Bob Mann (April 8, 1924 – October 21, 2006) was an American
professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) who
broke the color barrier for both the Detroit Lions (alongside Mel
Groomes) and the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at
Hampton Institute in 1942 and 1943 and at the University of Michigan in
1944, 1946 and 1947. Playing the end position, he broke the Big Ten
Conference record for receiving yards in 1946 and 1947. In 1948 Mann
signed a professional contract with the Lions, where he stayed for two
seasons. He led the NFL in receiving yards in 1949. After a brief stint
with the New York Yanks he signed with the Packers, where he was the
team's leading receiver in 1951. He remained with the Packers partway
through the 1954 season. Mann later became a lawyer and practiced in
Detroit. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1988
and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mann_%28American_football%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale,
agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent
conflict.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_Cordiale>
1911:
American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film
Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo_%281911_film%29>
1933:
The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from
the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be
unsuccessful.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Western_Australian_secession_referendum>
1973:
The Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo,
Norway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_%28Norway%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sequela:
1. (pathology) Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which
follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or
wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.
2. (by extension, formal)
3. That which follows; a consequence, an effect.
4. (rare) People who adhere to the opinions or teachings of another;
followers.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sequela>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You and me on the bobbing knee. Didn't we cry at that old
mythology he'd read! I will come home again, but not until The sun and
the moon meet on yon hill.
--Kate Bush
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kate_Bush>
Edward Jones (7 April 1824 – c. 1895), also known as "the boy
Jones", became notorious for breaking into Buckingham Palace in London
several times between 1838 and 1841. He was first caught doing so when
he was 14; although he was found with items he had stolen, he escaped a
prison sentence. He broke into the palace again in December 1840, and
was caught and sentenced to three months' hard labour. He was released
in March 1841 and returned to the palace two weeks later, was arrested
and served another three months. He was coerced into the Royal Navy by
the Thames Police and served between 1842 and 1847. He was caught
burgling houses in August 1849 and was transported to an Australian
penal colony. He returned to England, was arrested for burglary in 1856
and served six months of hard labour. He probably died in Australia,
either in Bairnsdale, Victoria, on Boxing Day 1893 or in Perth in 1896.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boy_Jones>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1949:
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29>
1964:
Reverend Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while he
was protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland,
Ohio, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_W._Klunder>
1994:
Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after
the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of
thousands killed in the following 100 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide>
2001:
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the
longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet
other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
under the knife:
(informal) Chiefly preceded by a form of go: undergoing a surgical
procedure; into surgery.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/under_the_knife>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of
elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply
interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round
ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A
motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of
all thought, And rolls through all things.
--William Wordsworth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth>
Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the composer Aaron
Copland and the choreographer Martha Graham (pictured), later arranged
as an orchestral work. Copland composed the ballet for Graham upon a
commission from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Set in a 19th-century
settlement in Pennsylvania, the ballet follows the Bride and the
Husbandman as they get married and celebrate with the community. The
original choreography was by Graham, with costumes by Edythe Gilfond and
sets by Isamu Noguchi. The ballet was well-received at the 1944
premiere, earning Copland the Pulitzer Prize for Music during its 1945
United States tour. The orchestral suite composed in 1945 was played
that year by many symphony orchestras; the suite is among Copland's
best-known works, and the ballet remains essential in the Martha Graham
Dance Company repertoire. A film version of the original production was
released in 1958 with Graham as the Bride; a similar recording was
released in 1976 with Yuriko.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Spring>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1808:
John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits
from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor>
1974:
ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with
the song "Waterloo".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1974>
1994:
The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana
and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the
event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana_and…>
2009:
Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the
parliamentary election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2009_Moldovan_parliamentary_election_pr…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dyspnea:
(pathology) Difficult or laboured respiration; shortness of breath.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dyspnea>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every fool has a rainbow But he never seems to find The reward
that should be waiting At the end of the line. But he'll give up a bed
of roses For a hammock filled with thorns And go chasing after
rainbows Every time a dream is born.
--Merle Haggard
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard>
The Hrabri class consisted of two submarines built for the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The first submarines to
serve in the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM), they arrived in Yugoslavia on 5
April 1928, and participated in cruises to Mediterranean ports prior to
World War II. During the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Hrabri
(pictured) was captured by the Italians and later scrapped. Nebojša
escaped to Egypt to join the British Royal Navy (RN). She served as an
anti-submarine warfare training boat and then as a battery charging
station. In May 1942 her crew were removed and placed in a British
military camp following a revolt by Yugoslav generals in exile, and she
received an almost entirely RN crew. She was briefly utilised for
training at Beirut, but was formally handed back to the KM-in-exile in
mid-1943. After the war, she was transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy
and renamed Tara. She was used in a training role until 1954, then
scrapped. (This article is part of a featured topic: Hrabri-class
submarines.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Hrabri-class_submar…>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1614:
Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist
John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and
the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas>
1944:
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the
aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz>
1986:
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin,
resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing>
2009:
The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from
the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking
concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used
to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cough:
1. (transitive)
2. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or
throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a
short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
3. To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the
manner described in sense 1.1.
4. To express (words, etc.) in the manner describe in sense 1.1.
5. (figurative)
6. To surrender (information); to confess.
7. (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand
over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
8. (intransitive)
9. To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short,
explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something
blocking or irritating the airway.
10. To make a noise like a cough. The engine coughed and sputtered.
11. (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to
spill the beans.
12. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through
the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the
mouth.
13. A bout of repeated coughing (verb sense 2.1); also, a medical
condition that causes one to cough.
14. (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (sense 1).
15. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially
when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution
of blame or a euphemism: ahem.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cough>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.
--Anu Garg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anu_Garg>
Marshfield was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L" in the U.S.
between 1895 and 1954. Originally part of the Metropolitan West Side
Elevated Railroad, it was the westernmost station of the Metropolitan's
main line. West of the station, the main line diverged into three
branches; this junction, served by the station, has been described as
the most complex on the entire Chicago "L" system. After 1905, the
Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, an interurban line, also served the
station, but limited its service based on direction to avoid competing
with the "L". The lines that had been constructed by the Metropolitan,
including those serving Marshfield, were subject to modifications
planned since the 1930s that incrementally withdrew service from the
station. It fully closed on April 4, 1954, and was demolished shortly
thereafter. The junction Marshfield served was rebuilt in reduced form,
but with a new station on Racine Avenue to the east.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshfield_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1081:
The Komnenos dynasty came to full power with the coronation of
Alexios I Komnenos as Byzantine emperor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_I_Komnenos>
1859:
Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New
York City as part of their blackface show.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_%28song%29>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing
NATO, an international military alliance whereby its member states agree
to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
1973:
A year after the completion of the second of the complex's twin
towers, the World Trade Center in New York City was officially
dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_%281973%E2%80%932001%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anoxia:
(ecology, pathology) A condition in which a body tissue or an
environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen; severe hypoxia.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anoxia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant
goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that
goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.>
Daytona USA is an arcade racing game developed by Sega AM2 and published
by Sega in March 1994. Inspired by the popularity of the NASCAR motor
racing series in the US, the game has players race stock cars on one of
three courses. It was the first arcade game to be released on the Sega
Model 2, an arcade system board which was co-developed by GE Aerospace.
AM2's Toshihiro Nagoshi (pictured) became the game's director and co-
producer. Sega aimed to outperform Namco's Ridge Racer (1993). The
developers researched motorsports extensively and mapped Daytona
International Speedway. Daytona USA was a critical and commercial
success, praised for its graphics, soundtrack and gameplay. A conversion
was made for the Sega Saturn in 1995, and was followed by sequels and
enhancements for consoles and arcades. Daytona USA is one of the
highest-grossing arcade video games ever, and has been frequently named
one of the best video games of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_USA>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1984:
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be
launched into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh_Sharma>
1996:
A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while
attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia,
killing all 35 people on board, including Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Croatia_USAF_CT-43_crash>
2009:
A gunman opened fire at an American Planning and Civic
Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing
thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shooting>
2013:
The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina,
experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Argentina_floods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
the organ grinder, not the monkey:
(idiomatic) Synonym of organ grinder (“the person who is in charge,
rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for
another's actions”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_organ_grinder%2C_not_the_monkey>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never
dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. It is only
spurious pride that is morbid and sensitive, and shrinks from every
touch.
--Washington Irving
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Washington_Irving>
Morgan Bulkeley (1837–1922) was an American politician and business
executive from Connecticut, who was, in 1876, the first president of
baseball's National League. A Civil War veteran and the son of the first
president of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, Bulkeley also led Aetna,
from 1879 until his death. A Republican, he was from 1880 to 1888 mayor
of Hartford, and starting in 1889 served as governor of Connecticut. He
controversially remained in office for a second two-year term because
the houses of the state legislature could not agree about the outcome of
the 1890 election. A Democratic official locked a door in the State
Capitol against him, and Bulkeley had it opened with a crowbar, thus
becoming "the Crowbar Governor". He left office in 1893, and served as a
U.S. senator from 1905 to 1911. After his death in 1922, a bridge and a
high school were named for him. His induction in 1937 into the Baseball
Hall of Fame remains controversial because his involvement in the game
was brief.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Bulkeley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1979:
Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military
research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, causing around 100
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak>
1982:
Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking
the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_invasion_of_the_Falkland_Islands>
1992:
Bosnian War: At least 48 civilians were massacred in the town
of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijeljina_massacre>
2012:
A gunman shot at people inside Oikos University, a Korean
Christian college in Oakland, California, leaving seven people dead and
three injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Oikos_University_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys:
(Britain, informal) Offering a low payment or salary will not attract
skilled workers or employees.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_you_pay_peanuts%2C_you_get_monkeys>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the
course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I
am a free agent.
--Giacomo Casanova
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova>
The Order of Brothelyngham was a gang of men who, in mid-14th-century
England, formed themselves into a fake religious order in Exeter, Devon.
Styling themselves as theatrical players, they terrorised, kidnapped and
extorted the locals. They may well have been satirising the church,
which was commonly perceived as corrupt. The group appears to have named
itself after a non-existent place, "Brothelyngham". The name was
probably meant as an allusion to the Order of Sempringham, which was
known to enclose both monks and nuns on the same premises. Members of
the Order of Brothelyngham dressed as monks. They supposedly elected a
madman to rule them as their abbot, possibly from a theatrical stage,
and bore their ruler aloft before them in a mockery of a bishop's
throne. As one of the few such gangs known to modern historians, the
order is considered significant for what it suggests of anticlerical
activities and attitudes in England during the period.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Brothelyngham>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1952:
Israel enacted a citizenship law, prior to which the country
technically had no citizens.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_citizenship_law>
1969:
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter
aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air
Force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier>
2001:
Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was legalised, with the
country becoming the first to do so.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Netherlands>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
oo oo aa aa:
(onomatopoeia) Used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oo_oo_aa_aa>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
--Edmond Rostand
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmond_Rostand>
The Jarrow March (5–31 October 1936) was a protest against the
unemployment and poverty suffered in the Tyneside town of Jarrow, in
North East England, during the 1930s. Around 200 men marched from Jarrow
to London to petition the government to restore industry in the town
after the closure in 1934 of Palmer's shipyard. Palmer's had launched
more than 1,000 ships since 1852. In the 1920s, a combination of
mismanagement and changed world trade conditions caused a decline which
led to the yard's closure. When plans for its replacement by a
steelworks were thwarted, the lack of any large-scale employment in the
town led the borough council to organise the march. The House of Commons
received the petition but took no action, and the march produced few
immediate results. The Jarrovians went home believing that they had
failed. In subsequent years the Jarrow March became recognised as a
defining event of the 1930s and helped to prepare the way for wide
social reform after the Second World War.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First
Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Malolos>
1959:
After a two-week escape journey from Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama
reached the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawang_Monastery>
1964:
The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart,
establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2004:
The Old National Library Building in Singapore was closed to
make way for a tunnel, despite widespread protests.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_National_Library_Building>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
transgender:
1. (broadly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different
from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans
woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-
gender.
2. (strictly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite
from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a
female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary
identity).
3. (loosely) Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with
culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
4. Of or pertaining to transgender people (sense 1), or their
experiences or identity.
5. Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.
6. Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only
non-transgender people.
7. Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”) [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgender>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many
sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but
I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you,
and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to
come also, That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and
succession, We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent among
disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that
is asserted, We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by
divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close
peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld,
free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our
ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time
and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove
brethren and lovers as we are.
--Leaves of Grass
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>
Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the first
lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President
Herbert Hoover. She was active in community groups, including the Girl
Scouts of the USA, which she led from 1922 to 1925 and from 1935 to
1937. She was the first woman to earn a geology degree from Stanford. In
the first twenty years of their marriage, the Hoovers lived in several
countries; during World War I, they led efforts to assist war refugees.
Beginning in 1917, they lived in Washington, D.C., as Herbert became a
high government official. In the White House, Lou Hoover dedicated her
time as first lady to her volunteer work, though she did not publicize
it. Her invitation of Jessie De Priest to the White House for tea was
controversial in the South. After Herbert's defeat for re-election in
1932, Lou Hoover continued her work, helping provide refugee support
with her husband during World War II, and died suddenly of a heart
attack in 1944.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Henry_Hoover>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1882:
The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal
service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven,
Connecticut, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus>
1974:
NASA's Mariner 10 became the first space probe to make a flyby
of Mercury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_10>
1999:
The Chamoli earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the
foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years, killed at least 100
people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Chamoli_earthquake>
2014:
The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place
following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_Kingdom>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
misfield:
1. (transitive) To field (“catch or intercept and play”) (a ball)
clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring
another run.
2. (intransitive) To field a ball clumsily or ineptly.
3. (baseball, cricket, rugby) A failure to field (“catch or intercept
and play”) a ball properly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misfield>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Sometimes a strange light shines, purer than the moon, casting
no shadow, that is the halo upon the bones of the pioneers who died
for truth.
--R. S. Thomas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._S._Thomas>