On this day: May 31

May 31: World No Tobacco Day; Pentecost (Eastern Christianity, 2015); Feast of the Visitation (Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism); Mother's Day in Algeria, France, Morocco and Sweden (2015) 1223 – Mongol invasions: Mongol forces defeated a combined army of Kiev, Galich, and the Cumans at the Kalchik River in present-day Ukraine. 1669 – Citing poor eyesight, English naval administrator and Member of Parliament Samuel Pepys recorded his last entry...

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May 31 Wikipedia featured article

O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad (O holy bath of Spirit and water), BWV 165, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Weimar for Trinity Sunday and led the first performance on 16 June 1715. It was one in a series of cantatas he had been writing since his promotion to concertmaster at the Weimar court in the ducal palace, one cantata each month over the previous year. The libretto by the court poet Salomo Franck is based on...

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May 30 Wikipedia featured article

George Headley (1909–1983) was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches, mostly before the Second World War. Considered one of the best batsmen to play for West Indies and one of the greatest cricketers of all time, he also represented Jamaica and played professionally in England. Headley was born in Panama but raised in Jamaica where he quickly established a cricketing reputation as a batsman. West Indies had a weak cricket team through most of Headley's career; as their one world-class player, he carried a heavy responsibility, and...

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On this day: May 30

May 30: Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico 1431 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated trial. 1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives. 1948 – A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed...

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May 29 Wikipedia featured article

"Speechless" is a song by the American recording artist Michael Jackson (pictured), included on his tenth studio album, Invincible (2001). It was released in South Korea as the lead single from the album, and elsewhere as a promotional single. The singer was inspired to write the ballad after a water balloon fight with children in Germany. Jackson collaborated on the production with musicians such as Jeremy Lubbock, Brad Buxer, Novi Novoq, Stuart...

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On this day: May 29

May 29: International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers; Democracy Day in Nigeria 1780 – American Revolutionary War: A mainly Loyalist force rejected the Continental Army troops' surrender at the Battle of Waxhaws and continued killing the Patriot soldiers, including men who were not resisting. 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a widely successful concert tour of the US under the management of showman P. T. Barnum. 1911 –...

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On this day: May 28

May 28: Republic Day in Armenia and Azerbaijan (both 1918); Yom Yerushalayim in Israel (2014) 628 – Li Shimin defeated and captured Dou Jiande in the Battle of Hulao, leading to a Tang Dynasty victory in the civil war that followed the collapse of the Sui Dynasty. 1644 – English Civil War: Royalist troops allegedly slaughtered up to 1,600 people during their storm and capture of the Town of Bolton. 1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing introduced...

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May 28 Wikipedia featured article

The common starling is a medium-sized perching bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about 20 cm (8 in) long and has glossy black plumage, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts, with an unmusical but varied song. The starling has about a dozen subspecies...

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May 28 Wikipedia featured article

The common starling is a medium-sized perching bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about 20 cm (8 in) long and has glossy black plumage, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts, with an unmusical but varied song. The starling has about a dozen subspecies...

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On this day: May 28

May 28: Republic Day in Armenia and Azerbaijan (both 1918); Yom Yerushalayim in Israel (2014) 628 – Li Shimin defeated and captured Dou Jiande in the Battle of Hulao, leading to a Tang Dynasty victory in the civil war that followed the collapse of the Sui Dynasty. 1644 – English Civil War: Royalist troops allegedly slaughtered up to 1,600 people during their storm and capture of the Town of Bolton. 1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing introduced...

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May 27 Wikipedia featured article

Menominee Tribe v. United States, 391 U.S. 404 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Menominee Indian Tribe would keep their historical hunting and fishing rights even after the federal government ceased to recognize the tribe. It was a landmark decision in Native American case law. The tribe had entered into treaties with the United States which did not specifically state that they retained hunting and fishing rights. In...

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On this day: May 27

May 27: Children's Day in Nigeria 1153 – Malcolm IV (pictured) became King of Scotland at the age of twelve. 1703 – Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War. 1915 – HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an explosion off Sheerness, United Kingdom with the loss of 352 lives. 1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States...

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May 27 Wikipedia featured article

Menominee Tribe v. United States, 391 U.S. 404 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Menominee Indian Tribe would keep their historical hunting and fishing rights even after the federal government ceased to recognize the tribe. It was a landmark decision in Native American case law. The tribe had entered into treaties with the United States which did not specifically state that they retained hunting and fishing rights. In...

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On this day: May 27

May 27: Children's Day in Nigeria 1153 – Malcolm IV (pictured) became King of Scotland at the age of twelve. 1703 – Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War. 1915 – HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an explosion off Sheerness, United Kingdom with the loss of 352 lives. 1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States...

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J’arrête de vous recommander ZCode et je vous explique pourquoi

ZCode est sûrement le sujet que j’ai le plus abordé sur ce blog, et je commence à le regretter. On m’a averti il y a quelques jours qu’il y a beaucoup trop de choses inquiétantes qui se passent sur la plateforme ZCode. Mais avant de vous dévoiler les détails, revenons un peu en arrière. ZCode et ABC Argent Pour ma part, je me suis inscrit en Avril 2014 sur ZCode, et j’ai gagné en tout près de 500 euros entre Avril et Novembre 2014. Pour vous dire...

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May 26 Wikipedia featured article

Anachronox is a third-person role-playing video game produced by Tom Hall (pictured) and the Dallas Ion Storm games studio. It was released worldwide in June 2001 for Microsoft Windows. The turn-based game follows a down-and-out private investigator looking for work in the slums of planet Anachronox; he travels to other planets, collects an unlikely group of friends, and unravels a mystery that threatens the fate of the universe. The game's design...

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On this day: May 26

May 26: National Sorry Day in Australia; Mother's Day in Poland; Independence Day in Georgia (1918) 1328 – William of Ockham, an English friar who originated the methodological principle Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII. 1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. 1865 – American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby...

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On this day: May 26

May 26: National Sorry Day in Australia; Mother's Day in Poland; Independence Day in Georgia (1918) 1328 – William of Ockham, an English friar who originated the methodological principle Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII. 1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. 1865 – American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby...

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May 26 Wikipedia featured article

Anachronox is a third-person role-playing video game produced by Tom Hall (pictured) and the Dallas Ion Storm games studio. It was released worldwide in June 2001 for Microsoft Windows. The turn-based game follows a down-and-out private investigator looking for work in the slums of planet Anachronox; he travels to other planets, collects an unlikely group of friends, and unravels a mystery that threatens the fate of the universe. The game's design...

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On this day: May 25

May 25: First Patriotic Government in Argentina (1810); Independence Day in Jordan (1946); Memorial Day in the United States (2015); Towel Day 1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui let the invading Manchus pass through the Great Wall of China (pictured), allowing them to capture Beijing, leading to the foundation of the Qing dynasty. 1810 – The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos...

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May 25 Wikipedia featured article

The Texas Revolution (1835–36) began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled after President Santa Anna overturned the Mexican constitution, dismissing state legislatures and militias and centralizing the government. He stepped down from the presidency to lead Mexican troops in quashing the revolt. Sam Houston was named commander of the Texian Army and sent Jim Bowie to destroy the Alamo to keep it out of Mexican hands. Bowie and...

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