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John Frusciante

Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt is the debut solo album by American musician John Frusciante (pictured), released on November 22, 1994, by American Recordings. Frusciante was previously a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but left in 1992 after he became overwhelmed by the band's newfound popularity. During this period, he became severely depressed and developed a serious drug addiction. He isolated himself in his home to record music for an eventual album. For Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt, Frusciante combined avant-garde and stream-of-consciousness styles, with guitar, piano and various effects on a four-track recorder. It was met with general confusion and a mixed response from fans and critics. David WildofRolling Stone wrote that the album "is twisted, cool stuff". It sold 15,000 copies by 1996. Two years later, Frusciante rehabilitated and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers. (Full article...)

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Supermarine Stranraer

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• ... that the 8th-century Lichfield Angel was discovered beneath the floor of Lichfield Cathedral in 2003?
• ... that the gun-powered mousetrap never gained wide popularity after being patented in 1882, but was hailed as the "best mousetrap ever" in 2012?
• ... that ophthalmologist Tom Pashby spent 46 years improving the safety of hockey helmets?
• ... that women did not enter the upper stories of the New York Yacht Club Building for 35 years?
• ... that owner Matthew Benham influenced both Brentford FC in the UK and FC Midtjylland in Denmark to use mathematical modelling to recruit undervalued football players?
• ... that to optimize Atkinson Hyperlegible for visually impaired people, its designers intentionally broke the rule that a typeface should be uniform?
• ... that the name of the SooperDooperLooper was picked when a Hershey executive was outvoted by his wife and children?

Artemis 1

• An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java kills more than 100 people and injures more than 380 others.
• NASA's Artemis 1 (pictured) is successfully launched on an uncrewed test flight to the Moon.
• The United Nations estimates the world population to have exceeded eight billion.
• In cricket, the ICC Men's T20 World Cup concludes with England defeating Pakistaninthe final.

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Blackbeard

• 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against the island's indigenous peoples.
• 1718 – The pirate Blackbeard (pictured) was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
• 1873 – The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
• 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands.

Saint Anne is a Makurian wall painting estimated to have been painted between the 8th and 9th centuries, painted a secco with tempera on plaster. The anonymous work, depicting Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, was found at Faras CathedralinLower Nubia, located in the north of present-day Sudan. The painting was discovered by a Polish archaeological team during a campaign undertaken in the 1960s under the patronage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Faras, before the site was flooded by the creation of Lake Nasser. Since 1964, the painting has been in the Faras Gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw. Painting credit: unknown Recently featured: Laetiporus sulphureus Yawn Eurasian coot Archive More featured pictures

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