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On this day:

1415
The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
1854
The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1917
Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
1944
The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship’s own malfunctioning torpedo.
1945
The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
1962
Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate (22 Oct 1919-2013)

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Is it likely a political group that doesn;t know what a woman is will be able to recognize what a Nazi is? Will this difficulty be solved by applying terms like "adjacent" to it?

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An Anti-Defamation League chart purports to prove that right-wingers perpetrate the majority of politically motivated murders in the United States.
In only one of 11 murders classified as right-wing on the 2024 ADL list was the perpetrator clearly inspired by ideology.
On the other hand, the assassination of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was explicitly ideological in nature — the shooter wrote an anti-capitalist manifesto. Yet the ADL did not categorize it as a left-wing attack and did not include it in its list of extremist murders at all.

Could they pass the 'what is a woman' test?

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Hamburger Helper sales have risen 14.5 percent just since the start of the year.

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The Industrial Revolution, over a century and a half, raised the bread, ships, and innocent amusement available to the ordinary person by a factor of 12.

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The Pirate payroll/revenue split is ranked 27th in MLB. 31.6 percent of revenue is being reinvested into players.

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The share of coal in electricity generation dropped as renewable energy surged ahead. But the general increase in power demand meant that more coal was used overall, according to the annual State of Climate Action report, published on Wednesday.

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In 2024, Poland’s fertility rate collapsed to 1.1 – meaning it ranks among the world’s least fertile countries, beside war-scarred Ukraine. This year, it is poised to fall further, to 1.05.

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1,899 — Total points, including playoffs, for Crosby entering Saturday. He surpassed Mario for the most in team history Tuesday. Sid now ranks seventh in NHL history.

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Apple’s 2023 revenue (almost $400 billion) makes it about as big as the entire economy of Denmark or the Philippines.

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Wells Fargo estimates Costco was selling as much as $200 million in gold bars per month in April 2024.

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When 120 of Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants gathered at Vanderbilt University in 1973 for the first family reunion, there was not a millionaire among them.

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The horse population declined by almost 90% between 1910 to 1960.

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20 years after the electric light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, just 3% of US households had electricity.