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Penrose Tribar

Rafał Pocztarski

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Picture of the day

A Sensation Novel is a comic musical play in three acts (described as "volumes" in the programme), one of a series written by the dramatist W. S. Gilbert for the Royal Gallery of Illustration, with music composed by Thomas German Reed, though much of the music is lost. The play premiered on 31 January 1871 and concerns an author suffering from writer's block who finds that the characters in his novel are dissatisfied when they come to life and complain about their fate. The piece satirises the sensation novels popular as pulp detective fiction in the Victorian era. This lithographic poster was designed by Robert Jacob Hamerton to advertise the premiere of A Sensation Novel.Poster credit: Robert Jacob Hamerton; restored by Adam Cuerden

Selected anniversaries

January 31: Independence Day in Nauru (1968)

Rōnin portraits by Utagawa Yoshitora

• 1703 – Forty-seven rōnin (depicted) attacked the home of Kira Yoshinaka and killed him in an act of revenge for Asano Naganori, their dead feudal lord.
• 1850 – Ute Wars: On behalf of Utah territorial governor Brigham Young, militia leader Daniel H. Wells drafted an order for the Utah Territorial Militia to exterminate Timpanogos men deemed hostile, leading to the Provo River Massacre.
• 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.
• 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.
• 2010 – James Cameron's Avatar became the first film to earn over US$2 billion worldwide.

• James G. Blaine (b. 1830)
• Preity Zinta (b. 1975)
• Moira Shearer (d. 2006)
• Lizabeth Scott (d. 2015)

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• Ahmed al-Sharaa (pictured) is appointed president of the Syrian transitional government.
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• In sumo, Hōshōryū Tomokatsu becomes the 74th yokozuna.
• In an ongoing offensive, the Rwandan-supported March 23 Movement captures Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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