Elaine Paige (born 1948) is an English singer and actress, best known for
her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended
the Aida Foster stage school and made her first professional appearance on
stage in 1964. Her appearance in the 1968 production of Hair marked her West
End debut. Following a number of roles over the next decade, Paige was
selected to play Eva Perón in the first production of Evita in 1978, which
brought her to the attention of the broader public. The role won her the
Laurence Olivier Award for Performance of the Year in a Musical. She went on
to originate the role of Grizabella in Cats and had a Top 10 hit with
"Memory", a song from the show. In 1985, Paige released "I Know Him So Well"
with Barbara Dickson from the musical Chess, which remains the
biggest-selling record by a female duo, according to the Guinness Book of
Records. She has also worked in film and television. In addition to being
nominated for five Laurence Olivier Awards, Paige has won many other awards
for her theatre roles and has been called the First Lady of British Musical
Theatre. She has released 20 solo albums, of which eight were consecutively
certified gold and another four multi-platinum. Since 2004 she has hosted
her own show on BBC Radio 2 called Elaine Paige on Sunday.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1609:
Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana opened its reading room to the public,
becoming the second public library in Europe.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Ambrosiana)
1941:
The Holocaust: The SS began killing operations at the Chelmno extermination
camp in Poland, the first Nazi extermination camp to kill the Jews of the
Ghetto Litzmannstadt and the Warthegau by poison gas.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmno_extermination_camp)
1980:
Former Beatle John Lennon was fatally shot in the entrance hallway of the
Dakota apartments in New York City.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_John_Lennon)
1991:
Leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine signed the Belavezha Accords,
agreeing to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of
Independent States.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States)
2004:
Twelve South American countries signed the Cusco Declaration, announcing the
foundation of what is now the Union of South American Nations, an
intergovernmental union modelled after the European Union.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pandiculate (v) To stretch oneself.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pandiculate)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of
existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at
moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people
shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who
knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
--Jim Morrison
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison)
USS Nevada (BB-36), the second United States Navy ship to be named after the
36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships; her
sister ship was OklahomaTemplate:WP Ships USS instances. Nevada was a giant
leap forward in dreadnought technology, as she showcased four new features
that would be included on almost every subsequent U.S. battleship: gun
turrets with three guns, anti-aircraft guns, oil in place of coal for fuel,
and the "all or nothing" armor principle. All of these new features resulted
in Nevada becoming the first U.S. Navy "super-dreadnought". Nevada served in
both of the World Wars: during World War I, Nevada was based in Bantry Bay,
Ireland, for the last few months of the war to support the supply convoys
that were sailing to and from Great Britain. In World War II, she was one of
the battleships that were trapped when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on
7 December 1941. Subsequently salvaged and modernized at Puget Sound Navy
Yard, Nevada served in four amphibious assaults: the Normandy Landings and
the invasions of Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. At the end of World
War II, the Navy decided that Nevada was too old to be retained in the
post-war fleet, so they assigned her to be a target ship in the Bikini
atomic experiments of July 1946. After being hit by two atomic bombs, she
was still afloat but heavily damaged and radioactive. She was sunk during
naval gunfire exercise in 1948.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1724:
In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and
nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and
Catholics.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumult_of_Thorn_(Toru%C5%84)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumult_of_Thorn_%28Toru%C5%84%29>
)
1787:
Delaware became the first U.S. state to ratify the United States
Constitution.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware <goog_1228618768069>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware)
1815:
Michel Ney, Marshal of France, was executed by a firing squad near Paris'
Jardin du Luxembourg for supporting Napoleon Bonaparte.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney)
1941:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made its surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet
from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor)
1972:
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the famous photograph known as
"The Blue Marble" as they left Earth.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble <goog_1228618768082>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble)
1988:
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.9 struck the Spitak region of
Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union, killing at least 25,000 people.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Spitak_earthquake)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
abattoir (n) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
( <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/XXXXXXX>
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abattoir)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense
of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the
artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
--Willa Cather
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather)
Interstate 70 in Utah runs east–west for 232.15 miles (373.61 km) across the
central part of the state. Richfield is the largest Utah city served by the
freeway, which does not serve or connect any urban areas in the state. The
highway was built as part of a connection between Los Angeles and the
northeastern United States. I-70 was the second attempt to connect southern
California to the east coast of the United States via central Utah, after a
previous failed attempt at a transcontinental railroad that would partially
serve as the guide for the route of I-70. Unlike most Interstate Highways,
I-70 in Utah was not constructed parallel to or on top of an existing U.S.
Highway. Portions of I-70 were constructed in areas where previously there
were no paved roads. Because it was built over an entirely new route, I-70
has many features that are notably unique in the Interstate Highway System.
The construction of the Utah portion of I-70 is listed as one of the
engineering marvels of the Interstate Highway System. The choice of the
route had a significant impact on the character and culture of the Sevier
Valley. It has also been a motivating factor for environmentalists to create
a new National Park along the path of the highway to protect scenic areas
around the route. I-70 from Green River to Grand Junction, Colorado, is part
of the Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway, making I-70 one of the few
Interstate Highways to be named a National Scenic Byway.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1484:
Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus,
giving Dominican Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer explicit authority to prosecute
witchcraft in Germany.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summis_desiderantes_affectibus)
1492:
Christopher Columbus (pictured) became the first European to set foot on the
island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola)
1757:
Seven Years' War: Prussian forces under Frederick the Great defeated
Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine at the Battle of
Leuthen in Leuthen, present-day Poland.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leuthen)
1933:
Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended
when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Co…
)
1945:
Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy,
disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Nidorous (adj) Emitting the odor or taste of roasted meat, especially
rotten meat.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nidorous)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust
authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and
proven competence.
--Walt Disney
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney)
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record
producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa
wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He
also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album
covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released
with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. His 1966 debut
album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in
conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and
studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and
experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was
one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs,
which—often humorously—reflected his skeptical view of established political
processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream
education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate
for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship. Zappa was a highly
productive and prolific artist and he gained widespread critical acclaim.
Many of his albums are considered essential in rock history, and he is
regarded as one of the most original guitarists and composers of his time;
he remains a major influence on musicians and composers.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1639:
English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit
of Venus.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus)
1676:
Scanian War: Forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt
defeated the invading army of Denmark–Norway under the command of King
Christian V at the Battle of Lund in an area north of Lund, Sweden.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lund)
1791:
The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer)
1991:
Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of
the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended
operations.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_World_Airways)
1992:
Operation Restore Hope: U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered American
troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order after
the dissolution of the country's central government during the ongoing
Somali Civil War.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Civil_War)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
grimalkin (n) 1. A cat, especially an elderly female.
2. An old, bad-tempered woman; a crone.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grimalkin)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive,
enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind,
pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration
of the most insignificant tides of reality.
--Joseph Conrad
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad)
Amateur radio in India is practised by more than 16,000 licensed users. The
first amateur radio operator was licensed in 1921, and by the mid-1930s,
there were around 20 amateur radio operators in India. Amateur radio
operators have played an important part in the Indian independence movement
with the establishment of pro-independence radio stations in the 1940s,
which were illegal. The three decades after India's independence saw only
slow growth in the numbers of operators until the then Prime Minister of
India, and ham operator Rajiv Gandhi waived the import duty on wireless
equipment in 1984. Since then, numbers have picked up, and as of 2007, there
were more than 16,000 operators in the country. Amateur radio operators have
played a vital role during disasters and national emergencies such as
earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, floods, and bomb blasts, by providing
voluntary emergency communications in the affected areas. The Wireless and
Planning and Coordination Wing (WPC)—a division of the Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology—regulates amateur radio in India.
The WPC assigns call signs, issues amateur radio licences, conducts exams,
allots frequency spectrum, and monitors the radio waves. In India, the
Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI) represents amateur radio interests at
various forums, and represents India at the International Amateur Radio
Union.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
At least 22 people were killed and 35 others were injured when rebelling
miners at the Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the
military in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Stockade)
1904:
The Jovian moon Himalia was discovered by astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine
at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California, USA.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalia_(moon)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalia_%28moon%29>
)
1967:
Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human
heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town,
South Africa.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard)
1984:
Bhopal gas disaster: The accidental release of methyl isocyanate over
Bhopal, India resulted in at least 20,000 total deaths and affected over
120,000 others in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster)
1999:
NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before it reached the
atmosphere of Mars and disappeared.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
effectually (adv) In such a way as to achieve a desired result;
effectively.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effectually)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are
necessary but unpopular, challenging the status quo in order to reach a
brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for
leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment.
Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what
can be. And my dream is for my land and my people to cease fighting and
allow our children to reach their full potential regardless of sex, status,
or belief.
--Benazir Bhutto
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto)
St Kilda is an isolated archipelago 64 kilometres (40 mi) west-northwest of
North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. It contains the westernmost islands
of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The largest island is Hirta, whose sea
cliffs are the highest in the United Kingdom. The Gaelic-speaking population
probably never exceeded 180 and was never more than 100 after 1851. Although
St Kilda was permanently inhabited for at least two millennia, and despite
the inhabitants' unique way of life, the entire population was evacuated in
1930. The only residents are now military personnel. The islands are
administratively a part of the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar local authority
area. The islands' human heritage includes numerous unique architectural
features from the historic and prehistoric periods, although the earliest
written records of island life date from the Late Middle Ages. The medieval
village on Hirta was rebuilt in the 19th century, but the influences of
religion, tourism and the First World War contributed to the island's
evacuation in 1930. The story of St Kilda has attracted artistic
interpretations, including a recent opera. The entire archipelago is owned
by the National Trust for Scotland. It became one of Scotland's four World
Heritage Sites in 1986 and is one of the few in the world to hold joint
status for its natural, marine and cultural qualities.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1409:
The University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, one of the oldest
universities in Europe, was established.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Leipzig)
1805:
Napoleonic Wars: French forces led by Emperor Napoleon I decisively defeated
a Russo-Austrian army commanded by Czar Alexander I in the Battle of
Austerlitz.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz)
1908:
Two-year-old Puyi became Emperor of China, the last one before the Republic
of China was declared in 1912.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi)
1956:
Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and
80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granma_(yacht)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granma_%28yacht%29>
)
1975:
The Pathet Lao overthrew the royalist government in Vientiane, forcing King
Savang Vatthana to abdicate, and established the Lao People's Democratic
Republic.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
carry the message to Garcia (v) To perform a requisite task despite
obstacles.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carry_the_message_to_Garcia)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
December will be magic again.
Don't miss the brightest star.
Kiss under mistletoe.
I want to hear you laugh.
Don't let the mystery go now.
--Kate Bush
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kate_Bush)
Rosetta@home is a distributed computing project for protein structure
prediction on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
platform, run by the Baker laboratory at the University of Washington.
Rosetta@home also aims to predict protein-protein docking and design new
proteins with the help of over 86,000 volunteered computers processing over
68 teraFLOPS on average. Though much of the project is oriented towards
basic research on improving the accuracy and robustness of the proteomics
methods, Rosetta@home also does applied research on malaria, Alzheimer's
disease and other pathologies. Like all BOINC projects, Rosetta@home uses
idle computer processing resources from volunteers' computers to perform
calculations on individual workunits. Completed results are sent to a
central project server where they are validated and assimilated into project
databases. The project is cross-platform, and runs on a wide variety of
hardware configurations. Users can view the progress of their individual
protein structure prediction on the Rosetta@home screensaver.
Rosetta@homeconsistently ranks among the foremost docking predictors,
and is one of the
best tertiary structure predictors available.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta@home
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1640:
John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese
Restoration War with Spain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_IV_of_Portugal)
1824:
The House of Representatives selected John Quincy Adams as the winner of the
U.S. presidential election, after none of the candidates received a majority
of the total electoral college votes, as dictated by the Twelfth Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1824)
1955:
African-American Civil Rights Movement: Seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested
for violating the racial segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, after
refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, precipitating
the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks)
1959:
Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control
agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in
Antarctica and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System)
1990:
Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131
ft) beneath the English Channel seabed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
abstemiously (adv) Marked by abstinence or restraint,
especially in relation to food or drink.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstemiously)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one
teaches a student how to learn it.
--Jacques Barzun
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Barzun)
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on
27 August 1896. The conflict lasted around 40 minutes and is the shortest
war in recorded history. The immediate cause of the war was the death of the
pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini on 25 August 1896 and the subsequent
succession of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash. In accordance with a treaty signed
in 1886, a condition for accession to the sultancy was that the candidate
obtain the permission of the British Consul, and Khalid had not fulfilled
this requirement. The British considered this a casus belli and sent an
ultimatum to Khalid demanding that he order his forces to stand down and
leave the palace. In response, Khalid called up his palace guard and
barricaded himself inside the palace. The ultimatum expired at 9:00 am East
Africa Time (EAT) on 27 August, by which time the British had gathered three
cruisers, two gunships, 150 marines and sailors and 900 Zanzibaris in the
harbour area. The Royal Navy contingent were under the command of
Rear-Admiral Harry Rawson whilst the Zanzibaris were commanded by
Brigadier-General Lloyd Mathews of the Zanzibar army. A bombardment was
opened at 9:02 am which set the palace on fire and disabled the defending
artillery. The flag at the palace was shot down and fire ceased at 9:40 am.
The Sultan's forces sustained roughly 500 casualties, while only one British
sailor was injured. The British quickly placed Sultan Hamud in power at the
head of a puppet government; he abolished slavery within a few months. The
war marked the end of Zanzibar as a sovereign state and the start of a
period of heavy British influence.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1786:
Peter Leopold Joseph, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal reform that
made his country the first sovereign state to abolish the death penalty.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor)
1853:
Russian battleships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of
frigates at the Battle of Sinop in Sinop, Turkey, precipitating the Crimean
War.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War)
1936:
The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, was
destroyed by fire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace)
1939:
The Winter War broke out as the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland and quickly
advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League
of Nations.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War)
2005:
John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first member
of an ethnic minority to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sentamu)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ineluctable (adj) Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable,
irresistible.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ineluctable)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
--C. S. Lewis
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis)
Angus Lewis Macdonald (1890 – 1954) was a Nova Scotian lawyer, law professor
and politician. He served as the Liberal premier of Nova Scotia from 1933 to
1940 when he became the federal minister of defence for naval services. He
oversaw the creation of an effective Canadian navy and Allied convoy service
during World War II. After the war, he returned to Nova Scotia to become
premier again. In the election of 1945, his Liberals swept back into power
while their main rivals, the Conservatives, failed to win a single seat. The
Liberal rallying cry, "All's Well With Angus L." seemed so convincing that
the Conservatives despaired of ever beating Macdonald. He died suddenly in
office in 1954. Macdonald's more than 15 years as premier brought
fundamental changes. Under his leadership, the Nova Scotian government spent
more than $100 million paving roads, building bridges, extending electrical
systems and improving public education. Macdonald dealt with the mass
unemployment of the Great Depression by putting the jobless to work on
highway projects. Macdonald was one of the most eloquent political orators
in Nova Scotia history. He articulated a philosophy of provincial autonomy,
arguing that poorer provinces needed a greater share of national tax
revenues to pay for health, education and welfare.
Read the rest of this article:
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade
rebellion in Australia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Flag)
1877:
Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph, his invention for recording and
replaying sound, for the first time.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph)
1890:
The Diet of Japan, Japan's bicameral legislature modelled after both the
German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met after the
Meiji Constitution went into effect.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Japan)
1929:
American explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and three others completed the first
flight over the South Pole.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evelyn_Byrd)
1947:
The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for
Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in the British
Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab
states.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_181
)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
banjaxed (adj) 1. (UK, slang) Broken, ruined, shattered.
2. (UK, slang) Tired, sleepy.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banjaxed)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
--William Blake
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Blake)