SMS Prinz Adalbert was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the German Kaiserliche Marine, and was named after Prince Adalbert of Prussia, the former commander-in-chief of the Prussian Navy. Her class included a second ship, Friedrich Carl. Prinz Adalbert was built at the Imperial Dockyard in Kiel. Her keel was laid in April 1900 and she was commissioned on 12 January 1904. She served as a gunnery training ship and made several visits to foreign countries. After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914 she served in the Baltic Sea, and after her sister ship was sunk in November 1914, she became the flagship of a cruiser squadron in the Baltic, conducting operations against Russian forces. She was torpedoed twice by British submarines in 1915. On the second occasion she sank quickly with heavy loss of life; from a crew of 675 men, only 3 were rescued. This was the worst German naval disaster in the Baltic during the war. (This article is part of a featured topic: Armored cruisers of Germany.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1879:

Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_Sihayo%27s_Kraal

1899:

During a storm, the crew of Lynmouth Lifeboat Station transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to rescue a damaged schooner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynmouth_Lifeboat_Station

1969:

British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first album, Led Zeppelin, in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_%28album%29

2007:

Comet McNaught reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

psychrometry: (meteorology, thermodynamics) Synonym of psychrometrics (“the measurement or study of the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere and its water vapour”) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psychrometry

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It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony, in the pure and sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiva is useless. The prayers of those that are pure in mind and body will be answered by Shiva, and those that are impure and yet try to teach religion to others will fail in the end. External worship is only a symbol of internal worship; but internal worship and purity are the real things. Without them, external worship would be of no avail.   --Swami Vivekananda https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda