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
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Harrison>
Eye is a collection by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen for
his fashion house, inspired by the culture of the Middle East,
particularly Islamic clothing, as well as the oppression of women in
Islamic culture and their resistance. The collection crosses traditional
garments with elements drawn from Western fashion. Jeweller Shaun Leane
provided the collection's best-known design: a yashmak made from
chainmail. The runway show for Eye was staged at Pier 94 in New York
City on 16 September 1999, while Hurricane Floyd was threatening the
city; more than 1,000 guests attended. The show was presented on a
runway flooded with several inches of water, dyed black to resemble oil.
A bed of nails rose up from the water for the finale, which featured
acrobats dressed in robes descending from the ceiling, suspended from
wires. When McQueen walked out for his final bow, he dropped his
trousers to display boxer shorts styled to look like the American flag.
Critical response to Eye was mixed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_%28Alexander_McQueen_collection%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1934:
The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for
self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from
the United States after a period of ten years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tydings%E2%80%93McDuffie_Act>
1939:
Members of the German National Movement in Liechtenstein
attempted to overthrow the government and provoke Liechtenstein's
annexation into Nazi Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Liechtenstein_putsch>
1964:
Royal assent was given to Prince Edward Island's Provincial
Flag Act, which outlined the design of its provincial flag (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Prince_Edward_Island>
2006:
Hannah Montana, starring Miley Cyrus as an actress whose alter
ego is the titular character, premiered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Montana>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
turn a blind eye:
(intransitive, idiomatic) To deliberately or knowingly ignore, overlook,
or refuse to acknowledge something, especially when improper or
unpleasant; to look the other way.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn_a_blind_eye>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I will tell thee this one thing, that there be many hypocrites,
and, nevertheless, they think themselves to be none, and that there be
many that dread and fear themselves to be hypocrites, and soothly are
none; who is the one, and who is the other, God knows, and none but He.
Whoso will humbly dread, shall not be beguiled, and whoso thinketh
himself secure, he may lightly fall.
--Walter Hilton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Hilton>
Argosy was an American magazine, founded by Frank Munsey in 1882 as a
children's weekly. In 1896 it became the first pulp magazine, printing
only fiction and using cheap pulp paper. Circulation rose and remained
strong for decades, but fell to no more than 50,000 by 1942. Many famous
writers appeared in Argosy, including O. Henry, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
Erle Stanley Gardner, and Robert E. Howard. It was sold in 1942 to
Popular Publications and converted from pulp to slick format, and then
to a men's magazine, carrying fiction and feature articles. Circulation
soared to well over one million. From 1948 to 1958 it published a series
by Gardner which examined the cases of dozens of convicts who maintained
their innocence. It succeeded in overturning many of their convictions.
In 1972 Popular sold the magazine to David Geller. He sold it to the
Filipacchi Group in 1978, which closed it down at the end of the year.
The title has been revived several times, most recently in 2016.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argosy_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1931:
Bhagat Singh, one of the most influential revolutionaries of
the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the
British authorities.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh>
1989:
Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim
which was later discredited.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion>
1994:
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's
Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 16
-year-old son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the
controls.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593>
2005:
A fire and explosion at the third-largest oil refinery in the
United States killed 15 workers and kicked off process safety programs
throughout the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_refinery_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
plum rains:
Also occasionally in the singular form plum rain: the East Asian rainy
season from early summer to midsummer in the fourth and fifth lunar
months (early June to early or mid-July); also, the rain which falls
during this season.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plum_rains>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Spinoza formulated the problem of the socially patterned defect
very clearly. He says: "Many people are seized by one and the same
affect with great consistency. All his senses are so affected by one
object that he believes this object to be present even when it is not.
If this happens while the person is awake, the person is believed to be
insane. … but if the greedy person thinks only of money and
possessions, the ambitious one only of fame, one does not think of them
as being insane, but only has annoying; generally one has contempt for
them. But factually greediness, ambition, and so forth are forms of
insanity, although usually one does not think of them as 'illness.'"
These words were written a few hundred years ago; they still hold true,
although the defects have been culturally patterned to such an extent
now that they are not even generally thought any more to be annoying or
contemptible.
--The Sane Society
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Sane_Society>
Pinnipeds, including true seals, walruses and sea lions and fur seals,
are a widely distributed and diverse clade of semiaquatic, mostly marine
mammals of the order Carnivora. There are 34 living species. They have
streamlined bodies and four limbs that have evolved into flippers. Males
typically mate with more than one female, and the females raise the
pups, often born in the spring and summer months. Pinnipeds generally
prefer colder waters and spend most of their time in the water, but come
ashore to mate, give birth, molt or escape from predators such as sharks
and orcas. Humans have hunted seals since at least the Stone Age, and
commercial sealing had a devastating effect on some species from the
introduction of firearms through the 1960s. Populations have also been
reduced or displaced by accidental trapping and marine pollution. All
pinniped species are now afforded some protections under international
law.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinniped>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1638:
Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson>
1896:
Charilaos Vasilakos won the first modern marathon in
preparation for the inaugural Summer Olympics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charilaos_Vasilakos>
1913:
Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed emperor of Vietnam, was
arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French
Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the
following day.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_X%C3%ADch_Long>
1984:
Teachers at a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were
falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren, leading to the
longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial>
1995:
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space
station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record
for the longest spaceflight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mizzly:
(Britain, chiefly dialectal) Raining in the form of mizzle (“misty rain;
drizzle”); drizzly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mizzly>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Most Americans, in their sweet innocence, think that class has to
do with money. But a glance at Donald Trump and Leona Helmsley will
indicate that it has very little to do with money. It has to do with
taste and style, and it has to do with the development of those features
by acts of character. That was one of my points: to try to separate
class from mercantilism or commercialism.
--Paul Fussell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell>
William Y. Slack (August 1, 1816 – March 21, 1862) was an American
lawyer, politician and soldier. A peacetime lawyer, Slack served in the
Missouri General Assembly from 1842 to 1843 and saw combat in the
Mexican–American War. After the outbreak of the American Civil War in
April 1861, Slack, who held pro-slavery views, supported the
Confederate cause. When the Missouri State Guard was formed the next
month to oppose the Union Army, he was appointed as a brigadier general,
commanding its 4th Division. After participating in the Battle of
Carthage in July, he fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek on
August 10, where he suffered a bad hip wound. He transferred to the
Confederate Army in late 1861 as a colonel. On March 7, 1862, during
the Battle of Pea Ridge, he was wounded again. Infection set in, and he
died on March 21. He was posthumously promoted to brigadier general in
the Confederate Army on April 17; the Confederate Senate may not have
known that he was dead.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Y._Slack>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1913:
More than 360 were killed and 20,000 homes were destroyed in
the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dayton_Flood>
1968:
War of Attrition: The Battle of Karameh took place between the
Israel Defense Forces and allied troops of the Palestine Liberation
Organization and the Jordanian Armed Forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karameh>
1980:
The American soap opera Dallas aired the episode "A House
Divided", which led to eight months of international speculation on "Who
shot J.R.?"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_House_Divided_%28Dallas%29>
2019:
A major explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng, China,
killed 78 people and injured 640 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Xiangshui_chemical_plant_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
drift of the forest:
(Britain, law, historical) The act of driving or herding cattle in a
forest to a particular place in order to determine who they belong to
and whether the owners have a right to common or pasture them in the
forest, and whether any fines should be paid by those without such a
right.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drift_of_the_forest>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the
kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the
unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward
the misanthropic.
--Jean Paul
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Paul>
The American Bank Note Company Printing Plant is a repurposed complex of
three interconnected buildings in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the
Bronx in New York City. The innovative Kirby, Petit & Green design was
built in 1909–1911 by the American Bank Note Company on land which had
previously been part of Edward G. Faile's country estate. A wide
variety of financial instruments were printed there; at one point, over
five million documents were produced per day, including half the
securities traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Although the plant
printed currency for many countries around the world, it was best known
for producing Latin American banknotes, which led to it being the target
of a FALN terrorist bombing in 1977. The facility was used by American
Bank Note until about 1984, after which it was sold, redeveloped as
commercial space, subdivided, and designated a New York City landmark.
Major tenants include a charter school and the New York City Human
Resources Administration.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bank_Note_Company_Printing_Plant>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
An earthquake occurred in the Argentine province of Mendoza,
causing at least 6,000 deaths and destroying most of the buildings in
the province's capital city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861_Mendoza_earthquake>
1922:
The United States Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier,
USS Langley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Langley_%28CV-1%29>
1944:
World War II: U.S. Marines made a landing on Emirau Island in
the Bismarck Archipelago to develop an airbase as part of Operation
Cartwheel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_on_Emirau>
1987:
The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (chemical structure
pictured) became the first treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration for HIV/AIDS.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine>
2014:
Taliban militants killed nine civilians in a mass shooting at
the Kabul Serena Hotel in Afghanistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anodontia:
(dentistry, teratology) The congenital absence of some or all primary or
permanent teeth, caused by a rare genetic disorder.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anodontia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be
thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of
this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks,
my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The
trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley>
George Griffith (1857–1906) was a British writer. He was active mainly
in the science fiction genre, writing many future-war stories and
helping to shape that emerging subgenre. He was briefly the leading
science fiction author in Britain, making his breakthrough with his
debut novel The Angel of the Revolution (1893), which was first
serialized in Pearson's Weekly. He followed it up with the likewise
successful sequel Olga Romanoff (1894). Griffith was highly active as a
writer throughout the 1890s, penning many short works for C. Arthur
Pearson, and went on travel assignments. These included an 1896 trip to
Southern Africa that resulted in Griffith writing the novel Briton or
Boer? (1897), anticipating the Boer War (1899–1902). Griffith's career
declined in the late 1890s, and he was surpassed by H. G. Wells in the
eyes of Pearson and the reading public. His last outright success was A
Honeymoon in Space (1901). He continued to write prolifically up until
his death at the age of 48.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Griffith>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1824:
American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a
voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Morrell>
1944:
The secular oratorio A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett
premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tippett>
1998:
An unscheduled Ariana Afghan Airlines flight crashed into a
mountain on approach into Kabul, killing all 45 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Ariana_Afghan_Airlines_Boeing_727_crash>
2011:
First Libyan Civil War: The French Air Force launched
Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Harmattan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
elucidate:
1. (obsolete) To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear,
transparent”).
2. (figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to
clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
3. (obsolete) Clear, understandable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elucidate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can't undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.
--Bruce Willis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bruce_Willis>
Attalus I (269–197 BC) ruled the Ionian Greek Pergamene Kingdom from
241 BC until his death. He won an important victory, the Battle of the
Caecus River, against the Galatians, a group of migratory Celtic tribes
from Thrace, who had been plundering and exacting tribute through most
of Asia Minor for decades. The victory was celebrated with a triumphal
monument at Pergamon (The Dying Gaul) and Attalus taking the title of
king (basileus). He participated as an ally of Rome in the First and
Second Macedonian Wars against Philip V of Macedon. He conducted
numerous naval operations in the Aegean, gaining the island of Aegina
for Pergamon during the first war and Andros during the second. Attalus
styled himself as a protector of the freedoms of the Greek cities of
Asia Minor and portrayed himself as the champion of Greeks against
barbarians. He funded art and monuments in Pergamon and in Greek cities
he sought to cultivate as allies. He died at the age of 72 and was
succeeded by his son Eumenes II.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attalus_I>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1277:
Charles I of Anjou acquired a claim on the Kingdom of
Jerusalem in exchange for a significant sum of money.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_Anjou>
1906:
Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a
heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Vuia>
1959:
Tibetan uprising: After the 14th Dalai Lama sought refuge at
Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, Chinese forces bombarded the monastery,
inflicting severe destruction and killing hundreds of Buddhist monks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sera_Monastery>
1977:
The punk group the Clash released their first single, "White
Riot", described as their "most controversial song" due to its lyrics
about class economics and race.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Riot>
2019:
Syrian civil war: The U.S. Air Force carried out an airstrike
in al-Baghuz Fawqani, killing 64 civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_U.S._airstrike_in_Baghuz>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brickbat:
1. A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for
example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a
club).
2. (figurative) A piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly)
uncomplimentary remark.
3. To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats
(noun sense 1).
4. (figurative) To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brickbat>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I see myself immersed in the depths of human existence and
standing in the face of the ineffable mystery of the world and of all
that is. And in that situation, I am made poignantly and burningly aware
that the world cannot be self-sufficient, that there is hidden in some
still greater depth a mysterious, transcendent meaning. This meaning is
called God. Men have not been able to find a loftier name, although they
have abused it to the extent of making it almost unutterable. God can be
denied only on the surface; but he cannot be denied where human
experience reaches down beneath the surface of flat, vapid, commonplace
existence.
--Nikolai Berdyaev
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev>
The black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) is in the grebe family of
water birds. During the breeding season, the head, neck, and breast are
dark, with some yellow behind the eyes; the flanks are tawny rufous to
maroon-chestnut; and the abdomen is white. The non-breeding bird has
greyish flanks and no yellow feathers. This species is present in parts
of Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. It catches insects on the surface
of the water, in flight, or occasionally on foliage, and dives to catch
crustaceans, molluscs, tadpoles, and small frogs and fish. It makes a
floating cup nest on an open lake, in which three or four eggs hatch
after a 21-day incubation period. After about 10 days, the parents
divide the brood between themselves, and after roughly 10 more days, the
chicks become independent. The black-necked grebe travels as far as
6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) during migration, in the course of which it
pauses to moult.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-necked_grebe>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1902:
The Dorchester Heights Monument, memorializing the siege of
Boston during the American Revolutionary War, was dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester_Heights_Monument>
1957:
A plane crash on the slopes of Mount Manunggal killed
Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Cebu_Douglas_C-47_crash>
1979:
The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the Scottish Borders region of
Scotland collapsed during refurbishing construction, killing two
workers, and leading to the abandonment of the tunnel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penmanshiel_Tunnel>
2004:
Unrest in Kosovo broke out, resulting in the deaths of 28, the
wounding of more than 600 others, and the destruction of several Serb
Orthodox churches and shrines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_unrest_in_Kosovo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wet the shamrock:
(idiomatic, intransitive, Ireland, informal) To go for an alcoholic
drink, especially as part of a victory celebration or on Saint Patrick's
Day.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wet_the_shamrock>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers
unread; The best of thoughts which he hath known For lack of listeners
are not said.
--Jean Ingelow
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Ingelow>
Jamie Kalven (born 1948) is an American journalist, author, human rights
activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. He founded
the Invisible Institute, a non-profit journalism organization based in
Chicago's South Side. Kalven has been referred to as a "guerrilla
journalist" by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel. His work in the city has
included reporting on police misconduct and poor conditions of public
housing. Kalven won a landmark court case – Kalven v. City of
Chicago – which held that police misconduct records are public
information under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Thereafter,
the Institute became a hub for information related to police misconduct
in Chicago. In the aftermath of the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald by a
police officer, Kalven received accolades for obtaining a copy of an
autopsy report showing that McDonald had been shot 16 times execution-
style, contradicting official reports of a single gunshot wound.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Kalven>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
The Royal Welch Fusiliers (cap badge pictured), one of the
oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers>
1819:
The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings
bank in New York City, was incorporated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_Savings_in_the_City_of_New-York>
1984:
William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station
chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley>
1988:
Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of
three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at
least sixty others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Cemetery_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
comely:
1. (dated or archaic)
2. Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome;
also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
3. Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or
social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.
4. Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine.
5. (obsolete) Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice,
pleasant. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comely>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I like mindful people. Fear prevents mindfulness, and then greed
marches in because you are fearful, so you feel like you have to shore
everything up.
--Ursula Goodenough
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_Goodenough>