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Positive interpersonal relationships contribute to well-being.
Well-being is what is intrinsically good for a person, indicating how well their life is going. In the broadest sense, it is the balance of all positive and negative aspects. More narrowly, it refers only to positive degrees and contrasts with ill-being, which denotes negative ones. Researchers discuss types by how they are measured and to whom they belong, distinguishing subjective from objective well-being, and individual from community well-being. Hedonism and desire theory disagree about whether the balance of pleasure over pain or desire satisfaction is the source of well-being. Objective list theories hold that diverse elements are responsible. Often-discussed contributing factors are emotions, life satisfaction, achievement, finding meaning, interpersonal relationships, and health. As a central goal of many individual and societal endeavors, well-being is relevant to many fields, including philosophy, psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, religion, politics, and medicine. (Full article...)
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Kane Parsons
- ... that Kane Parsons (pictured) became the youngest director to have a film open at the top of the North American box office?
- ... that Robert Moses defended the site of a planned playground after local civic workers complained that the location was too rocky?
- ... that the songs on The 20/20 Experience use different metaphors for sex, including drugs, candy, and outer space?
- ... that historian Laura F. Edwards attended a music school that she said "actually diverted [her] away from music"?
- ... that a miniature golf chain is an affiliate member of both England and Scotland's national governing bodies for golf?
- ... that Kenyan coder Rose Njeri was arrested for creating a tool to help citizens voice their opposition to a change in tax laws?
- ... that Manuscript Hamilton 254 contains the oldest known extant drawing of the Parthenon?
- ... that Jamaican runner Janielle Josephs took up athletics in part because she "wanted to miss school"?
- ... that the police officer and the young boy who modeled for one of Norman Rockwell's most famous paintings became lifelong friends?
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Hakainde Hichilema
- The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria ends its autonomous rule following its full integration into Syria.
- President Hakainde Hichilema (pictured) wins the Zambian general election for a second consecutive term.
- A magnitude-7.7 earthquake strikes off the coast of Flores, Indonesia, causing at least 100 deaths.
- Former premier of China Zhu Rongji dies at the age of 97.
- A solar eclipse causes totality from Siberia to Iberia.
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Lithograph depicting contents in the Great Moon Hoax
- 1258 – George Mouzalon, the regent of the Empire of Nicaea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by nobles under the future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
- 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon (lithograph pictured).
- 1914 – World War I: During the sack of Louvain in Belgium, German troops burned the town's Catholic university, destroying several medieval manuscripts.
- 2001 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in The Bahamas.
- 2011 – Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people were killed in an arson attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.
- Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey (d. 1711)
- Joseph Beyrle (b. 1923)
- Hendra Setiawan (b. 1984)
- Esther Earl (d. 2010)
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Dracaena cinnabari, also known as the Socotra dragon tree or the dragon blood tree, is a species of dragon tree native to the island of Socotra, part of Yemen, in the Arabian Sea. Growing to a height of 9 metres (30 ft), it develops a distinctive umbrella-shaped crown adapted to the arid conditions of its habitat. The tree produces a dark-red resin known as dragon's blood, historically used as a dye, medicine and varnish. The species is threatened by overgrazing, habitat degradation and increasing aridity, and is classified as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This D. cinnabari tree was photographed on the Diksam Plateau on Socotra. Photograph credit: Alex38
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