Taapaca is a volcanic complex in northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota
Region. It is part of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, one of
four distinct volcanic chains in South America. The town of Putre lies
at the southwestern foot of the volcano. Like other volcanoes of the
Central Volcanic Zone, Taapaca formed from the subduction of the Nazca
Plate beneath the South America Plate. It lies on the western margin of
the Altiplano high plateau, on top of older volcanic and sedimentary
units. Taapaca reaches a height of 5,860 metres (19,230 ft) above sea
level. It is usually covered by snow but does not feature glaciers. It
consists primarily of many overlapping lava domes that formed during
several stages of eruptions, starting during the Pliocene. The
emplacement of lava domes was often followed by their collapse and
block-and-ash avalanches. The most recent eruption is dated to 320 BCE.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taapaca>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
War of 1812: A British force and its Mohawk allies under
Charles de Salaberry repulsed an American attempt to invade Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chateauguay>
1902:
A group of Russian explorers led by Baron Eduard Toll left
their camp on Bennett Island and disappeared without a trace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_polar_expedition_of_1900%E2%80%9302>
1921:
The Chicago Theatre, the oldest surviving grand movie palace,
opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Theatre>
1994:
Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty settling relations
between the two countries and pledging that neither would allow its
territory to become a staging ground for military strikes by a third
country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_treaty>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
widow's mite:
1. (idiomatic) A very small gift or donation which, however, represents
a great sacrifice on the part of the giver.
2. (numismatics) The lepton coin.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widow%27s_mite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
America needs every one of us to lend our energy, our talents,
our ambition to making our nation better and stronger. I believe that
with all my heart. That's why “Stronger Together” is not just a
lesson from our history. It's not just a slogan for our campaign. It's a
guiding principle for the country we've always been and the future we're
going to build. A country where the economy works for everyone, not just
those at the top. Where you can get a good job and send your kids to a
good school, no matter what zip code you live in. A country where all
our children can dream, and those dreams are within reach. Where
families are strong… communities are safe… And yes, love trumps
hate. That's the country we're fighting for. That's the future we're
working toward.
--Hillary Clinton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton>
The Yugoslav torpedo boat T5 was a sea-going torpedo boat operated by
the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1941. Originally 87 F, a 250t-
class torpedo boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy commissioned on 25
October 1915 during World War I, she was armed with two 66 mm
(2.6 in) guns and four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes. Following
Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, 87 F was allocated to what became the
Royal Yugoslav Navy, and was renamed T5. The ship was captured by the
Italians during the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April
1941. After her main armament was modernised, she served with the Royal
Italian Navy under the Yugoslav designation, conducting coastal and
second-line escort duties in the Adriatic Sea. Following the Italian
capitulation in September 1943, the ship was returned to the Royal
Yugoslav Navy-in-exile and served as T5. At the end of the war she was
transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy and served as Cer, and in 1962 was
broken up.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_torpedo_boat_T5>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
Crimean War: Lord Cardigan led his cavalry on a disastrous
assault in the Battle of Balaclava.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava>
1924:
The Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter, purportedly a
directive from Moscow to increase communist agitation, pushing the
Conservative Party to a landslide victory in the UK general election
four days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter>
1950:
Korean War: The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South
Korean II Corps and elsewhere engaged the 1st Infantry Division, marking
China's entry into the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Unsan>
2001:
Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of
the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released for retail sale.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
patronize:
1. (transitive) To make a patron.
2. (transitive) To act as a patron; to defend, protect, or support.
3. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk
down to, to treat condescendingly.
4. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a
regular customer.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To blame, to reproach.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/patronize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If government, or those in positions of power and authority, can
silence criticism by the argument that such criticism might be
misunderstood somewhere, there is an end to all criticism, and perhaps
an end to our kind of political system. For men in authority will always
think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always
equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
--Henry Steele Commager
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Steele_Commager>
Fragment of a Crucifixion is a 1950 painting by the Irish-born
figurative painter Francis Bacon (portrait shown). Although its title
has religious connotations, it reflects Bacon's nihilistic view of the
human condition; as an atheist he did not believe in either divine
intervention or an afterlife. It shows two animals engaged in an
existential struggle, with an upper figure, which may be a dog or a cat,
crouching over a chimera and at the point of kill. The predator stoops
on the horizontal beam of a T-shaped structure, which may signify
Christ's cross. The chimera's despair forms the centrepiece of the work,
and in its agony it can be compared to Bacon's later works focusing on
the motif of an open mouth. The work contains thinly sketched passers-
by, who seem oblivious to the central drama. He abandoned the theme of
the crucifixion for the following 12 years, returning to it in the
equally bleak triptych Three Studies for a Crucifixion..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Studies_for_a_Crucifixion>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1889:
Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales,
gave a speech where he called for the federation of the six Australian
colonies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterfield_Oration>
1931:
The George Washington Bridge, today the world's busiest motor
vehicle bridge, connecting New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey, was
dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge>
1945:
The UN Charter, the constitution of the United Nations, entered
into force after being ratified by the five original permanent members
of the Security Council and a majority of the other signatories.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Charter>
1975:
To protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices,
90% of the female population in Iceland went on strike for a day.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women%27s_strike>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
false negative:
1. A result of a test that shows as absent something that is present.
2. (statistics) A type II error (“accepting the null hypothesis when it
is false”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/false_negative>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to
communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of
intrinsic worth.
--Stephen Covey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Covey>
The Battle for Henderson Field (23–26 October 1942) on Guadalcanal in
the Solomon Islands was the third of three land offensives conducted by
the Japanese during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II. U.S. Army
and Marine forces under Major General Alexander Vandegrift defended
Henderson Field against attacks by the Japanese 17th Army under
Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake (pictured). Hyakutake's mission
was to recapture the airfield from the Allies and drive them off the
island. Numerous assaults over three days were repulsed with heavy
Japanese losses, and Allied aircraft operating from the airfield
successfully defended U.S. positions from attacks by Japanese naval air
and sea forces. After a failed attempt to deliver reinforcements in
November, Japan conceded the island and successfully evacuated many of
its remaining forces in February.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Henderson_Field>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1850:
The first National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, began in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_Rights_Convention>
1934:
Jeannette Piccard piloted a hot-air balloon flight that reached
57,579 feet (17,550 m), and became the first woman to fly in the
stratosphere.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Piccard>
1983:
Lebanese Civil War: Suicide bombers destroyed two barracks in
Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers of the
international peacekeeping force, and 6 civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings>
2002:
Chechen separatists seized a crowded theater in Moscow, taking
approximately 700 patrons and performers hostage, at least 130 of whom
were later killed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
daft:
1. (chiefly Britain, informal) Foolish, silly, stupid.
2. Crazy, insane, mad.
3. (obsolete) Gentle, meek, mild.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daft>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The purpose of the I Ching or the tarot … is to help you get
access to yourself, by providing ambiguity for you to interpret. And
this quality of ambiguity is shared with nearly all forms of divination
— cast artifacts, or entrails, or weather formations, or events such
as the flight of birds, that one could choose either to see as "omens"
or to ignore. The very thing that makes these divination techniques
seem so unscientific is what makes it possible for them to work.
--Travels
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Travels_%28book%29>
Charles Scott (April 1739 – October 22, 1813) was an 18th-century
American soldier who was elected the fourth governor of Kentucky in
1808. Orphaned at an early age, Scott served during the French and
Indian War and returned to active military service in 1775 in the
American Revolution. In August 1776, he was promoted to colonel and
given command of the 5th Virginia Regiment, serving George Washington
for the duration of the Philadelphia campaign. In March 1779 Scott was
sent to Charleston, South Carolina, to assist General Benjamin Lincoln
in the southern theater, but was taken as a prisoner of war when
Charleston surrendered. After the war he resettled near present-day
Versailles, Kentucky. Following the separation of Kentucky from Virginia
in 1792, Scott commanded the 2nd Division of the Kentucky militia, which
fought in the Northwest Indian War. In his run for governor in 1808, he
won a convincing victory over John Allen and Green Clay.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Scott_%28governor%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1707:
In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the
British Isles, more than 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were
lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilly_naval_disaster_of_1707>
1895:
At Gare Montparnasse station in Paris, an express train
derailed after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing the concourse
before crashing through a wall and falling to the plaza below
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment>
1924:
The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters
International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International>
2015:
Sweden suffered its deadliest school attack when a sword-
wielding man attacked students and teachers in a high school in
Trollhättan, killing three people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollh%C3%A4ttan_school_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
corkage:
A fee charged by a restaurant to serve wine that a diner has provided.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corkage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Perfection is a costly flower and is cultured only by an
uncompromising, strict husbandry.
--Burton Rascoe
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Burton_Rascoe>
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a coal-mining
spoil tip that caused the deaths of 116 children and 28 adults on 21
October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the
Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural
spring. Heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which
caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, engulfing the local
junior school and other buildings. There were seven spoil tips on the
slopes above Aberfan; the one that slipped onto the village was 111 feet
(34 m) high. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board
(NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on
the organisation and nine named employees. The organisation's chairman,
Lord Robens, was criticised for making misleading statements. Neither
the NCB nor any of its employees were prosecuted and the organisation
was not fined. Half of the village's surviving children suffered post-
traumatic stress disorder.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were
sent to Turkey to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the
Crimean War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale>
1944:
World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded,
making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen>
1950:
Korean War: The Battle of Yongju began as British and
Australian troops of the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade engaged in
heavy fighting with North Korean forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yongju>
1978:
After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft,
Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while
piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to King
Island, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tattle:
1. (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
2. (intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to
report incriminating information about another person, or a person's
wrongdoing; to tell on somebody.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to
babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly, to stutter.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tattle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken,
done. The idea is like grass, It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on
crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin>
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Big-Hearted Will Take Away the Bride)
is an Indian romance film directed by Aditya Chopra, and co-written with
him by Javed Siddiqui. Released on 20 October 1995, the film stars Shah
Rukh Khan and Kajol (pictured). It focuses on Raj and Simran, two non-
resident Indians who fall in love while travelling in Europe with
friends, and on Raj's attempts to win over Simran's family so that the
couple can marry. The film was shot in India, London and Switzerland,
from September 1994 to August 1995. It won 10 Filmfare Awards, the most
for a single film at that time, and its soundtrack album became one of
the most popular of the 1990s. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is one of
only three Hindi films in the reference book 1001 Movies You Must See
Before You Die, and is 12th on the British Film Institute's list of top
Indian films of all time. Over 20 years after its first release, it is
still being shown at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai, making it the
longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilwale_Dulhania_Le_Jayenge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1944:
World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years
previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the
recapture of the entire Philippine Archipelago.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte>
1973:
Watergate scandal: Both Attorney General Elliot Richardson and
his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than obey Richard Nixon's
order to have Archibald Cox fired.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre>
1982:
During a UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC
Haarlem, a large number of attendees tried to leave the Grand Sports
Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at the same time, resulting in a
stampede that caused 66 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster>
2011:
Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya,
was captured during the Battle of Sirte and killed less than an hour
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
potsherd:
(often archaeology) A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an
archaeological site.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/potsherd>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I know so well the look on your face And there's somethin' lucky
about this place There's somethin' good comin' Just over the hill
Somethin' good comin' I know it will And I'm in for the long run
Wherever it goes Ridin' the river Wherever it goes.
--Tom Petty
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Petty>
Roger Norreis (died c. 1224) was a medieval Abbot of Evesham in England.
A native of northern England, his family was probably of Norse origin.
He was a monk at Christ Church Priory, the cathedral chapter of
Canterbury Cathedral, and in 1187 he was appointed treasurer of the
priory. The cathedral chapter sent him to King Henry II of England to
plead their case against Baldwin of Forde, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
After Norreis took Baldwin's side, the Canterbury monks captured Norreis
and held him in custody. He escaped by travelling through the sewer and
fled to the safety of the archbishop. In a mocking reference to his
escape route, Norreis was sometimes called Roger Cloacarius or "Roger
the Drain-Cleaner". In 1190 he was appointed to the abbacy of Evesham
Abbey (16th-century bell tower pictured). There he was accused of
immoral behaviour and failing to follow monastic rules. In 1202 he
became embroiled in a dispute with his monks, and in 1213 the papal
legate deposed him from the abbacy.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Norreis>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many
casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious in the
Battle of Cedar Creek.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cedar_Creek>
1943:
Streptomycin (molecular model pictured), the first antibiotic
remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by a PhD student at Rutgers
University.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptomycin>
1988:
The British government banned the voices of representatives
from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and Loyalist paramilitary
groups from being broadcast on television and radio in the United
Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9394_British_broadcasting_voice_re…>
2005:
Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on
record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Wilma>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
list:
1. (transitive) To create or recite a list.
2. (transitive) To place in listings.
3. (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a
show of colours, or to form a border.
4. (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
on; to stripe as if with list.
5. (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
6. (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for
a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
7. (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood,
from the edge of.
8. (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling
one's name; to enlist.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/list>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next
success — if you are willing to learn from it.
--Paul Allen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Allen>
SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse (His Majesty's Ship Charlemagne) was a pre-
dreadnought battleship of the Kaiser Friedrich III class, launched on 18
October 1899 at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg for the Imperial
German Navy. A shipyard strike and an accidental grounding delayed her
completion until February 1902. The ship was armed with four
24-centimeter (9.4 in) guns in two twin gun turrets and had a top speed
of 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph). She served with the active fleet
until 1908, participating in the normal peacetime routine of training
cruises and fleet maneuvers. At the outbreak of World War I in August
1914, the ship was placed back in active duty for half a year for
coastal defense. Kaiser Karl der Grosse was briefly used as a training
ship and ended her career holding prisoners of war in Wilhelmshaven.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Kaiser_Karl_der_Grosse>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1565:
The first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the
Japanese occurred when a flotilla of samurai attacked two Portuguese
trade vessels in Nagasaki.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fukuda_Bay>
1748:
The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the signing of
the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Aix-la-Chapelle_%281748%29>
1929:
In the Persons Case, the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council decided that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v_Canada_%28AG%29>
1968:
At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon set
a world record of 8.90 m in the long jump, a mark that stood for 23
years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Beamon>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
demimonde:
1. (chiefly historical (19th-century France)) A class of women
maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a
group.
2. (by extension) A group having little respect or reputation.
3. (by extension) A member of such a class or group of persons.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demimonde>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of
civilized men.
--Pierre Trudeau
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau>
Political Animals and Animal Politics is a 2014 book edited by the green
political theorists Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg, and
published by Palgrave Macmillan. The first edited collection to address
the emergence of academic animal ethics informed by political
philosophy, its chapters variously cover institutional change for
animals, the relationship between animal ethics and ecologism, and real-
world laws made for the benefit of animals. Recurring features include
discussions of human exceptionalism, exploration of ways that animal
issues are or could be present in political discourse, and reflections
on the relationship between theory and practice in politics. For
example, Kurtis Boyer contributed a chapter entitled "The Limits of
Species Advocacy", focusing on the legal protection of polar bears
(example pictured). The political theorist Robert Garner wrote that
Political Animals and Animal Politics should be praised for its
trailblazing, but predicted that it would be superseded by stronger
collections on the same theme.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Animals_and_Animal_Politics>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1604:
German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally
bright star, now known as Kepler's Supernova, which had suddenly
appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus earlier in October.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_Supernova>
1964:
Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opened the
artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Burley_Griffin>
1992:
Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese
exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori was shot and killed by the homeowner
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori>
2001:
Rehavam Ze'evi, the Israeli Minister of Tourism, was
assassinated in revenge for the targeted killing of the PFLP leader Abu
Ali Mustafa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Rehavam_Ze%27evi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wheelie:
1. (informal) An action or stunt where a bicycle, motorcycle, or other
vehicle is ridden for a short period while it is standing only on its
rear wheel or wheels.
2. (informal, chiefly Australia) A wheelchair user.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wheelie>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate
ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
--Arthur Miller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller>