The Wikipedia article of the day for October 31, 2017 is Ninety-five Theses.
The Ninety-five Theses are a list of propositions written by Martin Luther that started the Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Catholic Church. Luther, a professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany, enclosed them in a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz on 31 October 1517, a date now commemorated annually as Reformation Day. They advance Luther's positions against the selling of plenary indulgences, certificates that were said to reduce the punishment for sins in purgatory. Luther claimed that his positions accorded with those of the pope, but the Theses contradict a 14th-century papal bull. Luther's ecclesiastical superiors had him tried for heresy, which culminated in his excommunication in 1521. Though the Theses mark the start of the Reformation, Luther did not consider indulgences to be as important as other theological matters which would divide the church, such as justification by faith and the bondage of the will. His breakthrough on these issues would come later, and he did not see the writing of the Theses as the point at which his beliefs diverged from those of Rome.
Monday, 30 October 2017
Sunday, 29 October 2017
Wikipedia article of the day for October 30, 2017
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 30, 2017 is Dave Gallaher.
Dave Gallaher (30 October 1873 – 4 October 1917) was a New Zealand rugby union footballer and the captain of the 1905–06 Original All Blacks. They were the first representative New Zealand team to tour the British Isles, winning 34 out of 35 matches on their world tour. With his vice-captain Billy Stead, Gallaher co-wrote the classic rugby text The Complete Rugby Footballer. Retiring as a player after the tour, he took up coaching, and was a selector for both Auckland and New Zealand for most of the following decade. The Originals helped to cement rugby as New Zealand's national sport, but Gallaher's role as wing-forward contributed to decades of strain between the rugby authorities of New Zealand and the Home Nations, and the International Rugby Football Board effectively outlawed the position in 1931. During the First World War, Gallaher was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium. He has been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame and New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. The Gallaher Shield is awarded annually to the winner of Auckland's club championship, and the Dave Gallaher Trophy is contested between the national teams of France and New Zealand.
Dave Gallaher (30 October 1873 – 4 October 1917) was a New Zealand rugby union footballer and the captain of the 1905–06 Original All Blacks. They were the first representative New Zealand team to tour the British Isles, winning 34 out of 35 matches on their world tour. With his vice-captain Billy Stead, Gallaher co-wrote the classic rugby text The Complete Rugby Footballer. Retiring as a player after the tour, he took up coaching, and was a selector for both Auckland and New Zealand for most of the following decade. The Originals helped to cement rugby as New Zealand's national sport, but Gallaher's role as wing-forward contributed to decades of strain between the rugby authorities of New Zealand and the Home Nations, and the International Rugby Football Board effectively outlawed the position in 1931. During the First World War, Gallaher was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium. He has been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame and New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. The Gallaher Shield is awarded annually to the winner of Auckland's club championship, and the Dave Gallaher Trophy is contested between the national teams of France and New Zealand.
Saturday, 28 October 2017
Wikipedia article of the day for October 29, 2017
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 29, 2017 is Paul Palaiologos Tagaris.
Paul Palaiologos Tagaris (c. 1330 – after 1394) was a Byzantine Greek monk, a swindler, and an impostor. A scion of the Tagaris family, Paul also claimed a—somewhat dubious—connection with the Palaiologos dynasty that ruled the Byzantine Empire at the time. Married as a teenager, he left his wife and became a monk, but soon his fraudulent practices embroiled him in scandal. Fleeing Constantinople, he travelled widely, from Palestine to Persia and Georgia and eventually, via Ukraine and Hungary, to Italy, Latin Greece, Cyprus and France. During his long and tumultuous career, Paul was appointed an Orthodox bishop, sold ordinations to ecclesiastical offices, pretended to be the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, switched from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism and back again, supported both the See of Rome and the Avignon anti-popes in the Western Schism, and managed to be named Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. In the end, his deceptions unmasked, he returned to Constantinople, where he confessed his sins before a synod in 1394.
Paul Palaiologos Tagaris (c. 1330 – after 1394) was a Byzantine Greek monk, a swindler, and an impostor. A scion of the Tagaris family, Paul also claimed a—somewhat dubious—connection with the Palaiologos dynasty that ruled the Byzantine Empire at the time. Married as a teenager, he left his wife and became a monk, but soon his fraudulent practices embroiled him in scandal. Fleeing Constantinople, he travelled widely, from Palestine to Persia and Georgia and eventually, via Ukraine and Hungary, to Italy, Latin Greece, Cyprus and France. During his long and tumultuous career, Paul was appointed an Orthodox bishop, sold ordinations to ecclesiastical offices, pretended to be the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, switched from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism and back again, supported both the See of Rome and the Avignon anti-popes in the Western Schism, and managed to be named Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. In the end, his deceptions unmasked, he returned to Constantinople, where he confessed his sins before a synod in 1394.
Friday, 27 October 2017
Wikipedia article of the day for October 28, 2017
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 28, 2017 is O. G. S. Crawford.
O. G. S. Crawford (28 October 1886 – 28 November 1957) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of prehistoric Britain and the archaeology of Sudan. After overseeing the excavation of Abu Geili in Sudan, he served during the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps, performing ground and aerial reconnaissance along the Western Front. After the war, he obtained aerial photographs produced by the Royal Air Force and identified the extent of the Stonehenge Avenue, excavating it in 1923. With the archaeologist Alexander Keiller he conducted an aerial survey of many counties in southern England and raised the finances to secure land around Stonehenge for The National Trust. In 1927 he established the scholarly journal Antiquity, which drew contributions from many of Britain's most prominent archaeologists, and in 1939 he served as president of The Prehistoric Society. His contributions to British archaeology, including in Antiquity and the field of aerial archaeology, have been widely acclaimed, and his photographic archive has remained useful to archaeologists into the 21st century.
O. G. S. Crawford (28 October 1886 – 28 November 1957) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of prehistoric Britain and the archaeology of Sudan. After overseeing the excavation of Abu Geili in Sudan, he served during the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps, performing ground and aerial reconnaissance along the Western Front. After the war, he obtained aerial photographs produced by the Royal Air Force and identified the extent of the Stonehenge Avenue, excavating it in 1923. With the archaeologist Alexander Keiller he conducted an aerial survey of many counties in southern England and raised the finances to secure land around Stonehenge for The National Trust. In 1927 he established the scholarly journal Antiquity, which drew contributions from many of Britain's most prominent archaeologists, and in 1939 he served as president of The Prehistoric Society. His contributions to British archaeology, including in Antiquity and the field of aerial archaeology, have been widely acclaimed, and his photographic archive has remained useful to archaeologists into the 21st century.
Thursday, 26 October 2017
Wikipedia article of the day for October 27, 2017
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 27, 2017 is Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (25–27 October 1942) was the fourth aircraft carrier battle fought between the navies of the United States and Japan during World War II. It was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign, through which the Allies sought to parry and reverse Japanese advances in the southwest Pacific. The Japanese Army, in an attempt to drive Allied forces from Guadalcanal and nearby islands and end the stalemate there, planned a ground offensive for 20–25 October. In support, carriers and other large warships were moved into position near the southern Solomon Islands, where they hoped to engage and defeat any Allied naval forces responding to the offensive. As in the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomons, almost all attacks by both sides were mounted by or against carrier- or land-based aircraft. Allied surface ships were forced to retreat after one carrier was sunk and another heavily damaged, but the veteran pilots lost by the Japanese proved to be irreplaceable.
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (25–27 October 1942) was the fourth aircraft carrier battle fought between the navies of the United States and Japan during World War II. It was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign, through which the Allies sought to parry and reverse Japanese advances in the southwest Pacific. The Japanese Army, in an attempt to drive Allied forces from Guadalcanal and nearby islands and end the stalemate there, planned a ground offensive for 20–25 October. In support, carriers and other large warships were moved into position near the southern Solomon Islands, where they hoped to engage and defeat any Allied naval forces responding to the offensive. As in the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomons, almost all attacks by both sides were mounted by or against carrier- or land-based aircraft. Allied surface ships were forced to retreat after one carrier was sunk and another heavily damaged, but the veteran pilots lost by the Japanese proved to be irreplaceable.
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Wikipedia article of the day for October 25, 2017
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 25, 2017 is Nancy Cartwright.
Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress and comedian. On the animated television series The Simpsons, she is the voice of Bart Simpson, as well as Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, and Todd Flanders. Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated series Richie Rich, followed by a starring role in the television movie Marian Rose White (1982). In 1987, intending to audition for the role of Lisa Simpson in a series of animated shorts, she found Bart more interesting, and was offered the role on the spot by Matt Groening, the series' creator. She held the role for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, and has voiced Bart for 29 seasons on The Simpsons, winning an Emmy and an Annie Award for her work. Cartwright has also voiced Daffney Gillfin in The Snorks, Rufus in Kim Possible, Mindy in Animaniacs, Margo Sherman in The Critic, and Chuckie in Rugrats and All Grown Up! She has adapted her autobiography, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy (2000), into a one-woman play.
Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress and comedian. On the animated television series The Simpsons, she is the voice of Bart Simpson, as well as Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, and Todd Flanders. Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated series Richie Rich, followed by a starring role in the television movie Marian Rose White (1982). In 1987, intending to audition for the role of Lisa Simpson in a series of animated shorts, she found Bart more interesting, and was offered the role on the spot by Matt Groening, the series' creator. She held the role for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, and has voiced Bart for 29 seasons on The Simpsons, winning an Emmy and an Annie Award for her work. Cartwright has also voiced Daffney Gillfin in The Snorks, Rufus in Kim Possible, Mindy in Animaniacs, Margo Sherman in The Critic, and Chuckie in Rugrats and All Grown Up! She has adapted her autobiography, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy (2000), into a one-woman play.
Two Female suicide bombers detonate IED, kill 16, injures 18 in Borno State
According to reports just coming in two female suicide bombers detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) killing 16 people and injuring 18 others.
The Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) was strapped to their bodies at Muna Gwarage and Dusman village, outskirt of Maiduguri, Borno State capital where they detonated the explosives.
According to the Borno State Commissioner of Police, Demian Chukwu; 'In all, 16 persons were killed, while 18 others were injured in the three explosions. At about 8pm, a male suicide bomber detonated IED strapped on him at Muna Garage. He killed himself and 13 people. Five persons were injured'.
He alo said that; 'In another development, at Muna Dalti, two female suicide bombers detonated IED, killing each other and injuring 13 people. The injured people have been moved to UMTH for treatment. The bodies of the dead people had been evacuated, while EOD police teams were deployed to the scenes, to restore orders.'
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