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Turf Moor

Burnley Football Club is an English association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Founded in 1882, it was one of the first to become professional – in 1883. The club entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1885–86 and was one of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888–89. The team currently compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Burnley have been champions of England twice, have won the FA Cup once, and the FA Charity Shield twice. They also reached the quarter-finals of the 1960–61 European Cup. Burnley are one of only five teams to have won all four professional divisions of English football. Burnley have played home games at Turf Moor (pictured) since 1883. The club colours of claret and blue were adopted before the 1910–11 season in tribute to the previous season's champions, Aston Villa. The club is nicknamed "the Clarets", because of the dominant colour of its home shirts. (Full article...)

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Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art

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... that in order to keep two paintings by Pablo Picasso in the Kunstmuseum Basel, the people of Basel voted in the 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum to buy them?
... that Musée de l'Amérique francophone's collection contains first edition copies of The Birds of America and Encyclopédie?
... that the Musée Archéologique de Dijon holds dozens of religious offerings to the pagan goddess Sequana?
... that the Kimiuo Aisek Memorial Museum is the first museum in Chuuk State and exhibits artefacts collected from Pacific War wreck sites?
... that the designer of the flag of Papua New Guinea, Susan Karike, had a gallery at the national museum named after her?
... that Kosrae State Museum used virtual reality technology to inspire interest in the state's heritage from local stakeholders and members of the Kosraean diaspora?
... that some of the Science Museum Group's collection have Never Been Seen?

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Youri Tielemans

In association football, Leicester City win the FA Cup (Man of the Match Youri Tielemans pictured), and Manchester City win the Premier League.
The China National Space Administration's Tianwen-1 lander-rover vehicle successfully lands on Mars.
A school shooting in Kazan, Russia, leaves nine people dead.
Clashes between Israelis and Palestinians, escalating to airstrikes and rocket attacks, kill more than two hundred people and injure several hundred others.

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May 18: Flag and Universities Day in Haiti (1803)

Eruption of Mount St. Helens

1388 – At the Battle of Buir Lake, a Ming Chinese army led by general Lan Yu defeated the forces of Tögüs Temür, the Mongol khan of Northern Yuan.
1896 – Ruling in the landmark decision Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
1936 – In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
1980 – Mount St. Helens explosively erupted (pictured), killing approximately 57 people in southern Washington state, reducing hundreds of square miles to wasteland, and causing more than US$1 billion in damage.

Omar Khayyam (b. 1048)
William Hood Simpson (b. 1888)
Frank Hsieh (b. 1946)

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Gertrude Käsebier (May 18, 1852 – October 12, 1934) was an American photographer who was known for her images of motherhood and her portraits of Native Americans; her portraits of the Sioux focused more on the expression and individuality of the person than their costumes and customs. She helped establish the Women's Professional Photographers Association of America and promoted photography as a career for women. This photograph was taken in around 1900, when she was at the height of her career.

Photograph credit: Adolph de Meyer ; restored by Adam Cuerden

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