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The golden-crowned kinglet ( Regulus satrapa ) is a small songbird in the family Regulidae, the kinglets . It is found in forests throughout much of North America. Measuring 8 to 11 centimeters (3.1 to 4.3 inches) in length, it is among the smallest North American passerines . Its plumage is olive-gray above and white below, with white wing bars and a yellow crown surrounded by black. The adult male has an additional orange patch on the crown. The species feeds on insects, their eggs and spiders, and makes its nest in a concealed hanging cup suspended from a conifer branch. This golden-crowned

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The rupiah is the official currency of Indonesia. Introduced in 1946 during the Indonesian National Revolution , it was intended to replace Japanese-issued currency and competed with Dutch-issued money in the country. The rupiah is issued by Bank Indonesia , the country's central bank, and its banknotes and coins feature national heroes, traditional dances and natural scenery. This one-rupiah banknote, part of the National Numismatic Collection of the United States, is from the first issue of the rupiah . Although dated 17 October 1945, the notes were not in fact issued until late 1946. The ba

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Mosquitoes (Culicidae) are a family of more than 3,700 species of flies found throughout most of the world. Both sexes feed on nectar, but females of many species also drink blood, using specialised mouthparts to pierce their hosts' skin. Mosquitoes undergo four life stages: egg , larva , pupa and adult , with the first three being largely aquatic. Some mosquito species transmit diseases including malaria , yellow fever and dengue fever , causing more than a million human deaths annually. Mosquitoes also serve as pollinators and as food for other animals. This annotated illustration shows the

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Danell Leyva (born October 30, 1991) is a Cuban-American former artistic gymnast who represented the United States in international competition. He achieved particular success on the parallel bars and the horizontal bar , winning the parallel-bars title at the 2011 World Championships , as well as a team bronze medal. Leyva won bronze in the individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Four years later, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won silver medals on both the parallel bars and the horizontal bar. With eight medals across the Olympic Games and

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White Zombie was a 1932 pre-Code horror film that was independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin . The screenplay, by Garnett Weston, was based on the 1929 book The Magic Island by William Seabrook , and is about a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master. Bela Lugosi stars as the zombie master "Murder" Legendre, with Madge Bellamy appearing as his victim. This theatrical release poster for White Zombie was printed in the United States for the film's distributor, United Artists ; the original artist is not known. Poster cre

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The African blue flycatcher ( Elminia longicauda ) is a small passerine bird in the family Stenostiridae , found in parts of West, Central and East Africa. Measuring 15 to 18 centimetres (5.9 to 7.1 in) in length, it has bright blue upperparts, a short crest, a long tail, and pale greyish-blue underparts. Its black flight feathers are edged with blue, while juveniles have duller plumage. The species inhabits forests, moist savannas, gardens and wooded farmland, foraging among leaves with its tail fanned and wings partly spread. Its song consists of a series of slow and irregular sibilant notes

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Mõdriku is a village in Vinni Parish in Lääne-Viru County , northeastern Estonia. It is the location of Mõdriku Manor, a house that was first mentioned in 1470, and belonged to several Baltic-German families, including the family of the Russian general and explorer Alexander von Kaulbars . His ancestor R. A. von Kaulbars, reputedly a great patriot, put up the column commemorating the French invasion of Russia in 1812 that is still visible in the manor park. The building dates partly from the 17th century, with substantial alterations in the 1780s and 1890s. During the 20th century, it was used

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Cover of the first issue, 1914 Eyebrow Talk was a Chinese monthly literary magazine published in 18 issues from 1914 to 1916. Among the first Chinese literary magazines marketed towards women, and the first to be edited mainly by women, it was founded by Gao Jianhua and Xu Xiaotian, her husband and cousin. The magazine often ran romance stories aimed at women, but contained sexually explicit depictions of women in its advertising, covers, and pictures, some sourced from European erotic postcards . Unlike its contemporaries, Eyebrow Talk 's romances often centered on the desires of their female

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Mookie Wilson 's two-run at bat won Game 6 of the 1986 World Series . The 1986 New York Mets season began on April 8, 1986. It concluded on October 27 with a Mets victory in Game 7 of the World Series , for their second and most recent World Series title. The Mets had narrowly missed winning the NL East in 1985, but in 1986 were not seriously challenged, winning the division by 21½ games. They defeated the Houston Astros in six games in the NLCS , with the Mets erasing a three-run ninth-inning deficit and winning Game 6 in sixteen innings. They played the Boston Red Sox in the World Series and

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1865 drawing of Price's Raid The Second Battle of Newtonia was fought on October 28, 1864, near Newtonia, Missouri , between cavalry of the Union Army and the rear guard of the Confederate Army of Missouri . In September 1864, the Confederates launched Price's Raid (pictured) , an attempt to create a popular uprising against Union control of Missouri . After being forced to retreat, the Confederates halted to rest near Newtonia. On the afternoon of October 28, Union pursuers caught up and surprised the Confederates. The main Confederate army withdrew, leaving a rear guard under Brigadier Gener

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Chimacum Creek is a stream in Jefferson County, Washington , United States. Located on the base of the Quimper Peninsula , the main stem originates from springs and ponds in the forested hills south of Discovery Bay . It flows south from its source, then turns east, then north, taking in tributaries before entering Chimacum Valley. It enters a ravine where it meets the sea in Port Hadlock-Irondale , creating a small estuary and an area of intertidal wetland as it enters Port Townsend Bay . The topography of the watershed was shaped by the Cordilleran ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum ,

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John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Father of the United States , a leader of the American Revolution , and the second U.S. president . He was a Province of Massachusetts Bay delegate to the Second Continental Congress and the leading advocate for American independence from Britain. In addition to seconding the Lee Resolution , Adams served on the Committee of Five , which drafted the United States Declaration of Independence . A dedicated diarist, Adams corresponded with his wife Abigail during this time, recording historical information on the era. In 1783, Adams was

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Adam West Zombie Nightmare is a 1987 zombie film starring Adam West (pictured) , Jon Mikl Thor , and Tia Carrere . The film centres around a baseball player killed by a group of teenagers, then resurrected as a zombie by a Haitian Vodou priestess. The zombie kills the teens, whose deaths are investigated by the police. The film was written to star mostly black actors but, at the request of investors, the characters' names were changed to more typically white names. While Jack Bravman was credited as director, John Fasano directed most of the film, causing problems with the production crew, who

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Slab and counterslab of the Europejara holotype Europejara is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur that lived during the Barremian age of the Early Cretaceous epoch in what is now Spain. The only known specimen was found at the La Huérguina Formation of Cuenca , a location noted for its exceptional Konservat-Lagerstätte preservation. In 2012, the new genus and species Europejara olcadesorum was named based on it. The holotype specimen consists of an incomplete, crushed skull (pictured) ; the bones of the postorbital region are displaced while the mandible is almost complete. The first tapejarid know

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German reconnaissance picture of Sovetsky Soyuz The Sovetsky Soyuz class was a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the German Bismarck -class battleships , and would have rivaled the Imperial Japanese Yamato class and America's planned Montana class in size, although with significantly weaker firepower. Up to fifteen ships were planned, but the first four were plagued with construction difficulties as the Soviet shipbuilding and related industries were not prepared to build such large vessels. One, Sovetskaya Beloruss

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