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Schoenoplectus triqueter

... that Schoenoplectus triqueter (pictured) can grow up to 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) tall on stems less than half a centimetre (0.20 in) wide?
... that in her musical show Songbird, Regine Velasquez performs one lesser-known song from the featured theme each week?
... that a high jumper took up sprinting to qualify for Kiribati at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that playwright Vivian Cosby was hospitalized for three and a half years after lighting herself on fire because of a faulty gas heater?
... that the Creamoata Mill, which once produced a now-nonexistent breakfast food, was listed as Gore's only "place of outstanding historical and cultural influence"?
... that the documentary film I Am Human has been the conversation starter for neuroscience panel discussions at universities such as Harvard?
... that Gabriel André Aucler tried to reestablish paganism after the French Revolution?
... that Alan Kulwicki Memorial Park was partially financed with a US$250,000 donation from Hooters chairman Robert Brooks?

On this day

George V and Mary after their coronation

1593 – Habsburg troops defeated a larger Ottoman force at the Battle of Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia, triggering the Long Turkish War.
1911 – King George V and Queen Mary (both pictured) were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
1941 – World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
1979 – Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.
2002 – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northwestern Iran, killing at least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others; the official response, perceived to be slow, later caused widespread public anger.

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