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Roy Phillipps (18921941) was an In the UK general

Australian fighter ace of World War I. election, the ruling
He achieved fifteen victories in aerial Conservative Party,
combat, four of them in a single led by Theresa May
action on 12 June 1918. A grazier (pictured), loses its
between the wars, he joined the Royal majority but remains
Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1940 the largest party.
A study of fossils from Theresa May
and was killed in a plane crash the
Jebel Irhoud,
following year. Born in New South Wales but raised in
Morocco, suggests that Homo sapiens
Western Australia, Phillipps joined the Australian
may have evolved at least 100,000
Imperial Force as an infantryman in April 1915, seeing years earlier than previously thought.
action at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Wounded Simultaneous terrorist attacks at the
twice in 1916, he transferred to the Australian Flying Iranian parliament and the Mausoleum
Corps (AFC) and, having falsified his age, was accepted of Ruhollah Khomeini kill at least 17
for pilot training in May 1917. As a member of No. 2 people and injure 43 others.
Squadron in France, Phillipps flew mainly S.E.5 A Myanmar Air Force aircraft crashes
fighters, and was awarded two Military Crosses and the into the Andaman Sea, killing all 122
Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions. He finished people on board.
the war a major, commanding No. 6 (Training) Several countries, including Saudi
Squadron in England. He returned to Australia in 1919 Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
and left the AFC. Soon after the outbreak of World Bahrain, and Egypt, cut diplomatic
War II, he enlisted in the RAAF. At his death he was relations with Qatar.
ranked squadron leader, commanding No. 2 Elementary
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Flying Training School at Archerfield, Queensland.
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Paris began in the
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integral equation, now known as "Roy's Nicholas Donin's Gate

equations"?
... that the Jefferson Elementary School District
started with a one-room building constructed in
1856?
... that Shinnyo was the first fully ordained
bhikkhuni for several hundred years?
... that 154 flights of stairs in New York City will
cost $150 million to $200 million?
... that in 1907, George H. Brimhall permitted
Brigham Young University students to paint the
letters "B", "Y", and "U" on the mountain nearest
to campus, but the work was only partially
completed and it became Y Mountain?
... that the video game Nights: Journey of
Dreams inspired an unofficial two-CD tribute
album?
... that when the Vikings occupied Seville in 844,
they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great
mosque?
... that the red-billed quelea is the most numerous
undomesticated bird species on earth, with an
estimated population peaking at 1.5 billion?
... that bae is a term of endearment popular on
social media and in contemporary song lyrics?
accusations of
blasphemy.
1381 The first mass protest in the
Peasants' Revolt began in Blackheath,
England, caused by political and
socioeconomic tensions due to the
Black Death and high taxes as a result
of the Hundred Years' War.
1942 On her thirteenth birthday,
Anne Frank began keeping her diary
during the Nazi occupation of the
Netherlands.
1967 The U.S. Supreme Court
delivered its decision in the landmark
civil rights case Loving v. Virginia,
striking down laws restricting
interracial marriage in the United
States.
1987 Cold War: During a speech
(pictured) at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate
by the Berlin Wall, U.S. President
Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear
down this wall!"

thelfld (d. 918) Medgar Evers

(d. 1963) Gregory Peck (d. 2003)

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DS:Style is a series of educational software products for the Nintendo DS console. The series was
created and published in Japan exclusively by Square Enix, a Japanese video game developer and
publisher, and developed by both Square Enix and several other companies. It includes reference guides,
travel guides for different countries or cities, and study guides for Japanese professional licensing and
civil servant exams. The first nine products in the series were announced on April 4, 2007 and the first
five were released on July 5, 2007; the last DS:Style release was on February 3, 2011. Several of the
products were named after other non-software products, such as the Lonely Planet series of travel guides.
The releases, as they fell in the line between games and software products, went largely unreviewed.
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A Young Girl Reading is an 18th-century oil painting by

Jean-Honor Fragonard. It depicts a young girl, reading
from a small book held in her right hand, in profile. She
is dressed in a lemon yellow dress, with her hair tied in a
chignon. The painting was purchased by the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1961 using funds
donated by Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the daughter of Andrew
W. Mellon, following her father's death.

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