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31 August 2009

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Mug and torus


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Krasiczyn Palace


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Rock Creek Canyon Bridge


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Firearms

30 August 2009

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Hand of God


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Kricogonia lyside with bee


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Rafiq al-Tamimi


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White pox disease on Elkhorn coral

29 August 2009

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Congressman Ron Paul


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Hans Christian Andersen


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A Gazelle helicopter


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Étienne Dinet

28 August 2009

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The Big Picture


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A breech-loading swivel gun from c. 1410


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Hijron Ka Khanqah monument

27 August 2009

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Rock Harbor Light in 2007


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Kaganovich in 1944; she was named Lazar Kaganovich at the time this was taken


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Asteroid 1994 CC with two moons captured using radar imaging.


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The toxic mushroom Amanita abrupta

26 August 2009

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The De Heidebloem mill in Erica, Drenthe


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O'Neill speaking at a lectern outside in 2005 amongst lots of signs, NOW logo visible behind her


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Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge


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Tugboats surround USS Missouri (BB-63) during an attempt to free her 21 January 1950

25 August 2009

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HMAS Sydney off Korea in 1951; Fairey Fireflies can be seen on deck


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Jamali Kamali Mosque and Tomb


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Detail of initial "T" with ribbon interlace filling and interlaced animal motif


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Rix Robinson

24 August 2009

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Depiction of the assassination of Ii Naosuke


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Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein

23 August 2009

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Opossum is an ingredient in roadkill cuisine


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Picnic shelter at Town Center Park


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Ganesha carved in wood


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The 1855 drawing and a modern opener

22 August 2009

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Owl Island from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin


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Bonewaldesthorne's Tower


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Curlew Lake


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Picture of Ken Jennings

21 August 2009

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Tokugawa coins


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Wife of Benigno Aquino, former President Corazon Aquino


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City Hall, Kingston, New York


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Wilkiea huegeliana

20 August 2009

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Confluence of the Alaknanda and Bhagirathi rivers


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Brain of a chimpanzee


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Leopard shark


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Jantina Hellingmolen, Aalden

19 August 2009

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Dunvegan Cup


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Marian Bernaciak


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Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons in Paris


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Portrait of Lunsford Lane

18 August 2009

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Okeanos Explorer


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Common Spangle galls on a pedunculate oak leaf


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A spectacled spiderhunter

17 August 2009

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Lorryia formosa, the yellow mite


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Diagram of the human brain, with uncinate fasciculus indicated on lower left.


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Whitetip reef shark

16 August 2009

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St. Thomas of Villanova Church


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Fontaine des Innocents, Paris, France


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William Thompson Lusk


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Ctenomorphodes chronus

15 August 2009

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Artist's rendition of the new light-bending metamaterial


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Merced Theatre


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Cyclone Orson on 22 April 1989


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"The Angel with the little book" was commissioned by Holy Roman Emperor Otto III

14 August 2009

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Ion Creangă


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Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker (Prionochilus maculatus)


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Wounded soldiers heading to the rear during the Battle of the Somme, 1916; one of Ernest Brooks' most famous pictures


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Wynnea americana

13 August 2009

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The Dexia Tower from the south during a light show


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Location of event, stacks are in the background


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General Mark Clark


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HMS Anson shipwreck

12 August 2009

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Sulayman al-Nabulsi at his study in 1957


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Tamsui Wood Bridge


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Joe Maddock


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Main arcade facade, Atala Masjid, Jaunpur

11 August 2009

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John Pearson Soda Works


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Old St. Raymond's Church


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U2 performing at Madison Square Garden in November 2005


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Pelagius of Oviedo (centre)

10 August 2009

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Watergate complex viewed from the air


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Money on fire


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Irwin Uteritz


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The church of the sanctuary of Chalma with hills in the background in Chalma, Malinalco, Mexico State

9 August 2009

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Rothschild giraffe at door of Giraffe Manor


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Northstar Island


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Jasmin Ouschan


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Curtis Redden

8 August 2009

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German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger


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Yellow earth tongue


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William Hazlitt, 1802 self portrait


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7 August 2009

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Frances Willard Munds


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Hippocrates, engraving by Peter Paul Rubens


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Traxxas TORC Series Classix Car


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"The Queen of Hearts" from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose, illustration by William Wallace Denslow

6 August 2009

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Church of St. Casimir the Prince


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The yellow wart


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Noah Ogle's cabin


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Colonel Richard Henry Savage

5 August 2009

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Men and women standing in line in front of a large pit, one dropping


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Kedarnath Temple, first of the Panch Kedar temples


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Bartolommeo Coriolano woodblock print


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A peafowl enjoying the morning sun

4 August 2009

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Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania


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Radium Hill in 1954


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Tungnath temple


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Marie Wittich as Sieglinde in Die Walküre

3 August 2009

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Hungarian nobleman Gregor Baci, who was healed after having a lance pierce his right eye during a tournament


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A Victorian depiction of what once was Grub Street


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The puffball mushroom Calvatia sculpta


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2 August 2009

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GWR Gunpowder Van No 105777


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Edwards's Fig-parrot, Psittaculirostris edwardsii


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the Shahi Bridge in Jaunpur today


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The back of Meigle 7 Pictish stone in the Meigle Sculpted Stone Museum

1 August 2009

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Visayan Spotted Deer, Cervus rusa alfredi


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SMS Bayern


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Bridge L-158, Goldens Bridge, NY