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Wikipedia article of the day for March 11, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for March 11, 2018 is Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines.
Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines during World War II began on 11 March 1942, after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered him to withdraw. MacArthur left Corregidor Island and traveled in PT boats with his forces through stormy seas patrolled by Japanese warships, reaching Mindanao two days later. Arriving in Australia, he declared, “I came through and I shall return”. MacArthur, a well-known general who had a distinguished record in World War I, had retired from the army in 1937 to become a defense advisor to the Philippine government. He was recalled to active duty in July 1941, a few months before the outbreak of the Pacific War with the Empire of Japan, to become commander of the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, which included Philippine forces. By March 1942, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines had compelled him to withdraw his forces on Luzon to Bataan. The doomed defense of Bataan captured the imagination of the American public, and MacArthur became a living symbol of Allied resistance to the Japanese, at a time when the news from all fronts was uniformly bad.

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Wikipedia article of the day for March 10, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for March 10, 2018 is Amazing Stories Quarterly.
Amazing Stories Quarterly was a U.S. science fiction pulp magazine published from 1928 to 1934. Launched by Hugo Gernsback as a companion to his Amazing Stories, the first science fiction magazine, it premiered with a reprint of H.G. Wells’ When the Sleeper Wakes in the Winter 1928 issue. Over the next five issues only one more reprint appeared: Gernsback’s own novel Ralph 124C 41+, in the Winter 1929 issue. He went bankrupt in early 1929, and lost control of both publications; his assistant, T. O’Conor Sloane, took over as editor. The magazine began having financial difficulties in 1932, and the schedule became irregular; the last issue was dated Fall 1934. Authors whose work appeared in Amazing Stories Quarterly include Stanton A. Coblentz, Miles J. Breuer, A. Hyatt Verrill, and Jack Williamson. Critical opinions differ; Everett Bleiler considers few of the stories to be of acceptable quality, but Milton Wolf and Mike Ashley regard the work Sloane published in the early 1930s to be some of the best in the new genre.

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stronghold: Word of the day for March 10, 2018

stronghold , n :
A place built to withstand attack; a fortress. (figuratively) A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea.

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This Hands-Free, Seated Backflip Is Absolutely Unreal

This Hands-Free, Seated Backflip Is Absolutely Unreal
We’ve seen a number of videos of people doing backflips from a sitting position, but using their hands to spring themselves upwards halfway through. But University of Michigan gymnast Brandon Burns doesn’t need his hands.
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retrench: Word of the day for March 9, 2018

retrench , v :
(transitive) To cut down or reduce. (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant. (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification). (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail. (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.

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Wikipedia article of the day for March 9, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for March 9, 2018 is Armillaria gallica.
Armillaria gallica is a species of honey mushroom in the family Physalacriaceae. It is a common and ecologically important wood-decay fungus that can feed on dead organic material in soil, or live as an opportunistic parasite in weakened tree hosts to cause root or butt rot. It is found in temperate regions of Asia, North America, and Europe. The yellow-brown mushrooms, covered with small scales, can grow to around 10 cm (4 in) in diameter. On the underside of the caps are gills that are white to creamy or pale orange. The fungus has been the subject of considerable scientific research into its role as a plant pathogen, its ability to bioluminesce, its unusual life cycle, and its ability to form large and long-lived colonies. A 1,500-year-old colony was discovered in the early 1990s in a Michigan forest, reported to cover an area of 15 hectares (37 acres) and weigh at least 9,500 kilograms (21,000 lb); as a tourist attraction called the “humungous fungus”, it inspires an annual mushroom-themed festival in Crystal Falls.

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Here’s Why You Never Turn Your Back On A Leopard

Here’s Why You Never Turn Your Back On A Leopard
Dolph Volker works at a big cat shelter, but even with the leopards he works with daily he knows not to turn his back (without a fence in the way).
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Henry David Thoreau

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”

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distaff: Word of the day for March 8, 2018

distaff , n :
A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist. The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun. Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only. A woman, or women considered as a group. Today is designated by the United Nations as International Women’s Day, which commemorates the movement for women’s rights.

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Wikipedia article of the day for March 8, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for March 8, 2018 is Louise Bryant.
Louise Bryant (1885–1936) was an American feminist, political activist, and journalist. After growing up in rural Nevada and graduating with a degree in history from the University of Oregon, she wrote for two newspapers, the Spectator and The Oregonian. After leaving her first husband in 1915, she married John Reed and moved to Greenwich Village, where she formed friendships with leading feminists of the day. Like Reed, she took lovers, including the playwright Eugene O’Neill and painter Andrew Dasburg. Her news stories were distributed by Hearst during and after her trips to Petrograd and Moscow, and appeared in newspapers across the United States and Canada. Generally in sympathy with the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution, her articles featured Catherine Breshkovsky, Maria Spiridonova, Alexander Kerensky, Vladimir Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. A collection of articles from her first trip was published as a book in 1918, Six Red Months in Russia. After Reed’s death in 1920, Bryant wrote for Hearst about Turkey, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Russia, and other countries. The Bryant–Reed story is told in the 1981 film Reds. Her neglected grave in Versailles was restored in 1998.

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