
Pallas, the second asteroid ever identified.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas>
1930:
Turkey changed the name of its largest city Constantinople to
Istanbul.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Istanbul>
1979:
British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote
in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his
government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the "Winter
of Discontent".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_Callaghan_m…>
1999:
Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo
Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central
Kosovo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izbica_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
atompunk:
(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the
society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1965).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atompunk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many
things?
--J. L. Austin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._L._Austin>
SMS Schlesien was one of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought
battleships that served in the German Imperial Navy. Named after the
province of Silesia in 1906 and commissioned in 1908, Schlesien was
primarily occupied with training cruises and fleet maneuvers in her
early career. She served with the High Seas Fleet throughout the first
two years of World War I, saw brief action at the Battle of Jutland,
and became a training ship in 1917. The Treaty of Versailles permitted
the German navy to keep eight obsolete battleships, including Schlesien,
to defend the German coast. Modernized in the mid-1920s, the ship saw
limited combat during World War II, briefly bombarding Polish forces
during the invasion of Poland in September 1939. After escorting
minesweepers during the invasion of Norway and Denmark in April 1940,
she primarily served as a training ship and icebreaker. She was sunk by
a mine in 1945 while tasked with providing fire support off the Baltic
coast of occupied Poland.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Schlesien>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
Philippine–American War: For the only time during the course
of the war, Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo personally led troops
against the U.S. in the Battle of Marilao River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marilao_River>
1981:
The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the
biggest strike in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12
million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_warning_strike_in_Poland>
1999:
During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia
unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown>
2009:
A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake
in Tangerang District, Indonesia, resulted in floods killing at least
100 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situ_Gintung>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wagon:
1. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads.
2. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle
attached to the front.
3. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a
lorry, a truck.
4. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.
5. Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so
that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
6. (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting
prisoners”).
7. (rail transport) A freight car on a railway.
8. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car
in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the
position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by
extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
9. (Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a
promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as
obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wagon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing
less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have
discovered an absolute are usually the same people who also pretend to
be superior to the rest. To find people in our day attempting to pass
off to the world and recommending to others some nostrum of the absolute
which they claim to have discovered is merely a sign of the loss of and
the need for intellectual and moral certainty, felt by broad sections of
the population who are unable to look life in the face.
--Karl Mannheim
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Mannheim>
Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian
Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James
Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica,
inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was
first published on 26 March 1956. The story centres on Bond's
investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the
mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way Bond meets
and falls in love with one of the members of the smuggling gang, Tiffany
Case. Fleming's background research formed the basis for his non-fiction
1957 book The Diamond Smugglers. The Bond novel received broadly
positive reviews at the time of publication. It was serialised in the
Daily Express newspaper, first in an abridged, multi-part form and then
as a comic strip. In 1971 it was adapted into the seventh film in the
Bond series, and the sixth one to star Sean Connery as Bond.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_%28novel%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1484:
William Caxton printed the first English translation of Aesop's
Fables (page pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables>
1939:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of
the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_offensive_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War>
1979:
By signing the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Egypt became the
first Arab country to officially recognize Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_Peace_Treaty>
1999:
Jack Kevorkian, an American advocate for and practitioner of
physician-assisted suicide, was found guilty of murder in the death of a
terminally ill patient.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
felicitous:
1. Characterized by felicity.
2. Appropriate, apt, fitting.
3. Auspicious, fortunate, lucky.
4. Causing happiness or pleasure.
5. (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and
pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/felicitous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that
which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the
same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an
appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.
--Richard Dawkins
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins>