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31 July 2021

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Salome's Dance by Leopold Schmutzler
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James Reuel Smith

30 July 2021

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Mount Ararat with icecap
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Tuğba Şenoğlu

29 July 2021

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Cimoliopterus models in Crystal Palace Park
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Hebbel-Theater

28 July 2021

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Hannah Osborne
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Former badge of the Turks and Caicos Islands

27 July 2021

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Limete Tower
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Ezo chipmunk

26 July 2021

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Larisa Iordache
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Detail of the Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki

25 July 2021

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Artwork showing Murray (right) and Michael Brake with lightsabers as "Jedi rowers"
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J. S. Moll

24 July 2021

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Leeds Tiger
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Johann Rist

23 July 2021

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Emma Twigg
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Jadran

22 July 2021

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Marie Antoinette and Her Children by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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Denise Biellmann performing an upright spin

21 July 2021

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Mr. Bean in Leicester Square

20 July 2021

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Shanka Basadi
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John Rolph

19 July 2021

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One57
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Melville Fuller

18 July 2021

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S. lateriflorum flower heads
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Campaign button from Carter's 1976 presidential campaign

17 July 2021

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New Forest Buckhounds
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Theodolinda Hahnsson

16 July 2021

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Coral reef restoration
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The Angel with Golden Hair

15 July 2021

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Political cartoon depicting Truman and Dewey
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Urine deflector at the Bank of England

14 July 2021

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Detail of Van Ruytenburch from The Night Watch
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Pole Vault antenna

13 July 2021

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Alec Tyree
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Cyclist

12 July 2021

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Branka Veselinović
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Enslaved people being thrown from a ship

11 July 2021

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Jews forced to perform calisthenics during the Eleftherias Square roundup
  • ... that 9,000 Greek Jews were targeted by the 1942 Eleftherias Square roundup (pictured), and those who collapsed were attacked by dogs?
  • ... that Ellora Derenoncourt demonstrated that the expansion of minimum wage in 1967 accounted for 20 percent of the reduction in racial income gaps in the United States during the civil rights era?
  • ... that Japanese industrialist Ichizō Kobayashi established the Takarazuka Grand Theater in the city of Takarazuka because it was located at the terminus of a train line owned by his company?
  • ... that Marja Kubašec was both the first Sorbian woman to receive a formal teacher training and the first woman to write a novel in Upper Sorbian?
  • ... that the many refugees who have entered Canada via Roxham Road at the border between New York and Quebec since 2017 may not have been breaking any laws?
  • ... that the volcanic crater Cerro Overo formed about 77,000 years ago?
  • ... that June Fernández wrote "I Wanted Sex But Not Like That"?
  • ... that the meagre attendance at the 1960 European Nations' Cup Final in Paris was blamed on crowds who "wanted western European glamour, not mysterious teams from the other side of Europe"?
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"Daisy"

10 July 2021

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Red-billed pied tanager
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Georg Liebling

9 July 2021

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Shrine of Miosach, late 11th and early 16th centuries
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Charlie N. Holmberg

8 July 2021

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Little Island panorama
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One of the first stamps from the Pitcairn Islands

7 July 2021

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Nubian pyramids in Sudan
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Jane Margyl

6 July 2021

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Coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands

5 July 2021

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Rib vault of the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle, Bruck

4 July 2021

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Gabi with his mother Tamar

3 July 2021

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Parliament Hill, Ottawa

2 July 2021

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Flag of Nova Scotia

1 July 2021

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Illustration from the Anis Al-Hujjaj