The Hrabri class consisted of two submarines built for the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The first submarines to
serve in the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM), they arrived in Yugoslavia on 5
April 1928, and participated in cruises to Mediterranean ports prior to
World War II. During the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Hrabri
(pictured) was captured by the Italians and later scrapped. Nebojša
escaped to Egypt to join the British Royal Navy (RN). She served as an
anti-submarine warfare training boat and then as a battery charging
station. In May 1942 her crew were removed and placed in a British
military camp following a revolt by Yugoslav generals in exile, and she
received an almost entirely RN crew. She was briefly utilised for
training at Beirut, but was formally handed back to the KM-in-exile in
mid-1943. After the war, she was transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy
and renamed Tara. She was used in a training role until 1954, then
scrapped. (This article is part of a featured topic: Hrabri-class
submarines.).
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1614:
Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist
John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and
the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas>
1944:
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the
aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz>
1986:
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin,
resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing>
2009:
The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from
the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking
concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used
to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cough:
1. (transitive)
2. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or
throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a
short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
3. To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the
manner described in sense 1.1.
4. To express (words, etc.) in the manner describe in sense 1.1.
5. (figurative)
6. To surrender (information); to confess.
7. (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand
over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
8. (intransitive)
9. To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short,
explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something
blocking or irritating the airway.
10. To make a noise like a cough. The engine coughed and sputtered.
11. (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to
spill the beans.
12. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through
the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the
mouth.
13. A bout of repeated coughing (verb sense 2.1); also, a medical
condition that causes one to cough.
14. (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (sense 1).
15. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially
when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution
of blame or a euphemism: ahem.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cough>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.
--Anu Garg
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