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David Morse, who portrayed Tritter

Michael Tritter is a fictional character in the medical drama series House, played by David Morse (pictured). The main antagonist of the third season (2006–07), Tritter is a police detective who tries to get Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) to apologize for leaving him with a thermometer in his rectum. After House refuses, Tritter discovers his Vicodin addiction, and forces him to go to rehab. The character was created as somebody who could go "toe-to-toe" with House. Morse, who had never seen the show before, was unsure if he could portray the character. The excited reaction of his friends convinced him to take the role. Initial critical responses were mostly positive, but critics later felt that the six-episode Tritter story arc became boring. Morse, though, was praised for his portrayal and received an Emmy nomination. He stated in a 2006 TV Guide interview that, although he had discussed it with the show's writers, reprising the character would be "practically impossible". (Full article...)

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Bhagat Singh

1888 – Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, eventually resulting in the establishment of the Football League.
1931 – Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities.
1989 – Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim that was later discredited.
1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.
2005 – A fire and explosion at an oil refinery in Texas City, the third-largest in the United States, killed 15 workers.

Henry of Grosmont (d. 1361)
Pierre-Simon Laplace (b. 1749)
Akira Kurosawa (b. 1910)
Kangana Ranaut (b. 1986)

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Ekrem İmamoğlu

Anti-government protests break out across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu (pictured) by the Turkish National Police.
Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud survives an attack on his convoy by al-Shabaab that kills at least 10 people.
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip kill more than 500 people, ending the Gaza war ceasefire.
A nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia, kills at least 59 people and injures more than 155 others.
In Yemen, 53 people are killed after the United States launches air and naval strikes.

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Catholic deacon receiving a tattoo at Razzouk

... that Razzouk Tattoo in Jerusalem has been giving tattoos to Christian pilgrims (process pictured) for more than 250 years?
... that John Albrinck is estimated to have planted more than 1,500 fruit trees during his time as a seminary rector?
... that clapper-bells are the oldest bronze-cast objects found at Erlitou?
... that the historic water stream Seil Amman was roofed to make way for a road in the 1960s?
... that C. G. Joshi played cricket for Rajasthan at the same time that he ran the fine arts department at Mayo College?
... that the French, when they began to colonize Cambodia, agreed that Angkor Wat was in Thailand?
... that there was initially an attempt to cover up any casualties during the 2025 New Delhi railway station crowd crush?
... that the music video for the single "Dam" by the Filipino boy band SB19 has been compared to Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings?
... that the "Slicker" "performed so well at cracking skulls"?

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The strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is a widely grown hybrid plant cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The genus Fragaria is in the rose family, Rosaceae. Strawberries are appreciated for their aroma, bright red colour, juicy texture, and sweetness. They are eaten either fresh or in prepared foods such as jam, ice cream, and chocolates. Artificial strawberry flavourings and aromas are widely used in commercial products. Botanically, the strawberry is not a berry, but an example of an aggregate fruit and an accessory fruit. Each apparent "seed" on the outside of a strawberry is actually an achene, a botanical fruit with a seed inside it. The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s via a cross of F. virginiana, from eastern North America, and F. chiloensis, which was brought from Chile by Amédée-François Frézier in 1714. Cultivars of F. × ananassa have replaced the woodland strawberry F. vesca in commercial production. In 2023, world production of strawberries exceeded ten million tons, led by China, with 40 percent of the total. These focus-stacked photographs show two garden strawberries, one whole and one halved, that were grown in Spain.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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