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The September 2014 tour by the Hurricane Dorian

alternative rock band the (satellite image
Breeders included thirteen shown) makes
concerts in the central and landfall in the
Bahamas as a
western United States. The tour
Category 5
featured the lineup from their hurricane, killing Hurricane Dorian over
Kelley Deal and Josephine 1993 album Last Splash, with at least five
the Bahamas
Wiggs in 2009 Josephine Wiggs, Jim people.
Macpherson, Kim Deal, and Brazil's National Institute for Space
Research announces that it has detected
Kelley Deal (pictured with Wiggs in 2009). Invited to open for
more than 80,000 wildfires in the
Neutral Milk Hotel's September 18 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, country since January, at least 40,000 of
they planned a tour to lead up to this show, using the opportunity which have occurred in the Amazon
to practice some recent compositions. They performed in eleven rainforest.
cities, including St. Louis, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San At least 80 people are killed and 160
Francisco, and Las Vegas. The group then played at the
others injured in a bombing at a
wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Hollywood Bowl concert, and finished the tour on September 20 at
Ural Airlines
the Goose Island 312 Urban Block Party event in Chicago. As well urvive a crash following bird
as their new songs, they performed numerous selections from Last Airbus
Splash and Pod (1990). Music critics commented that the
performances were rousing, and that the band was as good as—or Hong
better than—in its heyday. (Full article...)
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... that the Lebanon women's national football
team's first official qualification campaign took place
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Angeles, California. It was named one of the 10
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won the Battle of
Worcester, the
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1878 – The
passenger steamship SS Princess Alice
sank in the River Thames after colliding
(pictured) with a collier, killing more than
600 people.
1918 – The Bolshevik government of
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announcement of the Red Terror, a
period of repression against political
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1950 – Winning the Italian Grand Prix,
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... that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul
wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green,
in collaboration with her third husband?
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defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the
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The Entombment is a 1559 oil-on-canvas painting by

the Italian artist Titian, commissioned by Philip   II of
Spain. It depicts the burial of Jesus in a stone
sarcophagus, which is decorated with depictions of
Cain and Abel and the binding of Isaac. The figure
holding Christ's body is Nicodemus, the Jewish elder
that secretly visited Jesus at night to learn about his
teachings; the figure of Nicodemus bears the traits of
the artist himself. This could have been inspired by
Michelangelo's idea in his unfinished Deposition from
1550, depicting himself as Nicodemus, supporting the
body of Christ, displayed in the cathedral in Florence.
The painting exhibits a style under development by
Titian at the time, characterized by the use of broad
brushwork and brilliant colours. It is now in the
permanent collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Painting credit: Titian

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