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William Robinson Brown (January 17, 1875 – August 4, 1955) was a corporate officer of the Brown Company and a breeder of Arabian horses. He advocated for sustainable forest management practices and his innovations became industry standards. He was influenced by the progressive movement, instituting employee benefits at the Brown Company that predated modern workers' compensation laws. He founded the Maynesboro Stud in 1912 with bloodstock from American breeders of Arabian horses, also importing horses from England, France, and Egypt. At its peak, Maynesboro was the largest Arabian horse farm in the United States. To prove the abilities of Arabians, he organized several endurance races, which his horses won three times. He served as the president of the Arabian Horse Club of America from 1918 until 1939. His 1929 book The Horse of the Desert is an authoritative work on Arabians. A Republican, he served as a presidential elector for New Hampshire in 1924. (Full article...)

Thamirys Nunes

• ... that after discovering her child was transgender, Thamirys Nunes (pictured) created an organization dedicated to defending transgender youth?
• ... that a Saturday Night Live sketch received an award from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)?
• ... that Darryl De Sousa created a Baltimore Police Department unit to give lie detector tests to other units?
• ... that the reliefs on the walls of the Dhumnath Temple depict erotic poses from the Kama Sutra?
• ... that general Zhao Chongguo's appointment to manage parklands incidentally gave him control over the Han dynasty's coinage production?
• ... that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee?
• ... that Governor of Svalbard Håkon Balstad was described as a "roaring bull of a man with a fabulous capacity for raw liquor"?
• ... that New Zealand once consumed more tea per capita than Britain?
• ... that before specializing in bagpipe making, Roddy MacLellan helped create one of the trophies used at the Super Bowl?

David Lynch in 1990

• American filmmaker David Lynch (pictured) dies at the age of 78.
• South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is arrested after his declaration of martial law.
• Joseph Aoun is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy, and Nawaf Salam is nominated as prime minister.
• An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 19 deaths.

Model of the Second Temple in the time of Herod the Great

The timeline of the Second Temple period in Jewish history begins with the end of the Babylonian captivity and the Persian conquest of the Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE. A new temple to replace the destroyed Solomon's Temple was built in Jerusalem by the returnees, and the Second Temple (model pictured) was finished around 516 BCE. Second Temple Judaism was centered around the religious leadership of the Second Temple, and lasted for six centuries. The Persians were largely tolerant of Judaism. Persian rule lasted for two centuries, but came to an end with the conquests of Macedonia under Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. Judea and the Eastern Mediterranean region came under Greek influence during the resulting Hellenistic period; Hellenistic Judaism blended both Greek and Jewish traditions. The Second Temple period came to an end with the First Jewish–Roman War of 66 to 73 CE. (Full list...)