Desmond Daniel Amofah (1990–2019), known as Etika, was an American YouTuber and live streamer, known online for his enthusiastic reactions to Super Smash Bros. character trailers and Nintendo Direct presentations. The son of Ghanaian politician Owuraku Amofah, he resided in Brooklyn. Starting his online career in 2007, Amofah created his main YouTube channel, EWNetwork (Etika World Network), in 2012. He garnered popularity following the release of Super Smash Bros. 4, primarily stemming from his reaction videos of news surrounding the game. Beginning in October 2018, Amofah showed signs of mental distress, and was reported missing on June 20, 2019. Officials confirmed his death on June 25, finding it to be a suicide by drowning. His death was met with shock and grief by fans and fellow YouTubers, with many commenting that Amofah's mental deterioration had been dismissed or ignored. Numerous commemorations were held to honor Amofah, including fan-made memorials and murals.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1717:
The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge of England, was founded in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Grand_Lodge_of_England
1724:
On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_unser_Herr_zum_Jordan_kam,_BWV_7
1943:
Amid racial tensions, U.S. Army military police shot and killed a black serviceman after a confrontation at a pub in Bamber Bridge, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge
2010:
Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership spill in the Labor Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard
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cochineal: 1. (countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia). 2. (uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal insects. 3. (uncountable) The vivid red colour of this dye. cochineal: 4. Possessing a vivid red colour, as or as if produced from dyeing with cochineal dye (noun sense 2). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cochineal
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one — the knowledge and the dream. --Ambrose Bierce https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce