Today marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere—the longest day of the year and, for most of us on this side of the globe, the first official day of summer. (Iceland, being Iceland, celebrates the first day of summer in April, an old Viking tradition.) What better way to celebrate this day of sun than with Reykjavik’s Sun Voyager. Though it looks a bit like a Viking ship or maybe a fish skeleton, sculptor Jón Gunnar Árnason created it to be a dream boat and an ode to the sun. Sounds good to us. Join us in celebrating the sun today.
Ode to the sun
Today in History
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Veterans Day
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A new park with a new mission
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Composite image of a lunar eclipse
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The Old City of Bern
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A bite of ancient history
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Evidence of human habitation
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Pretty, pretty…butterfly?
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Ad-Deir, Petra, Jordan
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The Colosseum of Rome, Italy
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The Wave, Vejle, Denmark
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Land ho in New Zealand 250 years ago
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International Day of Peace
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Glastonbury Festival begins
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Put your flippers in the air…
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera
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A Eurasian red squirrel in Switzerland
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Tesla, the visionary
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San Blas Islands, Panama
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Dragon dance performed in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
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A century since Tut s tomb was discovered
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Midwinter freeze
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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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Green sea turtle on World Oceans Day
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Protecting Alaska
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Getting to the bottom of the underwater waterfall
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Four Sisters, thousands of trees
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Bonifacio on the island of Corsica, France
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Aït Benhaddou, Morocco
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