Khan Noonien Singh is a villain in the fictional Star Trek universe.
According to backstory given in the character's first appearance, the
Star Trek original series episode "Space Seed", Khan is a superhuman
tyrant who once controlled more than a quarter of the Earth during the
Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. After being revived in 2267 by the crew of
the Enterprise, Khan attempts to capture the starship, but is thwarted
by James T. Kirk and exiled on Ceti Alpha V to create a new
civilization with his people. The character returns in the 1982 film
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, set fifteen years after "Space Seed",
in which Khan escapes his imprisonment and sets out to seek revenge
upon Kirk. The character was portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán in both the
television episode and in the movie. Initially conceived as a brutal
man of Nordic ancestry, Khan first appears as a Sikh who is both
admired and opposed by the Enterprise crew. Harve Bennett, executive
producer for Star Trek II, chose Khan as the villain. To reflect the
time spent marooned on an inhospitable world, Khan was given a costume
which looked as though it was scavenged from different items and showed
off Montalbán's physique. The character has been positively received by
critics and fans; Khan was voted as one of the top ten greatest film
villains of all time by the Online Film Critics Society.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1260:
Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: The Siena Ghibellines defeated the
Florence Guelphs at the Battle of Montaperti outside of Siena,
present-day Italy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montaperti>
1886:
After over 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the
armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered
at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo>
1957:
Defying the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education,
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to
prevent African American students from attending Little Rock's Central
High School.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine>
1984:
The Progressive Conservative Party led by Brian Mulroney won the
largest majority government by total number of seats in Canadian
history during the federal election.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Mulroney>
1998:
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company Google in Menlo Park,
California, USA, to promote the web search engine that they developed
as a research project while attending Stanford University.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google>
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blet (v):
To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond
ripening
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blet>
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