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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Shirley Chisholm — Unbought and Unbossed

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.

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MV

MV may refer to:

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  • M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman commonly known as Sir MV
  • MV (footballer), nickname of Marcos Vinicius Silvestre Gaspar (born 1998), Brazilian football forward

In science and technology

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  • mv (Unix), a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another
  • .mv, top level domain country code for the Republic of Maldives
  • MainView, a business automation software
  • Materialized view, a database object that contains the results of a query

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  • MV, the abbreviation for megavolt, or 1,000,000 volts, a measure of electrical potential
  • Mendelevium, a chemical element with former symbol Mv
  • mV, millivolt: 1/1,000 of a volt, a measure of electrical potential
  • mv (mass × velocity), momentum in physics
  • Mv, viscosity average molar mass, a method to quantify molar mass distribution in chemistry
  • Mesovortex, a small scale vortex aloft within atmospheric convection, such as squall lines and tropical cyclones
  • Microwave, (occasionally) in the field of satellite remote sensing
  • MV is the absolute magnitude of a celestial body such as a star at 10 parsecs in the V passband
  • M-V, Japanese space rocket
  • Machine vision

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.mv

.mv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of Maldives. It is administered by Dhiraagu Pvt Ltd, a telecommunications company. Mainly due to the unavailability of an online registration service, a whois lookup and large maintenance cost, the Maldivian ccTLD is used predominantly by government agencies and large businesses. Smaller companies and organisations prefer generic TLDs such as .com and .net.

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Bell MV-75 Cheyenne II

The Bell MV-75 Cheyenne II is a tiltrotor aircraft being developed by Bell for the United States Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program. It originated from the Bell V-280 Valor technology demonstrator, whose design was unveiled in 2013 and which took its first flight on 18 December 2017. In 2022, the V-280 was chosen by the US Army as the winner of the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program to replace the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk. As of April 2024, limited user tests are planned for 2027 and 2028. The aircraft is expected to deploy in 2031.

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MV Agusta

MV Agusta (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɛmmeˈvi aˈɡusta], full name: MV AGUSTA Motor S.p.A., original name: Meccanica Verghera Agusta or MV) is an Italian high end motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded by Count Domenico Agusta on 19 January 1945 as one of the branches of the Agusta aircraft company near Milan in Cascina Costa. The abbreviation MV stands for Meccanica (mechanics) Verghera, the hamlet where the first MVs were made. The modern headquarters and main production facilities are located in Varese, Italy on the shore of Lake Varese.

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TOPIC OF THE DAY

Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which Black woman became the first elected to the United States Congress?

Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968.