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Featured article: April 2, 2004

Crushing by elephant was a common capital punishment throughout south and southeast Asia for over 4,000 years. The Romans and Carthaginians also used this method on occasion. Most rajahs kept execution elephants for the purpose of death by crushing and the executions were often held in public to serve as a warning to any who might transgress. The last person to be officially executed by an elephant was put to death in India in April, 1947.

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The only existing song by a trobairitz which survives with music, by Comtessa de Dia (file info)

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Fakarava, Tuamotu

The Tuamotus are the largest chain of atolls in the world, spanning an area of the Pacific Ocean roughly the size of Western Europe. Despite the vast spread of the archipelago, the combined land area is only about 885 km² (345 sq. mi.). The climate is warm tropical, without pronounced seasons and a relatively continuous average temperature of 26°C (79°F). Water sources such as lakes or rivers are absent, leaving the only source of fresh water as catchments of rain water.

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Featured list: FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

Photo	Name	Date Added	Number on List
	Victor Manuel Gerena	May 14, 1984	#386
	Victor Manuel Gerena is wanted in connection with the armed robbery of approximately $7 million from a security company in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1983. He allegedly took two security employees hostage at gunpoint and handcuffed, bound and injected them with an unknown, non-lethal, substance to further disable them. The FBI believes he may be living in Cuba. The reward for information leading to Gerena's capture is $1,000,000.^[1]^[2]