Vithoba is a Hindu god, worshipped predominantly in the Indian states
of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. While generally
considered a manifestation of the Hindu god Vishnu or his avatar
Krishna, he is sometimes associated with the god Shiva, the Buddha or
both. Vithoba is often depicted as a dark young boy, standing
arms-akimbo on a brick, sometimes accompanied by his main consort
Rakhumai (Rukmini). Vithoba is the focus of the monotheistic,
non-brahminical Varkari sect of Maharashtra and the Haridasa sect of
Karnataka. Vithoba's main temple stands at Pandharpur in Maharashtra,
close to the Karnataka border. Vithoba legends revolve around his
devotee Pundalik, who is credited with bringing the deity to
Pandharpur, and around Vithoba's role as a saviour to the poet-saints
of the Varkari faith. The Varkari poet-saints are known for their
unique genre of devotional lyric, the abhanga, dedicated to Vithoba and
composed in Marathi. Other devotional literature dedicated to Vithoba
includes the Kannada hymns of the Haridasa, and Marathi versions of the
generic Hindu arati songs, associated with rituals of offering light to
the deity. Though the origins of both his cult and his main temple
remain subjects of debate, there is clear evidence that they already
existed by the 13th century.
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vithoba>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines
successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the
Bahamas.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Nicholas>
1875:
The first recorded organized indoor ice hockey game was played at the
Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James George Aylwin Creighton and
McGill University students.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ice_hockey>
1878:
The signing of the Treaty of San Stefano, ending the Russo-Turkish War,
established Bulgaria as an autonomous principality in the Ottoman
Empire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Stefano>
1997:
The Sky Tower in Auckland, the tallest free-standing structure in the
Southern Hemisphere at 328Â metres (1,080Â ft), opened.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Tower>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
esprit de corps (n):
A shared spirit of comradeship, enthusiasm, and devotion to a cause
among the members of a group
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esprit_de_corps>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast,
That still the knot, in spite of death, does last;
For as your
tears, and sorrow-wounded soul,
Prove well that on your part this bond is whole,
So all we know of
what they do above,
Is that they happy are, and that they love.
Let dark oblivion, and
the hollow grave,
Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have;
Well-chosen love
is never taught to die,
But with our nobler part invades the sky.
--Edmund Waller
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Waller>
The King Vulture is a large Central and South American bird in the New
World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in
tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern
Argentina, though some believe that William Bartram's Painted Vulture
of Florida may be of this species. It is the only surviving member of
the genus Sarcoramphus, though fossil members are known. It is large
and predominantly white, with gray to black ruff, flight, and tail
feathers. Its head and neck are bald, with the skin color varying,
including yellow, orange, blue, purple, and red. The King Vulture has a
very noticeable yellow fleshy caruncle on its beak. This vulture is a
scavenger and it often makes the initial cut into a fresh carcass. It
also displaces smaller New World Vulture species from a carcass. King
Vultures have been known to live for up to 30 years in captivity. King
Vultures were popular figures in the Mayan codices as well as in local
folklore and medicine. Though currently listed as Least Concern by the
IUCN, they are declining in number, due primarily to habitat loss.
Read the rest of this article:
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1791:
French inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the
semaphore line, a signaling system of conveying information by means of
visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters, also known as
blades or paddles.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/semaphore_line>
1836:
Texas Revolution: At a convention in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the
Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence from
Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Declaration_of_Independence>
1865:
Second Taranaki War: Protestant missionary Carl Sylvius Völkner died at
the hands of Hauhau militants in Opotiki for working as an agent for
George Grey, Governor-General of New Zealand.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkner_Incident>
1943:
World War II: Australian and American air forces attacked and destroyed
a large convoy of the Japanese Navy at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea
in the Bismarck Sea north of the island of Papua New Guinea.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea>
1962:
American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (pictured), then playing
for the Philadelphia Warriors, scored 100 points in a game against the
New York Knicks at Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, still a
record in the National Basketball Association today.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain%27s_100-point_game>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hirsute (adj):
Covered in hair or bristles; hairy
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hirsute>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!
... So, on beyond Z!
It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know
All there is to be known.
--Dr. Seuss
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss>
Yes Minister is a multi-award winning satirical British sitcom written
by Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC
television and radio between 1980 and 1984, split over three
seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to
1988. In total this made 38 episodes, all but one of which lasts for
half an hour. Set principally in the private office of a British
government cabinet minister in the Department for Administrative
Affairs in Whitehall (and, in the sequel, in 10 Downing Street), the
series follows the senior ministerial career of The Rt Hon. Jim Hacker
MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and
enact legislation or effect departmental changes are opposed by the
will of the British Civil Service, in particular his Permanent
Secretary (head of each government department's bureaucrats), Sir
Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private
Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually caught
between the two. Almost every programme ends with the line "Yes,
Minister" (or "Yes, Prime Minister"), uttered (usually) by Sir Humphrey
as he relishes his victory over his "political master" (or, sometimes,
acknowledges defeat). A huge critical and popular success, the series
received a number of awards, including several BAFTAs and in 2004 came
sixth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll. It was the favourite
television programme of the then British Prime Minister, Baroness
Thatcher.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1570:
Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate
Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnans_in_Excelsis>
1836:
American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received a patent for a
"revolving gun", later known as a revolver.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/revolver>
1921:
The Soviet Red Army took over the Georgian capital Tbilisi after heavy
fighting and declared the new Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_invasion_of_Georgia>
1986:
Corazon Aquino was inaugurated as the first female President of the
Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos fled the nation after twenty years
of rule because of the People Power Revolution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corazon_Aquino>
1994:
Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim Arabs praying
at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and
wounding 125 others.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
plenary (adj):
1. Fully attended; for everyone's attendance.
2. (theology or law) Complete, entire
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plenary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing
such a child notices is that adults don't make sense.
--John Leonard
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Leonard>
Meshuggah is a Swedish five-piece experimental metal band formed in
1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members
vocalist Jens Kidman and guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas
Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who
joined in 1994. Having gone through a number of bassists, the spot has
been held by Dick Lövgren since 2004. Meshuggah first attracted
international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for
its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal and progressive
metal. Since their 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah uses eight-string
guitars and downtuned, groovy riffs. Meshuggah has become known for its
complex, innovative and precise songwriting and musicianship, and
polyrhythmic song structures. It has been labeled as one of the ten
most important hard and heavy bands by Rolling Stone and as the most
important band in metal by Alternative Press. Meshuggah has found
little mainstream success but is a significant act in extreme
underground music. Nothing and the albums that followed all charted on
the Billboard 200. In 2006, the band was nominated for a Swedish Grammy
Award. Meshuggah's commercially most successful album, 2008's obZen,
peaked at No. 59 and sold 11,400 copies in the first week and 50,000
copies six months after its release.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshuggah>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1582:
Pope Gregory XIII issued the papal bull Inter gravissimas to promulgate
the Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian calendar in use
since 45 BC.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_gravissimas>
1803:
In their ruling in Marbury v. Madison, the U.S. Supreme Court
established judicial review in the United States.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison>
1848:
Amid a revolt, French King Louis-Philippe abdicated and escaped to
England, leading to the creation of the French Second Republic.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_of_France>
1875:
The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef at
low tide and sank about 50Â kilometres (31Â mi) northwest of Holbourne
Island, Queensland, Australia, with the loss of over 100 lives.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Gothenburg>
303:
Roman Emperor Diocletian's first "Edict against the Christians" was
published, beginning the Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most
severe episode of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletianic_Persecution>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lope (v):
To travel an easy pace with long strides
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lope>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When you're young, you look at television and think, "There's a
conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down." But when you
get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in
business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more
depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the
bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in
business to give people what they want. It's the truth.
--Steve Jobs
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs>
USS Connecticut was the lead ship of the six Connecticut-class
battleships. Due to the Royal Navy's commissioning of HMSÂ Dreadnought
seven months earlier, Connecticut was obsolete before she was
commissioned; thus, she was the last lead ship of any class of
pre-dreadnought battleship commissioned by the United States Navy.
Connecticut served as a flagship for the Jamestown Exposition, which
commemorated the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown
colony. She later sailed with the Great White Fleet on a
circumnavigation of the Earth to showcase the United States Navy's
growing fleet of blue-water-capable ships. After completing her service
with the Great White Fleet, Connecticut participated in several
flag-waving exercises intended to protect American citizens abroad
until she was pressed into service as a troop transport at the end of
World War I to expedite the return of American Expeditionary Forces
from France. For the remainder of her career, Connecticut sailed to
various places in both the Atlantic and Pacific while training newer
recruits to the Navy. However, the provisions of the 1922 Washington
Naval Treaty stipulated that many of the older battleships, Connecticut
among them, would have to be disposed of, so she was decommissioned on
1 March 1922 and sold for scrap on 1 November 1923.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Connecticut_%28BB-18%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1744:
War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking the
Spanish rear of a France–Spanish combined fleet in the Mediterranean
Sea off the coast near Toulon, France.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toulon_%281744%29>
1819:
Under the terms of the Adams-OnÃs Treaty, Spain sold Florida and other
North American territory to the United States for about US$5 million.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams-On%C3%ADs_Treaty>
1943:
Members of the White Rose, a nonviolent resistance movement in Nazi
Germany that became known for a leaflet campaign that called for active
opposition to Adolf Hitler's regime, were found guilty of treason and
guillotined.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose>
1959:
Lee Petty won the first Daytona 500 NASCAR auto race at the Daytona
International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_500>
2006:
At least six men staged Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing
£53,116,760 in bank notes from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_depot_robbery>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
moniker (n):
A personal name or nickname
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moniker>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the
truth.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer>
The University of California, Riverside is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is in Riverside, California, with a branch campus in Palm Desert. Founded in 1907 as the UC Citrus Experiment Station, UCR's undergraduate College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The Regents of the University of California declared UCR a general campus of the system in 1959, and graduate students were admitted in 1961. To accommodate an enrollment of 21,000 students by 2015, more than $730 million has been invested in new construction projects since 1999. Plans are underway to open a medical school—California's newest one in 40 years—by 2012. The Washington Monthly ranked UCR 15th in the United States in terms of social mobility, research achievement and community service, while US News and World Report ranked UCR's undergraduate program 89th in the nation based on peer assessment, student selectivity, financial resources, and other factors. UCR's extensive outreach and retention programs have contributed to its reputation as a "campus of choice" for minority students, including LGBT students. UCR's sports teams are known as the Highlanders and play in the Big West Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Riverside>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1613:
Mikhail I was elected unanimously by the Zemsky Sobor to become Tsar, beginning the Romanov dynasty in Imperial Russia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_of_Russia>
1804:
Built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick, the first self-propelled steam engine or locomotive first ran in Wales.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick>
1848:
The Communist Manifesto by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was first published, becoming one of the world's most influential political tracts.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto>
1952:
Protesters in Dhaka, East Pakistan walked into military crossfire demanding the establishment of the Bengali language as an official language.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Language_Movement>
1958:
British artist Gerald Holtom designed a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that became more commonly known as the peace symbol (pictured).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peace_symbol>
1965:
Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
perfunctory (adj):
Performed out of routine and with little care
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perfunctory>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. --Anaïs Nin
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin>
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of offensive operations undertaken
by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the city of
Kharkov, between 19 February and 15 March 1943. The German counterstroke led
to the destruction of approximately 52 Soviet divisions and the recapture of
the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod. As the German Sixth Army was encircled
in Stalingrad, the Red Army undertook a series of wider offensives against
the rest of Army Group South. These culminated on 2 January 1943, when the
Soviets launched Operation Star, which between January and early February
broke German defenses and led to the Soviet recapture of Kharkov, Belgorod
and Kursk. Despite the success of the Soviet offensive, it also resulted in
participating Soviet units over-extending themselves. Freed on 2 February by
the surrender of the German Sixth Army, the Red Army's Central Front turned
its attention west and on 25 February expanded its offensive against both
Army Group South and Army Group Center. However, months of continuous
operations had taken a heavy toll on the Soviets and some divisions were
reduced to 1,000–1,500 combat effectives. On 19 February, Field Marshal
Erich von Manstein took the opportunity to launch his Kharkov counterstroke,
using the fresh SS Panzer Corps and two panzer armies. Although the Germans
were also understrength, the Wehrmacht successfully flanked, encircled and
defeated the Red Army's armored spearheads south of Kharkov.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1594:
King Sigismund III Vasa of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was crowned
King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_III_Vasa>
1811:
Peninsular War: An outnumbered French force under Édouard Mortier routed and
nearly destroyed the Spanish at the Battle of the Gebora near Badajoz,
Spain.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora>
1819:
English explorer William Smith sighted Livingston Island in the South
Shetland archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands about more than
1,000 kilometres (620 mi) south of the Falkland Islands.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Shetland_Islands>
1942:
World War II: In the largest attacks mounted by a foreign power against
Australia, more than 240 bombers and fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy
bombed Darwin, Northern Territory.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Darwin>
1986:
The space station Mir of the Soviet space program was launched, establishing
the first long-term research station in space.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
atone (v):
To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime one
has committed
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atone>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grave,
I've been kissed by a rose on the grave. --Seal (musician)
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seal_%28musician%29>
The Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland.
While its original date of foundation is unknown, James VII instituted the
modern Order in 1687. The Order consists of the Sovereign and sixteen
Knights and Ladies, as well as certain "extra" knights (members of the
British Royal Family and foreign monarchs). The Sovereign alone grants
membership of the Order; he or she is not advised by the Government, as
occurs with most other Orders. The sixteen members are required to be
Scottish-born, though not the "extra" knights and ladies. The Order's
primary emblem is the thistle, the national flower of Scotland. The motto is
Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin for "No one provokes me with impunity"). The
patron saint of the Order is St Andrew. Most British orders of chivalry
cover the entire kingdom, but the three most exalted ones each pertain to
one constituent country only. The Order of the Thistle, which pertains to
Scotland, is the second-most senior in precedence.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Thistle>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1846:
Peasants led by Jakub Szela began an uprising against Polish nobles in
Galicia in the Austrian partition, killing about 1000 people and destroyed
about 500 manors.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_slaughter>
1861:
With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont,
Savoy and Sardinia assumed the title King of Italy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_of_Italy>
1908:
The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden's national stage for "spoken
drama", opened with playwright August Strindberg's play Master Olof.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dramatic_Theatre>
1932:
The Empire of Japan established Manchukuo, a puppet state in northeastern
China during the Sino-Japanese War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo>
1943:
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister, delivered the Sportpalast
speech to motivate the German people when the tide of World War II was
turning against Germany.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
xanthous (adj):
1. Yellow-brown; yolk-colored.
2. (archaic) Pertaining to people with skin and hair that is lighter than
usual for their race or ethnicity
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xanthous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My prayer is not the whimpering of a beggar nor a confession of love. Nor is
it the petty reckoning of a small tradesman: Give me and I shall give you.
My prayer is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did
today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector,
these are the obstacles I encountered, this is how I plan to fight tomorrow.
--Nikos Kazantzakis
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis>
Theramenes was an Athenian statesman, prominent in the final decade of the
Peloponnesian War. He was particularly active during the two periods of
oligarchic government at Athens, as well as in the trial of the generals who
had commanded at Arginusae in 406 BC. A moderate oligarch, he often found
himself caught between the democrats on the one hand and the extreme
oligarchs on the other. Successful in replacing a narrow oligarchy with a
broader one in 411 BC, he failed to achieve the same end in 404 BC, and was
executed by the extremists whose policies he had opposed. Theramenes
remained a controversial figure after his death; Lysias vigorously denounced
him while prosecuting several of his former political allies, but others
defended his actions. Modern historical assessments have shifted over time;
in the 19th century, Theramenes was almost universally condemned, but recent
scholarship has produced more positive assessments. Some historians have
found in Theramenes a selfish opportunist, others a principled moderate. The
details of his actions, his motivations, and the nature of his character
continue to be debated down to the present day.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theramenes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1600:
Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent of
heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the stake as a
heretic by the Roman Inquisition.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>
1801:
The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and
Aaron Burr as Vice President, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 U.S.
presidential election.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_1800>
1904:
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in
Milan, generating negative reviews that forced him to rewrite the opera.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly>
1936:
The Phantom, one of the first modern comic book superheroes with the
hallmark skintight costume and a mask with no visible pupils, made his first
appearance in a daily newspaper comic strip.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_%28comics%29>
2003:
The London congestion charge, a fee that is levied on motorists travelling
within designated parts of London, came into operation.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Ishikawa diagram (n):
A diagram used in quality management to display a detailed list of causes
and effects of a problem and thus to decipher the root cause of a problem
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A voiceless song in an ageless light
Sings at the coming dawn
Birds in flight are calling there
Where the heart moves the stones
It's there that my heart is calling
All for the love of you. --Loreena McKennitt
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Loreena_McKennitt>