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Today's featured article Anonymous double portrait of Qalaherriaq Qalaherriaq (c. 1834 – 1856) was an Inughuit hunter from Cape York in northwestern Greenland. Born around 1834 and baptized Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, he was taken aboard the British barque HMS Assistance in 1850 as an interpreter during the search for Franklin's lost expedition. He guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel. Poor sea conditions prevented the Assistance from returning to Qalaherriaq's family, and he was instead taken to England and placed in the custody of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He was enrolled in St Augustine's College at Canterbury and studied English and Christianity. In 1855, he was tasked by Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland, to join him on a mission to the Labrador Inuit. Qalaherriaq's health problems, which he had developed during his service as an interpreter, worsened after his arrival in Newfoundland, and he died at St. John's in 1856 around 22 years old. (Full article...) Recently featured: Artur Phleps Addie Viola Smith 1894–95 New Brompton F.C. season Did you know... Black Eagle Silver Certificate ... that between 1899 and 1923 the United States government issued 3,604,239,600 one-dollar Black Eagle Silver Certificates (example pictured)? ... that although J1407b eclipsed V1400 Centauri in 2007, nobody noticed for over three years? ... that in order to attend breakdancing classes as a child, future Olympian Amir Zakirov had to give up eating lunch? ... that The Book of Virtues inspired PBS's first animated primetime series? ... that one researcher found that nearly a third of the people cancelled over antisemitism allegations in Germany have been Jews? ... that plans for a statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped? ... that during the writing of El Eternauta: segunda parte, Héctor Germán Oesterheld became victim of an enforced disappearance? ... that arguments in favor of a Palestinian right of armed resistance are often based on Article 1(4) of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions? ... that a magical inanimate dog may have been a taxidermy dog, an automaton, or a metaphor?

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