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        "extract": "Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Frozen Planet. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life, he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Narrator and one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality – Non-Daily.",
        "title": "David Attenborough",
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        "extract": "Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician who is serving as the 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal since 9 May 2026. He is the 1st Chief Minister of West Bengal belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).",
        "title": "Suvendu Adhikari",
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        "extract": "Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay is an Indian politician and former actor who has served as the ninth Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu since May 2026. He is the founder and president of the political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). Prior to entering politics, he was one of the leading actors in Tamil cinema.",
        "title": "Vijay (actor)",
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        "extract": "The 2026 Backlash, also promoted as Backlash: Tampa, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 21st Backlash event and took place on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at the Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Florida. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The concept of the event was based around the backlash from WrestleMania 42. This was the first Backlash to livestream on the ESPN streaming service in the United States, and also the first to air live on an ESPN linear channel, as the first hour was simulcast on ESPN2.",
        "title": "Backlash (2026)",
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        "extract": "Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the \"King of Pop\", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. His musical achievements broke American racial barriers and made him a dominant figure worldwide. Through his songs, concerts, and fashion, he proliferated visual performance for artists in popular music, popularizing street dance moves such as the moonwalk, the robot, and the anti-gravity lean. Jackson is often deemed the greatest entertainer of all time.",
        "title": "Michael Jackson",
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        "extract": "Local elections in the United Kingdom were held on 7 May 2026 for 5,066 English councillors for 136 English local authorities and six directly elected mayors in England. Most of these seats in England were last up for election in 2022. Some of these elections were postponed from 2025.",
        "title": "2026 United Kingdom local elections",
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      {
        "extract": "Orthohantavirus is a genus of viruses that includes all hantaviruses that cause disease in humans. Hantaviruses are naturally found primarily in rodents. In general, each hantavirus is carried by one rodent species and each rodent that carries a hantavirus carries one hantavirus species. Hantaviruses in their natural reservoirs usually cause an asymptomatic, persistent infection. In humans, however, hantaviruses cause two diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). HFRS is mainly caused by hantaviruses in Africa, Asia, and Europe, called Old World hantaviruses, and HPS is usually caused by hantaviruses in the Americas, called New World hantaviruses.",
        "title": "Orthohantavirus",
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        "extract": "Mortal Kombat II is a 2026 American martial arts fantasy action-adventure film based on the video-game series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. It is a sequel to Mortal Kombat (2021) and is the fourth installment in the Mortal Kombat film series. Directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Jeremy Slater, it stars returning cast members Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Lewis Tan, Damon Herriman, Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada, with Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, and Tati Gabrielle joining the cast. In the film, martial arts actor Johnny Cage is recruited by the thunder god Raiden and Sonya Blade to join his fellow Earthrealm fighters in an interdimensional tournament against the Outworld warriors and stop the tyrannical emperor Shao Kahn, with the help of Edenian princess Kitana.",
        "title": "Mortal Kombat II (film)",
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        "extract": "The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is the head of government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is the state's nominal head, but real executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, the state's governor usually invites the party with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.",
        "title": "Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu",
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        "extract": "Wade Steven Wilson is an American criminal convicted of the 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in Cape Coral, Florida. Due to sharing the name of the Marvel character Wade \"Deadpool\" Wilson, Wilson has been referred to in the media as the \"Deadpool Killer\".",
        "title": "Wade Wilson (criminal)",
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        "story": "<!-- May 04 --><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Wu_Yize\" title=\"Wu Yize\" id=\"mwDw\">Wu Yize</a> defeats <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Shaun_Murphy\" title=\"Shaun Murphy\" id=\"mwEA\">Shaun Murphy</a> to win <b id=\"mwEQ\"><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./2026_World_Snooker_Championship\" title=\"2026 World Snooker Championship\" id=\"mwEg\">the World Snooker Championship</a></b>."
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        "story": "<!-- May 04 --><b id=\"mwFA\"><a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./2026_Liuyang_fireworks_factory_explosion\" title=\"2026 Liuyang fireworks factory explosion\" id=\"mwFQ\">An explosion</a></b> at a fireworks factory in <a rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"./Liuyang\" title=\"Liuyang\" id=\"mwFg\">Liuyang</a>, Hunan, China, kills 37 people."
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      {
        "text": "Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces, assisted by the U.S. military, captured the Tabqa Dam and surrounding countryside, completing the Battle of Tabqa.",
        "year": 2017
      },
      {
        "text": "One World Trade Center (pictured) in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).",
        "year": 2013
      },
      {
        "text": "Suicide bombers detonated two car bombs outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, killing 55 people.",
        "year": 2012
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      {
        "text": "Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S. president George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate.",
        "year": 2005
      },
      {
        "text": "An earthquake registering 7.3 Mw struck near Qaen, Iran, killing at least 1,567 and leaving around 50,000 others homeless.",
        "year": 1997
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      {
        "text": "American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978.",
        "year": 1994
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      {
        "text": "World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British government.",
        "year": 1941
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      {
        "text": "British prime minister Neville Chamberlain resigned and formally recommended Winston Churchill as his successor.",
        "year": 1940
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      {
        "text": "World War II: German forces commenced their invasion of Belgium.",
        "year": 1940
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      {
        "text": "As part of Nazi Germany's persecution of transgender people, thousands of books taken from the Institute for Sexual Science were burned in Bebelplatz square  for being \"un-German\".",
        "year": 1933
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      "extract": "Ben&Ben is a Filipino indie folk-pop band from Manila. They were formed in 2016 by twin brothers Paolo and Miguel Benjamin Guico, calling themselves The Benjamins. A year later, they expanded into an ensemble and settled on the current name, adding Poch Barretto, Keifer Cabugao (violin), Patricia Lasaten (keyboards), Toni Muñoz (percussion), Andrew de Pano (percussion), Agnes Reoma, and Jam Villanueva (drums). The band's musical style has garnered praise for its anthemic quality and emotional engagement that appeals to a broad audience, while their lyrics focus on subjects including loss, heartbreak and relationships, and the journey towards self-love.",
      "title": "Ben&Ben"
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