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Alison Frantz (1903–1995) was an archaeological photographer and Byzantine scholar. She worked at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens's Agora excavations and became its official photographer. Her photographs of the Linear B tablets were used for their first transcription and the decipherment of Linear B. She also restored the Church of the Holy Apostles. During the Second World War, Frantz joined the Office of Strategic Services and gathered intelligence on European exiles in the United States. She served on an Allied commission to observe the Greek elections of 1946 and was the US embassy in Athens's cultural attaché. Her publications included archaeological research into Ottoman Greece and photography of archaic kore sculptures, Byzantine architecture, and artifacts from the Aegean Bronze Age. Her work on late antiquity and later periods is considered pioneering and raised the scholarly standing of post-classical archaeology in Greece. (Full article...)

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1236 – Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.
1726 – Bach led the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.
1979 – An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
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The Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) is a species of bird in the hornbill family, Bucerotidae. It is found in Sri Lanka and parts of India, where it inhabits low-altitude forests, particularly near rivers, as well as plantations. The species is omnivorous, feeding on fruit and small animals, with figs forming an important part of its diet. This female Malabar pied hornbill in flight was photographed in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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