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The Wales national rugby

A suicide
union team competes annually bombing attack
in the Six Nations near Pulwama,
Championship with England, in Indian-
France, Ireland, Italy and administered
Scotland. The governing body, Kashmir, kills 40
security Artist's concept of the
Millennium Stadium the Welsh Rugby Union, was
personnel. Mars rover
established in 1881, the same
year that Wales played their first international against NASA concludes the 15-year
England, on 19 February. They have won the Six Nations and
Opportunity Mars rover mission after
being unable to wake the rover (artist's
its predecessors 26 times outright, most recently in 2013.
concept shown) from hibernation.
They had many dominant teams from 1900 to 1911 and from
The Republic of Macedonia changes its
1969 to 1980. Wales played in the inaugural Rugby World
name to the Republic of North
Cup in 1987 where they achieved their best ever result of
Macedonia as the Prespa agreement
third. After the sport started allowing professionalism in 1995, takes effect, ending a 27-year naming
Wales hosted the 1999 World Cup. They won Six Nations dispute with Greece.
Grand Slams in 2005, 2008 and 2012. Their home ground is In an American trial, Mexican drug lord
the Millennium Stadium (pictured). Eight former Welsh players Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found
have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame; ten guilty of ten criminal charges, including
were inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame prior one mandating life imprisonment.
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... that the head of February 19

the emperor goose
(pictured) frequently 1600 – The Peruvian
turns from white to stratovolcano
reddish-brown in Huaynaputina
summer, due to its erupted in the largest
feeding in tidal pools Emperor goose with stained head volcanic explosion in
with iron oxide? South America in
... that Chang Ya-chung was elected to the historical times.
National Assembly in 2005, but resigned on the first 1811 – Peninsular
day to protest the parliament's formation? War: An Henry Ossian
... that Connect Airways, a consortium that outnumbered French Flipper
includes Virgin Atlantic, was created to take over force under Édouard
Flybe—which had previously absorbed Virgin's Mortier routed and nearly destroyed the
domestic operations at Heathrow Airport? Spanish at the Battle of the Gebora
near Badajoz, Spain.
 ... that Shubulade Smith has spoken up against 1942 – A book-burning was held and
perceived racism at Maudsley Hospital? politicians were arrested in Winnipeg,
... that the Leipziger Universitätschor, part of Manitoba, Canada, as part of a
centuries of music at Leipzig University, received simulated Nazi invasion.
an Echo Klassik for a recording of Hugo Distler's 1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the
Liturgische Gesänge? Army of the Republic of Vietnam, along
... that Swedish handball player Johan Jepson with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần
was the first on his team to be honoured with a Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against
testimonial match? the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
... that due to an illegal electoral pact, the 1999 – U.S. President Bill Clinton issued
Scottish burgh of Stirling lost the right to elect a a posthumous pardon to Henry Ossian
Member of Parliament in 1773? Flipper (pictured), the first African
... that in a story known in the Middle Ages, the American graduate of West Point, who
sons of a dead king shoot arrows at his corpse? had been accused of embezzlement in
1881.
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The internment of Japanese Americans in the

United States during World War II was the forced
relocation and incarceration in concentration
camps in the western interior of the country of
between 110,000 and 120,000 people of
Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the
Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees
were United States citizens. These actions were
ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl
Harbor.

This picture shows members of the Mochida

family in Hayward, California, waiting for an
evacuation bus to take them to an internment
center.

Photograph: Dorothea Lange; Restoration: Bammesk

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