In The News
- Sheikh Hasina (pictured) resigns as the prime minister of Bangladesh and flees to India following anti-government protests.
- Following a mass stabbing in Southport, far-right protesters riot in England and Northern Ireland.
- The United States, Russia, and their respective allies agree to a prisoner exchange of 26 people.
- Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated in Tehran, Iran.
Did You Know?
- ... that on top of being used as a culinary herb, Tulbaghia acutiloba (pictured) has traditionally been used in treating infectious diseases and hypertension?
- ... that Olympian Ruby Remati got into synchronized swimming because she liked the competitors' "sparkly suits" as a child?
- ... that São Tomé and Príncipe was popularly known as the Chocolate Islands in the early 1900s, when it was the world's top exporter of cocoa?
- ... that when not rock climbing, American Olympian Jesse Grupper develops exoskeletons?
- ... that a Japanese essayist and film historian has called Godzilla Minus One a "dangerous movie"?
- ... that refugee Hadi Tiranvalipour spent his first ten days in Italy living in a forest before joining the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
- ... that in its two years of existence, the Hunter River Railway Company initiated construction on what would eventually become the Great Northern Railway connecting Sydney to Queensland?
- ... that Patrick Gottsch, the founder of RFD-TV and The Cowboy Channel, led the effort to break the Guinness World Record for the largest parade of pickup trucks?
Selected Anniversaries
August 7: Assyrian Martyrs Day (1933)
- 1744 – Prussia declared its intervention in the War of the Austrian Succession on behalf of Charles VII, beginning the Second Silesian War.
- 1909 – Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the contiguous United States.
- 1944 – IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
- 1998 – Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,000 others.
- Hugh Foliot (d. 1234)
- Joseph Marie Jacquard (d. 1834)
- Sidney Crosby (b. 1987)
- Jane Withers (d. 2021)
Today's Featured Article
Blackrocks Brewery is a craft brewery in Marquette, Michigan. Taking the name from a local landmark, former pharmaceutical salesmen David Manson and Andy Langlois opened Blackrocks in 2010. They originally brewed their products in the basement of a Victorian-style house (pictured), and the building's two other floors were used as a taproom. By 2013, persistent high demand for Blackrocks' beer led Manson and Langlois to expand their brewing capacity, including the purchase and conversion of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant. In the early 2020s, they expanded Blackrocks' taproom into an adjacent property, which doubled its available indoor area. Blackrocks produced 12,687 barrels of beer in 2023, up about 11 percent from the year prior, and they are the largest craft brewery in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Their most popular beer is 51K, an American IPA named for a local ski marathon. (Full article...)
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Takht-i-Bahi are the ruins of a 1st-century CE Buddhist monastery complex located in what was once the ancient Indian region of Gandhara, in the present-day northern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is representative of Buddhist monastic architecture from its era and the ruins were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1980, with UNESCO describing it as having been "exceptionally well-preserved". Pictured here is an aerial view of the complex, showing its various chambers and courtyards. Photograph credit: Muzamil Hussain Toori; retouched by UnpetitproleX
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