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* ... that during World War II, '''[[Gabriel Navarrete]]''' tried to prevent the [[Battle of Rapido River|crossing of Rapido River]], in which American forces suffered 2,128 casualties?
* ... that '''[[Begüm Pusat]]''', a 15-year-old Turkish [[wheelchair basketball]]er, was one of the youngest players at the [[2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship|2019 Women's U25 World Championship]]?
* ... that [[Winston Churchill]] was often portrayed as a bulldog, but '''[[Winston Churchill's pets|his personal pet dog]]''' during the Second World War was a poodle?
* ... that [[Classic Tetris World Championship|Classic Tetris World Champion]] '''[[Alex Thach]]''' celebrates victories by dumping [[Parmesan|Parmesan cheese]] on his head?
:The [[World Health Organization]] reports that the death toll from the [[civil war]] in [[Sudan]] has increased to more than 20,000 people. [https://apnews.com/article/sudan-military-rsf-war-f885e161c4eb4151377c25a20929de25 (AP)]
:The [[World Health Organization]] announces that its [[polio]] [[polio vaccine|vaccination]] campaign in the [[Gaza Strip]] has surpassed its intended target of 156,500 projected [[vaccination]]s within two days. [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8xwxjy4y7o (BBC News)]
:Parliamentary elections in the [[Germany|German]] states of [[Saxony]] and [[Thuringia]] show large gains for the right-wing [[populism|populist]] [[Alternative for Germany]] party and the left-wing populist [[Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht]] party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of [[Scholz cabinet|the governing coalition]] and for the socialist [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] party. In Thuringia, a [[Far-right politics in Germany (1945–present)|far-right]] party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since [[World War II]]. [https://www.dw.com/en/german-state-elections-who-won-who-lost-results-by-the-numbers/a-70105893 (DW)]
:[[Israel]] and [[Hamas]] agree to three separate three-day [[humanitarian corridor|humanitarian pauses]] to allow the [[World Health Organization]] to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against [[polio]] in the [[Gaza Strip]]. [https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-has-preliminary-commitment-some-gaza-pauses-polio-vaccinations-2024-08-29/ (Reuters)]
:[[Germany]] announces that it will donate 100,000 doses of [[mpox]] vaccines to the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and other [[Africa]]n nations, as well as provide funding to the [[GAVI|GAVI Vaccine Alliance]] through the [[World Health Organization]]. [https://www.dw.com/en/mpox-germany-to-give-africa-100000-doses-of-vaccine/a-70055504 (DW)]
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