December 31 Wikipedia featured article

The birthday-number effect is the unconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers in the date of their birthday over other numbers. First reported in 1997 by Japanese psychologists Shinobu Kitayama and Mayumi Karasawa, the birthday-number effect has been shown to hold across age and gender. The effect is most prominent for numbers over 12. Birth dates are unconsciously associated with the self, and most people like themselves; this has been...

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On this day: December 31

December 31 Painting of helicopter rescue efforts at the Dupont Plaza Hotel fire 1775 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support. 1857 – Queen Victoria selected Ottawa, then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada. 1963 – Despite Prime Minister Roy Welensky's efforts, the Central African...

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December 30 Wikipedia featured article

William Borah (1865–1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator from the state of Idaho. A progressive who served in the Senate from 1907 until his death, he is often considered an isolationist. He reluctantly voted for U.S. entry into World War I in 1917 and, once the war ended, fought successfully against Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, which would have made the U.S. part of the League of Nations. Remaining a maverick,...

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On this day: December 30

December 30: Rizal Day in the Philippines (1896) Richard, Duke of York 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York (pictured), was killed in the Battle of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, and his army was destroyed. 1813 – War of 1812: British forces captured Buffalo, New York, and engaged in considerable plundering and destruction. 1906 – The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India that developed into the driving...

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December 29 Wikipedia featured article

Qatna's royal palace Qatna is an ancient city in Syria whose remains are about 18 km (11 mi) northeast of Homs near the village of al-Mishrifeh. It was an important center circa 2000–500 BC, with one of Bronze Age Syria's largest royal palaces (pictured). An intact royal tomb has provided data on the funerary habits of that period. First inhabited circa 3500 BC, it was repopulated around 2800 BC and continued to grow. Around 2000 BC,...

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On this day: December 29

December 29 Sun Yat-sen 1845 – The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States, becoming the 28th state admitted into the union. 1860 – To counter the French Navy's Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the British Royal Navy launched the world's first iron-hulled armoured battleship, HMS Warrior. 1911 – Sun Yat-sen (pictured) was elected in Nanjing as the Provisional President of the Republic of China. 1975 – A bomb set by...

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December 28 Wikipedia featured article

Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. At age 14, she came out as transgender to her parents, and at 16, she asked to undergo transition treatment; instead, they sent her to conversion therapy. After she revealed her attraction toward males to her classmates, her parents removed her from school and revoked her access to social media. She killed herself by walking into highway traffic. In her suicide note, Alcorn blamed her parents for her loneliness...

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On this day: December 28

December 28: Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836) Neptune 484 – Alaric II succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths. 1612 – Galileo became the first person to observe the planet Neptune (pictured), although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. 1895 – History of film: Using their cinematograph in Paris, the Lumière brothers showed motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time. 1943 – World War II: After eight...

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On this day: December 27

December 27 John L. O'Sullivan 1521 – Three men of the Radical Reformation arrived in Wittenberg, Saxony, and caused an unrest that required the release of Martin Luther from custody to quell. 1845 – John L. O'Sullivan (pictured), in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny". 1922 – The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō,...

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December 27 Wikipedia featured article

São Paulo was a dreadnought battleship in the Brazilian Navy, the second of two ships in the Minas Geraes class. Launched in 1909 and commissioned a year later, São Paulo was soon involved in the Revolt of the Lash, in which crews on four Brazilian warships mutinied over poor pay and harsh punishments for even minor offenses. In 1922 the ship fired its guns in anger for the first time, attacking a fort that had been taken during the Tenente...

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On this day: December 26

December 26: Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries; Kwanzaa begins in Canada and the United States Flannan Isles Lighthouse 1606 – The first known performance of the play King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legendary King Lear of the Britons, was held. 1898 – At the French Academy of Sciences, physicists Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element, naming it radium. 1900 – A relief crew arrived at the...

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December 26 Wikipedia featured article

Residential school group, Regina, Saskatchewan, c. 1908 The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous children who were removed from their families and culture to be assimilated into Canadian culture. It was funded by the government's Department of Indian Affairs, in keeping with the Indian Act of 1876, and administered by various churches. Over more than a century about 30 percent of Indigenous...

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On this day: December 25

December 25: Christmas (Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day (Pakistan) Baldwin I of Jerusalem 1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned as Baldwin I of Jerusalem (pictured), the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. 1831 – A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica. 1927 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought Vietnamese...

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December 25 Wikipedia featured article

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (25 December 1876  – 11 September 1948) is honoured as the founder of Pakistan, where his birthday is observed as a national holiday. He served as leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence from Great Britain in 1947, and then as the first Governor-General of Pakistan until his death. Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress in the first two decades of the 20th century....

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On this day: December 24

December 24 British and German troops during the Christmas truce 1818 – "Silent Night", a Christmas carol by Josef Mohr and Franz Gruber, was first performed in a church in Austria. 1846 – The Sultanate of Brunei ceded the island of Labuan to Great Britain as a colony. 1914 – British and German soldiers interrupted the World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce (pictured). 1964 – The Viet Cong bombed the Brinks Hotel...

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December 24 Wikipedia featured article

The American Bible Challenge (2012–2014) is a Biblical-themed American television game show created by Game Show Network. The series is hosted by Jeff Foxworthy (pictured), joined by Kirk Franklin in the second season. Each season of the series is played as a nine-episode tournament with six episodes of opening rounds, two semi-finals, and a final. Each opening round starts with three teams of three contestants answering questions about the Bible....

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On this day: December 23

December 23: Night of the Radishes in Oaxaca City, Mexico; The Emperor's Birthday in Japan; Festivus Flooding in Toowoomba 1793 – French Revolution: The Royalist counterrevolutionary army was decisively defeated in the Battle of Savenay, although fighting continued in the War in the Vendée for years afterward. 1876 – The Great Powers convened the Constantinople Conference to discuss political reforms both in Bosnia and in the Ottoman territories...

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December 23 Wikipedia featured article

Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) was a British archaeologist and army officer who served as Director of the National Museum of Wales and the London Museum, headed the Archaeological Survey of India, and wrote twenty-four books on archaeology. He argued that excavation and the recording of stratigraphic context required an increasingly scientific and methodical approach, developing the "Wheeler Method". In 1934, he established the Institute of Archaeology as part of the federal University of London, becoming its Honorary Director and overseeing excavations...

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On this day: December 22

December 22 Entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey 856 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 struck the eastern Alborz mountains of Persia, causing 200,000 deaths. 1769 – Having been soundly defeated in battle, the Qing dynasty agreed to terms of truce, ending the Sino-Burmese War. 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel (pictured), connecting New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey, opened. 1987 – The Zimbabwe African National Union and...

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December 22 Wikipedia featured article

Blast Corps is an action video game for the Nintendo 64, released worldwide on December 22, 1997, in which the player uses vehicles to destroy buildings in the path of a runaway nuclear missile carrier. Through the game's 57 levels, the player solves puzzles by moving objects and bridging gaps with the vehicles. The game was developed at Rare by a small team of recent graduates over the course of a year. They were inspired, in part, by the puzzle elements of Donkey Kong (1994). Nintendo published and released Blast Corps to critical acclaim in...

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December 21 Wikipedia featured article

Musca (Latin: fly) is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, first appearing on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius published in 1597 or 1598 in Amsterdam. The first depiction in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Musca remains below...

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On this day: December 21

December 21: December solstice (16:28 UTC, 2017); Yule Antonov An-225 carrying the Buran shuttle 1124 – Lamberto Scannabecchi was elected Pope and took the name Honorius II. 1826 – American settlers in Mexican Texas made the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the short-lived Republic of Fredonia. 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length cel-animated feature in film history, premiered at the Carthay Circle...

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Travailler en freelance en 2018 : Une bonne idée?

Retrouvez le contenu original de l'article Travailler en freelance en 2018 : Une bonne idée? sur ABC Argent. Travailler en freelance, une bonne idée pour l'année 2018? Avantages et inconvénients, les différents statuts, tout ce que vous devez savoir. L'article Travailler en freelance en 2018 : Une bonne idée? est apparu en premier sur ABC Argent. from ABC Argent http://ift.tt/2oXEh...

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December 20 Wikipedia featured article

The Guilden Morden boar is a sixth- or seventh-century Anglo-Saxon copper alloy figure of a boar that may have once served as the crest of a helmet. It was found around 1864 or 1865 in a grave in the village of Guilden Morden in Cambridgeshire. Herbert George Fordham, whose father discovered the boar, donated it to the British Museum in 1904, where it is now displayed. It is simply designed, with a prominent mane; eyes, eyebrows, nostrils and tusks...

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On this day: December 20

December 20: Yaldā Night in Iran (2017) MV Doña Paz in port 1860 – South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War. 1951 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I near Arco, Idaho, United States, became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate...

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December 19 Wikipedia featured article

Chad Harris-Crane is a fictional character on the American soap opera Passions, which aired on NBC from 1999 to 2007 and on DirecTV in 2007–08. Developed by the soap's creator and head writer James E. Reilly, Chad was portrayed by Donn Swaby (1999 to 2002) and Charles Divins (2002 to 2007). The son of the evil patriarch Alistair Crane of the Crane family, Chad becomes involved in a love triangle with the sisters Whitney and Simone Russell. He is initially believed to be Whitney's half-brother, but is revealed to be her adoptive cousin. His later...

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