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31 August 2022

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  • 12:00, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Leonard Bernstein
  • 00:00, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Winifred Brown

30 August 2022

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  • 12:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Rockwood & Company shipping department, 1918
  • 00:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Lauren Mitchell

29 August 2022

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  • 12:00, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Vladimirka by Isaac Levitan
  • 00:00, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Alice Kuperjanov

28 August 2022

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  • 12:00, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Male Baer's pochard
  • 00:00, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Jim Dillard

27 August 2022

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  • 12:00, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
 
St. Martinus, Hattersheim
  • 00:00, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
 
William George Carlile Kent

26 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Tenta

25 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Theatre Royal, Southampton

24 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Ardwall House

23 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Claude Debussy

22 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Gian Franco Bottazzo

21 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Indira Devi of Kapurthala

20 August 2022

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55 Water Street

19 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
 
John Caffey
  • ... that John Caffey (pictured) was the first to describe the condition now known as shaken baby syndrome?
  • ... that people in Loli traditionally derive their social identity from the village in which they were born?
  • ... that Thomas Jeremiah, a slaveowner, was executed for inciting a slave insurrection?
  • ... that Don't Pay UK plan to encourage UK households to cancel their energy bill payments on 1 October 2022 if their pledge reaches 1 million signatures?
  • ... that PJ and Thomas were the first gay couple to host an HGTV show?
  • ... that in 2018, Donald Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from a Super Bowl LII victory ceremony at the White House after several players said they were not going to attend?
  • ... that at the end of the siege of Petra in 551 AD, the Romans discovered that there was yet another pipe beneath the ones they destroyed that was supplying water to the besieged garrison all along?
  • ... that Edward N. Hall is known as the "father of the Minuteman ICBM" but his brother Ted was a Soviet spy?

18 August 2022

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Tayaw kinpun

17 August 2022

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Hank Goldberg

16 August 2022

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Wood type

15 August 2022

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William H. Davis

14 August 2022

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Phoenician arrowheads with inscriptions (12th–11th century BC)

13 August 2022

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United Nations Secretariat Building

12 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Roman Bunka playing the oud

11 August 2022

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Akron Baptist Temple's 1949 sanctuary building

10 August 2022

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Gordon Memorial in Crossmichael Churchyard

9 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Avelina Carrera

8 August 2022

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Flag of Gdańsk

7 August 2022

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Travertine formations in Grand Canyon National Park

6 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Lilly Pulitzer dresses in Suzie Zuzek prints, c. 1965

5 August 2022

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  • 00:00, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Coyote en Ayuno

4 August 2022

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Shireen Abu Akleh

3 August 2022

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  • 12:00, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Toshiko Ueda
  • 00:00, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Wastwater, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the UK

2 August 2022

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Painting of birds by William Savage
  • 00:00, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Reverse of the Indian 500-rupee note, featuring Gyarah Murti

1 August 2022

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  • 12:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Sarah Pike Conger
  • 00:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 
Turkish Airlines Airbus A340