The CMLL World Middleweight Championship is a professional wrestling
world championship of the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de
Lucha Libre. While lighter weight classes are regularly ignored in
wrestling promotions in the United States, more emphasis is placed on
the lighter classes in Mexico. The middleweight division range in Mexico
is between 82 kg (181 lb) and 87 kg (192 lb), but the weight limits
are not strictly adhered to. As it is a professional wrestling
championship, it is not won by actual competition, but by a scripted
ending to a match or storyline. Dragón Rojo Jr., the longest reigning
CMLL champion, was defeated on March 25, 2017, by Ángel de Oro, the
current champion. Since its creation in 1991, the championship has been
held by 12 wrestlers for a total of 17 individual reigns. El Dandy is
the only three-time champion; Apolo Dantés had the shortest reign, at
77 days.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMLL_World_Middleweight_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
553:
The Second Council of Constantinople, considered by many
Christian churches to have been the fifth Christian Ecumenical Council,
began to discuss the topics of Nestorianism and Origenism, among others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Constantinople>
1654:
Cromwell's Act of Grace, which pardoned the people of Scotland
for any crimes they may have committed during the Wars of the Three
Kingdoms, was proclaimed in Edinburgh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%27s_Act_of_Grace>
1940:
World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers in Hegra
Fortress finally surrendered to a vastly superior Nazi force after a
25-day siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hegra_Fortress>
1961:
Project Mercury: Aboard the American spacecraft Freedom 7, Alan
Shepard made a sub-orbital flight, becoming the second person to travel
into outer space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard>
2010:
A series of demonstrations in Athens and general strikes across
Greece began in response to austerity measures imposed by the government
as a result of the debt crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-austerity_movement_in_Greece>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tabulate:
1. (transitive) To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
2. (transitive) To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tabulate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to
the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these
biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other
occupations and entertainments. Indulge your passion for science, says
she, but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct
reference to action and society. Abstruse thought and profound
researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive
melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which
they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended
discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but,
amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
--David Hume
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume>
New York State Route 343 (NY 343) is a state highway in Dutchess
County, in the Hudson Valley of the U.S. state of New York. It runs
east–west from the intersection of NY 82 in the village of Millbrook
to the Connecticut state line in the hamlet of Amenia, where Connecticut
Route 343 continues briefly eastward. It was originally the Dover
branch of the Dutchess Turnpike, a 19th-century transportation route
between Litchfield County, Connecticut, and the city of Poughkeepsie.
NY 343 was designated in 1930, connecting Amenia to the state line, but
was relocated a few years later onto the portion of NY 200 from South
Millbrook to the hamlet of Dover Plains. Landmarks along the way include
the Silo Ridge Country Club in the hamlet of Wassaic, Beekman Park in
Amenia, and the Troutbeck Conference Center in the hamlet of Leedsville.
Connecticut Route 343 passes through more rural and residential areas
into the town of Sharon, Connecticut, where it terminates at a junction
with Route 4 and Route 41.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_343>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Inter caetera,
establishing a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain
and Portugal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_caetera>
1780:
The first running of the Epsom Derby took place, won by Diomed,
owned by Charles Bunbury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1780_Epsom_Derby>
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy engaged Allied naval
forces at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first fleet action in which
aircraft carriers engaged each other.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea>
1988:
A fire at an industrial plant in Henderson, Nevada, U.S.,
caused tons of Space Shuttle fuel to explode, resulting in two deaths,
372 injuries, and $100 million in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster>
2000:
Ken Livingstone took office as the first Mayor of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Livingstone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
padawan:
1. An apprentice or student Jedi.
2. (by extension, humorous) Any apprentice or student.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/padawan>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no
longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer
impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or
probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.
--Jane Jacobs
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs>
Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974
Atlantic hurricane season. A destructive and widespread storm, Carmen
originated as a tropical disturbance that traveled westward from Africa,
spawning a tropical depression east of the Lesser Antilles on
August 29. Moving through the Caribbean Sea, it quickly strengthened to
a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and
made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula. It turned north into the Gulf
of Mexico, re-intensified, and made a second landfall in the marshland
of southern Louisiana, dissipating over eastern Texas on September 10.
Tropical cyclone watches and warnings had been issued for the storm, and
around 100,000 residents left their homes and sought shelter. Damage was
lighter than first feared, but the sugar industry suffered substantial
losses. The hurricane killed 8 people and caused damage valued at
$162 million. The name Carmen was retired from the list of Atlantic
tropical cyclone names in 1975.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carmen>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1491:
Nkuwu Nzinga of the Kingdom of Kongo was baptised as João I by
Portuguese missionaries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_of_Kongo>
1848:
The Benty Grange helmet, a boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet
similar to those in Beowulf, was discovered in Derbyshire, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benty_Grange_helmet>
1913:
Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film,
was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Harishchandra>
1920:
Relying on the 11th Soviet Red Army operating in neighboring
Azerbaijan, Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Georgian_coup_attempt>
1999:
A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on
Earth (301 ±20 mph, or 484 ±32 km/h) in a tornado near Bridge Creek,
Oklahoma, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
en passant:
1. In passing, by the way, incidentally.
2. (chess) Of a player's pawn when it has moved forward two squares on its
first move in the game: captured "in passing" by the other player's
pawn, as if the first player's pawn had only moved forward one square.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en_passant>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy & share.
--Nina Paley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nina_Paley>
Naruto Uzumaki is the fictional protagonist of the Japanese manga series
Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. A carefree, optimistic and
boisterous teen ninja who befriends other ninja, he aspires to become
the leader of his fictional village, Konohagakure. He appears in anime,
films, video games and original video animations, as well as a sequel
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, with his son Boruto Uzumaki as the
protagonist. Kishimoto initially aimed to keep the character "simple and
stupid", while giving him many attributes of an ideal hero, and a tragic
past. The author has revised Naruto's image many times, providing the
character with different clothes intended to appeal to Western audiences
and to make him easier to illustrate. Naruto is voiced by Junko Takeuchi
(pictured) in the original animated series and Maile Flanagan in the
English adaptations. The character's development has been praised by
anime and manga publications, and has drawn scholarly attention.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1194:
King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first
Royal Charter.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth>
1559:
Scottish clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead the
Scottish Reformation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox>
1964:
Vietnam War: An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos led
USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card>
1995:
Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began firing rockets
on the Croatian capital of Zagreb, killing 7 and injuring around 200
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb_rocket_attacks>
2008:
The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time
since around 1640.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chait%C3%A9n_(volcano)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sealocked:
(geography) Of a geographical region: accessible only through a body of
seawater, and having no access by land.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sealocked>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the
Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind.
Shakspeare was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many-
gifted soul, whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the
stamp of the same spirit; and in which the last and deepest of observers
will still find new harmonies with the infinite structure of the
Universe; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher
powers and senses of man. They are emblematic, have many meanings, are
simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more
unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in
that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.
--Novalis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Novalis>
The Standing Liberty quarter was a 25-cent coin struck by the United
States Mint from 1916 to 1930. It succeeded the Barber quarter, which
had been minted since 1892. Featuring the goddess of Liberty on one side
and an eagle in flight on the other, the coin was designed by sculptor
Hermon Atkins MacNeil. In 1915, he submitted a design that showed
Liberty on guard against attacks. The Mint required modifications, and
his revised version included dolphins to represent the oceans. In late
1916, Mint officials made major changes, but MacNeil was allowed to
create a new design, which included a chain mail vest covering Liberty's
formerly bare breast. In circulation, the coin's date wore away quickly,
and Mint engravers modified the design to address the issue in 1925. The
Standing Liberty quarter was discontinued in 1931, a year in which no
quarters were struck. The Washington quarter was introduced the next
year to celebrate the bicentennial of George Washington's birth.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Liberty_quarter>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1753:
Carl Linnaeus published his Species Plantarum, which, with his
earlier work Systema Naturae, is considered the beginning of modern
botanical nomenclature.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_Plantarum>
1794:
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it
lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of
Boulou.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Boulou>
1884:
Moses Fleetwood Walker, the last African American in Major
League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the
Toledo Blue Stockings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Fleetwood_Walker>
1974:
Argentine President Juan Perón expelled the Montoneros from a
demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to
become clandestine and later a target of the Dirty War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Montoneros_from_Plaza_de_Mayo>
1985:
Labor groups in the Philippines established the Bagong
Alyansang Makabayan, a political coalition and communist front, in order
to challenge the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagong_Alyansang_Makabayan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
prime cut:
1. A top-quality serving of meat.
2. (by extension) Something that represents the best quality in its class.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prime_cut>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and
ash My body bent to the lash.
--Elinor Wylie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elinor_Wylie>
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition dollar was a commemorative gold coin
series dated 1903. The coins were designed by Charles E. Barber, Chief
Engraver of the United States Bureau of the Mint. The pieces were issued
to promote the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in 1904 in St. Louis.
They were struck in two varieties at the urging of exposition
authorities, including numismatic promoter Farran Zerbe: one depicted
former president Thomas Jefferson, and the other, the recently
assassinated president William McKinley. The price for each variety was
$3, the same cost whether sold as a coin, or mounted in jewelry or on a
spoon. Although not the first American commemorative coins, they were
the first in gold. They were intended to help fund the Exposition,
originally scheduled to open in 1903. Congress authorized the coins in
1902, but they did not sell well, and most were later melted. They
regained their issue price by 1915, and are now worth between a few
hundred and several thousand dollars, depending on condition.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition_dollar>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
313:
By defeating the armies of his rival Maximinus II, Roman emperor
Licinius unified the eastern half of the empire under his rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licinius>
1598:
King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting
freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Nantes>
1803:
The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana
Territory (flag raising ceremony pictured) for 78 million francs, or
less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase>
1943:
Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began
Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of
Sicily.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat>
2009:
A gunman went on a shooting spree at the Azerbaijan State Oil
Academy, a public university in Baku, killing 12 people before
committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sudorific:
1. In a state of perspiration; covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty.
2. (chiefly pharmacology) That produces sweating.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sudorific>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the
world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world
could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by
culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the
commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to
demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of
connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.
--Larry Harvey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Harvey>
Subfossil lemurs are primates from Madagascar, especially the extinct
giant lemurs, represented by subfossils (partially fossilized remains)
dating from nearly 26,000 to around 560 years ago. Almost all of these
species, including the sloth lemurs, koala lemurs and monkey lemurs,
were living around 2,000 years ago, when humans first arrived on the
island. The extinct species are estimated to have ranged in size from
slightly over 10 kg (22 lb) to roughly 160 kg (350 lb). The
subfossil sites found around most of the island demonstrate that most
giant lemurs had wide distributions. Like living lemurs, they had poor
day vision and relatively small brains, and developed rapidly, but they
relied less on leaping, and more on terrestrial locomotion, slow
climbing, and suspension. Although no recent remains of giant lemurs
have been found, oral traditions and reported recent sightings by
Malagasy villagers suggest that there may be lingering populations or
very recent extinctions.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subfossil_lemur>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1770:
British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour
(replica pictured), the first European ship to land in eastern
Australia, reached the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour>
1910:
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the People's
Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of
redistributing wealth among the British public.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Budget>
1968:
The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie
counterculture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the
Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of the
anti-Vietnam War movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(musical)>
1992:
The acquittal of policemen who had beaten African-American
motorist Rodney King sparked six days of civil unrest in Los Angeles,
during which 63 people were killed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots>
2015:
The ringleaders of the Bali Nine were executed in Indonesia for
attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms (18 lb) of heroin to Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali_Nine>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fraudulence:
The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fraudulence>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I look before me at my lighted candles, I don’t want to turn
around and see with horror How quickly the dark line is lengthening,
How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.
--Constantine P. Cavafy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy>
The 1923 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Bolton
Wanderers and West Ham United on 28 April, the first to be played at the
original Wembley Stadium in London. This Football Association Challenge
Cup (FA Cup), the showpiece match of English football's primary cup
competition, drew a chaotic crowd of up to 300,000, far exceeding the
stadium's official capacity of around 125,000. Mounted policemen,
including one on a light-coloured horse (pictured) that became the
defining image of the day, had to be brought in to clear the crowds from
the pitch. (The match is still referred to as the "White Horse Final".)
Although West Ham started strongly, Bolton proved the dominant team for
most of the match and won 2–0. David Jack scored a goal two minutes
after the start of the match and Jack Smith added a controversial second
goal during the second half. The pre-match events prompted discussion in
the House of Commons and led to the introduction of safety measures for
future finals.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_FA_Cup_Final>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1253:
Nichiren, a Japanese monk, expounded Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō
for the first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in
effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichiren_Buddhism>
1789:
About 1,300 miles (2,100 km) west of Tahiti, Fletcher
Christian, acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a
mutiny against the commander, William Bligh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty>
1941:
Presaging a campaign of genocide against Serbs of Croatia, the
Ustashe movement massacred around 190 people in Gudovac.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudovac_massacre>
1988:
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered an explosive decompression
in flight between Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii, with one fatality as a
flight attendant was ejected from the aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
do ill:
(idiomatic) To harm, to injure.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_ill>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every
blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it "opening your eyes again." But
you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest,
just endless … endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything.
All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Lucky humans, who can close
your minds to the endless deeps of space! You have this thing you call
… boredom? That is the rarest talent in the universe! We heard a song
— it went "Twinkle twinkle little star …" What power! What wondrous
power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace
of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children!
You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your
minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the
morning without screaming!
--A Hat Full of Sky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld#A_Hat_Full_of_Sky_(2004)>
Gomphus clavatus, the violet chanterelle, is an edible species of fungus
native to Eurasia and North America. The fruit body is vase- or fan-
shaped with wavy edges on its rim, and grows up to 15 cm (6 in) wide
and 17 cm (6 3⁄4 in) tall. The upper surface or cap is orangish-
brown to lilac, while the lower spore-bearing surface, the hymenium, is
covered in wrinkles and ridges rather than gills or pores, and is a
distinctive purple color. Described by Jacob Christian Schäffer in
1774, it is found in coniferous forests and is associated particularly
with spruces and firs. It is more common at elevations of greater than
2,000 ft (600 m), in moist, shady areas with plenty of leaf litter.
Although widespread, G. clavatus has become rare in many parts of
Europe and extinct in the British Isles. It is on the national Red Lists
of threatened fungi in 17 European countries and is one of 33 species
proposed for international conservation under the Bern Convention.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomphus_clavatus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
395:
Aelia Eudoxia married Byzantine emperor Arcadius without the
knowledge or consent of Rufinus, the Praetorian prefect who had intended
for his own daughter to wed the emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Eudoxia>
1521:
Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu killed Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapu-Lapu>
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated
Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in
the Connecticut Colony.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgefield>
1967:
The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations
participating and more than 50 million visitors ultimately attending.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_67>
1993:
Thirty people died, including players and staff of the Zambia
football team and the crew, in a plane crash en route to play a World
Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Zambia_national_football_team_plane_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ghost town:
1. A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic
activity, especially one that still has substantial visible remains.
2. (figuratively) Anything that has been deserted or abandoned, or has been
empty all along.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghost_town>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I now hold omnipotence. What should I do with such almighty
power? The answer to that is actually quite simple: Anything I want.
Anything. I am incapable of error. Any result that displeases me I can
simply reverse. There is nothing I need to worry on, for I am Thanos.
And Thanos is supreme.
--Jim Starlin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Starlin>
Dubrovnik was a flotilla leader built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy by
Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow in 1930 and 1931. One of the largest
destroyers of the time, she was a fast ship with a main armament of four
Czechoslovak-built Škoda 140 mm (5.5 in) guns in single mounts.
During the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941,
Dubrovnik was captured by the Italians. After a refit, she was
commissioned into the Royal Italian Navy as Premuda. In June 1942, she
joined the Italian force that attacked the Allied Operation Harpoon
convoy attempting to relieve the island of Malta. Premuda was the most
important and effective Italian war prize ship of World War II. After
the Italian surrender to the Allies in September 1943, the destroyer was
seized by Germany and commissioned into the German Navy as TA32. In
March 1945, the ship took part in the Battle of the Ligurian Sea against
two Royal Navy destroyers. She was scuttled the following month as the
Germans retreated from Genoa.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_destroyer_Dubrovnik>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1478:
In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the
Florentine Republic, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and
killed his brother Giuliano during High Mass.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazzi>
1865:
U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth,
the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern
Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth>
1958:
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue, one of the first
major railway electrification systems in the U.S., made its final run.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Blue_(train)>
1970:
The World Intellectual Property Organization came into being
when its convention entered into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization>
1994:
Just prior to landing at Nagoya International Airport, the
copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently pushed the wrong
button, causing the plane to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on
board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_140>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kenning:
1. (obsolete) Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.
2. (obsolete) The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by
extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.
3. As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a
little. […]
4. (zoology, obsolete, rare) A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band
attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula. […]
5. (poetry) A metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry (especially Old
English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive
way. […]
6. (Northern England) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a
container with that capacity.
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts.
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical
work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in
"philosophical propositions", but rather in the clarification of
propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and
indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp
boundaries.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
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