Gurl.com was a US website for teenage girls that was online from 1996 to 2018. It was created by Rebecca Odes, Esther Drill, and Heather McDonald as a resource centered on teen advice, body image, sexuality, and other teen concerns. First published as an online zine, it expanded into an online community. It was purchased in turn by Delia's, iVillage, PriMedia, and what became Defy Media. It ceased activity after Defy Media's closure in 2018 and was redirected to Seventeen's website. In the US, Gurl.com was heavily associated with zine culture and third-wave feminism and was used in academia to study the online behavior of teenage girls. Known for its humorous tone and unconventional approach to teen-related topics, it won an award from I.D. magazine in 1997 and a Webby in 1998; its founders received awards from New York magazine in 1997. Gurl.com attracted privacy concerns, and criticism from conservative and anti-pornography advocates for its sex-positive stance and sex education resources.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1866:

England's worst mining disaster occurred when a series of explosions (depicted) caused by flammable gases ripped through the Oaks Colliery, killing 361 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaks_explosion

1905:

In support of the December Uprising in Moscow, the Council of Workers' Deputies of Kiev staged a mass uprising, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuliavka_Republic

1941:

The Holocaust: At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Chancellery_meeting_of_12_December_1941

1985:

Arrow Air Flight 1285R crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, killing 256 people, including 248 members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Air_Flight_1285R

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

dictionary: 1. A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data. 2. (preceded by the) A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language. 3. (by extension) Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary. 4. (computing) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a physical dictionary. 5. (transitive) To look up in a dictionary. 6. (transitive) To add to a dictionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dictionary

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.   --Gustave Flaubert https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert