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Margaret Lea Houston (April 11,
1819 December 3, 1867) was First In golf, Sergio Garca
Lady of the Republic of Texas, First (pictured) defeats
Lady of the state of Texas, and a Justin Rose in a
founding member of Concord Baptist playoff to win the
Church in Grand Cane. She was a Masters
poet and an accomplished musician. Tournament.
Her influence on husband Sam At least 44 people are
Houston persuaded him to give up killed and 126 others
injured when two Sergio Garca
alcohol and profane language. Margaret gave birth
inside the governor's mansion to the youngest of their Egyptian Coptic Orthodox churches
eight children, as angry mobs gathered outside in are attacked on Palm Sunday by
response to her husband's opposition to Texas signing suicide bombers.
the Ordinance of Secession of the Civil War. He was The Basque separatist militant group
removed from office for refusing to swear loyalty to the ETA disarms itself.
Confederacy. Their eldest son joined the Confederate A stolen truck is driven through
army and was left for dead on the battlefield at Shiloh, crowds and into a department store
saved by a Union Army clergyman who found a Bible in downtown Stockholm, killing 4
from Margaret in his pocket. Sam Houston died of people and injuring 15 others.
illness before the end of the war, as Margaret sat by his The United States attacks a Syrian air
bed reading to him from the 23rd Psalm. She became base in response to a chemical attack
the keeper of his legacy and opened his records to a in Khan Shaykhun that killed more
trusted biographer. When she died of yellow fever, than 70 people.
Margaret could not be buried with her husband in a Tim Berners-Lee wins the Turing
public cemetery for fear of contamination, and was Award for inventing the World Wide
instead interred on private family property. Web, the first web browser, and the
(Full article...) protocols and algorithms that allow the
Recently featured: Noel Park Canadian National Vimy Web to scale.
Memorial "Yesterday's Enterprise"
Ongoing: Battle of Mosul
Did you know... Recent deaths: Fishman Brian Matthew
Peter Isaacson Glenn O'Brien

... that any baseballs that get On this day...

hit and lodged in the
Wrigley Field ivy
(pictured) score the batter a
double?
... that during the Second
World War, the Norwegian Wrigley Field ivy
naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German
April 11
1544 Italian War of 154246: French
and Spanish forces fought a massive
pitched battle in the Piedmont region of
Italy.

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supply ship before he was certain which country 1814 The Treaty of
was invading Norway? Fontainebleau was
... that the fire-bellied woodpecker can drum at signed, ending the
the rate of 14 to 38 taps per second? War of the Sixth
... that Brown v. Maryland was the first decision Coalition, and forcing
of the U.S. Supreme Court to construe the Napoleon to abdicate
Import-Export Clause of the Constitution? as ruler of France and
... that the title for Elizabeth Nunez's novel Anna sending him into exile
Emir Abdullah of
In-Between (2009) was inspired by M. G. on Elba.
Transjordan
Vassanji's novel The In-Between World of 1908 Blcher, the
Vikram Lall (2003)? last armored cruiser built by the
... that George Wilson, Jr. was a starting Imperial German Navy, was launched.
quarterback for the Miami Dolphins while his 1921 Emir Abdullah (pictured)
father, George Wilson, Sr., was the head coach? established the first centralised
... that Neptune Theatre in Seattle had weekly government in the recently created
showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from British protectorate of Transjordan.
1977 to 1993, and reopened with the same film 2002 In a coup attempt, members of
after renovation in 2011? the Venezuelan military detained
... that President Donald Trump criticized Snoop President Hugo Chvez and demanded
Dogg's remix music video of "Lavender" for his resignation.
having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a
clown parody version of Trump? Llywelyn the Great (d. 1240) Christopher
Smart (b. 1722) Ewelina Haska (d. 1882)

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A diagram of a supercell in the Northern Hemisphere, showing the different parts of its structure.
Supercells are thunderstorms characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently
rotating updraft. Of the four types of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell),

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supercells are the least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often
isolated from other thunderstorms and can dominate the local weather up to 30 kilometres (20 mi)
away.

Diagram: Kelvin Ma

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