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31 December 2008

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Church of the Transfiguration


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Cors Caron


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Poet's Daffodil


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Koni

30 December 2008

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Four Courts


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Brabham BT46B "fan car"


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Old Albany Post Road


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Redeye gaper

29 December 2008

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Portuguese Expeditionary Corps


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Geoffroy's Tamarin


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A possible work of Jean Malouel

28 December 2008

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A 4-crazie stamp from Tuscany, 1851


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Monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana)


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Ray Lindwall


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Berijam Lake

27 December 2008

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Medical drawing of a shoulder presentation during childbirth


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Graph of an event-related potential including a peak characteristic of an ELAN response


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A saxtuba


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A Votes for Women lapel pin

26 December 2008

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Swaledale cheese


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Watercolor Illustration to Milton's On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, by William Blake


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Tirggel


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Berner Haselnusslebkuchen

25 December 2008

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Aluminum Christmas tree


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Star of Bethlehem

24 December 2008

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Adoration of the Magi Tapestry


  • 13:40, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Three-dimensional model of the structure of a dopamine molecule


  • 07:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Plumbbob


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The Ganggangsullae

23 December 2008

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Nazi flag on the Norwegian parliament


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Gill Coliseum, in 2007


  • 06:45, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

USS Supply, formerly the SS Illinois


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The Grey-crowned Central American Squirrel Monkey

22 December 2008

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John William Lambert, in 1909


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Inside the ditch surrounding Danebury


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Yuri Luzhkov

21 December 2008

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Civil Ensign of Singapore


  • 12:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Ashikaga Takauji


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Manor House, 21 Soho Square


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The White House

20 December 2008

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Łucja Frey


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Edward Payson Chapin


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The Swimming Hole

19 December 2008

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United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald


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The Giant huntsman spider


  • 11:41, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Berner Honiglebkuchen


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St. Luke's Episcopal Church

18 December 2008

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Unit cell of Huttonite (monoclinic ThSiO4). Thorium is shown in green, silicon in grey, and oxygen in red.


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A portrait of Herman Landon


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Royal Enfield Bullet 350


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A garden gnome

17 December 2008

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A painting of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon by George Raper


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The Berlin sculpture


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Illustration of the internal parts of a cochlear implant


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Andean Cocks-of-the-rock

16 December 2008

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Rod Blagojevich


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Lasiognathus amphirhampus


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Painting by Congo the chimp


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A typical glass bottle from a type of Chemical Agent Identification Set known as a "toxic gas set". This one contains sulfur mustard.

15 December 2008

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Jamie Oliver


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Woodside Plaza


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NGC 6118 Galaxy


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The Romanian Revolution of 1989

14 December 2008

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St. Charles Borromeo Church in Detroit


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SS Princess Sophia


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Holy Land USA

13 December 2008

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Thaumatichthys pagidostomus, ventral (above) and dorsal (below) view


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Miracle of the roses


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John Franklin


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Medina's illustration to Book 11 of Paradise Lost

12 December 2008

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Jacob's Well


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Mercury Monterey, 1960


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Henry Reuterdahl

11 December 2008

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Book of Armagh


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New Gallery London Central Hall


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A Giant Forest Lodge cabin

10 December 2008

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Roofs of huts in Velika Planina


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Cover of Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, featuring A Study in Scarlet


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9 December 2008

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"Old Perpetual" geyser


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Mount Elliott Cemetary


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Mauritius Ferber

8 December 2008

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St. Margaret's Church


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The Akutan Zero

7 December 2008

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Tenayuca


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Cover of Confidential magazine


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Old Tom and Young Tom Morris, two of the pioneers of professional golf in Scotland


  • 03:50, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Davidson armoured vehicle

6 December 2008

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British Bulldog revolver


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Torah Ark in Włodawa Synagogue


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Publius Ovidius Naso in the Nuremberg chronicle XCIIIv


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Plymouth Harbour

5 December 2008

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Danish submarine "Havmanden"


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Kfar Lam fortress


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Odontoglossum crispum


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Rembrandt, The Mill

4 December 2008

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Alexandre Benois's illustration to the poem "The Bronze Horseman"


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Erie Land Light


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Mermin-Peres magic square


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Anchovy

3 December 2008

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Panamanian Night Monkey


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St. Andrew's cross in 1850


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Battle flag of the Confederate States of America


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Haileybury, Ontario, Canada, after its destruction in the Great Fire of 1922

2 December 2008

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Grandes Jorasses


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Seth Kinman


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Ueli Maurer


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Michael Attree - Member of the Handelbar Club

1 December 2008

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Florizel von Reuter


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General Henry C. Wayne


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Rayon I postage stamp of 1850