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From today's featured articleJadran is a sailing ship for basic naval training built in Germany for the Royal Yugoslav Navy and currently in Montenegrin service. Commissioned in 1933, she completed seven long training cruises before World War II. During the war, she continued as a training ship, first by the Yugoslavians, but later by the Italians and then the Germans. Looted and dilapidated, she was returned to the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 and was rebuilt. Between 1949 and 1991, training was mainly conducted in the Adriatic, and she undertook only five long-distance cruises. When the Yugoslav Wars commenced in 1991, Jadran was homeported at Split but was undergoing a refit at Tivat in the Bay of Kotor and came under the control of rump Yugoslavia. In 2006, Montenegro became independent, and Jadran became a ship of the Montenegrin Navy. Her ownership remains disputed between Montenegro and Croatia; in December 2021, the two countries agreed to form a commission to settle the dispute. (Full article...)
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The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental structure in the Marina District of San Francisco, California. It was originally constructed for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition to exhibit works of art. Completely rebuilt from 1964 to 1974, it is the only structure from the exposition that survives on site. The most prominent building of the complex, a 162-foot-high (49-meter) open rotunda, is enclosed by a lagoon on one side, and adjoins a large, curved exhibition center on the other side, separated from the lagoon by colonnades. Photograph credit: Rhododendrites
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