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William Mackenzie

The Types Riot was the destruction of William Mackenzie's printing press by members of the Family Compact, the ruling elite of Upper Canada, in York (modern Toronto). Mackenzie (pictured) created the Colonial Advocate and published editorials in the newspaper accusing the Family Compact of incompetence and embezzlement. On the evening of June 8, 1826, between nine and fifteen rioters forced their way into the newspaper offices and destroyed property. During the event, Mackenzie's employees tried to get passersby to help stop the rioters. Bystanders refused when they saw government officials were watching the spectacle. Mackenzie sued the rioters and the jury awarded Mackenzie 625 pounds to be paid by the defendants, a harsh settlement. Several newspapers denounced the government officials who had failed to stop the riot. Reformers viewed Mackenzie as a martyr and he remained popular for several years. Historians identify the event as a sign of weakening Tory influence in Upper Canada politics. (Full article...)

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SZA

American singer-songwriter SZA has recorded and released many songs since her debut EP, See.SZA.Run (2012). She co-writes almost all of her songs with their respective producers; for many of them, she is the sole lyricist. SZA's earliest works are built around psychedelic and lo-fi instrumentals, all of which were self-uploaded on the streaming platform SoundCloud. Her debut studio album, Ctrl (2017), is categorized mainly as contemporary R&B. SZA wanted to demonstrate her versatility beyond the genre with her second studio album SOS (2022), which features rap, rock, and pop songs. In 2024, SZA released the reissue of SOS titled Lana; it consists of new music alongside tracks scrapped from SOS. Outside of her albums and extended plays, SZA has appeared on dozens of songs by other musicians like Kendrick Lamar, Isaiah Rashad, and Doja Cat. Her unreleased music includes several album outtakes and scrapped verses, many of which have leaked online. (This list is part of a featured topic: Overview of SZA.)

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The blue-billed white tern (Gygis candida) is a small tropical seabird in the family Laridae, occurring across the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Formerly treated as a subspecies within the white tern complex, conspecific with the the Atlantic white tern (G. alba) and the little white tern (G. microrhyncha), it is now generally recognised as a distinct species. First described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789, it is an all-white tern with dark eyes, a black bill with a blue base, and slaty-blue legs. Two subspecies are recognised, ranging from the Seychelles and Maldives to Hawaii and the Pitcairn Islands. Unusually, chicks occasionally fall prey to Aldabra giant tortoises in the Seychelles. This blue-billed white tern of the subspecies G. c. candida was photographed in flight at Muri Lagoon, on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.

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