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Ice drilling allows scientists studying glaciers and ice sheets to gain access beneath the ice, to take measurements along its interior, and to retrieve samples. Instruments in the bored holes can record temperature, pressure, speed, and direction of ice movement. Many different methods have been used since 1840, when the first scientific ice drilling expedition attempted to bore through the Unteraargletscher in the Alps. Two early methods were percussion, in which the ice is fractured and pulverized, and rotary drilling, a method often used in mineral exploration for rock drilling. In the 1940s, thermal drills that melt ice were developed, and jets of hot water or steam to bore through ice soon followed. A growing interest in ice cores, used for paleoclimatological research, led to the development of ice coring drills in the 1950s and 1960s, and there are now many different coring drills in use. (Full article...)

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... that the founder of Falcon Records (label pictured) chose the name in part because it sounded the same in English and Spanish?
... that Li Qiang, the communications head of the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence agency, was forced to take refuge in the Soviet Union after the defection of his friend, the head of the assassination team?
... that "Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt", a 1646 paraphrase of Psalm 100 by David Denicke, appears in current Protestant and Catholic hymnals?
... that Jesse Gabriel has sued the Trump administration on behalf of young immigrants previously protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy?
... that the first humorous novel in Gujarati literature was Bhadrambhadra by Ramanbhai Neelkanth?
... that footballer Hossam Ashour is the most decorated Al Ahly player in the club's history?
... that one of New York City's newest parks was partially built using industrial materials from an abandoned sugar factory?
... that actor Tony Clay was asked "Dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character, Halfway, shot a popular character?

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Lake Toba

The Japanese sample-return spacecraft Hayabusa2 arrives at the asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
Saudi Arabia lifts its ban on women driving.
Canada legalizes the cultivation of cannabis for recreational use with effect from October 2018, making it the second country to do so.
An overloaded tourist ferry capsizes in Lake Toba (pictured), Indonesia, killing at least 3 people and leaving 193 others missing.
In golf, Brooks Koepka wins the U.S. Open at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

On this day

June 29

Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo

1149 – Second Crusade: An army led by Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed the forces of Antioch led by Prince Raymond.
1659 – Russo-Polish War: The hetman of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky and his allies defeated the armies of Russian Tsardom led by Aleksey Trubetskoy at the Battle of Konotop in the present-day Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.
1914 – During the second day of the anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo (aftermath pictured), numerous buildings owned by ethnic Serbs were vandalized and looted.
1950 – In one of the greatest upsets in tournament history, the United States defeated England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
1985 – The European Economic Community adopted the Flag of Europe, a flag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955.

Rembert Dodoens (b. 1517) · Ralph Allen (d. 1764) · Kim Little (b. 1990)

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Choir dress of a cardinal

Cardinals are senior ecclesiastical leaders of the Catholic Church, almost always ordained bishops and generally holding important roles within the church, such as governing prominent archdioceses or managing dicasteries within the Roman Curia. They are created in consistories by the pope and one of the foremost duties of the cardinals is the election of a new pope (since 1378 invariably from among themselves, though not a formal requirement) when the Holy See is vacant, following the death or the resignation of the reigning pontiff. The body of all cardinals is collectively known as the College of Cardinals. Under current ecclesiastical law, as defined by the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici gregis, only cardinals who have not passed their 80th birthday on the day that the Holy See falls vacant are eligible to participate in a papal conclave to elect a new pope and are thus known as cardinal electors.

As of 28 June 2018,^[update] there are 226 cardinals, 125 of whom are cardinal electors. (Full list...)

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The three-dollar piece was a gold coin produced by the United States Mint from 1854 to 1889. The coin was designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre. Its obverse bears a representation of Lady Liberty wearing a headdress of a Native American princess and the reverse a wreath of corn, wheat, cotton, and tobacco. Although over 100,000 were struck in the first year, the coin saw little use. The piece was last struck in 1889, and Congress ended the series the following year.

Coin: United States Mint; photograph: Jaclyn Nash/National Numismatic Collection

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