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[edit] Did you know?

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ...that the Certosa di Pavia (pictured) was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to be built halfway between his two courts in Milan and Pavia?
• ...that Jason Bedrick, a New Hampshire state representative, is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?
• ...that as a teenager, Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people?
• ...that the Vedic Mathematics genre was revived after Hindu Shankaracharya Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras?
• ...that the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon's oldest government agencies?
• ...that on October 5, 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?

[edit] In the news

• The Chinese River Dolphin (illustrated) is declared functionally extinct, the first extinction of a large mammal in recent decades.
• Suffolk police launch an investigation on five dead bodies discovered near Ipswich in Suffolk, England.
• Astronauts on mission STS-116 attempt to retract a solar array on the International Space Station's Integrated Truss Structure.
• Former President of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam is convicted in absentia of genocide by an Ethiopian court for his part in the so-called "Red Terror".
• A military funeral is held for former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet.