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The black stork (Ciconia nigra) is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae. Measuring on average 95 to 100 cm (37 to 39 in) from beak tip to end of tail with a 145-to-155 cm (57-to-61 in) wingspan, the adult black stork has mainly black plumage, with white underparts, long red legs and a long pointed red beak. A widespread, but uncommon, species, it breeds in scattered locations across Europe (predominantly in Spain, and central and eastern Europe) and Asia. It is a long-distance migrant, with European populations wintering in tropical Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asian populations in the Indian subcontinent. Unlike the closely related white stork, the black stork is a shy and wary species. It is seen singly or in pairs, usually in marshy areas, rivers or inland waters. It feeds on amphibians, small fish and insects, generally wading slowly in shallow water to stalk its prey. (Full article...)

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Keith Richards in 1965

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... that when directing Der Ring in Minden, Wagner's Ring Cycle at a municipal theatre, Gerd Heinz focused on the psychology in the interactions of the characters?
... that Washington State Route 99 passes under downtown Seattle in a tunnel that was excavated by the world's largest tunnel boring machine?
... that many of the photographs taken by Maharaja Ram Singh II of Jaipur State depict the lives of women behind purdah in his harem?
... that the internal organs of Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert the Bruce, were buried at Cullen Old Church?
... that the English Premiership Rugby Cup was created after the Welsh regions left the Anglo-Welsh Cup?
... that Lawrence Minard has a business journalism award named after him?
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In the news

Theresa May

In the European Parliament election, the centre-right and centre-left lose seats. Liberals, the far-right, and the greens and regionalists make the largest gains.
British Prime Minister Theresa May (pictured), under pressure over her handling of Brexit, announces her intention to resign.
A prison riot in Acarigua, Venezuela, leaves 29 prisoners dead and 19 guards injured.
A fire at a commercial complex in Surat, India, kills 22 students in a coaching centre.
The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies, led by Narendra Modi, win a majority in the Indian general election.

On this day

May 28: Night of Decree (Shia Islam, 2019)

Andrew Jackson

621 – Li Shimin defeated and captured Dou Jiande in the Battle of Hulao, leading to a Tang dynasty victory in the civil war that followed the collapse of the Sui dynasty.
1608 – Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi debuted his second opera L'Arianna, now one of his lost works, at a royal wedding in Mantua.
1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson (pictured) signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands.
1977 – A fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, killed 165 patrons.
2010 – A train derailment and collision in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India, caused the deaths of at least 148 passengers.

Germain of Paris (d. 576) · Louis Agassiz (b. 1807) · Kylie Minogue (b. 1968)

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The Allegory of Prudence is an oil-on-canvas painting attributed to the Italian painter Titian and his assistants, dated around 1565 to 1570. It depicts three human heads, representing youth, maturity, and old age, above three animal heads. Both sets of heads face in different directions, which reflects the concepts of past, present and future. Scholars believe that the first of the three human heads is an elderly Titian, while the other two are his son Orazio Vecellio and his young nephew Marco Vecellio, both of whom lived and worked with him. A barely visible inscription across the top of the painting, from which the work acquired its present name, reads Ex praeterito praesens prudenter agit, ni futura actione deturpet (Latin for 'From the experience of the past, the present acts prudently, lest it spoil future actions'). The painting is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London.

Painting credit: Titian

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