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July 1
The willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) is a passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and eastern Indonesia. It measures about 19–21.5 cm (7+1⁄2–8+1⁄2 in) in length. The willie wagtail is insectivorous and spends much time chasing prey in open habitat. Its common name is derived from its habit of wagging its tail horizontally when foraging on the ground. Aggressive and territorial, the willie wagtail will often harass much larger birds such as the laughing kookaburra and wedge-tailed eagle. It has responded well to human alteration of the landscape and is a common sight in urban lawns, parks, and gardens. It is widely featured in Aboriginal folklore around Australia and New Guinea in a variety of roles, from stealer of secrets and liar to a good omen for successful crops. Photograph credit: JJ Harrison
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July 2
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March to September 1881. On July 2, 1881, four months into his presidency, Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed and delusional office seeker. Garfield died two months later from infections caused by his doctors. He remains the only sitting member of the United States House of Representatives to be elected to the presidency. Photograph credit: unknown; restored by PawełMM and Quibik
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July 3
Les Troyens is a grand opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz with a French-language libretto written by the composer himself based on Virgil's Aeneid. The score was composed between 1856 and 1858, but Berlioz did not live long enough to see the work performed in its entirety. However, the last three acts, substantially abridged, were performed during his lifetime under the title Les Troyens à Carthage by Léon Carvalho's company, the Théâtre Lyrique, in Paris in 1863. For this performance, Berlioz added an orchestral introduction and a prologue. He was not happy with the result, noting bitterly that he had agreed to let Carvalho do it "despite the manifest impossibility of his doing it properly. He had just obtained an annual subsidy of a hundred thousand francs from the government. Nonetheless the enterprise was beyond him. His theater was not large enough, his singers were not good enough, his chorus and orchestra were small and weak." This is the cover of the piano–vocal score of Les Troyens, published in 1863 by Choudens, with a lithographic illustration by Antoine Barbizet. Lithograph credit: Antoine Barbizet; restored by Adam Cuerden
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July 4
The Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital (also known as USPHS Hospital No. 43) was a United States Public Health Service hospital on Ellis Island in New York Harbor that operated from 1902 to 1951. It is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. The hospital had two functions: treating immigrants who were ill upon arrival, and treating immigrants with conditions that were prohibited by immigration laws. These latter patients were stabilized and often sent back to their home countries. More than 275,000 patients were treated at Ellis Island; there were approximately 4,000 fatalities and 350 babies were born there. Efforts to restore the hospital buildings and other structures on the island are being made by the non-profit organization Save Ellis Island. This photograph depicts a window in the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, decorated in 2014 by the French artist JR with reproductions of photographs of immigrants at the hospital. Artwork credit: JR; photographed by Rhododendrites
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July 5
Pseudatelus is a genus of shield bugs of the family Pentatomidae. They range from 14 to 20 millimetres (0.55 to 0.79 in), depending on the species, and have a typical shield-shaped body. They are usually brown or dark brown in colour, with a triangular-shaped scutellum. This Pseudatelus shield bug was photographed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Photograph credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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July 6
The scintillant hummingbird (Selasphorus scintilla) is a species of hummingbird that is endemic to the Central American countries of Costa Rica and Panama. It inhabits brushy forest edges, coffee plantations and occasionally gardens at altitudes from 900 to 2,000 metres (3,000 to 6,600 ft), and up to 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) when not breeding. It is only 6.5 to 8.0 centimetres (2.6 to 3.1 in) long, including the bill, making it one of the smallest birds in existence, marginally larger than the bee hummingbird. This female scintillant hummingbird was photographed in the cloud forest of Mount Totumas in Panama. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
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July 7
Flora MacDonald Denison (1867–1921) was a Canadian activist, journalist, and businesswoman known for her leadership in the Canadian suffragist movement and her stewardship of Bon Echo Provincial Park in Ontario. She joined the Canadian Suffrage Association in 1906 when it was founded by Augusta Stowe-Gullen and became an active member and campaigner. In 1906, Denison traveled to Copenhagen as Canada's delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. She also attended the International Woman's Suffrage Alliance convention in Budapest in 1913. After meeting the British activist Emmeline Pankhurst in London, she organized the latter's first trip to Canada in 1909. She served as president of the Canadian Suffrage Association from 1911 to 1914, until her controversial support for the militant tactics of the Women's Social and Political Union in England resulted in her forced resignation. Photograph credit: Lyont E.; restored by Adam Cuerden
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July 8
The nave of St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, a parish church of the Church of England in the Marylebone district of London. The church was consecrated in 1903, but the parish was founded in 1866. It is dedicated to Cyprian, a third-century martyr and bishop of Carthage and is near the Clarence Gate Gardens entrance to Regent's Park, off Baker Street. The parish was formed by the efforts of noted 'slum priest' Father Charles Gutch, who wanted a church of his own in London. Gutch negotiated a small portion of St Paul's parish be transferred to a new mission district where church attendance was in any case poor. The district was about one tenth the area of the parish, but it was densely populated due to the overcrowded slums that at that time occupied much of it. Photograph credit: David Iliff
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July 9
Haboku sansui (破墨山水図, Broken Ink Landscape is a splashed-ink landscape painting on a hanging scroll. It was made by the Japanese artist Sesshū Tōyō in 1495, in the Muromachi period. Sesshū Tōyō was a Zen Buddhist monk and painter. The work is a development of suibokuga paintings made with Chinese ink, using dark and light shades on a silk or paper medium. The monochromatic style can result in artworks similar to calligraphy. In spite of its title, the work is not one of "broken ink" (haboku) but rather one of "splashed ink" (hatsuboku). In this style, the painter avoids strongly defined outlines, with shapes indicated by colour washes in lighter and darker tones. Credit: Sesshū Tōyō; photographed by Bamse
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July 10
An African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus), Lake Ziway, Ethiopia. Today is a public holiday in Ethiopia to celebrate Eid al-Adha, Islamic Year A. H. 1443. photograph by Charlesjsharp
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July 11
Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It is named after Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, who donated 281 books after his death in 1447. Sections of the libraries were restored and expanded in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the addition of a second storey, and east and west wings. The library currently functions as a reading room. Photograph credit: David Iliff
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July 12
The St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, also known as the Brandenburg Cathedral, is the largest medieval church in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany. Construction began in 1165 as a Romanesque Saalkirche, and it was later expanded to a three-aisled Brick Gothic basilica. Its patron saints are Saint Peter and Paul the Apostle. Photograph credit: Mathias Krumbholz
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July 13
Dorothy Houston Jacobson (November 13, 1907 – July 13, 1985) sits at her desk at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. on May 22, 1967. Mrs. Jacobson was an American political scientist and educator and a co-founder and chair of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. She was appointed as the USDA Assistant Secretary for International Affairs in 1964, which made her the first woman to serve in a subcabinet position in USDA. Photograph credit: USDA; restored by Adam Cuerden
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July 14
The red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata) is a passerine bird native to southern Australia. At 33–37 cm (13–14+1⁄2 in) in length, it is the second largest species of Australian honeyeater. The species is found in open forest and woodlands, and is a common visitor to urban gardens and parks. Loud and conspicuous, the red wattlebird is generally found in trees, where it gets most of its food; occasionally it forages on the ground. It is one of the largest nectarivorous birds in the world, feeding from a wide variety of flowering plants, though insects also comprise part of its diet. It is territorial and at times aggressive towards birds of other species, often defending rich sources of nectar. Although it has declined in places from land-clearing, it is classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Photograph credit: Andreas Trepte
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July 15
NASA space-flown Apollo medallion for the Apollo–Soyuz mission.
Credit: Robbins Company for NASA; photographed by Heritage Auctions
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July 16
Joy Young (later Joy Young Rogers), of Washington, D.C., Assistant Editor of "The Suffragist," weekly newspaper of the Woman's Party and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Picture taken when she was on her way to the White House to present President Woodrow Wilson with a basket of flowers in which was contained a request for passage of the Women's Suffrage Amendment, and letters of support from women of the American West. Photographer unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden--> |
July 17
The Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918. Photograph credit: Boasson and Eggler; restored by Yann |
July 18
The noisy friarbird (Philemon corniculatus) is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae native to southern New Guinea and eastern Australia. It is one of several species known as friarbirds whose heads are bare of feathers. It is brown-grey in colour, with a prominent knob on its bare black-skinned head. It feeds on insects and nectar. Photograph credit: JJ Harrison |
July 19
Plate VII by Henry Holiday from the original illustrations for the first edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, a nonsense poem published in 1876 that tells the story of ten individuals who cross the ocean to hunt the Snark. This illustration is from Fit the Fifth: The Beaver's Lesson. The Butcher and Beaver hear the song of the Jubjub bird, and this causes the Butcher to be reminded of his childhood, and begin a lengthy lesson to he Beaver "While strange creepy creatures came out of their dens, / And watched them with wondering eyes." Afterwards, they become friends. Illustration credit: Henry Holiday; restored by Adam Cuerden
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July 20
Lillian Feickert (July 20, 1877 – January 21, 1945) was an American suffragist, New Jersey state political organizer, and the first woman from New Jersey to run for the United States Senate. She served as the President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912 to 1920, and later helped organize the New Jersey League of Women Voters. She went on to serve as the Vice-Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 1928. Photographer unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden
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July 21
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the Apollo 11 mission. On July 21, 1969, he and Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong became the first two people to step onto the surface of the Moon. Photograph credit: NASA; restored by Coffeeandcrumbs
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July 22
Wells Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, commenced around 1175 on the site of a late-Roman mausoleum and an 8th-century abbey church. The cathedral has been described by the historian John Harvey as Europe's first truly Gothic structure, lacking the Romanesque work that survives in many other cathedrals. It is the seat of the bishop of Bath and Wells. This photograph shows the stairs leading from the north transept of the cathedral to the chapter house. Photograph credit: David Iliff
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July 23
Eight escudo gold coins issued by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (a precursor state of Argentina) in 1828. They were worth 128 real, and depict the Sun of May and an early version of the coat of arms of Argentina. Credit: United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, photographed by the National Numismatic Collection
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July 24
Overview page for the Turgot map of Paris (French: Plan de Turgot), a highly accurate and detailed map of the city of Paris, France, as it existed in the 1730s, showing how the more detailed pages of the map fit together. The map was commissioned by Parisian municipality chief Michel-Étienne Turgot, drawn up by surveyor Louis Bretez, and engraved by Claude Lucas. It was published in 1739 as an atlas of twenty non-overlapping sectional bird's-eye-view maps (at a scale of approximately 1:400) in isometric perspective toward the southeast. The atlas covers an area approximately corresponding to the first eleven of the modern-day arrondissements of Paris. Turgot's map has been described as "the first all-comprising graphical inventory of the capital, down to the last orchard and tree, detailing every house and naming even the most modest cul-de-sac". Credit: Louis Bretez and Claude Lucas
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July 25
Lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) in Gullmarn fjord at Sämstad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. This specimen is likely a juvenile, with a bell about 10–12 cm (3.9–4.7 in) in diameter with tentacles about 60–80 cm (24–31 in) long; the largest known individual of the species had a bell about 210 centimetres (7 feet) wide and tentacles around 36.6 m (120 ft) long. Photograph credit: W.carter
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July 26
The diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata) is a species of estrildid finch that is endemic to Australia. Photograph credit: JJ Harrison
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July 27
Max Niedermaier in a practice lap for the 2018 FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship Final 4 in Inzell, Germany. Ice speedway racing is is a form of motorcycle speedway racing where the racing occurs on frozen surfaces. The sport uses specialised bikes that race counterclockwise around oval tracks between 260 and 425 metres (853 and 1,394 ft) in length, with the race structure and scoring similar to that of speedway racing. Photograph credit: Isiwal
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July 28
A complete set of the 1899 run of silver certificates, a type of representative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part of its circulation of paper currency. They were produced in response to silver agitation by citizens who were angered by the Fourth Coinage Act, which had effectively placed the United States on a gold standard. The certificates were initially redeemable for their face value of silver dollar coins and later (for one year – June 24, 1967 to June 24, 1968) in raw silver bullion. Since 1968 they have been redeemable only in Federal Reserve Notes and are thus obsolete, but still valid legal tender at their face value and thus are still an accepted form of currency. Credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; prepared by Godot13
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July 29
The eastern yellow robin (Eopsaltria australis) is an Australasian robin of coastal and sub-coastal eastern Australia. The extent of the eastern yellow robin's residence is from the extreme southeast corner of South Australia through most of Victoria and the western half of New South Wales and north as far as Cooktown. Tropical Northern Queensland birds are mainly restricted to the warm heights of the Great Dividing Range. Photograph credit: JJ Harrison
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July 30
Emma Gillett (July 30, 1852–January 23, 1927) was an American lawyer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the advancement of legal studies for women. Photograph credit: Edmonston, Washington, D.C.; restored by Adam Cuerden
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July 31
Ada Flatman (1876 – 1952) was a British suffragette in the UK and in the US. Flatman was sent to Holloway Prison after she took part in the "raid" on the Houses of Parliament in 1908, led by Marion Wallace-Dunlop, Ada Wright and Katherine Douglas Smith, and a second wave by Una Dugdale. The following year she was employed by the WSPU to organise their activities in Liverpool taking over from Mary Phillips. In July 1910, Flatman was a key speaker at one of the platforms in the 10,000 women's rally at Hyde Park. Flatman worked with Dr Alice Stewart Ker, but it was Ada who was trusted by Emmeline Pethick when Liverpool requested that they be allowed to open a WSPU shop. The shop was set up for her by Patricia Woodlock and became a success and it raised substantial funds for the cause. Flatman organised the publicity surrounding the release of Patricia Woodlock who had completed a prison term in Holloway. Photograph credit: Harris & Ewing; restored by Adam Cuerden
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