the bolete family, found in Asia, Northern Europe and North America.
Appearing in coniferous and deciduous woodland in summer and autumn, the
stout mushrooms are attractively coloured, with a beige to olive cap up
to 15 cm (6 in) across, yellow pores, and a reddish stalk up to 15 cm
(6 in) long and 5 cm (2 in) wide. The pale yellow flesh stains blue
when broken or bruised. Christian Persoon first described Boletus
calopus in 1801. Modern molecular phylogenetics has shown that it is
only distantly related to the type species of Boletus, and it was placed
in a new genus as the type species of Caloboletus in 2014. It is not an
edible mushroom, rendered unpalatable by its intensely bitter taste,
which does not disappear with cooking. Its red stalk distinguishes it
from edible species such as Boletus edulis.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloboletus_calopus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1248:
Ommen in the Netherlands received city rights and fortification
rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht, after the town was
pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommen>
1609:
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first
telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass
refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei>
1825:
The Thirty-Three Orientals, a revolutionary group led by Juan
Antonio Lavalleja, declared Uruguayan independence from the Empire of
Brazil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay>
1920:
Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the
Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive
battle of the Polish–Soviet War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)>
1967:
Founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell was
assassinated by John Patler, a former member of his group.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
shirty:
(informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shirty>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people,
do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those
characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the
clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a
certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join
battle. There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those
things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.
Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and
tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may
he be ours, he may be us.
--Walt Kelly
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly>
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