Marshfield was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L" in the U.S.
between 1895 and 1954. Originally part of the Metropolitan West Side
Elevated Railroad, it was the westernmost station of the Metropolitan's
main line. West of the station, the main line diverged into three
branches; this junction, served by the station, has been described as
the most complex on the entire Chicago "L" system. After 1905, the
Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, an interurban line, also served the
station, but limited its service based on direction to avoid competing
with the "L". The lines that had been constructed by the Metropolitan,
including those serving Marshfield, were subject to modifications
planned since the 1930s that incrementally withdrew service from the
station. It fully closed on April 4, 1954, and was demolished shortly
thereafter. The junction Marshfield served was rebuilt in reduced form,
but with a new station on Racine Avenue to the east.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshfield_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1081:
The Komnenos dynasty came to full power with the coronation of
Alexios I Komnenos as Byzantine emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos>
1859:
Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New
York City as part of their blackface show.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_%28song%29>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing
NATO, an international military alliance whereby its member states agree
to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
1973:
A year after the completion of the second of the complex's twin
towers, the World Trade Center in New York City was officially
dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_%281973%E2%80%932001%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anoxia:
(ecology, pathology) A condition in which a body tissue or an
environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen; severe hypoxia.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anoxia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant
goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that
goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.>
Daytona USA is an arcade racing game developed by Sega AM2 and published
by Sega in March 1994. Inspired by the popularity of the NASCAR motor
racing series in the US, the game has players race stock cars on one of
three courses. It was the first arcade game to be released on the Sega
Model 2, an arcade system board which was co-developed by GE Aerospace.
AM2's Toshihiro Nagoshi (pictured) became the game's director and co-
producer. Sega aimed to outperform Namco's Ridge Racer (1993). The
developers researched motorsports extensively and mapped Daytona
International Speedway. Daytona USA was a critical and commercial
success, praised for its graphics, soundtrack and gameplay. A conversion
was made for the Sega Saturn in 1995, and was followed by sequels and
enhancements for consoles and arcades. Daytona USA is one of the
highest-grossing arcade video games ever, and has been frequently named
one of the best video games of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_USA>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1984:
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be
launched into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh_Sharma>
1996:
A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while
attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia,
killing all 35 people on board, including Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Croatia_USAF_CT-43_crash>
2009:
A gunman opened fire at an American Planning and Civic
Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing
thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shooting>
2013:
The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina,
experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Argentina_floods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
the organ grinder, not the monkey:
(idiomatic) Synonym of organ grinder (“the person who is in charge,
rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for
another's actions”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_organ_grinder%2C_not_the_monkey>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never
dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. It is only
spurious pride that is morbid and sensitive, and shrinks from every
touch.
--Washington Irving
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Washington_Irving>
Morgan Bulkeley (1837–1922) was an American politician and business
executive from Connecticut, who was, in 1876, the first president of
baseball's National League. A Civil War veteran and the son of the first
president of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, Bulkeley also led Aetna,
from 1879 until his death. A Republican, he was from 1880 to 1888 mayor
of Hartford, and starting in 1889 served as governor of Connecticut. He
controversially remained in office for a second two-year term because
the houses of the state legislature could not agree about the outcome of
the 1890 election. A Democratic official locked a door in the State
Capitol against him, and Bulkeley had it opened with a crowbar, thus
becoming "the Crowbar Governor". He left office in 1893, and served as a
U.S. senator from 1905 to 1911. After his death in 1922, a bridge and a
high school were named for him. His induction in 1937 into the Baseball
Hall of Fame remains controversial because his involvement in the game
was brief.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Bulkeley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1979:
Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military
research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, causing around 100
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak>
1982:
Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking
the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_invasion_of_the_Falkland_Islands>
1992:
Bosnian War: At least 48 civilians were massacred in the town
of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijeljina_massacre>
2012:
A gunman shot at people inside Oikos University, a Korean
Christian college in Oakland, California, leaving seven people dead and
three injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Oikos_University_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys:
(Britain, informal) Offering a low payment or salary will not attract
skilled workers or employees.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_you_pay_peanuts%2C_you_get_monkeys>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the
course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I
am a free agent.
--Giacomo Casanova
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova>
The Order of Brothelyngham was a gang of men who, in mid-14th-century
England, formed themselves into a fake religious order in Exeter, Devon.
Styling themselves as theatrical players, they terrorised, kidnapped and
extorted the locals. They may well have been satirising the church,
which was commonly perceived as corrupt. The group appears to have named
itself after a non-existent place, "Brothelyngham". The name was
probably meant as an allusion to the Order of Sempringham, which was
known to enclose both monks and nuns on the same premises. Members of
the Order of Brothelyngham dressed as monks. They supposedly elected a
madman to rule them as their abbot, possibly from a theatrical stage,
and bore their ruler aloft before them in a mockery of a bishop's
throne. As one of the few such gangs known to modern historians, the
order is considered significant for what it suggests of anticlerical
activities and attitudes in England during the period.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Brothelyngham>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1952:
Israel enacted a citizenship law, prior to which the country
technically had no citizens.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_citizenship_law>
1969:
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter
aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air
Force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier>
2001:
Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was legalised, with the
country becoming the first to do so.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Netherlands>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
oo oo aa aa:
(onomatopoeia) Used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oo_oo_aa_aa>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
--Edmond Rostand
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmond_Rostand>
The Jarrow March (5–31 October 1936) was a protest against the
unemployment and poverty suffered in the Tyneside town of Jarrow, in
North East England, during the 1930s. Around 200 men marched from Jarrow
to London to petition the government to restore industry in the town
after the closure in 1934 of Palmer's shipyard. Palmer's had launched
more than 1,000 ships since 1852. In the 1920s, a combination of
mismanagement and changed world trade conditions caused a decline which
led to the yard's closure. When plans for its replacement by a
steelworks were thwarted, the lack of any large-scale employment in the
town led the borough council to organise the march. The House of Commons
received the petition but took no action, and the march produced few
immediate results. The Jarrovians went home believing that they had
failed. In subsequent years the Jarrow March became recognised as a
defining event of the 1930s and helped to prepare the way for wide
social reform after the Second World War.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First
Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Malolos>
1959:
After a two-week escape journey from Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama
reached the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawang_Monastery>
1964:
The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart,
establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2004:
The Old National Library Building in Singapore was closed to
make way for a tunnel, despite widespread protests.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_National_Library_Building>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
transgender:
1. (broadly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different
from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans
woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-
gender.
2. (strictly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite
from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a
female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary
identity).
3. (loosely) Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with
culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
4. Of or pertaining to transgender people (sense 1), or their
experiences or identity.
5. Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.
6. Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only
non-transgender people.
7. Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”) [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgender>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many
sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but
I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you,
and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to
come also, That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and
succession, We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent among
disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that
is asserted, We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by
divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close
peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld,
free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our
ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time
and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove
brethren and lovers as we are.
--Leaves of Grass
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the first
lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President
Herbert Hoover. She was active in community groups, including the Girl
Scouts of the USA, which she led from 1922 to 1925 and from 1935 to
1937. She was the first woman to earn a geology degree from Stanford. In
the first twenty years of their marriage, the Hoovers lived in several
countries; during World War I, they led efforts to assist war refugees.
Beginning in 1917, they lived in Washington, D.C., as Herbert became a
high government official. In the White House, Lou Hoover dedicated her
time as first lady to her volunteer work, though she did not publicize
it. Her invitation of Jessie De Priest to the White House for tea was
controversial in the South. After Herbert's defeat for re-election in
1932, Lou Hoover continued her work, helping provide refugee support
with her husband during World War II, and died suddenly of a heart
attack in 1944.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Henry_Hoover>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1882:
The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal
service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven,
Connecticut, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus>
1974:
NASA's Mariner 10 became the first space probe to make a flyby
of Mercury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_10>
1999:
The Chamoli earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the
foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years, killed at least 100
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Chamoli_earthquake>
2014:
The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place
following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_Kingdom>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
misfield:
1. (transitive) To field (“catch or intercept and play”) (a ball)
clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring
another run.
2. (intransitive) To field a ball clumsily or ineptly.
3. (baseball, cricket, rugby) A failure to field (“catch or intercept
and play”) a ball properly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misfield>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sometimes a strange light shines, purer than the moon, casting
no shadow, that is the halo upon the bones of the pioneers who died
for truth.
--R. S. Thomas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas>
Royal Maundy is a religious service in the Church of England held on
Maundy Thursday. At the service, the British monarch or a royal official
distributes small silver coins known as "Maundy money". The name
"Maundy" and the ceremony derive from the instruction of Jesus at the
Last Supper that his followers should love one another. English monarchs
washed the feet of beggars in imitation of Jesus, and gave to the poor;
the latter custom survives through the Maundy gifts. Recipients were
once chosen for their poverty, but are now chosen for service to their
churches or communities. At the 2024 service at Worcester Cathedral, the
distribution is being made by Queen Camilla in place of her husband,
Charles III, following his diagnosis of cancer. The coins' obverse
design features the reigning monarch, while the reverse design features
a crowned numeral enclosed by a wreath. In most years there are fewer
than 2,000 complete sets of Maundy money; they are highly sought after
by collectors.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Maundy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1942:
Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied
France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid>
1946:
The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal
Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheson%E2%80%93Lilienthal_Report>
1979:
British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote
in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with
widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_Callaghan_m…>
1999:
Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93
Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izbica_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lumpish:
1. Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.
2. (figurative)
3. Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant.
4. Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish,
lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
5. Of sound: dull, heavy.
6. (obsolete)
7. Full of lumps; lumpy.
8. Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient
to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
9. (figurative) Miserable, sad.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lumpish>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I will not hesitate to tell my friends when I think they're wrong
and to tell my opponents when I think they're right.
--Joe Lieberman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman>
The battle of New Carthage, part of the Second Punic War, took place in
early 209 BC when a Roman army under Publius Scipio (bust pictured)
assaulted New Carthage, held by a Carthaginian garrison under Mago. Late
in 210 BC Scipio took command of Roman forces in Iberia (modern Spain
and Portugal) and decided to strike at the regional centre of
Carthaginian power: its capital, New Carthage. He marched on the city
and immediately attacked it. After defeating a Carthaginian force
outside the walls, he pressed attacks on the east gate and the walls.
Both were repulsed, but later that day Scipio renewed them. Hard-
pressed, Mago moved men from the north wall, overlooking a broad,
shallow lagoon. Anticipating this, a force of 500 men waded the lagoon
to scale the north wall unopposed. They fought their way to the east
gate, opened it from inside and let in their comrades. The city fell and
became a logistics centre for the Roman war effort. By 206 BC the
Carthaginians had been expelled from Iberia.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Carthage>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
Philippine–American War: American forces defeated troops
commanded by Philippine president Emilio Aguinaldo at the Battle of
Marilao River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marilao_River>
1958:
Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev>
1998:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug
sildenafil (chemical structure pictured), better known by the trade name
Viagra, for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill
to be approved for this condition in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil>
1999:
During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an Army of Yugoslavia
unit shot down a U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown>
2020:
North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia%E2%80%93NATO_relations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
floater:
1. A person who floats.
2. A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
3. (law enforcement, slang) A corpse floating in a body of water.
4. (figurative) A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation,
position, or role.
5. A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a
vagrant.
6. A person who frequently changes employment.
7. An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do
but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a
short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.
8. An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to
entertain the other (often female) guests.
9. (slang) A person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and
who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is
undesired by the group; a hanger-on.
10. (politics)
11. A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to
another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
12. (US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or
polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the
name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.
13. (US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a
legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one
formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a
number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its
own.
14. (sports) A player not affiliated with a team. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floater>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is
poor; He, who has mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none, Small is the work that you have
done, You've hit no traitor on the hip, You've dashed no cup from
perjured lip, You've never turned the wrong to right, You've been a
coward in the fight.
--Charles Mackay
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Mackay>
Felix of Burgundy (died 647 or 648) was a saint and the first bishop of
the kingdom of the East Angles. He is widely credited as the man who
introduced Christianity to the kingdom. Felix came from the Frankish
kingdom of Burgundy, and may have been a priest at one of the
monasteries in Francia founded by the Irish missionary
Columbanus—Felix may have been Bishop of Châlons, before being forced
to seek refuge elsewhere. Felix travelled from Burgundy to Canterbury
before being sent by Archbishop Honorius of Canterbury to the kingdom of
Sigeberht of East Anglia in about 630. Upon Felix's arrival in East
Anglia, Sigeberht gave him a see at Dommoc, possibly in Suffolk, either
at Walton, near Felixstowe, or at Dunwich. According to Bede, Felix
helped Sigeberht to establish a school in his kingdom. Felix died on
8 March 647 or 648, having been bishop for 17 years. His relics were
translated from Dommoc to Soham Abbey and then to the abbey at Ramsey.
Several English churches are dedicated to him.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_of_Burgundy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1651:
The Spanish ship San José ran aground onto coasts controlled
by the indigenous Cunco people, who subsequently killed the crew.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreckage_of_San_Jos%C3%A9>
1697:
The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman
city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_occupation_of_Basra>
1812:
The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term
"gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry, who approved the
legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry>
1939:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of
the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_offensive_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War>
1999:
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an
American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with
murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
attitudinize:
1. (transitive)
2. To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to
pose, to posture.
3. To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming
an affected or exaggerated attitude.
4. (intransitive)
5. To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected,
exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to
excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.
6. (figurative) To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes
affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attitudinize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths
being in and out of favor.
--Robert Frost
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Frost>
The first match between the association football teams of Scotland and
Wales took place on 25 March 1876 at Hamilton Crescent, Partick,
Scotland. The fixture was organised by Llewelyn Kenrick, who had founded
the Football Association of Wales only a few weeks earlier. The Welsh
team was selected after trial matches were held at the Racecourse Ground
in Wrexham, Wales. Scotland, the more experienced team, dominated the
match and had several chances to score in the first half. They had a
goal disallowed after scoring directly from a corner kick, before taking
the lead after 40 minutes through John Ferguson. In the early stages of
the second half, Wales attempted to play more openly to find a goal, but
the Scottish side took advantage of their opponent's inexperience and
scored two further goals. Scotland added a fourth through Henry McNeil
and claimed a victory in front of a crowd of around 17,000 people, a
record for an international fixture at the time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_Scotland_v_Wales_football_match>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1799:
War of the Second Coalition: In their second battle in seven
days, the French Army of the Danube and Habsburg forces battled for
control of the Hegau region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stockach_%281799%29>
1949:
The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000
"undesirable" people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi>
1959:
Chain Island was sold by California to a Sacramento businessman
who planned to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Island>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pleroma:
1. (botany)
2. A plant of the genus Pleroma.
3. (archaic or obsolete, rare) Synonym of plerome (“the central portion
of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according
to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”)
4. (Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being
as incarnated in Jesus Christ.
5. (Gnosticism, historical) Often preceded by the: the spiritual
universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleroma>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Bangladesh, Bangladesh Where so many people are dying fast And
it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such distress. Now won't you
lend your hand, try to understand? Relieve the people of Bangladesh.
--George Harrison
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