Tropical Depression Ten was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made
landfall on the Florida Panhandle of America in September 2007. The
system developed as a subtropical depression on September 21 in the
northeastern Gulf of Mexico from the interaction of a tropical wave, the
tail end of a cold front, and an upper-level low. Initially containing a
poorly defined circulation and intermittent thunderstorm activity, the
system transitioned into a tropical depression after convection
increased over the center. Tracking northwestward, the depression moved
ashore near Fort Walton Beach early on September 22, before dissipating
over southeastern Alabama. Initially the depression was forecast to move
ashore as a minimal tropical storm, prompting state of emergency
declarations in Mississippi and Louisiana. It was the first tropical
cyclone to threaten the New Orleans area since Hurricane Katrina and the
destructive 2005 hurricane season. Overall impact from the cyclone was
minor and largely limited to light rainfall. However, the precursor
system spawned a damaging tornado in Eustis, Florida, where 20 houses
were destroyed and 30 more were damaged.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Depression_Ten_(2007)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
705:
Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her own
right, abdicated the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian>
1632:
Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in
which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his
patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chief_World_Systems>
1980:
At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United
States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory
that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice>
1997:
Scientists at The Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the
birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to have been
successfully cloned from an adult cell, seven months after the fact.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)>
2011:
Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in
protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police
and army forces during previous protests.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_loyalty_to_martyrs>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fugacious:
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fugacious>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the
limits of the world.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer>