Maya is the third studio album by British recording artist
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/M.I.A._albums>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1798:
Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its
treaties with France, resulting in the undeclared Quasi-War, fought
entirely at sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War>
1911:
Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention,
which banned the open-water hunting of seals (example pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911>
1963:
The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief
political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm,
attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest
during the Buddhist crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Seven_Day_scuffle>
2012:
The equivalent of five months' rain fell overnight in parts of
Krasnodar Krai, Russia, causing flash floods that killed 171 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Krasnodar_Krai_floods>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hebdomad:
1. (obsolete) A group of seven.
2. A period of seven days; a week.
3. (Gnosticism) A group of seven world-creating archons (supernatural
beings) often regarded as somewhat hostile; also, a term of address for
the Demiurge (“a being sometimes seen as the creator of evil”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hebdomad>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In this complex world, science, the scientific method, and the
consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the
human race is doing and to wherever we are going. If we blow ourselves
up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from
blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of
science.
--Robert A. Heinlein
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein>