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Somerset County Cricket Club's 2009 season saw the team compete in four English competitions: the first divisions of the County Championship and the NatWest Pro40 League, the Friends Provident Trophy, and the Twenty20 Cup. Somerset were in contention to win the County Championship until the last few weeks of the season, but the batting-friendly pitch at their home ground meant that they finished with too many draws to claim their first Championship title. Somerset were unbeaten in the group stage of the Friends Provident Trophy, but were eliminated in the first knock-out round, and finished runners-up by one point in the NatWest Pro40. In the Twenty20 Cup, Somerset finished as losing finalists, thus qualifying for the international Champions League Twenty20, where they were eliminated in the second group stage. Overall, Somerset had a successful season but fell short of winning any competitions, prompting their Director of Cricket Brian Rose to say "We've had enough of being cricket's nearly men." Marcus Trescothick (pictured) topped the national batting tables and was named by the Professional Cricketers' Association as Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player of the Year. (Full article...)

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12:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

... that the fragile habitat of the silver-leaf sunray (pictured) is threatened by off-road recreational vehicles?
... that President Barack Obama awarded Meryl Streep the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
... that allegations have been made that the 2009 film Avatar plagiarised the 1992 film FernGully: The Last Rainforest?
... that contralto Hildegard Rütgers recorded Bach's Magnificat with Christmas interpolations with Helmuth Rilling?
... that some analysts have suggested that the United States Supreme Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States was influenced by ongoing protests in Ferguson, Missouri?
... that the British colonies of Demerara and Essequibo issued banknotes denominated in Joes?
... that cats have lived at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg almost continuously since the 18th century?
... that Clayton Vaughn first broke the 10-second barrier for the 100-meter dash on Mother's Day and dedicated his success to his late mother?

00:30, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

... that John D. Voelker (pictured) wanted to be appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court because he "needed the money", but he resigned two years later to be an author instead?
... that the whereabouts of the last northern bald ibis who knows the birds' migratory route are unknown, and without her, the species may face extinction in the wild in Syria?
... that during World War II, Max Nord lived with Simon Carmiggelt and Wim van Norden, and their families, in the same house where they edited the illegal newspaper Het Parool?
... that on the same day George Palmer presented a 49-acre park to the town of Reading, grateful townsfolk gave a bronze statue of the biscuit manufacturer?
... that in spite of his fascist past, Romanian literary historian Petre P. Panaitescu escaped serious punishment by the communist regime?
... that the book Big Little Lies was inspired by a radio interview with a woman whose parents had an abusive relationship?
... that Jamie Porter took a wicket with the fifth ball he bowled in first-class cricket?
... that under the Thai/United Nations Crop Replacement and Community Development Project, coffee has been experimented with as a replacement crop for opium?

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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.

Edward the Elder (d. 924)
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An aerial view of the Temple Mount, one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. Dominated by three religious structures from the early Umayyad period—the al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Dome of the Chain—the mount also has walls which date to the Herodian dynasty, including the Western Wall.

The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, in which it is regarded as the place where God's divine presence is manifested most frequently. In Christianity, it is held to have been the location of both Solomon's Temple and the Second Temple. Sunni Muslims consider the Mount the third holiest site in Islam, associating it with Muhammad's journey to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven. Owing to its importance to these religions, claims over the Mount have been heavily contested.

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