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iMac G4 with external peripherals

The iMac G4 is an all-in-one personal computer produced by Apple Computer from January 2002 to August 2004. It comprises a hemispheric base that holds the computer components and a flatscreen liquid-crystal display (LCD) mounted above. The computer, first released in 1998, helped save Apple from bankruptcy. Development of the iMac G4 took roughly two years, with Apple's designers exploring multiple ways of marrying the display screen with the computer components. Its shape was inspired by a sunflower, with the display connected to the base via an adjustable stainless-steel arm that allows the monitor to be freely tilted and swiveled. The product was a critical and commercial success for Apple, selling more than 1.3 million units in its first year, and it was updated with faster components and larger displays before being replaced by the iMac G5 in September 2004. The machine is held in the collections of multiple museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and Museums Victoria. (Full article...)

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Bode Ioiô's taxidermied body

... that a liquor-drinking celebrity goat named Ioiô (pictured) won an election for city councilman in Fortaleza?
... that Beyoncé's "Formation" video topped Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time" in 2021?
... that Jim Coffeen was the first quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, then served as the team's first public address announcer?
... that Score! by Jilly Cooper was criticised for its treatment of sexual violence?
... that the court-appointed receiver for a California TV station noted that the business "at least equal[ed] the most poorly managed companies I've seen"?
... that stage director Tina Packer has hired Black and Asian actors in traditionally White Shakespearean roles?
... that kākā birds deeply scar Nothofagus menziesii trees while searching for the larvae of the pūriri moth?
... that priests were secretly buried at St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate, after it fell into ruin?
... that Hamengkubuwono III was appointed crown prince of Yogyakarta while his father was also still crown prince?

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José Mujica

Former president of Uruguay José Mujica (pictured) dies at the age of 89.
Robert Francis Prevost is elected as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the first Catholic pope born in the United States.
Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany and sworn in alongside his coalition government.
Zhao Xintong defeats Mark Williams to win the World Snooker Championship.

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May 16: Global Accessibility Awareness Day (2024); Malcolm X Day in some parts of the United States (2025)

Junko Tabei

1426 – Mohnyin Thado captured Sagaing to become the king of Ava, in present-day Myanmar.
1605 – After a scuffle in which one cardinal received broken bones, a papal conclave convened in Rome elected Camillo Borghese as Pope Paul V.
1929 – The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
1975 – Japanese climber Junko Tabei (pictured) became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Pietro da Cortona (d. 1669)
William H. Seward (b. 1801)
Amanda Asay (b. 1988)

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The Church of the Good Shepherd, a Category 1 Historic Place at Lake Tekapo

There are thirty listed sites located in the Mackenzie District, a territorial authority in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand. A large inland plain at the foothills of the Southern Alps, it was frequently visited by Māori hunting parties, but sparsely populated. European settlers established sheep runs in the area by the 1850s. Heritage New Zealand classifies sites on the New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero in accordance with the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014. It distinguishes between Category 1 ("places of special or outstanding historical or cultural significance") and Category 2 ("places of historic or cultural significance"). The Mackenzie District has three Category 1 sites, one historic area, and twenty-six Category 2 sites. An additional Category 2 site—the War Memorial in Fairlie—was demolished in 1999 and delisted. (Full list...)

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Margaret Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American entertainer and educator, with a fifty-year career in entertainment spanning theater, film, radio and television. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton appeared in films and made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals and retained a lifelong commitment to public education. This photograph shows Hamilton as Miss Eddels in Sid and Marty Krofft's Sigmund and the Sea Monsters c. 1973.

Photograph credit: NBC Television Network; restored by Adam Cuerden

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