Hurricane Ophelia was a long-lived tropical cyclone, the fifteenth named

storm and the eighth hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic

hurricane season. Classified as a tropical depression on September 6,

it moved along a looping course, tending north. It reached hurricane

status on September 8, though it repeatedly lost and regained it. The

system reached hurricane strength for the fourth time on September 14,

with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h). Ophelia had

completed a second loop and was moving northwest toward North Carolina.

It mostly remained offshore though its eyewall scraped the coastline for

two days. It degraded to tropical storm strength on September 16 as it

began accelerating northeast. Ophelia traversed Atlantic Canada before

dissipating on September 23 over the Norwegian Sea. With the storm

occurring on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, governments were quick to

prepare shelters. Three people died as the result of the storm, with

another missing.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1930:

Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a

military coup by José Félix Uriburu.

1952:

A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in

Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29

spectators.

1995:

Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive Major League

Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.

1999:

The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament

House to its current meeting place.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

canoodle:

1. (transitive)

2. To caress, fondle, or pet (someone); also, to have sexual intercourse

with (someone); to make love with.

3. (figurative) To cajole or persuade (someone).

4. (intransitive) Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person;

of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have

sexual intercourse; to make love.

5. (originally US, slang) A caress, a cuddle, a hug.

6. A donkey.

7. A foolish lover; also (generally) a fool.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and

any shape but the one you want if you are not.  

--Robert M. Pirsig

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