[Daily article] March 11: David Bowie Published On

David Bowie (born 1947) is an English musician. After "Space Oddity"
reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart in 1969, he re-emerged
during the glam rock era with "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall
of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. In 1975, Bowie achieved his
first major American crossover success with the number-one single "Fame"
and the album Young Americans. The soul-inspired sound was a radical
shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees. He then
recorded the critically acclaimed "Berlin Trilogy" of albums with Brian
Eno, all of which reached the UK top five. After uneven commercial
success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones in the early 1980s
with "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters (and Super
Creeps), "Under Pressure" (a collaboration with Queen) and Let's Dance,
which yielded several hit singles. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie
continued to experiment with musical styles. He has not toured since the
2003–04 Reality Tour and has not performed live since 2006. Throughout
his career, he has sold an estimated 140 million albums. In 2004,
Rolling Stone ranked him 23rd on their list of the best singers of all
time.

Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie>

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Today's selected anniversaries:

222:

Disgusted with Roman emperor Elagabalus's disregard for Roman
religious traditions and sexual taboos, the Praetorian Guard
assassinated him and his mother Julia Soaemias, mutilated their bodies,
and threw them in the Tiber River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus>

1848:

Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first
Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected
under a system of responsible government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baldwin>

1888:

The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern United
States, producing snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft (15 m) and confining
some people to their houses for up to a week.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1888>

1941:

World War II: The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law, allowing
the United States to supply the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China,
France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease>

2011 - A massive earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan
(tsunami damage pictured) and triggered a nuclear disaster at the
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

quibble:
(intransitive) To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quibble>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
is another theory which states that this has already happened.
--Douglas Adams
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams>

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