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Amy Poehler

The six episodes of the first season of Parks and Recreation originally aired in the United States on the NBC television networks on Thursdays between April 9 and May 14, 2009. The comedy series was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, who served as executive producers with Howard Klein. The season stars Amy Poehler (pictured), Rashida Jones, Paul Schneider, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, and Aubrey Plaza, and focuses on Leslie Knope (Poehler), the deputy director of the parks and recreation department of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Early test screenings were poor, and many critics and industry observers were skeptical about the show's chances of success. The premiere episode was watched by 6.77 million viewers, but the ratings declined to a season low of 4.25 million viewers for the final episode, "Rock Show". Even so, "Rock Show" received the best reviews of the season and convinced some critics that the series had found the right tone. (Full article...)

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Exterior of the V. K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History

... that at one point, the Consulate-General of Japan in Vladivostok was housed in what is now the Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History (pictured)?
... that Doug Sahm's posthumous album The Return of Wayne Douglas was his first to feature only country music songs?
... that the Astor Place station was flooded by a subterranean river after firefighters extinguished a blaze at a building above it?
... that 19th-century French economist Jean Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil is considered to be the founder of classical economics and economic liberalism in Chile?
... that the late Ottoman Empire has been described as "the laboratory of demographic engineering in Europe"?
... that as the only woman in the 1923 Utah State Senate, Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
... that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House, the composer, who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character?
... that the UK Supreme Court told the Chief Constable that the West Yorkshire Police are not allowed to knock over old ladies?

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Jared Butler

Riots erupt in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland.
In NCAA Division I basketball, the Stanford Cardinal win the Women's Championship and the Baylor Bears win the Men's Championship (Most Outstanding Player Jared Butler pictured).
Vjosa Osmani is elected as the fifth president of Kosovo.
Cyclone Seroja makes landfall in Indonesia and East Timor, killing at least 160 people and displacing thousands of others.
In rowing, both Cambridge men's and women's crews win The Boat Race.

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April 9

Boeing 737 on its maiden flight

1866 – The Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first United States federal law to affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law, was enacted.
1917 – First World War: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
1948 – Palestine war: Fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem, killing more than 100 Palestinian Arabs.
1967 – The first Boeing 737 took its maiden flight (pictured), eventually becoming the most produced commercial passenger jet airliner in the world.
1993 – Iranian filmmaker Morteza Avini was killed by a land mine in Fakkeh while producing a documentary.

Jean Quintin (d. 1561)
Mary Jackson (b. 1921)
Vilhelm Bjerknes (d. 1951)

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Historic Centre of Kraków

There are sixteen World Heritage Sites in Poland, fifteen of which are cultural sites, and one of which, the Białowieża Forest, is a natural site. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Poland acceded to the convention on 29 June 1976, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The first two Polish sites inscribed on the World Heritage List were the Wieliczka Salt Mine and the Historic Centre of Kraków (pictured) in 1978. The most recent addition to the list is the Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region, listed in 2019. Three of the sites are transnational. (Full list...)

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BASE jumping is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend safely to the ground. The acronym stands for four categories of fixed objects from which the jumps can be made: building, antenna, span, and earth (cliff). In this photograph, a man launches himself from the top of the Istanbul Sapphire tower in Istanbul, Turkey.

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