Tintin in the Congo is the second volume of The Adventures of Tintin,
the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the
conservative newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century) for
its children's supplement, it was serialised weekly from May 1930 to
June 1931. The story tells of young reporter Tintin, who is sent to the
Belgian Congo with his dog Snowy. Encountering native Congolese people
and wild animals, Tintin unearths a diamond smuggling operation run by
the American gangster Al Capone. Following Tintin in the Land of the
Soviets and bolstered by publicity stunts, it was a commercial success
and appeared in book form shortly after the serial's conclusion. The
Tintin series grew over the 1930s and 1940s to become a defining part of
the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1946, Hergé re-drew and
coloured Tintin in the Congo in his distinctive style of uniform lines
and low contrast for republication by Casterman, revised for a 1975
edition. In the late 20th century, Tintin in the Congo was criticised
for its representation of big-game hunting and for its typically
colonial depictions of Africans as unable to fend for themselves and in
need of European masters.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: Union victory in the Battle of Fort
Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional
Surrender" Grant.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson>
1918:
The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence of
Lithuania (facsimile pictured), proclaiming the restoration of an
independent Lithuania governed by democratic principles, despite the
presence of German troops in the country during World War I.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Independence_of_Lithuania>
1940:
Second World War: The British Royal Navy boarded and captured
the German tanker Altmark and freed 299 captured British sailors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmark_Incident>
1985:
"The Hizballah Program" was released, describing the ideology
and goals of the Shia Islamic political and paramilitary organization
Hizballah.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah>
2005:
The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the international treaty on
climate change, entered into force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
seriatim:
One after another, in order; taking one topic or subject at a time in an
order; sequentially.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seriatim>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In essence, religion was love; in no case was it logic. Reason
can reach nothing except through the senses; God, by essence, cannot be
reached through the senses; if he is to be known at all, he must be
known by contact of spirit with spirit, essence with essence; directly;
by emotion; by ecstasy; by absorption of our existence with his; by
substitution of his spirit for ours.
--Henry Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams>