100px|Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg prior to 1915
Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854–1921) was a German prince related to
the British Royal Family. After a career in the United Kingdom's Royal
Navy lasting over forty years, in 1912 he was appointed First Sea Lord,
the professional head of the British naval service. He took steps to
ready the British fleet for combat as World War I began, but his
background as a German prince forced his retirement at the start of the
war when anti-German feeling was running high. Queen Victoria and her
son King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, occasionally intervened in
his career—the Queen thought that there was "a belief that the
Admiralty are afraid of promoting Officers who are Princes on account
of the radical attacks of low papers and scurrilous ones". However,
Louis welcomed battle assignments that provided opportunities for him
to acquire the skills of war and to demonstrate to his superiors that
he was serious about his naval career. Posts on royal yachts and tours
arranged by the Queen and Edward actually impeded his progress, as his
promotions were perceived as royal favours rather than deserved. He
married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and was the father of Earl
Mountbatten, who also served as First Sea Lord from 1954 to 1959.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, is his
grandson. (more...)
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1819:
British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein
Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the British
East India Company.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_modern_Singapore>
1833:
Otto became the first modern King of Greece.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of_Greece>
1922:
Britain, France, Japan, Italy and the United States signed the
Washington Naval Treaty to avoid a naval arms race.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty>
1952:
Elizabeth II ascended to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and three other Commonwealth countries upon the
death of her father, George VI.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II>
1976:
In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, Lockheed president Carl
Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately
US$3Â million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei
Tanaka.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
acculture (v):
To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an
immigrant
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acculture>
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I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world
peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when
everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national
security.
--Ronald Reagan
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100px|The high-resolution Voyager 2 image of Titania taken on January
24, 1986
Titania is the largest of the moons of Uranus and the eighth largest
moon in the Solar System. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787,
Titania is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream. Its orbit lies inside Uranus' magnetosphere.
Titania consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and rock, and is
likely differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. A layer of
liquid water may be present at the core–mantle boundary. The surface of
Titania, which is relatively dark and slightly red in color, appears to
have been shaped by both impacts and endogenic processes. It is covered
by numerous impact craters reaching 326Â km in diameter, but is less
heavily cratered than the surface of Uranus' outermost moon, Oberon.
Titania probably underwent an early endogenic resurfacing event that
obliterated its older, heavily cratered surface. Like all major moons
of Uranus, Titania probably formed from an accretion disk that
surrounded the planet just after its formation. As of 2011, the Uranian
system has been studied up close only once: by the spacecraft Voyager 2
in January 1986. It took several images of Titania, which allowed
mapping of about 40% of the moon’s surface. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1783:
The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of Calabria in
present-day southern Italy, killing more than 32,000 people over a
period of nearly two months.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1783_Calabrian_earthquakes>
1869:
Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discovered the largest
alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the "Welcome Stranger".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Stranger>
1941:
Second World War: British and Free French forces began the Battle of
Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Keren>
2000:
Second Chechen War: As the Battle of Grozny came to a close, Russian
forces summarily executed at least 60 civilians in the city's Novye
Aldi suburb.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novye_Aldi_massacre>
2009:
The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USSÂ Port Royal ran
aground on a coral reef off the island of Oahu.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_USS_Port_Royal_grounding>
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inflicted insight (n):
(psychology) Unsolicited revelation of aspects of one’s character,
usually as a result of a deceitful experiment that has psychological
dimensions, and especially where this results in emotional trauma and
prolonged anxiety
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inflicted_insight>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of
ignorance.
--Adlai Stevenson
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Richard Barre (c. 1130 – c. 1202) was a medieval English justice,
clergyman, and scholar. He was educated at the law school of Bologna,
and entered royal service under King Henry II of England, later working
for Henry's son and successor Richard I. He was also briefly in the
household of Henry's son Henry the Young King. Barre served the elder
Henry as a diplomat, and was involved in a minor way with the king's
quarrel with Thomas Becket, which earned Barre a condemnation from
Becket. After King Henry's death, Barre became a royal justice during
Richard's reign, and was one of the main judges in the period from 1194
to 1199. During the reign of King John, Barre was no longer employed as
a judge owing to earlier disagreements with John. Barre was the author
of a work of biblical extracts dedicated to one of his patrons, William
Longchamp, the Bishop of Ely and Chancellor of England. (more...)
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211:
Roman emperor Septimius Severus died of illness while on a military
campaign in Eboracum (modern York, England).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus>
960:
Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song Dynasty
period that would eventually last for more than three centuries.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Dynasty>
1899:
The Philippine–American War opened when an American soldier, under
orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired upon a
Filipino soldier in Manila.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War>
1969:
Yasser Arafat was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat>
2008:
The London low emission zone , governing what types of vehicles may
enter Greater London, came into being.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_low_emission_zone>
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sororate (n):
1. The custom of the marriage of a man to the sister of his wife,
usually after the wife has died.
2. A marriage according to this custom
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sororate>
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Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are
not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your
heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were
in his place.
--Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
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100px|Chew Stoke
Chew Stoke is a small village and civil parish in the Chew Valley, in
Somerset, England, about 8 miles (13Â km) south of Bristol. It is at the
northern edge of the Mendip Hills, a region designated by the United
Kingdom as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is within the
Bristol/Bath green belt. The parish includes the hamlet of Breach Hill,
which is approximately 2 miles (3.2Â km) southwest of Chew Stoke itself.
Chew Stoke has a long history, as shown by the number and range of its
heritage-listed buildings. The village is at the northern end of Chew
Valley Lake, which was created in the 1950s, close to a dam, pumping
station, sailing club, and fishing lodge. A tributary of the River
Chew, which rises in Strode, runs through the village. The population
of 905 is served by one shop, two public houses, a primary school and a
bowling club. Together with Chew Magna, it forms the ward of Chew
Valley North in the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset.
Chew Valley School and its associated leisure centre are less than a
mile (1.6Â km) from Chew Stoke. The village has some areas of light
industry but is largely agricultural; many residents commute to nearby
cities for employment. (more...)
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1207:
Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was
established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Mariana>
1659:
Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first bottle
of South African wine .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_wine>
1848:
The Mexican–American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave 1.36 million square kilometres (530,000
sq mi) of Mexican territory known as the Mexican Cession to the United
States in exchange for US$15 million.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo>
1920:
The signing of the Treaty of Tartu ended the Estonian War of
Independence, with Russia agreeing to recognize the independence of
Estonia and renounce in perpetuity all rights to that territory.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tartu_%28Russian%E2%80%93Estonian%29>
1974:
The F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of the most popular jet fighters ever
built, had its first flight.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon>
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be mother (v):
(idiomatic, UK) To pour out tea for others
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be_mother>
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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at
it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality,
language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
--James Joyce
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100px|Goalie Nadine Angerer saving a goal
The German women's national football team represents Germany in
international women's football and is directed by the German Football
Association (DFB). The team – then informally called West Germany in
English – played its first international match in 1982. After German
reunification in 1990, the DFB squad remained the national side of the
Federal Republic of Germany. The German national team is one of the
most successful in women's football. They are two-time world champions,
having won the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Germany is the
only nation which has won both the men's and the women's World Cup. The
team has won seven of the ten UEFA European Championships, claiming the
last five titles in a row. Germany has won three bronze medals at the
Women's Olympic Football Tournament, finishing third in 2000, 2004 and
2008. The popularity of the women's national football team has grown
since the team won their first World Cup title. They were chosen as
Germany's Sports Team of the Year in 2003. Silvia Neid has been the
team's head coach since 2005, succeeding Tina Theune after nine years
as her assistant. As of September 2011, Germany is ranked No. 2 in the
FIFA Women's World Rankings. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1327:
Fourteen-year old Edward III became King of England, but the country
was ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England>
1709:
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English captain Woodes
Rogers and the crew of the Duke after spending four years as a castaway
on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández archipelago, providing
the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodes_Rogers>
1942:
Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of
the United States federal government, began broadcasting with programs
aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers during World War II.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America>
1968:
The Government of Canada merged the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army,
and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a unified structure, the Canadian
Forces.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Forces>
2009:
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became Iceland's first female Prime Minister
and the world's first openly gay head of government of the modern era.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3hanna_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
a priori (adj):
1. (logic) Based on hypothesis rather than experiment.
2. Self-evident, intuitively obvious
3. (linguistics, of a constructed
language) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from
existing languages
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_priori>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
--w:Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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100px|Liberty head nickle, observe side, showing Liberty wearing a
coronet and wreath
The Liberty Head nickel was an American five-cent piece. It was
struck for circulation from 1883 until 1912, with at least five pieces
being surreptitiously struck dated 1913. The original copper–nickel
five-cent piece, the Shield nickel, had longstanding production
problems, and in the early 1880s, the United States Mint was looking to
replace it. Mint Chief Engraver Charles Barber was instructed to
prepare designs for proposed one-, three-, and five-cent pieces, which
were to bear similar designs. Only the new five-cent piece was
approved, and went into production in 1883. For almost thirty years
large quantities of coin of this design were produced to meet
commercial demand, especially as coin-operated machines became
increasingly popular. Beginning in 1911, the Mint began work to replace
the Liberty head design, and a new design, which became known as the
Buffalo nickel, went into production in February 1913. Although no 1913
Liberty head nickels were officially struck, five are known to exist.
While it is uncertain how these pieces originated, they have come to be
among the most expensive coins in the world, with one selling in 2010
for $3,737,500. (more...)
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1747:
The London Lock Hospital, the first clinic specialising in the
treatment of venereal diseases, opened.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Lock_Hospital>
1919:
Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland,
and was only quelled when the British government sent tanks to restore
order.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square>
1942:
Second World War: Allied forces retreated from British Malaya to
Singapore, ceding control of the country to Japan.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Campaign>
1961:
Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first
hominid launched into outer space.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_the_Chimp>
1996:
Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake discovered Comet Hyakutake,
which was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200
years.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hyakutake>
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avant-garde (n):
Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts,
especially in the arts
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avant-garde>
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Attunement could occur through any of the great religions, but would be
tied exclusively to none of them. A person could be attuned to an
"integral spirituality" while still be a practicing Christian,
Buddhist, New-Age advocate, or Neopagan. This would be something added
to one's religion, not subtracted from it. The only thing it would
subtract (and there's no way around this) is the belief that one's own
path is the only true path to salvation.
--Ken Wilber
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100px|Cyathus striatus
Cyathus is a genus of fungi in the Nidulariaceae, a family
collectively known as the bird's nest fungi. They are given this name
since they resemble tiny bird's nests filled with "eggs". The "eggs",
or peridioles, are firmly attached to the inner surface of this
fruiting body by an elastic cord of mycelia known as a funiculus. The
45 species are widely distributed throughout the world and some are
found in most countries, although a few exist in only one or two
locales. Cyathus stercoreus is considered endangered in a number of
European countries. The internal and external surfaces of this cup may
be ridged longitudinally; this is one example of a taxonomic
characteristic that has traditionally served to distinguish between
species. Generally considered inedible, Cyathus species are saprobic,
since they obtain nutrients from decomposing organic matter. They
usually grow on decaying wood or woody debris, on cow and horse dung,
or directly on humus-rich soil. The life cycle of this genus allows it
to reproduce both sexually, with meiosis, and asexually via spores.
Phylogenetic analysis is providing new insights into the evolutionary
relationships between the various species in Cyathus. (more...)
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1649:
English Civil War: King Charles I , who was defeated in both the First
and the Second Civil Wars, was beheaded for high treason in front of
the Banqueting House in London.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England>
1930:
Soviet meteorologist Pavel Molchanov launched one of the world's first
radiosondes, a device attached to weather balloons to measure various
atmospheric parameters.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radiosonde>
1945:
World War II: Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a
Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan>
1959:
On the return leg of her maiden voyage, the "unsinkable" Danish ocean
liner Hans Hedtoft struck an iceberg and sank with all hands lost.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Hans_Hedtoft>
2000:
Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Côte
d'Ivoire shortly after takeoff, killing 169 on board.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Airways_Flight_431>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hungry ghost (n):
(Buddhism, Chinese folk religion) A type of being condemned to desire
more than it can consume
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hungry_ghost>
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I have marched in many a battle host, but I have also planted seeds and
reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is
greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
--Lloyd Alexander
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100px|USS Chicago low in the water on the morning of 30 January 1943,
from torpedo damage inflicted the night before
The Battle of Rennell Island took place on 29–30 January 1943, and
was the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and
the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign of World
War II. The battle took place in the South Pacific between Rennell
Island and Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands. In the battle,
Japanese naval land-based torpedo bombers, seeking to provide
protection for the impending evacuation of Japanese forces from
Guadalcanal, made several attacks over two days on United States'
warships operating as a task force south of Guadalcanal. In addition to
approaching Guadalcanal with the objective of engaging any Japanese
ships that might come into range, the U.S. task force was protecting an
Allied transport ship convoy that was carrying replacement troops to
Guadalcanal. As a result of the Japanese air attacks on the task force,
one U.S. heavy cruiser was sunk, a destroyer was heavily damaged, and
the rest of the U.S. task force was forced to retreat from the southern
Solomons area. Partly because of their success in turning back the U.S.
task force in this battle, the Japanese were successful in evacuating
their remaining troops from Guadalcanal by 7 February 1943, leaving
Guadalcanal in the hands of the Allies and ending the battle for the
island. (more...)
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1845:
American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in the New York
Evening Mirror, the first publication attributed to Poe.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven>
1886:
German engine designer and engineer Karl Benz filed a patent for the
Motorwagen, the first purpose-built, gasoline-driven automobile.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz>
1944:
World War II: At least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured
when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania)
was attacked by Soviet partisan units.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koniuchy_massacre>
1967:
The Mantra-Rock Dance, called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era,
took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis
Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra-Rock_Dance>
2009:
The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who did not
adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions are also
eligible to receive government identity documents.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_identification_card_controversy>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
expedite (v):
1. (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
2. (transitive) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expedite>
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It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change
his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any
principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once.
Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final
establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to
be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom
conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is
to instruct, not to destroy.
--Thomas Paine
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Otto Julius Zobel (1887–1970) was a design engineer who worked for the
American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) in the early part of the
20th century. Zobel's work on filter design was revolutionary and led,
in conjunction with the work of John R. Carson, to significant
commercial advances for AT&T in the field of frequency division
multiplex (FDM) telephone transmissions. Although much of Zobel's work
has been superseded by more modern filter designs, it remains the basis
of filter theory and his papers are still referenced today. Zobel
invented the m-derived filter and the constant-resistance filter, which
remains in use. Zobel and Carson helped to establish the nature of
noise in electric circuits, concluding that—contrary to mainstream
belief—it is not even theoretically possible to filter out noise
entirely and that noise will always be a limiting factor in what it is
possible to transmit. Thus, they anticipated the later work of Claude
Shannon, who showed how the theoretical information rate of a channel
is related to the noise of the channel. (more...)
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98:
Trajan, namesake of a forum, a market and a column in Rome, succeeded
his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan>
1813:
The novel Pride and Prejudice by English author Jane Austen was
published, using material from an unpublished manuscript that she
originally wrote between 1796 and 1797.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice>
1933:
Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet entitled "Now or Never" in
which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India
that he termed "Pakstan".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choudhry_Rahmat_Ali>
1964:
An unarmed US Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission was shot
down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing all three
aboard.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_T-39_shootdown_incident>
1984:
Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing
some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Domoina>
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stoically (adv):
1. In a manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing
suffering or expressing complaint.
2. In an unfeeling manner that inwardly is unaffected by pain or
distress
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stoically>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying
to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
--Colette
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colette>