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Flag of Angola

... that the machete in the flag of Angola (pictured) symbolizes peasants, agriculture, and the country's war of independence?
... that ratings for "The Bard" range from A− by The A.V. Club to being the second-worst episode of The Twilight Zone by /Film and Paste?
... that Jon Haukeland established a "Polar Bear model" for Norwegian children?
... that Statistics House partially collapsed in the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake even though the building was once assessed as not being earthquake-prone?
... that Lady Gaga's Living Dress was designed by the creator of the Batsuit?
... that the name of the Maendeleo horseshoe bat refers to its discovery representing progress in understanding Tanzanian bats?
... that Philadelphia's Washington Monument was unveiled at its dedication in 1897 by the president of the United States?
... that Finland won its first Olympic ice hockey medal under the leadership of Kai Hietarinta?
... that to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the BBC soap opera EastEnders, viewers were given the opportunity to vote on the outcome of a love triangle storyline?

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Port of Shahid Rajaee

An explosion and fire (pictured) at the Port of Shahid Rajaee, southern Iran, kills at least 40 people and injures more than 1,200 others.
A car attack at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada, kills at least eleven people and injures more than twenty others.
Militants attack a group of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 26 people.
Pope Francis dies at the age of 88.

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April 27

Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn

630 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself killed six weeks later.
1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.
1945 – World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (pictured) was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the end of the Lapland War.
1965 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.

Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1822)
Sheila Scott (b. 1922)
Olivier Messiaen (d. 1992)

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Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz II–Birkenau from the Auschwitz Album, a photographic record of the Holocaust during World War II. It and the Sonderkommando photographs are among the small number of visual documents that show the operations of Auschwitz II–Birkenau, the German extermination camp in occupied Poland. Originally titled "Resettlement of the Jews from Hungary" (Umsiedlung der Juden aus Ungarn), it shows a period when the Nazis accelerated their deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. The images were taken by photographers from the camp's Erkennungsdienst ("identification service"). Among other things, the Erkennungsdienst was responsible for fingerprinting and taking photo IDs of prisoners who had not been selected for extermination. The identity of the photographers is uncertain, but it is thought to have been Bernhard Walter or Ernst Hoffmann, two SS men who were director and deputy director of the Erkennungsdienst. The camp's director, Rudolf Höss, also may have taken several of the photographs himself.

Photograph credit: Unknown Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst photographer; restored by Yann Forget

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