part of a wider South American naval arms race. To counter Brazil's two
Minas Geraes-class dreadnought battleships, Argentina began seeking bids
for at least two of their own in 1908. Over the next two years, multiple
shipbuilders from five countries vied for the contracts, complemented by
efforts from their respective governments. Argentina's choice in early
1910 of the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, based in the United States,
shocked the European bidders, but could partly be explained by the
American steel trust's ability to produce steel at a lower cost than any
other country. Amid increasing tension in Europe that would lead to the
First World War, newspapers speculated that the Argentine dreadnoughts
would be sold to a European nation. Under diplomatic pressure, the
Argentines decided to keep the ships; after numerous delays, they
arrived in the country in February and May 1915. The dreadnoughts were
modernized in the 1920s, and in the latter half of their life were
frequently employed as training ships and diplomatic envoys. Both were
sold for scrap in the late 1950s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivadavia-class_battleship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1590:
Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen consort of Scotland in the
abbey church at Holyrood Palace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark>
1792:
Twenty-four stock brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement to
establish the New York Stock Exchange.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange>
1865:
The International Telecommunication Union, an international
organization that standardizes and regulates international radio and
telecommunications, was founded as the International Telegraph Union in
Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union>
1902:
The Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known surviving geared
mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off
the Greek island of Antikythera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism>
1995:
After 18 years as Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac was
inaugurated as President of France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
morpheme:
(linguistics) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry
a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word
"unbreakable".
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morpheme>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My view is this: We teach nothing. We do not teach physics nor
do we teach students. (I take physics merely as an example.) What is the
same thing: No one is taught anything! Here lies the folly of this
business. We try to teach somebody nothing. This is a sorry endeavour
for no one can be taught a thing. What we do, if we are successful, is
to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse
a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. To my own
teachers who handled me in this way, I owe a great and lasting debt.
--Julius Sumner Miller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julius_Sumner_Miller>
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