Jun'yō ("Peregrine Falcon") was a
Hiyō-classaircraft carrier of the
Imperial Japanese Navy. She was
laid down as the
passenger linerKashiwara Maru, but was purchased by the navy in 1941 while still under construction and converted into an aircraft carrier. Launched on 26 June 1941 and completed in May 1942, the ship participated in the
Aleutian Islands Campaign the following month and in several battles of the
Guadalcanal Campaign later in the year. Her aircraft were used from land bases during battles in the
New Guinea and
Solomon Islands Campaigns. Jun'yō was
torpedoed in November 1943 and spent three months under repair. She was damaged by several bombs during the
Battle of the Philippine Sea in mid-1944, but quickly returned to service. Lacking aircraft, she was used as a transport in late 1944 and was torpedoed again in December. Jun'yō was under repair until March 1945, when work was cancelled as uneconomical. She was then effectively
hulked for the rest of the war. After the
surrender of Japan in September, the Americans also decided that she was not worth the cost to make her serviceable for use as a repatriation ship, and she was
broken up in 1946 and 1947. (
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1996 – Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered while she was stopped at a traffic light, an event which helped establish Ireland's
Criminal Assets Bureau.
The Davy Medal is awarded by the
Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after
Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a monetary gift, initially of £1000 (currently £2000). The medal was first awarded in 1877 to
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff(pictured) "for their researches & discoveries in spectrum analysis", and has since been awarded 140 times. The medal is awarded annually, and unlike other Royal Society medals, such as the
Hughes Medal, it has been awarded annually without ever missing a year. The medal has been awarded to multiple individuals in the same year on seven occasions. The most recent year in which two individuals won the Davy Medal was 1968, when
John Cornforth and George Joseph Popjak were honoured "in recognition of their distinguished joint work on the elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway to polyisoprenoids and steroids". (Full list...)
The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist
Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It depicts a probably invented episode from the life of the Roman emperor
Heliogabalus, taken from the Augustan History, in which the emperor smothers some dinner guests with drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The painting is owned by the Spanish-Mexican billionaire businessman and art collector
Juan Antonio Pérez Simón.
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