On this day: May 31

May 31: World No Tobacco Day; Feast of the Visitation (Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism) The first Madison Square Garden 1223 – Mongol invasions: Mongol forces defeated a combined army of Kiev, Galich, and the Cumans at the Kalchik River in present-day Ukraine. 1879 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City was renamed Madison Square Garden (pictured), the city's first venue to use that name. 1902 – The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing...

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May 31 Wikipedia featured article

Mutsu was the second of two Nagato-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy at the end of World War I. Named after Mutsu Province, the ship was launched on 31 May 1920. In 1923, a year after commissioning, she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake. The ship was modernised in the mid 1930s with improvements to her armour and machinery, and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. Other...

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May 30 Wikipedia featured article

Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is a 1959 graphic novel by American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman. The satirical stories are aimed at an adult audience, in contrast to Kurtzman's earlier work for adolescents in periodicals such as Mad. The social satire in the book's four stories targets Peter Gunn-style private-detective shows, Westerns such as Gunsmoke, capitalist greed in the publishing industry, Freudian pop psychology, and lynch-hungry yokels in the Deep South. Kurtzman had created the satirical Mad in 1952, but left its publisher EC Comics in...

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On this day: May 30

May 30: Dragon Boat Festival (Chinese calendar, 2017); Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico Pearl Hart 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. 1899 – Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart (pictured) performed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona. 1963 – Buddhist crisis:...

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May 29 Wikipedia featured article

Hands Across Hawthorne was a rally held at the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Oregon, on May 29, 2011, in response to an attack on a gay male couple one week earlier for holding hands while walking across the bridge. News of the attack spread throughout the Pacific Northwest and the United States. According to the couple and the Portland Police Bureau, a group of five men followed Brad Forkner and Christopher Rosevear along the bridge before they...

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On this day: May 29

May 29: International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers; Democracy Day in Nigeria; Memorial Day in the United States (2017) Jenny Lind 1453 – With the conquest of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans. 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind (pictured) concluded a successful concert tour of the U.S. under the management of showman P. T. Barnum. 1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and...

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May 28 Wikipedia featured article

The Menacer is a light gun peripheral released by Sega in 1992 for its Sega Genesis and Sega CD video game consoles, its successor to the Master System Light Phaser. Communicating with a television via an infrared sensor, the gun was bundled with a pack-in six-game cartridge of mostly shooting gallery games. Sega also released a Menacer bundle with Terminator 2: The Arcade Game. Mac Senour was responsible for the Menacer project and designed the...

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On this day: May 28

May 28 The Spanish Armada 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: The Spanish Armada (pictured), with 130 ships and over 30,000 men, set sail from Lisbon for the English Channel in an attempt to invade England. 1830 – US President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands. 1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing introduced the Turing machine,...

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May 27 Wikipedia featured article

Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin Waiting is a 2015 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Anu Menon, released in India on 27 May 2016. Produced by Priti Gupta of Ishka Films and Manish Mundra of Drishyam Films, the film was co-written by Menon and James Ruzicka. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin (pictured) in lead roles, supported by Rajat Kapoor, Suhasini Maniratnam, Arjun Mathur, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee and Rajeev Ravindranathan....

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On this day: May 27

May 27: Ramadan begins (Islam, 2017) Golden Gate Bridge 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French and captured the strategically important town of Winterthur, Switzerland. 1874 – The first group of the Dorsland Trek, a series of explorations undertaken by Boers in search of political independence and better living conditions, departed South Africa for Angola. 1915 – HMS Princess Irene was obliterated by an...

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May 26 Wikipedia featured article

Akodon spegazzinii, Spegazzini's grass mouse, is a rodent in the genus Akodon. It inhabits grassland and forest in northwestern Argentina at 400 to 3,500 m (1,300 to 11,500 ft) above sea level. Compared with other members of the Akodon boliviensis species group, it is medium in size, with a head-and-body length of 93 to 196 mm (3.7 to 7.7 in) and a mass of 13.0 to 38.0 g (0.46 to 1.34 oz). The coloration of its upperparts varies considerably, from light to dark and from yellowish to reddish brown. The underparts are...

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On this day: May 26

May 26: Independence Day in Georgia (1918) Kaspar Hauser 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claimed victory in the Battle of Montijo. 1828 – Kaspar Hauser (pictured), a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. 1897 – The Church of England returned the original manuscript of Of Plymouth Plantation, the account of the Pilgrims and the early...

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May 25 Wikipedia featured article

The Flying Eagle cent is a one-cent piece that was struck by the Mint of the United States as a pattern coin in 1856, and released for circulation on May 25, 1857. The coin was designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre, with the eagle in flight based on the work of Longacre's predecessor, Christian Gobrecht. By the early 1850s, the large cent in circulation (about the size of a half dollar) was becoming both unpopular in commerce and expensive...

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On this day: May 25

May 25: Africa Day (1963) First National Government in Argentina (1810); Independence Day in Jordan (1946); Towel Day 1878 poster for HMS Pinafore 1810 – The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution. 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore (poster featured) opened at the Opera Comique in London. 1961 – During a speech...

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Comment économiser de l’argent lorsque l’on construit une maison ?

Retrouvez le contenu original de l'article Comment économiser de l’argent lorsque l’on construit une maison ? sur ABC Argent. Sur le blog, on parle souvent de gagner plus d’argent. Mais économiser, c’est bien aussi. Et lorsqu’on devient propriétaire ou que l’on fait construire sa maison, on cherche par tous les moyens à économiser de l’argent, maintenant ou plus tard. Une maison, ça coûte cher. Aujourd’hui je reçois donc Georges qui a décidé de partager […] L'article Comment économiser de l’argent lorsque l’on construit une maison ? est apparu...

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May 24 Wikipedia featured article

U.S. Route 113 (US 113) extends 75 miles (121 km) from US 13 in Pocomoke City, Maryland, north to Delaware Route 1 in Milford. The highway, which until 2003 reconnected with US 13 in Dover, Delaware, serves the Maryland towns of Snow Hill and Berlin and the Delaware towns of Selbyville, Millsboro, and Georgetown. It follows the corridor of a post road established in the late 18th century. The route was improved as...

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On this day: May 24

May 24: Aldersgate Day (Methodism); Independence Day in Eritrea (1993); Jerusalem Day in Israel (2017) Brooklyn Bridge 1883 – New York City's Brooklyn Bridge (pictured) opened – the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. 1930 – English aviatrix Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to successfully fly from England to Australia. 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited...

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May 23 Wikipedia featured article

Coin depicting Zenobia as empress Zenobia (c. 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Syrian-based Palmyrene Empire. Her husband Odaenathus became king in 260, and elevated Palmyra to supreme power in the Near East by defeating the Sassanians and stabilizing the Roman East. After his assassination, she became the regent of her son Vaballathus and held de facto power throughout his reign. In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion which brought...

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On this day: May 23

May 23 Joan of Arc 1430 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was captured at the Siege of Compiègne. 1844 – Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad Shírází proclaimed that he was "the Báb", after a Shia religious concept, marking the beginning of the Bábí movement, the forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith. 1934 – During a strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, Ohio, a mob of nearly 10,000 began a riot and a five-day running battle with the...

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May 22 Wikipedia featured article

Béla Lugosi as Dracula A vampire is a being from folklore who subsists on the blood or life essence of the living. In European folklore, vampires were shroud-wearing undead beings who often visited loved ones and caused mischief in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. Before the early 19th century, they were described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire. The term...

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On this day: May 22

May 22: World Biodiversity Day; Victoria Day in Canada (2017); Unity Day in Yemen (1990) Blackwall Tunnel under construction, 1895 1826 – HMS Beagle departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America. 1897 – The first Blackwall Tunnel (construction pictured) under the River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of London. 1915 – Lassen...

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May 21 Wikipedia featured article

Brabham BT18-Honda Brabham was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four Drivers' and two Constructors' World Championships in its 30-year Formula One history. Jack Brabham's 1966 Drivers' Championship remains the only such achievement using a car bearing the driver's own name. In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest...

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On this day: May 21

May 21: Sanja Matsuri begins in Tokyo (2017) Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis 878 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The city of Syracuse was captured by the Aghlabids, completing the Muslim conquest of Sicily. 1674 – John III Sobieski, elected by the szlachta, became the monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1917 – The Imperial War Graves Commission was established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and...

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May 20 Wikipedia featured article

Ray Charles "Here We Go Again" is a country music standard written by Don Lanier and Red Steagall that first charted as a rhythm and blues single by Ray Charles (pictured) from the 1967 album Ray Charles Invites You to Listen. It was produced by Joe Adams for ABC Records/Tangerine Records, and spent twelve consecutive weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 15. A cover version by Nancy Sinatra charted for five weeks in 1969....

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On this day: May 20

May 20: Day of Remembrance in Cambodia Luc Montagnier 685 – The Picts defeated the Northumbrians near Dunnichen, severely weakening the latter's power in northern Great Britain. 1217 – In the Battle of Lincoln, the last land battle of the First Barons' War, William the Marshal drove Prince Louis of France out of England. 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim overalls,...

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