100px|A McDonnell XF-85 Goblin at the National Museum of the US Air Force

The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin was an American prototype fighter aircraft conceived during World War II by McDonnell Aircraft. It was intended to be carried in and deployed from the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter. The XF-85's intended role was to defend bombers from hostile interceptors, a need demonstrated during World War II. Two prototypes were constructed before the program was terminated. The XF-85 was a response to a United States Army Air

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1060:

Béla I the Champion was crowned king of Hungary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_I_of_Hungary

1921:

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and then came into force exactly one year later, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty

1989:

Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École Polytechnique in Montreal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre

1992:

The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and associated groups, believing it was built on the birthplace of Rama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_Babri_Masjid

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amiable (adj): 1. Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas. 2. Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper; kindhearted; which causes one to be liked http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amiable

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases. The founders of the ancient religions of the world, as far as we can judge, were minds of a high stamp, full of noble aspirations, yearning for truth, devoted to the welfare of their neighbors, examples of purity and unselfishness. What they desired to found upon earth was but seldom realized, and their sayings, if preserved in their original form, offer often a strange contrast to the practice of those who profess to be their disciples. --Max Müller http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller