120px|Amundsen's Norwegian party stand at the South Pole, 17 December 1911.

Farthest South was the term used to denote the most southerly latitudes reached by explorers before the conquest of the South Pole in

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1690:

East India Company official Job Charnock established his headquarters in a location he called Calcutta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Charnock

1812:

Peninsular War: Seeing that his army was in danger of being cut off, French commander Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult retreated from Cádiz, ending a 30-month siege. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_C%C3%A1diz

1857:

The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857

1941:

Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4

1963:

Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his unofficial position of power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_243

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

deciduous (adj): 1. (biology) Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development. 2. (botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deciduous

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world. --Jorge Luis Borges http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges