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Examples of Tourette's tics

Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder which begins during childhood or adolescence. It is characterized by tics (video shown) such as blinking, coughing, sniffing, or facial movements that are a somewhat suppressible response to an unwanted urge. Once considered rare, Tourette's occurs in about 1% of people under eighteen, although many go undiagnosed or never seek medical care. There is no specific test for diagnosis and Tourette's is not always correctly identified because most cases are mild. Extreme cases in adulthood are rare and Tourette's does not affect intelligence or life expectancy. Education is an integral part of management of the syndrome, and explanation and reassurance are often sufficient. The cause is believed to involve environmental and unknown genetic factors. The condition was named for Georges Gilles de la Tourette, who published an account of nine patients in 1885. (Full article...)

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Title page of Summa de arithmetica

... that the Summa de arithmetica (title page shown), thought to be the first printed work on algebra, contains the first published description of double-entry accounting?
... that Zina P. Young Card fought on a national level for both women's suffrage and the right to practice plural marriage?
... that the worm Phyllodoce lineata is a predator and scavenger, feeding mostly on other polychaetes?
... that Ocean Wind, a planned offshore wind farm in the U.S., may use infrastructure at a closed nuclear power plant to access the electrical grid?
... that Zoltán Kovács is the first Hungarian to receive the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
... that the Danish Trade Union Confederation, the country's largest trade union centre, promotes a model in which pay and working conditions are negotiated without state involvement?
... that the designer of the best house in the new Romford Garden Suburb won £250 and a gold medal?
... that Moff Gideon of The Mandalorian has been compared to Darth Vader?

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Muhyiddin Yassin

Muhyiddin Yassin (pictured) becomes the prime minister of Malaysia following a political crisis which led to the resignation of his predecessor, Mahathir Mohamad.
The United States and the Taliban sign an agreement which establishes a framework for ending the War in Afghanistan.
Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak dies at the age of 91.
Forty-six people are killed and more than two hundred others are injured in North East Delhi, India, during riots primarily targetting protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

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March 3: Liberation Day in Bulgaria (1878); Hinamatsuri in Japan

Jethro Tull in concert in 1973

1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan was enacted, introducing English common law to the Principality of Wales.
1820 – The U.S. Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, which balanced the admission of Missouri as a slave state with that of Maine as a free state.
1891 – Shoshone National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming, was established as the country's first national forest.
1945 – A Polish Home Army unit massacred at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
1972 – The British rock band Jethro Tull (pictured) released Thick as a Brick, a concept album supposedly adapted from an epic poem by an eight-year-old boy named Gerald Bostock.

Matthias de l'Obel (d. 1616) · Thomas Otway (b. 1652) · May Cutler (d. 2011)

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This picture is an oil-on-canvas painting by Danish artist Anna Petersen (1845–1910), entitled Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse, painted in 1884. She was one of the few Danish female artists of that period, as it was difficult for women to gain access to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; it would have been inappropriate for them to paint male nudes, and socially acceptable subjects were limited, with still life, particularly flowers, seen as being most appropriate.

In this work, some inner thoughts are distracting the girl from the task in hand, and the overturned pot among the plants in the hothouse may represent a motif of death. The painting is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen.

Painting credit: Anna Petersen

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