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Beauty Revealed
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Beauty Revealed

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Beauty Revealed is an 1828 self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge. Depicting only the artist's bared breasts surrounded by white cloth, the 2.6-by-3.1-inch painting, originally backed with paper, is now in a modern frame. Goodridge, aged forty when she completed the watercolor portrait miniature on a piec…

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Nirmala Sitharaman
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Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian economist and politician who is serving as the minister of finance and corporate affairs…

Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth cont…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
2013_El_Reno_tornado
An extremely large, powerful, and erratic tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing eight people and injuring more than 150 others.
2009
George_Tiller
American physician George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was shot and killed by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist.
2005
Vanity_Fair_(magazine)
A Vanity Fair article revealed that the secret informant known as "Deep Throat", who had provided information about the Watergate scandal, was former FBI associate director Mark Felt (pictured).
1981
Sinhalese_people
An organized mob of police and government-sponsored Sinhalese paramilitary forces began three days of attacks that led to the burning of the Jaffna Library in Sri Lanka.
1941
Bombing_of_Dublin_in_World_War_II
German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ireland.
1941
Anglo-Iraqi_War
The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq, returning Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
1935
1935_Quetta_earthquake
A magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck Balochistan in British India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
1902
Second_Boer_War
The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in Pretoria, South Africa.
1890
Ulm_Minster
The Ulm Minster, the world's tallest church building, is completed in Ulm, Germany.
1862
American_Civil_War
American Civil War: Confederate troops under Joseph E. Johnston and G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan at the Battle of Seven Pines outside Richmond, Virginia.

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