100px|A McDonnell XF-85 Goblin at the National Museum of the US Air
Force
The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin was an American prototype fighter aircraft
conceived during World War II by McDonnell Aircraft. It was intended to
be carried in and deployed from the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36
bomber as a parasite fighter. The XF-85's intended role was to defend
bombers from hostile interceptors, a need demonstrated during World
War II. Two prototypes were constructed before the program was
terminated. The XF-85 was a response to a United States Army Air
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1060:
Béla I the Champion was crowned king of Hungary.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_I_of_Hungary>
1921:
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and then came into force exactly one
year later, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent
Irish state to be recognised by the British government.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty>
1989:
Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine
killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École Polytechnique
in Montreal.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre>
1992:
The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by members of the
Vishva Hindu Parishad and associated groups, believing it was built on
the birthplace of Rama.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_Babri_Masjid>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
amiable (adj):
1. Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood;
amiable ideas.
2. Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper;
kindhearted; which causes one to be liked
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amiable>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find
it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases.
The founders of the ancient religions of the world, as far as we can
judge, were minds of a high stamp, full of noble aspirations, yearning
for truth, devoted to the welfare of their neighbors, examples of
purity and unselfishness. What they desired to found upon earth was but
seldom realized, and their sayings, if preserved in their original
form, offer often a strange contrast to the practice of those who
profess to be their disciples.
--Max Müller
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller>