- A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.
Itō Jakuchū was a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period when Japan had closed its doors to the outside world. Many of his paintings concern traditionally Japanese subjects, particularly chickens and other birds. Many of his otherwise traditional works display a great degree of experimentation with perspective, and with other very modern stylistic elements.
Compared to Soga Shōhaku and other exemplars of the mid-Edo period eccentric painters, Jakuchū is said to have been very calm, restrained, and professional. He held strong ties to Zen Buddhist ideals, and was considered a lay brother; but he was also keenly aware of his role within a Kyoto society that was becoming increasingly commercial.
Pedro Ventura Felipe de Araújo Pomar foi um político brasileiro, fundador do Partido Comunista do Brasil.
Foi assassinado durante o ataque a tiros à casa 767 da Rua Pio XI, no bairro da Lapa, onde o Comitê Central do PC do B esteve reunido entre os dias 11 e 15 de dezembro de 1976. Este episódio ficaria conhecido como Chacina da Lapa.
É um dos casos investigados pela Comissão da Verdade, que apura mortes e desaparecimentos na ditadura militar brasileira.
The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance made up of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia. The immediate cause of the war involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of Britain and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at the Ottoman Empire's expense. It has widely been noted that the causes, in one case involving an argument over a key, have never revealed a "greater confusion of purpose", yet they led to a war noted for its "notoriously incompetent international butchery".
While the Churches worked out their differences with the Ottomans and came to an agreement, Nicholas I of Russia and the French Emperor Napoleon III refused to back down. Nicholas issued an ultimatum that the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire be placed under his protection.