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The black honeyeater (Sugomel niger) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. The bird exhibits sexual dimorphism: the males are black and white, while the females and immature birds are a speckled grey-brown. The species is endemic to Australia, and ranges widely across the arid areas of the continent, through open woodland and shrubland. A nectar feeder, the black honeyeater has a long curved bill to reach the base of tubular flowers such as those of the emu bush. It also takes insects in the air, and regularly eats ash left behind at campfires. Cup-shaped nests are built in the forks of small trees or shrubs. The male engages in a soaring song flight in the mating season, but contributes little to nest building or incubating the clutch of two to three eggs. Both sexes feed and care for the young. While the population appears to be decreasing, the black honeyeater is numerous and widespread. (Full article...)

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Jakob Nacken captured
at Calais, France, in 1944

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April 27: King's Day in the Netherlands

Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn

1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapu-Lapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan.
1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated an invading Royalist army at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.
1945 – The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (pictured) was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway on the last day of the Second World War in Finland, ending the Lapland War.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the largest passenger airliner in the world, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.

Mary Wollstonecraft (b. 1759)
Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1822)
Olivier Messiaen (d. 1992)

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The 2018 American computer-animated superhero film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse garnered a variety of awards and nominations. The film was produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. Many of its accolades were in the Best Animated Feature category. At the 91st Academy Awards, the film won Best Animated Feature. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film. At the 46th Annie Awards, it received seven nominations including Best Animated Feature, and Best Writing in a Feature Production, and won in all its categories. The film won the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture. At the 17th Visual Effects Society Awards, it won four awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature. (Full list...)

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Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (27 April 1855 – 24 April 1929) was a French anarchist, journalist, and feminist, best known under the pen name Séverine. She was associated with Jules Vallès and became involved in his socialist publication Cri du Peuple, taking control of the newspaper when his health deteriorated. She left in 1888 after a confrontation with Marxist journalist Jules Guesde, but continued to write for other publications, promoting women's emancipation and denouncing social injustices.

This picture of Rémy is a carte de visite taken by French photographer Nadar sometime between 1889 and 1899. The photograph, entitled "Séverine, debout, un poing sur la hanche" ('Séverine, standing, a fist on her hip'), is in the collection of the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris.

Photograph credit: Nadar; restored by Adam Cuerden

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