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Tropical Storm Nicole was a

Scientists announce
short-lived and unusually
that the Xiahe
asymmetric tropical cyclone
mandible from
that caused extensive flooding
Baishiya Karst Cave
in Jamaica during the 2010
belonged to the
Atlantic hurricane season. It
first known
was the last of a record eight
Denisovan outside
tropical storms to form in
Siberia and the
September. Originating from a broad monsoonal low,
earliest human to Pedro Sánchez
Nicole became a tropical depression over the
have lived on the
northwestern Caribbean Sea on September 28. As it
high-altitude Tibetan Plateau.
tracked northeastward, its wind circulation was poorly
In a snap general election, the
defined, and most of its strongest thundershowers
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
were well removed from the center. In Jamaica, the
(leader Pedro Sánchez pictured) wins
storm triggered widespread power outages affecting
the most seats in both houses of the
more than 288,000 residences. Precipitation of up to
Cortes Generales.
37.42 inches (950  mm) caused disastrous flooding in
several parishes, severely damaging or destroying 528 Flooding and winds from Cyclone
houses. The island's farmland suffered from extensive Kenneth kill at least 45 people, injure
water pollution. Nicole wrought an estimated US$245.4 more than 200 others, and cause
million in damage throughout Jamaica, and there were serious damage in Mozambique and the
sixteen fatalities. (Full article...) Comoro Islands.
An earthquake in Luzon, the
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... that in 2008, ethnohistorian Jennifer S. H. Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal
Brown was the first woman from the University organization, was founded in New York
City.

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of Winnipeg to become a Fellow of the Royal 1886 – During a

Society of Canada? peaceful labor rally
... that the Mongol invasion of 1258–1259 was in Chicago, an
likely the most devastating event for 13th- unknown assailant
century Lithuania? threw a bomb into
... that after Asman Jah represented the Nizam a crowd of police,
of Hyderabad at the Golden Jubilee of Queen which resulted in
Victoria, he was promoted to prime minister of the deaths of seven
Margaret
the state? police officers and
Thatcher
at least four
... that the hairy sea squirt is preyed on by the
bystanders.
Oregon hairy triton?
1979 – Margaret Thatcher (pictured)
... that the bass-baritone Hans Günter Nöcker
became the first female Prime
appeared in several world premieres of operas in
Minister of the United Kingdom,
Berlin, Schwetzingen, and Munich, where he
following the defeat of James
created a stirring portrayal of Gloucester in
Callaghan's incumbent Labour
Reimann's Lear?
government in the previous day's
... that the inaugural MLS Cup was played in general election.
heavy rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Lili?
2015 – The Parliament of Malta moved
... that Theresa May described her leadership as from the Grandmaster's Palace to the
"strong and stable" but her critics called it purpose-built Parliament House.
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Hydra is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, commonly represented as a water

snake. The largest of the 88 modern constellations, it stretches more than 100 degrees across the
sky. Its southern end abuts Libra and Centaurus, while its northern end borders Cancer. It was
included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy. Despite its size,
Hydra contains only one moderately bright star, Alphard, designated Alpha Hydrae, which is an
orange giant of magnitude 2.0, 177 light-years from Earth. Other stars include Beta Hydrae, a blue-
white star of magnitude 4.3, as well as Gamma Hydrae, a yellow giant of magnitude 3.0. Hydra
contains three Messier objects: M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, located on the
border with Centaurus; M68, a globular cluster near M83; and M48, an open cluster at the western
end of the constellation.

This illustration was produced around 1823 and comes from Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 astronomical
star chart cards. Along with Hydra, the chart also depicts the constellations of Noctua (obsolete),
Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniae (now Sextans), Felis (obsolete), Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia Pneumatica
(now Antlia), Argo Navis (obsolete) and Pyxis Nautica (now Pyxis).

Lithograph credit: Sidney Hall; restored by Adam Cuerden

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