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Today's featured article DeLancey W. Gill (1859–1940) was an American drafter, landscape painter, and photographer. As a teenager, he moved in with an aunt in Washington, D.C., after his mother and stepfather traveled west. He eventually found himself employed as an architectural draftsman for the Treasury. He created sketches and watercolor paintings of the city, with a particular focus on the still-undeveloped rural and poorer areas of the district. While working as an illustrator for the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology in the 1890s, he was appointed as the agency's photographer without prior photographic training. He took portrait photographs that circulated widely of thousands of Native American delegates to Washington, including notable figures such as Chief Joseph and Geronimo. These photographs have come under modern criticism for his frequent use of props and clothing, sometimes outdated or inauthentic, given to the delegates. (Full article...) Recently featured: Oceanic whitetip shark RoboCop Tales of Monkey Island On this day... July 10: Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973) Martin Luther King Jr. 1645 – English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the west of England. 1942 – An American naval aviator discovered a downed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, which was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against the aircraft during World War II. 1966 – Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil-rights campaigns in the northern United States. 1999 – The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports. 2006 – Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion). Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey (b. 1614) Eva Ekeblad (b. 1724) Bobo Brazil (b. 1924) Calogero Vizzini (d. 1954) More anniversaries: July 9 July 10 July 11

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