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Lambeosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 76 to 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian) of North America. This bipedal/quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaur is known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest, which in the best-known species resembled a hatchet. Several possible species have been named in Canada, the US, and Mexico, but only the two Canadian species are currently recognized as valid. The various skulls assigned to the type species L. lambei are interpreted as showing age differences and sexual dimorphism, including some juvenile fossils previously thought to belong to a genus of dwarf hadrosaur. Lambeosaurus was closely related to the better known Corythosaurus, which is found in slightly older rocks, as well as the less well-known dinosaurs Hypacrosaurus and Olorotitan. All had unusual crests, which are now generally assumed to have served social functions like noisemaking and recognition. Lambeosaurus was belatedly described in 1923 by William Parks, over twenty years after the first material was studied by Lawrence Lambe, after whom the dinosaur is named. (Full article...)

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November 19: International Men's Day; Liberation Day in Mali

1794 – The United States and Great Britain concluded the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (pictured) delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1943 – The Holocaust: Inmates at the Janowska concentration camp near modern Lviv, Ukraine, staged a failed uprising, after which the SS liquidated the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.
1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashed while attempting to land at Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, killing over 130 people on board.
2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast Region of New Zealand in the nation's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.

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A cutaway of an M4A4 Sherman tank , the primary tank used by the United States and the other Western Allies in World War II. The second most heavily produced tank of the war, the Sherman continued as the workhorse for the US military into the 1950s. In the Pacific theatre of the war, Sherman tanks proved superior to their Japanese counterparts, but in Europe they became outclassed by Germany's Tiger I and Tiger II tanks. Click on the image for an explanation of the labels.

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