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• Cortinarius caperatus (nominated by Cas Liber) is an edible mushroom found in North

America and Europe. Popular with mushroom foragers, it is often picked and considered
mild-tasting and highly regarded, but the mushrooms are often infested with maggots.
• William M. Branham (nominated by Charles Edward) was an American Christian minister
and faith healer who initiated the post–World War II healing revival. He left a lasting
impact on televangelismand the modern Charismatic movement and is recognized as
the "principal architect of restorationist thought" for Charismatics by some Christian
historians.
• Oxalaia (nominated by PaleoGeekSquared) is a genus of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur. It
lived in Northwestern Brazil, from about 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago. It is thought to
have lived a largely piscivorous (fish eating) lifestyle.
• British logistics in the Falklands War (nominated by Hawkeye7) Complex logistical
arrangements underpinned the 1982 British military campaign to recapture the Falkland
Islands, 7,000 nautical miles (8,100 mi; 13,000 km) from home. American assets at
Ascension Island, a British mid-Atlantic territory, were used; and at the Falklands,
merchant ships, troop transports and amphibious naval vessels supported the assault.
Most of the logistics convoy's escort ships were hit by aircraft fire and the Atlantic
Conveyor was sunk by an Exocet anti-ship missile.
• Abby (TV series) (nominated by Aoba47) is an American television sitcom created by Nat
Bernstein and Michael Katlin that aired for one season on United Paramount
Network (UPN) from January 6, 2003, to March 4, 2003. classified as a sex and romantic
comedy, the show had low viewership, and received poor reviews.
• The Northern gannet (nominated by Jimfbleak) is a seabird, found on both sides of
the Atlantic, breeding in Western Europe and North America. The bird undertakes
seasonal migrations and hunts for the fish that form the bulk of its diet by high-speed
dives into the sea.
• Gallimimus (nominated by FunkMonk) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is
now Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago (mya). It is
the largest known ornithomimid. Gallimimus was featured in the movie Jurassic Park, in
a scene that was important to the history of special effects, and in shaping the common
conception of dinosaurs as bird-like animals.
• Edmonds station (Washington) (nominated by SounderBruce) is a train station serving the
city of Edmonds, Washington, in the United States. Edmonds station has a passenger
waiting area, a single platform, and a model railroad exhibit. Opened in 1957, the station
serves approximately 30,000 Amtrak passengers a year.
• Neil Armstrong (nominated by Kees08) was an American astronaut and aeronautical
engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test
pilot, and university professor.
• Japanese battleship Hyūga (nominated by Sturmvogel 66) was the second and last Ise-
class battleshipbuilt for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1910s. Completed
in 1918, she served during the Siberian Intervention before being partially reconstructed
and serving in the Second Sino-Japanese War. She served a minor role in World War II,
and was scrapped in 1946–1947.
• The Thing (1982 film) (nominated by Darkwarriorblake) is a 1982 American science
fiction horror filmdirected by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster. It tells the
story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous
"Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates and then imitates other
organisms. Originally receiving negative reviews, it has since been reappraised as one
of the best science fiction or horror films ever made, and gained a cult following.
• Eastern Area Command (RAAF) (nominated by Ian Rose) was one of
several geographically based commands raised by the Royal Australian Air
Force (RAAF) during World War II.
• Lawrence Weathers (nominated by Peacemaker67) was a New Zealand-born Australian
recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy
that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He served at the Western
Front in World War I, and for his actions at the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, was
awarded the Victoria Cross.
• Billy Martin (nominated by Wehwalt) was an American Major League Baseball second
baseman and manager who, as well as leading other teams, was five times the manager
of the New York Yankees.
• The Tree swallow (nominated by RileyBugz) is a migratory bird native to the Americas. An
aerial insectivore the tree swallow is sometimes considered a model organism, due to
the large amount of research done on it.
• The Russian occupations of Beirut (nominated by Fitzcarmalan) two separate military
expeditions by squadrons of the Imperial Russian Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, with the
first one taking place in June 1772 and the second one from October 1773 to early 1774.
They formed part of its Levantcampaign during the larger Russo-Turkish War of 1768–
1774.
• In computer science, binary search (nominated by Esquivalience) is a search algorithm in
sorted lists that operates by decreasing the search space by half each pass.
• The Army of Sambre and Meuse (nominated by auntieruth) was one of the armies of
the French Revolution. It was formed on 29 June 1794 by combining the Army of the
Ardennes, the left wing of the Army of the Moselle and the right wing of the Army of the
North. Its maximum paper strength was approximately 83,000.
• Mount Mazama (nominated by ceranthor) is a complex volcano in the Oregon segment of
the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range, in the United States. Its
collapsed caldera holds Crater Lake, and the entire mountain is located within Crater
Lake National Park. Mazama has an elevation of 8,157 feet (2,486 m), and Crater Lake
reaches a depth of 1,943 feet (592 m), making it the deepest freshwater body in the
United States
• Philip I Philadelphus (nominated by Attar-Aram syria) was one of the
last Seleucid monarchs of Syria, reigning from 94 to either 83 or 75 BC.
• Operation Retribution (1941) (nominated by Peacemaker67) was the April
1941 German bombing of Belgrade, the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in
retaliation for the coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed
the Tripartite Pact.
• SMS Elsass (nominated by Parsecboy) was the second of five pre-
dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class in the German Imperial Navy.
Completed in 1905, Elsass was quickly made obsolete by the launching of the
revolutionary HMS Dreadnought in 1906; as a result, her career as a frontline battleship
was cut short. She served in various capacities, eventually being scrapped in 1935.