animated features canon and the 41st overall. Set in 1914, the film
tells the story of a young man who gains possession of a sacred book,
which he believes will guide him and a crew of adventurers to the lost
city of Atlantis. Linguist Marc Okrand created an Atlantean language for
the film (letter "A" pictured). Atlantis made greater use of computer-
generated imagery than any of Disney's previous animated features; it
remains one of the few to have been shot in anamorphic format. Atlantis,
which adopted the distinctive visual style of comic book creator Mike
Mignola, is one of the few Disney animated features not to have songs.
The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California,
on June 3, 2001, and went into general release on June 15. Due to the
film's poorer-than-expected box-office performance, Disney quietly
canceled both a spin-off television series and an underwater attraction
at its Disneyland theme park. Some critics praised it as a unique
departure from typical Disney animated features, while others disliked
it due to the unclear target audience and absence of songs.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis:_The_Lost_Empire>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1215:
King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta>
1878:
Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that
all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs (animation
pictured); the study became the basis of motion pictures.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop>
1919:
After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock
and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to
complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight_of_Alcock_and_Brown>
1978:
King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became
known as Queen Noor of Jordan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Noor_of_Jordan>
2001:
Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
encapsulate:
1. To cover something as if in a capsule.
2. To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encapsulate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered
and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible
sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit; for such mutilation
undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act,
may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion
by destructive forms of conscientiousness.
--Erik Erikson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson>
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