Typhoon Gay was the strongest and longest-lasting storm of the 1992 Pacific typhoon season. Forming in November near the International Date Line, Gay moved through the Marshall Islands as an intensifying typhoon, severely damaging crops and leaving 5,000 people homeless. The nation's capital of Majuro experienced power and water outages during the storm. There were no fatalities among Marshall Islands citizens, although the typhoon killed an American woman in a yacht. After passing through the country, Gay reached its peak intensity over open waters before weakening rapidly and striking Guam. Most of the weaker structures on that island had been destroyed during Typhoon Omar earlier in the year, and Gay caused little additional structural damage, but strong, salty winds defoliated plants. The typhoon briefly re-intensified before weakening and becoming extratropical south of Japan, where it brought flooding and power outages to Okinawa Prefecture.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1642:
First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Turnham_Green
1841:
Scottish surgeon James Braid observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Braid_(surgeon)
1940:
Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound, premiered in thirteen cities across the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_(1940_film)
1985:
The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia (destruction pictured), and killed approximately 23,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armero_tragedy
1990:
A man began shooting people indiscriminately in Aramoana, New Zealand, killing thirteen people in the country's deadliest criminal shooting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramoana_massacre
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Romanesco: 1. Romanesco broccoli, a light-green edible flower bud of the species Brassica oleracea, which is thus related to broccoli and cauliflower. Its form is a natural approximation of a fractal. 2. Romanesco dialect, the dialect of Italian language spoken in Rome. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Romanesco
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
An unjust law is no law at all. --Augustine of Hippo https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo