On this day: January 31

January 31: Independence Day in Nauru (1968) Sirius 1578 – Eighty Years' War: Spain won a crushing victory in the Battle of Gembloux, hastening the disintegration of the unity of the rebel provinces and bringing an end to the Union of Brussels. 1862 – American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint white dwarf companion of Sirius (pictured), the brightest star in the night sky. 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series...

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Hasan al-Kharrat (1861–1925) was a rebel commander of the Great Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate, operating mainly in Damascus and its Ghouta countryside. As the qabaday (local youths boss) of the al-Shaghour quarter of Damascus, he was connected with Nasib al-Bakri, a nationalist from the quarter's most influential family. At al-Bakri's invitation, he joined the revolt in August 1925 and recruited a group of fighters in and around al-Shaghour....

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On this day: January 30

January 30: Martyrs' Day in India San Francisco in 1847 1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685. 1847 – The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco (pictured). 1945 – World War II: Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near...

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The crescent honeyeater (Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus) is a bird native to southeastern Australia, in the honeyeater family. It is fairly nondescript, with dark grey plumage and paler underparts highlighted by yellow wing patches and a broad, black crescent, outlined in white, down the sides of its breast. The female is a little duller than the male. The male sings a complex and variable song from an exposed perch, and during the breeding season...

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On this day: January 29

January 29 The Mantra-Rock Dance poster 1856 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issued a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that established the Victoria Cross, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War. 1891 – Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, ascended to the throne. 1944 – World War II: At least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured...

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January 29 Wikipedia featured article

Titchwell Marsh is an English nature reserve owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Its 171 hectares (420 acres) on the north coast of Norfolk, about 8 km (5.0 mi) east of the seaside resort of Hunstanton, include reed beds, saltmarshes, a freshwater lagoon, a sandy beach, and woodland. The reserve is important for some scarce breeding birds, such as pied avocets on the islands, and western marsh harriers,...

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On this day: January 28

January 28: Chinese New Year and Korean New Year (2017) Lego bricks 1393 – King Charles VI of France was nearly killed when several dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball. 1821 – Alexander Island, the largest island of Antarctica, was discovered by explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen of the Imperial Russian Navy. 1922 – Snowfall from the biggest recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C. history caused the roof of the Knickerbocker...

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January 28 Wikipedia featured article

Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Jr. (January 28, 1828 – September 27, 1868) was a United States Representative from Arkansas before serving as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. During the Mexican-American War, he became a captain of his company. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1854 to 1856, and a Democratic representative in the Thirty-sixth Congress from 1859 to 1861. Despite...

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On this day: January 27

January 27 Grissom, White, and Chaffee of Apollo 1 1142 – Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government. 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated more than 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. 1967 – The Apollo 1 fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward H. White...

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January 27 Wikipedia featured article

Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead The new wave of British heavy metal began in the late 1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Encompassing diverse mainstream and underground styles, the music often infused 1970s heavy metal music with the intensity of punk rock to produce fast and aggressive songs. The do-it-yourself ethic of the new metal bands led to the spread of raw-sounding, self-produced recordings and a proliferation...

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January 26 Wikipedia featured article

Ferugliotheriidae is one of three known families in the order Gondwanatheria, an enigmatic group of extinct mammals. Ferugliotheriids coexisted with dinosaurs, mainly during the Late Cretaceous epoch (84–66 million years ago) in Argentina, where they may have lived in a marshy or seashore environment. Genera in the family, including Trapalcotherium and Argentodites, are known from isolated low-crowned teeth and possibly a fragment of a lower jaw. The best-known representative of the family is Ferugliotherium windhauseni, a small mammal, around...

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On this day: January 26

January 26: Australia Day (1788); Republic Day in India (1950) The Cullinan Diamond 1564 – Livonian War: A Lithuanian surprise attack resulted in a decisive defeat of the numerically superior Russian forces. 1808 – Governor of New South Wales William Bligh was deposed by the New South Wales Corps in the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's recorded history. 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond (pictured), the largest gem-quality...

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Comment gagner de l’argent avec Youtube ? Les idées reçues et la réalité

Retrouvez le contenu original de l'article Comment gagner de l’argent avec Youtube ? Les idées reçues et la réalité sur ABC Argent. Vous aussi vous aimeriez savoir comment gagner de l’argent avec Youtube? Je vous comprends. Quand on voit les revenus générés par les Youtubeurs, deux idées viennent généralement à l’esprit : « Moi aussi je veux gagner autant en faisant le con sur Youtube, ça a l’air facile » « Autant d’argent pour quelques vidéos de quelques minutes, c’est pas un […] L'article Comment gagner de l’argent avec...

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January 25 Wikipedia featured article

"She Shoulda Said 'No'!" is a 1949 exploitation film in the spirit of morality tales such as the 1936 films Reefer Madness and Marihuana. Directed by Sam Newfield (listed as Sherman Scott) and starring Lila Leeds, it was inspired by the 1948 arrest of movie stars Robert Mitchum and Leeds for marijuana possession. The actors, along with two others, were arrested after smoking marijuana at Leeds' home and were charged with the felony of narcotics...

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On this day: January 25

January 25: Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodox Church); Burns Night (Scottish culture); Tatiana Day in Russia Flag of Georgia 1533 – Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth, secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages. 1573 – Sengoku period: The forces of Takeda Shingen defeated those of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Mikatagahara in Mikatagahara, north of Hamamatsu, Mikawa...

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January 24 Wikipedia featured article

Ernest Hemingway In Our Time is Ernest Hemingway's first American collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright. Its title is derived from "Give us peace in our time, O Lord" from the English Book of Common Prayer. Hemingway first used the title for a collection of six nonfiction vignettes of 75 to 187 words, commissioned by Ezra Pound for The Little Review. He added 12 more vignettes for in our time (with lower-case...

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On this day: January 24

January 24 Sutter's Mill (reconstruction) 41 – Cassius Chaerea and the disgruntled Praetorian Guards murdered Roman emperor Caligula, replacing him with his uncle Claudius. 1458 – The 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus was unanimously proclaimed King of Hungary after the Estates were persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi. 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading...

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January 23 Wikipedia featured article

Jochen Rindt (1942–1970) was the only racing driver to be posthumously awarded the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, after his death during the 1970 racing season. His debut in Formula One came in 1964 at the Austrian Grand Prix. He began racing for Cooper in 1965, then moved to Brabham for 1968 and Lotus in 1969. It was at Lotus that Rindt found a competitive car, although he had concerns about its safety. He won his first Formula One...

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On this day: January 23

January 23 Madeleine Albright 1264 – King Louis IX of France issued the Mise of Amiens, a settlement between King Henry III of England and barons led by Simon de Montfort heavily favouring the former, which later led to the Second Barons' War. 1793 – The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time. 1915 – The Chilembwe uprising, regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi,...

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On this day: January 22

January 22: Reunion Day in Ukraine (1919) SS Valencia 1517 – Ottoman–Mamluk War: Ottoman forces defeated the Egyptian Mamluk army in the Battle of Ridaniya and brought the severed head of the last Mamluk sultan Tuman bay II into Cairo. 1689 – The Convention Parliament convened to justify the overthrow of James II, the last Roman Catholic King of England, who had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688. 1906 – The SS Valencia (pictured)...

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January 22 Wikipedia featured article

In Australian service, Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft have been operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). A total of forty-eight of the aircraft have served the RAAF since 1958, when No. 36 Squadron began replacing its Douglas C-47 Dakotas, and the C-130J model is still in Australian service today. As the RAAF's first strategic airlifters, the aircraft have frequently been used to deliver disaster relief in Australia...

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January 21 Wikipedia featured article

Dinar minted under al-Ikhshid, 944 CE Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid (882–946) was an Abbasid commander who became the ruler of Egypt and parts of Syria from 935 until his death. His Ikhshidid dynasty ruled until the Fatimid conquest of 969. In his turbulent early career, he was imprisoned along with his father Tughj ibn Juff by the Abbasids in 905, participated in the murder of the vizier al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i in 908, and fled Iraq...

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On this day: January 21

January 21: Feast Day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); Flag Day in Quebec Newt Gingrich 763 – The Abbasid Caliphate crushed the Alid Revolt when one of the rebellion leaders was mortally wounded in battle near Basra in what is now Iraq. 1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published. 1941 – Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members...

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On this day: January 20

January 20: Martyrs' Day in Azerbaijan (1990) Soviet Pole of Inaccessbility station, Antarctica 250 – Pope Fabian was martyred during a widespread persecution of Christians for refusing to demonstrate loyalty to the Roman Empire. 1877 – The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers declaring the need for political reforms that the Ottoman Empire refused to undertake, which later led to the Russo-Turkish War. 1942 – The Holocaust:...

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