Hurricane Marie is tied as the seventh-most intense Pacific hurricane on
record, attaining a barometric pressure of 918Â mbar (hPa; 27.11Â inHg)
in August 2014. At its peak, the hurricane's gale-force winds spanned
an area 575Â miles (925Â km) across. Although its center remained well
away from land, its large size created dangerous surf from Southwestern
Mexico to southern California. Off the coast of Los Cabos, three people
drowned after their boat capsized in rough seas. In Colima and Oaxaca,
heavy rains and flooding from outer bands caused two fatalities. Toward
the end of August, swells of 10 to 15Â ft (3.0 to 4.6Â m), the largest
seen from a hurricane in decades, battered coastlines in southern
California, with structural damage on Santa Catalina Island and in the
Greater Los Angeles Area. A breakwater near Long Beach sustained
$10Â million worth of damage, with portions gouged out. One person
drowned in the surf near Malibu. Hundreds of ocean rescues, including
over 100 in Malibu alone, were attributed to the storm, and overall
losses reached $20Â million.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Marie_(2014)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1621:
Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, strolled into Plymouth
Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoset>
1689:
The Royal Welch Fusiliers, one of the oldest line infantry
regiments of the British Army, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers>
1918:
Finnish Civil War: The Whites were victorious in the Battle of
Länkipohja, after which they executed at least 70 Reds.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_L%C3%A4nkipohja>
1988:
Using pistols and grenades, loyalist Michael Stone attacked the
funeral of three Provisional IRA members who had been killed in
Gibraltar ten days earlier, killing three attendees and injuring at
least sixty others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Cemetery_attack>
2014:
Annexation of Crimea: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a
controversial referendum where voters overwhelmingly chose to join
Russia as a federal subject.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_status_referendum,_2014>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
glower:
(intransitive) To look or stare with anger.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glower>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to
be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and
armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the
many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary
power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out
offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of
seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the
people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the
inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a
state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered
by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual
warfare. Â
--James Madison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison>
Ferugliotherium was a mammal of the Late Cretaceous, around 70 million
years ago. The genus was first described in 1986 but misidentified as a
member of Multituberculata, an extinct group of rodent-like mammals, on
the basis of a single tooth, a low-crowned molar. It is thought to have
had a small body mass, about 70Â g (2.5Â oz), and may have eaten insects
and plant material. Its remains have been found in two geological
formations of present-day southern Argentina, as part of a mammal fauna
that included the sudamericid Gondwanatherium and a variety of
dryolestoids. The upper and lower incisors were long and rodent-like,
with enamel on only one side of the crown. A fragment of the lower jaw
shows that the tooth socket of the lower incisor was very long. Although
Ferugliotherium had much lower-crowned teeth than the sudamericids, they
shared the same backward jaw movement during chewing and essentially
similar patterns in their incisors and on the chewing surface of their
molar-like teeth, with small enamel prisms.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferugliotherium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
44 BC:
Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to
death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar>
1875:
Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first
cardinal in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCloskey>
1917:
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the
February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution>
1943:
World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days
of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long
Third Battle of Kharkov.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov>
1990:
Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad
Bazoft for spying for Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shock and awe:
(military, also figuratively) A doctrine based on the use of spectacular
displays of force.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shock_and_awe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. … My expectations were
reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
Â
--Stephen Hawking
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking>
Thomas R. Marshall (March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925) was a Democratic
politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States
from 1913 to 1921. As the 27th Governor of Indiana, he proposed a new,
controversial state constitution and pressed for other Progressive Era
reforms. His popularity as governor, and Indiana's status as a critical
swing state, helped him secure the vice presidential nomination on a
ticket with Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and win the general election. During
World War I, after a small number of anti-war senators kept the Senate
deadlocked by refusing to end debate, Marshall led the body to adopt its
first rule allowing filibusters to be ended by a two-thirds majority
vote. After a stroke incapacitated Wilson in October 1919, many cabinet
officials and Congressional leaders urged Marshall to become acting
president, but he refused to forcibly assume the presidency for fear of
setting a precedent. Well known for his wit and sense of humor, he once
quipped during a Senate debate, "What this country needs is a really
good five-cent cigar".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R._Marshall>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1489:
Queen of Cyprus Catherine Cornaro was forced to abdicate and
sell the administration of the island to the Republic of Venice.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Cornaro>
1885:
The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed
Savoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mikado>
1910:
Oil prospectors in Kern County, California, drilled into a
pressurized oil deposit, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill
in history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview_Gusher>
1978:
Israeli–Lebanese conflict: The Israel Defense Forces began
Operation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushing
PLO troops north up to the Litani River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_South_Lebanon_conflict>
1988:
China defeated Vietnam in a naval battle as the former
attempted to establish oceanographic observation posts on the Spratly
Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_South_Reef_Skirmish>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Pi Day:
March 14th, an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pi_Day>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage
evil than from those who actually commit it. Â
--Albert Einstein
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein>
The Winter War (30 November 1939 – 13 March 1940) began when the
Soviet Union (USSR) invaded Finland three months after the outbreak of
World War II. The USSR had sought to annex Finnish territory, including
land near Leningrad, 32 km (20 mi) from the border. After Finland
refused, the USSR attacked with more than twice as many soldiers, thirty
times as many aircraft, and a hundred times as many tanks as the
defending forces. The Red Army had been crippled by Joseph Stalin's
Great Purge and the Finnish Defence Forces repelled the invasion in
temperatures down to −43 °C (−45 °F) for much longer than
expected. A reorganized Soviet offensive broke through in February 1940
and forced the Finns to seek peace. Finland ceded 11 percent of its
territory, but retained sovereignty. Soviet casualties have been
estimated at 321,000 to 381,000, compared to Finnish casualties of
70,000. The poor performance of the Red Army encouraged Adolf Hitler to
consider an attack on the USSR. After a 15-month lull called the Interim
Peace, the Continuation War and Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
Astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet
Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset, thinking it
was a comet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus>
1845:
German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the
most popular violin concertos of all time, received its world première
in Leipzig.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)>
1920:
The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic government
from Berlin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch>
1964:
Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York City, prompting
research into the bystander effect due to the false story that neighbors
witnessed the killing and did nothing to help her.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese>
1988:
The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world
at the time, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shenanigans:
1. (uncountable) Mischievous play, especially by children.
2. (uncountable) Deceitful tricks; trickery, games.
3. (countable) plural of shenanigan.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shenanigans>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now
chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. The wisest
realize that there are better ways for practicing heroism and other and
more certain ends of insuring the survival of the fittest. It is
something a people outgrow. But whether they consciously practice peace
or not, nature in its evolution eventually practices it for them, and
after enough of the inhabitants of a globe have killed each other off,
the remainder must find it more advantageous to work together for the
common good. Â
--Percival Lowell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell>
Family Trade is an American reality television series broadcast by Game
Show Network (GSN). The show premiered on March 12, 2013, and continued
to air new episodes until April 16, 2013. Filmed in Middlebury, Vermont,
the series chronicles the daily activities of G. Stone Motors
(pictured), a GMC and Ford car dealership that employs the barter system
in selling its automobiles. The business is operated by its founder,
Gardner Stone, his son and daughter, Todd and Darcy, and General Manager
Travis Romano. The series features the shop's daily interaction with its
customers, who bring in pigs, maple syrup, collectable dolls and other
items for resale to make a down payment on a vehicle they are leasing or
purchasing. Family Trade was part of GSN's attempt to broaden their
programming beyond traditional game shows. The series was given
unfavorable reviews by critics, and its television ratings fell over
time, losing almost half of its audience between the series premiere and
finale.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Trade>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1622:
Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits,
were canonized by Pope Gregory XV.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier>
1881:
Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national
football team and became the world's first black international
footballer.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Watson_(footballer,_born_1856)>
1933:
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast the first of his
"fireside chats" to address the nation directly.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_chats>
1952:
British diplomat Hastings Ismay was appointed as the first
Secretary General of NATO.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Ismay,_1st_Baron_Ismay>
1971:
The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum",
forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorandum>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
keel over:
1. (intransitive, nautical, also figuratively) Of a vessel: to roll so far
on its side that it cannot recover; to capsize or turn turtle.
2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To collapse in a faint; to black out, to
swoon.
3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To die.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keel_over>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more
epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. Â
--Richard Steele
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Steele>
Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines during World War II
began on 11 March 1942, after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
ordered him to withdraw. MacArthur left Corregidor Island and traveled
in PT boats with his forces through stormy seas patrolled by Japanese
warships, reaching Mindanao two days later. Arriving in Australia, he
declared, "I came through and I shall return". MacArthur, a well-known
general who had a distinguished record in World War I, had retired from
the army in 1937 to become a defense advisor to the Philippine
government. He was recalled to active duty in July 1941, a few months
before the outbreak of the Pacific War with the Empire of Japan, to
become commander of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, which included
Philippine forces. By March 1942, the Japanese invasion of the
Philippines had compelled him to withdraw his forces on Luzon to Bataan.
The doomed defense of Bataan captured the imagination of the American
public, and MacArthur became a living symbol of Allied resistance to the
Japanese, at a time when the news from all fronts was uniformly bad.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur%27s_escape_from_the_Philipp…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
222:
Disgusted with Roman emperor Elagabalus's disregard for Roman
religious traditions and sexual taboos, the Praetorian Guard
assassinated him and his mother and threw their mutilated bodies in the
Tiber.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus>
1843:
During a period of activity known as the Great Eruption, Eta
Carinae briefly became the second brightest star in the night sky.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae>
1966:
Indonesian President Sukarno signed the Presidential Order
Supersemar, giving General of the Army Suharto the authority to restore
order during the recent mass killings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersemar>
1978:
After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, members of Palestine
Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with the
Israel Police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the
perpetrators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Road_massacre>
1993:
Janet Reno was confirmed by the Senate as the first female
United States Attorney General.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dot matrix:
1. (computing) A two-dimensional array or pattern of dots used (for
example, by a display device or a printer) to represent alphanumeric
characters and pictures.
2. (computing) Clipping of dot matrix printer.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dot_matrix>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Advances in science when put to practical use mean more jobs,
higher wages, shorter hours, more abundant crops, more leisure for
recreation, for study, for learning how to live without the deadening
drudgery which has been the burden of the common man for ages past.
Advances in science will also bring higher standards of living, will
lead to the prevention or cure of diseases, will promote conservation of
our limited national resources, and will assure means of defense against
aggression. But to achieve these objectives — to secure a high level
of employment, to maintain a position of world leadership — the flow
of new scientific knowledge must be both continuous and substantial.
Â
--Vannevar Bush
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush>
Armillaria gallica is a species of honey mushroom in the family
Physalacriaceae. It is a common and ecologically important wood-decay
fungus that can feed on dead organic material in soil, or live as an
opportunistic parasite in weakened tree hosts to cause root or butt rot.
It is found in temperate regions of Asia, North America, and Europe. The
yellow-brown mushrooms, covered with small scales, can grow to around
10Â cm (4Â in) in diameter. On the underside of the caps are gills that
are white to creamy or pale orange. The fungus has been the subject of
considerable scientific research into its role as a plant pathogen, its
ability to bioluminesce, its unusual life cycle, and its ability to form
large and long-lived colonies. A 1,500-year-old colony was discovered in
the early 1990s in a Michigan forest, reported to cover an area of 15
hectares (37 acres) and weigh at least 9,500 kilograms (21,000Â lb); as
a tourist attraction called the "humungous fungus", it inspires an
annual mushroom-themed festival in Crystal Falls.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_gallica>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1009:
The first known record of the name of Lithuania appeared in an
entry in the annals of the Quedlinburg Abbey in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Lithuania>
1842:
Francisco Lopez woke from a nap under a tree at Rancho San
Francisco and made the first documented discovery of gold in California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_San_Francisco>
1910:
A massive seventeen-month-long strike action, which at its peak
involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers
across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmoreland_County_coal_strike_of_1910%E2%80…>
1925:
The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign
against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South
Waziristan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%27s_War>
1956:
In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet military troops suppressed mass
demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-
Stalinization policy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
retrench:
1. (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
2. (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to
reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
3. (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work
within a fortification).
4. (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
5. (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retrench>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 I could feel the hackles on the back of my neck stiffening and I
knew he felt the same way. Dog was meeting dog. Nobody knew it but the
dogs and they weren't telling. He was bigger than I thought. The
suggestion of power I had seen in his photographs was for real. When he
moved it was with the ponderous grace of some jungle animal, dangerously
deceptive, because he could move a lot faster if he had to. When we were
ten feet away he pretended to see us for the first time and a wave of
charm washed the cautious expression from his face and he stepped out to
greet Dulcie with outstretched hand. But it wasn't her he was seeing. It
was me he was watching. I was one of his own kind. I couldn't be faked
out and wasn't leashed by the proprieties of society. I could lash out
and kill as fast as he could and of all the people in the room, I was
the potential threat. I knew what he felt because I felt the same way
myself. Â
--Mickey Spillane
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mickey_Spillane>
Louise Bryant (1885–1936) was an American feminist, political
activist, and journalist. After growing up in rural Nevada and
graduating with a degree in history from the University of Oregon, she
wrote for two newspapers, the Spectator and The Oregonian. After leaving
her first husband in 1915, she married John Reed and moved to Greenwich
Village, where she formed friendships with leading feminists of the day.
Like Reed, she took lovers, including the playwright Eugene O'Neill and
painter Andrew Dasburg. Her news stories were distributed by Hearst
during and after her trips to Petrograd and Moscow, and appeared in
newspapers across the United States and Canada. Generally in sympathy
with the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution, her articles featured
Catherine Breshkovsky, Maria Spiridonova, Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir
Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. A collection of articles from her first trip
was published as a book in 1918, Six Red Months in Russia. After Reed's
death in 1920, Bryant wrote for Hearst about Turkey, Hungary, Greece,
Italy, Russia, and other countries. The Bryant–Reed story is told in
the 1981 film Reds. Her neglected grave in Versailles was restored in
1998.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bryant>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1618:
German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler discovered
the third law of planetary motion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler>
1658:
After a devastating defeat in the Second Northern War, King
Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his
Danish territory to Sweden to save the rest.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Roskilde>
1910:
French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to
receive a pilot's licence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymonde_de_Laroche>
1924:
Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah,
U.S., killed all 171 miners working there.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Gate_Mine_disaster>
1978:
BBC Radio 4 began transmitting Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later
adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
distaff:
1. A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or
cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off
gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax
fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word),
but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and
attached to the wrist.
2. The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
3. Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women
only.
4. A woman, or women considered as a group.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/distaff>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 We are a bunch of hooligans and anarchists but we do clean up
nice. … Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories
to tell and projects we need financed. Don't talk to us about it at the
parties tonight. Invite us into your office in a couple days, or you can
come to ours, whatever suits you best, and we'll tell you all about
them. I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen:
"inclusion rider". Â
--Frances McDormand
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frances_McDormand>
Henry Wrigley (1892–1987) was an air vice marshal in the Royal
Australian Air Force (RAAF). A pioneering flyer and aviation scholar, he
piloted the first trans-Australia flight from Melbourne to Darwin in
1919, and afterwards laid the groundwork for the RAAF's air power
doctrine. During World War I, he joined the Australian Flying Corps and
saw combat with No. 3 Squadron on the Western Front, earning the
Distinguished Flying Cross; he later commanded the unit and published a
history of its wartime exploits. He was awarded the Air Force Cross for
his 1919 cross-country flight. He was a founding member of the RAAF in
1921. In 1936, he was promoted to group captain and took command of RAAF
Station Laverton. Raised to air commodore soon after the outbreak of
World War II, he became Air Member for Personnel in November 1940. He
was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire the next
year. He served as Air Officer Commanding RAAF Overseas Headquarters,
London, from 1942 until his retirement from the military in 1946. His
writings on air power were collected and published posthumously as The
Decisive Factor in 1990.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wrigley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
321:
Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the
sun god Sol Invictus (disc pictured), would be the Roman day of rest.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus>
1277:
Étienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, promulgated a condemnation
of 219 philosophical and theological propositions that were being
discussed at the University of Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condemnations_of_1210%E2%80%931277>
1850:
In support of the Compromise of 1850, United States Senator
Daniel Webster gave his "Seventh of March" speech, which was so
unpopular among his constituency he was forced to resign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster>
1900:
The German ocean liner SSÂ Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the
first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_der_Grosse>
1968:
Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began
Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong
Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Truong_Cong_Dinh>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
at one blast:
At once, at the same moment in time.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_one_blast>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 What is history … without politics? A guide who walks on and on
with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is
wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along
without a guide. Â
--Alessandro Manzoni
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alessandro_Manzoni>