the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. A fairly long-lived July Atlantic
hurricane, Claudette began as a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean.
It moved quickly westward, brushing past the Yucatán Peninsula before
moving northwestward through the Gulf of Mexico. Claudette remained a
tropical storm until just before making landfall in Port O'Connor,
Texas, when it quickly strengthened to a strong Category 1 hurricane.
Forecasting its path and intensity was uncertain, resulting in
widespread and often unnecessary preparations along its path. Claudette
was the first hurricane to make landfall in July in the United States
since Hurricane Danny in the 1997 season. The hurricane caused one death
and moderate damage in Texas, mostly from strong winds, as well as
extensive beach erosion. Because of the damage, President George W. Bush
declared portions of South Texas as a Federal Disaster Area, allowing
the affected citizens to apply for aid. Claudette also caused
significant rainfall and minor damage in the Mexican state of Quintana
Roo, as well as minor damage on Saint Lucia.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Claudette_(2003)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured
Fort Washington from the Patriots.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington>
1885:
After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion,
Louis Riel (pictured), Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father
of Manitoba", was executed by hanging for high treason.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel>
1944:
Operation Queen commenced in Düren, Germany, with one of the
heaviest Allied tactical bombing attacks of the Second World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Queen>
1959:
The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based
on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music>
1989:
Eight employees of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón
Cañas" in San Salvador, including six Catholic priests, were murdered
by a Salvadoran Army "death squad".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_UCA_scholars>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kraal:
1. In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a
stockade.
2. An enclosure for livestock.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kraal>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be
done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of
somebody else's rules. The noetic enterprise is a primary obligation
toward being. Our salvation is linked to it. Not everyone has to read
alchemical texts or study superconducting biomolecules to make the
transition. Most people make it naively by thinking clearly about the
present at hand, but we intellectuals are trapped in a world of too much
information. Innocence is gone for us. We cannot expect to cross the
rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be
sufficient. We have to understand.
--Terence McKenna
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna>
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