Brachiosaurus (from Greek for "arm lizard") was a sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154–153 million years ago. The genus was first described by American paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Colorado River valley in western Colorado. Only a few other specimens of Brachiosaurus are known to exist, making it one of the rarer sauropods of the Morrison Formation. It was probably between 18 and 21 meters (59 and 69 ft) long; weight estimates range from 28.3 to 58 metric tons (31.2 to 63.9 short tons). Like other sauropods, it was a large dinosaur with a long neck and small skull; atypically, it had longer forelimbs than hindlimbs, a steeply inclined trunk, and a proportionally shorter tail. It was a high browser, possibly cropping or nipping vegetation up to 9 meters (30 ft) off the ground. Brachiosaurus appeared in the 1993 film Jurassic Park.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1892:
The English association football club Newcastle United was founded by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_United_F.C.
1948:
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide Convention, which defines genocide in legal terms and advises its signatories to prevent and punish such actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention
1968:
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit- mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
2008:
Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by then-President-elect Barack Obama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges
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dame: 1. (Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. 2. (Britain) A matron at a school, especially Eton College. 3. (Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. 4. (US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman. 5. (archaic) A lady, a woman. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dame
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