The Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar was struck in 1928 by the United
States Mint in honor of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of
Europeans. It depicts Captain James Cook on the obverse and a Hawaiian
chieftain on the reverse. Only 10,000 coins were struck for the public,
making them rare and valuable. In 1927, the legislature of the Territory
of Hawaii passed a resolution calling on the U.S. government to produce
a commemorative coin for the anniversary. Treasury Secretary Andrew
Mellon thought the occasion important enough that, unusually for him, he
was not opposed to the new coin. Sculptor Chester Beach made the plaster
models for the coins from sketches by Juliette May Fraser. Approval for
his designs was delayed by concerns raised by the Mint and by Victor S.
K. Houston, Hawaii Territory's delegate to Congress. Although the issue
price, at $2, was the highest for a commemorative half dollar to that
point, the coins sold out quickly and have risen in value to over $1000.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Sesquicentennial_half_dollar>
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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>
1913:
Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declared the independence
of Tibet from the Republic of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Dalai_Lama>
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors
destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of streets in Louisville,
Kentucky, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions>
2017:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-
un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
caressive:
1. Having the nature of a caress; gentle, soothing.
2. (linguistics) Of a diminutive: indicating affection or endearment.
3. (linguistics) A type of diminutive indicating affection or
endearment.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caressive>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine,
what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world
cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their
reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one
person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other;
and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the
time came.
--Eleanor Farjeon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon>
The goldcrest (Regulus regulus) is a very small bird in the kinglet
family. Named for its colourful golden crest feathers, it is called the
"king of the birds" in European folklore. Several subspecies are
recognised across a very large distribution range that includes much of
Eurasia and the islands of Macaronesia. This kinglet has greenish upper-
parts and whitish under-parts, with two white wingbars. It has a bright
head crest, orange and yellow in the male and yellow in the female,
which is displayed during breeding. The song is a repetition of high
thin notes. It breeds in coniferous woodland and gardens, building its
compact, three-layered nest on a tree branch. Ten to twelve eggs are
incubated by the female alone, and the chicks are fed by both parents;
second broods are common. The bird is constantly on the move as it
searches for insects to eat. Because of its large range and population,
it presents no significant conservation concerns.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldcrest>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was
founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United
States' first agricultural college.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_State_University>
1909:
New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century took
place when 75 people died after the ferry SS Penguin struck a rock in
Wellington Harbour and sank.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Penguin>
1947:
The French fashion company Christian Dior unveiled a "New Look"
that revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center
of the fashion world after World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dior_SE>
2009:
Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo Niagara
International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house in
Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49
people on board the aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407>
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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:
In vain were all her sighs and tears, In vain were all his
anxious fears: All, insubstantial, doomed to pass, As moonlight
mirrored in the water, Or flowers reflected in a glass.
--Dream of the Red Chamber
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber>
The characters of Final Fantasy VIII include an elite group of
mercenaries called SeeD, as well as soldiers, rebels, and political
leaders of various nations and cities. Thirteen weeks after the 1999
North American release of Final Fantasy VIII, a role-playing video game
by Square, it had earned more than $50 million in sales, making it the
fastest selling Final Fantasy title at the time. The game's characters,
created by Tetsuya Nomura under the direction of Yoshinori Kitase
(pictured), are the first in the series to be realistically proportioned
in all aspects of the game. This graphical shift, as well as the cast
itself, have received generally positive reviews from gaming magazines
and websites. The six main playable characters are the loner Squall
Leonhart, the passionate Rinoa Heartilly, the instructor Quistis Trepe,
the martial artist Zell Dincht, the cheerful pilot Selphie Tilmitt, and
the marksman Irvine Kinneas.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Final_Fantasy_VIII>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1851:
As part of the celebration of the separation of Victoria from
New South Wales, the initial first-class cricket match in Australia
started at the Launceston Racecourse in Tasmania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_Land_v_Port_Phillip,_1851>
1919:
Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the German
Weimar Republic by the Weimar National Assembly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ebert>
1979:
The Pahlavi dynasty of Iran effectively collapsed when the
military declared itself "neutral" after rebel troops overwhelmed forces
loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in armed street fighting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution>
2015:
A Turkish student was murdered during a rape attempt, sparking
mass demonstrations across the nation after her body was discovered two
days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_%C3%96zgecan_Aslan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
boffin:
1. (Australia, Britain, informal) An engineer or scientist, especially
one engaged in technological or military research.
2. (Australia, Britain, informal, by extension) A person with
specialized knowledge or skills, especially one who is socially awkward;
(in a weaker sense) an intellectual; a smart person.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boffin>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do not lie without need.
--Leó Szilárd
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd>
Damageplan was an American heavy metal supergroup from Dallas, Texas,
formed in 2003. Following the demise of their previous group Pantera,
brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul started a new band with bassist
Bob Kakaha and vocalist Patrick Lachman, a guitarist formerly with
Diesel Machine and Halford. They released their only studio album, New
Found Power, in the United States on February 10, 2004; it debuted at
number 38 on the Billboard 200. Later that year Damageplan was promoting
the album at a concert at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, when a man
climbed on stage, killed Darrell and three others, and wounded another
seven before being fatally shot by a police officer. Some witnesses said
that the assailant blamed the brothers for Pantera's breakup and
believed that they had stolen his lyrics. Paul and Kakaha later joined
the band Hellyeah (pictured). Damageplan has been inactive since the
incident.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damageplan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1763:
Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to end
the Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the French
colonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of an
extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281763%29>
1939:
Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of
Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_Offensive>
1962:
Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it
included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben Day
dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Mickey>
2009:
The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact
satellites in low Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251
collided, destroying each other.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision>
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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:
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant
duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you
say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you
dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our
nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and
our souls exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in the mouth.
It can't forever be violated with impunity.
--Boris Pasternak
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak>
Radcliffe is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater
Manchester, England. It lies in the Irwell Valley 2.5 miles (4 km)
south-west of Bury and 6.5 miles (10 km) north-northwest of Manchester.
The disused Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal bisects the town.
Historically a part of Lancashire, the town and its surroundings show
evidence of Mesolithic, Roman and Norman activity. A Roman road passes
along the border between Radcliffe and Bury. In the High Middle Ages,
the town was recorded in an entry of the Domesday Book as "Radeclive";
it formed a small parish and township centred on the Church of St Mary
(current church pictured) and the manorial Radcliffe Tower, both of
which are Grade I listed buildings. Coal was mined nearby during the
Industrial Revolution, providing fuel for the cotton-spinning and
papermaking industries. By the mid-19th century, Radcliffe was an
important mill town with cotton mills and bleachworks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe,_Greater_Manchester>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1907:
More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March,
the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's
Suffrage Societies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_%28suffragists%29>
1920:
The Svalbard Treaty was signed, recognizing Norwegian
sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard>
1950:
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy accused 205 employees of the State
Department of being communists, sparking a period of strong anti-
communist sentiment that became known as McCarthyism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism>
1996:
Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
in Darmstadt, Germany, first created the chemical element copernicium.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium>
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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:
Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.
--J. M. Coetzee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee>
Khalid al-Mihdhar (1975–2001) was one of five hijackers of American
Airlines Flight 77, which was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon as
part of the September 11 attacks. He was born in Saudi Arabia and fought
in the Bosnian War during the 1990s. In early 1999, he traveled to
Afghanistan where, as an experienced al-Qaeda member, he was selected by
Osama bin Laden to participate in the attacks. Mihdhar attended the
Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit in Malaysia and then went to California
with fellow hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi in January 2000. Arriving in San
Diego, they were to train as pilots, but spoke English poorly and did
not do well with flight lessons. In June 2000, Mihdhar left the United
States for Yemen; after spending time in Afghanistan, he returned to the
U.S. in early July 2001. On the morning of September 11, he boarded
Flight 77. The attack killed all 64 people aboard, along with 125 on the
ground.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_al-Mihdhar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1837:
Richard Mentor Johnson became the only person to be elected
Vice President of the United States by the Senate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson>
1879:
Enraged by a controversial umpiring decision, cricket
spectators rioted and attacked the England cricket team during a match
in Sydney, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Riot_of_1879>
1910:
Newspaper and magazine publisher William D. Boyce established
the Boy Scouts of America, expanding the Scout Movement into the United
States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America>
1965:
After taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision just
after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport,
Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and
exploded, killing all 84 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_663>
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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:
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace.
It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only
in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
--John Ruskin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ruskin>
Billy Joe Tolliver (born February 7, 1966) is a former American football
quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) and
Canadian Football League. Over the course of his NFL career, he played
in 79 games, completed 891 of 1,707 passes for 10,760 yards, threw 59
touchdowns and 64 interceptions, and retired with a passer rating of
67.7. A graduate of Texas Tech University, Tolliver was selected 51st in
the 1989 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers. He started 19 games in two
seasons at San Diego before being traded to the Atlanta Falcons, where
he saw playing time as a backup for three seasons. In 1994, he became
one of three starting quarterbacks for the Houston Oilers. He played
quarterback for the Canadian league's Shreveport Pirates during their
final season of activity in 1995, and played for the Falcons and Kansas
City Chiefs in 1997. He then started in 11 games for the New Orleans
Saints in two seasons.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joe_Tolliver>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1783:
American Revolutionary War: After three years and seven months,
Spain and France abandoned their attempt to capture Gibraltar from the
British.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar>
1900:
A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill to bubonic plague
in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_plague_of_1900%E2%80%931904>
1986:
President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after
a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Duvalier>
2014:
Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh
footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints
outside Africa at more than 800,000 years old.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happisburgh_footprints>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
finesse:
1. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem,
situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
2. (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or
skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
4. (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
5. (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an
opponent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/finesse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's
no better rule.
--Charles Dickens
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens>
New York State Route 373 is a short state highway in Essex County, New
York, within Adirondack State Park. It begins at U.S. Route 9 at the
Ausable Chasm, a deep, wooded canyon in the town of Chesterfield. The
road proceeds eastward, ending at a ferry landing on Lake Champlain. It
is the only connector between U.S. Route 9 and the hamlet of Port Kent
and the ferry that serves it. Port Kent and the connecting road were
originally built in 1823, intended to provide labor for iron
manufacturing and other industries of Essex County. The hamlet grew, and
was eventually connected to Burlington, Vermont, via an hour-long ferry
ride across Lake Champlain. The road that accessed Port Kent originally
began in Keeseville, but became part of the longer Port Kent and
Hopkinton Turnpike in the 1830s. The highway that is now Route 373 was
designated as part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway in
1919.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_373>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
Union forces earned one of their first important victories in
the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Henry>
1952:
Elizabeth II ascended to the thrones of the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and three other Commonwealth countries
upon the death of her father, George VI.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI>
1976:
In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, Lockheed
president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out
approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime
Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals>
1987:
Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the
High Court of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
koha:
1. (New Zealand) A Māori tradition of reciprocal giving of gifts.
2. (New Zealand, by extension) A voluntary donation given for a service
that has been provided.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/koha>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I
don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But
in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans,
wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in
harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and
creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and
the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
That's how I saw it and see it still.
--Ronald Reagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>
William Bostock (5 February 1892 – 28 April 1968) was a senior
commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). During World War II
he led RAAF Command, the Air Force's main operational formation, earning
the Distinguished Service Order and the American Medal of Freedom. A
veteran of World War I, Bostock first saw combat at Gallipoli, then as a
pilot in the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front, where he earned
the Belgian Croix de guerre. In the 1930s he served as Director of
Training, commanding officer of No. 3 Squadron, and Director of
Operations, becoming Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1939. Appointed
Air Officer Commanding RAAF Command in 1942, he feuded with Chief of the
Air Staff George Jones over control of the Air Force in the South West
Pacific Area. Following his retirement from the RAAF in 1946, he became
a journalist and later a Federal Member of Parliament.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bostock>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1869:
Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discovered the
largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the "Welcome Stranger"
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Stranger>
1917:
The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto to
pass the Immigration Act of 1917, establishing new restrictions on
immigrants, including the wholesale ban of people from much of Asia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1917>
1941:
Second World War: British and Free French forces began the
Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian
Eritrea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Keren>
2009:
The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal ran
aground on a coral reef off the island of Oahu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_USS_Port_Royal_grounding>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
who would have thunk it:
(colloquial, sometimes sarcastic) A rhetorical question used to express
incredulity: who would have guessed it?; who would have thought that
would happen?
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/who_would_have_thunk_it>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to
hear the music of our own opinions. But there is also, it seems to me, a
moment at which democracy must prove its capacity to act. Every man has
a right to be heard; but no man has the right to strangle democracy with
a single set of vocal chords.
--Adlai Stevenson II
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II>
Gwen Stefani (born 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress,
and the lead vocalist of the band No Doubt. Their album Tragic Kingdom
(1995) was a critical and commercial success, spawning the singles "Just
a Girl", "Don't Speak", "Hey Baby", and "It's My Life". Stefani's three
solo albums have also been successful: Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004)
includes "What You Waiting For?", "Rich Girl", and "Hollaback Girl"; The
Sweet Escape (2006) produced the singles "Wind It Up" and "The Sweet
Escape"; and her third solo album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like
(2016), reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Billboard
magazine ranked her as the 54th most successful artist and 37th most
successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–09 decade, and VH1 ranked her
13th on their "100 Greatest Women in Music" list in 2012. Stefani has
won three Grammy Awards and has sold more than 30 million albums
worldwide, including her work with No Doubt.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1859:
German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the
Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in
Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus>
1969:
Yasser Arafat was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat>
1999:
The Panamanian-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near
Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carissa>
2015:
Shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, the crew of
TransAsia Airways Flight 235 shut down the wrong engine in response to a
flameout, leading to a crash that resulted in 43 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cachexia:
(pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of
fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachexia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I go onstage as Alice to this day, I play Alice to the hilt
— I play him for everything he is worth, but when I’m offstage, I
never think about Alice Cooper. He never occurs to me. … I walk off
stage though and I turn away from the audience, I go back to being me
again. Whenever I see an audience, that’s when I turn into Alice. If
there was no audience there, there would be no reason to be Alice. …
If I tried to be Alice Cooper all the time — I’d either be in an
insane asylum or in jail or dead. Alice is just too intense, and you
just can’t be Alice all the time.
--Alice Cooper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper>