Ford Island is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the US
state of Hawaii. Its original area of 334 acres (135 ha) was increased
during the 1930s to 441 acres (178 ha) with fill dirt after the US Navy
dredged Pearl Harbor to accommodate battleships. The island was the site
of a Hawaiian fertility ritual until missionaries stopped the practice
by 1830. It was given by Kamehameha I to Spanish deserter Francisco de
Paula Marín, and was later owned by physician Seth Porter Ford. In 1917
the US Army bought part of it for use by an aviation division, and by
1939 it was taken over by the US Navy. It was at the center of the
attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and was designated a
National Historic Landmark in 1964. By the late 1990s hundreds of
millions of dollars had been invested in real estate development and
infrastructure. Ford Island is home to the USS Arizona memorial, the
USS Missouri museum, the Pacific Warfighting Center, and the Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Island>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1837:
British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by William Lyon
Mackenzie and Anthony Van Egmond at the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern,
the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Canada_Rebellion>
1942:
Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched
Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of
Bordeaux in German-occupied France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frankton>
1988:
A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia,
killing at least 25,000 people (aftermath pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Armenian_earthquake>
2011:
The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar
Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbar_campaign_%282003%E2%80%932011%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
presence of mind:
Focused alertness, good sense, quick-thinking resourcefulness, or
stability of feeling and thought, especially in spite of circumstances
which are distracting, stressful, or otherwise challenging.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/presence_of_mind>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every person who is seeing me now — some are seeing me within
months of my saying this, some are likely to see this years after I have
said this, but whenever all of you are seeing it — that will be the
moment you’re seeing it — as this is the moment I’m saying it. And
what that means to me is: living in the moment. The moment between past
and present, or present and past. The moment between after and next, the
hammock in the middle of after and next. The moment. Treasure it. Use it
with love.
--Norman Lear
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Lear>
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