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The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village is a 2001 non-fiction book by the historian Eamon Duffy. It concerns Morebath, England, during the English Reformation of the 16th century. Using the churchwarden's accounts maintained by Sir Christopher Trychay, the vicar of Morebath's parish, Duffy recounts the religious and social implications of the Reformation in a small conservative Catholic community through the reign of Henry VIII, during the violent 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion, and into the Elizabethan era. Trychay's accounts – first reprinted in 1904 – had been used in other scholarly works and were first encountered by Duffy in 1992. Duffy's work depicts both Morebath and Trychay through their strong early resistance to the Reformation to their eventual adoption of new religious norms under the Protestant Elizabethan Religious Settlement. In 2002, the work won the Hawthornden Prize and the book was shortlisted for both the Samuel Johnson Prize and British Academy Book Prize. (Full article...)

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There are 41 recorded species of birds on Bouvet Island, an uninhabited, sub-Antarctic island administered as a dependency of Norway. A small, isolated volcanic island at the southern tip of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it is located around 2,600 km (1,600 mi) southwest of South Africa and 1,600 km (990 mi) from Antarctica. Bouvet Island has undergone very little human modification and, along with its surrounding waters, has been declared a protected area. Of the birds found there, twelve species have confirmed breeding populations on the island, while another two are suspected to have breeding populations. The species with large breeding populations include the southern fulmar (example pictured), with an estimated population of 100,000 breeding adults, and the black-bellied storm petrel, with an estimated population of 1,000 breeding adults. A large number of penguins also breed on Bouvet Island, and nineteen species of birds are summer migrants. The island has been designated an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International due to its high conservation value. (Full list...)

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The Nintendo DSi is a dual-screen handheld game console released by Nintendo. It is the third iteration of the Nintendo DS, and its primary market rival is Sony's PlayStation Portable. Development of the DSi began in late 2006, and the handheld was first unveiled during a 2008 Nintendo conference in Tokyo. While the DSi's design is similar to that of the DS Lite, it features two digital cameras and also connects to an online store called the Nintendo DSi Shop. The DSi is approximately 12 percent shorter than the DS Lite when closed, but it is slightly wider and lighter. The DSi also has a larger RAM and a faster CPU. All DS games are compatible with the DSi, except those that require the Game Boy Advance slot. Because of its absence, the DSi is not backward-compatible with GBA Game Paks or with accessories that require the GBA slot, such as the DS Rumble Pak and the Guitar Hero: On Tour series guitar grip. The Nintendo DSi received generally positive reviews. Critics praised many of the console's changes to the DS Lite's aesthetics and functionality, but complained that it launched with insufficient exclusive software. A larger version of the DSi, the Nintendo DSi XL, was released in 2009. This photograph, taken by the American photographer and Wikipedian Evan Amos, shows an open Nintendo DSi in black.

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