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[[Image:|120px|Stephen Colbert speaking at the dinner]]
Stephen Colbert speaking at the dinner

Stephen Colbert's performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner mocked the Bush administration and the White House press corps, and subsequently generated significant controversy. Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer for the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, delivering a 20-minute speech and video presentation which was broadcast live on C-SPAN and MSNBC. Colbert spoke as the same character as the one he plays on The Colbert Report: an over-the-top send-up of a conservative pundit in the fashion of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. Colbert satirized the Bush administration and the White House press corps.
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Stockholm Stadtbibliotek

• ...that Nordic Classicism (example pictured) was formerly regarded as a mere interlude between two far wider-known architectural movements, Art Nouveau and Functionalism?

• ...that while the engineering treatises of Italian Renaissance artist Taccola were widely copied and studied during his lifetime, printed copies were not made until the 1960s?
• ...that even though American lawman Harry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta, many people still didn't believe the man was dead?
• ... that the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological, chemical and nuclear incidents?
• ...that the striking of a French consul with a fly-whisk by Ottoman ruler Hussein Dey was used as a pretext for the invasion of Algiers?

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Photo credit: Fir0002

The apricot (Prunus armeniaca) is a fruit-bearing tree native to China. It is related to the plum, and classified with it in the subgenus Prunus of the genus Prunus. The fruit (pictured here) appears similar to a peach or nectarine, with a colour ranging from yellow to orange and sometimes a red cast; its surface is smooth and nearly hairless. Apricots are stone fruit (drupes), and have only one seed each, often called a "stone".
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coat of arms of Lebanon

• Lebanese (coat of arms pictured) Minister of Industry Pierre Amine Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.

• Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko is in critical condition in a London hospital after an apparent thallium poisoning.
• Australian champion swimmer Ian Thorpe announces his retirement at the age of twenty-four.

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Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon

• 1272 - Prince Edward I became King of England, succeeding his father Henry III who died five days earlier.

• 1783 - The first successful untethered flight by humans was made in a hot air balloon constructed by the Montgolfier brothers (pictured).
• 1920 - Anglo-Irish War: The Irish Republican Army and paramilitary forces kill n people on Bloody Sunday.
• 1977 - God Defend New Zealand became one of the national anthems of New Zealand.

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