The 2022 Welsh Open in snooker took place from 28 February to 6 March
2022 at the International Convention Centre Wales at the Celtic Manor
Resort in Newport, Wales. It was the 12th ranking event of the 2021–22
snooker season, and the 31st Welsh Open. The seventh of eight
tournaments in the season's European Series, it was the fourth and last
event of the Home Nations Series. It was broadcast by BBC Cymru Wales,
BBC Online, BBC Red Button, Quest and Eurosport domestically. Jordan
Brown was the defending champion, having defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan
9–8 in the 2021 event. However, Brown lost 3–4 in his held-over
qualifying match against Mitchell Mann. Joe Perry (pictured) defeated
Judd Trump 9–5 in the final to win his first Welsh Open title and his
second ranking title. Aged 47, Perry became the oldest to win a ranking
tournament since Ray Reardon in 1982. There were 58 century breaks made
during the main venue stage of the event; the highest was a 142 made by
Michael White in the second round.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Welsh_Open_%28snooker%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was
published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark
Twain (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celebrated_Jumping_Frog_of_Calaveras_County>
1956:
At the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys,
prompting them to leave the room.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you>
1991:
Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army
captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vukovar>
2014:
Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a
synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight
deaths, including the attackers themselves.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Jerusalem_synagogue_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
splutter:
1. (transitive)
2. To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or
particles; to sputter.
3. To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a
liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
4. (figuratively)
5. To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or
something).
6. Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly
or unclearly.
7. (intransitive)
8. Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops
or particles.
9. To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
10. Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or
particles.
11. To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a
substance in small drops or particles.
12. Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an
engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or
2.3).
13. (figuratively)
14. To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
15. To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/splutter>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am in awe of the majestic miracle that is American democracy.
As we participate in a hallmark of our republic — the peaceful,
orderly transition from one Congress to the next — let us consider the
words of, again, President Lincoln, spoken during one of America’s
darkest hours. He called upon us to come together, to swell the chorus
of the union, when once again touched as surely they will be by the
better angels of our nature. That again is the task at hand. A new day
is dawning on the horizon, and I look forward, always forward, to the
unfolding story of our nation, a story of light and love, of patriotism
and progress, of many becoming one. And always an unfinished mission to
make the dreams of today the reality of tomorrow.
--Nancy Pelosi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi>
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