"Volcano" is the second episode of the animated television series South
Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States in
August 1997. In the episode, Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny go on a
hunting trip with Stan's uncle Jimbo and his war buddy Ned, unaware that
a nearby volcano is about to erupt. Written by series co-creators Trey
Parker and Matt Stone (pictured), the episode was inspired by the 1997
disaster films Volcano and Dante's Peak, both of which Parker and Stone
strongly disliked. "Volcano" received generally positive reviews and was
nominated for a 1997 Environmental Media Award. Over one million viewers
watched the original broadcast. The episode marked the first of two
appearances for Scuzzlebutt, who became a popular minor character and
appeared in the video games South Park 10: The Game and South Park
Rally. The episode parodied the Duck and Cover films from the 1950s and
1960s that advised people to hide under tables in the event of a nuclear
attack.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano_%28South_Park%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1810:
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the Royal Navy,
preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Mauritius.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Port>
1928:
The first three of over sixty nations signed the
Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national
policy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact>
1990:
American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most
influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was killed
in a helicopter crash.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Stevie_Ray_Vaughan>
2003:
Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years
passing within approximately 55,758,000 kilometres (34,650,000 mi).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
change the game:
(transitive, idiomatic) To revolutionize a field of endeavor.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/change_the_game>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I’d like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes
and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other
nations. I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike
than different. We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals
forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the
old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that
awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it. Whether we think
each other right or wrong in our views on the issues of the day, we owe
each other our respect, as long as our character merits respect, and as
long as we share, for all our differences, for all the rancorous debates
that enliven and sometimes demean our politics, a mutual devotion to the
ideals our nation was conceived to uphold, that all are created equal,
and liberty and equal justice are the natural rights of all. Those
rights inhabit the human heart, and from there, though they may be
assailed, they can never be wrenched. I want to urge Americans, for as
long as I can, to remember that this shared devotion to human rights is
our truest heritage and our most important loyalty.
--John McCain
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_McCain>