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"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."
[Benjamin Disraeli]

Quote of the Day, from brainyquote.com (2026/09/10)

T3, one of T6's sister ships

T6 was a sea-going torpedo boat operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1941. Originally built in 1916 for the Austro-Hungarian Navy as a 250t-class torpedo boat, she saw active service during World War I, performing convoy, patrol, escort and minesweeping tasks, and anti-submarine operations. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, she was allocated to the navy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which later became the Royal Yugoslav Navy, and was renamed T6. During the interwar period, T6 and the rest of the navy were involved in training exercises and cruises to friendly ports. She was captured during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, and after modernisation she was employed on second-line duties in the Adriatic Sea. She was scuttled by her crew on 11 September 1943 in the aftermath of the Italian capitulation. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.)

Charlie Kirk

1547 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
1961 – At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips's car collided with another, causing it to become airborne and crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators.
1990 – Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.
2017 – Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida, as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean.
2025 – American political activist Charlie Kirk (pictured) was shot and killed at an event at Utah Valley University.

Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
Axial Tilt: 23,44°

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Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).

1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.

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