Hurricane Lenny was the second-strongest November Atlantic hurricane on record and the record-breaking fifth Category 4 hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on November 13 in the western Caribbean Sea and maintained an unprecedented west-to-east track for its entire duration. It attained hurricane status south of Jamaica and passed south of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, attaining peak winds of 155 mph (250 km/h) about 21 mi (34 km) south of Saint Croix in the US Virgin Islands. It gradually weakened while moving through the Leeward Islands, dissipating on November 23 over the open Atlantic Ocean. Damage in the US territories totaled about $330 million, with widespread flooding and erosion in Saint Croix. Lenny killed two people in northern Colombia, three in Saint Martin and one in Antigua and Barbuda, where it also contaminated the local water supply. Significant storm damage occurred as far south as Grenada, where high surf isolated towns from the capital city.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1689:

The Act of Toleration became law in England, granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists under certain circumstances, but deliberately excluding Catholics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Toleration_1689

1830:

The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as an original poem by Sarah Josepha Hale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb

1913:

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began fourteen months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia

1963:

United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%E2%80%93Kennedy_meeting

1970:

On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, eventually reaching 12,262 metres (40,230 ft), making it the deepest hole ever drilled and the deepest artificial point on the earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

shylock: (intransitive, US) To lend money at exorbitant rates of interest. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shylock

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God of grace and God of glory, On Thy people pour Thy power. Crown Thine ancient church’s story, Bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, For the facing of this hour, For the facing of this hour.   --Harry Emerson Fosdick https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick