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=30 June 2011=

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File:Agostino Brunias Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796.jpg

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=29 June 2011=

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File:Maria Bashir - Afghanistan - 2011 International Women of Courage awards.jpg

  • ... that Maria Bashir (pictured), Chief Prosecutor General of Herat Province, Afghanistan, is the first ever woman Chief Prosecutor in Afghan history?
  • ... that the 1952 NATO exercise Operation Longstep featured a large-scale amphibious assault along the western coast of Turkey?
  • ... that in 1952 the communist candidate Baddam Yella Reddy defeated P. V. Narasimha Rao (later the Prime Minister of India) in a parliamentary election?
  • ... that Jeune Fille Endormie by the iconic 20th-century painter Picasso recently sold for nearly {{Nowrap|£13.5 million}}, and had only been on public display once?
  • ... that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17?
  • ... that an unsuccessful month-long siege in Yemen during the expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah was broken when Abdullah trapped the enemy by pretending to withdraw from the area into the hills?
  • ... that the current CEO of the South African National Blood Service was once rejected as a blood donor because she is black?
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=28 June 2011=

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File:La Coupole exhibition V-2 rocket.jpg

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File:Blue-banded Hermit Crab crop.jpg

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File:Nasothek.JPG

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=27 June 2011=

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File:Pediocactus knowltonii fh 27 5 COL NM border in cultur B.jpg

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File:Marsh Mill, Thornton - geograph.org.uk - 1128262.jpg

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File:Peach flowers.jpg

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File:Old St Peters Church rose window - The Dalles Oregon.png

=26 June 2011=

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File:Church of the Holy Mother of God Asen's Fortress Klearchos 1.jpg

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=25 June 2011=

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File:Jenny Lind retouched.jpg

  • ... that 4,476 tickets were auctioned for the first concert by the "Swedish Nightingale", soprano Jenny Lind (pictured) in her 1850–52 tour of the United States?
  • ... that mathematician Kosmas Balanos claimed in his work Antipelargisis that he had solved the problem of doubling the cube?
  • ... that despite conceding four goals in the second leg, English club Ipswich Town beat Dutch club AZ Alkmaar 5–4 on aggregate to win the 1981 UEFA Cup Final?
  • ... that Christina Grimmie's song "Liar Liar" from her first album Find Me shot to Number 63 on the US iTunes Singles Charts in less than 72 hours from its release?
  • ... that the International Labour Organization adopted a convention giving workers' rights to domestic workers at its 100th session this month?
  • ... that in the quartier of Mjikura in Mtsamboro on the north coast of Mayotte, there are the ruins of a royal palace and tombs from the time when it was an important town of the Sultans of Mayotte?
  • ... that Royal Navy surgeon Belgrave Ninnis attempted to revive a drowned sailor by, among other things, injecting brandy into his rectum?
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File:Flamingos Partying.jpg

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File:First Baptist Church of Ossining, NY.jpg

=24 June 2011=

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File:Kyrle Bellew in profile.jpg

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File:Presumed Self-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara Longhi.jpg

=23 June 2011=

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File:Athenaeum - Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.jpg

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File:Flag of New Caledonia.svg

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File:Ile du Rocher Percé.jpg

=22 June 2011=

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File:Cornélie Falcon as Rachel in La Juive by Halévy 1835 - A Colin - NGO2p110.jpg

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File:Ekapada shiva.jpg

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File:Colditz Castle1.jpg

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File:Aspen Community Church.jpg

=21 June 2011=

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File:Sun Weishi Zhou Enlai in Moscow.jpg

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File:Tjibaou cultural center-Commons transfer 2012-11-20.jpg

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File:Feral horse and foal - Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range - Montana.jpg

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File:William Cronan as a Cadet.png

=20 June 2011=

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File:HeadCicadidae.jpg

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File:Fuerte de San Miguel I.JPG

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=19 June 2011=

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File:Edward Knowles (1742-1762) by Francis Cotes.jpg

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File:Jose Rizal full.jpg

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File:Monet - The Magpie.jpg

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File:Sir James Bremer.jpg

=18 June 2011=

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File:Canaques, c. 1870.jpg

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File:Pitta moluccensis-20040821B.jpg

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File:Marilyn Monroe - Seven Year Itch.jpg

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=17 June 2011=

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File:Daphne_Oseña-Paez.jpg

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File:Medieval Merchant's House - geograph.org.uk - 166280.jpg

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=16 June 2011=

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File:Harvard Lampoon building.jpg

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File:Derbys First Exhibition 1839.jpg

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File:Jakarta riot 14 May 1998.jpg

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=15 June 2011=

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File:Pontearroiochui.jpg

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File:Verbund_malta.jpg

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File:Red Skelton Graumans 1942.jpg

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File:B.B. King (1990) Crop.jpg

=14 June 2011=

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File:Spiegelwida.jpg

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File:Maa Mundeshwari Devi.jpg

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File:SumerianZiggurat.jpg

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File:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Movie Trailer Screenshot (34).jpg

=13 June 2011=

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File:Crijn Hendricksz.jpeg

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File:H.B. Ralston driving at the Charles River Speedway.jpg

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File:Durango 100.jpg

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File:Dinemellia dinemelli -Serengeti National Park, Tanzania-8.jpg

=12 June 2011=

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File:Leipzig Universitätskirche.JPG, 17th century|alt=University Church, Leipzig, originally Paulinerkirche, lithography (c. 1839) by Ernst Wilhelm Straßberger (1796–1866), in the foreground the entrance of the Botanical Garden]]

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File:Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes firing a broadside.jpg

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=11 June 2011=

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File:Tetrao tetrix from ja.jpg

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File:Milton Durham cropped.jpg

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File:Springfield, MA Tornado 2011, June 1.jpg

=10 June 2011=

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File:New Wadell Dam.jpg

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=9 June 2011=

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File: Cyark Banteay 1.jpg

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=8 June 2011=

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File:Bulgaria-Nesebar-06.JPG

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=7 June 2011=

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File:St Giles' Church - April 2011.jpg

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File:Grey Crowned Crane-2.jpg

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File:Hoplomys gymnurus1.jpg

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File:RMS Titanic Musician's Memorial, Southampton.jpg

=6 June 2011=

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File:Hawker Hurricane W9182 On CAM Ship.jpg

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=5 June 2011=

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File:St Deny's, 1872.png

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=4 June 2011=

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File:War Angel, Christchurch.jpg

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=3 June 2011=

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File:Olek artist Christmas party.jpg

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=2 June 2011=

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File:Tote Meerhand (Alcyonium digitatum) 2.jpg

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File:Toxoplasma gondii.jpg

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File:Howard P. Perry, the first African-American US Marine Corps recruit.jpg

=1 June 2011=

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File:Former Trinity Congregational Chapel (now Nineveh House), Arundel (NHLE Code 1277924).JPG

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