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Today's featured article Map of the Freston causewayed enclosure Freston is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure at an archaeological site near the village of Freston in Suffolk, England. The Neolithic enclosure was first identified in 1969 from cropmarks in aerial photographs. At 8.55 hectares (21.1 acres), it is one of the largest causewayed enclosures in Britain, and would have required thousands of person-days to construct. The cropmarks show an enclosure with two circuits of ditches, and a palisade that ran between the two circuits. There is also evidence of a rectangular structure in the northeastern part of the site, which may be a Neolithic long house or an Anglo-Saxon hall. Excavation in 2019 indicated that the site was constructed in the mid–4th millennium BC. Other finds included oak charcoal fragments believed to come from the palisade, and evidence of a long ditch to the southeast that probably predated the enclosure, and which may have accompanied a long barrow, a form of Neolithic burial mound. The site has been protected as a scheduled monument since 1976. (Full article...) Recently featured: William Robinson Brown Night of January 16th Cherry-throated tanager Selected anniversaries January 18: United Nations Memorial Cemetery 1871 – A number of previously independent states united to form the German Empire, with Wilhelm I as German Emperor. 1951 – Construction began in Busan, South Korea, on the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured), the only United Nations cemetery in the world. 1956 – Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'. 1969 – Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupations. 1983 – Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics. Isabella Jagiellon (b. 1519) Elena Arizmendi Mejía (b. 1884) Philippe Starck (b. 1949) Bruce Chatwin (d. 1989) More anniversaries: January 17 January 18 January 19	In the news David Lynch in 1990 American filmmaker David Lynch (pictured) dies at the age of 78. South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is arrested after his declaration of martial law. Joseph Aoun is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy, and Nawaf Salam is nominated as prime minister. An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 19 deaths. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Qiu Dahong Bob Uecker Walter Deutsch Tony Book Hasjim Djalal Claude Jarman Jr. Did you know... Production logo of Mingxing ... that the Mingxing Film Company (logo pictured) paid off a gangster so that it could release Fate in Tears and Laughter? ... that brickmason Donum Montford likely purchased his own freedom from slavery and became a prominent slave-owner? ... that Brazil's Ministry of Education threatened legal action against the Portuguese Wikipedia over the article for its minister? ... that a Japanese man raised more than 1,000 Korean orphans during the Japanese occupation of Korea? ... that although over half a million troy ounces of gold have been mined from Valdez Creek, surveys suggest that more is likely undiscovered? ... that Katerina Clark wrote "a brave and intelligent study of the Soviet novel"? ... that during Frank Ocean's performance of "Close to You" at FYF Fest in 2017, giant screens live-streamed Brad Pitt acting out a phone conversation backstage? ... that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings? ... that vehicles in Star Trucker still look like American semi-trucks from the 1970s, despite having technology such as warp drivers and maglocks?
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