Final Fantasy VI is a console role-playing game developed and
published by Square (now Square Enix) in 1994. The game initially
appeared on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and has since been
ported by TOSE with minor differences to the Sony PlayStation and the
Nintendo Game Boy Advance. It was first released in North America as
Final Fantasy III, although the original title has been restored in
later releases. The game's story focuses on a group of rebels as they
seek to overthrow an imperial dictatorship. Final Fantasy VI was the
first game in the series to be directed by someone other than producer
and series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi; the role was filled instead by
Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Itō. Originally released to significant
critical acclaim, it is still regarded as a landmark of the series and
of the role-playing genre. It had a significantly greater number of
battle customization options than its predecessors and the largest
playable cast in the Final Fantasy series to date, excluding spin-off
titles. It remains widely praised for its storyline, characters and
non-linear style of play.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI
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Today's selected anniversaries:
451:
The Battle of Chalons against Attila the Hun is the last major battle
of the Western Roman Empire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chalons)
1756:
A garrison of the British army in India was imprisoned in the Black
Hole of Calcutta.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta)
1789:
577 deputies of the French National Assembly took the Tennis Court
Oath, starting the French Revolution.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution)
1837:
Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom)
1973:
Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365
others.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Ezeiza_massacre)
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Wikiquote of the day:
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When
there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. -- Brian Wilson
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson)
The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the
archipelago of Puerto Rico by the Ortoiroid people, sometime between
3000–2000 BC. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New
World, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the Taínos. The
Taíno culture died out during the latter half of the 16th century
because of exploitation, war and diseases brought by the Spanish.
Puerto Rico was the key to the Spanish Empire from the early years of
the exploration, conquest and colonization of the New World. The
smallest of the Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico was a major military
post during many wars between Spain and other European powers for
control of the region during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. In
1898, during the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico was invaded and
subsequently became a possession of the United States. The first half
of the 20th century was marked by the struggle to obtain greater
democratic rights from the United States. The Foraker Act of 1900,
which established a civil government, and the Jones Act of 1917, which
granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, paved the way for the drafting
of Puerto Rico's Constitution and the establishment of democratic
elections in 1952. However, the political status of Puerto Rico, a
Commonwealth controlled by the U.S., remains an anomaly, more than 500
years after the first Europeans settled the island.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Puerto_Rico
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1812:
The United States declared war against the United Kingdom, officially
beginning the War of 1812.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812)
1815:
Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of
Waterloo.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo)
1858:
Charles Darwin received a manuscript by Alfred Russel Wallace
on evolution, which prompted him to publish his theory.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace)
1940:
World War II: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces,
makes an appeal to the French people following the fall of France to
Nazi Germany, rallying them to support the Resistance.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_of_18_June)
1979:
The United States and the Soviet Union signed the SALT II treaty,
placing specific limits on each side's stock of nuclear weapons.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_of_18_June)
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Wikiquote of the day:
The day after Columbine, I was interviewed... The reporter had been
assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. "Wouldn't
you say," she asked, "that killings like this are influenced by
violent movies?" No, I said, I wouldn't say that... The reporter
looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I
said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news
programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and
starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops
ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is
assigned a logo and a theme song ... The message is clear to other
disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be
famous..." -- Roger Ebert
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert)
Robert Garran was an Australian lawyer and public servant, an early
leading expert in Australian constitutional law, the first employee of
the Government of Australia and the first Solicitor-General of
Australia. Garran spent thirty-one years as permanent head of the
Attorney-General's Department, providing advice to ten different Prime
Ministers (from Barton to Lyons). He played a significant
behind-the-scenes role in the Australian federation movement, as
adviser to Edmund Barton and chair of the Drafting Committee at the
1897–1898 Constitutional Convention. In addition to his professional
work, Garran was also an important figure in the development of the
city of Canberra during its early years. He founded several important
cultural associations, organised the creation of the Canberra
University College, and later contributed to the establishment of the
Australian National University. Garran published at least eight books
and many journal articles throughout his lifetime, covering such
topics as constitutional law, the history of federalism in Australia,
and German language poetry.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garran
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1745:
King George's War: British colonial forces led by William Pepperrell
captured the French stronghold at Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton
Island after a six-week siege.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_Louisbourg)
1846:
Pius IX was elected pope, beginning the longest reign of all popes
(not counting the Apostle St. Peter).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX)
1963:
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the
first woman in space.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova)
1976:
Apartheid in South Africa: Police in Soweto opened fire on
schoolchildren protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a
medium of instruction in township schools, triggering a series of
nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto)
1999:
Thabo Mbeki was inaugurated President of South Africa.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki)
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Wikiquote of the day:
It's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not
life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that
it's the very opposite of that that is really life. -- James Joyce in
Ulysses
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Joyce)
The Battle of Midway was a pivotal naval battle in the Pacific Theater
of World War II. It took place from June 4 to June 7, 1942,
approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, and six
months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor that had led
to a formal state of war between the United States and Japan. During
the battle, the United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against
Midway Atoll (located northwest of Hawaii) and destroyed four Japanese
aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser while losing a carrier and a
destroyer. The battle was a crushing defeat for the Japanese and is
widely regarded as the most important naval battle of World War II.
The battle permanently weakened the Japanese Navy, particularly
through the loss of over 200 naval aviators. Strategically, the U.S.
Navy was able to seize the initiative in the Pacific and go on the
offensive.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1099:
Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week
siege of the city.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1099))
1494:
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the
newly discovered lands of the Americas and Africa between the two
countries.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas)
1905:
The Norwegian parliament dissolved the Union between Sweden and
Norway.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_between_Sweden_and_Norway)
1940:
King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav, and the Norwegian
government left Tromsø for exile in London, following the World War II
German invasion.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_VII_of_Norway)
1948:
Rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state,
Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Benes)
1981:
The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled Iraq's Osirak nuclear
reactor.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it
will not come Again in this identical guise. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks)
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within
the solar system. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the
other planets in our solar system combined. Jupiter, along with
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. When viewed
from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of -2.8, making it
the fourth brightest object in the night sky. The planet was known by
astronomers of ancient times and was associated with the mythology and
religious beliefs of many cultures. Jupiter is primarily composed of
hydrogen with only a small proportion of helium; it may also have a
rocky core of heavier elements. The outer atmosphere is visibly
segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in
turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent
result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have
existed since at least the seventeenth century. Surrounding the planet
is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. There
are also at least 63 moons, including the four large moons called the
Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.
Jupiter has been explored on several occasions by robotic spacecraft,
most notably during the early Pioneer and Voyager fly-by missions and
later by the Galileo orbiter.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1523:
Gustav Vasa became King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar
Union.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_I_of_Sweden)
1683:
Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university
museum, opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum)
1894:
Colorado Governor Davis H. Waite ordered his state militia to protect
and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek_miners'_strike_of_1894)
1933:
The first ever drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey, United
States.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater)
1944:
The Battle of Normandy began with 155,000 Allied troops landing on the
beaches of Normandy in the largest amphibious military operation in
history.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy)
1982:
A war in Lebanon began when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to
root out members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War)
2005:
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark legal decision in
Gonzales v. Raich, allowing the U.S. Congress to ban medical marijuana
even in states that approve its use.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. --
Thomas Mann
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann)
Taiwanese aborigines are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Although
each group holds a variety of creation stories, contemporary research
suggests their ancestors may have been living on the islands for
approximately 8,000 years before major Han Chinese immigration began
in the 1600s. The Taiwanese Aborigines are Austronesian peoples, with
linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, such
as peoples of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Oceania. For
centuries Taiwan's Aboriginal peoples experienced economic competition
and military conflict with a series of conquering peoples. Centralized
government policies designed to foster language shift and cultural
assimilation, as well as continued contact with the colonizers through
trade, intermarriage and other dispassionate intercultural processes,
have resulted in varying degrees of language death and loss of
original cultural identity. The bulk of contemporary Taiwanese
Aborigines reside in the mountains and the cities. Many Aboriginal
groups are actively seeking a higher degree of political
self-determination and economic development since the early 1980s.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_aborigines
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Today's selected anniversaries:
350:
Roman usurper Nepotianus of the Constantinian dynasty proclaimed
himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome with a group of gladiators.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotianus)
1940:
World War II: The remaining Allied forces protecting the Dunkirk
evacuation surrendered, giving the Germans a tactical victory in the
Battle of Dunkirk.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation)
1992:
The High Court of Australia delivered its landmark legal decision in
Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabo_v_Queensland)
1998:
An InterCityExpress high-speed train derailed near Eschede, Lower
Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths and 100 injuries.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster)
2006:
Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and
Montenegro.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro)
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Wikiquote of the day:
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen
of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut." -- Lawrence
Lessig
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig)
Basiliscus was a Byzantine Emperor of the House of Leo, who ruled
briefly (9 January 475-August 476), when Emperor Zeno had been forced
out of Constantinople by a revolt. Basiliscus was the brother of
Empress Aelia Verina, the wife of Emperor Leo I. His relationship with
the emperor allowed him to pursue a military career that, after minor
initial successes, ended in 468, when he led the disastrous Byzantine
invasion of Vandal Africa, in one of the largest military operations
of Late Antiquity. Basiliscus succeeded in seizing power in 475,
exploiting the unpopularity of Emperor Zeno, the "barbarian" successor
to Leo, and a plot organized by Verina that had caused Zeno to flee
Constantinople. However, during his short rule, Basiliscus alienated
the fundamental support of the Church and the people of
Constantinople, promoting the Monophysite christological position in
opposition to the widely accepted Chalcedonian faith. So, when Zeno
tried to regain his empire, he found virtually no opposition,
triumphally entering Constantinople, and capturing and killing
Basiliscus and his family. The struggle between Basiliscus and Zeno
impeded the intervention of the Eastern Empire in the fall of the
Western Roman Empire, which happened in early September 476.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basiliscus
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1779:
Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American
Revolutionary War, was court-martialed for malfeasance.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold)
1831:
British naval officer and explorer James Clark Ross successfully led
the first expedition to reach the Magnetic North Pole.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_Ross)
1922:
The Royal Ulster Constabulary, a police force in Northern Ireland, was
founded.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary)
1943:
Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways
Corporation Flight 777, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other
notable passengers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_777)
2001:
Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal killed King Birendra and several
members of the royal family in a shooting spree.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipendra_of_Nepal)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful
feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with
the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function
like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however
rough the sea. -- Carl von Clausewitz
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz)
The Sydney Roosters are a professional rugby league club based in the
Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. They play in the National Rugby
League and are one of the most successful clubs in Australian rugby
league, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League and National
Rugby League titles. The side holds the longest winning streak
(nineteen) and the second largest margin of victory (87–7) in league
history. The club was founded in 1908 in Paddington, Sydney, under the
name "Eastern Suburbs"; in 1994, the name was changed to the "Sydney
City Roosters", and in 2000 to just the "Sydney Roosters". The Bondi
Junction-based Roosters have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with
the South Sydney Rabbitohs from Redfern, who are, along with the
Sydney Roosters, the only remaining foundation club in the National
Rugby League.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Roosters
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1431:
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen,
France after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated
trial.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc)
1434:
Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were decisively defeated in
the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Wars)
1854:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories
of Nebraska and Kansas.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas-Nebraska_Act)
1911:
The first Indianapolis 500 open-wheel automobile race was held at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, won by Ray Harroun
in a Marmon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_500)
1922:
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of
Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial)
1989:
Goddess of Democracy, a statue made mostly of polystyrene foam and
papier-mâché, was erected by student protestors in Tiananmen Square,
Beijing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy)
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Wikiquote of the day:
I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the
humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all
the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a
limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its
necessary condition and confirmation. -- Mikhail Bakunin
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin)
The Caspian expeditions of the Rus were military raids undertaken by
the Rus between 864 and 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores. Initially, the
Rus appeared in Serkland in the 9th century traveling as merchants
along the Volga trade route, selling furs, honey, and slaves. The
first small-scale raids took place in the late 9th and early 10th
century. The Rus undertook the first large-scale expedition in 913;
having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged Gorgan, the territory of
present day Azerbaijan, and the adjacent areas, taking slaves and
goods. On their return, the northern raiders were attacked and
defeated by Khazar Muslims in the Volga Delta, and those who escaped
were killed by the local tribes on the middle Volga. During their next
expedition in 943, the Rus captured Barda, the capital of Arran, in
the modern-day Azerbaijan. The Rus stayed there for several months,
killing many inhabitants of the city and amassing substantial plunder.
It was only an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus that forced them to
depart with their spoils. Sviatoslav, prince of Kiev, commanded the
next attack, which destroyed the Khazar state in 965. Sviatoslav's
campaign established the Rus's hold on the north-south trade routes,
helping to alter the demographics of the region. Raids continued
through the time period with the last Scandinavian attempt to
reestablish the route to the Caspian Sea taking place in 1041 by
Ingvar the Far-Travelled.
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_expeditions_of_the_Rus
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1167:
A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch
and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 40,000-man Roman army.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Porzio)
1453:
Constantinople fell to the besieging Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed
II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople)
1660:
English Restoration: The monarchy in England was restored under King
Charles II on Oak Apple Day.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restoration)
1914:
The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence
River after colliding with the Storstad, killing 1,012 on board.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_Ireland)
1919:
Observations made by Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed
part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Stanley_Eddington)
1953:
New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and his sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay
became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay)
1999:
Olusegun Obasanjo took office as President of Nigeria, the first
elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of
military rule.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo)
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Wikiquote of the day:
The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not.
Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt,
and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of
everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as
the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who
generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to
persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a
hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make
them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them
that they are all the sons of God. -- G. K. Chesterton
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton)
Simeon I ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First
Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the
Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial
expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary
Eastern Europe. His reign was also a period of unmatched cultural
prosperity and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian
culture. During Simeon's rule, Bulgaria spread over a territory
between the Aegean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea, and the new
Bulgarian capital Preslav was said to rival Constantinople. The
newly-independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church became the first new
patriarchate besides the Pentarchy and Bulgarian Glagolitic
translations of Christian texts spread all over the Slavic world of
the time. Halfway through his reign, Simeon assumed the title of
Emperor (Tsar), having prior to that been styled Prince (Knyaz).
Read the rest of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Bulgaria
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1153:
Malcolm IV became King of Scotland at the age of twelve.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_IV_of_Scotland)
1860:
Expedition of the Thousand: Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts
launched their attack on Palermo, capital of the Two Sicilies.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_of_the_Thousand)
1919:
The flying boat NC-4 arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, becoming the first
fixed-wing aircraft to complete a transatlantic flight under its own
power.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-4)
1937:
The Golden Gate Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate
in California, was opened.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge)
1942:
Operation Anthropoid: Czech resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied
Prague ambushed and mortally wounded Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of
Reich Security Main Office and the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropoid)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is
trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He
hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His
truth is marching on. -- Julia Ward Howe
(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe)