Kaiser class of battleships of the Imperial German Navy. Prinzregent
Luitpold's keel was laid in October 1910 at the Germaniawerft dockyard
in Kiel. She was launched on 17 February 1912 and was commissioned into
the navy on 19 August 1913. Prinzregent Luitpold was assigned to the
III Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of her
career; in December 1916, she was transferred to the IV Battle
Squadron. Along with her four sister ships, Kaiser, Friedrich der
Grosse, Kaiserin, and König Albert, Prinzregent Luitpold participated
in all of the major fleet operations of World War I, including the
Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. The ship was also
involved in Operation Albion, an amphibious assault on the Russian-held
islands in the Gulf of Riga, in late 1917. After Germany's defeat in the
war and the signing of the Armistice in November 1918, Prinzregent
Luitpold and most of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet were
interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow. Prinzregent Luitpold was
raised in July 1931 and subsequently broken up for scrap in 1933.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Prinzregent_Luitpold>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
295 BC:
The oldest known temple to Venus (pictured), the Roman
goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)>
1745:
Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard at
Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands to begin the Second Jacobite
Rising.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745>
1942:
Second World War: Allied forces suffered over 3,000 casualties
when they unsuccessfully raided the German-occupied port of Dieppe,
France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid>
1981:
Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan Su-22 Fitters
while the U.S. Navy conducted military exercises in the Gulf of Sidra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_(1981)>
2003:
A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded over 130
others on a crowded public bus in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in
Jerusalem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_bus_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
clemency:
1. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in
judging or punishing.
2. (now rare) Mildness of weather.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clemency>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more
he will find he has to know.
--Samuel Richardson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Richardson>
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