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Typhoon Nabi at peak intensity on September 2

Typhoon Nabi was a powerful typhoon that struck southwestern Japan in September 2005. The 14th named storm of the 2005 Pacific typhoon season, Nabi formed on August 29 to the east of the Northern Mariana Islands. On September 1, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded the storm to super typhoon status, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale. The Japan Meteorological Agency estimated peak ten-minute winds of 175 km/h (110 mph) on September 2. The typhoon first affected the Northern Marianas, damaging or destroying 114 homes. It weakened while curving to the north, striking the Japanese island of Kyushu on September 6. The western fringe of the storm brushed South Korea, where it killed six people and caused US$115.4 million in damage. The storm then passed over Hokkaido before becoming extratropical on September 8. Across Japan, Nabi killed 29 people and caused ¥94.9 billion (US$854 million) in damage. Nabi's name was retired the following year. (Full article...)

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1350 – Hundred Years' War: Led by King Edward III, an English fleet of 50 ships captured at least 14 Castilian ships and sank several more in the Battle of Winchelsea.
1786 – Led by Daniel Shays (pictured), disgruntled farmers in Western Massachusetts, U.S., angered by high tax burdens and disenfranchisement, started Shays' Rebellion.
1842 – Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty to end the First Opium War, in which the island that is now the site of Hong Kong was ceded to Britain.
1949 – The Soviet Union successfully conducted its first nuclear weapons test, exploding the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
1991 – Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.

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The River Wensum is a chalk river in Norfolk, England, and a tributary of the River Yare. The river has its source in north-west Norfolk, and passes through Fakenham and Norwich.

Boys Bathing on the River Wensum is an 1817 oil painting by John Crome, depicting the Wensum at the New Mills area of Norwich. Art historian Andrew Hemingway has identified leisure as a common theme in Crome's work, citing this work as an example.

Painting: John Crome

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