Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, the false chanterelle, is a species of fungus in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae..

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophoropsidaceae

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1925:

The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby

1944:

The Holocaust: Slovak Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, later publishing a report that became one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the camp's mass killings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba

1970:

In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

1992:

Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraga_massacre

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

deem: 1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. 2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree. 3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law). 4. (transitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account. 5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deem

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.   --William Hazlitt https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt