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Danie Mellor (born 1971) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist and the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for a mixed media work From Rite to Ritual. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor studied at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He then took up a post lecturing at Sydney College of the Arts. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. The dominant theme in Mellor's art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures. Since 2000, Mellor's works have been included regularly in National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibitions and in 2003 he was awarded a "highly commended", for his print Cyathea cooperi. His other major exhibitions have included the Primavera 2005 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007. In 2012, his work was included in the National Museum of Australia's exhibition Menagerie: contemporary Indigenous sculpture and the second National Indigenous Art Triennial. (Full article...)

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The Kurdistan Workers' Party begins to leave Turkey following a ceasefire agreement.

Roberto Azevêdo (pictured) is announced as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization.

Alex Ferguson, winner of 13 English Premier League titles as manager of Manchester United, announces his retirement.

Researchers publish evidence tentatively supporting Eurasiatic, a proposed language macrofamily dating back 15,000 years.

At least 23 people are killed when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City.

The World Snooker Championship concludes with Ronnie O'Sullivan defeating Barry Hawkins to defend the title.

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May 11: Easter Saturday (Eastern Christianity, 2013)

868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in China, making it the world's oldest dated printed book.

1792 – Merchant sea captain Robert Gray became the first recorded European to navigate the Columbia River in what is now the Pacific Northwest United States.

1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first Europeans confirmed to cross the Blue Mountains.

1858 – Minnesota (flag pictured) was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

1946 – The United Malays National Organisation, today Malaysia's largest political party, was founded, originally to oppose the constitutional framework of the Malayan Union.

1996 – A severe blizzard on Mount Everest caused the deaths of eight climbers, helping make that year the deadliest in the mountain's history.

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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1956 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Ed Wood and following a crew of aliens intent on resurrecting Earth's dead as "ghouls". The film has been dubbed the "worst ever made": it features numerous continuity errors, visible crew and equipment, and spliced footage of a recently deceased Bela Lugosi from earlier projects.

Poster: Tom Jung; Restoration: Otto Jula

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