Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, the false chanterelle, is a species of fungus
in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophoropsidaceae>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1925:
The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott
Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby>
1944:
The Holocaust: Slovak Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd
Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, later publishing a report that became
one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the camp's mass
killings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba>
1970:
In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul
McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney>
1992:
Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were
massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraga_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deem:
1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to
sentence.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
4. (transitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a
conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs;
to account.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an
opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deem>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and
the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept
false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the
unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
--William Hazlitt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt>