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Jaanipäev (literally, ‘John’s day’) or leedopäev (literally, ‘fire day’) is the longest celebrated public holiday and one of the most important summer holidays in the Estonian folk calendar. It corresponds to English Midsummer Day.

Including a neat interactive map of his travels

A balcony solar power system (also called a plug-in solar panel, mini solar system, or balcony power station) is a small photovoltaic system designed to generate electricity for direct use in a home or apartment. Unlike conventional rooftop solar installations, balcony solar systems connect to the existing electrical circuit of a building through a standard power outlet or dedicated socket, without requiring significant structural modifications or professional installation in most configurations.

In October 1776, Wilkinson contracted an epidemic disease, most likely typhus, and was bedridden and near death with a high fever. The future preacher’s family summoned a doctor from Attleboro, six miles away, and neighbors kept up a death-watch at night. The fever broke after several days. The Friend later reported that Wilkinson had died, receiving revelations from God through two archangels who proclaimed there was “Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone”. Accounts by the doctor and other witnesses state that the illness was real, but none of them say that Wilkinson died. The Friend further said that Wilkinson’s soul had ascended to heaven and the body had been reanimated with a new spirit charged by God with preaching his word, that of the “Publick Universal Friend”, describing that name in the words of Isaiah 62:2 as “a new name which the mouth of the Lord hath named”. The name referenced the designation the Society of Friends used for members who traveled from community to community to preach, “Public Friends”.

Register of real estate boundaries

On 31 August 1986, five-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness. Jambo stood guard over the boy when he was unconscious, placing himself between the boy and other gorillas in what ethologists analyze as a protective gesture. He later stroked the unconscious boy’s back.

A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is a species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves.

Having rewatched Stargate SG-1 a bazillion gazillion times, I’m looking for something else with which to feed my Claudia Black needs.

The Holwell Monument agitation was a political campaign led by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1940 to remove a monument to the Black Hole of Calcutta (now Kolkata). The agitation marked a significant moment of unity between Hindu nationalists and the All-India Muslim League. […] In 1897, historian Akshay Kumar Maitreya denied Holwell’s account of 123 of the 146 prisoners of war dying, noting that the event was not mentioned by British and Indian historians of the time. Holwell was only able to recall 66 of the prisoners’ names and many of those listed were later proven to have not been present at Fort William during the siege.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Germany

over the years i have noticed that it is very difficult to find public events and third spaces in my city (vienna). it seems plausible and obvious to me that there should be easily-accessible public lists (calendars) about which places i could visit and what events i could go to. yet, such lists do not exist, or if they do they are rather small.

Rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a debugging technique in software engineering, wherein a programmer explains their code, step by step, in natural language—either aloud or in writing—to reveal mistakes and misunderstandings.

The Domesday Book is a land survey book from 1086, trying to record every shire in England.

She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._3

I bought it on Xbox 360 marketplace forever ago, and at some point, it disappeared from my games list and local drive. When I tried to re-download it, it no longer showed up in my purchases. This was a few years ago and before Xbox Live shut down for the 360, and all my other digital purchases were available, just not Syndicate.

The idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape was first proposed in the late 18th century by English astronomer and clergyman John Michell and independently by French scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace. Both scholars proposed very large stars in contrast to the modern concept of an extremely dense object.

This is the hottest pre-summer we’ve had - so far

We are all twisted. That explains a lot.

Daveigh Elizabeth Chase (born Chase-Schwallier; July 24, 1990 – June 16, 2026) /dəˈveɪ/ də-VAY[1] was an American actress. She first came to prominence as a child actress, portraying Samantha Darko in the cult classic film Donnie Darko (2001) and voicing the characters of Chihiro Ogino in the English dub of the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away (2001) and Lilo Pelekai in the Walt Disney Animation Studios animated feature film Lilo & Stitch (2002). For her performance in the latter, she won an Annie Award in 2003, and she continued to voice Lilo in its subsequent media franchise.

Hey you beautiful privacy scoundrels! You magnificently private rascals and scamps!

wikipedia has a helpful infobox showing the belligerents, but unlike many other wars it doesn’t have casualty estimates:

It may or may not have actually been the bay which is now known as Drake’s Bay; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_theories_on_the_location_of_New_Albion for details

The Red Queen hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposed in 1973, that species must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to survive while pitted against ever-evolving opposing species

Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an “insult to German feeling”, un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature.

world’s first mass-produced item of furniture.

For the equal and opposite counterpart, see Vagina Museum.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020305192247/http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/arie44lp.htm

I was surprised by this. The subject seems a bit too niche for there to be an article on it.

Diffraction is the deviation of waves from straight-line propagation due to an obstacle or through an aperture, without any change in their energy.

The papers were declassified 15 years ago today, after their initial partial publication began 55 years ago today.

The Game of the Goose, also known as the Royal Game of the Goose, is one of the first board games to be commercially manufactured. It is a race game that relies only on dice throws to dictate progression of the players.

Practice of using biotic materials as robotic components

The procedure is performed on one’s knees before at least two witnesses, in the presence of the wrong-doer, and in the location of the offence. The criant with his hand in the air must call out —

In American politics, a blue shift, also called a red mirage, is an observed phenomenon under which counts of in-person votes are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Republican Party (whose party color is red), while provisional votes or absentee ballots, which are often counted later, are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Democratic Party (whose color is blue). This means that election day results can initially indicate a Republican is ahead, but adding provisional ballots and absentee ballots into the count can eventually show a Democratic victory.