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31 August 2023

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Berit Lindholm

30 August 2023

  • 00:00, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Entrance to the Fulton Street station

29 August 2023

  • 00:00, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Assembly of gauthierite crystals on a matrix
  • ... that the mineral gauthierite (pictured) has only been found in one location, and only on very few specimens?
  • ... that Chinese intellectual Tan Teck Soon, who was the son of a Christian missionary, became a supporter of Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala in his later years?
  • ... that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship-versus-ship action of the American Civil War?
  • ... that Thelma Bates's colleagues tried to discourage her from establishing the first palliative care team at a British hospital, saying it would ruin her career?
  • ... that equipment from a bankrupt North Carolina TV station was dismantled, loaded on three rental trucks, and reassembled to start a station in Virginia?
  • ... that Singaporean performance artist Josef Ng was fined S$1,000 for partially exposing his buttocks and snipping his pubic hair during a public performance?
  • ... that one critic described the lower portion of One Worldwide Plaza's facade as resembling "stone wallpaper"?
  • ... that the Ängelholm UFO memorial reflects the account of Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, who attributed his success in life to encountering a UFO in 1946?

28 August 2023

  • 12:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 
A Plunge into Space, with a preface attributed to Verne
  • 00:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Replica of the Kabwe skull
  • ... that the Kabwe mine produced crystals and a fossilised pre-human skull (replica pictured), and has poisoned hundreds of thousands of people?
  • ... that social media influencer Alix Earle's first video on TikTok featured her and her friends showcasing outfits they had made out of trash bags?
  • ... that the first Thai typewriter left out two letters, which eventually became obsolete?
  • ... that after his candidacy was disqualified by Bolivia's electoral court, Eduardo Maldonado sued the state at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and won?
  • ... that during the 2013 Midwest floods, lightning struck a plane on the runway, according to officials at the airport?
  • ... that Chinese missionary Tan See Boo moved to Singapore to work for the Presbyterian Church, but later returned to China to persuade Christians to leave the Presbyterian Church?
  • ... that of 42 pilot competitors who started the 2022 X-Pyr, a paragliding hike-and-fly endurance race, only four reached the final goal?
  • ... that Bird Thomas Baldwin, the director of the first child research center of its kind, died due to a shaving accident?

27 August 2023

  • 12:00, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Martha Holliday in Yank, The Army Weekly (1946)
  • ... that a 1940s pin-up photograph (shown) of dancer and actress Martha Holliday reportedly "created a near-panic in the United States Senate"?
  • ... that Singaporean swimmer Marc Tay served in the Gulf War as an eye surgeon?
  • ... that in 1987, an estimated one-sixth of New York City's homeless children lived at the Martinique Hotel, even though it lacked basic facilities like kitchens?
  • ... that the names of Harvey Meyerhoff, Elie Wiesel, and Bill Clinton are carved into the cornerstone of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to Meyerhoff's daughter?
  • ... that one former employee called the executives of a New Orleans TV station "piranhas"?
  • ... that one contemporary chronicler claimed that Tolui's Mongol army killed as many as three million people in less than two months?
  • ... that fire baskets were once used to mark the main route through Danish waters from the North Sea to the Baltic?
  • ... that Mike Wingfield named a fungus after his first grandchild, Rachel?
  • 00:00, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Cheese-making demonstration at Imsil Cheese Theme Park

26 August 2023

  • 12:00, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Sourdough Fire
  • 00:00, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Gavin Massey

25 August 2023

  • 12:00, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Portrait of Johanna Staude by Klimt
  • 00:00, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Caricature of Churchill as a bulldog

24 August 2023

  • 12:00, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Armatas and the Blue Angels flying in formation
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Yokcushlu

23 August 2023

  • 12:00, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Jason Reynolds, author of Ain't Burned All the Bright
  • 00:00, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Antimonumento +72

22 August 2023

  • 00:00, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Blackburnian warbler

21 August 2023

  • 00:00, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Malagasy woman wearing masonjoany

20 August 2023

  • 00:00, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Blotter art of the Eye of Horus

19 August 2023

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Bradley Winslow

18 August 2023

  • 00:00, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 
New York Biltmore Hotel

17 August 2023

  • 00:00, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Make-Do and Mend poster

16 August 2023

  • 00:00, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Mckenna Grace

15 August 2023

  • 00:00, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Yukio Futatsugi, creator of the Panzer Dragoon series

14 August 2023

  • 00:00, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Roxani Soutzos

13 August 2023

  • 00:00, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Paper fortune teller

12 August 2023

  • 00:00, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Dolwyddelan Castle

11 August 2023

  • 00:00, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Thomas Carlyle

10 August 2023

  • 00:00, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Trade-dollar locket

9 August 2023

  • 00:00, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Golfers playing around fenced-off tombs in what is now Hyochang Park

8 August 2023

  • 00:00, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Yekaterina Nosenko

7 August 2023

  • 00:00, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Diego Mateo Zapata

6 August 2023

  • 00:00, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Two salt marsh snakes

5 August 2023

  • 00:00, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Jamie Kalven

4 August 2023

  • 00:00, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

3 August 2023

  • 00:00, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 
19th-century Sundari painting

2 August 2023

  • 00:00, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Catalina Estrada

1 August 2023

  • 00:00, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 
Vera Brodsky Lawrence