1426 CE - Vietnamese rebels defeat the Ming army at the Battle of Tốt Động - Chúc Động, near modern Hanoi, during the Lam Sơn Uprising against Chinese rule.
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Microraptor fossil, with arrows pointing to its feathers.
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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down". --Aneurin Bevan
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Wiki of the Day
On September 17, 2007, U.S. Senator John Kerry addressed a Constitution Day forum at the University of Florida in Gainesville, which was organized by the ACCENT Speakers Bureau, an agency of the university's student government. Initially allowed to ask questions after the close of the question period, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate mass communication student, entered into a planned line of questioning and was forcibly pulled away from the microphone. He immediately resisted the campus security and was subsequently arrested by university police. During arrest, the officers asked him repeatedly to stop resisting, but Meyer continued to struggle and scream for help. While six officers held Meyer down[1] one of the officers drive stunned him with a Taser following Meyer's shouted plea to the police, "Don't tase me, bro!"
Several videos of the episode were posted on the Internet, with one version reaching 7 million views on YouTube.[2] The New Oxford American Dictionary listed "tase/taze" as one of the words of the year for 2007, popularized by the widespread use of the phrase "Don't tase me, bro!" Meyer registered the phrase as a trademark in September 2007.[3]
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