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The number of people Japan enlisted to pull Hirosaki Castle's 360-tonne keep more than two meters back into place with ropes and rollers — roughly 200 kilograms of castle per person. The centuries-old hikiya technique got a rhythmic assist from chants of 'so-re, so-re.'
Source: The Guardian
Today: The Duane 'Keffe D' Davis murder trial continues its second week of proceedings in Las Vegas.
Today: Play continues at the U.S. Open in New York, a day after the tournament got underway.
- 1609Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to lawmakers in Venice
- 1916The US National Park Service is established under President Woodrow Wilson
- 1944Paris is liberated from Nazi occupation after four years of German rule
- 1989Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune, the first spacecraft to visit the planet
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Wired · Gabrielle Saulsbery
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