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... that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach , Brahms , and himself?
... that El Salvador was the first country to recognize Manchukuo , apart from Japan?
... that poet Peggy Pond Church became a strong pacifist and a member of the Society of Friends after the Manhattan Project used her home as a place to build nuclear weapons?
... that librarian Anne Griffiths was one of the first British women to cross the Antarctic Circle ?
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1431 – Hundred Years' War : After being convicted of heresy, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen , France.
1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach (pictured) assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting the cantata Die Elenden sollen essen in St. Nicholas Church .
1922 – The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. , featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. president Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French , opened.
1963 – Buddhist crisis : A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside the National Assembly of South Vietnam in Saigon , the first open demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm .
2008 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions , prohibiting the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs , was adopted.
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A peanut , also known as a groundnut, is the fruit of Arachis hypogaea , a plant in the family Fabaceae . The peanut is classed as a grain legume rather than as a botanical nut , although in culinary and colloquial use it is generally treated as one. Uses of peanuts include consumption as a snack and in various dishes, peanut butter , and – due to its high oil content – as a vegetable oil . Peanuts cause allergic reactions in some humans. Clockwise from top left, this photograph shows a peanut with its shell cracked open, a whole unshelled peanut, an unpeeled peanut seed, a halved peeled seed, and a whole peeled seed. This picture was focus-stacked from 31 separate images.
Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus
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