Word of the day
- scrutinize February 4, 2023Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 4, 2023 is: scrutinize • \SKROO-tuh-nyze\ • verb Scrutinize means "to examine (something) carefully especially in a critical way." // I closely scrutinized my opponent's every move before making my own. // Her performance was carefully scrutinized by her employer. See the entry > Examples: "U.S. Senators Amy […]Merriam-Webster
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On This Day
1959 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative.
NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. Built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core, funded by United States government agencies, Savannah was a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy.[5] Launched on July 21, 1959, and named after SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic ocean, she was in service between 1962 and 1972 as one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built.[2] (Soviet ice-breaker Lenin launched on December 5, 1957, was the first nuclear-powered civil ship.)
Savannah was deactivated in 1971 and after several moves has been moored at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, since 2008.[6]
Born On This Day
1923 – Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[2] “for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”.[3] Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron outer-sphere electron transfer.[4][5][6] He is a professor at Caltech, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
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AV Club Wiki Wormhole
- How 1923 Hollywood shaped 2023 Hollywood February 4, 2023While a lot of people are looking ahead to the movies that are coming in 2023 (we’ve done it too), The A.V. Club thought this would also be a good moment to take a look back. Way, way back. We decided to time-shift a full 100 years, to 1923, a seminal year for Hollywood in […]Cindy White
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wikimedia
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for February 4 February 4, 2023Picture of the day Stupa of the former Abhayagiri vihāra monastery in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for February 3 February 3, 2023Picture of the day Lifeguard stand in South Beach, Florida
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