T1 was a seagoing torpedo boat, operational between 1914 and 1955.
Built as 76 T for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and armed with two 66 mm
(2.6 in) guns and four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes, she could
carry 10 to 12 naval mines. During World War I she performed convoy,
escort and minesweeping tasks, anti-submarine operations and shore
bombardment missions. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918 she and
seven other 250t-class boats were allocated to the Royal Yugoslav Navy,
as its only modern sea-going vessels. Renamed T1, she was involved in
training exercises and cruises. Captured by the Italians during the Axis
invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she served with the Royal Italian
Navy. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was
returned to the Yugoslav Navy. After World War II she was refitted and
served as Golešnica until 1955. Sunk as a target ship in the Bay of
Kotor, she is now a recreational dive site. (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:
1871:
Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed
message from Arizona Territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Stewart_Udall>
1943:
World War II: Australian and American forces began the Battle
of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a
larger landing at Cape Gloucester.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arawe>
1970:
The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of
Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another
planet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_7>
2013:
The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition
leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council
in Juba.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudanese_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shire:
1. (Britain)
2. (chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about
the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and
jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area
corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially
(England), a county having a name ending in -shire.
3. (by extension) The people living in a shire (sense 1.1) considered
collectively.
4. (by extension, informal) The general area in which a person comes
from or lives.
5. (by extension) An administrative area or district in other countries.
6. (Australia, often attributive) An outer suburban or rural local
government area which elects its own council.
7. Short for shire horse (“a draught horse of a tall British breed,
usually bay, black, or grey”).
8. (obsolete)
9. A district or province governed by a person; specifically
(Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
10. (by extension, generally) A region; also, a country.
11. (transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region)
into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shire>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and
the sources of poetry. They are everyday, these sources, as the sources
of peace are everyday, infinite and commonplace as a look, as each new
sun.
--Muriel Rukeyser
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser>
The Temple of Apollo Palatinus was a temple to the god Apollo in Rome,
constructed on the Palatine Hill on the initiative of Augustus between
36 and 28 BCE. It was associated with Augustus's victories at the
battles of Naulochus and Actium; the latter was extensively memorialised
through its decoration. The temple represented the restoration of Rome's
golden age and Augustus's devotion to religious and political duty. Its
precinct was used for diplomatic functions and meetings of the Roman
Senate. Augustan poets frequently praised the temple and its lavish
artistic decoration and statuary. The temple was destroyed in a fire in
363 CE, which was rumoured to be an act of arson committed by
Christians. The incomplete remains of the temple have been excavated and
partially restored since the nineteenth century. Modern assessments of
the temple have variously treated it as a Hellenising break with Roman
tradition and as a conservative attempt to reassert the values of the
Roman Republic.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_Palatinus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1836:
The Toledo War, a mostly bloodless territorial dispute between
Ohio and the Michigan Territory, was unofficially ended with a
resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War>
1913:
Haruna, the fourth and last Japanese battlecruiser of the
Kongō class, was launched and went on to serve in both world wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D-class_battlecruiser>
1918:
Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Schicchi>
2008:
During a press conference in Baghdad, Iraqi journalist
Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush and
Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, yelling "This is for the widows
and orphans and all those killed in Iraq".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rub elbows:
(idiomatic, intransitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by with: to
associate closely; to consort, mingle, or socialize.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rub_elbows>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I was grounded While you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by
truth You cut through lies I saw the lone empty valley You saw
Brigadoon I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon.
--Mike Scott
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Scott_%28Scottish_musician%29>
The half sovereign is a British gold coin denominated at one-half of a
pound sterling. It was first struck in 1544, but was discontinued after
1604. In 1817, as part of the Great Recoinage, half sovereigns and
sovereigns were reintroduced. Until the half sovereign was discontinued
as a currency coin, it was struck in most years and circulated widely.
In addition to being coined in London, it was struck at the colonial
mints in Australia and South Africa. It was replaced in Britain from
1914 by paper currency, and was discontinued in Australia in 1920 and
South Africa in 1926. After that, it was struck in the coronation years
of 1937 and 1953. It has been struck for sale by the Royal Mint as a
collector's piece since 1980, and as a bullion coin since 1982; it does
not circulate due to the value of the gold it contains. In addition to
the portrait of the reigning monarch, the coin features in most years an
image of Saint George and the Dragon, designed by Benedetto Pistrucci.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_sovereign>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1928:
An American in Paris, a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by
George Gershwin, premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_in_Paris>
1960:
With Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, out of the country,
four conspirators staged a coup attempt to install Crown Prince Asfaw
Wossen on the throne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Ethiopian_coup_attempt>
1991:
Croatian War of Independence: The Croatian Army retreated after
the failure of Operation Whirlwind, destroying their tanks to avoid
their capture.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Whirlwind>
2013:
Beyoncé released her fifth studio album without any prior
announcement or promotion; it sold 2.3 million copies before the end of
the year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9_%28album%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
buckle:
1. A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or
strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to
fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something
else.
2. (by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things
together.
3. (Canada, heraldry) An image of a clasp (sense 1) used as the brisure
of an eighth daughter.
4. A great conflict or struggle.
5. (countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
6. (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane,
frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate
movement of the roof assembly.
7. (countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive
word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel
topping.
8. (countable, obsolete) A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl
formerly worn; also (countable, uncountable), the state of hair being
curled in this manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buckle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident
generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have
learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that
the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful
trampoline of progress.
--Aga Khan IV
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_IV>
The City Hall and Raffles Place MRT stations are paired cross-platform
interchanges on the North–South line (NSL) and East–West line (EWL)
of the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. Both are situated in
the Downtown Core district: City Hall station is near landmarks such as
the former City Hall, St Andrew's Cathedral and the Padang, while
Raffles Place station serves Merlion Park, The Fullerton Hotel and the
Asian Civilisations Museum. The stations were first announced in 1982.
Constructing the tunnels between the City Hall and Raffles Place
stations required the draining of the Singapore River. The stations
opened on 12 December 1987 as part of the MRT extension to Outram Park
station. Cross-platform transfers between the NSL and EWL began on
28 October 1989, ahead of the split of the MRT network into two lines.
Both stations are designated Civil Defence shelters. City Hall station
features a mural by Simon Wong which depicts government buildings in the
area, while two murals at Raffles Place station by Lim Sew Yong and
Thang Kiang How depict scenes of Singapore's history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_Place_MRT_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1936:
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China was
kidnapped by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, a former warlord of Manchuria.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Incident>
1988:
Three trains collided near Clapham Junction railway station in
London, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash>
2000:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount
of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped,
effectively making George W. Bush the winner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore>
2021:
At the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Max Verstappen
overtook Lewis Hamilton in the final lap to become the World Drivers'
Champion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Abu_Dhabi_Grand_Prix>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nosocomial:
1. (pathology) Of an infection or its cause: arising from the
environment of, or treatment in, a hospital.
2. (medicine, uncommon) Of, relating to, or happening in a hospital.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nosocomial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our
democracy: whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal
prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally
protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not
convicted before the criminal proceedings begin. The district court
rejected respondent's claims, correctly recognizing that former
Presidents are not above the law and are accountable for their
violations of federal criminal law while in office. … It is of
imperative public importance that respondent's claims of immunity be
resolved by this Court and that respondent's trial proceed as promptly
as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected. Respondent's claims
are profoundly mistaken, as the district court held. But only this Court
can definitively resolve them.
--Jack Smith
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Smith>
Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French
Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as Harold
in Italy, choral pieces including his Requiem and L'enfance du Christ,
and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et
Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La damnation de Faust. Expected to
enter medicine, Berlioz defied his family by taking up music, and won
the Prix de Rome in 1830. Berlioz married the Irish Shakespearean
actress Harriet Smithson, who inspired his first major success, the
Symphonie fantastique, in which an idealised depiction of her occurs
throughout. His first opera, Benvenuto Cellini, was a failure. The
second, the epic Les Troyens, was so large in scale that it was never
staged in its entirety during his lifetime. Meeting only occasional
success in France as a composer, Berlioz turned to conducting, in which
he gained an international reputation. He also wrote musical journalism
throughout much of his career.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as Dial
Square, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Arsenal_F.C._%281886%E2%80%931966%…>
1920:
Irish War of Independence: Following an Irish Republican Army
ambush of an Auxiliary patrol, British forces burned and looted numerous
buildings in Cork.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Cork>
2006:
Criticized worldwide as a "meeting of Holocaust deniers", the
International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust
opened in Tehran.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_to_Review_the_Global…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
filthy lucre:
(idiomatic, derogatory, often humorous in modern use) Money, especially
if obtained dishonestly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filthy_lucre>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer
in all circumstances — from my grave even more successfully and more
irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and
to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be
that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s
pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn>
Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id
Software, released on December 10, 1993. The player assumes the role of
a space marine fighting through hordes of undead humans and invading
demons. The game is presented with 3D graphics, with 2D enemies and
objects. John Carmack (pictured) created the 3D game engine, with
action-heavy design by John Romero and Sandy Petersen. Despite
controversy over its graphic violence, Doom was a critical and
commercial success, earning a reputation as one of the best and most
influential games of all time and shifting the public perception of the
entire medium. It sold an estimated 3.5 million copies by 1999, and up
to 20 million people played it within two years of launch. Termed the
"father" of first-person shooters, Doom sparked the rise of online games
and communities. It led to an array of imitators and clones, as well as
a robust Doom modding scene. Doom has been ported to a variety of
platforms, and spawned a long-running franchise.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%281993_video_game%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
"Il Canto degli Italiani", the Italian national anthem since
1946, made its public debut in Genoa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Canto_degli_Italiani>
1901:
On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish
chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were
awarded in Stockholm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize>
1970:
Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of
Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai
government launched a five-year campaign against local communist
insurgents.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santikhiri>
1983:
Raúl Alfonsín became the first democratically elected
president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of
military dictatorship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Alfons%C3%ADn>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sovereignty:
1. (chiefly uncountable) The quality or state of being sovereign.
2. Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over
something.
3. (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able
to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern
itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
4. (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and
thoughts.
5. Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve
something; mastery.
6. (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent
or self-governing nation or other polity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sovereignty>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's such a little thing to weep — So short a thing to sigh
— And yet — by Trades — the size of these We men and women die!
--Emily Dickinson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson>
Ohmdenosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the
Early Jurassic epoch in what is now Germany. The only known specimen
(pictured) – a tibia (shinbone) and ankle – was discovered in
rocks of the Posidonia Shale near the village of Ohmden. The specimen is
exhibited in a local museum, where, in the 1970s, the German
palaeontologist Rupert Wild recognised it as the remains of a sauropod.
One of the earliest known sauropods, Ohmdenosaurus was quadrupedal
(four-legged) and already had the columnar limbs typical for the group.
It was small for a sauropod, with an estimated length of 3 to 4 m (10
to 13 ft). Its relationships to other sauropods remain uncertain due to
the incompleteness of its remains. The Posidonia Shale was deposited
within a shallow inland sea. Ohmdenosaurus was a terrestrial animal, so
the specimen must have been transported by predators or water currents
at least 100 km (62 mi) from the shoreline to its site of burial. It
is the only dinosaur fossil known from the shale.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohmdenosaurus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
French actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite
Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fronde_%28newspaper%29>
1948:
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide
Convention, which defines genocide in legal terms and advises its
signatories to prevent and punish such actions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention>
1968:
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All
Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-
mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos>
2008:
Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number
of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat
that was being vacated by then-President-elect Barack Obama.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tanzanite:
A trichroic violet-blue variety of the mineral zoisite mined in
Tanzania, used as a gemstone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tanzanite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their
change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising
sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on
this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit,
and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft
showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent
night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems
of heaven, her starry train.
--Paradise Lost
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost>
Ford Island is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the US
state of Hawaii. Its original area of 334 acres (135 ha) was increased
during the 1930s to 441 acres (178 ha) with fill dirt after the US Navy
dredged Pearl Harbor to accommodate battleships. The island was the site
of a Hawaiian fertility ritual until missionaries stopped the practice
by 1830. It was given by Kamehameha I to Spanish deserter Francisco de
Paula Marín, and was later owned by physician Seth Porter Ford. In 1917
the US Army bought part of it for use by an aviation division, and by
1939 it was taken over by the US Navy. It was at the center of the
attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and was designated a
National Historic Landmark in 1964. By the late 1990s hundreds of
millions of dollars had been invested in real estate development and
infrastructure. Ford Island is home to the USS Arizona memorial, the
USS Missouri museum, the Pacific Warfighting Center, and the Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Island>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1837:
British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by William Lyon
Mackenzie and Anthony Van Egmond at the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern,
the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Canada_Rebellion>
1942:
Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched
Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of
Bordeaux in German-occupied France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton>
1988:
A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia,
killing at least 25,000 people (aftermath pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Armenian_earthquake>
2011:
The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar
Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbar_campaign_%282003%E2%80%932011%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
presence of mind:
Focused alertness, good sense, quick-thinking resourcefulness, or
stability of feeling and thought, especially in spite of circumstances
which are distracting, stressful, or otherwise challenging.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/presence_of_mind>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every person who is seeing me now — some are seeing me within
months of my saying this, some are likely to see this years after I have
said this, but whenever all of you are seeing it — that will be the
moment you’re seeing it — as this is the moment I’m saying it. And
what that means to me is: living in the moment. The moment between past
and present, or present and past. The moment between after and next, the
hammock in the middle of after and next. The moment. Treasure it. Use it
with love.
--Norman Lear
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Lear>
"Janet(s)" is the tenth episode of the third season of The Good Place.
Written by Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan and directed by Morgan Sackett,
it originally aired on NBC on December 6, 2018. The episode sees
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason accidentally transformed into versions
of Janet, all played by D'Arcy Carden (pictured). Meanwhile, Michael
(Ted Danson) and the real Janet (Carden) investigate if the afterlife
system that sorts good and bad acts has been manipulated. Rehearsals for
the episode began earlier than usual so Carden could learn to play the
other characters. The episode required more visual effects than previous
episodes. "Janet(s)" was watched by 2.58 million Americans in its
original broadcast and was well received by critics; Carden's
performance was widely praised. Themes covered include the meaning of
the self, which the writers had studied in preparation. It was nominated
for a Primetime Emmy Award for writing and won a Hugo Award.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%28s%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
Mexican–American War: American and Mexican forces clashed at
the Battle of San Pasqual, a series of skirmishes near San Diego,
California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Pasqual>
1912:
The Nefertiti Bust, listed among the "Top 10 Plundered
Artifacts" by Time, was found in Amarna, Egypt, before being taken to
Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust>
1956:
At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan
became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Morgan>
1988:
Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital
Territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Australian_Capital_Territory>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
winding:
1. gerund of wind
2. The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something
around another thing.
3. (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement;
twists and turns.
4. (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
5. Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a
clockwork or other mechanism.
6. Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch
or a similar device.
7. (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an
occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness;
craftiness, shiftiness.
8. (obsolete, music) A variation in a tune.
9. Something wound around another thing.
10. (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the core of
an electrical transformer.
11. (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or
whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string
instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”)
12. (obsolete)
13. A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
14. (except dialectal) Synonym of withe or withy (“a flexible, slender
shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding”); also,
all the withies used to make or repair a wall, or the process of using
withies in this manner.
15. Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
16. Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
17. Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
18. (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point;
rambling, roundabout.
19. (obsolete)
20. Flexible, pliant.
21. (figurative) Morally crooked; crafty, shifty. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/winding>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Matter is the creation of the mind, not the reverse. Our entire
world is thought, not wood and stone. We learn to think or reflect upon
the thoughts, which the Thinker of the world, invisible, yet everywhere
visible, has first thought. What we see, hear, taste, and feel, is all
within us, not without. Sugar is not sweet, we are sweet. The sky is not
painted blue, we are blue. Nothing is large or small, heavy or light,
except as to ourselves. Man is the measure of all things, as an ancient
Greek philosopher asserted; and man has inferred, discovered, and named
matter.
--Max Müller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller>
Hurricane Erika was a weak hurricane that struck northeastern Mexico in
August of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. Erika was the eighth
tropical cyclone, fifth tropical storm, and third hurricane of the
season. At first, the National Hurricane Center did not designate it as
a hurricane because initial data suggested winds of only 70 mph
(110 km/h) at Erika's peak intensity, but it was retroactively deemed a
hurricane based on further data. Developing in the eastern Gulf of
Mexico on August 14, Erika moved quickly westward and strengthened
under favorable conditions. It made landfall as a hurricane on
northeastern Mexico on August 16. The storm's low-level circulation
center dissipated by the next day. However, the storm's mid-level
circulation persisted for another three days, emerging into the Pacific
and moving northwestward over Baja California, before dissipating on
August 20. Two people were killed in northeastern Mexico when their
vehicle was swept away by floodwaters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Erika_%282003%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1807:
Napoleonic Wars: British ships began a raid on Griessie after
the Dutch captain refused a British demand for surrender.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Griessie>
1918:
National Guards and Sokol volunteers protested in Zagreb,
leading to an armed clash with regiments of the Home Guard and former
Common Army.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_protest_in_Zagreb>
1933:
The prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States
officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_C…>
1958:
Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, opened to the
public.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_By-pass>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fenny:
1. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline
wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of
land: containing a fen or fens.
2. Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
3. (obsolete, also figurative) Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fenny>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the
child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child
"innocence". The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried
deeply it might be. In my work I try to reach and speak to that
innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that
laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily
ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
--Walt Disney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney>