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31 March 2011

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Schematic drawing of six planets orbiting around a sun-like star


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Photograph of a medieval stone castle with two rectangular towers in the foreground


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A small, young slow loris is gripped by its limbs while its front teeth are cut with fingernail cutter.

30 March 2011

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Two bunches of white grapes


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A group of diamond miners panning at the edge of a man-made pond


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The top of Brown Willy, with many granite boulders, some piled up to form a cairn, next to the trig point

29 March 2011

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Black and white photo of two standing men, below an archway, facing a number of seated men and women


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The Stone Plinth in front of the Sign of the Kiwi


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Portrait of Pére Tanguy by Vincent van Gogh, 1887–88

28 March 2011

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St John the Evangelist Church at Hollington, Hastings, Sussex, England


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A black-and-white portrait of a young man in formal dress


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A flint church with a red tied roof and a tower at the west end, seen from the southeast

27 March 2011

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James Moody with bassist Todd Coolman in background


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The last rugby union league game of London Irish being played at the Avenue


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View of a collapsed church

26 March 2011

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An historic 1952-built trolleybus runs along a street in Valparaíso, Chile's city center in 2008.


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Bronze sculpture of a woman in a sunbonnet leading her son


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Indian widow painting

25 March 2011

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Photograph of Charles Watkins cropped from 1898 Michigan Wolverines baseball team portrait


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A marble statue showing a man in polar clothing holding a rod, in front of trees


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A stone pylon with two gold stars at the sides, below which are inscribed "A Jose Rizal"

24 March 2011

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A structure coated with marble impounds a reservoir.


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A photograph of the head of a bat.


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Captain Philemon Pownoll

23 March 2011

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The failed Gleno Dam, right portion destroyed


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Saigō-no-Tsubone, or "Lady Saigo"


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Painting of the Pavlovsk train station in 1862

22 March 2011

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A room packed with paintings and curios


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Photograph of University of Michigan athlete Arthur Karpus in 1918


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Items related to Santa Muerte and Santería

21 March 2011

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HMS Hasty at anchor


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A classical portico with four columns and the entrance to the church beyond


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Snow on the eastern slope of Steens Mountain

20 March 2011

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Ruins of a Bronze Age Acropolis with Cyclopean structures. The main entrance is seen on the right and a burial site on the left.


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A painting of Reza Abbasi


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Juliet with arm raised

19 March 2011

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A two-story yellow brick building on the corner of Hunter Street and Cooper Avenue with purple and green trim. A pointed section above the roof has "1888" in large letters written on it. In the rear, at the top of the image, is a wooded, rocky ridgeline.


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The Oxhey Chapel, made of flint and brick, is seen from an angle, with a brick gable at the near end, and a white bellcote towards the far end.


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Crumbling stone walls of the Santa Maria de Ovila monastery stand without a roof

18 March 2011

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Molokai twinsorus fern


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Sirikit Dam


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University of Michigan football player Fred Rehor

17 March 2011

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The stone tower of a church with buttresses and an octagonal top stage with a clock


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Brabourne Stadium


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Scrub balm (Dicerandra frutescens)

16 March 2011

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Photograph of a basket of mushrooms for sale at a market


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Mario Lemieux


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Small-toothed sportive lemur (Lepilemur microdon) in Vohiparara, Ranomafana National Park

15 March 2011

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A piece of ivory showing a lion devouring a man


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Photo of Ray Barnhart


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The head and shoulders of a grey-haired, bespectacled man sitting at a table wearing a beige military uniform

14 March 2011

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A marble statue fallen off its plinth


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Tall arched doorway surrounded by ivory-colored masonry and ornamentation


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An engraving depicting the battleship Poltava (1712)

13 March 2011

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A branch with bright green leaves, small yellow flowers and greenish fruit


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A tall flint tower with the body of the church extending beyond it


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Chilean blue crocus in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden

12 March 2011

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Pipo de Clown on the set, 1973


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Rice farmer holding part of his harvest in each hand


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Architectural plans of two lighthouses, one more than three times the size of the other, shown in scale

11 March 2011

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Vickers Wellington Mk2


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View up a clock tower with a stone base and iron railings


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Farmer with deep water rice

10 March 2011

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Daguerreotype photography of the composer, seated in an arm chair, dressed in a suit


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The gills of a whiting infested by two blood-sucking Lernaeocera branchialis


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View of a stone church

9 March 2011

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The new railroad station of Bellegarde in 2010


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Governor Bruere, attributed to John Russell


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Portrait of a middle-aged black woman, wearing a dark dress with a white collar

8 March 2011

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Hikmat Abu Zayd, the first female cabinet minister in Egypt.


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Young Asian woman with long black hair, white T-shirt and glasses, looking aside


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B&w photo of a statue, with multi-storey buildings in the background

7 March 2011

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=View of a medieval Byzantine-style church's front facade and bell tower slightly from below, with partially destroyed stone walls in the foreground


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View of a brigantine rigged two-masted sailing ship at anchor with sails furled, a raised observation deck is visible between the two masts


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Drawing of horn-shaped fossil

6 March 2011

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B&w photo of a church in Gothic Revival style


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Dark-haired man with stubbly beard and mustache, wearing gold-brocade clothing and hat


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Reuben Wells, an old steam engine on display in a museum, against a painted backdrop

5 March 2011

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A church seen from the southwest with a large brick tower on the left and the flint body of the church on the right, showing the clerestory, south aisle and porch


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Colorado potato beetle eggs


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Smiling woman with brown hair, wearing a white pearl necklace.

4 March 2011

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The eastern view of the castle Český Šternberk


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Stielgranate 41 fitted on the PaK-36 barrel


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Design from black marble with other rocks

3 March 2011

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Coryphantha ramillosa, a round cactus with dark spines and a single pink flower on the top


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A flint church with red tiled roofs seen from the southwest, showing a tower with a battlemented parapet, the nave with a porch, and the chancel


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A Persian miniature showing a musician playing a lute for a seated man inside a large house

2 March 2011

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A man wearing a military uniform with an Iron Cross displayed at his neck


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A caricature of a middle-aged man sitting cross-legged in a chair, holding a newspaper


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A large canal lock built of limestone, almost entirely empty of water and clearly abandoned

1 March 2011

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A small flint church seen between trees from the southeast, with a battlemented tower at the far end


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Detached Badger at work


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Part of the Xochimilco Ecological Reserve


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University of Michigan pole vault champion Charles Dvorak in 1903