Scoops was a weekly British science fiction magazine in tabloid format
that was published by Arthur Pearson (pictured) for 20 issues in 1934.
Its editor was Haydn Dimmock, who also edited The Scout, a weekly
magazine for boys. Scoops was launched as a boy's paper, and it was not
until several issues had appeared that Dimmock discovered there was an
adult audience for science fiction. Circulation was poor, and Dimmock
attempted to change the magazine's focus to more mature material. He
reprinted Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt, improved the cover art,
and obtained fiction from the British science fiction writers John
Russell Fearn and Maurice Hugi. Pearson cancelled Scoops because of poor
sales. The failure of the magazine contributed to the belief that
Britain could not support a science fiction magazine, and it was not
until 1937, with Tales of Wonder, that another attempt was made.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoops_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1860:
Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the
Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers
participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Oxford_evolution_debate>
1934:
Adolf Hitler violently purged members of the Sturmabteilung
(SA), its leader Ernst Röhm, and other political rivals in the Night of
the Long Knives, executing at least 85 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives>
1972:
The International Time Bureau added the first leap second to
the Coordinated Universal Time time scale.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second>
2009:
Schoolgirl Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor when Yemenia
Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean killing 152 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenia_Flight_626>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
plat:
1. A plot of land; a lot.
2. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or
more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
3. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.
4. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets;
to map. […]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plat>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What I'm saying here is not, I agree, poetry, as poems should be
written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress and only with
the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their
instrument.
--Czesław Miłosz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz>