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"The One Where Michael Leaves" is the second-season premiere of the American television satirical sitcom Arrested Development (title card pictured), originally broadcast on the Fox Network in November 2004. The series follows the wealthy Bluth family, and the episode focuses mainly on Michael Bluth as he and his son attempt to flee to Phoenix while his father is held in prison. Meanwhile, Tobias gets an audition for the Blue Man Group. The episode's production received assistance from the group, who asked only that the series keep their air of mystery. The full-body blue paint was a hassle for David Cross, despite the fact that the Blue Man Group in reality only wears blue leotards with face paint. The episode received mostly positive reception, and is retrospectively considered one of the series's finest episodes. Since airing, it has also received thematic analysis from both scholars and critics. (Full article...)
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On this day: June 27
June 27: Helen Keller Day in the United States
- 678 – Pope Agatho, later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
- 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by George II (depicted) defeated the French army at Dettingen, Bavaria.
- 1869 – The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was completed with an imperial victory in the Boshin War.
- 1957 – Hurricane Audrey made landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana, U.S.
- 2007 – As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military and civil police operation killed 19 people and injured several others.
- James Smithson (d. 1829)
- Nekima Levy Armstrong (b. 1976)
- Sam Claflin (b. 1986)
- Michael Nyqvist (d. 2017)
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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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
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].