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Slipknot performing in 2005
Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) is the third studio album by American metal band Slipknot (pictured). The album was released on May 25, 2004, through Roadrunner Records. It is the band's only album produced by Rick Rubin and also the only one not to feature profanity. Following the band's tour to promote its second album in 2002, speculation regarding the future began. Some band members had already been involved in side projects including Murderdolls, To My Surprise, and the reformation of Stone Sour. In 2003, Slipknot moved into The Mansion to work on the album. Initially, the band was unproductive; lead vocalist Corey Taylor was drinking heavily. Nevertheless, they wrote more than enough material for a new album—the band's first to incorporate more traditional, melodic song structures, guitar solos and acoustic guitars. The album received generally positive reviews; Q called it "a triumph". The album peaked within the top ten in album sales across eleven countries, and went platinum in the United States. The band also received the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song "Before I Forget". (Full article...)
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Biertan fortified church
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Prayuth Chan-ocha
In rugby union, the Heineken Cup concludes with Toulon defeating Saracens in the final.
Four people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes with Real Madrid defeating Atlético Madrid in the final.
The commander of the Royal Thai Army, General Prayuth Chan-ocha (pictured), announces a coup d'état following months of political crisis.
More than forty people are killed in car bombings in Ürümqi, China.
Fighting intensifies in Libya as General Khalifa Haftar storms the parliament and declares its suspension.
Ongoing: Ukrainian unrest – Balkan flooding

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May 25: Mother's Day in Algeria, France, Morocco and Sweden (2014); First Patriotic Government in Argentina (1810); Independence Day in Jordan (1946); Towel Day

Halley's Comet in 1986
240 BC – The Chinese chronicle Records of the Grand Historian recorded the first confirmed sighting of Halley's Comet (pictured), the first comet to be recognized as periodic.
1810 – The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution.
1914 – The British parliament passed the Third Home Rule Act, establishing a devolved government in Ireland.
1940 – Second World War: A German Panzer division captured Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, forcing the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force through Dunkirk.
2000 – Israel withdrew its army from most of Lebanese territory, 22 years after its first invasion in 1978.
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Marpesia zerynthia
Marpesia zerynthia, also known as the Waiter Daggerwing, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae that occurs in, and somewhat north and south of, Mesoamerica. First described in 1823, this butterfly inhabits tropical deciduous and evergreen forests. Males can generally be found closer to the ground than females, which prefer the canopies.
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