The frilled lizard (Chlamy­dosaurus kingii) is a species in the family Agamidae. It is native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It is the only member of the genus Chlamydosaurus. Its common name comes from its large neck frill, usually folded against the lizard's body. It is about 90 cm (35 in) in length and can weigh 600 g (1.3 lb). Males are larger and more robust than females. The lizard is generally grey, brown, orangish-brown, or black. The frills have red, orange, yellow, or white colours. The lizard is largely arboreal, and its diet is mainly insects and other invertebrates. It is more active during the wet season, when it spends more time near or on the ground. In the dry season, it seeks shade in the branches of the upper canopy. It breeds in the late dry season and early wet season. The lizard uses its frill to scare off predators and to display to other individuals. The species is considered to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. ( Full article...)

St. Mary's Church

• ... that parishioners collected the stones used to build St. Mary's Church (pictured) from the iron mines where they worked?
• ... that Lucy Salani is considered the only known Italian transgender person to survive the Nazi concentration camps?
• ... that during the early-access period of Hogwarts Legacy, the game set a new record on Twitch with the largest number of concurrent viewers for a single-player game in history?
• ... that the miniseries In the Best of Families was based on the book Bitter Blood which in turn is a recount of the real life murders of Fritz Klenner?
• ... that male blue-bellied limias spend more than 26 minutes per hour courting females?
• ... that two Americans, Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik, are large funders of the Kohelet Policy Forum, an intellectual driving force of the controversial 2023 Israeli judicial reform package?
• ... that a Houston TV station lost its broadcasting tower in a construction accident a month after going on the air?
• ... that the USC Trojans team that won the 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship had been compared to the Marvel Comics' Avengers?

Annemiek van Vleuten

• In cycling, Annemiek van Vleuten (pictured) wins La Vuelta Femenina.
• In horse racing, Mage wins the Kentucky Derby.
• King Charles III and Queen Camilla are crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
• The World Health Organization ends its designation of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
• Seventeen people are killed in two separate shootings in Belgrade, Serbia, at an elementary school and in two nearby towns.

May 13

Aftermath of the Enschede explosion

• 1909 – The first edition of the Giro d'Italia, a long-distance multiple- stage bicycle race, began in Milan; the Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the eventual winner.
• 1958 – US vice president Richard Nixon's motorcade was attacked by a mob in Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2000 – An explosion (aftermath pictured) at a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in damage.
• 2008 – Nine bombs placed by the Indian Mujahideen, then an unknown terrorist group, exploded in a 15-minute period in Jaipur, India, killing 80 people and injuring more than 200 others.