Constantine III (died 411) was a common Roman soldier who was declared
emperor in Roman Britain in 407. He moved to Gaul (modern France),
taking all of the mobile troops and their commander Gerontius from
Britain to confront bands of Germanic invaders. Constantine stabilised
the situation and established control over Gaul and Hispania (modern
Spain and Portugal). Honorius, the Western Roman emperor, sent an army
to expel Constantine's forces. After initial victories it was repulsed.
In early 409 Honorius recognised Constantine as co-emperor. Constantine
in turn raised his oldest son to co-emperor as Constans II. In 409
Gerontius rebelled, defeating and killing Constans in early 411.
Meanwhile, Honorius appointed a new general, Constantius, who besieged
Constantine in Arles. A relief force was ambushed and he abdicated, took
holy orders and – promised his life – surrendered. Constantius had
lied: Constantine was killed and his head presented to Honorius on a
pole in September 411.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_III_%28Western_Roman_emperor%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1559:
Presbyterian clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead
the Scottish Reformation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox>
1999:
Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President
of Panama.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireya_Moscoso>
2003:
Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two
weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Manou>
2011:
Osama bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 in
a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
coppish:
(chiefly US, slang) Characteristic of or resembling a cop (“police
officer”). [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coppish>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't know what's right and what's real anymore And I don't
know how I'm meant to feel anymore And when do you think it will all
become clear? 'Cause I'm being taken over by the fear.
--Lily Allen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lily_Allen>
The 2022 World Snooker Championship was a professional tournament held
from 16 April to 2 May 2022 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield,
England, its 46th consecutive year there. Broadcast by the BBC in the UK
and by others elsewhere, the championship had £2,395,000 in prizes,
with £500,000 for the winner. Ronnie O'Sullivan (pictured) made his
30th Crucible appearance, equalling Steve Davis's record. Reaching a
record 20th quarter-final and a record 13th semi-final, O'Sullivan
defeated Judd Trump 18–13 to equal Stephen Hendry's record of seven
world titles. Aged 46 years and 148 days, he became the oldest world
champion in snooker history, beating Ray Reardon, who was aged 45 years
and 203 days in 1978. The main stage had a record 109 century breaks,
with 16 by Mark Williams, who equalled Hendry's 2002 record. Neil
Robertson made the 12th maximum break at the Crucible, against Jack
Lisowski in the second round. Mark Selby and Yan Bingtao's 85-minute
frame was the longest in Crucible history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_World_Snooker_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1625:
Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces
recaptured the Brazilian city of Salvador, which had previously been
captured by the Dutch Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapture_of_Salvador>
1931:
New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest
building in the world, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building>
1941:
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director
Orson Welles, premiered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane>
1945:
Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a
successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the
advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elephant_Point>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dovetail:
1. The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the
shape of a dove's tail.
2. (chiefly woodworking, often attributively)
3. In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components
are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a
dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes.
4. A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it
interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail
joint.
5. (heraldry) A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).
6. (transitive)
7. (chiefly woodworking) To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun
sense 2.1) or similar joint.
8. (figuratively)
9. To combine or fit (things) together well.
10. (computing) To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so
that they can be run more or less simultaneously.
11. (intransitive, figuratively) Of several things: to combine or fit
together well.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dovetail>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives
a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
--Joseph Addison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison>
Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, England, on the English Channel.
Situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey, the town had
a population of 53,427 in 2021, the third-largest in Dorset. The town
had roles in the spread of the Black Death, the settlement of the
Americas and the development of Georgian architecture. It was also a
major departure point for the Normandy landings during World War II.
Since 2019, the area has been governed by Dorset Council. Weymouth's
economy depends on tourism. Visitors are attracted by its harbour
(pictured) and position, approximately halfway along the Jurassic Coast.
Once a port for cross-channel ferries, Weymouth Harbour is now home to a
commercial fishing fleet, pleasure boats and private yachts, while
nearby Portland Harbour is the location of the Weymouth and Portland
National Sailing Academy, where the sailing events of the 2012 Summer
Olympics and Paralympics were held.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weymouth,_Dorset>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1943:
Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began
Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of
Sicily.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat>
1963:
A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and
General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led
to a bus boycott in Bristol, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Bus_Boycott>
1975:
American forces completed a helicopter evacuation (aircraft and
evacuees pictured) of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and
others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the
city, ending the Vietnam War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon>
2021:
A crowd crush during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi
Shimon bar Yochai in Israel, killed 45 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Meron_crowd_crush>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
obliterate:
1. (transitive)
2. To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to
annihilate, to wipe out.
3. To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.
4. (also figuratively) To make (a drawing, text which is printed or
written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to
blot out, to efface, to delete.
5. (biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive) To impair the function
and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or
occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).
6. (philately) To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot
be reused.
7. (intransitive)
8. To remove completely, leaving no trace.
9. (biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or
fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to
obstruction.
10. (except poetic) Completely destroyed or erased; effaced,
obliterated.
11. (entomology, rare) Of markings on an insect: difficult to
distinguish from the background; faint, indistinct.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obliterate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied
until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing
briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
--Carl Friedrich Gauss
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss>
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is an American mockumentary
musical drama television series created by Tim Federle for Disney+,
which was first released on November 8, 2019. The first season centers
on a group of teenage theater enthusiasts (played by Olivia Rodrigo,
Joshua Bassett, Matt Cornett, Sofia Wylie and others) who participate in
a staging of High School Musical: The Musical as their school
production. The series is set at a fictionalized version of East High
School (pictured), where the original High School Musical film series
was filmed. Several cast members from the film series appear in guest
roles. Critics have highlighted the performances of Bassett and Rodrigo,
and have compared the series to Glee for its music and themes. There has
been a mixed reception to the program's mockumentary format. The series
won a GLAAD Media Award and was nominated for five Children's and Family
Emmy Awards. The third season premiered in July 2022; a fourth season
is in production.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_Musical:_The_Musical:_The_Series>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1863:
Confederate forts at Grand Gulf survived a bombardment by Union
gunboats, preventing David Dixon Porter's troops from crossing the
Mississippi River at that point.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Gulf>
1903:
A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank
under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slide>
1975:
Vietnam War: North Vietnam concluded its East Sea Campaign by
capturing all of the Spratly Islands held by South Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sea_Campaign>
2006:
Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe, Myanmar, causing 37
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Mala>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pole star:
1. (astronomy) The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past,
is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet.
2. (figuratively) A person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide; a
guiding light; also, something which attracts much attention; a centre
of attention.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pole_star>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The fact is: almost everything is funny. You just have to have a
way of looking at it.
--Jerry Seinfeld
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld>
Beograd was the lead ship of a class of destroyers built for the Royal
Yugoslav Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned on 28 April 1939, she
was damaged by a near miss during an air attack following the German-led
Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, and then captured by the
Italians. After refitting, she saw extensive service with the Royal
Italian Navy from August 1941 to September 1943, completing more than
100 convoy escort missions under the name Sebenico in the Mediterranean,
mainly between Italy and the Aegean or North Africa. Following the
Italian armistice in September 1943, she was captured by the German
Navy and redesignated TA43. After serving with the 9th Torpedo Boat
Flotilla on escort and minelaying duties in the northern Adriatic, she
was sunk or scuttled at Trieste on 30 April or 1 May 1945, raised in
June 1946, probably to remove her as a navigation hazard, and scuttled
again either in July 1946 or in 1947. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Ships_of_the_Royal_…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal
Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander William Bligh in
the South Pacific.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty>
1923:
The 1923 FA Cup final (crowd and police pictured) between
Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day of the
Empire Stadium in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_FA_Cup_final>
1945:
World War II: Benito Mussolini, the deposed fascist dictator
of Italy, was executed by partisans in Giulino.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini>
1983:
The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from the
purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut:
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, idiomatic, informal) To
use disproportionate or significantly excessive force to carry out an
action; to do something overzealously.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/use_a_sledgehammer_to_crack_a_nut>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam's life had been finding
out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out
that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a
grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
--Night Watch
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld#Night_Watch_%282002%29>
Bacteria are ubiquitous, mostly free-living microorganisms often
consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a domain of
prokaryotic microorganisms. Among the first life forms to appear on
Earth, bacteria are present in most habitats. They are vital in many
stages of the nutrient cycle, where they recycle nutrients. The study of
bacteria is known as bacteriology, a branch of microbiology. Humans and
most other animals carry millions of bacteria; most bacteria in and on
the body are harmless or rendered so by the immune system, and many are
beneficial. Several species are pathogenic and cause infectious
diseases. Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and are
also used in farming, making antibiotic resistance a growing problem.
Bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-
bound organelles. Their scientific classification changed after the
discovery in the 1990s that prokaryotes consist of two groups of
organisms that evolved from a common ancestor.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1650:
Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the
Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain,
Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carbisdale>
1945:
World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-
Country Cairn was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the
end of the Lapland War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_the_Three-Country_Cairn>
1965:
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a
surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plaman_Mapu>
2005:
The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made
its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
level best:
(idiomatic) The very best that one can do.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/level_best>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse —
That we who lived by honest dreams Defend the bad against the worse.
--Cecil Day Lewis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cecil_Day_Lewis>
When Megan Went Away is a 1979 children's picture book written by Jane
Severance (pictured) and illustrated by Tea Schook. The book, featuring
lesbian parents, was the first picture book to include any LGBT
characters. Published by Lollipop Power, an American independent press,
the book depicts a child named Shannon dealing with the separation of
her mother and her mother's partner, Megan. As a lesbian working in a
feminist bookstore in Denver in her early twenties, Severance sought to
rectify the lack of picture book content for children with lesbian
parents in her community. When Megan Went Away was not widely
distributed upon publication, although the text of the story was
republished by the magazine Ms. in 1986 under the pen name R. Minta
Day. The work proved divisive among critics. Some praised the story for
being an anti-sexist example of lesbian life. Others found its depiction
of same-sex separation poorly timed, arriving at a moment when lesbian
motherhood was on the rise.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Megan_Went_Away>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1915:
First World War: Britain, France and Russia signed a secret
treaty promising territory to Italy if it joined the war on their side.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_%281915%29>
1933:
The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany,
was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo>
1989:
A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh and
killed an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest tornado in
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daulatpur%E2%80%93Saturia_tornado>
1994:
Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of
China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeoff/go-around
switch, causing the aircraft to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people
on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_140>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
DNA:
1. (biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid (“a
nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such
as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that
coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure
are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and
reproduction”).
2. (informal, loosely) The part of a living thing that carries genetic
information.
3. (figuratively) The fundamental nature or values of a person, or an
organization or other thing, especially when considered as innate and/or
immutable.
4. (transitive) To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic
acid. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/DNA>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We still have wars and we still have poverty — as long as these
things exist, there's always going to be something to do. But that
cannot distract from the fact that we're on the way.
--Harry Belafonte
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte>
Alfred Shout (1882–1915) was a New Zealand–born soldier and
posthumous Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest
decoration for combat gallantry awarded to members of the British and
Commonwealth armed forces. It was bestowed for his actions at Lone Pine
in August 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.
Born in Wellington, Shout had served in the Second Boer War, where he
was mentioned in despatches. He immigrated to Sydney in 1907 and was
active in the part-time Citizens Forces. In August 1914, he joined the
Australian Imperial Force and was appointed a lieutenant in the 1st
Battalion. He took part in the Anzac landings at Gallipoli on 25 April
1915. For his leadership during the invasion, Shout was awarded the
Military Cross and later mentioned in despatches. Shout's three
gallantry awards at Gallipoli made him the most highly decorated member
of the Australian force in the campaign.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Shout>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1915:
First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape
Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the
Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign>
1960:
The U.S. Navy submarine Triton completed the first submerged
circumnavigation of the world.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandblast>
1983:
The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Post>
2015:
Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, killing more
than 8,000 people, including 22 from avalanches on Mount Everest.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mount_Everest_avalanches>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
zambuk:
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A St. John Ambulance first-aider,
especially at a sports event. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zambuk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't believe that it can end. Now that I've seen what war is,
what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end,
ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are
they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does
it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for
them is the war really over.
--Cesare Pavese
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese>
Armenian genocide denial is the claim that the Ottoman Empire did not
commit genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War I—a
crime widely documented and affirmed by the vast majority of scholars.
The perpetrators denied the genocide as they carried it out;
incriminating documents were later systematically destroyed. Denial has
been the policy of every government of the Republic of Turkey, and rests
on the assumption that the "relocation" of Armenians was a legitimate
state action, not deliberate extermination. Deniers claim the death toll
is exaggerated or attribute the deaths to other factors. Ronald Grigor
Suny states that the main argument is "there was no genocide, and the
Armenians were to blame for it". An important reason for this denial is
that the genocide enabled the establishment of a Turkish nation-state;
recognition would contradict Turkey's founding myths. The Turkish
state's century-long denial of the genocide sets it apart from other
cases of genocide.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide_denial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1916:
Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising
against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an
independent state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising>
1944:
World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a
successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek island of
Santorini.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Santorini>
1990:
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space
Shuttle Discovery.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope>
1993:
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in
London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring
forty-four others, and causing damage that cost £350 million to repair.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bishopsgate_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
soft-pedal:
1. (transitive)
2. To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
3. (figuratively) To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp,
to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of
(something); to play down, to tone down.
4. (figuratively) To attempt to persuade someone about (something)
through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as
obvious.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less
assertive or forceful manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft-pedal>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be
contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the
big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.
--Robert Penn Warren
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Penn_Warren>
Angel Locsin (born April 23, 1985) is a Filipina actress and
humanitarian. She has received four Star Awards, three FAMAS Awards, two
Box Office Entertainment Awards, and a Luna Award, and was named one of
Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy by Forbes and Asia's Leaders of Tomorrow
by Tatler. She had her breakthrough as an avian-human hybrid in the
fantasy series Mulawin (2004), before starring as Darna in the Ravelo
Komiks Universe series Darna (2005). The role of a fledgling werewolf in
the supernatural drama series Lobo (2008) earned her an International
Emmy Award nomination for Best Actress. Locsin drew praise for the
critically acclaimed dramas Love Me Again (2009), In the Name of Love
(2011), and One More Try (2012). She won a Star Award for playing an
indoctrinated military nurse in the spy action series The General's
Daughter (2019). Locsin promotes various causes, including disaster
relief, education, and women's rights. (This article is part of a
featured topic: Overview of Angel Locsin.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Overview_of_Angel_L…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
World War II: The US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated
Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, freeing 1,500 prisoners.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossenb%C3%BCrg_concentration_camp>
1976:
The Ramones released their eponymous debut album, which became
highly influential on the emerging punk rock movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones_%28album%29>
1979:
Blair Peach, a British activist, was fatally injured after
being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration in
Southall, London, against a National Front election meeting.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Blair_Peach>
2018:
A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge
Street in Toronto, Canada, leading to 11 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_van_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unreliable narrator:
(literary theory) A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or
other artistic work (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides
conflicting, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise questionable
information to the audience or reader.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unreliable_narrator>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous
mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!
--The Tempest
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Tempest>