On This Day
1294 – Temür, Khagan of the Mongols, is enthroned as Emperor of the Yuan dynasty.[3]
Öljeytü Khan (Mongolian: Өлзийт; Mongolian script: ᠥᠯᠵᠡᠶᠢᠲᠦ Öljeyitü; Chinese: 完澤篤汗), born Temür (Mongolian: Төмөр ᠲᠡᠮᠦᠷ; Chinese: 鐵穆耳; October 15, 1265 – February 10, 1307), also known by his imperial Chinese temple name Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (Chinese: 元成宗; pinyin: Yuán Chéngzōng; Wade–Giles: Yüan2 Ch’eng2-tsung1), was the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China, ruling from May 10, 1294 to February 10, 1307. Apart from Emperor of China, he is considered as the sixth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, although it was only nominal due to the division of the empire. He was an able ruler of the Yuan dynasty, and his reign established the patterns of power for the next few decades.[1]
Temür was a son of the Crown Prince Zhenjin and a grandson of the Yuan founder Kublai Khan. During his rule, he achieved the nominal suzerainty of all Mongol states of the time. He showed respect for Confucianism, and called off invasions of Burma (Pagan), Đại Việt and Kamakura Japan. However, his reign was beset by corruption and administrative inefficiencies.
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Born On This Day
955 – Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (d. 996)[60]
bu Mansur Nizar (Arabic: أبو منصور نزار, romanized: Abū Manṣūr Nizār; 10 May 955 – 14 October 996), known by his regnal name as al-Aziz Billah (Arabic: العزيز بالله, romanized: al-ʿAzīz bi-llāh, lit. ’the Mighty One through God’), was the fifth caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, from 975 to his death in 996. His reign saw the capture of Damascus and the Fatimid expansion into the Levant, which brought al-Aziz into conflict with the Byzantine emperor Basil II over control of Aleppo. During the course of this expansion, al-Aziz took into his service large numbers of Turkic and Daylamite slave-soldiers, thereby breaking the near-monopoly on Fatimid military power held until then by the Kutama Berbers.
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A community of freelance truckers known as transmigrantes transport used cars and other goods from the United States to Central America. When one of them from Colorado got kidnapped, an international investigation shifted uncomfortably close to home.
By Lucie Fink, Pocket Collections: One Entrepreneur’s Parenting and Productivity Cheat Sheet Lucie Fink shares her go-to resources for making sense of to-do lists, building a community, and exploring different parenting styles.
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By Chelsia Rose Marcius, The New York Times: She Was Killed in Front of Her Son. It Took 26 Years to Crack the Case. Inside a cold-case detective’s dogged quest to solve the murder of Jasmine Porter.
By Howard Fishman, The New York Times: Before Dylan, There Was Connie Converse. Then She Vanished. There’s a resurgence of interest in the pioneering singer-songwriter who disappeared when she was 50.
By Morgan Hausback, Her Campus: Emily Henry is the It-Girl of Authors
As Apr. 23, 2023 approached, I frequently commented to my friends that this was “my joker.” I would not be able to stop talking about this for at least a month, if not longer. By this, I meant author Emily Henry’s new book, “Happy Place.”
I eagerly pre-ordered the novel, practically ran to the mailroom to pick it up and ripped open the packaging to reveal a brand new, shiny, hot pink book. I proceeded to consume the story in a rapid three days, during which many tears were shed, laughs were had and I enthusiastically checked all five stars on StoryGraph just minutes after closing the book.
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- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 16 June 16, 2026Picture of the day View of Kirchberg an der Jagst, Germany, from the river Jagst. At the right the listed bridge, build in 1779; behind it the hill which supports Kirchberg Castle (top) and the old town of Kirchberg.
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for June 15 June 15, 2026Picture of the day Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
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