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The Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area in 1984. Resource use along all of the chain is managed by the United States Forest Service as part of Inyo National Forest . (more...) Recently featured: Ernst Lindemann – Evelyn Waugh – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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Gil Scott-Heron American poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron (pictured) dies at the age of 62. Leaders of the G8 countries meet at the 37th G8 summit in France. Irish writer John Banville wins the Franz Kafka Prize. Ratko Mladić, a former Bosnian Serb Army commander, is arrested in Serbia pursuant to 1995 war crimes charges. Three people are killed in China . Macintosh users. Spirit rover mission on Mars formally ends after six years of planetary exploration . Recent deaths – More current events...
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May 28: Republic Day in Armenia and Azerbaijan Canadiens in the Battle of Jumonville Glen . 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (flag pictured), one of the first democratic republics in the Muslim world, was proclaimed in Ganja by the Azerbaijani National Council. 1974 – After widespread loyalist opposition and a two-week general strike, the power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement between Northern Ireland and a cross-border Council of Ireland collapsed. 1987 – West German Mathias Rust flew his Cessna 172 through the supposedly impregnable Soviet air defense system and landed in Red Square in Moscow. nuclear tests, becoming the seventh country in the world to successfully develop and publicly test nuclear weapons . More anniversaries: May 27 – May 28 – May 29 List of historical anniversaries It is now May 28, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Namib Desert of Namibia. Deadvlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, averaging 350 metres (1,150 ft) high. About 900 years ago, drought caused the dunes to block the Tsauchab river, which in turn killed the trees. However, because the desert is so dry, they do not decompose

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