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31 May 2013

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Buchwaldoboletus lignicola, underside of cap showing pores


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Alasinga Perumal


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Gloriosa superba

30 May 2013

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Flag of Senegal


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A brick building with large arched windows


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29 May 2013

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Nike Zeus A being launched at White Sands Missile Range


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Simón Bolívar


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Walker Art Center in Minneapolis

28 May 2013

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Bertholdia trigona


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Roholte Church


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Aerial view of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater

27 May 2013

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Façade of the old Notre Dame Cathedral now preserved as the entrance


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Shelby Miller pitching


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Dragon breathing fire

26 May 2013

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Jesus and Nicodemus, by Crijn Hendricksz, 1616–1645


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Congressional Palace of Argentina


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female Turquoise Parrot

25 May 2013

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Krishna with eight wives


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Cardinal Wolsey


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Gazebo in San Marco Square

24 May 2013

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Sir James Chadwick


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Mondeuse grapes growing in Savoie


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Oenococcus oeni, a member of the lactic acid bacteria family that is used in winemaking

23 May 2013

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Helicia glabriflora - foliage


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St Kilda field mouse

22 May 2013

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Krake's splashdown


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Diamond Trust of London paper prototype


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No. 33 Squadron RAAF Boeing 707 refuelling a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet for its part in the war in Afghanistan, April 2002

21 May 2013

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Caracas Cathedral


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Mount Elbert


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Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, poetess

20 May 2013

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Rosario de Acuña Villanueva de la Iglesia


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Pinemere Camp sign


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Later artist's impression of the Gibbet of Montfaucon, after Viollet-le-Duc

19 May 2013

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Gustave Pellet published Elles by Toulouse-Lautrec


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Chapel Cleeve Manor


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Râpa Roşie Geological monument

18 May 2013

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Rock Drill


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View of the North Acropolis at Tikal


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Via fence on an 11 GHz pcb circuit

17 May 2013

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Seen from the Academy Park side


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Mongolian death worm (Allghoikhorkhoi)

16 May 2013

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The galactic habitable zone of the Milky Way is often seen as an annulus, although the reality may be far more complex


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Two sea urchin tests


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Carolina Muzzilli

15 May 2013

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A Popemobile


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An adult standing inside a large rockshelter


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The façade of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

14 May 2013

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INS Satpura (F48)


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Full View Selworthy Beacon

13 May 2013

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Island ladies making Kava


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Gold glass bottom, with 4th century married couple, inscribed "PIE ZESES"


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Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, c.1840

12 May 2013

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St. Michael's Cathedral


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Mahango Game Park

11 May 2013

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St. Lamberti, Hildesheim, 2007


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Sir Alan McNicoll circa 1940s


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Gobi desert dunes in the Gurvansaikhan National Park, Mongolia

10 May 2013

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Sorrow by Vincent van Gogh

  • ... that van Gogh used his Sorrow (pictured) to "express something of life's struggle"?
  • ... that the final version of the 33-metre-high (108 ft) Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was completely destroyed by archaeologists in 1965?
  • ... that in the Glee episode "Wonder-ful", Katey Sagal appears as the mother of Kevin McHale's character Artie Abrams, months after McHale had suggested her for the role at a Comic-Con panel?
  • ... that Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, who was able to play Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Clavier from memory as a teenager, studied composition with Bach's sons and the violin in Italy?
  • ... that Cuthbert Christy was senior medical officer to the second battalion, West African Field Force in Northern Nigeria from 1898 to 1902?
  • ... that "Buenos Amigos" was a career-launching song for American singer Selena, who recorded it as a duet with Alvaro Torres in 1991?
  • ... that in 1941 the manager of Yeeda Station fatally shot himself by accident only to be replaced by a man who was arrested for cattle stealing?


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Close up of Gorgon at the pediment of Artemis temple in Corfu


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Louis-André de Grimaldi

9 May 2013

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Gasherbrum II from Base Camp


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A Qing Dynasty illustration of Lu Xun


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Frontispiece and title page to eighteenth-century miscellany, illustrating a bog-house and title page to The Merry Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-house Miscellany

8 May 2013

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Paoli Dam


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Dirt and grass along the edge of a river

7 May 2013

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Illustration of Noah's Ark landing on the Mountains of Ararat (fol. 521a)


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Merlot grapes


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Mythicomyces corneipes

6 May 2013

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Map of Christmas Island published by Goos


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George Juskalian in military uniform


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Portrait by Antoine Maurin

5 May 2013

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St Michael's Church, Duntisbourne Rouse


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Banksia speciosa, San Francisco Botanical Garden


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Waveguide post filter

4 May 2013

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Maria Tallchief in 1954


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Mariano Rivera pitching

3 May 2013

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Hunterwali film poster


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Sant Tukaram


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The B-2 Spirit took up its design from Hal Markarian

2 May 2013

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All Saints' Church, Winthorpe


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Rembrandt self-portrait, 1635


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PSY performing on March 9, 2013

1 May 2013

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Viking siege of Paris


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No. 1 Squadron RAAF Lincoln bomber at Tengah, Singapore, in 1950


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Test of Cidaris cidaris