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São Paulo was a dreadnought Typhoon Tembin sweeps

battleship in the Brazilian Navy, the through the southern
Philippines, killing more
second of two ships in the Minas
than two hundred people
Geraes class. Launched in 1909 and and leaving dozens of
commissioned a year later, São Paulo others missing.
In the Catalan election,
was soon involved in the Revolt of the
pro-independence parties, Carles Puigdemont
Lash, in which crews on four Brazilian warships mutinied over poor spearheaded by the exiled
pay and harsh punishments for even minor offenses. In 1922 the Carles Puigdemont (pictured), secure a majority.
ship fired its guns in anger for the first time, attacking a fort that had Sebastián Piñera is elected President of Chile for
a second time.
been taken during the Tenente revolts. Two years later, mutineers
In the United States, an Amtrak Cascades
took control of the ship and sailed to Montevideo where they passenger train derails in DuPont, Washington,
obtained asylum. In the 1930s, São Paulo was passed over for killing three people and injuring more than seventy
others.
modernization. When Brazil entered the Second World War, the
Incumbent Juan Orlando Hernández is declared
ship sailed to the port of Recife and remained there as the port's the winner of the Honduran presidential
main defense for the duration of the war. Stricken from the naval election, with the Organization of American
States calling for a new vote amidst widespread
register in 1947, the dreadnought remained as a training vessel until irregularities.
1951, when it was taken under tow to be scrapped in the United
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Kingdom. The tow lines broke during a strong gale in November
Ken Catchpole · Bruce McCandless II
when the ships were 150 nmi (280 km; 170 mi) north of the Azores,
and São Paulo was lost. (Full article...)
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Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist

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fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His medical
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