Since the band's creation, the live performances of Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band, have been given worldwide. In addition to regular concerts, the band has performed at festivals and other one-off performances. Nine Inch Nails' live performances differ from its in- studio counterparts. Frontman Trent Reznor writes and performs nearly all Nine Inch Nails studio material, but typically assembles groups of backing musicians for live performances. Keyboardist Alessandro Cortini said that "if you see the show and you're used to the CDs it's pretty clear that the studio entity is different from the live entity". Live Nine Inch Nails performances are accompanied by lighting, stage, and video projection effects. Critical and commercial response to Nine Inch Nails live performances has generally been positive. Critics have pointed to the concerts' aggressive on-stage dynamic and visual designs as high points. Reznor decided in 2008 to cease touring with the band after a 2009 farewell tour. The band resumed touring in 2013. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails_live_performances> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1859: Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus (text sample pictured), a 4th-century great uncial codex of the Bible in Greek, in Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egypt. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus> 1945: World War II: U.S. forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp> 1974: The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a motor coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members, killing twelve people. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M62_coach_bombing> 1998: An earthquake registering 5.9 MW struck northern Afghanistan, triggering landslides that killed over 2,300 people and destroyed around 15,000 homes. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1998_Afghanistan_earthquake> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: cachexia: (pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachexia> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.   --Charles Lindbergh <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh>