administrator, policymaker and public intellectual. He is best known for
his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex,
an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the
World Wide Web. He became Vice President of MIT and Dean of the MIT
School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington in 1938. He was chairman of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and of the National Defense Research
Committee (NDRC). During World War II he was director of the Office of
Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), coordinating the defense
activities of some 6,000 leading American scientists. As head of NDRC
and OSRD, he initiated the Manhattan Project, and ensured that it
received top priority from the highest levels of government. In 1945, he
published As We May Think in which he predicted that "wholly new forms
of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative
trails running through them". This influenced generations of computer
scientists, who drew inspiration from his vision.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush>
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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>
1864:
A crack in the Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, England, caused it
to fail, and the resulting flood killed 238 people and damaged more than
600 homes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sheffield_Flood>
1879:
Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, abdicated when
the kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Tai>
1945:
World War II: The Empire of Japan established the Empire of
Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Vietnam>
2006:
Michelle Bachelet was inaugurated as the first female President
of Chile.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet>
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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:
One Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been
nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people
for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in
Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong
all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good
and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would
have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to
a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished
to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost,
seemingly for ever.
--So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#So_Long.2C_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish_.281984.29>
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