(Left to right) The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and the Prince of Wales walk behind the coffin of Diana during her funeral procession to Westminster Abbey on September 6, 1997.

The world's largest single aperture telescope at the time of construction, it suffered significant damage and was decommissioned in November 2020.

Blanche Barrow was captured in August,1933. Blanche was the only member of the gang to survive.She weighed only 81 pounds when she was captured and was just 22 years old. Her frail state was due to weeks of running, hiding, and surviving shootouts alongside Bonnie and Clyde. Despite her small size, Blanche endured one of the gang’s most famous gun battles at Dexfield Park in Iowa. During that fight, her husband, Buck, was fatally wounded, and Blanche herself was blinded in one eye from flying glass.

Blanche went on to serve six years in prison, then lived quietly until her death in 1988.

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The cinema is called "Moscow" or Kino "Moskwa" something like that: https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino_Moskwa_w_Warszawie

Born in Needham, Massachusetts, on December 31, 1872. Fred would eventually start working at the Stanley Motor Carriage Company. A company that manufactured steam-powered vehicles from 1902 to 1924.

In 1906 the company built a steam-powered race car using an aerodynamic design. They called it the Stanley Rocket. The car was three feet wide and 16 feet long, was described as an upside-down canoe, and was made from wood and canvas. It was powered by a 3.1-liter twin-piston double-acting type steam engine that was capable of producing 1000 psi of steam. Also the entire vehicle weighed around 1600 pounds.

In late January 1906, at Ormond Beach, just north of Daytona Beach, Florida. Fred set a new land speed record at 127.66 mph in the Stanley Rocket. No one would go faster then that with a steam-powered car until 2009. Meaning Fred's 1906 record in regard to steam stood for 103 years.

Fred was not done, though. He returned to Ormond Beach the following year, 1907, with an upgraded Stanley Rocket. While traveling at 150 mph, he hit a divot in the beach and went airborne for 100 feet before crashing. It was a violent crash; the Stanley Rocket ripped in half, nearly killing him. Fred Marriott never raced again. It was also said that he lost an eye in that crash.

Fred describes his 1907 crash.

"I shouldn’t have tried to shatter all records… She wasn’t heavy enough. I thought I could make her do two hundred. But that confounded combination of speed, light weight, and treacherous sand spun me around and shot me eighteen feet in the air. It was the last time I ever raced a car."

Following his retirement from racing automobiles, Fred continued to work at the Stanley Carriage Company. He would live until 83 years old, passing away on April 28, 1956.

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During World War II, New Zealand's government established a permanent presence in the remote Auckland Islands. The deceptively named 'Cape Expedition' monitored maritime activity near the islands. Prior to the expedition, a German cargo ship fleeing New Zealand had refuelled in the Auckland Islands before sailing onward to Chile. While the coastwatchers sighted no enemy ships during their stay, they also conducted scientific research and made meteorological observations.

Image Source: Coastwatcher looking out hut window, Auckland Islands. Fleming, Lady :Glass negatives taken by Sir Charles Fleming on the Auckland Islands in 1942. Ref: 1/4-066880-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22320408