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The Australasian shoveler (Spatula rhynchotis) is a species of dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. It is native to southwestern and southeastern Australia, including Tasmania, and New Zealand. It ranges in length from 46 to 53 centimetres (18 to 21 inches) and lives in heavily vegetated swamps. This male Australasian shoveler was photographed ...
2024 Chicago White Sox's 121st loss, Worst Major League Baseball season win–loss records. The 2024 Chicago White Sox earn their 121st loss against the Detroit Tigers, breaking the Major League Baseball record for the most amount of losses in a post-1900 season. (AP) September 26, 2024 (Thursday) edit. history.
A mobile version showing the English Wikipedia's Main Page on October 2, 2024. Wikipedia's original medium was for users to read and edit content using any standard web browser through a fixed Internet connection.
Screenshot of Wikipedia's article on Earth, 18 January 2023 Opening English Wikipedia's main page with Mozilla Firefox 99 on Ubuntu 20.04. The English Wikipedia surpassed six million articles on 23 January 2020. [13] In November 2022, the total volume of the compressed texts of its articles amounted to 20 gigabytes. [14]
Alberto Fujimori in 1991. Former president of Peru Alberto Fujimori (pictured) dies at the age of 86. Flooding following a dam collapse in Borno State, Nigeria, leaves at least 30 people dead. Typhoon Yagi leaves more than 840 people dead across six Asian countries. Abdelmadjid Tebboune is declared the winner of the Algerian presidential ...
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