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Amil

All Money Is Legal is the debut studio album by American rapper Amil (pictured). A hip hop album, it was released on August 29, 2000, through Roc-A-Fella, Columbia, and Sony Music. Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and Amil served as executive producers. Future spouses Jay-Z and Beyoncé met for the first time during the album's recording sessions. Although Jay-Z had written Amil's verses for their past collaborations, she wrote her own lyrics for all of the album's tracks. The songs focus on wealth and, to a lesser degree, Amil's personal life. Reviews were mixed; critics were divided over the album's production and Amil's verses. It peaked at number 45 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Two singles – "I Got That" with vocals from Beyoncé and "4 da Fam" with verses from Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, and Jay-Z – were released from the album and promoted with accompanying music videos. "I Got That" reached number one on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Billboard chart, and "4 da Fam" charted on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. (Full article...)

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Heronry in the Carp Hills

... that because of their pristine, rugged nature, the Carp Hills (pictured) in western Ottawa, Canada, are called an "ecological jewel"?
... that Johannes Fatio performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins in 1689?
... that The Debut was Jackie Evancho's eighth consecutive release on the Billboard Classical Albums chart to reach number one?
... that former Mexican police chief Zeferino Peña Cuéllar may have escaped through a secret tunnel during an attack by a drug cartel?
... that storm surge and abnormally high tides generated by the 1875 Indianola hurricane in Texas swept boats as far as 9 mi (14 km) inland?
... that Fang Renqiu was a member of the first national football team of the People's Republic of China and later coached the national team?
... that an exhibit of Czech Jewish art and ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis for a planned "Museum of the Extinct Race" was seen by more than half a million people on its U.S. tour?
... that in 1968, Mark E. Silverman and John Willis Hurst used what they described as a "Sherlock Holmesian approach" to show that the condition of the heart might be found in clues in the hands?

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Wildfire locations in Brazil and the Amazon

Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announces that it has detected more than 75,000 wildfires in the country (satellite rendering shown) since January, at least 40,000 of which have occurred in the Amazon rainforest.
At least 80 people are killed and 160 others injured in a bombing at a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan.
All 233 people on board Ural Airlines Flight 178 survive a crash following bird strikes in both engines of an Airbus A321.

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August 29

Daimler Reitwagen replica

1475 – After an invasion by England and the Duchy of Burgundy, France signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).
1916 – The United States Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.
1949 – The Soviet Union successfully conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 aboard.

Abu Taghlib (d. 979) · Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (b. 1809) · Michael Jackson (b. 1958)

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The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is a dark nebula of gas and dust that is located 1° south of the star Rho Ophiuchi in the constellation Ophiuchus, bordering Scorpius, rising above the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky. At an estimated distance of 131 ± 1 parsecs, this cloud is one of the closest star-forming regions to the Solar System.

This picture is an infrared image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in false color, captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The emission nebula in the center glows bright white due to heating from nearby stars, while the red object in the bottom right is a reflection nebula caused by light from the star Sigma Scorpii being reflected off the surrounding dust. The bright pink objects just left of center are young stellar objects, many still enveloped in their own compact nebulae.

Photograph credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / WISE Team

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