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Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn, voiced by Jeremy Shada (pictured), and his best friend Jake, a dog who can change shape and size at will, voiced by John DiMaggio. In the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, they interact with Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the Ice King (Tom Kenny), Marceline (Olivia Olson), and others. The series is based on a 2007 short for Nicktoons and Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons. Premiering April 5, 2010, and ending September 3, 2018, each 11-minute episode took roughly 8–9 months to complete using hand-drawn animation. Adventure Time was a ratings success for Cartoon Network with up to three million viewers. It has received positive reviews from critics and won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, three Annie Awards, and two British Academy Children's Awards. Four Adventure Time specials will air on HBO Max starting in 2020. (Full article...)

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Vincent van Gogh's painting The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen (pictured) is stolen from the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands.
North Macedonia becomes a member of NATO.
The 2020 Summer Olympics are postponed for one year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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April 5: Holy Week begins (Western Christianity, 2020); Education and Sharing Day in the United States (2020)

Birkenhead Park

919 – The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
1847 – Birkenhead Park (pictured), generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
1936 – During the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history, an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people.
1976 – The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
2000 – Before a semi-final of the UEFA Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, fan violence broke out, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.

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Bianca Maria Sforza (5 April 1472 – 31 December 1510) was the third wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. She was married when 21 months old to her first cousin Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, and became a widow at the age of ten, when he died of tuberculosis. After her father Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, was assassinated when she was a child, her education was neglected. Her marriage to Maximilian in 1494 was unhappy; she became pregnant several times but failed to produce a living child, and he compared her unfavourably to his first wife, describing her as uneducated, talkative, naive, wasteful with money, and careless.

This picture is an oil-on-poplar portrait of Bianca by Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, probably painted in 1493. The work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Painting credit: Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis

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