decade of the twentieth century for the Brazilian Navy. Named Minas
Geraes and São Paulo, Brazil's order for these
"dreadnoughts"—powerful warships whose capabilities far outstripped
those of the world's older battleships—initiated a vastly expensive
South American naval arms race. Once in service, Minas Geraes and São
Paulo were only ever used for or against rebellions. Soon after the
ships arrived in Brazil in 1910, their crews revolted against the
continued use of corporal punishment (in this case, whipping or
"lashing") in the navy. In 1922, the government used both warships to
help put down an army rebellion. São Paulo 's crew mutinied in
1924, but eight years later the ship helped the government break a rebel
blockade. During the Second World War, the obsolete dreadnoughts were
used as harbor defense vessels for ports in northeast Brazil. They were
both sold for scrap after the war, but São Paulo sank without a trace
while under tow.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Geraes-class_battleship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1570:
A party of ten Jesuit missionaries landed on the Virginia
Peninsula to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajac%C3%A1n_Mission>
1897:
A peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and
Slovak anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, US, was
fired upon by a sheriff's posse in the Lattimer massacre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattimer_massacre>
1945:
Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated in a farm in
Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before
choking to death in Phoenix, Arizona.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken>
1961:
At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von
Trips's car collided with another, causing it to become airborne and
crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Trips>
2000:
Operation Barras successfully freed six British soldiers held
captive for over two weeks and contributed to the end of the Sierra
Leone Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barras>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
set apart:
1. To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose.
2. To distinguish, make obvious the distinction between (two things) or of
(something).
3. Used other than as an idiom: to separate or isolate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/set_apart>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast
aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this
difficult world.
--Mary Oliver
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver>
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