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Douglas at the 2016 Olympic Games
- ... that gymnast Gabby Douglas (pictured) has a Barbie doll modeled after her?
- ... that one of former British prime minister Rishi Sunak's favourite books is the 1988 romance Rivals?
- ... that when Matthew Wild directed Wagner's Tannhäuser, he made its main character gay?
- ... that after a tornado strike at a St. Louis-area Amazon warehouse killed six workers, the rebuilt warehouse still had no proper storm shelter?
- ... that Jamaican-Welsh noblewoman Justina Jeffreys was the inspiration for the character of Anthelia in the 1817 novel Melincourt?
- ... that Grand Theft Auto V is a popular video game in North Korea?
- ... that Frank Page's sons stole his corpse after he died, leaving their stepmother to bury an empty casket?
- ... that following the sinking of HNLMS Kortenaer, an officer responded to ethnic tensions on the lifeboats by beating his subordinates with a paddle?
- ... that after playing just one game, Michael Basinger retired from the NFL and became a country music performer?
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
- Astronomers announce the discovery of 3I/ATLAS (pictured), an interstellar object passing through the Solar System.
- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-metre (28 ft) telescope.
- In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Indiana Pacers to win the NBA Finals.
- An attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus, Syria, kills at least 25 people.
- The United States conducts military strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran.
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Aerial view of Guam on 13 November 1944
The United States Navy began building a series of battlecruisers in the 1920s, more than a decade after their slower and less heavily armed armored cruisers had been rendered obsolete by the Royal Navy's _Invincible_-class battlecruisers. At first unconvinced of the importance of the superior speed of the British battlecruisers, the US Navy changed its position after evaluating the new type of ship in fleet exercises and Naval War College wargames, and after the Japanese acquisition of four _Kongō_-class battlecruisers in the early 1910s. When Congress authorized a large naval building program in 1916, six _Lexington_-class battlecruisers were included. None were completed before the arms-limiting Washington Naval Treaty was ratified in 1922. Two ships in the Alaska class were commissioned in time to serve during the last year of World War II but were decommissioned two years after the war. (Full list...)
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