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A Balloon in Mid-Air

... that A Balloon in Mid-Air (pictured) depicts a flight by artist Jules Tavernier with aeronaut Étienne Buislay, who died in a balloon accident a week later?
... that Isoup Ganthy, who was part of Cambodia's first Olympic team, later died in prison after being accused of working to overthrow the Khmer Rouge?
... that supporters of candidates in the 2024 Serang mayoral election fought during a public debate and the ballot-number lottery?
... that junior college president Hurst Robins Anderson participated in his brother's inauguration as president of a university?
... that Donald Trump served Clemson Tigers players and coaches fast food during their 2018–19 College Football Playoff championship visit to the White House?
... that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was lost after its army answered Princess Eschiva's plea for help against her besiegers?
... that the supercomputer S-1 was designed to have 16 processors, each with the power of a Cray-1?
... that a park in Canada is named after Axis official Dragutin Kamber?
... that American president Harry S. Truman went to Valhalla?

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The Indochinese green magpie (Cissa hypoleuca) is a small colorful bird native to the forests of China and southern Asia, through to Vietnam. It is nonmigratory and is found at altitudes up to 1,500 metres (4,900 feet), preferring moist forests and tree canopies within the tropical and subtropical regions, where its plumage provides camouflage. The Indochinese green magpie is approximately 35 centimetres (14 inches) in length, with a green upper body and an underbelly either yellow or green in colour. It features a black band that goes from its bill over the crimson eyes to the back of their head. It is a songbird, with vocalisations including noisy chattering, rasping notes, screeches, and a ringing whistle. This Indochinese green magpie of the subspecies C. h. hypoleuca was photographed in Đà Lạt, Vietnam.Photograph credit: JJ Harrison

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Seal of Missouri

2020 Missouri Amendment 2, also called the Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a ballot measure to amend the Constitution of Missouri to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The initiative was on the August 4, 2020, primary ballot and passed with 53.27% of the vote. Following Medicaid expansion initiatives in other states, Republican lawmakers in Nebraska and Utah added work requirements to their states' expansions; supporters aimed to prevent this by proposing state constitutional amendments for future Medicaid expansion initiatives. The measure was supported most in urban areas and opposed in rural areas. After a delay due to a lack of funding from the Missouri General Assembly and resulting litigation, the initiative was slowly implemented in October 2021. Republican lawmakers attempted to roll back the program and add a work requirement through a state constitutional amendment, which failed after the United States Supreme Court prevented its implementation. (Full article...)

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1265 – Second Barons' War: Royal troops led by Prince Edward defeated baronial forces under Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in Worcestershire, England.
1862 – In Brooklyn, a mob composed largely of Irish Americans attacked a group of African Americans in a riot.
1991 – An explosion on the Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos ruptured its hull, causing it to sink off the east coast of South Africa, with all 571 people on board rescued.
2006 – Sri Lankan civil war: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred in Mutur.
2020 – A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218 people and caused US$15 billion in damage.

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Tages with a copy of "Sleep Little Girl"

The Swedish pop group Tages released six studio albums and 26 singles in their home country during their existence from 1963 to 1970. Their professional career began during the summer of 1964, when they won a contest awarding them a recording contract with Platina Records, an independent record label. Their debut single, "Sleep Little Girl", was released in October 1964 and became a large hit in Sweden. The band's debut album, Tages, was released in November 1965, reaching the top 10 of the Finnish Albums Charts. The band's fourth and fifth albums, Contrast and Studio (both 1967), were released by Parlophone, whereas their sixth and final album, The Lilac Years (1969), was released through Fontana Records. The Lilac Years and the band's final three singles were released under the name Blond, which was considered more internationally viable by their management. (Full list...)

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The Cheat is a 1923 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is a remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 film The Cheat, using the same script by Hector Turnbull and Jeanie MacPherson. The remake stars Pola Negri and was directed by George Fitzmaurice, and tells the story of Carmelita De Cordoba, a beautiful young South American woman who has been betrothed by her stern father to Don Pablo, whom she despises, and then meets and falls in love with Dudley Drake, a New York City broker. With no known prints of The Cheat remaining, it is considered a lost film, although there is an extant version in novel form, written in the same year as the film by Russell Holman, a Paramount Pictures employee. This color lithograph poster was produced in 1923 by Paramount to promote The Cheat, and depicts Negri as Carmelita with Charles de Rochefort as Claude Mace, an art swindler masquerading as the East Indian prince Rao-Singh.

Poster credit: Paramount Pictures; restored by Ezarate

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