Norma is a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere
between Ara and Lupus, one of twelve drawn up in the 18th century by
French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting
scientific instruments. Its name refers to a right angle in Latin, and
is variously considered to represent a rule, a carpenter's square, a set
square or a level. It remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Four
of Norma's brighter stars make up a square in the field of faint stars.
Gamma2 Normae is the brightest star with an apparent magnitude of 4.0.
Mu Normae is one of the most luminous stars known, but is partially
obscured by distance and cosmic dust. Four star systems are known to
harbour planets. The Milky Way passes through Norma, and the
constellation contains eight open clusters visible to observers with
binoculars. The constellation also hosts Abell 3627, the Norma Cluster,
one of the most massive galaxy clusters known.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_(constellation)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1381:
During the Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels entered the
Tower of London, killing the Lord Chancellor and the Lord High
Treasurer, whom they found inside.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt>
1846:
Anglo-American settlers in Sonoma, California, began a
rebellion against Mexico, proclaiming the California Republic and
eventually raising a homemade flag with a bear and star.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Republic>
1888:
The Kingdom of Sarawak, on the northwestern part of the island
of Borneo, was made a British protectorate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sarawak>
1940:
Second World War: Four days after the French government fled
Paris, German forces occupied the French capital, a major accomplishment
in the operation Fall Rot.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Rot>
2017:
A fire destroyed Grenfell Tower in Notting Hill, London,
killing 72 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
move the goalposts:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/move_the_goalposts>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our country is a mess right now and we don't have time to pretend
otherwise. We don't have time to waste on being politically correct.
--Donald Trump
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Trump>
Nike-X was an anti-ballistic missile system developed in the 1960s by
the US Army to counter the Soviet Union's intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBM). Tested but never deployed, it was a response to the
problems with Nike Zeus, whose radars could not tell the difference
between warheads and decoys until it was too late to launch. Nike-X
would wait until the last moment and launch a very fast missile known as
Sprint (pictured); the entire engagement would last only a few seconds,
at altitudes as low as 25,000 feet (7.6 km). While technically capable,
a Nike-X missile would have been very expensive, as much as 20 times the
cost of the ICBM at which it was fired. Robert McNamara, the Secretary
of Defense, felt the Soviets would respond by building more ICBMs,
leading to a new nuclear arms race. In 1967, Nike-X was cancelled in
favor of a simpler system, Sentinel.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike-X>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1805:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition became the first European
Americans to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Falls_(Missouri_River)>
1935:
In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, underdog
James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion
of the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Braddock>
1952:
Soviet warplanes shot down a Swedish military Douglas DC-3A-360
Skytrain carrying out signals intelligence gathering operations, which
was followed by the shootdown of a Catalina flying boat searching for
the Skytrain three days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_affair>
1982:
Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia, succeeding his half-brother
Khalid upon the latter's death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia>
2013:
Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech Prime
Minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Czech_political_corruption_scandal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
liminal:
1. Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liminal>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm nothing, I'll always be nothing. I can't even wish to be
something. Aside from that, I've got all the world's dreams inside me.
--Fernando Pessoa
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa>
Cloud is a 2005 puzzle video game developed by a team of students in the
University of Southern California's Interactive Media Program. The indie
team began development of Cloud in January 2005 with a US$20,000 grant
from the school; the game was released as a free download that October.
By July 2006, the hosting website had received 6 million visits, and
the game had been downloaded 600,000 times. Players fly through a dream
world and manipulate clouds to solve puzzles. The concept was partially
based on the childhood daydreams of lead designer Jenova Chen
(pictured), who had often been hospitalized for asthma. Cloud won a
Student Showcase award at the 2006 Independent Games Festival. The game
was well received by critics, who cited its visuals, music, and relaxing
atmosphere as high points. Chen and producer Kellee Santiago went on to
co-found the studio Thatgamecompany, which has considered remaking Cloud
as a commercial video game.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_(video_game)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1240:
The Disputation of Paris began in the court of King Louis IX,
in which four rabbis defended the Talmud against Nicholas Donin's
accusations of blasphemy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation_of_Paris>
1775:
Governor Thomas Gage of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
offered a general pardon to colonists who remained loyal to Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gage>
1954:
Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old when he died, was canonised
by Pope Pius XII, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman
Catholic Church until 2017.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Savio>
1978:
American serial killer David Berkowitz, popularly known as the
"Son of Sam", was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for each of
six killings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz>
2001:
Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for
conducting a six-month long letter bomb campaign against the British
supermarket chain Tesco.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_bomb_campaign>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rapprochement:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapprochement>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all
searching for happiness; we're all leading lives that are different and
yet the same.
--Anne Frank
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Frank>
The Hogwarts Express is an 1,800 mm (5 ft 10 7⁄8 in) broad gauge
railway, people mover, and attraction within the Universal Orlando
Resort in Orlando, Florida, in the United States. The route runs 676
meters (2,218 ft) between Hogsmeade station in the Islands of Adventure
theme park and King's Cross station in the London area of the Universal
Studios Florida theme park. The railway provides a connection between
Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade within the resort's Wizarding World of Harry
Potter section, based on the Harry Potter film series. The system, which
was manufactured by the Doppelmayr Garaventa Group, is operated with two
replicas of the Hogwarts Express. The two directions of travel provide
different experiences. The railway opened to the public in July 2014,
along with the rest of the Diagon Alley expansion. The service was
immediately popular, providing one million rides within one month of
opening.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogwarts_Express_(Universal_Orlando_Resort)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1345:
Inspecting a new prison without being escorted by his
bodyguard, Alexios Apokaukos, megas doux of the Byzantine Navy, was
lynched by the prisoners.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_Apokaukos>
1775:
The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the
American Revolutionary War, took place in and around the port of Machias
in what is now eastern Maine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Machias>
1917:
Alexander was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father
Constantine, who had abdicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Greece>
1955:
More than 80 people were killed after cars driven by Pierre
Levegh and Lance Macklin collided during the 23rd running of the 24
Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster>
2008:
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First
Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fossick:
1. (intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) To search
for something; to rummage.
2. (intransitive, Australia, Britain, New
Zealand, specifically) To search for gems, gold, etc., on the
surface or in abandoned workings.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fossick>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and
elusive in the way it becomes known to the self — to the mediating
intellect — as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus
remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in
its extreme mode, although the gloom, “the blues” which people go
through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday
existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a
hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.
--William Styron
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Styron>
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) was a British statesman of the
Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister from May 1937 to May
1940. He became a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election. He
was rapidly promoted in 1923 and, after a short-lived Labour-led
government, returned as Minister of Health from 1924 to 1929,
introducing a range of reform measures. He was appointed Chancellor of
the Exchequer in the National Government in 1931. As Prime Minister, he
adopted a foreign policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, conceding
the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in the Munich
Agreement of September 1938. This policy was widely popular among the
British at the time. On 3 September 1939, as Germany was invading
Poland, the UK declared war on Germany. Chamberlain led Britain through
the first eight months of World War II, but resigned the premiership
after the Allies were forced to retreat from Norway.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1190:
Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River
in Anatolia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor>
1692:
Bridget Bishop became the first person executed for witchcraft
in the Salem witch trials.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop>
1878:
The League of Prizren was officially founded "to struggle in
arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Prizren>
1918:
World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian
dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Szent_Istv%C3%A1n>
2008:
War in Afghanistan: An airstrike by the United States resulted
in the deaths of eleven paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army
Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gora_Prai_airstrike>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pizzazz:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pizzazz>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture.
We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our
condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we
find it — the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
--Saul Bellow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow>
Norodom Ranariddh (born 1944) is a Cambodian prince, politician and law
academic. He is the second son of Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a
half-brother of the current king, Norodom Sihamoni. A graduate of the
University of Provence, he started his career as a law researcher and
lecturer in France. In 1983, he joined FUNCINPEC, a Cambodian royalist
party, and in 1986 became the chief-of-staff and commander-in-chief of
the Armée nationale sihanoukiste. He became the secretary-general of
FUNCINPEC in 1989, and its president in 1992. He was the first Prime
Minister of Cambodia, serving between 1993 and 1997. After being forced
into exile in July 1997, he returned to Cambodia in March 1998 and led
his party in the Cambodian general election, becoming President of the
National Assembly between 1998 and 2006. He resigned in March 2006, and
in October 2006 was ousted as president of FUNCINPEC. In March 2014 he
launched the Community of Royalist People's Party, but dissolved it in
January 2015 and was re-elected to the FUNCINPEC presidency.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Ranariddh>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
747:
Abu Muslim initiated an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which
was carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Revolution>
1523:
Simon de Colines, a Parisian printer, was fined for printing
Biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples without obtaining
prior approval.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Colines>
1928:
Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed
their Southern Cross aircraft in Brisbane, completing the first ever
trans-Pacific flight from the United States mainland to Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsford_Smith>
1965:
The Viet Cong commenced combat with the Army of the Republic of
Vietnam in the Battle of Dong Xoai, one of the largest battles in the
Vietnam War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dong_Xoai>
2010:
A boy wearing a bomb committed a suicide attack at a wedding in
Arghandab District, Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people
and injuring 70 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadahan_wedding_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hobnob:
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To toast one another by touching glasses.
2. (intransitive) To drink together.
3. (intransitive) To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those
of a higher class or status.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobnob>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world
you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And
in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the
time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful.
Often, though, they hurt.
--Anthony Bourdain
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain>
Emily Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was a suffragette who
fought for votes for women in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth
century. She grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal
Holloway College, London, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, before taking
jobs as a teacher and governess. A staunch feminist and passionate
Christian, she deemed socialism a moral and political force for good.
She became an officer of the Women's Social and Political Union and a
chief steward during its marches. Her tactics included breaking windows,
throwing stones, setting fire to postboxes and, on three occasions,
hiding overnight in the Palace of Westminster—including on the night
of the 1911 census. She was arrested nine times, went on hunger strike
seven times and was force fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after
being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Epsom Derby when
she walked onto the track during the race.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
218:
With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeated the
forces of Roman emperor Macrinus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antioch_(218)>
1862:
American Civil War: The Confederate Army won a resounding
victory at the Battle of Cross Keys, one of the two decisive battles in
Jackson's Valley Campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cross_Keys>
1929:
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the
Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by
Ramsay MacDonald.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bondfield>
1972:
Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took his
Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc
running down a road after being burned by napalm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc>
2008:
A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in the
Akihabara district of Tokyo, then proceeded to stab at least 12 people
before being apprehended.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
eustasy:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eustasy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons
--Scott Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Adams>
The meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon spanned thirteen days and
included six landfalls. The hurricane formed near Panama in the
southwestern Caribbean on November 9, 1994. As a tropical depression it
brushed Nicaragua and spent several days in the waters off the country's
coast. Heading north and then northwest, Gordon made two more landfalls,
on eastern Jamaica and eastern Cuba, while delivering tremendous rains
to western Hispaniola. After it made its fourth landfall crossing the
Florida Keys, it spent a few days as an unusual hybrid of a tropical and
a subtropical system in the Gulf of Mexico. It reclaimed its fully
tropical form and made another landfall, across the Florida peninsula,
and continued into the Atlantic Ocean, where it strengthened to a
Category 1 hurricane. It briefly wandered close to North Carolina, but
then headed south, weakening into a minor tropical storm before its
final landfall on Florida's east coast.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Gordon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1692:
An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to
sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake>
1788:
Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an
event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tiles>
1810:
Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first
newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Moreno>
1938:
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government
destroyed dikes holding the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid
advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed at least 400,000
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood>
1998:
Three white supremacists murdered African American James Byrd
Jr. by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an
asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_James_Byrd_Jr.>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stalwart:
1. Courageous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stalwart>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the
best it can. I give you what I have. You don’t get all your
questions answered in this world. How many answers shall be found in
the developing world of my Poem? I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my
Poem, which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it
can.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks>
Fantasy Book was a semi-professional American science fiction magazine
that published eight issues between 1947 and 1951. The listed editor,
"Garret Ford", was a pseudonym for William L. Crawford and his wife,
Margaret; the publisher was Crawford's Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
Crawford had problems distributing the magazine, and his budget limited
the quality of the paper he could afford and the artwork he was able to
buy, but he attracted submissions from some well-known writers,
including Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, A. E. van Vogt, Robert Bloch, and
L. Ron Hubbard. Cordwainer Smith's first sale, "Scanners Live in Vain",
appeared in the magazine, and was later included in the first Science
Fiction Hall of Fame anthology; it is now regarded as one of Smith's
finest works. Jack Gaughan, later an award-winning science fiction
artist, made his first professional sale to Fantasy Book, for the cover
illustrating Smith's story (pictured).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Book>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the
Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first
Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji>
1813:
War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near
present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stoney_Creek>
1943:
The first game of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball
League, the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the
United States, was played.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-American_Girls_Professional_Baseball_Leag…>
1985:
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for
human experiments performed on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu
das Artes, Brazil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele>
2004:
During a joint sitting of both houses of the Indian Parliament,
President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam announced that Tamil was to be made the
first legally recognised classical language of India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
enemy line:
1. (military, also figuratively, by extension, usually in the
plural) The boundary of the territory controlled by the enemy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enemy_line>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore
it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
--William Ralph Inge
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Ralph_Inge>
Harry R. Truman (1896–1980) was a resident of the U.S. state of
Washington who lived on the Mount St. Helens volcano. The owner and
caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake, at the foot of the
mountain, he came to brief fame as a folk hero in the months preceding
the volcano's 1980 eruption after he stubbornly refused to leave his
home despite evacuation orders. He appeared on the front page of The New
York Times and The San Francisco Examiner and garnered the attention of
National Geographic, United Press International, and The Today Show.
Truman is presumed to have been killed by a pyroclastic flow that
overtook his lodge and buried the site under 150 feet (50 m) of
volcanic debris. In 1981 he was portrayed by one of his favorite actors,
Art Carney, in the docudrama film St. Helens. Two books, a commemorative
album, and more than 100 songs were written in Truman's honor, including
songs by Headgear and Billy Jonas.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
663:
The Daming Palace (reconstructed gate pictured) became the
government seat and royal residence of the Tang empire during Emperor
Gaozong's reign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daming_Palace>
1832:
The June Rebellion, an anti-monarchist uprising of students,
broke out in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Rebellion>
1899:
Filipino army general Antonio Luna was assassinated in the
midst of the Philippine–American War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Luna>
1968:
Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan fatally shot U.S. Senator
Robert F. Kennedy inside the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Robert_F._Kennedy>
1997:
Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the
Congo ordered the detainment of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, thus
initiating a second civil war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_Civil_War_(1997%E2%80%9…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gelbstoff:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gelbstoff>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too
often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the
shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence
abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of
inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for
scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear:
violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a
cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
--Robert F. Kennedy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy>