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Nathan Steuer

... that Magic: The Gathering world champion Nathan Steuer (pictured) started tournament-level play as a pre-teen, saying that the "13 and up" label on Magic packaging was "just recommended"?
... that the upgrading of the A9 in Scotland between Perth and Inverness is far from being complete despite its 2025 deadline?
... that in 1919 Vladimir Zitta, Evgenia Semenovskaya, Vladimir Bezel and G. N. Maksimov were expelled from the Party of Revolutionary Communism for having advocated unity with other populist sectors?
... that the satellite TRUTHS is planned to enable the precise calibration of Earth observation data from other satellites?
... that ice hockey coach Ryan Warsofsky was the youngest active head coach in the ECHL, then was the youngest in the AHL, and now is the youngest in the NHL?
... that Pure Japanese was released under this English title in its native Japan?
... that Charlemagne owned an elephant that he received as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid?
... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
... that Kho Ping Hoo, despite writing numerous stories based on wuxia, could not read Chinese?

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July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day

Russian imperial family, 1913

1850 – William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
1862 – The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London.
1918 – Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II and his family (pictured) were murdered by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg.
1944 – Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.

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