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The second and final season of 1923, an American neo-Western television series, was announced in February 2023. As a limited-run series, 1923 was not originally intended to extend beyond its initial eight-episode order. The second season was developed after Taylor Sheridan, its creator and showrunner, decided that more episodes were needed to tell the story. A part of the Yellowstone franchise, 1923 is a sequel to 1883 and a prequel to Yellowstone. The series stars Helen Mirren (pictured), Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Isabel May, Michelle Randolph, and Timothy Dalton. Sheridan wrote all eight of the second season's episodes. The series revolves around a generation of the Dutton family, and is set in the U.S. state of Montana between 1923 and 1924. The Duttons face the struggles of winter and attempt to protect their ranch against developers. The season was released on the streaming platform Paramount+ from February 23 to April 6, 2025. (Full article...)
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On this day: September 5
- 1367 – Swa Saw Ke became the ruler of the Kingdom of Ava in Upper Myanmar.
- 1915 – The Casablanca Fair (poster pictured) opened in the French protectorate in Morocco.
- 1943 – World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
- 1977 – NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
- 2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashed shortly after take-off in Indonesia due to pilot error, killing 100 out of the 117 people on board along with 49 more on the ground.
- Nap Lajoie (b. 1874)
- Carmen Petra Basacopol (b. 1926)
- Freddie Mercury (b. 1946)
- Adam Exner (d. 2023)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].