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31 May 2009

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Abraham Lincoln statue


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A bottle of bacon vodka


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The HMS Hermione (1893)


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Kutani ware

30 May 2009

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Breton-Pretot machine


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Portrait of Diego de Guevara by Michael Sittow


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Fleetwood Pellew


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Lowndes Grove

29 May 2009

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Siri Fort


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Union Pacific 618


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Crux Easton wind engine


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Blue runner under an oil platform

28 May 2009

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Wilmot Pass


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An ancient Gorgon coin


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The Frot-Laffly landship


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St. James Chapel

27 May 2009

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Emily Fowler


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Procopio dei Coltelli


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Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid


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Model of the Zagreb synagogue

26 May 2009

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The former St Stephen's Church, Brighton


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The Gonzaga cameo


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The terraced palace Sayil, in Mexico


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Lance Corporal William "Billy" Windsor

25 May 2009

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The Battle of San Juan Hill


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Walmoor Hill


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Wedge Plantation


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Basilica of the Holy Blood (Bruges, Belgium)

24 May 2009

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A covertible


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The USS Nicholson


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Greater Flamingo which visits in large flocks of over 1000 individuals, from Rann of Kutch of India


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Henry Burrell

23 May 2009

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William Seabrook House


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The George Inn


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Louie Caporusso in a faceoff


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Entrance to a palace at Xlapak

22 May 2009

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SS American in 1918


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Statue of Hanuman


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Bettino Ricasoli


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The Torment of Saint Anthony, c. 1487–1489

21 May 2009

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A school of Atlantic herrings migrating at high speed to their spawning grounds


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Battle of Trafalgar painting


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An epaulette shark


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The gravestone at the Confederate Monument in Augusta.

20 May 2009

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A zebra shark


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Lacrosse being played by Army.


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U.S. Department of Agriculture South Building


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(4953) 1990 MU orbit

19 May 2009

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Sparks flying diagram


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Bamboo coral


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The Sea Cloud


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A Consultation prior to the Aerial Voyage to Weilburgh, 1836 by John Hollins

18 May 2009

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Riddle Ranch, Oregon


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Frank Bladin


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Submersible Pisces V


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Mercury, Venus and Jupiter showing their position on the ecliptic plane, with the Moon pictured in the foreground.

17 May 2009

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Charles Duryea's Motor Wagon


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Pyramid at Toniná


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Upthorpe Mill in Stanton


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Aravan

16 May 2009

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Oliver Cromwell's head, late 1700s


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The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb


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Baby Asian elephant


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The crash site of the Borki train disaster

15 May 2009

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An open air chapel at Tlalmanalco


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Woodburn Plantation


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Mibbit


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A bottle of Chianti wine

14 May 2009

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The dome of the Osaka Maritime Museum


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Vanessa Rousso


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Finetooth shark (Carcharhinus isodon)

13 May 2009

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A Ring-tailed Lemur (L. catta)


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A. c. japonica forming a "bee ball" in which two giant hornets (Vespa simillima xanthoptera) are engulfed and are being heated


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Persian embassy to Europe


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Holland Road Baptist Church, Hove

12 May 2009

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Brede Waterworks, Brede, East Sussex


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Portrait of Anna Cuyler (Mrs. Anthony) Van Schaick


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Fireships of the Royal Navy

11 May 2009

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An Aldabra Giant Tortoise


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Humbug Mountain, Oregon


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Price's Mill near Parksville, South Carolina


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Oregon Iron Company furnace

10 May 2009

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Moth Ki Masjid


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Grey reef shark


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The Death of Procris


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A simulated dark matter halo

9 May 2009

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East side of the third eastern gopura, Ta Som


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The Buddhist flag


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8 May 2009

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Screen shot from The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach


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Len Siffleet's execution in WWII


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Nuestra Señora de Loreto Church


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Rivoli Theatre (South Fallsburg, New York)

7 May 2009

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Levi Coffin


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Ville de Milan and Cleopatra


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Sultan Ghari

6 May 2009

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Lytes Cary


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Facade of San Ildefonso


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Blacktip shark


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Cottonwood Creek in the Trout Creek Mountains

5 May 2009

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Madonna and Child in oriental carpet


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Lambdin P. Milligan


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An example of a monumental sculpture by Eduardo Chillida


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John Roach

4 May 2009

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William H. Lewis


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Saint Serapion


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Hemileia vastatrix

3 May 2009

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Panzer Badge


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TVXQ in Paris


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Brahminy kite at Boeng Tonle Chhmar, Cambodia

2 May 2009

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CQC-6 knives


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Zen master Línjì Yìxuán


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Gautama Buddha statue


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Mohammed Atef

1 May 2009

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Air well in Trans-en-Provence


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Otto Becher


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Patent for Marie Tucek's underwire bra


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La Porta