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Old Farmer's Almanac
The Old Farmer's Almanac is a beloved North American periodical published every September, offering weather forecasts, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and predictions on trends in fashion, food, and technology. Founded by Robert Bailey Thomas in 1792, it is the oldest cont...
Liberia
Liberia is a West African nation of about 5.5 million people, with its capital in Monrovia, and possesses a unique origin story as a project founded in the early 19th century by the American Colonization Society to resettle freed African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Declaring independence on July 26, 1847
Madelyn Cline
Madelyn Renee Cline (born December 21, 1997) is an American actress and model best known for her breakout role as Sarah Cameron in the Netflix teen adventure series Outer Banks (2020–present), as well as for appearing in the acclaimed mystery film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) and the upcom...
DAX
The DAX (Deutscher Aktienindex) is Germany's primary stock market index, tracking the 40 largest blue-chip companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and serving as the country's equivalent of the UK's FTSE 100 or the US Dow Jones Industrial Average. Launched on 30 December 1987 with a base value of 1,0...
Angie Lassman
Angie Lassman (born November 22, 1990) is an American meteorologist for NBC News, appearing on the Saturday edition of Today and on NBC News Now on weekdays, while also filling in for Al Roker and Dylan Dreyer and contributing to NBC Nightly News. She joined NBC in November 2022 after working...
Azzurri
Azzurri (pronounced ad-DZOO-ree) is the Italian word for "the azure ones," a nickname famously used for Italy's national sports teams, including the football, basketball, rugby, and volleyball squads, reflecting their iconic blue jerseys. Beyond national teams, the name is also adopted by professional clubs li...
1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash
On March 15, 1999, Amtrak's southbound City of New Orleans passenger train collided with a steel-laden semi-trailer truck at a grade crossing in Bourbonnais, Illinois. The impact derailed both locomotives and 11 of the train's 14 cars, resulting in the deaths of 11 people and ...
Charles Goodell
Charles Ellsworth Goodell Jr. (1926–1987) was a New York politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1968 and in the U.S. Senate from 1968 to 1971, taking office in both chambers only after the deaths of his predecessors—winning a special election for the House seat of Daniel A. Reed and bei...
Carlos Baleba
Carlos Baleba (born January 3, 2004, in Douala) is a Cameroonian-French professional footballer who plays as a central or defensive midfielder for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Cameroon national team. He began his career in Cameroon before joining Ligue 1 side Lille in 2022, ma...
Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – after 1416) was a medieval English Catholic anchoress whose work, Revelations of Divine Love, stands as the earliest surviving English-language writings attributed to a woman. Living in Norwich during a turbulent period marked by the Black Death (1348–1350), the Peasants' Revolt (1...
Isack Hadjar
Isack Alexandre Hadjar, born in Paris in 2004 to an Algerian family, is a French-Algerian racing driver who competes under the French flag. Starting competitive karting at age seven, he climbed through the junior formulae ranks, culminating in a runner-up finish in FIA Formula 2 in 2024 behind Gabriel Bortoleto, which earned him the ni...