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BTS is a South Korean boy band. A K-pop group, BTS debuted on June 12, 2013; by 2017, it had entered the global music market, leading the Korean Wave into the U.S., and becoming the first Korean ensemble to receive a Gold certification from the RIAA for the single "Mic Drop". BTS became the first act from South Korea to top the Billboard 200 with Love Yourself: Tear (2018). With a large, well-organized worldwide fan base, BTS is the best-selling artist in South Korean history, with sales of more than 40 million albums. Members have thrice addressed the United Nations General Assembly, and in 2022 visited the White House. Dubbed the "Princes of Pop", BTS has also appeared on Time's lists of the 25 most influential people on the internet (2017–2019) and the 100 most influential people in the world (2019). In 2018, they became the youngest recipients of the South Korean Order of Cultural Merit. Now on pause to allow members to complete their required military service, the group plans a reunion for 2025. (Full article...) +

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Sixty-two species of birds have been recorded in Wallis and Futuna, a French overseas collectivity in Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean. It consists of three main islands, Wallis (Uvea), Futuna, and Alofi Island, along with several islets. Of the sixty-two bird species of the territory, five were introduced by humans. No species are endemic to the islands, but there are endemic subspecies of the collared kingfisher, the Polynesian triller (example pictured), the Fiji shrikebill, and the Polynesian starling. The shy ground dove has been extirpated from the islands, while the blue-crowned lorikeet is locally extinct on Uvea. Ducula david, an extinct species of imperial pigeon, was described from subfossil remains on the islands and is thought to have been widespread before the arrival of humans. (Full list...) +

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Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. In early work, Rutherford discovered the concept of radioactive half-life, the radioactive element radon, and differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation. This work formed the basis for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded in 1908. With Thomas Royds, Rutherford developed the theory that alpha radiation is helium nuclei, and also theorized that atoms have their charge concentrated in a very small nucleus, and thereby pioneered the Rutherford model of the atom. He went on to perform the first artificially induced nuclear reaction in 1917 in experiments where nitrogen nuclei were bombarded with alpha particles. As a result, he discovered the emission of a subatomic particle which became known as the proton. Rutherford spent his later years as director of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. The chemical element rutherfordium was named after him in 1997. This photograph of Rutherford, published by the Bain News Service, was most likely taken in the 1920s. +

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