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The ship at anchor, shortly after completion
Mutsu was the second of two Nagato-class dreadnought battleships built for the I
mperial Japanese Navy at the end of World War I. Named after Mutsu Province, the
ship was launched on 31 May 1920. In 1923, a year after commissioning, she carr
ied supplies for the survivors of the Great Kanto earthquake. The ship was moder
nised in the mid 1930s with improvements to her armour and machinery, and a rebu
ilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. Other than participating in the bat
tles of Midway and the Eastern Solomons in 1942, where she saw no significant co
mbat, Mutsu spent most of the first year of the Pacific War in training. She ret
urned to Japan in early 1943. That June, one of her aft magazines detonated whil
e she was at anchor, sinking the ship with the loss of 1,121 crew and visitors.
The navy conducted a perfunctory investigation into the cause of her loss, concl
uded that it was the work of a disgruntled crewmember, and dispersed the survivo
rs in an attempt to conceal the sinking within Japan. Much of the wreck was salv
aged after the war and many of its artefacts and relics are on display in Japane
se museums. (Full article...)
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ara Croft?
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r her performance as the Kostelnicka Buryjovka in Jancek's Jenufa at the Royal Op
era House?
... that the cyberpunk science-fiction genre was named after the 1983 short stor
y "Cyberpunk" by Bruce Bethke?
... that anchovy paste has been used for centuries to provide flavor for foods a
nd as a source of nutrition?
... that Mary Florence Potts patented various styles of cold-handle clothes iron
s that were the most popular irons ever used?
... that in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, the actor Alec Guinness play
s nine members of the same family?
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rplanes strike alleged militant camps in Libya in response.
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ed clashes with the Islamist Maute group in Marawi City.
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licanism)
The first Madison Square Garden
The first Madison Square Garden
1223 Mongol invasions: Mongol forces defeated a combined army of Kiev, Galich, a
nd the Cumans at the Kalchik River in present-day Ukraine.
1879 Gilmore's Garden in New York City was renamed Madison Square Garden (pictur
ed), the city's first venue to use that name.
1902 The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereen
iging.
1935 An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 Mw struck Balochistan in the British Raj, no
w part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
1981 An organized mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitias began burn
ing the public library in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, destroying over 97,000 items in one
of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the 20th century.
Albertino Mussato (d. 1329) Walt Whitman (b. 1819) Chien-Shiung Wu (b. 1912)
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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil painting on canvas completed by the Anglo-
American painter John Singer Sargent between 1885 and 1886. It depicts two small
children who are lighting paper lanterns in a garden strewn with pink roses, ac
cents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies. The work received a mixed rece
ption at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It is now displayed at Tate Britai
n.
Painting: John Singer Sargent
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