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31 October 2012

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Grave assemblage of two Mesolithic women who died violently at Téviec


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Solaster endeca


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Wojciech Stattler, Self portrait

30 October 2012

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Portrait of Satyajit Ray


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Clarke wearing a prototype limpet mine


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Xu Xusheng

29 October 2012

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Cortinarius iodes


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Circumpolar Star Trails with passing aircraft


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Lady Godiva by John Collier

28 October 2012

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St Eata's Church, Atcham, from the southwest


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Aplastodiscus callipygius


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Harold A. Lafount

27 October 2012

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Cnapan Hotel


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Ben Goldacre


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Pony Express mochila mailbag

26 October 2012

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Vignoles Bridge, Coventry


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State Farm Downtown Building


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Rambhadracharya

25 October 2012

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Panorama image taken with the SVII camera


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The mural painting of the investiture of Zimrilim


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Achilles on Skyros, 1656 painting by Nicolas Poussin, now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

24 October 2012

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Ruins of Gamleborg


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Rama and Sita, Hanuman, and Rama's three brothers Lakshmana, Bharata, and Shatrughna


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Alben Barkley

23 October 2012

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Ferdinand the Holy Prince in captivity


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Tents in Resurrection City in Washington, D.C.


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Boletus carminiporus

22 October 2012

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Postern gate of the Royal Palace of Ugarit with walls leaning 25 degrees


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Vulpicida canadensis


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Hericium abietis

21 October 2012

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Windsbacher Knabenchor


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Parastylotermes fossil


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Main Street and the Hotel Jerome

20 October 2012

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Statue of the praying figure of Ebih-Il from ancient Mari


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Orange sun star


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The Tauzieher in Rheinauhafen

19 October 2012

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8 House in Ørestaden, Copenhagen


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David Munk using outrigger skis


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Harry Wolverton baseball card

18 October 2012

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Wythburn Church from the north


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National Museum in Wrocław


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Gorgonia flabellum

17 October 2012

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2007 photograph of the British library


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Jama Masjid, Champaner


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Propagule of red mangrove

16 October 2012

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Koutoubia Mosque at night


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Bigclaw snapping shrimp


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Niobe under sail as painted by Christopher Rave

15 October 2012

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Atlantic thorny oyster


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Tara VanDerveer at Spokane Regional in the 2011 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament March 28, 2011


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Crusade for Freedom stamp with a multicultural West contrasted with repressive Communists

14 October 2012

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Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen, main organ


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First lady Mamie Eisenhower's hairstyle in 1954


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Self-portrait of Darío de Regoyos y Valdés

13 October 2012

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Flemish Synagogue (l) and Bomb House (r)


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Balanus improvisus on Mya arenaria shell


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Sgt. Anthony Larson, his adaptive ski instructor close behind, skis down the beginner’s hill on his mono-ski March 9 in Vail, Colo. Larson lost his right leg below the knee while serving in Iraq.

12 October 2012

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Gibraltar F.C. in 1895


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The J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.


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1920 Louden Machinery Company catalog of "Louden Barn Plans"

11 October 2012

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Portrait of Dionysios Solomos


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New York's Woolworth Building, c. 1913


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Purdue University Reactor Number One

10 October 2012

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N. isaacae fossil


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View down Clinton Street from Schuyler Mansion


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The memorial

9 October 2012

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Orion Head to Toe


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Golden-winged Sunbird feeding on Leonotis nepetifolia, Kenya


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8 October 2012

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Salunke in the role of Sita


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Frank Chance


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Aerial view of Holy Rosary Cathedral

7 October 2012

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Mary Dreaver, one of the first two women appointed in 1946


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Common rocket frog with tadpoles

6 October 2012

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Ida fossil, Darwinius masillae


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The Giant's Grave


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Monarch butterfly

5 October 2012

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Tomb of Mah Laqa Bai, a Nizam-era Urdu poet and courtesan located in Moula Ali, Hyderabad


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James Luttrell


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Saccharum officinarum

4 October 2012

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Geo survey disc at Brow Monument


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Beaverslide haystacker and stack of hay


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Echinometra viridis

3 October 2012

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Caltech's Fleming Cannon after having been returned to the Caltech campus


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St Mary's Longfleet


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Apolo y Marsias porcelain art made in Buen Retiro

2 October 2012

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St. Gumbertus, Ansbach


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Twinkle Toes with its hydraulic boom not extended


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Archway in the Palacio de Velázquez

1 October 2012

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Gonzales de Cordoba


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Paul Prudhomme, photographed in 2008


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Specimen of A. thiersii from the US