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The Quelccaya Ice Cap (also known as the Quenamari Ice Cap) is the second-largest glaciated area in the tropics, after Coropuna. Located in the Cordillera Oriental in Peru's Andes, it covers an area of 42.8 square kilometres (16.5 sq mi) with ice up to 200 metres (660 ft) thick. It is surrounded by tall ice cliffs and a number of outlet glaciers, the largest of which is known as Qori Kalis Glacier. Quelccaya is an important source of water, eventually nourishing the Inambari and Vilcanota Rivers. It is regularly monitored and has a weather station. Quelccaya was much larger in the past, merging with neighbouring glaciers during the Pleistocene epoch. After reaching a secondary highstand (area expansion) during the Little Ice Age, Quelccaya has been shrinking due to human-caused climate change. Models predict that without aggressive climate mitigation measures, Quelccaya is likely to disappear during the 21st or 22nd century. (Full article...)

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Inkeri Anttila

... that Inkeri Anttila (pictured), Finland's first female minister of justice, was also the first woman in Finland to complete a doctorate in law?
... that women in the Shaheen Bagh protest, who blocked a major road in Delhi for 101 days, included 82-year-old Bilkis?
... that ichthyologist C. Richard Robins and his wife Catherine were honoured jointly in the name of the false moray Robinsia catherinae?
... that Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden, one of Christoph Graupner's church cantatas, reflects how Jesus suffered from his friends, and ends with a chorale fantasia "full of dissonances"?
... that the character Tom Bombadil, omitted by Peter Jackson in his later version, appears in a Russian film of The Lord of the Rings?
... that after coming back for a fifth season at Stanford, Anna Wilson won the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game with the Cardinal?
... that the 2019 children's picture book Birdsong portrays intergenerational relationship using seasonal cycles?
... that after Rhoda, Lady Birley, made fish stew with cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"?

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Tianhe space station module

In Israel, at least 44 people are killed in a stampede at a religious festival on Mount Meron.
China launches the Tianhe space station module (pictured) on a Long March 5B rocket, the first module in the upcoming Tiangong space station.
American astronaut Michael Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, dies at the age of 90.
At the Academy Awards, Nomadland wins three awards, including Best Picture.
A fire at a COVID-19 hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, kills at least 82 people.

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April 30: Reunification Day in Vietnam (1975)

Mary Pickford's handprints and footprints

1883 – New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to imprint their handprints and footprints in cement (Pickford's pictured) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
1982 – Sixteen monks and a nun belonging to Ananda Marga in Calcutta, India, were dragged out of taxis by persons unknown in three different locations, beaten to death and then set on fire.
2004 – The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses (d. 1733)
Luigi Russolo (b. 1885)
Roger L. Easton (b. 1921)

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Pat Metheny Group

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for quality songs or albums in the genre of jazz fusion, a combination of rock and jazz. The honor was first presented to Weather Report at the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards (1980) for the album 8:30. The Pat Metheny Group (pictured) holds the record for the most wins in this category, with a total of five. David Sanborn is the only other musician to win the award more than once, with two. The group Spyro Gyra holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with six. (Full list...)

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The agile frog (Rana dalmatina) is a species of true frog in the family Ranidae. Native to central and southern Europe, its brownish dappled colouring helps to conceal it among the leaf litter on the forest floor. This frog, about 5 cm (2.0 in) long, was photographed in the Golovec Forest in Slovenia.

Photograph credit: Petar Milošević

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