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The British Royal Air Force's (RAF) aerobatic team, the “Red Arrows” perform a flypast the UK's national commemorative event to mark the 80th anniversary commemorations of Allied amphibious landing (D-Day Landings) in France in 1944, in Southsea Common, southern England, on June 5, 2024. Heads of state and veterans are due to mark the anniversary of D-Day on June 6, a date that was key to Allied Europe's eventual victory against the Nazis in World War II. (Photo by Cpl Phil Dye/UK MOD via Reuters)

The Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows aerobatic team performs a flypast during a national event in Southsea, England, on June 5, 2024, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The Allied invasion on June 6, 1944, was a pivotal moment in the eventual victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.(Photo by Cpl Phil Dye/UK MOD via Reuters)

A woman with the inscription “No Putin, No War” attends a memorial service in his honour of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, on his birthday, on June 4, 2024 at the Church of Saint Mary (Marienkirche) in Berlin. Alexei Navalny died in Russian captivity on February 24, 2024. (Photo by Ralf Hirschberger/AFP Photo)

A woman with the words “No Putin, No War” written on her face attends a memorial service in Berlin on June 4, 2024, honoring the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on what would have been his birthday. Navalny died in Russian custody on February 16, 2025.(Photo by Ralf Hirschberger/AFP Photo)

A Devon Rex cat is judged during the GCCF Coventry and Leicester cat show at Sutton Leisure Centre on June 01, 2024 in St Helens, England. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images )

A Devon Rex cat is judged during the GCCF Coventry and Leicester cat show at Sutton Leisure Centre on June 01, 2024 in St Helens, England. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images )

Farmers with their tractors gather around the Atomium in Brussels, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Farmers are protesting in Brussels to put pressure on the European Union, just days before European Parliament elections. (Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo)

Farmers gather with their tractors around the Atomium in Brussels on June 4, 2024, to protest against European Union policies, just days before the European Parliament elections.(Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo)

Staff members with U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's (D-NH) office push a stuffed bear through a loading dock as it arrives on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. A stuffed moose named “Marty the Moose” and a stuffed bear named “Kodak the Bear” will be on display in Shaheen's office as part of the 13th Annual Experience New Hampshire event. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Staff members for U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) deliver a stuffed bear to her office on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. The bear, named “Kodak,” and a moose named “Marty” will be displayed as part of the 13th Annual “Experience New Hampshire” event.(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Contestants walk and fall from a 40+foot greased up pole into the ocean in an attempt to grab the flag at the end of the pole during the 94th annual Sunday Greasy Pole contest at St. Peter's Fiesta in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States on June 30, 2024. The greasy pole contest is sponsored by the Italian-American fishing community of Gloucester and started in 1931. St. Peter's fiesta started in 1927. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Contestants scramble across a greased, 40-foot pole, attempting to grab a flag at the end during the 94th annual Greasy Pole contest at St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on June 30, 2024. The tradition, started in 1931 by the city’s Italian-American fishing community, often ends with participants falling into the ocean.(Photo by Joseph Prezioso/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Students take part in a flash mob held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik's Cube organized by the National Innovation Agency at Szent Istvan Square in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Hungarian professor, architect and inventor Erno Rubik invented the so-called Magic Cube 50 years ago, in the spring of 1974, which originally served for educational purposes. The game later became popular as Rubik's Cube worldwide. (Photo by Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP Photo)

Students participate in a flash mob in Budapest, Hungary, on June 12, 2024, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube. The puzzle was invented in 1974 by Hungarian architect and professor Ernő Rubik.(Photo by Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP Photo)

Students from the Liceo Parini school celebrate the end of term in Milan, Italy on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Marco Ottico/LaPresse/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Students from the Liceo Parini school celebrate the last day of the school year in Milan, Italy, on June 6, 2024.(Photo by Marco Ottico/LaPresse/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A participant competes in the show jumping category of the Finnish Hobbyhorse Championships 2024 at the local sport arena in Seinäjoki, Finland on June 15, 2024. The world's biggest hobby horse event organised in Finland is seeing more devotees every year despite ridiculing attitudes surrounding the hobby which might seem odd at a first glance. Hobby horsing initially sprung out of Finland as a phenomenon over 10 years ago and has since gathered an increasing number of enthusiasts in the Nordic country and abroad. (Photo by Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP Photo)

A participant competes in the show jumping category at the Finnish Hobbyhorse Championships in Seinäjoki, Finland, on June 15, 2024. The event, which originated in Finland over a decade ago, attracts a growing number of enthusiasts each year. (Photo by Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP Photo)

Traditional dancers known as Dancers of Conquest perform their routine during the traditional “Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul Celebration” on June 29, 2024 in Veracruz, Mexico. Every year, thousands of people from Chiconquiaco and nearby communities attend the celebration of apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, to take the streets with dances and processions. During the day, parents take their children to be part of a particular ritual in which a priest puts a key inside the children's mouth. It is said that the ritual will help them to talk faster or better. (Photo by Hector Quintanar/Getty Images)

“Dancers of Conquest” perform during the annual Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul celebration in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 29, 2024. A key ritual of the event involves a priest placing a key in children’s mouths, a tradition believed to help them speak sooner and more clearly.(Photo by Hector Quintanar/Getty Images)

Drag queen Bernat Bodes, known as Pitita, left, takes a break from her duties as president of a polling station during the European Parliament elections in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, June 9, 2024. Polling stations have opened across Europe as voters from 20 countries cast ballots in elections that are expected to shift the European Union’s parliament to the right and could reshape the future direction of the world’s biggest trading bloc. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)

Drag queen Bernat Bodes, known as Pitita, takes a break from her duties as president of a polling station during the European Parliament elections in Barcelona, Spain, on June 9, 2024.(Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)

An environmental activist in a costume takes part in the 'Restore Nature Now' march in London, Britain, 22 June 2024. More than 350 environmental groups including the National Trust, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) are marching through London on 22 June to demand the British government to address the climate and ecological crisis. (Photo by Maja Smiejkowska/EPA/EFE)

An environmental activist in a costume participates in the “Restore Nature Now” march in London on June 22, 2024. The demonstration, supported by over 350 groups, called on the British government to take stronger action on the climate and ecological crisis.(Photo by Maja Smiejkowska/EPA/EFE)

Anonymous Morris dancers, from Poole, perform for the public at the Wessex Folk Festival, on June 02, 2024 in Weymouth, United Kingdom. The Wessex Folk Festival has been established for the past 20 years. It is one of the biggest free festivals in the UK, held on the picturesque Harbourside in Weymouth. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Anonymous Morris dancers from Poole perform at the Wessex Folk Festival in Weymouth, United Kingdom, on June 2, 2024. The festival, now in its 20th year, is one of the UK’s largest free public events.(Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Tsavora Fencing Mtaani Club members take part in a fencing bout during a “fencing mtaani” -meaning “fencing in the streets” in Swahili- training session in the Mathare informal settlement of Nairobi, on June 9, 2024. Along the muddy tracks of the sprawling Mathare informal settlement in Kenya's capital, scores of teenagers train each weekend under 27-year-old Mburu Wanyoike, whose initiative offers hope in a place bedevilled by crime and lack of opportunity. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)

Members of the Tsavora Fencing Mtaani Club spar during a training session in the Mathare informal settlement of Nairobi on June 9, 2024. The “fencing mtaani” (Swahili for “fencing in the streets”) initiative provides a positive outlet for youth in an area challenged by crime and a lack of opportunity.(Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)

Historic Environment Scotland held its annual medieval event featuring a jousting contest at Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian on June 29, 2024. Thousands of spectators watched as mounted knights took aim at each other. (Photo by Dave Johnston/The Times)

Knights compete in a jousting tournament during the annual medieval event at Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Scotland, on June 29, 2024. The historic spectacle drew thousands of spectators.(Photo by Dave Johnston/The Times)

The “Colacho”, a character that represents the devil, jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during “El Salto del Colacho” (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 2, 2024. “El Colacho” is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by Cesar Manso/AFP Photo)

The “Colacho,” a character representing the devil, leaps over babies during the “El Salto del Colacho” (The Devil’s Jump) festival in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, on June 2, 2024. The centuries-old tradition, held for the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi, is believed to cleanse infants of original sin.(Photo by Cesar Manso/AFP Photo)

Britain's Catherine Princess of Wales (C) smiles as she travels with Prince Louis (2-R) and Princess Charlotte (R) from Buckingham Palace to Horse Guards Parade inside a carriage during the Trooping the Colour parade in London, Britain, 15 June 2024. The Princess of Wales made her first public appearance since she disclosed that she has been diagnosed with cancer in March 2024. The king's birthday parade, traditionally known as Trooping the Colour, is a ceremonial military parade to celebrate the official birthday of the British sovereign. (Photo by Tolga Akmen/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Catherine, Princess of Wales, smiles while traveling with her children Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis in a carriage during the Trooping the Colour parade in London on June 15, 2024. This was the Princess’s first public appearance since announcing her cancer diagnosis in March. The parade celebrates the official birthday of the British sovereign.(Photo by Tolga Akmen/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Groupama Stadium as part of The Eras Tour, in Decines-Charpieu, eastern France, on June 2, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Pachoud/AFP Photo)

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Groupama Stadium in Decines-Charpieu, France, on June 2, 2024, as part of her record-breaking Eras Tour.(Photo by Jeff Pachoud/AFP Photo)

Julia Everson
Julia is a freelance writer and lifelong learner with an ongoing curiosity to study new things. She enjoys checking out the latest grammar books and writing about video games more than anything else. If she's not running through Colorado’s breathtaking landscape, she's indoors hidden away in her cozy game room trolling noobs and leveling up an RPG character. She is a Final Fantasy IX apologist (although she loves them all… except XV), coffee aficionado, and a bit of a health nut. Julia graduated from Western Kentucky University with a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing.