3 of Hearts is the self-titled debut studio album by the American group
3 of Hearts, released on March 6, 2001, through the record label RCA
Nashville. It is a teen pop and country music album, though according to
some music critics, it leans more towards pop music. The album was
managed by American producer Byron Gallimore; its marketing focused on
the group's crossover appeal to teenagers and young adults. 3 of Hearts
performed on a national tour sponsored by Seventeen magazine and another
sponsored by Walmart, and the singers were featured in several marketing
campaigns. Reviews of the album were mixed; some critics praised the
group's vocals and public image, but others criticized the songs as
generic and lacking an authentic country sound. The album peaked at
number 45 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. "Love Is Enough" and
"Arizona Rain" were released as singles and made appearances on the
Country Airplay Billboard chart. The album's low sales and lack of
appeal to country radio audiences led RCA to drop the group.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_of_Hearts_(album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
961:
With the completion of the Siege of Chandax, the Muslim Emirate
of Crete was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Crete>
1836:
Texas Revolution: Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San
Antonio from the Texians after a 13-day siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo>
1953:
Upon the death of Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov became Premier
of the Soviet Union.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Malenkov>
1964:
In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad
announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to
Muhammad Ali.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali>
1988:
In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service killed three
Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers conspiring to bomb a parade
of British military bands in Gibraltar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flavius>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bleeding edge:
(technology, idiomatic) Something too new and untested to be reliable or
to have any assurance of safety; the figurative place where such things
exist.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bleeding_edge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
--Stanisław Jerzy Lec
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Jerzy_Lec>
Thorium is a chemical element with symbol Th and atomic number 90. A
reactive actinide metal, its chemistry is dominated by the +4 oxidation
state; it is silvery and tarnishes black in air, forming the dioxide. It
is malleable and moderately hard, with a high melting point. Its most
stable isotope, 232Th, is weakly radioactive with a half-life of
14.05 billion years, roughly the age of the universe: it decays very
slowly to stable lead. Thorium and uranium are the only two
significantly radioactive primordial elements. Thorium is chiefly
refined from monazite sands as a byproduct of extracting rare earth
metals. It was discovered in 1829 by the Norwegian mineralogist Morten
Thrane Esmark and identified by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob
Berzelius, who named it after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.
Applications were found for the element in the 19th century, but after
its radioactivity was discovered in the early 20th century, its use
significantly declined. Thorium has been suggested as a replacement for
uranium in nuclear reactors.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
363:
Roman emperor Julian and his army set out from Antioch to attack
the Sassanian Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%27s_Persian_War>
1824:
The First Anglo-Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war
in British Indian history, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Burmese_War>
1943:
The Gloster Meteor, the first operational jet fighter for the
Allied Powers, made its maiden flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor>
1963:
Country music stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw
Hawkins were killed when their Piper PA-24 Comanche crashed shortly
after takeoff in Camden, Tennessee, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Camden_PA-24_crash>
1981:
The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by
Sinclair Research and went on to sell over 1.5 million units around the
world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lorn:
1. (obsolete) Doomed; lost.
2. (archaic) Abandoned, forlorn, lonely.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lorn>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
War unleashes — at the same time as the reactionary forces of
the capitalist world — the generating forces of social revolution
which ferment in its depths.
--Rosa Luxemburg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg>
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008) was a South African
singer, actor, and civil rights activist. She was a vocal opponent of
apartheid and white-minority government, in South Africa and elsewhere.
Associated with genres including afropop, jazz, and world music, she
began singing professionally in the 1950s. She had a brief role in the
anti-apartheid film Come Back, Africa (1959), which led to performances
in Venice, London, and New York City. Makeba moved to the United States,
where her career flourished, and released several albums and songs,
including the hit "Pata Pata" (1967). She and Harry Belafonte received a
Grammy Award for their 1965 album An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba. Her
1968 marriage to Stokely Carmichael of the Black Panther Party was not
well received in the US, and she moved to Guinea, where she wrote and
performed music more explicitly critical of apartheid. Nicknamed Mama
Africa, she was one of the first African musicians to receive worldwide
recognition. Her music, in Nelson Mandela's words, "inspired a powerful
sense of hope in all of us".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Makeba>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
306:
Roman Herculian guard Adrian of Nicomedia, who had converted to
Christianity after being impressed with the faith of Christians that he
had been torturing, was martyred.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_and_Natalia_of_Nicomedia>
1804:
Irish convicts who were involved at the Battle of Vinegar Hill
during the 1798 Irish Rebellion began an uprising against British
colonial authorities in New South Wales, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill_convict_rebellion>
1918:
The first known case of the so-called Spanish flu was first
observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic>
1933:
All three presidents of the Austrian National Council resigned,
and Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss later used that pretext to create an
authoritarian government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-elimination_of_the_Austrian_Parliament>
2012:
A series of blasts occurred at an arms dump in Brazzaville,
Congo, killing at least 250 people, injuring 2,300 others, and leaving
more than 13,800 people homeless.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville_arms_dump_blasts>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scene-stealing:
That steals the scene (“dominates a performance through charisma,
humour, or powerful acting”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scene-stealing>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is
already conscious.
--P. D. Ouspensky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky>
HMS St Vincent was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnought
battleships, built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th
century. She was equipped with ten 12-inch (305 mm) guns in five gun
turrets. After commissioning in 1910, her entire career was spent with
the Home and Grand Fleets, often serving as a flagship. In the Battle of
Jutland in May 1916, the ship discharged 98 shells from her main guns,
firing first at the crippled German light cruiser SMS Wiesbaden.
Targeting the battlecruiser SMS Moltke, her first hit wrecked the
sickbay and slightly damaged the surrounding superstructure and hull,
causing minor flooding. The second hit penetrated the rear armour of the
superfiring turret at the rear of the ship. Apart from Jutland and the
inconclusive Action of 19 August several months later, her service
during World War I generally consisted of routine patrols and training
in the North Sea. Deemed obsolete after the war, the ship was reduced to
reserve and used as a training ship. St Vincent was sold for scrap in
1921 and broken up the following year.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_St_Vincent_(1908)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1284:
The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales
into England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Rhuddlan>
1875:
French composer Georges Bizet's opera Carmen (poster pictured),
based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, premiered
at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen>
1924:
The Free State of Fiume, a short-lived independent free state
located in the modern city of Rijeka, Croatia, was annexed by the
Kingdom of Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Fiume>
1943:
Second World War: During a German aerial attack on London, 173
people were killed in a stampede while trying to enter Bethnal Green
tube station, which was being used as an air-raid shelter.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green_tube_station>
1991:
Motorist Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles policemen,
causing public outrage that increased tensions between the African
American community and the police department over the issues of police
brutality and social inequalities in the area.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
trilemma:
1. A circumstance in which a choice must be made between three options that
seem equally undesirable or, put another way, in which a choice must be
made among three desirable options, only two of which are possible at
the same time.
2. (logic) An argument containing three alternatives, jointly exhaustive
either under any condition(s) or under all condition(s) consistent with
the universe of discourse of that argument, that each imply the same
conclusion.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trilemma>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The anomaly of war is that the best men get themselves killed
while crafty men find their chance to govern in a manner contrary to
justice.
--Émile Chartier
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Chartier>
The Indian Head cent is a penny ($0.01) that was produced by the U.S.
Bureau of the Mint from 1859 to 1909. It was preceded by the large cent
(1793–1857), a copper coin about the size of a half dollar, and the
Flying Eagle cent. The large cent was discontinued after a rise in the
price of copper in the wake of the California Gold Rush (1848–1855).
The 1857 Flying Eagle is identical in diameter to the modern U.S. cent,
but thicker, with a composition of 12% nickel and 88% copper. The Indian
head cent, designed by James Barton Longacre, the Chief Engraver at the
Philadelphia Mint, was initially the same size as the Flying Eagle.
Cents were hoarded during the economic chaos of the American Civil War,
when nickel was in short supply, and privately issued bronze tokens
began to circulate until Congress authorized a thinner cent of bronze
alloy. After the war the cent became popular, and even more so with the
advent of coin-operated machines in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. In 1909, the Indian Head cent was replaced by Victor D.
Brenner's Lincoln cent.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_cent>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1444:
The League of Lezhë, an alliance of the regional chieftains,
was established in Venetian Albania with Skanderbeg as its commander.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Lezh%C3%AB>
1776:
American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia from Georgia and
South Carolina attempted to resist the British action to seize and
remove supply ships anchored at Savannah, Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Rice_Boats>
1919:
Communist, revolutionary socialist, and syndicalist delegates
met in Moscow to establish the Communist International.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Congress_of_the_Comintern>
1943:
World War II: Australian and American air forces attacked and
destroyed a large convoy of the Japanese Navy in the Bismarck Sea north
of Papua New Guinea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea>
1978:
Aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military
pilot Vladimír Remek became the first person from outside the Soviet
Union or the United States to go into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_28>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
montage:
A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or
putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures,
texts, videos, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/montage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are
troubled with troubles almost every minute. You oughta be thankful, a
whole heaping lot, For the places and people you're lucky you're not!.
--Dr. Seuss
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss>
Sheshi was a ruler of parts of Ancient Egypt sometime between 1800 and
1550 BC, near the end of the Middle Kingdom or during the Second
Intermediate Period. Based on the archaeological evidence, he is the
best attested king in this timeframe; hundreds of scaraboid seals
bearing his name have been found as far away as Carthage and throughout
Canaan, Egypt, and Nubia. Nevertheless, historians cannot pin down basic
facts about this ruler, such as his dynasty or the duration and extent
of his reign. Three competing hypotheses have been put forth: he may
have been Salitis, founder of the 15th Dynasty and king of the invading
Hyksos, or a later Hyksos king or vassal of the second half of the 15th
Dynasty, or a ruler of the 14th Dynasty, a line of kings of Canaanite
descent ruling over the Eastern Nile Delta immediately before the
arrival of the Hyksos.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheshi>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1476:
War of the Castilian Succession: Although the Battle of Toro
was militarily inconclusive, it assured Ferdinand and Isabella the
throne of Castile, forming the basis for modern Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toro>
1872:
Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), the first national
park in the world, was established with the majority of it in the U.S.
state of Wyoming.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park>
1921:
The Australian cricket team led by Warwick Armstrong became the
first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, something that would
not be repeated for 86 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Armstrong>
1958:
Archbishop of Chicago Samuel Stritch was appointed Pro-Prefect
of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith, thus becoming
the first American to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Stritch>
2014:
A group of knife-wielding men and women attacked passengers at
Kunming railway station in Kunming, China, leaving 31 victims and 4
perpetrators dead with more than 140 others injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bork:
1. (transitive, intransitive, US, politics, often pejorative) To defeat a
person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a
concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
[…]
2. (transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a
computer or other complex device. […]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bork>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent
testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
--Yitzhak Rabin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin>
Flight Unlimited III is a 1999 flight simulator video game developed by
Looking Glass Studios and published by Electronic Arts. It allows
players to pilot reproductions of real-world commercial and civilian
aircraft in and around Seattle in the US state of Washington. Players
may fly freely or engage in challenges such as thwarting a theft or
locating Bigfoot. The development team built on the general aviation
gameplay of Flight Unlimited II, with more detailed physics and terrain,
more planes and a real-time weather system. Lead designer Peter James
described Flight Unlimited III's development as a struggle, due to a
lack of interest from Electronic Arts and from Looking Glass's
management. Directly competing with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 and
Fly!, the game became one of Looking Glass's biggest commercial flops.
After selling only around 20,000 units in the United States during 1999,
the company closed the next year. The game was well received by critics,
who praised its terrain rendering and dynamic weather. A few reviewers
lauded its simulated physics, but others objected to the exceptional
system requirements.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Unlimited_III>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
202 BC:
Rebel leader Liu Bang was enthroned as Emperor Gaozu of Han
after overthrowing the Qin dynasty, the first imperial dynasty of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_dynasty>
1893:
USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first
battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships
of the time, was launched.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indiana_(BB-1)>
1975:
In London an underground train failed to stop at Moorgate
terminus station and crashed into the end of the tunnel, killing 43
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash>
1997:
Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers
of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the
longest and bloodiest shootouts in American police history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout>
2013:
Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to
resign from the papacy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
saloop:
1. (dated) An aromatic drink originally prepared from salep and later from
sassafras bark with other ingredients such as milk and sugar added,
which was once popular in London, England.
2. The berry saltbush or red berry saltbush (Chenopodium hastatum, syns.
Einadia hastata and Rhagodia hastata), a small plant found in coastal
and inland areas of eastern Australia.
3. Alternative form of salep (“starch or jelly made from orchid
plants”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saloop>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs.
--Michel de Montaigne
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne>
Olivia Manning (1908–1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer and
reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and
personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and
the Middle East. Her first serious novel, The Wind Changes, was
published in 1937. She lived in Bucharest, Romania, and in Greece, Egypt
and Palestine, as Nazi Germany overran Eastern Europe. Her experiences
helped form the six novels making up The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant
Trilogy, known collectively as Fortunes of War. The overall quality of
her output was considered uneven by critics, but this series, published
between 1960 and 1980, was described by Anthony Burgess as "the finest
fictional record of the war produced by a British writer". Manning
returned to London after the war, writing poetry, short stories, novels,
non-fiction, reviews, and drama for the British Broadcasting
Corporation. As she had feared, real fame only came after her death,
when an adaptation of Fortunes of War was televised in 1987.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Manning>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
380:
Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire as a
result of the Edict of Thessalonica.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Thessalonica>
1776:
American Revolutionary War: A Patriot victory in the Battle of
Moore's Creek Bridge resulted in the arrests of 850 Loyalists over the
following days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moore%27s_Creek_Bridge>
1900:
FC Bayern Munich (logo pictured), Germany's most successful
football club, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bayern_Munich>
1962:
Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence
Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam
President Ngo Dinh Diem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_South_Vietnamese_Independence_Palace_bom…>
1988:
The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was the target
of a violent pogrom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumgait_pogrom>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
minaudière:
1. (obsolete) A woman who is exaggeratedly affected or coquettish.
2. A type of formal, decorative women's clutch bag without handles or a
strap.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minaudi%C3%A8re>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
No one wants advice, only corroboration.
--John Steinbeck
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck>
Stegoceras, a pachycephalosaurid (dome-headed) dinosaur, lived in what
is now North America during the Late Cretaceous period, about 77.5 to 74
million years ago. (This genus is unrelated to Stegosaurus, which lived
more than 70 million years earlier.) Small and bipedal, Stegoceras was
about 2 to 2.5 metres (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long and weighed around 10 to 40
kilograms (22 to 88 lb). It had a rigid vertebral column and a
stiffened tail. The pelvic region was broad, perhaps due to an extended
gut. The skull was roughly triangular with a short snout, topped by a
thick, broad, and relatively smooth dome. The skull jutted out in the
back over the occiput, and had a thick ridge over the eyes. The teeth
were small and serrated. The skull is thought to have been flat in
juvenile animals, growing into a dome with age. The dome may have been
used for combat, display, or recognition. Specimens have been found in
the Dinosaur Park and Oldman Formations in Alberta, and the Fruitland
and Kirtland Formations in the US.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegoceras>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1233:
Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols captured Kaifeng, the capital of
the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_siege_of_Kaifeng>
1815:
Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba (return pictured), an
island off the coast of Italy, where he had been exiled after the
signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau one year earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon>
1914:
HMHS Britannic, the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner
of the White Star Line after RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, was launched
at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic>
1935:
With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two
receiving antennas, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt
first demonstrated the use of radar.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Watson-Watt>
2008:
In the first significant cultural visit from the United States
to North Korea since the Korean War, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
performed in East Pyongyang Grand Theatre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_New_York_Philharmonic_visit_to_North_Kor…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
evitable:
(uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evitable>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the
fraternity of strangers.
--Les Misérables
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables>
USS West Bridge (ID-2888) was a cargo ship during World War I, one of
the steel-hulled West ships built for the U.S. Shipping Board on the
West Coast. Launched in April 1918, the ship joined a convoy of cargo
ships headed to France in August. After the convoy was attacked by two
German submarines and West Bridge was torpedoed, a salvage crew from the
American destroyer Smith and four tugs dispatched from France
successfully brought the ship into port. After seven months of repairs,
West Bridge resumed Navy service until December 1919. The ship was laid
up for nearly seven years from 1922 to 1929, when she was sold to an
intercoastal cargo service under the name SS Barbara Cates. By 1938, the
ship had been renamed Pan Gulf for service with a subsidiary of the
Waterman Steamship Company. During World War II, Pan Gulf made nine
round trips across the North Atlantic without incident in convoys. In
May 1945, the ship was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease.
Renamed SS Lermontov, the ship continued in civilian service for the
Soviets until 1966.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_West_Bridge_(ID-2888)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1843:
Captain Lord George Paulet of the Royal Navy began a five-month
occupation of land in the Hawaiian Islands.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulet_affair_(1843)>
1866:
Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human
skull that a prominent geologist claimed was proof (later disproven)
that humans had existed during the Pliocene age.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Skull>
1948:
Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest,
Czechoslovakian president Edvard Beneš ceded control over the
government to the Communist Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1951:
After being postponed since 1943 due to World War II, the
first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Games>
1992:
Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed at least 161
ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly in the Nagorno-
Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_Massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Nadsat:
The Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony
Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nadsat>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and
get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the
white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept
quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.
--George Harrison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Harrison>