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The Derfflinger class was a class of three battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy. The ships were ordered for the 1912 to 1913 Naval Building Program of the German Imperial Navy as a reply to the Royal Navy's three new Lion-class battlecruisers. The Derfflinger class ships were larger and slightly slower than their predecessors, and had a larger primary armament. The class comprised three ships: Derfflinger (pictured), Lützow, and Hindenburg. All three saw active service with the High Seas Fleet during World War I. Derfflinger was commissioned shortly after the outbreak of war, and was present at most of the naval actions in the North Sea, including the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland. Lützow was commissioned in August 1915, and only participated in the raid on Yarmouth before being sunk at Jutland. Hindenburg, commissioned in May 1917, saw no major action. Derfflinger and Hindenburg were interned at Scapa Flow following the armistice in November 1918. Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, who was in command of the interned High Seas Fleet, ordered the ships to be scuttled in an attempt to prevent their possible seizure by the Royal Navy. (Full article...)

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1593 – English playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death by Ingram Frizer under mysterious circumstances.
1899 – Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart performed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona.
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The main Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members were announced on May 15, 1987. The initial press release highlighted the casting of LeVar Burton, known for appearing in the miniseries Roots, as Geordi La Forge. The only other two members of the cast mentioned were Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard (pictured) and Jonathan Frakes as William Riker. Michael Dorn was cast as Worf and was intended to appear in seven of the first thirteen episodes, but after Dorn's performance in the pilot "Encounter at Farpoint", this role was expanded to a series regular. During casting, the role of Deanna Troi was originally assigned to Denise Crosby, with Marina Sirtis cast as Security Chief Macha Hernandez. Executive producer Gene Roddenberry believed that Sirtis would be better in the role of Troi and switched the two actresses; Crosby was cast as an earlier version of the security chief, called Tasha Yar. Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher was dropped after season one, but returned in season three. (Full list...)

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A map of Lorentz National Park in the Indonesian province of Papua. Named for the Dutch explorer Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, this 25,056 km² (9,674 mi²) park – the largest in South-East Asia – was established in 1997 and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. The park is significant for its biodiversity, much of it unknown to Western science, as well as its varied ecoregions.

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