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28 February 2014

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William H. Griffitts House

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Cassini imaging team imitating the cover of Abbey Road, June 2001

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Philip Morrison

27 February 2014

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Josephine Silone Yates

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Theater Kiel, 2007

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One of the Cippi of Melqart at the Louvre Museum

26 February 2014

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A large old house

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George S. Armstrong pictured circa 1910

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Cherry Mansion in Savannah, Tennessee

25 February 2014

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A painting by Alexander Roslin of his wife painting Henrik Peill

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An example of a County Wildlife Site

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Cross of Otto and Mathilde

24 February 2014

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Women's downhill podium

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Cornelius Gallagher in 1896

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The Night Train sled being run by the American team in the 2010 Winter Olympics

23 February 2014

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Interior of the Bolshoy Ice Dome

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Salt Creek in the canyon below Salt Creek Falls

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Tonna galea

22 February 2014

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A miniature depicting the Nativity of Mary

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Evolution of the Ball sculpture outside Coors Field

  • ... that Lonnie Hanzon designed the Evolution of the Ball sculpture (pictured) at Coors Field in Denver?
  • ... that the male sheepshead minnow becomes much more colorful in the breeding season?
  • ... the 1982 North Yemen earthquake was the first shock in the region that resulted in fatalities since 1941?
  • ... that although Marquee Moon sold fewer than 80,000 copies in the US, Spin and NME ranked it among the ten greatest albums of all time?
  • ... that Titanoceratops was known from an almost complete skeleton that was assigned to Pentaceratops, and that the two were only distantly related?
  • ... that Paolo Isnardi was forbidden from performing his own compositions at his place of employment?
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Logo

21 February 2014

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Vineworkers from the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

  • ... that the 11th-century Codex Aureus of Echternach (example illustration pictured) is unusual in having several pages of illustrations for the parables of Jesus?
  • ... that Sverre Valen conducted his last concert in 2013, aged 88?
  • ... that one reviewer of Experimenting with Babies compared infant intellect to a "sentient grapefruit" on which parents can feed?
  • ... that the leaders of the new Ugandan opposition political party Freedom and Unity Front include David Sejusa, a former Ugandan general and parliament member who left the country in 2013?
  • ... that one of the accused assassins of Turkish former government minister Gün Sazak later hijacked an airplane to Bulgaria with accomplices?
  • ... that Musca is the only official constellation that depicts an insect?
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The view from Ras ir-Raħeb

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Ratusz, Poznań

20 February 2014

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Miniature of the Annunciation to the shepherds from the Pericopes of Henry II

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Didemnum molle

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Samuel Aba, King of Hungary

19 February 2014

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Winifred making landfall in Queensland

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Peaches (Tsoe), a White Mountain Apache scout, full-length, holding rifle, 1885

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The Admiral Clarey Bridge and the USS Arizona memorial

18 February 2014

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The Inexhaustible Bottle, explained in a physics textbook

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Helen C. White in June 1941

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Bródka during 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

17 February 2014

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Crocodiles at a farm in the Philippines

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Rear Admiral Thorval A. Solberg

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Cornwell Scout Badge

16 February 2014

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Sydney Leroux in 2012

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Fernanda Lima

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Machine gun team

15 February 2014

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Aphaenogaster amphioceanica fossil

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Front and side of a white house with pillars on the facade

14 February 2014

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Isaac Funk

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A figure with monastic tonsure bending to present the book he holds

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Edward H. Ripley

13 February 2014

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Streatham portrait

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Memorial Hall at the University of Delaware

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Marpesia zerynthia

12 February 2014

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Jonathan Garcia

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Reverse of a cast counterfeit Eight Reales of Philip IV of Spain

11 February 2014

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Eva Ganster in 2005

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Hall in the Altantis House

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The 2013 version of the TenderGrill sandwich in North America

10 February 2014

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Stephen kneeling in front of Christ

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Senkschmelz Cross

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Gorgonian wrapper

9 February 2014

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Are You Experienced - US cover

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Imelda Marcos

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Andrea Polli, Particle Falls, 2013

8 February 2014

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The Axenstrasse in 1904

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Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

7 February 2014

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Sugar Todd in 2013

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Portrait of Charles Wilson

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Mathilde, Abbess of Essen

6 February 2014

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Wells Cathedral scissor arches

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Bimala Prasad (9) in 1881

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Birkenhead War Memorial

5 February 2014

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Dessert at Gulliftys

Michael Waltrip in 2008

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Inchdrewer Castle in day

4 February 2014

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Plum fruit and leaves

Termitotrox cupido

La Réunion battles with HMS Crescent off the Cotentin Peninsula, on 20 October 1793

3 February 2014

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Pepe Reina

A Mazagran cup for coffee
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Thunder II

2 February 2014

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Franz Kamphaus, 2008

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1923 Duesenberg Model A touring car

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Caesar Hull in 1940

1 February 2014

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Image of the front facade of the building

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The Bounty Bible

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Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby