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The September 2014 tour by the Hurricane Dorian
alternative rock band the (satellite image
Breeders included thirteen shown) makes
concerts in the central and landfall in the
Bahamas as a
western United States. The tour
Category 5
featured the lineup from their hurricane, killing Hurricane Dorian over
Kelley Deal and Josephine 1993 album Last Splash, with at least five
the Bahamas
Wiggs in 2009 Josephine Wiggs, Jim people.
Macpherson, Kim Deal, and Brazil's National Institute for Space
Research announces that it has detected
Kelley Deal (pictured with Wiggs in 2009). Invited to open for
more than 80,000 wildfires in the
Neutral Milk Hotel's September 18 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, country since January, at least 40,000 of
they planned a tour to lead up to this show, using the opportunity which have occurred in the Amazon
to practice some recent compositions. They performed in eleven rainforest.
cities, including St. Louis, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San At least 80 people are killed and 160
Francisco, and Las Vegas. The group then played at the
others injured in a bombing at a
wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Hollywood Bowl concert, and finished the tour on September 20 at
All 233 people on board Ural Airlines
the Goose Island 312 Urban Block Party event in Chicago. As well Flight 178 survive a crash following bird
as their new songs, they performed numerous selections from Last strikes in both engines of an Airbus
Splash and Pod (1990). Music critics commented that the A321.
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image of a Jew holding a coin
(example pictured) hangs to the 1651 – English
left of the doorway, and is Parliamentarian
customarily turned upside down forces under
on the Sabbath so that good Oliver Cromwell
fortune may fall upon the won the Battle of
household? Worcester, the
final battle of the The impending collision of
... that Yola Letellier is widely Figurines of Jewish
Third English Civil Princess Alice
believed to be the model for the men in Kraków
War.
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... that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony SS Princess Alice sank in the River
Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Thames after colliding (pictured) with a
Fujiwara's 2015 photobook Poet Island was collier, killing over 600 people.
inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi, who lived, 1914 – World War I: The German army
wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939? began an assault against French
positions on high ground near the city of
... that Clarence Ervin became the first African-
Nancy.
American brigadier general in the history of the
North Carolina Air National Guard in 2015? 1967 – Dagen H: All non-essential traffic
... that in his opera Sirenen – Bilder des was banned from the roads in Sweden
while drivers switched from the left-hand
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included instruments such as archaic wood planks, 2001 – The Troubles: Protestant loyalists
a musical saw, an accordion, and a piano? began picketing a Catholic primary
... that UCLA football player Joshua Kelley's school for girls in the Protestant portion
career-high 289 rushing yards against USC last of Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
season were the most by any player on either team Umar al-Aqta (d. 863) · Macfarlane Burnet
in the history of the schools' crosstown rivalry?
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... that an endemic species of trout in Lake
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... that Meghan Trainor's 2019 EP The Love Train
was promoted through a press release which drew
controversy because of its "graphic nature and
bizarre phrasing"?
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The Entombment is a 1559 oil-on-canvas painting by
the Italian artist Titian, commissioned by Philip II of
Spain. It depicts the burial of Jesus in a stone
sarcophagus, which is decorated with depictions of
Cain and Abel and the binding of Isaac. The figure
holding Christ's body is Nicodemus, the Jewish elder
that secretly visited Jesus at night to learn about his
teachings; the figure of Nicodemus bears the traits of
the artist himself. This could have been inspired by
Michelangelo's idea in his unfinished Deposition from
1550, depicting himself as Nicodemus, supporting the
body of Christ, displayed in the cathedral in Florence.
The painting exhibits a style under development by
Titian at the time, characterized by the use of broad
brushwork and brilliant colours. It is now in the
permanent collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Painting credit: Titian
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