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Dan Castellaneta, Homer's voice actor

Homer Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is the boorish father of the Simpson family; with his wife, Marge, he has three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Homer embodies several American working-class stereotypes: he is overweight, balding, immature, unintelligent, outspoken, aggressive, lazy, ignorant, unprofessional, and fond of beer, junk food, and television. Despite his flaws, he is fundamentally a good-hearted man and fiercely protective of his family, especially during crises. He was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening and is voiced by Dan Castellaneta (pictured). Homer is one of the most influential fictional characters on television and is widely recognized as an American cultural icon. His catchphrase, the annoyed grunt "D'oh!", has been included in several dictionaries. Castellaneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, along with a special-achievement Annie Award for voicing Homer. (Full article...)

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Kate Sheppard

1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard (pictured).
1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1985 – An earthquake registering M_w 8.0 struck Mexico City, killing at least 9,000 people and leaving up to 100,000 homeless.
1991 – Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man dating from about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists in the Alps.
2023 – Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The Mongol Khan, the first Mongolian play to be performed internationally, forty minutes before its planned premiere in Hohhot.

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The RailRiders celebrate their 2016 Governors' Cup championship.

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders are a Triple-A baseball team that has competed in the International League since 1989. The franchise has played under several names—including the Red Barons and Yankees—before adopting the RailRiders name in 2013. The RailRiders have completed thirty-five seasons. As of the 2024 season, the club has qualified for the postseason sixteen times, winning thirteen division titles and two Governors' Cup championships, in 2008 and 2016. They would win in the latter year, winning their first Triple-A National Championship, defeating the El Paso Chihuahuas. (Full list...)

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Hamm (Westfalen) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Hamm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station is one of the important InterCityExpress rail hubs in the eastern Ruhr area and is among the high-profile buildings of Hamm. The station opened in 1847 and was rebuilt in 1920. This photograph shows the interior of the station.

Photograph credit: A.Savin

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