David Grayless

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On Jun 3, 2020: Three former police officers charged in connection with death of #GeorgeFloyd in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin's charge upgraded to second degree murder.
The teapot often seen in many 3D modeling applications is called what?
Pixar Teapot 🍯
3D Teapot 🫖
Tennessee Teapot 🫖
Utah Teapot 🧊
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On the 3rd of June 2023: #EdSheeran concert with 77,900 concertgoers breaks attendance record at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On June 3rd, 2023: #JimHines, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 4x100m relay 1968), died at 76.
#RIP 🪽🥀
In the #GermanicLanguages, a #strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of #changesToTheStemVowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language are strong; the majority are #weakVerbs, which form the past tense by means of a #dental #suffix. In modern English, strong verbs include #sing (present I sing, past I sang, #pastParticiple I have sung) and #drive (present I drive, past I drove, past participle I have driven), as opposed to weak verbs such as open (present I open.
On 2 Jun 2022: Jury in defamation case brought by #JohnnyDepp against ex-wife #AmberHeard awards Depp $15 million in damages and compensation and Heard $2 million in damages in Fairfax, Virginia.
On June 2, 2022: #QueenElizabethII marks her Platinum Jubilee with four days of celebrations starting with a military parade at Buckingham Palace.
Disorder and Early Sorrow (#German: Unordnung und frühes Leid) is a 1925 #novella written by #ThomasMann. It follows the fortunes of the Cornelius family through the perspective of Abel Cornelius (written in a third person narrative voice), a 47-year-old history professor at the local university, whose status in society was once highly respected but has diminished markedly. The Cornelius family is, in part, a reflection of Mann's own family. The novella explores the psychological.