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Telescopium is a minor constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, one of twelve created in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientific instruments. Its name is a Latinized form of the Greek word for telescope. Telescopium was later much reduced in size by Francis Baily and Benjamin Gould. The brightest star in the constellation is Alpha Telescopii, a blue-white subgiant with an apparent magnitude of 3.5, followed by the orange giant star Zeta Telescopii at magnitude 4.1. Eta and PZ Telescopii are two young star systems with debris disks and brown dwarf companions. Telescopium hosts two unusual stars with very little hydrogen that are likely to be the result of merged white dwarfs: HD 168476, also known as PV Telescopii, is a hot blue extreme helium star, while RS Telescopii is an R Coronae Borealis variable. RR Telescopii is a cataclysmic variable that brightened to magnitude 6 in 1948 as a nova. (Full article...)

Country Joe and the Fish

... that Country Joe and the Fish (pictured) was initially formed with only Country Joe and The Fish?
... that wind turbines in Conca de Barberà help power Catalonia?
... that Kate Macintosh designed a social housing complex in London that was described as "one of the most remarkable housing developments in the country"?
... that Hettesheimer Run was historically used as an industrial water supply, but is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the cathedral architect Corinne Bennett's interest in stone came from her father, a geology professor?
... that the premiere of Aaron Copland's Connotations, on September 23, 1962, "sent shock waves through the world of music"?
... that although the town clerk, Edward Hart, wrote the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, no one knows who most inspired its moving appeal for freedom of conscience in colonial New Netherland?
... that the highland tuco-tuco has bright yellowish-orange teeth?

Beata Szydło

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 380 people and injuring more than 2,400 others.
The Law and Justice party (prime minister designate Beata Szydło pictured) wins the most seats in the Polish Sejm.
In motorsport, Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula One World Drivers' Championship after his team, Mercedes, secured the Constructors' Championship.
Jimmy Morales is elected President of Guatemala.
Hurricane Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, makes landfall in Mexico.

October 29: Republic Day in Turkey (1923)

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618 – English courtier and explorer Walter Raleigh (pictured) was executed in London after King James I reinstated a fifteen-year-old death sentence against him.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparing for and carrying out the Russian Revolution, was established.
1969 – A student at UCLA sent the first message on the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, to a computer at Stanford Research Institute.
2013 – The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait.

The common redshank (Tringa totanus) is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. This migratory species feeds predominantly on invertebrates.

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