1519 CE - Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés, enters the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán where he is welcomed by King Moctezuma with a great celebration.
Photo of the Day
A Senior Corporal of the sappers in the French Foreign Legion.
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Quote of the Day
"The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs". --Harold Innis
Song of the Day
Artist - Opeth
Album - Watershed
Film of the Day
Director - Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Starring - Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw
Wiki of the Day
Borg is a collective proper noun for a fictional alien race that appears as recurring antagonists in various incarnations of the American television and film Star Trek franchise. The Borg are a collection of species that have been turned into cybernetic organisms functioning as drones of the Collective, or the hive. A pseudo-race, dwelling in the Star Trek universe, the Borg force other species into their collective and connect them to "the hive mind"; the act is called assimilation and entails violence, abductions, and injections of microscopic machines called nanoprobes. The Borg's ultimate goal is "achieving perfection".
Aside from being the main threat in Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg play major roles in The Next Generation and Voyager television series, primarily as an invasion threat to the United Federation of Planets, and serve as the way home to the Alpha Quadrant for isolated Federation starship Voyager. The Borg have become a symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against which "resistance is futile".
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