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Amy Poehler

The six episodes of the first season of Parks and Recreation originally aired in the United States on the NBC television network on Thursdays between April 9 and May 14, 2009. The comedy series was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, who served as executive producers with Howard Klein. The season stars Amy Poehler (pictured), Rashida Jones, Paul Schneider, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, and Aubrey Plaza, and focuses on Leslie Knope (Poehler), the deputy director of the parks and recreation department of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. Early test screenings were poor, and many critics and industry observers were skeptical about the show's chances of success. The premiere episode was watched by 6.77 million viewers, but the ratings declined to a season low of 4.25 million viewers for the final episode, "Rock Show". Even so, "Rock Show" received the best reviews of the season and convinced some critics that the series had found the right tone. (Full article...)

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David Abner Jr.

... that Guadalupe College president David Abner Jr. (pictured) declined lucrative positions at northern U.S. colleges so that he could continue "conducting a school for the colored youths of the south"?
... that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "Singapore-on-Thames" to prosper outside of the EU?
... that Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
... that Pop Smoke references Manu Ginóbili, a former basketball player with the San Antonio Spurs, in the lyrics for "Hello"?
... that despite the European Commission organising COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the whole bloc, a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies from Russia and China?
... that Joseph Taylor Goodsir accused Rudolph Virchow, "the father of modern pathology", of plagiarism?
... that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir about masculinity?

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Prince Philip

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (pictured), the consort of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at the age of 99.
La Soufrière erupts in Saint Vincent, forcing the evacuation of around 20,000 people.
Riots erupt in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland.
In NCAA Division I basketball, the Stanford Cardinal win the Women's Championship and the Baylor Bears win the Men's Championship.

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April 9

Boeing 737 on its maiden flight

1866 – The Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first United States federal law to affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law, was enacted.
1917 – First World War: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
1948 – Palestine war: Fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem, killing more than 100 Palestinian Arabs.
1967 – The first Boeing 737 took its maiden flight (pictured), eventually becoming the most produced commercial passenger jet airliner in the world.
1993 – Iranian filmmaker Morteza Avini was killed by a land mine in Fakkeh while producing a documentary.

Jean Quintin (d. 1561)
Mary Jackson (b. 1921)
Vilhelm Bjerknes (d. 1951)

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Historic Centre of Kraków

There are sixteen World Heritage Sites in Poland, fifteen of which are cultural sites, and one of which, the Białowieża Forest, is a natural site. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Poland acceded to the convention on 29 June 1976, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The first two Polish sites inscribed on the World Heritage List were the Wieliczka Salt Mine and the Historic Centre of Kraków (pictured) in 1978. The most recent addition to the list is the Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region, listed in 2019. Three of the sites are transnational. (Full list...)

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BASE jumping is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend safely to the ground. The acronym stands for four categories of fixed objects from which the jumps can be made: building, antenna, span, and earth (cliff). In this photograph, a man launches himself from the top of the Istanbul Sapphire tower in Istanbul, Turkey.

Photograph credit: Kontizas Dimitrios

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