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East High School, Utah

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is an American mockumentary musical drama television series created by Tim Federle for Disney+, which was first released on November 8, 2019. The first season centers on a group of teenage theater enthusiasts (played by Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Matt Cornett, Sofia Wylie and others) who participate in a staging of High School Musical: The Musical as their school production. The series is set at a fictionalized version of East High School (pictured), where the original High School Musical film series was filmed. Several cast members from the film series appear in guest roles. Critics have highlighted the performances of Bassett and Rodrigo, and have compared the series to Glee for its music and themes. There has been a mixed reception to the program's mockumentary format. The series won a GLAAD Media Award and was nominated for five Children's and Family Emmy Awards. The third season premiered in July 2022; a fourth season is in production. (Full article...)

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Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial

... that although it was a centennial project, the Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial (pictured) in New Zealand was opened 90 years after the region's organised settlement began?
... that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States?
... that Arthur Arndt's family was the largest known group of Jews to successfully hide in Germany during the Holocaust?
... that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
... that United States Air Force colonel Virgil K. Meroney flew two combat missions with his son before his son was killed in action in March 1969, during the Vietnam War?
... that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on Mars?
... that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?
... that Auto-GPT, an autonomous artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?

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Kelvin Kiptum

In Kenya, at least 109 people are found in mass graves and more than 400 others are missing after the leader of a cult allegedly instructed members to starve themselves.
In the London Marathon, Sifan Hassan wins the women's race, while Kelvin Kiptum (pictured) wins the men's event and breaks the course record.
The wreckage of the Montevideo Maru, a Japanese vessel sunk by the US during World War II with over 1,000 captive Australian nationals onboard, is discovered in the South China Sea.

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April 29

HMS Endeavour

1770 – On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (pictured) landed at Botany Bay, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.
1863 – Confederate forts at Grand Gulf survived a bombardment by Union gunboats, preventing Ulysses S. Grant's troops from crossing the Mississippi River at that point.
1903 – A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.
1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnam concluded its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands held by South Vietnam.
2006 – Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe, Myanmar, causing 37 deaths.

George Farquhar (d. 1707)
Marietta Blau (b. 1894)
Giacomo dalla Torre (d. 2020)

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Mating pair of chalkhill blue butterflies

The chalkhill blue (Lysandra coridon) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is a small butterfly that can be found throughout the Palearctic realm, where it occurs primarily in grasslands rich in chalk. Males are a pale blue colour, while females are dark brown; both have chequered fringes around their wings. This mating pair of chalkhill blues was photographed at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve in Oxfordshire, England. The species breeds and produces a new generation only once per year.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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