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Hurricane Ida
Hurricane Ida results in more than 60 deaths and causes flooding in the Gulf Coast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, leading to widespread power outages.More
2021 Kabul airport attack
Amid evacuations from Afghanistan, a suicide bombing kills at least 182 people at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.More
2020 Summer Paralympics
The Summer Paralympics are held in Tokyo, Japan.More
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Top 10 Articles

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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Money Heist
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Sidharth Shukla
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Indian actor, model and host (1980–2021)
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India at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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Cinderella (2021 film)
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2021 film by Kay Cannon
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Bible
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Collection of religious texts in Christianity, Judaism, and other faiths
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Cleopatra
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Last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
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Shehnaaz Gill
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Indian actress, singer and model (born 1993)
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Jim Bakker
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American televangelist
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Certified Lover Boy
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2021 studio album by Drake
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Word of the Day

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Paralympiad n
  1. (sports) An occurrence of the Paralympic Games.
  2. (sports, rare) A period of four years between occurrences of the Paralympic Games.
  3. (by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a competition or series of competitions for disabled participants involving sports or other activities.

The 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, also known as the Games of the XIV Paralympiad, end today after having been postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand…

~ Caspar David Friedrich ~
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Abberton Reservoir is a pumped storage freshwater reservoir in England near the Essex coast, with an area of 700 hectares (1,700 acres). Most of its water is pumped in from the River Stour. Constructed between 1935 and 1939, it is currently owned by Essex and Suffolk Water, and lies 6 km (4 mi) south-west of Colchester. In World War II, the reservoir was mined to deter invading seaplanes, and it was used by the RAF's No. 617 Squadron ("The Dam Busters") to practise for the bombing of the German dams in the Ruhr. A project to increase the reservoir's capacity to 41,000 megalitres (9.0×109 imperial gallons) was completed in 2013, along with a new link to transfer water from Norfolk's River Ouse to the Stour. The reservoir is important for its breeding cormorants, wintering and moulting waterfowl, and migrating birds. It is an internationally important wetland, designated as a Ramsar site, SSSI and SPA and listed in A Nature Conservation Review. A small part of the site is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. (Full article...)

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