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Welcome to Kudos365 Weekly History Challenge. Test your history  knowledge and see how many of the history questions you can answer correctly. A new updated History Challenge is released every Saturday.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other's grand spiral star systems. As for the view from the Milky Way, this sharp telescopic image shows off M33's blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along the galaxy's loosely wound spiral arms. In fact, the cavernous NGC 604 is the brightest star forming region, seen here at about the 5 o'clock position from the galaxy center. Like M31, M33's population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

Photo by George Chatzifrantzis

Albert Camus ~ (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) ~ French philosopher, author, and journalist. Albert Camus Biograhy

Street lights on the promenade, Norderney, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858 – 1919) was the 26th president of the United States. He was 42 years when he first took the oath of office after McKinley's assassination in 1901, becoming the youngest person to become President of the U.S. He served from 1901 to 1909. Theodore Roosevelt Biography

Bruce Barton (1886 - 1967) American author, advertising executive, and politician. Born in Robbins, Tennessee, he represented Manhattan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1941. 

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pilar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy, roughly 7500 light-years away. It is formed by interstellar gas and dust, and shaped by powerful stellar winds and radiation form neighboring stars like the nearby Eta Carinae stellar system which is more luminous than 5 million suns. The star formation inside the pillar is excavating its head, creating the open lid of the chest. Astronomers estimate that there are about 70 stars in a compact cluster inside the pillar. This cluster is now thought to be only around 1.3 million years old. Its bounty of young stars includes a massive star approximately 19 times as massive as the Sun. More massive stars are rarer, shine brighter and evolve faster than less massive stars. They are the shiniest jewels in the treasure chest. APOD's main NASA site is moving : From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

Photo by ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter; Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

A group of newly ordained Buddhist śramaṇas performing the traditional lamp-lighting ritual on Prabarana Purnima, Bangladesh.

Photorubel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.