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Operation Retribution (1941)
Frank Matcham
First Silesian War
Phillip Davey (not a strong date connection)
2nd Red Banner Army
Almost There (album)
George Tucker (politician)
Rwandan Civil War
Soultaker (film)
Super Mario World

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Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, the false chanterelle, is a fungus in the family Hygrophoropsidaceae. It is found across several continents, growing in woodland and heathland, and sometimes on woodchips used in gardening and landscaping. Its mushrooms are yellow-orange with a funnel-shaped cap up to 8 cm (3+1⁄8 in) across that has a felt-like surface. The thin, often forked gills on the underside of the cap run partway down the length of the otherwise smooth stalk. The mushroom has been reported to be mildly poisonous. Austrian naturalist Franz Xaver von Wulfen described the false chanterelle in 1781 and noted that it is often confused with true chanterelles. The false chanterelle was first placed in the genus Clitocybe, but its forked gills and dextrinoid spores indicated a relationship to Paxillus, and genetic analysis has confirmed that it belongs to the order Boletales and is more closely related to boletes. (Full article...)

The Thrill Book was a U.S. pulp magazine published by Street & Smith in 1919. The first eight issues, edited by Harold Hersey, were a mixture of adventure and weird stories. Contributors included Greye La Spina, Charles Fulton Oursler, J. H. Coryell, and Seabury Quinn. With the July 1 issue, Hersey was replaced by Ronald Oliphant, who printed more fantasy and science fiction. With a larger budget, Oliphant was able to acquire material by popular writers such as H. Bedford-Jones. The best-known story from The Thrill Book is The Heads of Cerberus, an early example of a novel about alternate time tracks, by Francis Stevens. Oliphant produced eight more issues; the magazine folded with the October 15, 1919, edition. Historians now regard The Thrill Book as a precursor to Weird Tales and Amazing Stories, the first true specialized magazines in the fields of weird fiction and science fiction, respectively. (Full article...)

The 2003 Boat Race took place on 6 April. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing event between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The race takes place on the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course, between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames in south-west London. The rivalry is broadcast worldwide; the 2003 event was the first to be scheduled on a Sunday, to avoid a broadcast conflict with the British Grand National. It was umpired by the Boat Race veteran Boris Rankov. In the reserve race Cambridge beat Oxford; Oxford won the Women's race. The men's race featured an Oxford crew with seven Britons, an Australian and a Canadian, while the Cambridge crew consisted of four Britons, two Americans, two Germans and an Australian. After two lead changes, Oxford won by one foot (30 cm), the smallest margin of victory in the history of the event, taking the overall record to 77 for Cambridge and 71 for Oxford. (Full article...)

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Promoted in 2019 and scheduled at TFA in 2019