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Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis

"San Junipero" is the fourth episode of the third series of the science fiction anthology programme Black Mirror. Premiering on Netflix on 21 October 2016 with the rest of series three, the episode stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis (pictured) as the outgoing Kelly and the more introverted Yorkie. They meet at a 1980s nightclub in San Junipero, a beach resort town. Written by series creator Charlie Brooker as an optimistic love story, it is more positive in tone than previous episodes. "San Junipero" was the first episode written following the show's departure from Channel 4; it was inspired by nostalgia therapy and originally featured a heterosexual couple. Some pieces of music, such as "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle, hint at the episode's plot twist. Filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa, and London, England, with Owen Harris as director. The episode received critical acclaim, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and two British Academy Television Craft Awards. (Full article...)

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Lucy Branham in her prison uniform

... that American suffragists arrested for protesting at the White House later toured the country on the Prison Special while dressed in their prison uniforms (Lucy Branham pictured)?
... that on 20 January 1990, Sakina Aliyeva signed the first declaration of independence by a part of the Soviet Union, and announced it on Nakhichevan television?
... that the bite of the red-bellied black snake can result in necrosis, and has been known to require amputation of an affected finger?
... that Andrew Traynor received a Medal of Honor after escaping from Confederate guerrillas?
... that at the Battle of Blanchetaque, English longbowmen stood in a tidal river to engage French mercenary crossbowmen?
... that the surgeon Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird invented a dilator for use in tracheotomies?
... that Román Chalbaud's 1977 film El Pez que Fuma was inspired by stories from prostitutes at a brothel he used to frequent?
... that Gwen Grant Mellon, who founded a hospital for the poor in Haiti, was buried in a cardboard box?

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Stefan Löfven

More than seventy people are killed and dozens of others are injured in an explosion at an oil pipeline near Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
Four months after the Swedish general election, the Riksdag re-elects incumbent Stefan Löfven (pictured) as Prime Minister.
A car bombing at the General Santander National Police Academy in Bogotá, Colombia, kills twenty-one people.
In Zimbabwe, eight people are killed amid protests over the government's increase in the price of fuel.
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is acquitted of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

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January 20: World Religion Day (2019)

Honório Carneiro Leão

1156 – According to legend, Lalli slew Bishop Henry of Finland with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Köyliö.
1843 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná (pictured), became the de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
1942 – The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
1969 – Bengali student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman was shot and killed by East Pakistani police, one of the events that led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.
2009 – In Washington, D.C., more than 1 million people attended the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States.

David Wilmot (b. 1814) · Sarah Conlon (b. 1926) · Claudio Abbado (d. 2014)

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Lady Standing at a Virginal is a genre painting created by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670–1672. It depicts a richly dressed woman playing a virginal in a home with a tiled floor, paintings on the wall and some of the locally manufactured Delftware blue and white tiles of a type that appear in other Vermeer works. This work can be related to another Vermeer in the collection, Lady Seated at a Virginal, on a canvas of almost exactly the same size, with which it may form a pair. A recent study has shown that the canvas for the two paintings came from the same bolt. Lady Standing at a Virginal is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery, London.

Painting: Johannes Vermeer

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