Christ Illusion is the tenth studio album by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on August 8, 2006, the album received generally favorable critical reviews, and it entered the Billboard 200 at number 5—the band's second highest U.S. chart position. Christ Illusion includes the Grammy Award-winning songs "Eyes of the Insane" and "Final Six", and is the band's first studio album to feature original drummer Dave Lombardo since 1990's Seasons in the Abyss. Depicting a mutilated Christ painted by longtime collaborator Larry Carroll, the album's graphic artwork courted controversy. An alternative cover was issued to conservative retailers who felt uncomfortable with the original. The band also put out a self-censored cover without the controversial artwork. Lyrics, particularly in the song "Jihad", describe the September 11 attacks from the perspective of a terrorist. Following protests, all Indian stocks of the album were recalled and destroyed by EMI India.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1576:

The cornerstone of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory Uraniborg was laid on the island of Hven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uraniborg

1786:

Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat completed the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps, an act considered to be the birth of modern mountaineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc

1946:

The first prototype of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, the first nuclear weapon delivery vehicle to be mass-produced, flew for the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

1956:

A major mining disaster killed 262 workers, mainly Italian nationals, at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Belgium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_du_Cazier

2008:

Eight people died and 64 more were injured when a EuroCity express train en route to Prague, Czech Republic struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the track near Studénka station in the Czech Republic and derailed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Stud%C3%A9nka_train_wreck

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

disquiet: Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; anxiety, disturbance, restlessness, uneasiness. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disquiet

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.   --Emiliano Zapata https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata