Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1997 role-playing video
game developed and published by Interplay Productions. Set in a post-
apocalyptic world in the mid–22nd century, it revolves around the
player character seeking a replacement computer chip for their
underground nuclear shelter's water supply system. The gameplay involves
interacting with other survivors and engaging in turn-based combat.
Fallout started development in 1994 as a game engine designed by Tim
Cain (pictured). It was originally based on GURPS, a role-playing game
system, though the character-customization scheme was changed after the
GURPS license was terminated. Fallout drew artistic inspiration from
Atomic Age media and is considered a spiritual successor to Wasteland
(1988). The game was a critical and commercial success and spawned a
successful series of sequels and spin-offs. It has since been credited
for renewing consumer interest in computer role-playing games.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_%28video_game%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1831:
The Broughton Suspension Bridge near Manchester, England,
collapsed reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops
marching in step across it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge>
1993:
Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight (aircraft
pictured) to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered
by the United Nations Security Council.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deny_Flight>
2012:
The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a
presidential election, later handing power to a transitional
administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Guinea-Bissau_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2013:
Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by
jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2013_Kidal_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
steely-eyed missile man:
(US, astronautics, often humorous, slang) An astronaut or engineer who
quickly comes up with a solution to a difficult problem while under
extreme pressure.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/steely-eyed_missile_man>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Ultimate Truth is called God. This one can realize in the
state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. A circle can have only one centre but it
can have numerous radii. The centre can be compared to God and the radii
to religions. So, no one sect, no one religion or book can make an
absolute claim of It.
--Swami Narayanananda
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Swami_Narayanananda>
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning
over 50 years, he published fourteen novels and three short story
collections; further works were published after his death. Born and
raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943.
Deployed to Europe to fight in World War II, he was captured by the
Germans and interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of
the city in a slaughterhouse. Vonnegut published his first novel, Player
Piano, in 1952. Two of his novels, The Sirens of Titan (1959) and Cat's
Cradle (1963), were nominated for the Hugo Award. Slaughterhouse-Five
(1969), a best-seller that resonated with its readers for its anti-war
sentiment amidst the ongoing Vietnam War, thrust Vonnegut into fame as
an important contemporary writer and a dark humor commentator on
American society. Numerous scholarly works have examined Vonnegut's
writing and humor.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
Napoleonic Wars: A hastily assembled Royal Navy fleet launched
an assault against the main strength of the French Atlantic Fleet; an
incomplete victory led to political turmoil in Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Basque_Roads>
1951:
U.S. president Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur of his commands for making public statements about the
Korean War that contradicted the administration's policies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur>
1973:
On the Art of the Cinema, a treatise on film propaganda in
support of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea written by the future
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Art_of_the_Cinema>
2001:
In a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, Australia defeated
American Samoa 31–0, the largest margin of victory recorded in
international football.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_31%E2%80%930_American_Samoa>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Promethean:
1. Of or pertaining to Prometheus, a demigod in Greek mythology who
created mortals from clay and stole fire from Zeus to give to them, for
which Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock and having an eagle
feed on his liver which grew back each night; he was later rescued by
Heracles.
2. Boldly creative, inventive, or original; skilful, talented; also,
recklessly daring; audacious.
3. Of a Romantic literary hero: defying traditional moral categories;
rebelling against a larger order; persecuted but dauntless.
4. (rare) Of or pertaining to the promethea silkmoth (Callosamia
promethea).
5. One with the qualities of Prometheus, or who acts in a Promethean
manner (audaciously, creatively, etc.).
6. (also attributive, historical) A kind of lucifer match consisting of
a glass tube containing sulfuric acid coated on the outside with a
flammable mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar and wrapped in paper
rolls; the match was lit by crushing the tube with pliers, causing the
acid to react with and ignite the flammable components. This type of
match was superseded by the friction match which was lit by rubbing
against a rough surface.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Promethean>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened,
which is different from what really did happen.
--Peter Higgs
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs>
The New South Wales waratah (Telopea speciosissima) is a large shrub in
the family Proteaceae. Endemic to New South Wales, Australia, it is the
floral emblem of that state. It grows as a shrub to 3–4 m
(10–13 ft) high and 2 m (7 ft) wide, with dark green leaves and
several stems rising from a pronounced woody base known as a lignotuber.
During the spring it has striking large red flowerheads, each made up of
hundreds of individual flowers. These are visited by the eastern pygmy
possum (Cercartetus nanus), birds such as honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and
insects. T. speciosissima has featured prominently in art, architecture
and advertising. No subspecies are recognised, but cultivars with
various shades of red, pink and white flowers are commercially grown in
several countries as a cut flower. The shrub can be difficult to
cultivate in home gardens, requiring good drainage and being vulnerable
to fungal disease and pests.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telopea_speciosissima>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1925:
The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott
Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby>
1970:
In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul
McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney>
1973:
In the deadliest aviation accident in Swiss history, Invicta
International Airlines Flight 435 crashed into a hillside near
Hochwald, killing 108 people of 145 on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invicta_International_Airlines_Flight_435>
2019:
Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released
the first image of a black hole (depicted), located at the center of the
galaxy M87.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
baffle:
1. (transitive)
2. To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound,
to puzzle.
3. (archaic) To defeat, frustrate, or thwart (someone or their efforts,
plans, etc.); to confound, to foil.
4. (specifically, nautical) Of weather or wind: to hinder or prevent (a
ship or its crew) from advancing.
5. (technology) To dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control (a
fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound).
6. (obsolete)
7. To deceive or hoodwink (someone); to gull.
8. Followed by away or out: to deprive of (something) through cheating
or manipulation; also (followed by out of), to deprive of something by
cheating or manipulating (someone).
9. (intransitive)
10. To expend effort or struggle in vain.
11. (obsolete) To argue or complain in a petty or trivial manner; to
quibble. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baffle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-
man: I have a hatred of tyranny, and a contempt for its tools; and this
feeling I have expressed as often and as strongly as I could. I cannot
sit quietly down under the claims of barefaced power, and have tried to
expose the little arts of sophistry by which they are defended. I have
no mind to have my person made a property of, nor my understanding made
a dupe of. I deny that liberty and slavery are convertible terms, that
right and wrong, truth and falsehood, plenty and famine, the comforts or
wretchedness of a people, are matters of perfect indifference. That is
all I know of the matter; but on these points I am likely to remain
incorrigible, in spite of any arguments that I have seen used to the
contrary. It needs no sagacity to discover that two and two make four;
but to persist in maintaining this obvious position, if all the fashion,
authority, hypocrisy, and venality of mankind were arrayed against it,
would require a considerable effort of personal courage, and would soon
leave a man in a very formidable minority.
--William Hazlitt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt>
The Mercury Seven were a group of American astronauts selected to fly
spacecraft for Project Mercury. Announced by NASA on April 9, 1959,
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra,
Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton created a new profession. The group
piloted all the spaceflights of the Mercury program that had an
astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and some flew in the
Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. Shepard became the first
American to enter space in 1961, and walked on the Moon in 1971.
Grissom, after flying Mercury and Gemini missions, died in 1967 in the
Apollo 1 fire; the others survived past retirement from service.
Schirra commanded Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo flight. Slayton,
grounded with atrial fibrillation, ultimately flew on the Apollo–Soyuz
Test Project in 1975. Glenn became the first American in orbit in 1962,
and flew on Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 to become, at age 77, the
oldest person to fly in space at the time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Seven>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1388:
Despite being vastly outnumbered, forces of the Old Swiss
Confederacy defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Näfels.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_N%C3%A4fels>
1838:
The National Gallery opened in its current building in
Trafalgar Square, London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery>
1939:
After being denied permission to perform at Constitution Hall
by the Daughters of the American Revolution, African-American singer
Marian Anderson gave an open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
force majeure:
1. An overwhelming force.
2. (law) An unavoidable circumstance, especially one that prevents
someone from fulfilling a legal (usually contractual) obligation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/force_majeure>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of
beauty — a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at
the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all
deformity and disproportion.
--Charles Baudelaire
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire>
Bob Mann (April 8, 1924 – October 21, 2006) was an American
professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) who
broke the color barrier for both the Detroit Lions (alongside Mel
Groomes) and the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at
Hampton Institute in 1942 and 1943 and at the University of Michigan in
1944, 1946 and 1947. Playing the end position, he broke the Big Ten
Conference record for receiving yards in 1946 and 1947. In 1948 Mann
signed a professional contract with the Lions, where he stayed for two
seasons. He led the NFL in receiving yards in 1949. After a brief stint
with the New York Yanks he signed with the Packers, where he was the
team's leading receiver in 1951. He remained with the Packers partway
through the 1954 season. Mann later became a lawyer and practiced in
Detroit. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1988
and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mann_%28American_football%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale,
agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent
conflict.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_Cordiale>
1911:
American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film
Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo_%281911_film%29>
1933:
The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from
the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be
unsuccessful.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Western_Australian_secession_referendum>
1973:
The Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo,
Norway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_%28Norway%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sequela:
1. (pathology) Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which
follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or
wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.
2. (by extension, formal)
3. That which follows; a consequence, an effect.
4. (rare) People who adhere to the opinions or teachings of another;
followers.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sequela>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You and me on the bobbing knee. Didn't we cry at that old
mythology he'd read! I will come home again, but not until The sun and
the moon meet on yon hill.
--Kate Bush
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kate_Bush>
Edward Jones (7 April 1824 – c. 1895), also known as "the boy
Jones", became notorious for breaking into Buckingham Palace in London
several times between 1838 and 1841. He was first caught doing so when
he was 14; although he was found with items he had stolen, he escaped a
prison sentence. He broke into the palace again in December 1840, and
was caught and sentenced to three months' hard labour. He was released
in March 1841 and returned to the palace two weeks later, was arrested
and served another three months. He was coerced into the Royal Navy by
the Thames Police and served between 1842 and 1847. He was caught
burgling houses in August 1849 and was transported to an Australian
penal colony. He returned to England, was arrested for burglary in 1856
and served six months of hard labour. He probably died in Australia,
either in Bairnsdale, Victoria, on Boxing Day 1893 or in Perth in 1896.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boy_Jones>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1949:
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29>
1964:
Reverend Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while he
was protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland,
Ohio, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_W._Klunder>
1994:
Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after
the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of
thousands killed in the following 100 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide>
2001:
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the
longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet
other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
under the knife:
(informal) Chiefly preceded by a form of go: undergoing a surgical
procedure; into surgery.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/under_the_knife>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of
elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply
interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round
ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A
motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of
all thought, And rolls through all things.
--William Wordsworth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth>
Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the composer Aaron
Copland and the choreographer Martha Graham (pictured), later arranged
as an orchestral work. Copland composed the ballet for Graham upon a
commission from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Set in a 19th-century
settlement in Pennsylvania, the ballet follows the Bride and the
Husbandman as they get married and celebrate with the community. The
original choreography was by Graham, with costumes by Edythe Gilfond and
sets by Isamu Noguchi. The ballet was well-received at the 1944
premiere, earning Copland the Pulitzer Prize for Music during its 1945
United States tour. The orchestral suite composed in 1945 was played
that year by many symphony orchestras; the suite is among Copland's
best-known works, and the ballet remains essential in the Martha Graham
Dance Company repertoire. A film version of the original production was
released in 1958 with Graham as the Bride; a similar recording was
released in 1976 with Yuriko.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1808:
John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits
from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor>
1974:
ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with
the song "Waterloo".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1974>
1994:
The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana
and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the
event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana_and…>
2009:
Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the
parliamentary election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2009_Moldovan_parliamentary_election_pr…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dyspnea:
(pathology) Difficult or laboured respiration; shortness of breath.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dyspnea>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every fool has a rainbow But he never seems to find The reward
that should be waiting At the end of the line. But he'll give up a bed
of roses For a hammock filled with thorns And go chasing after
rainbows Every time a dream is born.
--Merle Haggard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard>
The Hrabri class consisted of two submarines built for the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The first submarines to
serve in the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM), they arrived in Yugoslavia on 5
April 1928, and participated in cruises to Mediterranean ports prior to
World War II. During the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Hrabri
(pictured) was captured by the Italians and later scrapped. Nebojša
escaped to Egypt to join the British Royal Navy (RN). She served as an
anti-submarine warfare training boat and then as a battery charging
station. In May 1942 her crew were removed and placed in a British
military camp following a revolt by Yugoslav generals in exile, and she
received an almost entirely RN crew. She was briefly utilised for
training at Beirut, but was formally handed back to the KM-in-exile in
mid-1943. After the war, she was transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy
and renamed Tara. She was used in a training role until 1954, then
scrapped. (This article is part of a featured topic: Hrabri-class
submarines.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Hrabri-class_submar…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1614:
Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist
John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and
the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas>
1944:
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the
aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz>
1986:
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin,
resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing>
2009:
The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from
the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking
concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used
to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cough:
1. (transitive)
2. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or
throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a
short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
3. To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the
manner described in sense 1.1.
4. To express (words, etc.) in the manner describe in sense 1.1.
5. (figurative)
6. To surrender (information); to confess.
7. (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand
over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
8. (intransitive)
9. To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short,
explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something
blocking or irritating the airway.
10. To make a noise like a cough. The engine coughed and sputtered.
11. (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to
spill the beans.
12. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through
the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the
mouth.
13. A bout of repeated coughing (verb sense 2.1); also, a medical
condition that causes one to cough.
14. (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (sense 1).
15. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially
when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution
of blame or a euphemism: ahem.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cough>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.
--Anu Garg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anu_Garg>
Marshfield was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L" in the U.S.
between 1895 and 1954. Originally part of the Metropolitan West Side
Elevated Railroad, it was the westernmost station of the Metropolitan's
main line. West of the station, the main line diverged into three
branches; this junction, served by the station, has been described as
the most complex on the entire Chicago "L" system. After 1905, the
Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, an interurban line, also served the
station, but limited its service based on direction to avoid competing
with the "L". The lines that had been constructed by the Metropolitan,
including those serving Marshfield, were subject to modifications
planned since the 1930s that incrementally withdrew service from the
station. It fully closed on April 4, 1954, and was demolished shortly
thereafter. The junction Marshfield served was rebuilt in reduced form,
but with a new station on Racine Avenue to the east.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshfield_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1081:
The Komnenos dynasty came to full power with the coronation of
Alexios I Komnenos as Byzantine emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos>
1859:
Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New
York City as part of their blackface show.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_%28song%29>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing
NATO, an international military alliance whereby its member states agree
to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
1973:
A year after the completion of the second of the complex's twin
towers, the World Trade Center in New York City was officially
dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_%281973%E2%80%932001%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anoxia:
(ecology, pathology) A condition in which a body tissue or an
environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen; severe hypoxia.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anoxia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant
goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that
goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.>
Daytona USA is an arcade racing game developed by Sega AM2 and published
by Sega in March 1994. Inspired by the popularity of the NASCAR motor
racing series in the US, the game has players race stock cars on one of
three courses. It was the first arcade game to be released on the Sega
Model 2, an arcade system board which was co-developed by GE Aerospace.
AM2's Toshihiro Nagoshi (pictured) became the game's director and co-
producer. Sega aimed to outperform Namco's Ridge Racer (1993). The
developers researched motorsports extensively and mapped Daytona
International Speedway. Daytona USA was a critical and commercial
success, praised for its graphics, soundtrack and gameplay. A conversion
was made for the Sega Saturn in 1995, and was followed by sequels and
enhancements for consoles and arcades. Daytona USA is one of the
highest-grossing arcade video games ever, and has been frequently named
one of the best video games of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_USA>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1984:
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be
launched into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh_Sharma>
1996:
A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while
attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia,
killing all 35 people on board, including Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Croatia_USAF_CT-43_crash>
2009:
A gunman opened fire at an American Planning and Civic
Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing
thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shooting>
2013:
The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina,
experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Argentina_floods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
the organ grinder, not the monkey:
(idiomatic) Synonym of organ grinder (“the person who is in charge,
rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for
another's actions”)
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