affected the United States Gulf Coast in late August and early September
1985. Threatening popular tourist destinations during Labor Day weekend,
Elena repeatedly defied forecasts, triggering an unprecedented series of
evacuations; many residents and tourists were forced to leave twice in a
matter of days. Elena's slow movement off western Florida resulted in
severe beach erosion and damage to coastal buildings, roads, and
seawalls. The hurricane devastated the Apalachicola Bay shellfish
industry, killing off vast oyster beds and leaving thousands of workers
unemployed. Farther west, Dauphin Island in Alabama endured wind gusts
as high as 130 mph (210 km/h) and a significant storm surge. In
Mississippi, over 13,000 homes were damaged and 200 were entirely
destroyed. Overall, nine people died as a result of the hurricane: three
in Florida, two in Louisiana, one in Arkansas, two in Texas from rip
currents, and one in a maritime accident. Damage totaled about $1.3
billion, and power outages from the storm affected 550,000 homes and
businesses.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Elena>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
590:
Gregory I became pope, the first one to come from a monastic
background.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_I>
1651:
English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the
Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the Third English Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Worcester>
1901:
The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the
Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop
the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia>
1925:
The USS Shenandoah, the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, was
torn apart in a squall line over Ohio (wreckage pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shenandoah_(ZR-1)>
1941:
The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first used
the pesticide Zyklon B to execute Soviet POWs en masse at Auschwitz;
eventually it was used to kill about 1.2 million people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
spieler:
1. A person who speaks fluently and glibly.
2. Hence, a person who loudly solicits crowds of customers; a barker.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A swindler, a gambler.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spieler>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive,
to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its
purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed
upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit. It must stand
for the actual, vital first-hand experiences of the one who made it, and
must represent his deep-down impression not only of physical nature but
more especially and necessarily his understanding of the out-working of
that Great Spirit which makes nature so intelligible to us that it
ceases to be a phantasm and becomes a sweet, a superb, a convincing
Reality.
--Louis Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan>
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