Naruto Uzumaki is the fictional protagonist of the Japanese manga series Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. A carefree, optimistic and boisterous teen ninja who befriends other ninja, he aspires to become the leader of his fictional village, Konohagakure. He appears in anime, films, video games and original video animations, as well as a sequel Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, with his son Boruto Uzumaki as the protagonist. Kishimoto initially aimed to keep the character "simple and stupid", while giving him many attributes of an ideal hero, and a tragic past. The author has revised Naruto's image many times, providing the character with different clothes intended to appeal to Western audiences and to make him easier to illustrate. Naruto is voiced by Junko Takeuchi (pictured) in the original animated series and Maile Flanagan in the English adaptations. The character's development has been praised by anime and manga publications, and has drawn scholarly attention.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1194:

King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth

1559:

Scottish clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox

1964:

Vietnam War: An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos led USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card

1995:

Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began firing rockets on the Croatian capital of Zagreb, killing 7 and injuring around 200 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb_rocket_attacks

2008:

The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time since around 1640. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chait%C3%A9n_(volcano)

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sealocked: (geography) Of a geographical region: accessible only through a body of seawater, and having no access by land. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sealocked

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind. Shakspeare was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many- gifted soul, whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the stamp of the same spirit; and in which the last and deepest of observers will still find new harmonies with the infinite structure of the Universe; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher powers and senses of man. They are emblematic, have many meanings, are simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.   --Novalis https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Novalis