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Apororhynchus is a Scientists announce

genus of small, that presolar stardust
parasitic spiny-headed grains in the
(or thorny-headed) Murchison meteorite
Apororhynchus hemignathi worms, the only genus (fragment pictured)
formed five to seven
in the order billion years ago, and
Apororhynchida. A lack of features commonly found in are the oldest solid Murchison meteorite
Acanthocephala suggests an evolutionary branching material found on fragment
from the other three orders of class Earth to date.
Archiacanthocephala. The distinguishing features of In American football, the LSU Tigers
this order are a highly enlarged proboscis containing defeat the Clemson Tigers to win the
small hooks, and differently structured musculature College Football National
Championship.
around this proboscis in its receptacle and receptacle
protrusor. The genus contains six species that are Robert Abela replaces Joseph Muscat
as Prime Minister of Malta in the wake of
distributed globally, being collected sporadically in protests over the murder of Daphne
Hawaii, Europe, North America, South America, and Caruana Galizia.
Asia. These worms exclusively parasitize birds by
Ongoing: Australian bushfires ·
attaching themselves around the cloaca using their Impeachment trial of Donald Trump · Indian
hooks and adhesives secreted from cement glands. Citizenship Amendment Act protests
The bird hosts are of different orders, including owls, Recent deaths: Liang Jun · Kazuo
waders, and passerines. Infection by an Sakurada · Paulo Gonçalves · Tony Garnett ·
Apororhynchus species may cause enteritis and Roger Scruton · La Parka II
anemia. (Full article...)
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January 17
Did you know ... 1377 – Pope
Gregory XI entered
Rome after a four-
... that artist Salvador Dalí month journey from
claimed that his pet ocelot (both Avignon, returning the
pictured) was an ordinary papacy to its original
domestic cat that he had "painted city and effectively
over in an op art design"? becoming the last
... that Ralph Evans is the first Avignon pope.
Welshman to win an Olympic Raoul Wallenberg
1773 – On James
medal in boxing?
Cook's second voyage, his ship
... that Hui Aloha ʻĀina was Salvador Dalí with
HMS Resolution became the first vessel
established in 1893 to promote his pet ocelot Babou
to cross the Antarctic Circle.
Hawaiian independence and oppose the overthrow 1920 – The Volstead Act went into
of the Hawaiian Kingdom? effect, beginning the prohibition of
... that Marilyn Saviola, a polio survivor, attended alcohol in the United States.
Long Island University classes remotely by 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul
telephone from her hospital ward? Wallenberg (pictured), who had saved
thousands of Jews from the Holocaust,
 ... that the 1864–65 Ordnance Survey of
Jerusalem created the first "perfectly accurate"
map of the city, and was the impetus for the new
Palestine Exploration Fund?
... that taxi driver Pierre Mambele was credited
with playing "a unique part in shaping coverage"
from the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
... that according to a 2019 biography, R. N. Kao
forewarned Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman about their assassinations?
... that Eastern Michigan University football head
coach Chris Creighton has won American football
games on three continents?
was taken into Soviet custody during the
Siege of Budapest and was never seen
in public again.
1948 – Indonesian National Revolution:
The Renville Agreement between the
Netherlands and Indonesian republicans
was ratified, in an ultimately
unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes
arising from the Linggadjati Agreement
of 1946.
Thomas Linley the elder (b. 1733) · Alva
Belmont (b. 1853) · Mateiu Caragiale
(d. 1936)

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Between 1989 and 1999, 173 singles topped the Hot Rap Singles chart. Hot Rap Songs is
a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most
popular hip hop songs in the United States. With hip hop having greatly increased in
mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their issue of
March 11, 1989, under the name Hot Rap Singles. The inaugural number-one single on Hot
Rap Singles was "Self Destruction" by the Stop the Violence Movement. From its 1989
inception until 2001, the chart was based solely on each single's weekly sales. "Hot Boyz",
by Missy Elliott and featuring Nas, Eve and Q-Tip, was the final number-one single of the
1990s. The single's 18-week reign at the top spot extended into the next decade, and it holds LL Cool J
the record for the most weeks at number one in the chart's history. LL Cool J (pictured) and
Puff Daddy each attained nine number-one hits on the Hot Rap Singles chart during its first 11 years, the most for
any artist during this period. (Full list...)

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Scissors are hand-operated cutting tools consisting

of two blades, each sharpened on one side, joined
at a pivot that acts as a fulcrum. Scissors cut
material by applying local shear stress that exceeds
the material's shear strength at the cutting location.
The earliest known scissors appeared in
Mesopotamia some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago; they
were of the "spring" type, the blades being
connected at the handle end by a thin, flexible strip
of metal. These spring scissors continued in use in
Europe until the 16th century, but were then
superseded by scissors with a central pivot, which
had been invented by the Romans around AD 100.
Modern scissors, with holes in the handles for finger
control, come in a range of types designed for
 various purposes, with left-handed scissors being
designed for use with the left hand. Larger tools
tend to be called "shears".

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