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Today's featured article Anning, depicted with her dog Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector and palaeontologist. She made discoveries of Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis, which changed the scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton, the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons, and the first pterosaur skeleton outside Germany. Her observations helped prove that coprolites were fossilised faeces and that belemnite fossils contained ink sacs. As a woman, Anning could not join the Geological Society of London and struggled to receive credit for her contributions. Henry De la Beche painted Duria Antiquior based on fossils Anning had found and sold its prints for her benefit. After her death, an article about her life was published in Charles Dickens's literary magazine All the Year Round. A statue of Anning was erected in 2022, and she has been depicted in film and in manga. (Full article...) Recently featured: City of Champaign v. Madigan "Gento" (song) Tropical Storm Hernan (2020) Did you know... 2nd-century BC fortified gate at Horvat 'Eqed ... that excavations at Horvat 'Eqed (pictured) uncovered coinage and hiding complexes dating from the Bar Kokhba revolt, as well as arrowheads, armor scales, slingshots, and ballistae? ... that Spider began making alternative music because she felt that not enough Black women were doing so? ... that the trowel and gavel used at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Southern Railway Building were previously used by George Washington for the U.S. Capitol? ... that Gherardo Gambelli, the incoming archbishop of Florence, served as a prison chaplain in Chad for over a decade? ... that the Centurion C-RAM can fire 4500 rounds per minute? ... that Indonesian politician Rahmad Mas'ud received his master's degree simultaneously with four of his siblings? ... that all Atlantic hurricane activity in 1993 ceased two full months before the season officially ended? ... that Chuck Eisenmann went from professionally pitching in baseball to owning and training the dogs that starred on the Canadian television series The Littlest Hobo? ... that Richard Garwin proposed using a bed of nails to protect the Minuteman missile silos from attack?

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