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31 January 2024

  • 12:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Roanoke Star
  • 00:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 
The Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Gravimeter on the surface of the Moon

30 January 2024

  • 12:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Ion Luca Caragiale
  • 00:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, Homecoming (1944)

29 January 2024

  • 12:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Gold-morph swamp guppies
  • 01:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Young Girls

28 January 2024

  • 14:32, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Epipterygium opararense
  • ... that all known populations of Epipterygium opararense (example pictured) live within a 5-metre (16 ft) radius in New Zealand?
  • ... that Gareth Knight, a devout Christian, was an occultist who ran an esoteric society of magicians?
  • ... that in 1983 readers of the magazine Softline voted Star Raiders the best program for Atari computers?
  • ... that Mar Galcerán is believed to be the first politician with Down syndrome to serve in a European regional parliament?
  • ... that the 1976 Big Thompson River flood took place several hours before Colorado's 100th anniversary of statehood?
  • ... that before discovering a rudimentary audio workstation on his mother's phone, the French musician Lewis OfMan wanted to be a perfumer?
  • ... that Harpegnathos alperti worker ants have black heads and chocolate-colored mandibles?
  • ... that the reign of Ye will be one of perjury, slavery, pestilence and death, according to the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Ezra?
  • 03:11, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 
1935 illustration of wreck
  • ... that locals responding to the 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck used snowballs to extinguish the fires in the wrecked cars (illustration pictured)?
  • ... that the rapper Jords did not know his father was a musician until a chance encounter in a British supermarket?
  • ... that the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment continuously overheated and had to be switched off during lunar noon?
  • ... that Nelson Santana supposedly predicted the date of his death?
  • ... that anti-Korean sentiment, due to South Korea's economic growth, motivated Djuna to write the sci-fi novel Counterweight?
  • ... that jazz saxophonist Chris Byars ended his childhood operatic career when his voice croaked during a performance?
  • ... that years after it closed, the studios of an Iowa TV station became the headquarters for the state police radio network?
  • ... that Frederick Murray Trotter had a distinguished career as a field geologist despite losing a part of his skull and an eye to shrapnel during World War I?

27 January 2024

  • 15:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Roosevelt Island Tramway
  • 00:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Matooskie

26 January 2024

  • 12:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Ruins of the Abbey of Saint Winnoc
  • 00:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Self-Portrait as a Tahitian (1934)

25 January 2024

  • 12:00, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Interior of St. Martin, Oestrich
  • 00:00, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Māori warrior on the New Zealand shilling

24 January 2024

  • 00:00, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 
In the Snow at Tsukahara, Sado Island

23 January 2024

  • 00:00, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Andrew J. Evans Jr.

22 January 2024

  • 00:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Villa Saluzzo Serra

21 January 2024

  • 00:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 
The Little Girl in Blue

20 January 2024

  • 00:00, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 
S. F. Light examining termites

19 January 2024

  • 00:00, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Calligraphic tiles from the Empire of the Sultans

18 January 2024

  • 00:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Cora Victoria Diehl

17 January 2024

  • 00:00, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Cartoon of Brownell as a "Pretty Moth"

16 January 2024

  • 00:00, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Kreuzkirche in 1945

15 January 2024

  • 00:00, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Hyperbolic spirals in a spiral staircase
  • ... that the spirals in photographs of spiral staircases (example pictured) are hyperbolic?
  • ... that Forest Van Hook was so large that he always bought two tickets when attending sports events?
  • ... that a My Little Pony fan band wrote a song about a horror game, creating what has been considered to be a sub-genre of music?
  • ... that by popular demand, philosopher Anton Charles Pegis continued to teach graduate classes for three years after becoming an emeritus professor?
  • ... that the reggae singer Tony Tribe used to have blouses thrown at him while performing?
  • ... that Akram Nadwi addressed the lack of Islamic women scholars highlighted in a Time article by composing al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, a 43-volume work with more than 10,000 entries?
  • ... that despite being only 40 feet (12 m) tall, Roar-o-Saurus was described by CNN as one of the "most insane" new roller coasters of 2014?
  • ... that composer and conductor William Carter began a career as a professional organist at the age of nine?

14 January 2024

  • 00:00, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Tragedy by the Sea

13 January 2024

  • 00:00, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 
King Manor

12 January 2024

  • 00:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Twenty newly elected New Zealand MPs

11 January 2024

  • 00:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women

10 January 2024

  • 00:00, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Catherine, Princess of Wales

9 January 2024

  • 00:00, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Frédéric Chopin

8 January 2024

  • 00:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Nancy Nash

7 January 2024

  • 00:00, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Cosmos ball in the Great Divine Temple

6 January 2024

  • 00:00, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Dolly de Leon

5 January 2024

  • 00:00, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Almirante Barroso

4 January 2024

  • 00:00, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Eustace Tilley on the first edition of The New Yorker, 1925

3 January 2024

  • 00:00, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Geordie Greep

2 January 2024

  • 00:00, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Dragonesque brooch

1 January 2024

  • 00:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 
Criccieth Castle