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- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
- News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
- Obituary: JamesR
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Interesting stuff
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Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, swallowtails inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus Ornithoptera. This Zerynthia rumina butterfly, also known as the Spanish festoon, was photographed in Extremadura, Spain.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
Did you know...
Uniform of Capital Bicycle Club
- ... that residents reported the first cycling club in Washington, D.C., (uniform pictured) to the police over concerns that bicycles posed a danger to pedestrians?
- ... that Olympic taekwondo practitioner Emmanuella Atora described her career as "I hit people for a living"?
- ... that an American citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow the government of Cambodia?
- ... that Sarah Gibson, who formed a piano duo with Thomas Kotcheff, composed warp & weft inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro, to be played today by the BBC Philharmonic at The Proms?
- ... that eight cardboard white elephants were put up as a form of public protest to lobby for the opening of Buangkok MRT station in Singapore?
- ... that "Lucki" Allen's prediction of the Tet Offensive was ignored, but she was later inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame?
- ... that the idea for Clustertruck came from a developer wanting to escape traffic?
- ... that American Olympic rugby player Sarah Levy is the great-granddaughter of a Springbok?
- ... that David Tennant filmed a Doctor Who mini-episode on his birthday?
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Sheikh Hasina
- Sheikh Hasina (pictured) resigns as the prime minister of Bangladesh and flees to India following anti-government protests.
- Following a mass stabbing in Southport, far-right protesters riot in England and Northern Ireland.
- The United States, Russia, and their respective allies agree to a prisoner exchange of 26 people.
- Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Tehran, Iran.
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