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Appelhans and Kang

KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film directed and co-written by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans (both pictured). Produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix, the film features the voices of Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, and Ji-young Yoo. The film follows Huntrix, a K-pop girl group who lead double lives as demon hunters; they face off against a rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons. The film received universal praise, winning two Academy Awards among many other accolades. It became the most-watched original title in Netflix history, with 325 million views. The film's sing-along limited theatrical release was the widest by number of theaters for a Netflix film, and the first to top the box office in the United States. The film's soundtrack became the first such to have four songs in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten, was certified Double Platinum, and won a Grammy Award. (Full article...)

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... that comedian Pudgy (pictured) was often referred to as the "female Don Rickles"?
... that Mexico's Observatorio 1873 began as a military lookout and observatory, and now includes a whale museum, an iguana sanctuary and a zip line?
... that a Hindu wife of the Muslim ruler of Awadh is often linked to a festival honoring Lord Hanuman on Tuesdays?
... that the Supreme Court of Canada set aside an election in a federal electoral district in Quebec after one postal vote was not counted?
... that Shirakami Fubuki introduced Hololive to global audiences with a drumming showdown?
... that the Neoclassical and Art Deco sections of the Orleans Parish Criminal Courts Building were designed by its architect to represent the elegance and the severity of the law?
... that, in his book The Anatomy of Evil, forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone writes that he suffered from a nightmare after interviewing serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells in Texas?
... that Lai Ka-ying is the first Hongkonger in space, but not the first astronaut born in Hong Kong?
... that to win a fighting video game, a player must bark loudly and frequently?

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In ice hockey, the Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Vegas Golden Knights to win the Stanley Cup (Conn Smythe Trophy winner Jordan Staal pictured).
In basketball, the New York Knicks defeat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Finals.
Elon Musk becomes the world's first US-dollar trillionaire after his company SpaceX raises the largest initial public offering.
Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand, a possible heir to the throne, dies at the age of 47 after a three-year comatose state.
English artist David Hockney dies at the age of 88.

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June 20: World Refugee Day; Eid al-Mubahalah (Shia Islam, 2025)

Queen Victoria

1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) acceded to the British throne, beginning a 63-year reign.
1921 – British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland.
1959 – The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, causing 22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people.
1979 – Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces.
1982 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian genocide.

John of Lancaster (b. 1389)
Fritz Koenig (b. 1924)
Edith Windsor (b. 1929)
Ulf Merbold (b. 1941)

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The Eurasian chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae, the finches. It is found across Europe and temperate Asia, with introduced populations elsewhere. The adult male has a blue-grey head, rust-red underparts, and contrasting white wing bars and tail markings; the female is much duller, being mainly grey-brown. The species breeds in wooded areas, where the female builds a cup-shaped nest in a tree or bush and lays around four to five eggs. The Eurasian chaffinch mainly eats seeds outside the breeding season, and feeds its young on invertebrates such as caterpillars. It has two or three different song types, with some regional song dialects, and is classified as a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This male Eurasian chaffinch was photographed in Scotland.

Photograph credit: Caroline Legg

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