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The fourteen episodes of the thirteenth season of South Park, an American animated television comedy series, originally aired in 2009. The show focuses on the exploits of protagonists Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Butters in the fictional Colorado mountain town of South Park. The 13th season satirized such topics as the ACORN scandal, Japanese whaling, piracy in Somalia and the marketing tactics of the Walt Disney Company. Celebrities were spoofed throughout the season, including the Jonas Brothers, Kanye West, Carlos Mencia, Paul Watson and Glenn Beck. The season received mixed reviews: some critics called it one of South Park's strongest seasons, while others claimed the series was starting to decline in quality. The season maintained the average Nielsen rating viewership for the series, around 3 million viewers per episode. The episode "Margaritaville", which satirized the global recession then affecting much of the industrialized world, won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). "Fatbeard" was praised by the crew of the USS Bainbridge, which was involved in the 2009 rescue of the MV Maersk Alabama from Somalian pirates. (Full article...)

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U.S. soldier Bradley Manning (pictured) is sentenced to 35 years in prison for releasing classified information to WikiLeaks.

Flooding in northeastern China and eastern Russia kills at least 85 people.

The CIA acknowledges its role in organizing the 1953 Iranian coup d'état for the first time.

The World Championships in Athletics in Moscow conclude with Russia winning the most gold medals.

Ecuador announces it will reopen Yasuni National Park to oil drilling, ending a six-year initiative aimed at protecting the rainforest.

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August 22: Feast Day of the Queenship of Mary (Roman Catholic Church); Madras Day in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1485 – Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.

1711 – Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the Saint Lawrence River.

1851 – The yacht America won the first America's Cup race (trophy pictured) near the Isle of Wight, England.

1910 – Japan annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.

1989 – Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers struck out the Oakland Athletics' Rickey Henderson, becoming the only pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 5,000 strikeouts.

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Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge which crosses the River Thames in west London. The second permanent bridge on the site, the current bridge was designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and rests upon its predecessor's pier foundations. Bombings and an increase in traffic have led to the bridge being repaired and refurbished several times.

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