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Black Moshannon State Park is a 3,480-acre (1,410 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is just west of the Allegheny Front, 9 miles (14 km) east of Philipsburg on Pennsylvania Route 504, and is largely surrounded by Moshannon State Forest. The park surrounds a lake formed by a dam on Black Moshannon Creek. A bog in the park provides a habitat for diverse wildlife not common in other areas of the state, such as carnivorous plants, orchids, and species normally found farther north. The Seneca tribe used the Black Moshannon area as hunting and fishing grounds. European settlers clear-cut the vast stands of old-growth forest during the late 19th century. The forests were rehabilitated by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Many of the buildings built by the Corps stand in the park today and are protected on the National Register of Historic Places in three historic districts. (Full article...)

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Pascal, c. 1900

... that the French cruisers Pascal (pictured), Descartes, Bugeaud, and Chasseloup-Laubat were deployed to East Asia as part of France's response to the Boxer Uprising in Qing China?
... that Mark Ibn Kunbar was excommunicated by two Coptic popes and one Monophysite patriarch in the 12th century?
... that Jimmy and Sally, a 1933 film written for the popular screen duo of James Dunn and Sally Eilers, ended up creating a new screen duo of Dunn and Claire Trevor?
... that Rangers fans at the 2000 Scottish Cup Final wore orange shirts in tribute to their Dutch manager and players, despite suggestions of Protestant undertones?
... that the title of Got7's 2020 EP Dye is a pun referring to both colour and death as they relate to "eternal love"?
... that William Carney is the only registered member of the Conservative Party of New York State to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives?
... that the 13th-century St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church in Chichester, which was bombed during the Second World War, is now an arts centre?
... that Lewis (first name unknown) pitched in his only Players' League game in 1890 and gave up 20 runs?

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Aleksandar Vučić

A coalition led by President Aleksandar Vučić (pictured) and his Serbian Progressive Party wins a majority in parliamentary elections boycotted by the main opposition parties.
In horse racing, Tiz the Law wins the Belmont Stakes, which serves as the initial leg of the Triple Crown for the first time.
Kenya, India, Mexico, Ireland, and Norway are elected to the United Nations Security Council as non-permanent members from 2021.

On this day

June 26: Day of the National Flag in Romania (1848)

Henri Moissan

1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Spanish troops stormed the British-held strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) successfully isolated elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1907 – Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-day Georgia.
1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas.

Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (b. 1699)
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899)
Mary Rodgers (d. 2014)

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Cast members of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine participated in the show for seven seasons. Siddig El Fadil, later known as Alexander Siddig, was an early front runner for the part of Captain Benjamin Sisko. The producers thought he was too young for the role ultimately given to Avery Brooks (pictured). Instead, Siddig was offered the part of Dr. Julian Amoros, who was subsequently renamed to Julian Bashir. The series was originally intended to have Ro Laren, a character from The Next Generation, as a main character. However, after actress Michelle Forbes declined to sign on for a five- to six-year commitment for the series, the part was re-written to become Major Kira Nerys, with Nana Visitor cast in that role. There were several actors who appeared in Deep Space Nine in roles they had previously played in other Star Trek series. The most prominent of these was Colm Meaney, who played Chief Miles O'Brien. Meaney had first appeared as an unnamed crewman in the pilot episode, "Encounter at Farpoint", and went on to appear in a total of 52 episodes of The Next Generation. (Full list...)

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San Lorenzo, also known as the Royal Church of Saint Lawrence, is a Baroque-style church in Turin, Italy. The present building was designed and built by the Italian architect Guarino Guarini from 1668 to 1687. This photograph shows the interior of the church's dome, the base of which is circular, although the lantern above it is octagonal. The dome itself is supported by eight ribs forming a lattice similar to those found in mosques and Romanesque churches in Spain.

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