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Rafał Pocztarski

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Picture of the day

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Picture of the day

In the Loge, also known as At the Opera, is an 1878 Impressionist painting by the American artist Mary Cassatt. The oil-on-canvas work depicts a bourgeois woman in a box at an opera house looking through her opera glasses, while a man in the background looks at her from a different box. The woman's costume and fan identify her upper-class status. Art historians see the painting as a commentary on the role of gender, looking, and power in the social spaces of the 19th century. The painting is now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which also holds a preliminary drawing for the work.Painting credit: Mary Cassatt

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Selected anniversaries

January 21: National Hugging Day (United States)

Eruption of Mount Lamington

1793 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of high treason by the National Convention, Louis XVI was guillotined in Paris.
1919 – The First Dáil convened at the Mansion House in Dublin and adopted a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of the Irish Republic.
1951 – Mount Lamington, a volcano in Papua New Guinea, erupted (pictured) and killed more than 2,900 people.
1972 – Tripura, formerly part of the independent Twipra Kingdom, became a state of India.
2017 – Millions of people participated in the Women's March in Washington, D.C., and around the world to advocate for legislation and policies on human rights and other issues.

Eusapia Palladino (b. 1854)
Trương Tấn Sang (b. 1949)
Jeff Koons (b. 1955)
Frances Gertrude McGill (d. 1959)

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Ali Razini

A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leave more than a hundred people dead.
A ceasefire agreement suspends the Israel–Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
Two Sharia judges (Ali Razini pictured) are assassinated in a shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran.
American filmmaker David Lynch dies at the age of 78.

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