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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park

South Park: The Stick of Truth is a 2014 role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios, and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Based on the American adult animated television series South Park, the game features whimsical fantasy role-playing. As the New Kid, the player can freely explore the town of South Park with a supporting party of characters, fighting aliens, Nazi zombies, and gnomes. The visuals replicate the aesthetic of the television series. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone (both pictured) wrote the game's script, consulted on the design and voiced many of the characters, as in the television program. Reviewers praised the comedic script and authentic visual style, but some faulted the game over technical issues and a lack of challenging combat. A sequel, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, was released in 2017. (Full article...)

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Flag of Sark

... that the flag of Sark (pictured) represented the last feudal state in the Western world, and is flown over the British Ministry of Justice every 6 August to commemorate the granting of the fief?
... that Muhammad Ali Mungeri was the prime founder of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, a major Islamic seminary in India?
... that the neofolk album The Lone Furrow features several guest vocalists from heavy metal bands, and critics thought it might appeal to fans of that genre?
... that a book detailing the short life of Indian actress Meena Kumari was published just seven months after her death in 1972?
... that rhythmic gymnast Isabelle Connor is the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete at the Olympics?
... that the Black Sea seaside resort of Karaburun features a lighthouse built in 1860 with decorative lion heads around its original copper dome?
... that a cartoonist founded the Jim Thorpe Trophy that was awarded annually to the most valuable player of the National Football League?
... that Leeds industrialist William Gott was charged with nuisance when his factory's steam engine produced "noisome and unwholesome smokes and vapours"?

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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (pictured) travels to Poland on a humanitarian visa after attempts by the Belarus Olympic Committee to repatriate her against her will.
In Olympic athletics, Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas breaks a 26-year-old world record in the women's triple jump, and world records are set in men's and women's 400 metres hurdles by Norwegian Karsten Warholm and American Sydney McLaughlin.
Wildfires in southern Turkey kill at least eight people and injure more than 800 others.

On this day

August 6

Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law

1861 – Under the threat of military bombardment, Dosunmu, Oba of Lagos, ceded the island of Lagos to British forces.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in the U.S. state of New York, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1965 – U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law (pictured), outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.
1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web".

Saint Dominic (d. 1221)
Bix Beiderbecke (d. 1931)
Shapour Bakhtiar (d. 1991)

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Phil Younghusband

Former professional association football player Phil Younghusband scored 52 goals in 108 appearances for the Philippines national football team, making him the all-time male top goalscorer and the most capped player for the Philippines. Younghusband, who retired in November 2019 at the age of 32, scored 50 of his goals against Asian Football Confederation nations. He scored his first four international goals against Timor-Leste in a qualification match for the 2007 AFF Championship. He scored his twelfth international goal against Vietnam during the 2010 AFF Championship in a match dubbed the "Miracle of Hanoi". Younghusband's 50th international goal was a penalty kick against Tajikistan during the 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification. The goal guaranteed the inclusion of the Philippines in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, the highest level of competition in the team's history. (Full list...)

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Jean Augustin Daiwaille (6 August 1786 – 11 April 1850) was a Dutch portrait painter. Born in Cologne, he travelled to Amsterdam as a young man, where he studied under Adriaan de Lelie. He was the director of the Rijksakademie from 1820 to 1826, where he was instrumental in obtaining a lithographic press and instructing students in its use and technique. This self-portrait of Daiwaille, executed in pastel on parchment, is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Painting credit: Jean Augustin Daiwaille

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