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From today's featured articleThe seventeenth season of Grey's Anatomy was ordered in May 2019, by ABC, as part of a double renewal with the sixteenth season. For the 2020–2021 U.S. broadcast television season, filming began in September 2020 while the season did not premiere until November 12, 2020, both delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of the pandemic on U.S. television only allowed seventeen episodes to be produced, the fewest of any season since the fourth. COVID-19 safety protocols were also implemented during production, and most main storylines dealt with the pandemic in the U.S. with some also connecting to spin-off series Station 19 through fictional crossover events. Numerous former starring cast members guest starred throughout the season, which received mixed reviews from critics but remained ABC's most-watched scripted series. It concluded on June 3, 2021. Despite initial uncertainty from the cast, crew, and network, the series was eventually renewed for an eighteenth season. (Full article...)
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Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 27 known moons, most of which are named after characters that appear in, or are mentioned in, the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus's moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and nine irregular moons. The inner and major moons all have prograde orbits, while orbits of the irregulars are mostly retrograde. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with Uranus's rings. The five major moons are ellipsoidal, indicating that they reached hydrostatic equilibrium at some point in their past (and may still be in equilibrium), and four of them show signs of internally driven processes such as canyon formation and volcanism on their surfaces. William Herschel discovered the first two moons, Titania and Oberon, in 1787. The other three ellipsoidal moons were discovered in 1851 by William Lassell (Ariel and Umbriel) and in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper (Miranda). (Full list...)
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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom for all civil cases, as well as for criminal cases originating in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It also hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance affecting the whole population. The court is located in the Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square, London; this photograph depicts the interior of Court 1, the largest of the three courtrooms in the building. Photograph credit: David Iliff
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