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Feat'd article: Shefali Shah (born 22 May 1973) is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
Feat'd pic: Ålesund is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa…
May 22 1939: Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel, a military and political alliance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_o…
Feat'd article: The Capture of Wakefield occurred on 21 May 1643 during the 1st English Civil War when around 1,500 Parliamentarians under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax attacked the Royalist garrison of Wakefield, Yorkshire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_…
Feat'd pic: The Sleeping Gypsy is an 1897 oil-on-canvas by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa…
News: American football Hall of Fame fullback Jim Brown dies at the . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Br…
May 21 1991: Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_…
Feat'd article: Hoodening is a folk custom found in Kent, a county in south-eastern England en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
May 20: National Day of Remembrance in Cambodia (1975) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation…
Feat'd pic: Sándor Vay (1859–1918) was a Hungarian poet and journalist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa…
News: Amidst a political crisis in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lasso dissolves the National Assembly and triggers an early general election en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_E…
May 20 2013: A tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, United States, killing 24 people and causing an estimated $2 billion of damage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_M… #10years
Feat'd article: Witchfinder General is a 1968 British period horror film directed by Michael Reeves en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
May 19: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey (1919) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commem…
Feat'd pic: The violet sabrewing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) is a species of hummingbird in the tribe Trochilini, sometimes known as the emeralds en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa…
News: Amidst a political crisis in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lasso dissolves the National Assembly and triggers an early general election en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_E…
May 19 1776: American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle…
Feat'd article: Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second to orbit the Moon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…
