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Quote of the day

Quote of the Day
  • Francis Bacon
    Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth it.

This Day in History

This Day in History
  • Daredevil Sam Patch's Final, Fatal Stunt (1829)
    Patch, a one-time mill worker, made a name for himself as a stunt diver in the late 1920s, most famously by leaping from a 125-ft (38-m) ladder into the Niagara River near the base of Niagara Falls not once but twice. Less than a month later, he made another 125-ft jump, ironically billed as "Sam's Last Jump," this time into the Genesee River. With thousands watching, the daredevil leapt to his death. In his first Genesee stunt the week before, what did Patch send over the ledge before jumping?

Word of the Day

Word of the Day
  • bemoan
    Definition: (verb) Regret strongly. Synonyms: bewail, deplore, lament. Usage: When he is under the depressing influence of the after-consequences, he bemoans his sufferings and his errors, and charges them both upon me.

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