The True Record was a pictorial magazine published in Shanghai, China, between June 1912 and March or April 1913. The magazine was established by brothers Gao Qifeng and Gao Jianfu as the nascent Republic of China was seeking to develop a new culture after centuries of Qing rule. It sought to monitor the new republic, report the welfare of the people, promote socialism, and distribute world knowledge. Under the Gaos and fellow editor Huang Binhong, the magazine published seventeen issues and expanded its reach from China through Southeast Asia to Hawaii. Supportive of Sun Yat-sen and the nationalist movement, the magazine was critical of Provisional President Yuan Shikai and closed during a time when he was consolidating his power. Articles covered such topics as art, current events, technology and politics. Despite having been published for less than one year, The True Record has been described as one of the most important illustrated magazines of the first years of the Republic of China.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1638:

Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson

1896:

Charilaos Vasilakos won the first modern marathon in preparation for the inaugural Summer Olympics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charilaos_Vasilakos

1913:

Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_X%C3%ADch_Long

1984:

Teachers at a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren, leading to the longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial

1995:

Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov

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cataract: 1. A (large) waterfall, specifically one flowing over the edge of a cliff. 2. (by extension) A flood of water; specifically, steep rapids in a river. 3. (figurative) An overwhelming downpour or rush; a flood. 4. (mechanics, chiefly historical) A type of governor used in single- acting steam engines, where a flow of water through an opening regulates the stroke. 5. (obsolete, also figurative) Synonym of waterspout (“a whirlwind that forms over water”) [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cataract

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Irony is a great help in helping to penetrate fraudulent language. In the Second War especially, the language became virtually identical with the language of advertising. It was seen through by the troops, who knew what the truth was. It helped to sustain civilian support for the war, which was its purpose, after all. … And euphemism has remained, of course. It's a large part of the tone of public discourse. … It's now practiced on so wide and so official a scale that it's grown out of all proportion to what it was in the war.   --Paul Fussell https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell