fiction magazines that published a total of seven issues in 1941 and
1942. Both were edited by Donald A. Wollheim and launched by Albing
Publications, appearing in alternate months. Wollheim had no budget at
all for fiction, so he solicited stories from his friends among the
Futurians, a group of young science fiction fans including James Blish
and C.M. Kornbluth. Isaac Asimov contributed a story, but later insisted
on payment after hearing that F. Orlin Tremaine, the editor of Comet—a
competing science fiction magazine—was irate at the idea of a magazine
that might "siphon readership from magazines that paid", and thought
that authors who contributed should be blacklisted. Kornbluth was the
most prolific contributor, under several pseudonyms; one of his stories,
"Thirteen O'Clock", was very successful, and helped to make his
reputation in the field. The magazines ceased publication in late 1941,
but Wollheim was able to find a publisher for one further issue of
Stirring Science Stories in March 1942 before war restrictions forced it
to close again.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Stories_and_Stirring_Science_Stories>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
769:
The Lateran Council concluded proceedings intended to rectify
abuses in the papal electoral process that had led to the elevation of
the Antipopes Constantine II and Philip.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Council_(769)>
1638:
A rebellion by Catholic Japanese peasants in Shimabara over
increased taxes was put down by the Tokugawa shogunate, resulting in
greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion>
1738:
Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel
loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serse>
1922:
US Senator John B. Kendrick introduced a resolution calling for
an investigation of a secret land deal, which led to the discovery of
the Teapot Dome scandal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal>
2013:
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker
bombs (immediate aftermath pictured) during the running of the Boston
Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
goy:
A non-Jew, a gentile.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly
things it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so
excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
--Leonardo da Vinci
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci>
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