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Storm Eowyn Brings Strong Winds To Parts Of UK And Ireland 9

Storm Eowyn brought strong winds to parts of UK and Ireland on Friday, January 24, prompting rare red weather warnings in both countries. Schools and businesses were closed due to expected disruptions, with several flights canceled at Belfast City Airport.

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US: Video Captures Moment Lightning Strikes Plane In California

This video captured the moment a plane was struck by lightning in California. The second clip is a closer cropped version and shows sparks discharging from the plane wings. It was was recorded around south San Diego, California along Monterey Road on Saturday, March 30.

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Museum in memory of John Manjiro to open in U.S. on May 7

Museum in memory of John Manjiro to open in U.S. on May 7

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows a house in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, where John Manjiro, the first Japanese to live in America, resided in the mid-19th century. The house, owned by William Whitfield, captain of a whaling ship and who rescued fisherman Manjiro in 1841 in the Pacific, has been rebuilt into a museum, the Captain Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Memorial House. The museum will open to the public on May 7.

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Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield, on April 11, 2015. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum in memory of John Manjiro to open in U.S. on May 7

Museum in memory of John Manjiro to open in U.S. on May 7

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows a house in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, where John Manjiro, the first Japanese to live in America, resided in the mid-19th century. The house, owned by William Whitfield, captain of a whaling ship and who rescued fisherman Manjiro in 1841 in the Pacific, has been rebuilt into a museum, the Captain Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Memorial House. The museum will open to the public on May 7. (Kyodo)

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