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30 November 2006

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Furry costume


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29 November 2006

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Annadel State Park


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Yevgeny Samoylov


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Yevgeny Samoylov

28 November 2006

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Kanab Ambersnail


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Medal of Honor


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Church of the Saviour at Berestove

27 November 2006

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Boston Music Hall


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French revolution


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Makaravank Monastery

26 November 2006

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Agung

25 November 2006

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Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov


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Israhel van Meckenem

24 November 2006

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University of British Columbia Library


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23 November 2006

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Claregalway Friary


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Cupressus pigmaea


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Gardlosa church, Oland sweden

22 November 2006

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Squircle


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Phare de la Vieille

21 November 2006

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Stockholm Stadtbibliotek


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20 November 2006

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Thanksgiving 1984 Nor'easter


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Encephalartos woodii


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Rosthwaite Fall


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Barrel vault in Diocletian Palace, Croatia

19 November 2006

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The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew


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Summit of Ben More Assynt

18 November 2006

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Barndoor skate


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Batrachoseps attenuatus

17 November 2006

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Bible Quilt

16 November 2006

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Laments (Treny) by Jan Kochanowski (1580)


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Great Lavra Belltower

15 November 2006

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John A. Macdonald's funeral train

14 November 2006

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William Smith


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Maunsel White

13 November 2006

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Pyotr Potemkin


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Greek Slave


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Sir Edwin Landseer, Monarch of the Glen, 1851

12 November 2006

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Esplanade Park, Singapore


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Horne Church (Funen, Denmark)

11 November 2006

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Santa Rosa Creek near site of the 1827 baptism


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Maria Yakunchikova

10 November 2006

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Marie Louise Élisabeth



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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

9 November 2006

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Kadambini Ganguly


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Dutch Reformed Church


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Notre-Dame de Boulogne

8 November 2006

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Victorian Railways "H" class steam locomotive


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Barrel House in Findhorn Ecovillage


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19th century Eastern European Mizrah

  • ...that it is customary in Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer — mizrah — with artistic wall plaques (pictured) inscribed with the word mizrah, scriptural passages, kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places?
  • ...that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
  • ...that shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
  • ...that the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
  • ...that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, the grandson of the late Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California?

7 November 2006

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Rolf de Maré (1916) by Nils von Dardel


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Carl Westman

6 November 2006

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Château de Valençay


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Rotonde de la Villette


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Madame Adélaïde

5 November 2006

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Hiralal Sen


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Unnamed Subtropical Storm south of the Azores

4 November 2006

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Brother Jonathan


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Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge


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John F. Mackie

3 November 2006

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Pavillon Louveciennes


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Military Orchid

2 November 2006

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Beckomberga hospital c. 1935


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Château de Rosny: Painting by Corot.


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Law of Västergötland (c. 1280)

1 November 2006

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Sigrid Hjerten (1885-1948)

  • ...that Sigrid Hjertén (pictured), a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schizophrenia and tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?
  • ...that the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
  • ...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
  • ...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
  • ...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel?
  • ...that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?
  • ...that modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position?