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Today's featured article Masai giraffe The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa. It is known for its extremely long neck and legs, its horn-like ossicones, and its spotted coat patterns. Traditionally, giraffes have been thought of as one species, but more recent evidence has proposed dividing them into multiple species. Giraffes usually inhabit savannahs and woodlands. Their food source is leaves, fruits, and flowers of woody plants, primarily acacia species, which they browse at heights most other herbivores cannot reach. Giraffes live in herds of related females and their offspring or bachelor herds of unrelated adult males, but are gregarious and may gather in large aggregations. Females bear sole responsibility for rearing the young. Giraffes have been featured in paintings, books, and cartoons. Giraffes are assessed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They are found in numerous national parks and game reserves. (Full article...) Recently featured: Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō 1964 European Nations' Cup final Planet Did you know Ryu Sung-hyun ... that Olympian Ryu Sung-hyun (pictured) taught himself gymnastics for four years because his father did not want him to become an athlete? ... that a nihilist school of metaphysics contends that tables and chairs do not exist? ... that the efforts of Cora Babbitt Johnson helped delay the construction of Mount Rushmore until 1927? ... that "Sea of Voices" was well-received by Porter Robinson's fans even though it was a fundamental change from his prior musical style? ... that Morris Villarroel wore a camera on his chest that took around 1,200 photographs per day for several years? ... that Seattle Reign FC have had three name changes during their 11-year history? ... that Eric Bloodaxe's death at the Battle of Stainmore ended the independence of Scandinavian York? ... that the legacy of American pianist Ella Scoble Opperman has been said to continue "to entertain and draw attention to Tallahassee" decades after her death? ... that the sheep-farming founder of Kekerengu in New Zealand became an international fugitive?

In the news Willie Mays in 1961 American baseball player Willie Mays (pictured) dies at the age of 93. In basketball, the Boston Celtics defeat the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals. A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, south of Kuwait City, kills fifty people. A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Mike Brumley Laurence Gluck James Kent Sara Facio Allan Saxe Paul Pressler This day in history June 21: Fête de la Musique; International Day of Yoga; National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada; Xiazhi in China (2024) Replica of the Manchester Baby 217 BC – Second Punic War: The Carthaginians under Hannibal ambushed a Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, capturing or killing 25,000 men. 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government in present-day Romania. 1898 – In a bloodless event during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam from Spain. 1919 – During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers, armed with clubs and revolvers. 1948 – The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program. Claude Auchinleck (b. 1884) Maureen Connolly (d. 1969) William, Prince of Wales (b. 1982) Wong Ho Leng (d. 2014) More anniversaries: June 20 June 21 June 22

Today's featured media Venus Anadyomene is an oil-on-canvas painting by Titian, dating to around 1520. It depicts the Greek goddess Venus rising from the sea and wringing her hair, with a shell visible at the bottom left, taken from a description of Venus by the Greek poet Hesiod in which she was born fully-grown from a shell. The wringing of her hair is a direct imitation of Apelles's lost masterwork, also called Venus Anadyomene. The painting is in good condition and achieved public ownership in 2003 when it was purchased from Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland. It is now in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. Painting credit: Titian Recently featured: Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Six-spot burnet Copper sunbird

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