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Paired photographs of elephant shrew with elephant; tree shrew with gorilla; antechinus with kangaroo; true shrew with blue whale. Caption: “Each of the small shrew-like mammals shown here is more closely related to the large mammal that it's paired with than to the other small shrew-like mammals.”

In this context "is more closedly related to" means "has a more recent common ancestor with.”

Elephant and elephant shrew represent clade Afrotheria; gorilla and tree shrew, Euarchontoglires; kangaroo and antechinus, Marsupialia; whale and true shrew, Laurasiatheria.

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As a publicity stunt to promote the 1941 film So Ends Our Night, actress Gerta Rozan staged a protest outside of the offices of film’s producers. Rozan claimed to be upset that her big scene had been cut out of the film, and while carrying a picket sign reading “DON’T SEE ‘SO ENDS OUR NIGHT’ – LOEW-LEWIN UNFAIR TO GERTA ROZAN,” she told the press that she would take off an article of clothing each day until her demand for its reinstatement was met. After successively removing her blouse, skirt, and slip, by the third day she was left wearing only a black bra and panties, at which point a representative of the production company rushed out of the building “just in time,” covered Rozan with a coat, and escorted her inside where “negotiations” ensued and her request was granted. The “strip picket” story was all over the newspapers, and Time magazine called it the “best all-round publicity stunt of the season.” More photos and descriptions of the event here.

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Map of the Milky Way Galaxy with the constellations that cross the galactic plane in each direction and the known most prominent components annotated including main arms, spurs, bar, nucleus/bulge, and notable nebulae.

Author: Pablo Carlos Budassi

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What European language am I reading? European language flowchart.

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DECsystem-10, 1974.

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So long ago, in the basement of Scott Hall...