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The Bayern-class battleships were four Jocelyn Bell Burnell

super-dreadnoughts, laid down from 1913 to (pictured), who co-
1915 by the Imperial German Navy. discovered pulsars but
Sachsen and Württemberg were never was omitted from the
completed, after U-boats were found to be related Nobel Prize,
receives the Special
more valuable to the war effort. Bayern (pictured) and Baden, the
Breakthrough Prize in
last German battleships completed during World War I, were Fundamental Physics. Jocelyn Bell
commissioned into the fleet too late to take part in the Battle of
Brazilian presidential Burnell
Jutland (31 May – 1 June 1916). Bayern was assigned to the naval candidate Jair
force that drove the Imperial Russian Navy from the Gulf of Riga Bolsonaro is stabbed during a
during Operation Albion in October 1917, though the ship was campaign rally.
severely damaged by a mine and had to be withdrawn to Kiel for The Supreme Court of India strikes
repairs. Baden replaced Friedrich der Grosse as the flagship of the down portions of the colonial-era
High Seas Fleet, but saw no combat. Bayern and Baden were
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interned in Scapa Flow, Scotland, following the Armistice in
legal.
November 1918; in June 1919, Bayern was scuttled along with
An earthquake in the south of Hokkaido,
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Bath Abbey is an Anglican parish church and Grade I listed building in

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reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and
16th centuries. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic
architecture in the West Country. The cathedral was consolidated to
Wells Cathedral in 1539 after the abbey was dissolved in the Dissolution
of the Monasteries, but the name of the diocese has remained
unchanged. The church is cruciform in plan.

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