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January 2020

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Dodo – The extinct flightless bird rests in Oxford
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Dodo – The extinct flightless bird rests in Oxford
The Raphus cucullatus was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Subfossil remains show the dodo was about 1 meter tall and may have weighed 15 kg. It has been depicted with brownish-grey plumage, yellow feet, a tuft o...
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Kućica na Drini – The Drina river house in Višesava
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Kućica na Drini – The Drina river house in Višesava
According to local legends, medieval hero Kraljević Marko was travelling through the area and wanted to cross the river and reach the other side. However, he didn’t want his horse Šarac to step into the deep water. Kraljević Marko climbed the Crven...
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Captain James Cook – The end of the British explorer in Hawaii Island
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Captain James Cook – The end of the British explorer in Hawaii Island
He achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy ...
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Photoshop – The famous image editing program is being born in Ann Arbor
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Photoshop – The famous image editing program is being born in Ann Arbor
The software was developed in 1987 by two brothers Thomas and John Knoll. Thomas Knoll, a student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program caught the at...
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David Bowie – The birthplace and childhood in Brixton
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David Bowie – The birthplace and childhood in Brixton
English singer-songwriter and actor. was born on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London. The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, on the boundary between Brixton and Stockwell in the south London borough of Lambeth. Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until...
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Shoes on the Danube Bank – The Holocaust Memorial in Budapest
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Shoes on the Danube Bank – The Holocaust Memorial in Budapest
The monument is located on the Pest side of the Danube, south of the Hungarian Parliament and near the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between Roosevelt Square and Kossuth square. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the D...
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Delorean DMC-12 – The famous time travel device is being exhibited in Los Angeles
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Delorean DMC-12 – The famous time travel device is being exhibited in Los Angeles
Several special-edition DeLorean cars have been produced over the years, and the car is most notably featured as the time machine in the Back to the Future film trilogy. Six DeLorean chassis were used during the production, along with one manufactured ou...
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Edith Cavell – The heroine nurse is being executed by firing squad in Brussels
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Edith Cavell – The heroine nurse is being executed by firing squad in Brussels
She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War, for which she was arrested. She was accused of treason, found...
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La Soufrière – The deadly volcanic activity in Saint Vincent Island
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La Soufrière – The deadly volcanic activity in Saint Vincent Island
The eruption of 6 May 1902, just hours before the eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique, killed 1,680 people. The death zone, where almost all persons were killed, was close to entirely Carib. This last large remnant of Carib culture was destroyed, the i...
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Jean Sibelius – The Birthplace of the Finnish composer in Hämeenlinna
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Jean Sibelius – The Birthplace of the Finnish composer in Hämeenlinna
He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with having helped Finland to develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia. Sibelius was born on 8 December 1865 in the G...
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Dar al-Hajar – The rock palace in Sana’a
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Dar al-Hajar – The rock palace in Sana’a
The five-storey palace was constructed as a summer residence for Imam Yahya in the 1930s, but it seems that he was building atop a preexisting structure that was built in the 1700s by an Islamic scholar. Dar al-Hajar itself is built like a fortress, with...
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Chocolate bar – The birthplace of solid chocolate snack in Bristol
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Chocolate bar – The birthplace of solid chocolate snack in Bristol
Joseph Fry, started making chocolate around 1759. In 1761 Joseph Fry and John Vaughan purchased a small shop and with it the patent for a chocolate refining process. In 1777 their chocolate works moved from Newgate Street to Union Street, Bristol. ...
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