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31 May 2017
![Wynee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Wynee_by_John_Meares2.jpg/100px-Wynee_by_John_Meares2.jpg)
Wynee
30 May 2017
29 May 2017
![Malacañang of the North](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Malaca%C3%B1ang_of_the_North_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Malaca%C3%B1ang_of_the_North_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Malacañang of the North
28 May 2017
![Rose C. Davison](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Rose_C._Davison_%28PP-70-9-008%29_restored.png/100px-Rose_C._Davison_%28PP-70-9-008%29_restored.png)
Rose C. Davison
27 May 2017
![Schnitger organ case](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Schleswig-Holstein%2C_Itzehoe%2C_Laurentii-Kirche_NIK_2635.jpg/150px-Schleswig-Holstein%2C_Itzehoe%2C_Laurentii-Kirche_NIK_2635.jpg)
Schnitger organ case
26 May 2017
![Depiction of a miracle by Saint Zenobius](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Three_Miracles_of_Saint_Zenobius_MET_DT380_%28cropped%29.jpg/133px-Three_Miracles_of_Saint_Zenobius_MET_DT380_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Depiction of a miracle by Saint Zenobius
25 May 2017
![Barn the Spoon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Barn_the_Spoon_Portrait.jpg/100px-Barn_the_Spoon_Portrait.jpg)
Barn the Spoon
24 May 2017
![Corrour Bothy, Scottish Highlands](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Corrour_Bothy_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1546559.jpg/150px-Corrour_Bothy_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1546559.jpg)
Corrour Bothy
23 May 2017
![Male ochre-collared piculet](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Picumnus_temminckii1_%28mirrored%29.jpg/100px-Picumnus_temminckii1_%28mirrored%29.jpg)
Ochre-collared piculet
22 May 2017
![English pregnancy portrait, c. 1595](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Attributed_to_Marcus_Gheeraerts_II_-_Portrait_of_an_Unknown_Lady_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/100px-Attributed_to_Marcus_Gheeraerts_II_-_Portrait_of_an_Unknown_Lady_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Pregnancy portrait
21 May 2017
![Wawatam Lighthouse](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Wawatan_Lighthouse_2010.jpg/120px-Wawatan_Lighthouse_2010.jpg)
Wawatam Lighthouse
20 May 2017
![European herring gull](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Larus_argentatus_ad.jpg/125px-Larus_argentatus_ad.jpg)
European herring gull
- ... that the family Laridae (European herring gull pictured) are the only shorebirds known to have developed ultraviolet vision?
- ... that Robert Grace was the first manufacturer of the Pennsylvania fireplace, designed by Benjamin Franklin, which heated rooms more efficiently than an open fireplace?
- ... that Katy Perry first teased the release of her song "Bon Appétit" with a cherry pie recipe?
- ... that in 1970, Austrian Post issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring the composer and bass singer Thomas Koschat?
- ... that in 1959, an Alabama state senator said a children's book about two fuzzy rabbits, The Rabbits' Wedding, was "propaganda for integration and intermarriage" and tried to get the book banned?
- ... that Shyam Sunder Kapoor contributed to the establishment of a pelletron accelerator facility at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research?
- ... that Electrada Corporation, a 1960s-era conglomerate, ran into difficulties after its management reportedly spent more time on acquisitions and financial markets than on actually running the business?
- ... that Kong Tai Heong, the first Chinese woman to practice medicine in Hawaii, was credited by Ripley's Believe It or Not! as having delivered over 6,000 babies?
19 May 2017
![Kenchin jiru](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Kenchinjiru_soy_sauce_flavor_2009.JPG/125px-Kenchinjiru_soy_sauce_flavor_2009.JPG)
Kenchin jiru
- ... that kenchin jiru (pictured) may have originated several centuries ago from the Japanese Kenchō-ji temple?
- ... that Gordian Fulde, the director of one of the busiest emergency departments in Australia, was named Senior Australian of the Year in 2016?
- ... that when passenger service was resumed on Sweden's Lysekil Line after 33 years, the train driver had to switch on the line's power himself?
- ... that Günter Jena, for decades a church music director in Hamburg, conducted the NDR Chor in a recording of the complete a cappella works by Johannes Brahms?
- ... that fragments of ancient Maya books have been recovered from the ruins of Guaytán in Guatemala?
- ... that James Dale Ritchie was not suspected to be the Anchorage Serial Killer until after he had been shot dead while attacking a police officer?
- ... that the newly established Women's Super Rugby league will include Gloucester-Hartpury Women, Harlequins Ladies, Loughborough Students (Lightning), and Waterloo Ladies, but will exclude a team that has been in the top flight for 15 years?
- ... that although the lyrics of the Chick Corea song "500 Miles High" express romantic love, it became a hippie drug anthem?
18 May 2017
[[File:|x100px|McLoughlin Promenade, overlooking
Willamette Falls ]]
McLoughlin Promenade
17 May 2017
[[File:|x100px|McLoughlin Promenade, overlooking
Willamette Falls ]]
McLoughlin Promenade
16 May 2017
![Snap and rattle blossoms](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Eucalyptus_gracilis_1c.JPG/133px-Eucalyptus_gracilis_1c.JPG)
Snap and rattle blossoms
15 May 2017
![Cornell Pulpwood Stacker](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Cornell_Pulpwood_Stacker.jpg/120px-Cornell_Pulpwood_Stacker.jpg)
Cornell Pulpwood Stacker
14 May 2017
![Bust of Philip II of Macedon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Philip-ii-of-macedon.jpg/100px-Philip-ii-of-macedon.jpg)
Bust of Philip II of Macedon
13 May 2017
![Beatrice Alexander](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Madame_Alexander.jpg/100px-Madame_Alexander.jpg)
Beatrice Alexander
- ... that 90 years after Beatrice Alexander (pictured) founded the Alexander Doll Company, the company issued a doll in her likeness, priced at US$1,499.95?
- ... that proteins from a bacterium toxic to pests have been incorporated into crop plants for biological pest control?
- ... that in 2000, Lloyds Bank RFC's ground was sold by Lloyds TSB, which meant the club had to groundshare with a rival bank?
- ... that V. S. Sangwan developed a treatment protocol for corneal injuries using cultured limbal stem cells?
- ... that Turkish journalist Erol Önderoğlu, a campaigner for freedom of the press, was arrested for spreading "terrorism propaganda" in favor of the Kurdistan Workers' Party?
- ... that the German cities of Duisburg, Essen, and Kiel all had their populations increase five-fold or more between 1875 and 1910?
- ... that conquistador Pedro de Portocarrero founded the first Spanish colonial town within the territory of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas?
- ... that Arlington, Washington, was locally known as the "Shingle Capital of the World"?
12 May 2017
![Broken Down Dam](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Broken_Down_Dam%2C_Fergus_Falls%2C_Minnesota.jpg/150px-Broken_Down_Dam%2C_Fergus_Falls%2C_Minnesota.jpg)
Broken Down Dam
11 May 2017
![Flag of Weihaiwei](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/British_Weihaiwei_flag.svg/150px-British_Weihaiwei_flag.svg.png)
Flag of Weihaiwei
10 May 2017
![Château de Bouxwiller](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Bouxwiller_chateau.jpg/150px-Bouxwiller_chateau.jpg)
Château de Bouxwiller
9 May 2017
![Hotpants](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Bebe_Hot_Pants_01_2008_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Bebe_Hot_Pants_01_2008_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Hotpants
- ... that hotpants (example pictured) were originally short shorts made from materials such as velvet, silk, and fur?
- ... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with Antonio Oseguera Cervantes?
- ... that in 1759, when she was ten years old, Fenix carried the new king, Carlos III, from Naples to Barcelona?
- ... that Gail G. Shapiro was the first democratically elected president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology?
- ... that Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Jaggi Vasudev has been described as recasting Patanjali's Yoga Sutra in layman's terms?
- ... that Peter Par Jiek, who had fought alongside Riek Machar for over ten years during the Second Sudanese Civil War, was later killed by rebels loyal to Machar?
- ... that the speckle-chested piculet is endangered by the ongoing destruction of its forest habitat?
- ... that The Great Friendship had distinctly unfriendly consequences?
8 May 2017
![Raising and lowering a Pickett-Hamilton fort](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Pickett-Hamilton_Fort_Mechanism_%28x16%29.gif/133px-Pickett-Hamilton_Fort_Mechanism_%28x16%29.gif)
A Pickett-Hamilton fort
7 May 2017
![Dura-Europos fresco](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Dura_Europos_fresco_Moses_from_river.jpg/160px-Dura_Europos_fresco_Moses_from_river.jpg)
Dura-Europos fresco
6 May 2017
![Eurymela distincta](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Eurymela_distincta_%28cropped%29.jpg/133px-Eurymela_distincta_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Eurymela distincta
5 May 2017
![Gothic statue of St Sophia and her daughters](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Eschau_StTrophime_75_%28square_crop%29.JPG/120px-Eschau_StTrophime_75_%28square_crop%29.JPG)
Statue of St Sophia and her daughters
- ... that St Trophimus' Church, Eschau, houses relics of St Sophia and her daughters Faith, Hope and Charity (pictured)?
- ... that The Soft Parade is the first Doors album not to credit the members of the band collectively on songs?
- ... that in late 14th-century England, John of Gaunt built up a massive affinity of supporters which his son Henry later used as an army to depose King Richard II?
- ... that James Niehues, who paints ski resort trail maps, has been called "the Michelangelo of snow" and "Monet of the mountain"?
- ... that part of the Kansas highway K-99 honors the war dead of Frankfort, which lost more men per capita in World War II than any other community in the United States?
- ... that Annelies Van Parys has composed music for Muziektheater Transparant, including her first opera, Private Views, which premiered in 2015?
- ... that despite its title, Boogeyman 2 does not actually feature the mythical creature as the main antagonist?
- ... that Brigadier General Pompey Elliott convinced his men that his horse could spot men who were unshaven or incorrectly dressed?
4 May 2017
![PFE Albee in her saleslady's outfit](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/PFE_Albee_1886.jpg/72px-PFE_Albee_1886.jpg)
PFE Albee in her saleslady's outfit
3 May 2017
![Tall houses at Gokayama village](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Gokayama_suganuma_%28cropped%29.JPG/160px-Gokayama_suganuma_%28cropped%29.JPG)
Tall houses at Gokayama village
2 May 2017
!["Nevertheless, she persisted" tattoo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Erica_Flannes_tattoo-Nevertheless.jpg/120px-Erica_Flannes_tattoo-Nevertheless.jpg)
"Nevertheless, she persisted" tattoo
1 May 2017
![Aphaenogaster dlusskyana](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Aphaenogaster_dlusskyana_PIN3387-172_right_profile_%28cropped%29.jpg/160px-Aphaenogaster_dlusskyana_PIN3387-172_right_profile_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Aphaenogaster dlusskyana