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30 April 2022

  • 00:00, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Martin Fehérváry
Martin Fehérváry

29 April 2022

  • 00:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Main House ruins at Cheshire Hall Plantation
Main House ruins at Cheshire Hall Plantation

28 April 2022

  • 00:00, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Gold plating
Gold plating

27 April 2022

  • 00:00, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Corp Naomh
Corp Naomh

26 April 2022

  • 00:00, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Ethel Ogden
Ethel Ogden

25 April 2022

  • 00:00, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building

24 April 2022

  • 00:00, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
The Keyboard Company numeric keypad
The Keyboard Company numeric keypad

23 April 2022

  • 00:00, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
1926 recording of the
Iowa Corn Song chorus

22 April 2022

  • 00:00, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Gret Palucca, photographed by Hans Robertson
Gret Palucca, photographed by Hans Robertson

21 April 2022

  • 00:00, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
Trilby
Trilby

20 April 2022

  • 00:00, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
Pierrot and Pierrette by Richard Geiger
Pierrot and Pierrette by Richard Geiger

19 April 2022

  • 00:00, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Arthur Dudley Dobson Memorial
Arthur Dudley Dobson Memorial

18 April 2022

  • 00:00, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Airstrike on Kyiv TV Tower

17 April 2022

  • 12:00, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Illustration in Chinese Fables and Folk Stories
Illustration in Chinese Fables and Folk Stories
  • 00:00, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Walther von Klingen in the Codex Manesse
Walther von Klingen in the Codex Manesse

16 April 2022

  • 12:00, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
  • 00:00, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Euphemia Steele Innes
Euphemia Steele Innes

15 April 2022

  • 12:00, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Hockley Pendant
Hockley Pendant
  • ... that the 16th-century Hockley Pendant (pictured) was discovered by a four-year-old in 2009?
  • ... that Zebedee Nungak, taken as a child for an experiment by the Canadian government, went on to "cross antlers with prime ministers, premiers and Québec separatists"?
  • ... that the titular character of Verdi's Nabucco, the opera that established his fame, is a combination of three historic rulers?
  • ... that military volunteer Maria Berlinska led the report that let women hold combat positions in the Ukrainian military?
  • ... that in 2013, McNally v R upheld a conviction for sexual assault via gender deception?
  • ... that The West Wing's theme music was only intended for use in one scene?
  • ... that during the Year of Luigi, Nintendo released a mockumentary depicting Luigi as a "legend of parkour"?
  • ... that one reviewer wrote that her "pinkies protested and went on strike" after half an hour of typing on a Sharp PC-4500?
  • 00:30, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Lisa Winter
Lisa Winter

14 April 2022

  • 12:00, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Rosamund's Bower in progress
Rosamund's Bower in progress
  • 00:00, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Logan Sapphire
Logan Sapphire

13 April 2022

  • 12:00, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory
GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory
  • 00:00, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Valery and Galina Panov in Afternoon of a Faun in 1977
Valery and Galina Panov in Afternoon of a Faun in 1977

12 April 2022

  • 12:00, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
James Rumsey Monument
James Rumsey Monument
  • 00:00, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Chris Smalls
Chris Smalls
  • ... that Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls (pictured) was one of the leaders in the first successful effort to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in the United States?
  • ... that Inuit traditional belief holds that women without facial tattoos would be sent to the land of the crestfallen to spend eternity with smoke coming from their throats and their heads hanging down?
  • ... that Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. dedicated his first book to his wife and credited her with having "always propped up my morale", even though they had been separated for seven years?
  • ... that moral equality of combatants, regardless of whether they fight for a just cause, is said to be "one of the stickiest problems in the ethics of war"?
  • ... that Earlonne Woods details the experience of co-hosting the first podcast created entirely while incarcerated in his book, This Is Ear Hustle?
  • ... that the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York, founded in 1949 by immigrants, first toured Ukraine in 1990?
  • ... that one of the original co-owners of New York state radio station WAQX-FM did much of the construction himself?
  • ... that Yes complained about former manager Roy Flynn getting "Five per Cent for Nothing"—but he said he got nothing?

11 April 2022

  • 12:00, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
"Ike for President"
  • 00:00, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Virginia bluebell flowers
Virginia bluebells

10 April 2022

  • 12:00, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Lesia Vasylenko
Lesia Vasylenko
  • 00:00, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Whitehead's broadbill
Whitehead's broadbill

9 April 2022

  • 12:00, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Lorraine Ugen
Lorraine Ugen
  • 00:00, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Minnesota State Capitol charioteer
Minnesota State Capitol charioteer

8 April 2022

  • 12:00, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Judy Ann Santos
Judy Ann Santos
  • 00:00, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
Olena Stepaniv
Olena Stepaniv

7 April 2022

  • 12:00, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Noefefan Bridge
Noefefan Bridge
  • 00:00, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Antimonumenta in Guadalajara
Antimonumenta in Guadalajara

6 April 2022

  • 00:00, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
The New Yorker, October 3, 1925
The New Yorker, October 3, 1925

5 April 2022

  • 00:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Royce Clayton
Royce Clayton

4 April 2022

  • 00:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Dorking Cockerel
Dorking Cockerel

3 April 2022

  • 00:00, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
Kernosovskiy idol
Kernosovskiy idol

2 April 2022

  • 00:00, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
A shoe mirror
A shoe mirror

1 April 2022

  • 00:00, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Alice Schwarzer
Alice Schwarzer
  • ... that Peter Merseburger refused to host a 1974 edition of German political TV magazine Panorama after a report by Alice Schwarzer (pictured) on an abortion was cancelled by authorities?
  • ... that Clement Crisp, a dance critic for the Financial Times from 1956 to 2020, authored or co-authored 17 books on dance and dance history?
  • ... that the 7th Macho de Monte Infantry Company of the Panama Defense Forces was named after a tapir?
  • ... that after his professional gridiron football career, Ed "Brick" Travis served as president of the Missouri Auto Dealers Association and as president of a local school board?
  • ... that the Nuremberg trial verdict described aggression as "the supreme international crime" because "it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole"?
  • ... that despite perceived sexist tropes in The West Wing's women, C. J. Cregg is widely considered to be one of the show's most complex and witty characters?
  • ... that the rare Somali pigeon urgently needs a population survey?
  • ... that in the early days of news at KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, one employee processed newsfilm in his bathtub?