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30 June 2021

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Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever

29 June 2021

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Carolyn Huntoon

28 June 2021

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Campaign button from Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign

27 June 2021

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Marie André Cantillon

26 June 2021

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Bush Tower

25 June 2021

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Françoise Hardy

24 June 2021

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Male hooded visorbearer

23 June 2021

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Esplanade Mansions

22 June 2021

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Poster for Run, Little Chillun

21 June 2021

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Sculpture of Indrani

20 June 2021

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Current chancery of the Philippine embassy in Berlin

19 June 2021

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Margaret Thatcher
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Hall of mirrors at Amna Suraka

18 June 2021

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Tomlinson Hall
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17th-century painting of Kripa

17 June 2021

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Annie Åkerhielm
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Priest-King, circa 2000–1900 BCE

16 June 2021

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Alte Handelsbörse
  • 00:00, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 
Edwards Davis
  • ... that before a career in stage and film, Edwards Davis (pictured) was an ordained minister known for dancing in his pulpit?
  • ... that the developers of WarioWare Gold had to carefully select which 300 of the 1100 minigames across the entire series to include in the game?
  • ... that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann, most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill?
  • ... that banker Henry Seligman's house at 30 West 56th Street had a reception room with green marble furniture and a library with a Gothic-style wastebasket?
  • ... that HMS Sherwood is located more than 50 miles (80 km) from the sea?
  • ... that Tanja Tetzlaff recorded Einojuhani Rautavaara's cello sonatas from the 20th century and Wolfgang Rihm's cello concerto, premiered in 2008, on a cello built in 1776?
  • ... that in 1630, fewer than three percent of candidates were awarded the rank of juren, the second-highest civil rank in imperial China?
  • ... that Elon Musk lost $16.3 billion in a single day, the largest in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?

15 June 2021

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American kestrel being treated at the Wild Bird Fund
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Gallagh Man

14 June 2021

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Artist's rendering of IDCSP satellites being deployed
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Los Campitos Reservoir

13 June 2021

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Mary Custis Lee
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111 West 57th Street

12 June 2021

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Print made with the Bodleian Plate
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Fanny Howie

11 June 2021

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Rummer with engraving attributed to Maria Tesselschade Visscher
  • 00:00, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 
Interior of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

10 June 2021

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Polymastia boletiformis
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The Law Is Too Slow, 1925 lithograph by George Bellows

9 June 2021

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Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc
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Charles Nolte as Billy Budd

8 June 2021

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Sharon Choi
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Altarpiece by Gerda Höglund

7 June 2021

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Flame-colored tanager
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Self-portrait of Kendall

6 June 2021

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Schools at War poster
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Shrine of St. Paulina

5 June 2021

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Flag of FR Yugoslavia
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St. George's Basilica

4 June 2021

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Portrait of Dante by Botticelli
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HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass stuck in ice

3 June 2021

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Astrolabe in the Khalili Collection
  • 00:00, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 
Jim Hayes

2 June 2021

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Eye of Horus symbol
  • 00:00, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 
Meredith Clark

1 June 2021

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Deportation of Jews from Ioannina
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Kid Canfield