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August 3, 1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on his first voyage across the Atlantic.
August 4, 1914 - UK declared war on Germany in World War I.
August 6, 1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. (See more under Feature of the Month.)
August 8, 1967 - ASEAN was launched.
August 9 - Another atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. (See more under Feature of the Month.)
August 9 - International Day of the World's Indigenous People.
August 13, 1961 - East Germans began building the Berlin Wall 50 years ago. (See Spotlight on the Berlin Wall, a collection of articles and activities.)
August 25, 1768 - Captain Cook's ship Endeavour sailed from England on first exploratory voyage.
August 30, 1835 - Foundation of the city of Melbourne.
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FEATURE OF THE MONTH
Atomic Bombs
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Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Giant kangaroo
Henry Sewell (NZ)
Joseph Gordon Coates (NZ)
Ricky Ponting
Sir Apirana Ngata (NZ)
Sir Frederick Whitaker (NZ)
South Sudan flag
New videos: (30 new videos)
Baboon in the forest
Beaver pup climbing on a dam
Crocodile rests by the water
Leaf-cutter ants
Minks in a den
Octopus swimming
Sloth
Che Guevara
Recycling plastic
Young baboon
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Ichthyosaur (prehistoric animal)
Oil spill (pollution)
Oxycodone (drug)
New maps: (2 added recently)
South Sudan
Sudan
Revised articles: (more than 350)
Sudan, South
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