On this day: September 30

September 30: Yom Kippur (Judaism, 2017); Blasphemy Day Władysław Sikorski 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Turgesh tribes attacked the exposed Umayyad baggage train, which had been sent ahead of the main force, and captured it. 1551 – Sue Takafusa, a military leader for the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against daimyo Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide. 1939 – World War II: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured)...

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Washington v. Texas (1967) is a US Supreme Court case about the right of criminal defendants to have witnesses testify on their behalf. The Court decided that the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution applied in state courts as well as federal courts. At his trial Jackie Washington had attempted to call his co-defendant as a witness but was blocked because state law prevented co-defendants from testifying for each...

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On this day: September 29

September 29: Michaelmas; Day of Tasu'a (Islam, 2017) Avro Ansons, having landed after collision 1918 – World War I: At the Battle of St Quentin Canal, the British Fourth Army made the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line. 1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collided in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remained locked together after colliding (pictured), and landed safely. 1957...

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Michael Francis Egan (September 29, 1761 – July 22, 1814) was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Ireland, he joined the Franciscan Order at a young age. He was ordained a priest, probably in Prague, in 1785 or 1786. He advanced rapidly to positions of responsibility in the Franciscan order, becoming custos (guardian) in the province of Munster in Ireland, then at the Pontifical College at the home of Irish Franciscans in Rome, and...

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On this day: September 28

September 28 Edward Carson signing the Ulster Covenant 235 – Having been exiled to labor in the mines of Sardinia by Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax, Pope Pontian resigned to make the election of a new pope possible. 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City. 1912 – Over 470,000 people from Ulster, Ireland, signed the Ulster Covenant in protest against the Third Home...

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Gods' Man is a wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985) published in 1929. In 139 captionless woodblock prints it tells the Faustian story of an artist who signs away his soul for a magic paintbrush. It was the first American wordless novel, and is seen as a precursor of, and influence on, the graphic novel. Ward first encountered the wordless novel with Frans Masereel's The Sun (1919) while studying art in Germany in 1926. He returned to the United States in 1927 and established a career for himself as an illustrator. He found...

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Comment passer à l’action quand on veut gagner de l’argent et aller au bout de ses objectifs?

Retrouvez le contenu original de l'article Comment passer à l’action quand on veut gagner de l’argent et aller au bout de ses objectifs? sur ABC Argent. Vous êtes très nombreux à lire mes dizaines et dizaines de conseils pour économiser et gagner plus d’argent. Pourtant, j’ai comme un doute… Vous lisez ces conseils mais … les appliquez-vous ? Passez-vous à l’action ? Malheureusement, je pense que ce n’est pas le cas. C’est pour cela que j’ai demandé à Dominique, du blog Je mérite […] L'article Comment passer à l’action quand on veut gagner...

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September 27 Wikipedia featured article

The spotted green pigeon is a species of pigeon which is most likely extinct. It was first mentioned and described in 1783 by John Latham, who claimed to have seen two specimens and a drawing depicting the bird. Today, the species is only known from a specimen kept in World Museum, Liverpool. Overlooked for much of the 20th century, it was only recognised as a valid extinct species by the IUCN Red List in 2008. In 2014 a genetic study confirmed...

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On this day: September 27

September 27: World Tourism Day; Meskel in Eritrea and Ethiopia The "Five-Star Red Flag" of China 1422 – The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years. 1875 – The Ellen Southard wrecked in a storm at Liverpool, England; the United States Congress subsequently awarded 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat men who rescued her crew. 1949 – Members of the...

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September 26 Wikipedia featured article

St Botolph's Church is an Anglican place of worship in the village of Quarrington, part of the civil parish of Sleaford in Lincolnshire, England. By the time Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, a church in Quarrington was part of Ramsey Abbey's fee, and around 1165 it was granted to Haverholme Priory. The right to present the rector was claimed by the Abbey in the 13th century, by the Bishop of Lincoln in the early 16th century, and by Robert Carre...

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On this day: September 26

September 26: Day of the National Flag in Ecuador (1860) Golden Hind replica 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, the last of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. 1580 – The Golden Hind (replica pictured) sailed into Plymouth, England, as explorer Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe. 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the...

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On this day: September 25

September 25 Peking opera performer 1237 – Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York, establishing the Anglo-Scottish border, which mostly remains the same today. 1790 – Peking opera (modern performer pictured) was born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduced Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday. 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the...

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Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is a film and stage actress. Raised in Swansea, Wales, she studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London, and made her adult stage breakthrough with a leading role in 1987 in 42nd Street. She found great success as a regular in the British television series The Darling Buds of May (1991–93). Dismayed at being typecast as the token pretty girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated...

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On this day: September 24

September 24: Banned Books Week begins (2017); Heritage Day in South Africa Camp Nou, Barcelona 1645 – English Civil War: Royalists under the personal command of King Charles I suffered a significant defeat in the Battle of Rowton Heath. 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei granted Sarawak to British adventurer James Brooke. 1957 – Barcelona's Camp Nou (pictured), currently the largest stadium in Europe with a seating capacity of 99,354, opened. 1992...

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Westlake Station The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is a public transit tunnel for buses and light rail trains in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. It runs north–south through Downtown Seattle, connecting five stations on 3rd Avenue and Pine Street. It is the busiest section of Sound Transit's Link light rail network, with an average of over 10,000 weekday train boardings at the four stations served by light rail. The $469 million...

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On this day: September 23

September 23: Celebrate Bisexuality Day; National Day in Saudi Arabia (1932) Benedict Arnold 1780 – American Revolutionary War: British officer John André was captured by Patriot forces, thereby revealing a plot by Continental Army General Benedict Arnold (pictured) to hand over West Point, New York. 1803 – Maratha troops were defeated by British forces at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War. 1868...

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Literary Hall is a brick library building and museum in Romney, West Virginia, built in 1869 and 1870 by the Romney Literary Society. Founded in 1819, the society was the first literary organization of its kind in the present-day state of West Virginia, and one of the first in the United States. In 1846, the society constructed a building which housed the Romney Classical Institute and its library. During the Civil War the library's contents were...

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September 22 Wikipedia featured article

INS Vikrant (from Sanskrit for "courageous") was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. The ship was laid down as HMS Hercules for the British Royal Navy during World War II and launched on 22 September 1945, but construction was put on hold when the war ended. India purchased the incomplete carrier in 1957, and construction was completed in 1961. Vikrant was commissioned as the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and...

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On this day: September 22

September 22: Independence Day in Mali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania François "Papa Doc" Duvalier 1586 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces were victorious against a combined Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Zutphen. 1914 – World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia. 1922 – After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished, having caused tens of thousands of deaths. 1957 – François...

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September 21 Wikipedia featured article

Theda Bara as Ruth Gordon The Blue Flame is a four-act play written by George V. Hobart and John Willard, who revised an earlier version by Leta Vance Nicholson. In 1920, producer Albert H. Woods staged the play on Broadway and on tour across the United States. Ruth Gordon, the main character, is a religious young woman who dies and is revived by her scientist fiancé as a soulless femme fatale. She seduces several men and involves them in crimes,...

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On this day: September 21

September 21: International Day of Peace; Islamic New Year (2017, 1439 AH); first day of Rosh Hashanah (Judaism, 2017, AM 5778) Virginia O'Hanlon 1170 – Combined English and Irish forces seized Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin, into exile. 1897 – In response to a letter written by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon (pictured), The New York Sun published an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church stating, "Yes, Virginia, there...

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September 20 Wikipedia featured article

Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured adventures in space and on other planets, and was initially focused on a young readership. Malcolm Reiss was editor or editor-in-chief for all of its 71 issues. It was launched at the same time as Fiction House's more successful Planet Comics. Almost every issue's cover emphasized scantily clad damsels in distress or alien...

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On this day: September 20

September 20 Great Buddha, Kamakura, Japan 1498 – A tsunami caused by the Nankai earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan. 1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory in the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy. 1967 – Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard publicly announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists. 1977...

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8 trucs que tu peux te payer pour le prix du nouvel iPhone X (1329 euros)

Retrouvez le contenu original de l'article 8 trucs que tu peux te payer pour le prix du nouvel iPhone X (1329 euros) sur ABC Argent. Mardi dernier, Apple a présenté l’iPhone X. Ce nouveau smartphone a fait coulé beaucoup d’encre, et pas seulement à cause de son chargeur sans fil ou de son système de reconnaissance facial. Non, ce qui a vraiment fait parler, c’est le prix très élevé de ce petit bijou. A sa sortie le 3 novembre, l’iPhone […] L'article 8 trucs que tu peux te payer pour le prix du nouvel iPhone X (1329 euros) est apparu en premier...

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September 19 Wikipedia featured article

The Temple of Isis at Philae Egyptian temples were built to commemorate the pharaohs and to support the central functions of their religion: giving offerings to the gods, reenacting their mythological interactions through festivals, and warding off the forces of chaos. Rituals, it was believed, invoked the divine presence, sustained the god, and enabled it to continue to uphold the divine order of the universe. Temples were important religious...

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