The music for three of the four operas written by the youthful composer
George Frideric Handel (pictured) between 1703 and 1706, when he lived
in the German city of Hamburg, is lost apart from a few orchestral
fragments. Only the first, Almira, has survived complete. He was able to
get Almira and the less successful Nero performed at Oper am
Gänsemarkt, the opera house, during the temporary absence of the
theatre's director, Reinhard Keiser. Handel's last two Hamburg operas,
Florindo and Daphne, were not produced before Handel left the city. No
music that can be definitively traced to Nero has been identified,
although some of it may have been used in later works, particularly
Agrippina, which has a similar plot and characters. Fragments of music
from Florindo and Daphne have been preserved without the vocal parts,
and some of these elements were incorporated into an orchestral suite
first recorded in 2012.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel%27s_lost_Hamburg_operas>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1893:
Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety
led the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the government of Queen
Liliʻuokalani (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom>
1945:
World War II: Australian troops advanced along the northern
part of Bougainville Island (in present-day Papua New Guinea) and began
fighting Japanese forces in the Battle of Tsimba Ridge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsimba_Ridge>
1948:
Indonesian National Revolution: The Renville Agreement between
the Netherlands and Indonesian republicans was ratified, in an
ultimately unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes arising from the
Linggadjati Agreement of 1946.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renville_Agreement>
1999:
In Little Saigon, California, a series of protests began when
the owner of a video rental store displayed an image of Ho Chi Minh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Tek_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
venomous:
1. Of an animal (specifically a snake) or parts of its body: producing
venom (“a toxin intended for defensive or offensive use”) which is
usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of
a bite or sting: injecting venom.
2. Of or pertaining to venom.
3. (archaic) Consisting of, or containing or full of, venom or some
other poison; hence, harmful to health due to this.
4. (figurative)
5. Posing a threat; dangerous, threatening.
6. Hateful; malignant; spiteful.
7. (obsolete)
8. Of a weapon such as an arrow or dart: dosed with venom or poison;
envenomed, poisoned.
9. (figurative) Harmful, hurtful, injurious; specifically, morally or
spiritually harmful; evil, noxious, pernicious.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/venomous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All Wars are Follies, very expensive & very mischievous ones.
When will Mankind be convinc’d of this, and agree to settle their
Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it even by the Cast of a
Dye, it would be better than by Fighting & destroying each other.
--Benjamin Franklin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin>