Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown
Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several
locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue.
Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New
York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker, novelists, and
cartoonists, including the author Ernest Hemingway, the cartoonist James
Thurber, the journalist John McNulty, the poet Brendan Behan, the short-
story writer John O'Hara, and the writers Maeve Brennan and A. J.
Liebling. The bar is also known for having been home to a wall where
Thurber drew a cartoon depiction of the "Battle of the Sexes" at some
point between 1934 and 1935; the cartoon was destroyed, illustrated
again, and then lost in the 1990s. A wall illustrated in 1976 by several
cartoonists, including Bill Gallo, Stan Lee, Mort Walker, Al Jaffee,
Sergio Aragonés, and Dik Browne, is still on display at the bar's final
location.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costello%27s>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1969:
Apollo 12 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the
second crewed flight to land on the Moon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12>
1990:
Music producer Frank Farian admitted that the German R&B; duo
Milli Vanilli did not sing the vocals on their album Girl You Know It's
True.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli>
1992:
In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines
Flight 474 crashed near Nha Trang, killing 30 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Forrest>
2003:
Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L.
Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_%28dwarf_planet%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mind's ear:
(idiomatic) The mental faculty or inner sense with which one produces or
reproduces imagined or recalled sounds solely within the mind; the
supposed organ within the mind which experiences such sounds.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mind%27s_ear>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of
portraits to the wall.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru>
The album covers of Blue Note Records, an American jazz record label,
have been recognized for their distinctive designs, which often feature
bold colors, experimental typography, and candid photographs of the
album's musicians, and are described as belonging to the Bauhaus and
Swiss Style movements. In the early 1950s, artists like Gil Mellé, Paul
Bacon, and John Hermansader designed Blue Note's earliest album covers.
In 1956, Reid Miles was hired as Blue Note's art director, creating 400
to 500 covers with a unique style incorporating diverse typefaces and
design principles such as asymmetry and tinting. After Miles left in
1967, artists like Mati Klarwein and Bob Venosa took over. Designers
such as Norman Seeff and Bob Cato contributed in the 1970s, while
Japanese artists created new covers for reissues in the late 1970s and
1980s. From the mid-1980s onward, artists like Paula Scher and Adam
Pendleton have designed covers, with Miles's work in particular
remaining highly influential.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_covers_of_Blue_Note_Records>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1914:
Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces at the
Battle of El Herri in Morocco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_El_Herri>
1963:
A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack
Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanz%C5%8D_Nosaka>
1966:
Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine
incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on
the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu_incident>
1974:
Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family in
Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville
Horror and a subsequent media franchise.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_DeFeo_Jr.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pay through the nose:
(idiomatic) To pay an exorbitant or excessive amount, either in money or
in some other manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pay_through_the_nose>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let
us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are,
such are the times.
--Augustine of Hippo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo>
Gedling Town Football Club was a semi-professional association football
club based in Stoke Bardolph in Nottinghamshire, England. Founded in
1985 as R & R Scaffolding, the works team of a construction firm from
Netherfield, the club played its first four seasons in amateur football.
Between 1990 and 2008, Gedling competed in three Central Midlands
Football League divisions and Division One of the Northern Counties East
Football League, winning three league titles in the process. Gedling
then joined the Premier Division of the East Midlands Counties Football
League at the tenth tier of the English football pyramid, in which the
club remained until its dissolution in 2011 due to insolvency. Its home
ground from the early 1990s was the Riverside Stadium behind the Ferry
Boat Inn (pictured). Tournament records included reaching the third
qualifying round of the FA Cup in in 2003–04 and the fourth round of
the FA Vase in 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2005–06. The team were
nicknamed "The Ferrymen", and their colours were primarily yellow and
blue.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedling_Town_F.C.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1956:
Suez Crisis: During an invasion of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot
and killed an estimated 111 Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Rafah_massacre>
1970:
The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy
a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale>
1991:
Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators
protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at
least 250 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_massacre>
2014:
The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a
comet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dictionary attack:
(computing, cryptography) An attempt to illegally access a computer
network, website, etc., that uses a list of words (from a dictionary) to
try to guess decryption keys or passwords.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dictionary_attack>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Once you have acquired the skills, you must test them on an
opponent, but in no way should you consider victory or submission to be
a cause for shame or pride. Rather, you ought to think, "By what means
did I defeat him?" Or, "By what means could I have defeated him?" Then
you exert and test yourself for a while.
--Qi Jiguang
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Qi_Jiguang>
Mells War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of
Mells, Somerset, in south-western England. Designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens, the memorial takes the form of a marble column topped by a
sculpture of Saint George slaying a dragon (pictured). At the base of
the column, the names of the village's war dead are inscribed on stone
panels. The memorial is flanked by rubble walls in local stone, on top
of which grows a yew hedge. Low stone benches protrude from the walls to
allow wreaths to be laid. The memorial is one of multiple buildings and
structures in Mells designed by Lutyens. The memorial was unveiled on
26 June 1921 by Brigadier-General Arthur Asquith, whose brother is
commemorated on it and whose father was Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom for much of the war. Additional panels were fixed to the wall to
commemorate the Second World War. It is a grade II* listed building and
since 2015 has been part of a national collection of Lutyens's war
memorials.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mells_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
War of 1812: British–Canadian forces repelled an American
attack at the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the United States to
give up their attempt to capture Montreal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crysler%27s_Farm>
1934:
The Shrine of Remembrance, a memorial to all Australians who
have served in war, opened in Melbourne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_Remembrance>
1999:
The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most
hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_Act_1999>
2008:
After 30 years in power, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was succeeded by
Mohamed Nasheed as president of the Maldives.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumoon_Abdul_Gayoom>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
encampment:
1. (countable)
2.
3. (often military) A place where people (such as displaced people,
soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other
temporary structures; a camp or campsite.
4. (figurative) A place where people or things stay temporarily.
5. (by extension, archaeology) An enclosed or fortified prehistoric
site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
6. (by extension, Freemasonry, obsolete) A meeting of Freemasons.
7. (uncountable) The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the
state of being encamped or in a camp.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encampment>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math,
that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
--Kurt Vonnegut
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut>
Justus was the fourth archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great
sent Justus to England on a mission to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons,
probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in
601. Justus became the first bishop of Rochester in 604 and signed a
letter to the Irish bishops urging them to adopt the Roman method of
calculating the date of Easter. He also attended a church council in
Paris in 614. Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616,
Justus was forced to flee to Gaul but was reinstated in his diocese the
following year. In 624, Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury,
overseeing the despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. He died on
10 November, probably sometime between 627 and 631. After his death, he
was revered as a saint and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey in
Canterbury, to which his remains were translated in the 1090s
(gravestone pictured). (This article is part of a featured topic:
Members of the Gregorian mission.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Members_of_the_Greg…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1969:
The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer
pictured) premiered in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street>
1972:
Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49 and threatened
to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of
Tennessee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Airways_Flight_49>
2006:
Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and
human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj>
2009:
A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval
ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daecheong_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
researchship:
1. (countable) A paid position doing research, typically for a
university or non-profit organization.
2. (uncountable) The practice or quality of conducting research. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/researchship>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that
dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
--Neil Gaiman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman>
Mario Party DS is a 2007 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and
published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the second handheld
game in the Mario Party series, as well as the last game in the series
to be developed by Hudson Soft, as all subsequent games have been
developed by NDcube. Like most installments in the Mario Party series,
Mario Party DS features characters of the Mario franchise competing in a
board game with a variety of minigames, many of which utilize the
console's unique features, including its built-in microphone, dual
screen and touch screen mechanics, and motion sensitivity. Up to four
human players can compete at a time, though characters can also be
computer-controlled. Although Mario Party DS received mixed reviews,
with general praise for its minigame variety and criticism for its
absence of an online multiplayer mode, the game has sold more than nine
million units worldwide, making it the 11th-best-selling game for the
Nintendo DS.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Party_DS>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1965:
Vietnam War: In the Battle of Gang Toi, one of the earliest
battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian
attack.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gang_Toi>
1966:
Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke became the
first African American elected to the United States Senate since
Reconstruction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke>
1974:
British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day
after allegedly murdering Sandra Rivett, his children's nanny.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan>
2006:
Israeli artillery shelled a row of houses in the Gaza Strip
town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 19 Palestinians and wounding more
than 40 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_shelling_of_Beit_Hanoun>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
set about:
1. Used with the adverb sense of about.
2. (transitive, archaic except chiefly Northern England) To circulate or
spread (news, a rumour, etc.)
3. Used with the preposition sense of about.
4. (transitive)
5. (archaic) To plant trees or other vegetation in (a place).
6. (passive voice, archaic) To encircle or surround (something) with
other things.
7. (UK, informal) To attack (someone); to set upon.
8. (intransitive) To start doing or to devote oneself to some task; to
set upon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/set_about>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before and, frankly,
this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time —
there's never been anything like this in this country, and maybe beyond,
and now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're
going to help our country heal. We're going to help our country heal. We
have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly. We're
going to fix our borders, we're going to fix everything about our
country and we've made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is
going to be just that.
--Donald Trump
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Trump>
Starship Troopers is a science-fiction action film released on
November 7, 1997. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward
Neumeier, it is based on the 1959 novel Starship Troopers by Robert A.
Heinlein (pictured). The story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his
comrades as they serve in a 23rd-century interstellar war against aliens
called the Arachnids. The film stars Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise
Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, and Michael
Ironside. Starship Troopers faced critical backlash, with reviewers
seeing it as endorsing fascism, and disparaging its violent content.
Despite initial box-office success, negative reviews and unfavorable
word of mouth made it only the 34th-highest-grossing film of 1997. It
has since been critically re-evaluated, and is now considered a cult
classic and a satire of fascism and authoritarianism that has grown in
relevancy. The film launched a multimedia franchise, video games,
comics, and a variety of merchandise.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_%28film%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1837:
American abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a
pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during an attack to destroy his
printing press and abolitionist materials.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Parish_Lovejoy>
1934:
The first specimens of the tufted jay to be scientifically
described were collected in Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufted_jay>
1949:
Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of
Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's
first offshore oil platform.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neft_Da%C5%9Flar%C4%B1>
1987:
Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line opened, with train
services running between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rapid_Transit_%28Singapore%29>
1991:
Magic Johnson announced his retirement from professional
basketball due to HIV infection.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blither:
1. (intransitive, informal or UK, dialectal) To talk foolishly; to
blather.
2. (informal or UK, dialectal, uncountable) Foolish or nonsensical talk;
blather; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (countable, by extension, derogatory, dated) A foolish person; a
fool, an idiot. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blither>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we
lose an election, we accept the results. That principle, as much as any
other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny. And anyone who
seeks the public trust must honor it. At the same time, in our nation,
we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of
the United States, and loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My
allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this
election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign — the
fight: the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the
dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our
nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I
will never give up.
--Kamala Harris
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris>
Ljubljana was the third and last Beograd-class destroyer built for the
Royal Yugoslav Navy in the late 1930s. She was designed to operate as
part of a division led by Dubrovnik, the flotilla leader. Ljubljana
entered service in November 1939, was armed with a main battery of four
Škoda 120 mm (4.7 in) guns in single mounts, and had a top speed of
35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). In 1940, Ljubljana ran aground on a reef
off the Yugoslav port of Šibenik, where, badly damaged, she was taken
for repairs. Yugoslavia entered World War II when the Axis powers led
by Germany invaded in April 1941, and Ljubljana—still under
repair—was captured by the Royal Italian Navy. After repairs were
completed, she saw active service in the Royal Italian Navy under the
name Lubiana, mainly as a convoy escort on routes between Italy and
North Africa. She was lost on 1 April 1943, when she ran aground and
was abandoned off the Tunisian coast. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Ships_of_the_Royal_…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1794:
French Revolutionary Wars: Two British ships were intercepted
by a French squadron, leading to the French seizure of the HMS
Alexander.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_6_November_1794>
1868:
Red Cloud, a Native American leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe,
signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and
establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_%281868%29>
1917:
First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium,
after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Battle of
Passchendaele.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele>
1988:
Two earthquakes occurring 12 minutes apart struck Yunnan near
the China–Myanmar border, killing more than 730 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Lancang%E2%80%93Gengma_earthquakes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
on tenterhooks:
(idiomatic) In a state of (great) apprehension or suspense; on pins and
needles.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_tenterhooks>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have a great many politicians in the country, perhaps as many
as the country requires. I should not wish to ask for a larger supply of
these; but there is a wide difference between the politician and the
statesman. A politician, for example, is a man who thinks of the next
election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. The
politician thinks of the success of his party, the statesman of the good
of his country. The politician wishes to carry this or that measure, the
statesman to establish this or the other principle. Finally, the
statesman wishes to steer; while the politician is contented to drift.
The difficulty about a politician, no matter how honest and well-
intentioned he may be, is always this: that the matter of absolute
importance in his mind, to which every thing else must yield, is to
carry the next election for his party.
--James Freeman Clarke
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke>
Thomas Percy was a member of the failed Gunpowder Plot. Following King
James's accession to the English throne in 1603, Percy became
disenchanted with the new king, who he supposed had reneged on his
promises of toleration for English Catholics. He joined Robert Catesby's
conspiracy to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the House of
Lords with gunpowder. Percy helped fund the group and secured the leases
to properties in London, including the undercroft beneath the House of
Lords where the gunpowder was placed. When the plot was exposed on
5 November 1605, Percy fled to the Midlands, catching up with other
conspirators travelling to Dunchurch. At the border of Staffordshire,
they were besieged by the Sheriff of Worcester and his men. Percy was
reportedly killed by the same musket ball as Catesby and was buried
nearby. His body was later exhumed, and his head exhibited outside
Parliament. (This article is part of a featured topic: Gunpowder
Plot.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Gunpowder_Plot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1943:
World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on
Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Rome_in_World_War_II#Bombing_of_Va…>
1995:
Aline Chrétien thwarted André Dallaire's attempt to
assassinate her husband, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, by
locking the bedroom door in 24 Sussex Drive, their official residence
in Ottawa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Sussex_Drive>
2003:
American serial killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts
of first-degree murder.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway>
2013:
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars
Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
could not get elected dogcatcher:
(idiomatic, chiefly US, politics, hyperbolic) Said of someone,
particularly a politician, who is extremely unpopular.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/could_not_get_elected_dogcatcher>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I find a rapture linked with each despair, Well worth the price
of anguish. I detect More good than evil in humanity. Love lights more
fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows
old.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox>
Marina Bay MRT station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station
on the North–South (NSL), Circle (CCL) and Thomson–East Coast (TEL)
lines in Singapore. Located in the Downtown Core district near Marina
Bay, it serves the Marina One Residences, Marina Bay Suites and the
Marina Bay Financial Centre. It was one of the last stations to be
completed in the early phases of the MRT network, opening on 4 November
1989. The station was the terminus of the NSL until the line's extension
in 2014. It became an interchange station with the CCL when the two-
station branch extension from Promenade station was completed in
January 2012. The TEL station platforms were completed in
November 2022, becoming a triple-line interchange on the MRT network.
The station features art as part of the MRT network's Art-in-Transit
programme. The sculpture Flowers in Blossom II is over the CCL
mezzanine. The CCL platforms feature photographs by Nah Yong En and the
TEL station features murals by Tang Ling Nah.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Bay_MRT_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1912:
The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction
on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nevada_%28BB-36%29>
1938:
The Hlinka Guard and Slovakian police began the deportation of
several thousand Jews from the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_deportation_of_Jews_from_Slovakia>
1964:
Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK, the Iranian secret
police, and exiled to Turkey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_life_in_exile>
2008:
Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected
President of the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nibble:
1. (transitive)
2. To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of
(something).
3. To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body),
especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.
4. To make (a hole in something) through small bites.
5. To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites.
6. Chiefly followed by into or to: to cause (something) to be in a
certain state through small bites.
7. Followed by away, off, etc.: to remove (something) through small
bites.
8. To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also,
to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
9. (obsolete)
10. To fidget or play with (something), especially with the fingers or
hands.
11. (slang) To catch (someone); to nab.
12. (slang) To steal (something); to pilfer.
13. (intransitive)
14. Chiefly followed by at, away, or on: to take a small, quick bite, or
several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick
bites.
15. To lightly bite, especially in a loving or playful manner.
16. (figurative)
17. Chiefly followed by at: to show slight interest in something, such
as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
18. Followed by away at: to reduce or use up gradually; to eat.
19. (cricket, informal) Followed by at: of a batter: to make an
indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.
20. (road transport) Synonym of tramline (“of a vehicle: to tend to
follow the contours of the ground with its wheels”)
21. (obsolete)
22. To fidget or play, especially with the fingers or hands.
23. Chiefly followed by at: to make insignificant complaints; to carp,
to cavil, to find fault.
24. (slang) To engage in sexual intercourse.
25. An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites,
especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.
26. A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body,
especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
27. A amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a
small bite; a small mouthful.
28. (figurative) A slight show of interest in something, such as a
commercial opportunity or a proposal.
29. (obsolete, rare) Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock;
forage, pasturage.
30. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four
bits.
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