Tropical Storm Carrie was a tropical storm that affected the East Coast
of the United States in early September 1972. The third tropical
cyclone of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed on August 29
from a complex sequence of meteorological events starting with the
emergence of a tropical wave into the Atlantic in the middle of August.
Tracking generally northward, Carrie reached an initial peak intensity
as a moderate tropical storm before nearly weakening back into tropical
depression status. The storm began to reintensify in a baroclinic
environment after turning toward the northwest; its winds of 70 mph
(110 km/h) as it was transitioning into an extratropical system
eclipsed the cyclone's previous maximum strength. The extratropical
remnants of Carrie skirted eastern New England before making landfall in
Maine on September 4 and dissipating over the Gulf of St. Lawrence
over the next two days. Overall damage was light, with total losses
valued at $1,780,000, and four deaths.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Carrie_%281972%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1839:
First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war
junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community on the
Kowloon Peninsula.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kowloon>
1843:
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and Pedro II of Brazil
(both pictured) were married in an extravagant wedding at the Cathedral
of Rio de Janeiro.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Cristina_of_the_Two_Sicilies>
1934:
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in
full.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Handful_of_Dust>
1977:
A gang-related shooting took place in Chinatown, San Francisco,
leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in
the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dragon_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tawny:
1. Of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to
brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
3. (intransitive) To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to
tan, to tawn.
4. A light brown to brownish orange colour. tawny:
5. (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of
orange or bright brown”)
6. Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if
it has the word tawny in its name).
7. (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula
pyrrhula).
8. (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port
wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
9. (obsolete)
10. A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
11. (probably derogatory) A person with skin of a brown colour.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tawny>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens' blood and
probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in
hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded
will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing,
asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons
and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your
watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
--Daniel Burnham
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnham>
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