Day 1,657: mayhem, Catherine the Great, ply, swirl
The escalation in the Red Sea is mirrored by maritime mayhem elsewhere. The Black Sea is filling up with mines and crippled warships; this year Ukraine hopes to eject the Russian navy from Crimea, its base since Catherine the Great.
Some 80% of trade by volume and 50% by value travels on a fleet of 105,000 container ships, tankers and freight vessels that ply the oceans day and night, taken for granted by the people whose livelihoods depend on them.
The strong wind caused the dead leaves to swirl.
Artwork of the day
Untitled (Murder and Mayhem)
Rirkrit TiravanijaDate:2011Style:Conceptual ArtGenre:installation
Word of the day
mayhem: a situation in which there is little or no order or control:
Catherine the Great: ロシア語: Екатерина II Алексеевна, ラテン文字転写: Yekaterina II Alekseyevna （イカチリーナ・フタラーヤ・アレクセーエヴナ）
ply: to sell or to work regularly at something, especially at a job that involves selling things:
swirl: to move in a circular, whirling or writing manner; a twist, curl, whirl or eddy
Quote of the day
“Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.”
― Thomas Ligotti