Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created
by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures
of a boy named Finn, voiced by Jeremy Shada (pictured), and his best
friend Jake, a dog who can change shape and size at will, voiced by John
DiMaggio. In the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, they interact with
Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the Ice King (Tom Kenny), Marceline
(Olivia Olson), and others. The series is based on a 2007 short for
Nicktoons and Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons. Premiering April 5,
2010, and ending September 3, 2018, each 11-minute episode took roughly
8–9 months to complete using hand-drawn animation. Adventure Time was
a ratings success for Cartoon Network with up to three million viewers.
It has received positive reviews from critics and won eight Primetime
Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, three Annie Awards, and two British
Academy Children's Awards. Four Adventure Time specials will air on HBO
Max starting in 2020.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first
publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park>
1936:
During the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history,
an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tupelo%E2%80%93Gainesville_tornado_outbreak>
1976:
The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime
triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the
Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Incident>
2000:
Before a semi-final of the UEFA Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, fan
violence broke out, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being
stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending
the second leg in England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_UEFA_Cup_semi-final_violence>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
whelm:
1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to
cover it.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whelm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and
restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And
the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive
delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content
with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means
to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. And
from hence it is that kings, whose power is greatest, turn their
endeavours to the assuring it at home by laws or abroad by wars; and,
when that is done, there succeedeth a new desire, in some of fame from
new conquest, in others of ease and sensual pleasure, in others of
admiration or being flattered for excellence in some art or other
ability of the mind.
--Thomas Hobbes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes>
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