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Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech on 28th August 1963 called for the people of the United States to honour the principles laid down in their constitution. His words resulted in the subsequent signing of the Civil Rights Act on 2nd July 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. However his words resonated far beyond their intended audience, awakening a worldwide movement for racial emancipation and human equality which still continues today (Image: Dick DeMarsico, World Telegram staff photographer/Wikimedia Commons)

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These bright colour trails mark the tracks of stars, caused by the rotation of the earth. This time-lapse photograph was taken from the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal station in the high Andes, far away from any light pollution. These natural colours indicate differences in temperature; the reddest stars are around 1000C, whist the hottest stars at several tens of thousands of degrees, appear blue (Image: ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)/Wikimedia Commons)

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