Wikipedia article of the day is SS Mauna Loa. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2a5UN43 Summary: SS Mauna Loa was a steam-powered cargo ship of the Matson Navigation Company that was sunk in the Bombing of Darwin in February 1942. Built in 1919 for the United States Shipping Board, she was christened West Conob and renamed Golden Eagle in […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian. Check it out: https://ift.tt/308ea9A Summary: Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane to affect the Bahamas, causing catastrophic damage in September 2019. Dorian originated from a tropical wave off the western coast of Africa on August 19 and became a tropical storm on August 24. It strengthened over […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Planet of the Apes. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1NUNCKT Summary: Planet of the Apes is an American science-fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control. Based on French author Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Dermotherium. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3asoTA5 Summary: Dermotherium is a genus of fossil mammals closely related to the living colugos, a small group of gliding mammals from Southeast Asia. The two species are known from Thailand; D. major from the late Eocene, based on a fragment of the lower jaw, and […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Silesian Wars. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3b3IMMN Summary: The Silesian Wars were a series of three wars fought between Prussia (under King Frederick the Great) and Austria (under Archduchess Maria Theresa) for control of the Central European region of Silesia (now in south-west Poland). The First (1740–1742) and Second Silesian […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Heaven Upside Down. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3djjX1U Summary: Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on October 6, 2017. The record was initially scheduled to be issued on Valentine’s Day, but was delayed by the death of the father of lead singer […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Saturn (magazine). Check it out: https://ift.tt/3jLrHv0 Summary: Saturn was an American magazine published from 1957 to 1965. It was launched as a science-fiction magazine, but sales were weak, and after five issues the publisher, Robert C. Sproul, switched the magazine to hardboiled detective fiction that emphasized sex and sadism. […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Grant Memorial coinage. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3phb0sq Summary: The Grant Memorial gold dollar and silver half dollar were struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1922 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant, a leading Union general during the Civil […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Bernard A. Maguire. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3qdGZeg Summary: Bernard A. Maguire (February 11, 1818 – April 26, 1886) was a Catholic priest and Jesuit who twice served as the president of Georgetown University. Maguire emigrated with his family from Ireland to Maryland at the age of six, where he studied under the […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Operation PBHistory. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3aTXuWJ Summary: Operation PBHistory was a covert operation carried out in Guatemala by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It followed Operation PBSuccess, which led to the overthrow of Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz (pictured) in June 1954 and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. PBHistory attempted […]