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31 August 2011

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Portion of memorial for victims of the Berlin Wall


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Heinie Meine Goudey baseball card

30 August 2011

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Tylopilus felleus


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An Arab-Indonesian family from Tegal


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Bruno Kastner, c. 1920

29 August 2011

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Gun Hägglund hosting evening news show Aktuellt in 1958


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Niagara Whirlpool with the Whirlpool Aero Car visible above the whirlpool


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A steel engraving of the plaster full-scale model

28 August 2011

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Hacking River in Royal National Park


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Tower Buildings, Liverpool


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Kicho – a Japanese silk partition

27 August 2011

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Lisa Stublić winning the half marathon race at the 2010 Zagreb Marathon


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Hugo Steinhaus


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The seagrass Cymodocea nodosa (little Neptune grass) in an undersea meadow

26 August 2011

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The kalash atop one of the Golden Domes


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A three-story brick building seen from the opposite corner of an intersection to its left. There are small trees along the sidewalks and an American flag on top.


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Cuban Friendship Urn

25 August 2011

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Michael Herrmann before concert at Eberbach Abbey 23 August 2011


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Laurence Alma-Tadema


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Hargreaves Building, Liverpool

24 August 2011

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Yellow Billed Spoonbill


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The Pagosa skyrocket (Ipomopsis polyantha)


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Reverse of 1925-D quarter eagle

23 August 2011

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Governor Perry in 2011


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Xylomelum pyriforme


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Pierre-François Palloy

22 August 2011

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Fragment of the painting Constitution of May 3, 1791, by Jan Matejko


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Spurwood


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Black and white night-time image of office building with light tower, illuminated roof sign, and illuminated panels with lettering on both visible sides

21 August 2011

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Dorival Caymmi in 1938


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Grey clapboard tower surrounded by shrubbery


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Portrait of Emperor Uda in ceremonial robes seated on a chair

20 August 2011

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Gakhwangjeon Hall, as seen from across the courtyard of the Buddhist temple Hwaeomsa


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Twittering Machine


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The Rosendale Theatre's primary, street-facing entrance

19 August 2011

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Jan Mazurkiewicz during World War II


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Statue of James Cook in Christchurch


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Toposa children in South Sudan

18 August 2011

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Author Jay Bahadur


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Central Saint Giles


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Official picture of Sukarno

17 August 2011

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Christine Baranski


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The flag Bendera Pusaka is raised on 17 August 1945


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parish church of St Edward the Confessor, Westcott Barton, Oxfordshire, viewed from the south-east in 2011

16 August 2011

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Photograph of the 1857 Monument to Goethe and Schiller in Weimar, Germany. The monument is based on Ernst Rietschel's bronze statue of the two men standing side by side, both looking ahead. They are in the contemporary dress of the era.


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The 1980 Olympic bronze medal


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The serpent star (Ophiura ophiura), with one leg in the process of regrowth

15 August 2011

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Gatehouse of Whorlton Castle


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Billy Waters


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Thomas S. Pettit

14 August 2011

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Bertha Heyman, a.k.a. "Big Bertha The Confidence Queen"


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Mortar crew of the Australian 3rd Battalion in action at Pakchon, Korea, 1950-11-05


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FBI profile picture of Special Agent Herman Hollis

13 August 2011

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HMS Phoenix en route from China Station to the Mediterranean Sea


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BNSF Bridge 5.1 fully raised


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Duff Cooley in a black-and-white Detroit Tigers uniform

12 August 2011

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Australian swimmer Amanda Fraser competes in the S7 200IM at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, 20 October 2000


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A wooden dock-like structure crossing a lake


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Dacian bracelet in National Museum of Romanian History

11 August 2011

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Painting of Albrecht Dürer the Elder with a Rosary (1490)


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Promin, an anti-leprosy drug


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Paederus beetles with US penny and dime

10 August 2011

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The Medal of Honor


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Charles M. Russell home, on the grounds of the C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Great Falls, Montana, U.S., in 1976


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"Fashionable Surgery", a caricature of Clayton by 'Ape' (Carlo Pellegrini)

9 August 2011

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Inflorescence of Carex pilulifera


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A Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero sits on a U.S. dime.


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The Great Dagon Pagoda, where Godwin's capture of Rangoon was completed

8 August 2011

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JAGO, a manned research submersible


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Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot


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The San Francisco Peaks ragwort

7 August 2011

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Pompey in the Temple, Jean Fouquet 1470–1475


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Salmon larva hatching and discarding its egg envelope


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Emily Hobhouse

6 August 2011

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Trigonometric grid from 1436 Venetian atlas


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Piva Monastery


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An amethystine python

5 August 2011

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Photograph of James Lawrence cropped from 1902 Michigan team portrait


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Bitar Mansion in June 2011 following neglect


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Emerita analoga (Crustacea: Hippidae)

4 August 2011

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The eastern gable wall of Gisborough Priory


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Adult male Pink Robin


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3 August 2011

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The Mermaid Inn


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Adult Male Black-cheeked Gnateater


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St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere

2 August 2011

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Oregon Slough Railroad Bridge


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Head and antennae of stick insect


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Drawing depicting HMS Doterel before the explosion

1 August 2011

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Tonelagee Mountain in the Glendasan valley in the Wicklow Mountains


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Main factory building and office, 2009


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Pinnacle Peak, viewed from Plummer Peak