group Wu-Tang Clan, released in November 1993 on Loud Records and
distributed through RCA Records. Recording sessions for the album took
place during 1992 and 1993 at Firehouse Studio in New York City, and it
was mastered at The Hit Factory. The album's title originates from the
martial arts film The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978). The group's de
facto leader RZA (pictured), produced the album, utilizing heavy, eerie
beats and a sound largely based on martial-arts movie clips and soul
music samples. The album's distinctive sound created a blueprint for
hardcore hip hop during the 1990s and helped return New York City hip
hop to national prominence. Its sound also became hugely influential in
modern hip hop production, while the group members' explicit, humorous,
and free-associative lyrics have served as a template for many
subsequent hip hop records. Receiving generally positive reviews from
contemporary critics, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is regarded by
music writers as one of the most significant albums of the 1990s, as
well as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Wu-Tang_(36_Chambers)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1644:
The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was
enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty as the first
Qing emperor to rule over China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor>
1837:
In South Hadley, Massachusetts, US, Mary Lyon founded a
seminary for women that became Mount Holyoke College, the first of the
Seven Sisters group of colleges.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Holyoke_College>
1895:
German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected
electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray>
1940:
The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek
units repulsed the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elaia%E2%80%93Kalamas>
1965:
The United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles
to form the British Indian Ocean Territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
turlough:
(Ireland) A temporary lake in an area of limestone, filled by rising
groundwater during the rainy winter season.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turlough>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant
things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural
right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is
necessary to lead a good life. A family needs work as well as bread.
Property is proper to man. We must keep repeating these things. Eternal
life begins now. "All the way to heaven is heaven, because He said, "I
am the Way." The cross is there, of course, but "in the cross is joy of
spirit." And love makes all things easy.
--Dorothy Day
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day>
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