Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn, voiced by Jeremy Shada (pictured), and his best friend Jake, a dog who can change shape and size at will, voiced by John DiMaggio. In the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, they interact with Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the Ice King (Tom Kenny), Marceline (Olivia Olson), and others. The series is based on a 2007 short for Nicktoons and Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons. Premiering April 5, 2010, and ending September 3, 2018, each 11-minute episode took roughly 8–9 months to complete using hand-drawn animation. Adventure Time was a ratings success for Cartoon Network with up to three million viewers. It has received positive reviews from critics and won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, three Annie Awards, and two British Academy Children's Awards. Four Adventure Time specials will air on HBO Max starting in 2020.
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1847:
Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park
1936:
During the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history, an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tupelo%E2%80%93Gainesville_tornado_outbreak
1976:
The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Incident
2000:
Before a semi-final of the UEFA Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, fan violence broke out, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_UEFA_Cup_semi-final_violence
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whelm: 1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. 2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. 3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy. 4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whelm
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. And from hence it is that kings, whose power is greatest, turn their endeavours to the assuring it at home by laws or abroad by wars; and, when that is done, there succeedeth a new desire, in some of fame from new conquest, in others of ease and sensual pleasure, in others of admiration or being flattered for excellence in some art or other ability of the mind. --Thomas Hobbes https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes