The 2021 Masters (officially the 2021 Betfred Masters) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place from 10 to 17 January 2021 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. It was the 47th staging of the Masters, which was first held in 1975, and the second of three Triple Crown events in the 2020–21 season. The top sixteen players from the snooker world rankings were invited to compete in a knockout tournament, organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. It was played behind closed doors because of COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom. The defending champion, Stuart Bingham, had defeated Ali Carter 10–8 in the 2020 Masters final. Bingham lost 6–5 to Yan Bingtao (pictured) in the semi-finals. Yan (one of three debutants at the event, alongside Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Gary Wilson) met John Higgins in the final. Yan completed a 10–8 victory to win his first Triple Crown tournament. (Full article...).
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1430:
Philip the Good established the Order of the Golden Fleece, referred to as the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Golden_Fleece
1917:
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Sea_party
1941:
Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Klisura_Pass
1985:
Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
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anatomize: 1. (transitive) 2. To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy. 3. To punish (someone) by post mortem dissection following execution. 4. To cut up or dissect (a plant or one of its parts) to investigate its structure. 5. (figurative) 6. To scrutinize (something) down to the most minute detail. 7. (obsolete) To chemically analyse (a substance). 8. (intransitive) To cut up or dissect the body of a human being or an animal. 9. About Word of the Day 10. Nominate a word 11. Leave feedback https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anatomize
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Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition. --John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton