Pavle Đurišić (1909–1945) was a Royal Yugoslav Army officer who became a Chetnik leader during World War II. He was a commander of a popular uprising in July 1941 against the Italians who occupied Montenegro, then collaborated with the Italians against the Yugoslav Partisans. On 13 February 1943, he wrote to Draža Mihailović, the Chetnik supreme commander, reporting that his men had killed about 1,200 Bosnian Muslim combatants and 8,000 women, children and elderly people in Montenegro and eastern Bosnia. Soon after, Đurišić and his troops participated in an anti-Partisan offensive alongside Italian troops. Captured by the Germans in May 1943, he escaped and was recaptured. Released after the Italian surrender, he began collaborating with the Germans and the Serbian puppet government. In 1944 he was decorated by the German commander in Montenegro. Đurišić was killed by the Armed Forces of the Independent State of Croatia near Banja Luka after he was captured in April 1945.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1867:

Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne

1945:

World War II: The Allies began a strategic bombing of Dresden, Germany, resulting in a lethal firestorm that killed tens of thousands of civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

1970:

The English rock band Black Sabbath released their eponymous debut album, which is generally accepted as the first heavy metal album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath_%28album%29

2012:

The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_%28rocket%29

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podcast: 1. (transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. 2. (intransitive) To deliver a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. 3. A programme, especially an audio programme, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. 4. (loosely) An individual episode of such a programme. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/podcast

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When we went to school we were told that we were governed by laws, not men. As a result of that, many people think there is no need to pay any attention to judicial candidates because judges merely apply the law by some mathematical formula and a good judge and a bad judge all apply the same kind of law. The fact is that the most important part of a judge's work is the exercise of judgment and that the law in a court is never better than the common sense judgment of the judge that is presiding.   --Robert H. Jackson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson