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The Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) are a 4,700-square-mile (12,200 km²) archipelago of hundreds of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. East and West Falkland, the two largest islands, are about 300 miles (500 km) east of South America's southern Patagonian coast, at a latitude of about 52°S. The Falklands have internal self-government, with the United Kingdom taking responsibility for their defence and foreign affairs. The islands' capital is Stanley on East Falkland (Government House pictured). At various times, the islands have had French, British, Spanish, and Argentine settlements. Britain reasserted its rule in 1833, although Argentina maintained its claim to the islands. In April 1982, Argentine forces occupied the islands. British administration was restored two months later at the end of the Falklands War. The population (2,932 inhabitants in 2012) primarily consists of native Falkland Islanders, the majority of British descent. Other ethnicities include French, Gibraltarian and Scandinavian. Immigration from the United Kingdom, the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, and Chile has reversed a population decline. Falkland Islanders have been full British citizens since 1983. Local trades include fishing, tourism and sheep farming. (Full article...)

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Archaeologists announce the discovery of the tomb of the previously unknown ancient Egyptian queen Khentakawess III.
Lithuania becomes the 19th member of the Eurozone.
At least 36 people are killed as a result of a stampede at a New Year's Eve celebration in Shanghai.
Authorities confirm the discovery of debris and bodies from Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (aircraft pictured), which crashed en route to Singapore with 162 people on board.
At least 83 people are killed in clashes between the Cameroonian military and Boko Haram militants.
Italian ferry Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Adriatic Sea with 466 passengers and crew on board, killing at least 11 people.
A militant attack on tribal people and subsequent retaliations in Assam, India, result in at least 85 deaths.

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On this day...

January 6: Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); Little Christmas in Ireland and Scotland

1066 – Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.
1449 – The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople.
1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name.
1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511, traveling from New York City to Miami, exploded in midair due to a bomb placed by an unknown party, resulting in the deaths of all 34 people on board.
1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the English punk rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at London Heathrow Airport two days earlier.

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Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) in a video (full resolution) discussing the workings of Wikipedia, created as part of the 2012 fundraiser. Wadewitz, an American feminist scholar of 18th-century British literature, first began editing the online encyclopedia in 2004. Though she first edited anonymously, Wadewitz later became a public face of Wikipedia and attempted to address the website's gender bias, and was quoted on the subject in the media.

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