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2016-02-10

2016-02-10

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Christopher Paul Neil
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Christopher Paul Neil

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Christopher Paul Neil, better known as Mr. Swirl Face, is a Canadian teacher who was convicted of child sexual abuse. He was the subject of a highly publicized Interpol investigation of the child sexual abuse of at least 12 young boys in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, primarily owing to the Internet release of images…

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Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scrapi…

Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders
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Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat …

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On This Day

10 events
2009
Iridium_33
The satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other in the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit.
2008
Namdaemun
The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured).
1996
Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.
1962
Rudolf_Abel
Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.
1962
Roy_Lichtenstein
The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein (pictured) opened, including the painting Look Mickey, which featured his first use of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing.
1941
Operation_Colossus
In the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, a small force of paratroopers landed near Calitri, Italy, to destroy an aqueduct.
1940
Puss_Gets_the_Boot
Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters.
1939
Spanish_Civil_War
Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
1936
Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War
Second Italo-Ethiopian War: The Battle of Amba Aradam began, ending nine days later in a decisive tactical victory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army as a fighting force.
1930
Việt_Nam_Quốc_Dân_Đảng
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.

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