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Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, and Corona Australis, the Southern Crown, are two small constellations among the 48 listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy. Corona Borealis, which generally represented the crown given by the god Dionysus to the Cretan princess Ariadne, is in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere, while Corona Australis, associated with Sagittarius or Centaurus, is in the Southern. Corona Borealis boasts the highly variable stars R and T Coronae Borealis and the huge Corona Borealis Supercluster. Corona Australis, lying alongside the plane of the Milky Way, hosts Epsilon Coronae Australis, the brightest example of a W Ursae Majoris variable in the southern sky. It also contains one of the closest star-forming regions to our Solar System, about 430 light years away—a dusty dark nebula known as the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, with stars at their earliest stages. (See Corona Borealis and Corona Australis.)

... that the film roles of Nepalese actress Manisha Koirala (pictured) have included a Muslim married to a Hindu during the Bombay Riots, the daughter of a mute and deaf couple, and a terrorist?
... that Dorothy McKibbin was known as the "first lady of Los Alamos"?
... that the foundation stone of the Snaresbrook Crown Court building was laid by Albert, Prince Consort?
... that Mariah Carey wrote "One Child" with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman?
... that the producers of the visual novel Snow were influenced by Key?
... that although Cantata misericordium recounts the parable of the good Samaritan, the Red Cross refused to allow it to use the Biblical text?
... that Zhu Changfang, Prince of Lu, developed a new type of guqin incorporating Western design elements?
... that a restaurant named a cheeseburger after Miss Minnesota 2015 Rachel Latuff and served it with an onion ring topped by "sweet sparkles" as an imitation of her crown?

England cricket team

A truck bomb attack at a market in Baghdad kills at least 80 people and injures more than 200 others.
Multiple explosions in Tianjin, China, kill more than 100 people and injure at least 700.
In cricket, England (pictured) regain the Ashes with a victory against Australia in the fourth Test of the series.
Typhoon Soudelor makes landfalls in Taiwan and eastern China, killing at least 29 people and injuring hundreds more.
A new 35 km-long (22 mi) bypass channel of Egypt's Suez Canal is officially opened, approximately doubling the canal's capacity.

August 16: Children's Day in Paraguay

Joseph Kittinger making his record-breaking jump

1819 – Fifteen people were killed and 400–700 others were injured when cavalry charged into a crowd gathered at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.
1863 – After Spain had annexed the Dominican Republic, rebels raised the Dominican flag in Santiago de los Caballeros to begin the War of Restoration.
1927 – The Dole Air Race began; eight fixed-wing aircraft competed to fly from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, but only two successfully completed the flight.
1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachuted from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting records for high-altitude jump, free-fall height, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
2009 – Y. E. Yang won the 2009 PGA Championship to become the first Asian-born golfer to win a men's major golf championship.

The oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum) is a wader in the pratincole family. This migratory Asian bird feeds predominantly on insects.

Photograph: JJ Harrison

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