Homer Simpson is a character in the animated television series The

Simpsons. He is the boorish father of the Simpson family; with his wife,

Marge, he has three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Homer embodies

several American working-class stereotypes: he is overweight, balding,

immature, unintelligent, outspoken, aggressive, lazy, ignorant,

unprofessional, and fond of beer, junk food, and television. Despite his

flaws, he is fundamentally a good-hearted man and fiercely protective of

his family, especially during crises. He was created and designed by

cartoonist Matt Groening and is voiced by Dan Castellaneta (pictured).

Homer is one of the most influential fictional characters on television

and is widely recognized as an American cultural icon. His catchphrase,

the annoyed grunt "D'oh!", has been included in several dictionaries.

Castellaneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-

Over Performance, along with a special-achievement Annie Award for

voicing Homer.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1970:

Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa,

Italy, as a protest against the military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos.

1985:

An earthquake registering Mw 8.0 struck Mexico City, killing

at least 9,000 people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.

1991:

Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man dating from

about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists in the Alps.

2023:

Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The

Mongol Khan, the first Mongolian play to be performed internationally,

forty minutes before its planned premiere in Hohhot.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

pirate shirt:

Synonym of poet shirt (“a loose-fitting blouse with full bishop sleeves,

usually decorated with large frills on the front and the cuffs”).

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of

social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill;

and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation

of society. … after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had

discovered what one man could do to another. ... I am thinking of the

vileness beyond all words that went on, year after year, in the

totalitarian states. It is bad enough to say that so many Jews were

exterminated in this way and that, so many people liquidated — lovely,

elegant word — but there were things done during that period from

which I still have to avert my mind less I should be physically sick.

They were not done by the headhunters of New Guinea or by some primitive

tribe in the Amazon. They were done, skillfully, coldly, by educated

men, doctors, lawyers, by men with a tradition of civilization behind

them, to beings of their own kind.  

--William Golding

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