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Picture of the day on May 11, 2016: Couple of Blue-footed boobies (Sula nebouxii) during a mating ritual, Lobos Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The blue-footed booby is a long-winged seabird with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft). The species is 90 cm (35 in) high and is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait, as the males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female. Although the blue-footed boobies are usually associated to the Galápagos Islands (where half of all breeding pairs nest), they can be found from the Gulf of California down along the western coasts of Central and South America down to Peru.

dudess , n : A female dude. (dated) A cowgirl. A woman, generally a younger woman, especially one who is perceived to be cool or hip.

The Article of the day for May 11, 2016 is Assassination of Spencer Perceval . On 11 May 1812, Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons in London. His assailant, John Bellingham, a Liverpool merchant, was tried and convicted, and on 18 May was hanged at Newgate Prison. Despite initial fears that the assassination might be linked to a general uprising, Bellingham had in fact acted alone, as a protest against the government's failure to compensate him for his imprisonment in Russia for a trading debt. After Perceval's death, parliament made generous provision to his widow and children, but his ministry was soon forgotten and his policies reversed. He had led the Tory government during a critical phase of the Napoleonic Wars, and his determination to prosecute the war using the harshest of measures had caused widespread poverty and unrest. He is generally better known for the mann...

Watch SpaceX's Latest (And Fastest) Landing From Three Different Angles This is SpaceX's second reusable rocket landing on a floating drone ship, proving that the first wasn't a fluke. May 10, 2016 at 04:06PM

Watch SpaceX's Latest (And Fastest) Landing From Three Different Angles

Word of the day is dudess : A female dude. (dated) A cowgirl. A woman, generally a younger woman, especially one who is perceived to be cool or hip.