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  1. May 10

    Stella Jane Thomas, the first female black barrister, was called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1933.

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  2. 19 hours ago

    6 years ago, Max Verstappen stepped into that Red Bull seat and won his first ever Grand Prix! Ps. This is one of my favourite piece of commentary ever from Crofty

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  3. 6 minutes ago

    May 16th 1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).

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  4. May 11

    1994. Death of John Smith "The most important message of all is that no society, no country can ever survive without a profound sense of social justice – and unless we bring social justice back to this country, this country cannot be healthy and cannot be successful”

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  5. 17 hours ago

    “There is no use in trying to rally around the past….If the Republican party takes the ground that the world must be the same old world, the Republican party is lost.” - TR, in 1918

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  6. May 13

    Thread: 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

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  7. 11 hours ago

    Today is May 15. in 1857 astronomer Williamina Fleming was born. She discovered 10 novae, 59 gaseous nebulae, and more than 300 variable stars, plus the iconic Horsehead Nebula in Orion. She also recognized the existence of hot, Earth-sized stars later dubbed white dwarfs.

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  8. May 11

    📅 1645, Sir Thomas Fairfax's forces raise the siege of . He wrote that his men 'had a continual March this Fourteen Days; the Extremity of Heat and Length of Way hath much wearied the Soldiers, and worn out their Shoes, which I desire may be supplied with all speed'.

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  9. May 14

    : Am 14. Mai 1940 verlässt ein Frachtschiff und setzt Kurs auf , es ist der letzte der sogenannten Kindertransporte. An Bord sind 74 junge jüdische Flüchtlinge aus und . via

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  10. 11 hours ago

    🍪 It's National Chocolate Chip Day! If you ask Snoopy what makes a cookie better, we bet he would say chocolate chips!⁠ (However, please don't feed your dog chocolate 🚫) ⁠ This Peanuts Sunday comic strip was first published in 1983.⁠

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  11. May 11

    A wee thought this morning for Ian Dury - Born 1942 A true original..

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  12. May 14

    زي النهارده ، قبل 20 سنه سجل الاسطورة زيدان هدفه الأغلى في نهائي دوري الابطال ضد بايرن ليفركوزن 🤍🤍

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  13. 12 hours ago

    Remembering Nobel Prize laureate Pierre Curie, born 163 years ago, who admirably rejected the Nobel Prize unless he could share it with his wife Marie.

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  14. May 14

    The Cuerdale Hoard was discovered by workmen beside the River Ribble near Preston, Lancashire, in 1840. One of the largest Viking silver hoards ever found, it comprised around 8,600 items. ©British Museum

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  15. May 14

    Remembering Frank Sinatra who passed May 14, 1998

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  16. May 9

    , 2003, the US called on UN Security Council to legalize occupation of and authorize use of revenues from Iraq's oil reserves to rebuild country. After years, Iraq has never been rebuilt, and no one knows where all the revenue from oil reserves went.

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  17. 8 hours ago

    ** in 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn went on trial. Following the guilty verdict, Anne admitted to having “jealous fancies and suspicions” of the King and did not have “discretion to conceal”. But with God as her witness, she “never sinned against him in any other way.”

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  18. May 11

    البرازيليون يقودون ميدلسبرة الي فوز تاريخي على مانشستر سيتي 8-1 في مثل هذا اليوم 2008 ⚽️⚽️⚽️ 🇧🇷افونسو الفيس سجل هاتريك ⚽️🇦🇦 🇧🇷فابيو روشمباك سجل هدف وصنع هدفين ⚽️ هدف السيتي سجله ايلانو بشكل جميل هدف روشمباك 🔥🔥🔥 🎥 l الاهداف البرازيلية l

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  19. May 9

    Book "Mathematics for machine learning" (CUP, 2020). Free PDF from 😊 A must-read masterpiece, nicely structured and richly color-illustrated book by

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  20. May 10

    PHOTO OF THE DAY. A sculpture commemorating German writers and poets. It’s located in the Bebelplatz, in Berlin where the Nazis burned 20,000 books in 1933.

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