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The Battle of Dunbar was fought between the English New Model
Army, under Oliver Cromwell, and a Scottish army, commanded by
David Leslie, on 3 September 1650 near Dunbar, Scotland. The first
major battle of the Third English Civil War, it was decisively won by
the English. The English crossed into Scotland in July, and Cromwell
attempted to draw the Scots into a set-piece battle, but the Scots
Cromwell and the English
cavalry at Dunbar resisted. At the end of August Cromwell withdrew to the port of
Dunbar. The Scottish army followed, and before dawn the English
launched a surprise attack on the Scots, who were poorly prepared. The fighting was
restricted to the north-eastern flank. Lesley was unable to reinforce those fighting, while
Cromwell used his last reserve to outflank the Scots. The Scottish cavalry broke and routed;
the Scottish infantry made a fighting retreat but suffered heavily. Between 300 and 500 Scots
were killed, with approximately 1,000 wounded and about 6,000 or more taken prisoner from
an army of 12,500 or fewer. (Full article...)

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September 3

36 BC – The Sicilian revolt against the Second Triumvirate of the Roman

Republic ended when the fleet of Sextus Pompey, the rebel leader, was
defeated at the Battle of Naulochus.

1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell (pictured)

won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.

1901 – The flag of Australia flew for the first time from the Royal
Exhibition Building in Melbourne. Oliver Cromwell
 1991 – A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet,
North Carolina, U.S.

2001 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary
school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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The Moortidevi Award is an Indian literary award annually presented by the

Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organisation. The award is
given only to Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the
Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, and in English, with no
posthumous conferral or self nomination. From 2003, the award was given
to the authors for their "contemplative and perceptive work" and consisted
of a cash prize of ₹1 lakh (US$1,600), a citation plaque, a shawl, and a
statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom. The C. K. Nagaraja Rao
cash prize was raised to ₹2 lakh (US$2,800) in 2011 and to ₹4 lakh
(US$5,600) in 2013. The first recipient of the award was the Kannada writer C. K. Nagaraja
Rao (pictured), who was honoured in 1983 for his novel, Pattamahadevi Shantala Devi, which
was published in four volumes. The award has been conferred upon twenty-nine writers
including one female author: In 1991, Odia academic and writer Pratibha Ray became the
first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1985 novel Yajnasani. Hindi writer
and professor Vishwanath Tiwari is the most recent recipient of the award. (Full list...)

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) is the virus that causes
COVID-19, the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Like other
coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 has four structural proteins, known by the letters S (spike), E
(envelope), M (membrane), and N (nucleocapsid); the N protein holds the RNA genome, and
the S, E, and M proteins together create the viral envelope. This transmission electron
micrograph shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles emerging from the surface of cells cultured in
a laboratory. The crown-like spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses
their name, derived from Latin corona, 'crown'.

Photograph credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain
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