The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan, South
India, between the 10th and 12th centuries. This Kannadiga dynasty is
sometimes called the Kalyani Chalukya after its regal capital at
Kalyani, today's Basavakalyan in the modern Bidar District of Karnataka
state, and alternatively the Later Chalukya from its theoretical
relationship to the sixth-century Chalukya dynasty of Badami. Prior to
the rise of the Western and Eastern Chalukyas, the Rashtrakuta Empire of
Manyakheta controlled most of the Deccan and Central India for over two
centuries. In 973, seeing confusion in the Rashtrakuta Empire after a
successful invasion of their capital by the ruler of the Paramara
dynasty of Malwa, Tailapa II, a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta dynasty
ruling from Bijapur region, defeated his overlords and made Manyakheta
his capital. The dynasty quickly rose to power and grew into an empire
under Someshvara I who moved the capital to Kalyani.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Chalukya_Empire>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1889:
The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian
War, but differences in translation later led to another war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Ethiopian_War_of_1887%E2%80%931889>
1964:
Vietnam War: An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos led
USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card>
1999:
Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President
of Panama.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireya_Moscoso>
2014:
Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at
least 350 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Badakhshan_mudslides>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
smell the barn:
(intransitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) To act with renewed energy or
speed or to experience heightened anticipation as one approaches a
destination, goal, or other desired outcome.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smell_the_barn>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self
(Selbsttodtung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all
requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act
alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of
transcendental conduct.
--Novalis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Novalis>