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Imaginative Tales was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine launched in September 1954 by William Hamling's Greenleaf Publishing Company. It began as a vehicle for novel-length humorous fantasy, with initial issues featuring stories by Charles F. Myers and Robert Bloch. After a year, Hamling switched the focus to science fiction, and it became similar in content to its sister magazine Imagination, publishing routine space operas. In 1958, with public interest in space high, Hamling changed the title to Space Travel, but there was little effect on sales. Magazine circulation was suffering because of the rise of the paperback, and the liquidation in 1957 of American News Company, a major magazine distributor, made it even harder for small magazines to survive. Hamling eventually folded both Imaginative Tales and Imagination in 1958, preferring to invest the money in Rogue, a men's magazine he had started in imitation of Playboy in 1955. (Full article...)

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Coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands

... that the oil lamps on the coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands (pictured) represent Saint Ursula and her virgin companions, who give the islands their name?
... that the first Black woman to receive tenure in Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett, emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"?
... that the pineapple on the flag of the Cayman Islands alludes to the territory's historic connection with Jamaica, whose coat of arms features five pineapples?
... that Robert Jones wrote the first book about figure skating in 1772?
... that the Nooth apparatus, originally invented to produce carbonated water, was later repurposed for administering anaesthetic drugs?
... that Linnéstaty, a sculpture created by Swedish sculptor Gerda Sprinchorn, was raised as a public monument 40 years after its completion?
... that the Latin American travesti gender identity has been considered to be a third gender, akin to the hijras of India and the muxe of Mexico?
... that Clarkson's Farm is "Diddly Squat"?

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The aircraft involved in the crash

A Philippine Air Force C-130 transport aircraft (pictured) crashes in Sulu, killing at least 50 people.
Former South African president Jacob Zuma is sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
An extreme heat wave kills an estimated 600 people in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
In Saskatchewan, Canada, 751 unmarked graves are discovered at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School.

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July 5

Thomas Cook

1814 – War of 1812: American troops invading Upper Canada were victorious in the Battle of Chippawa.
1841 – Thomas Cook (pictured), founder of the travel company Thomas Cook & Son, organised his first excursion, escorting about 500 people from Leicester to Loughborough.
1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
1954 – Elvis Presley recorded his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
2006 – The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting hours after North Korea reportedly tested at least seven separate ballistic missiles.

Joan of the Tower (b. 1321)
Wanda Landowska (b. 1879)
Porfirio Rubirosa (d. 1965)

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Smiley

During the 2010s, around 100 singles each were listed by Media Forest as the most-broadcast tracks on Romanian radio and television respectively. The first were "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas (radio) and "Chica Bomb" by Dan Balan (television). Israeli broadcast monitoring service Media Forest has been publishing four rankings which list the top ten most-broadcast Romanian and foreign songs on Romanian radio stations and television channels separately on a weekly basis. The charts consider data from eight radio stations and five television channels. Media Forest also releases year-end charts in regards to the radio airplay, listing the most-broadcast songs of Romanian origin of the respective year. "Shoulda" by Jamie Woon spent an unprecedented 20 weeks as the most-broadcast single on radio stations, while in terms of television airplay, this feat was achieved by "Luna" by Carla's Dreams with a total of 15 weeks. Carla's Dreams and Smiley (pictured) had eight songs listed as the most-broadcast on radio and television during the 2010s, more than any other act. (Full list...)

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Tofana di Rozes is a mountain in the Dolomites, located west of the resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo in northern Italy. At an elevation of 3,225 metres (10,581 ft), the mountain was first climbed by Paul Grohmann and local hunter Francesco Lacedelli in 1864. Most ascents of Tofana di Rozes are made from the north, where the mountain is a relatively easy hike, or from the west, where the summit can be reached by a via ferrata; this photograph shows the more challenging south face, which was first climbed in 1901.

Photograph credit: Wolfgang Moroder

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