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Kyla (born January 5, 1981) is a Filipino singer-songwriter. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including eleven Awit Awards and three MTV Pilipinas Music Awards. She gained recognition in 2000 with her debut album Way to Your Heart and its single "Hanggang Ngayon", which won the International Viewer's Choice Award for Southeast Asia at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. She has collaborated with musicians such as American singer-songwriter Brian McKnight and English boy band Blue. Outside of music, she has starred in the drama series Dear Friend (2009) and Villa Quintana (2013–2014), and has expanded her career into reality television as a presenter of the talent competition show Popstar Kids (2005–2007) and as a judge in the variety show singing contest Tawag ng Tanghalan (since 2016). Kyla's music is primarily influenced by R&B and soul, and she has been credited with helping to redefine the genres in the Philippines. (This article is part of a featured topic: Overview of Kyla.)

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1757 – King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.
1869 – Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.
1919 – The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
1949 – In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
2003 – The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no toxin was found.

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Old Guildfordians are former pupils of the Royal Grammar School, a selective English independent day school for boys in Guildford, Surrey. Its foundation dates to the death in 1509 of Robert Beckingham, who left a provision in his will to "make a free scole at the Towne of Guldford"; in 1512 a governing body was set up to form the school. The school moved to the present site (pictured) in the upper High Street after the granting of a royal charter from King Edward VI on 27 January 1553. Since the school's founding, notable alumni have included the 75th archbishop of Canterbury, Olympic athletes, the longest-serving speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, several other members of Parliament of the United Kingdom, a founding member of the East India Company, and the 11th premier of New Zealand. (Full list...)

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Danaus chrysippus, also known as the plain tiger or the African queen, belongs to the subfamily Danainae of the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae. Its range extends across Africa and the majority of the Asian continent, as well as many South Pacific islands and some populations in Australia. It is found in a wide variety of habitats, although it is less likely to thrive in jungle-like conditions and is most often found in drier, wide-open areas. D. chrysippus is a medium-sized butterfly with a wingspan of about 7 to 8 centimetres (2.8 to 3.1 in). Its body is black with white spots, while the wings are a brownish orange, the upper side brighter and richer than the underside. It is a polymorphic species, so the exact colouring and patterning vary within and between populations. Its primary diet is milkweed plants, of the genus Asclepias. Because of its emetic properties, D. chrysippus is unpalatable to most predators. As a result, its colouration is widely mimicked by other species of butterfly. This photograph shows the underside of a male butterfly of the subspecies D. c. chrysippus, seen in Kumarakom, India.

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