Oct 4, 2014

On This Day - Oct. 4

23 CE - Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital, Chang'an, during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later. 




Photo of the Day
The Pantheon in Rome, Italy.




In the News


Quote of the Day
"Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them". --Dick Francis




Song of the Day




Film of the Day
Director - Nicholas Hytner




Wiki of the Day
Palm wine is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree such as the palmyra, date palms and coconut palms.[1] It is also known as kallu (in South India), palm toddy, or simply toddy / tadi (in North India).
This drink is common in various parts of Asia and Africa, and goes by various names, such as emu and oguro in Nigeria; nsamba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; nsafufuo in Ghana;[2] kallu in South India; matango in Cameroon; tuak in North Sumatra, Indonesia; mnazi in the Mijikenda language of Kenya; goribon (Rungus) in Sabah, Borneo; and tuba in the Philippines, Borneo and Mexico. In the Philippines, tubâ refers both to the freshly harvested, sweetish cloudy-white sap and the one with the red lauan-tree tan bark colorant. In Leyte, the red tuba is aged with the tan bark for up to six months to two years, until it gets dark red and tapping its glass container gives a sound that does not suddenly stop. This type of tubâ is called bahal (for tuba aged this way for up to six months) and bahalina (for tuba aged thus for up to a year or more). Toddy is also consumed in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.


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