Arlington is a small city in the Seattle metropolitan area of northern
Snohomish County in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies on the
Stillaguamish River in the western foothills of the Cascade Range,
adjacent to the city of Marysville and 10 miles (16 km) north of
Everett. The population was 17,926 in the 2010 U.S. census. Arlington
was established in the 1880s and incorporated as a city on May 20, 1903.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, federal projects in the
Arlington area included a municipal airport that would serve as a naval
air station during World War II. Beginning in the 1980s, Arlington
became increasingly suburban, annexing new neighborhoods to the south
and west. The economy of the Arlington area transitioned from timber and
agriculture to a service economy in the late 20th century. A Boeing
facility is in Everett, and Arlington's airport is home to many
aerospace jobs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington,_Washington>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
794:
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Æthelberht II of
East Anglia was beheaded on the order of King Offa of Mercia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelberht_II_of_East_Anglia>
1873:
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for using copper
rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim overalls, allowing their
company to start manufacturing blue jeans.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_W._Davis>
1882:
The Triple Alliance was created between the German Empire,
Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1882)>
1983:
A team of researchers led by French virologist Luc Montagnier
published their discovery of HIV, but were not then certain that it
caused AIDS.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier>
2012:
The first of two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy,
resulting in seven deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Northern_Italy_earthquakes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
creed:
1. (specifically, religion) A reading or statement of belief that
summarizes the faith it represents; a confession of faith for public
use, especially one which is brief and comprehensive.
2. (rare) The fact of believing; belief, faith.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creed>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to
stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an
evil still. First: the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by
authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it, of
course deny its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no
authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every
other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an
opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their
certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of
discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be
allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their
fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgment,
which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows
himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions
against their own fallibility, or admit the supposition that any
opinion, of which they feel very certain, may be one of the examples of
the error to which they acknowledge themselves to be liable.
--On Liberty
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/On_Liberty>