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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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The Violence That Helped Spark the NAACP

In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.

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Lists of planets

These are lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the solar system are also known as exoplanets.

Artist's impression of the potentially habitable exoplanet Proxima Centauri b

As of 8 October 2026, there are 6,445 confirmed exoplanets in 4,834 planetary systems, with 1,070 systems having more than one planet.[1] There are an additional 1,977 potential exoplanets from the Kepler space telescope's first mission yet to be confirmed, as well as 975 from its "Second Light" mission and 4,823 from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.[2]

Transit: 4,781 (74.2%)Radial velocity: 1,203 (18.7%)Microlensing: 292 (4.5%)Direct imaging: 97 (1.5%)Transit-timing variation: 29 (0.4%)Eclipse timing variation: 17 (0.3%)Orbital brightness modulation: 9 (0.1%)Pulsar timing variation: 8 (0.1%)Astrometry: 6 (0.1%)Pulsation timing variation: 2 (0.0%)Disk kinematics: 1 (0.0%)
  •   Transit: 4,781 (74.2%)
  •   Radial velocity: 1,203 (18.7%)
  •   Microlensing: 292 (4.5%)
  •   Direct imaging: 97 (1.5%)
  •   Transit-timing variation: 29 (0.4%)
  •   Eclipse timing variation: 17 (0.3%)
  •   Orbital brightness modulation: 9 (0.1%)
  •   Pulsar timing variation: 8 (0.1%)
  •   Astrometry: 6 (0.1%)
  •   Pulsation timing variation: 2 (0.0%)
  •   Disk kinematics: 1 (0.0%)
Observation method for confirmed exoplanets[2]

In the Solar System

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Distribution of confirmed exoplanets with respect to distance from the Sun

Lists of exoplanets by year of discovery

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Extrasolar systems
Exoplanets by method of detection
Records in exoplanet detection
Potential terrestrial exoplanets

Fictional or non-scientific planets

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  1. ^ "Planetary Systems Composite Data". NASA Exoplanet Archive. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Exoplanet and Candidate Statistics". NASA Exoplanet Archive. NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
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Gliese 504 b

Gliese 504 b (or 59 Virginis b) is a jovian planet or a brown dwarf orbiting the solar analog 59 Virginis (Gliese 504), discovered by direct imaging using HiCIAO instrument and AO188 adaptive optics system on the Subaru Telescope of Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii by Kuzuhara et al.

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Subaru Telescope

Subaru Telescope (すばる望遠鏡, Subaru Bōenkyō) is the 8.2-metre (320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. It is named after the open star cluster known in English as the Pleiades. It had the largest monolithic primary mirror in the world from its commissioning until the Large Binocular Telescope opened in 2005.

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Lists of planets

These are lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the solar system are also known as exoplanets. As of 8 October 2026, there are 6,445 confirmed exoplanets in 4,834 planetary systems, with 1,070 systems having more than one planet. There are an additional 1,977 potential exoplanets from the Kepler space telescope's first mission yet to be confirmed, as well as 975 from its "Second Light" mission and 4,823 from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.

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Gliese 758

Gliese 758 is a star in the northern constellation of Lyra. At about magnitude 6 it is a challenge to view with the naked eye even in good seeing conditions, but can be easily seen through a small telescope or binoculars. Parallax measurements from the Hipparcos mission give it an estimated distance of around 50.9 light-years (15.6 parsecs) from Earth.

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Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Who was the first African-American woman millionaire in the United States?

Madam C.J. Walker