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Cycloseris distorta

... that the free-living, solitary coral Cycloseris distorta (pictured) can subdivide its stony skeleton and form two new individuals?
... that when Joseph Wood was appointed as head master of Harrow School, he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thomas Thackeray in 1760?
... that composers Alexander Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky are all buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery?
... that the Touristic Eastern Express makes two-hour-long stops between Ankara and Kars to allow passengers to visit historic and natural attractions?
... that the German soprano Melanie Diener began her stage career in Mozart roles in 1996, and appeared as Isolde with the Canadian Opera Company and the Opéra national du Rhin in 2013?
... that after discontinuing normal programming, KPPC radio signed on once a week for six months to fulfill a contract to broadcast church services?
... that Qian Ji helped design China's first satellite and was the lead designer for its first three-in-one satellite launch?
... that the Mueller probe was born in a crossfire hurricane?

25-29 October 2019 | Istanbul Carpet Week 2019. The program includes 13th National Rug Design Contest, Exporters' Awards Ceremony, B2B meetings, Istanbul International Carpet Conference with international and Turkish speakers, Workshop by an international famous rug designer, Wall Art Kilim & Rug Exhibition at (Old City) Sultan Ahmet.
17-19 September 2019 | Index Exhibition, the Middle East & North Africa’s largest gathering for the design community, takes place from 17-19 September at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
24-30 June 2019 | HALI London celebrates 40 years and 200 editions of HALI magazine, and is the first London festival devoted to the art and history of textiles.

February 16: Day of the Shining Star in North Korea

Tutankhamun's funerary mask

1249 – Louis IX of France dispatched André de Longjumeau as his ambassador to the Mongol Empire.
1862 – American Civil War: A Union victory in the Battle of Fort Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional Surrender".
1923 – Howard Carter, the English Egyptologist and archaeologist, unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun (mask pictured).
1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires burned over half a million acres (over 2,000 km²) each in both South Australia and Victoria, killing 75 people and injuring 2,676 others.
1996 – Two trains collided in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S., killing 11 people and leading to the creation of comprehensive federal rules for passenger car design.

Jean du Bellay (d. 1560) · Henry Wilson (b. 1812) · Lanny McDonald (b. 1953)

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