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31 December 2017

  • 00:00, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Detail of The Doctor (1891)
Detail of The Doctor (1891)

30 December 2017

  • 00:00, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Millet butterflyfish
Millet butterflyfish

29 December 2017

  • 00:00, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Nagtahan Interchange
Nagtahan Interchange

28 December 2017

  • 00:00, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
Shallenberger's 1888 meter
Shallenberger's 1888 meter

27 December 2017

  • 00:00, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
Rebecca Sugar in 2014
Rebecca Sugar

26 December 2017

  • 00:00, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
Nativity scene, New York
Nativity scene, New York

25 December 2017

  • 00:00, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Original publication of "Helmsley" in 1763
Original publication of "Helmsley" in 1763

24 December 2017

  • 00:00, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
Female M. chomskyi
Female M. chomskyi

23 December 2017

  • 00:00, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
Belfry and spire of St Stephen's
Belfry and spire of St Stephen's

22 December 2017

  • 00:00, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
Hampi, India
Hampi, India

21 December 2017

  • 00:00, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Smoke rising over Amman in 1970
Smoke rising over Amman in 1970

20 December 2017

  • 00:00, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
Skin-to-skin contact
Skin-to-skin contact

19 December 2017

  • 00:00, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Fiora Contino
Fiora Contino

18 December 2017

  • 00:00, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
St. Jakobus, Rüdesheim
St. Jakobus, Rüdesheim

17 December 2017

  • 00:00, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
Masked flowerpiercer
Masked flowerpiercer

16 December 2017

  • 00:00, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
An 18th-century portrait of Lady Gouyi
An 18th-century portrait of Lady Gouyi

15 December 2017

  • 00:00, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
The Tower of Rivers and Mountains
The Tower of Rivers and Mountains

14 December 2017

  • 00:00, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
The Shard
The Shard

13 December 2017

  • 00:05, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Yang Shoujing
Yang Shoujing

12 December 2017

  • 00:20, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
The portico facade, 2010
The portico facade, 2010

11 December 2017

  • 00:00, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Bacon Super T-6 in faux-Russian markings
Bacon Super T-6 in faux-Russian markings

10 December 2017

  • 00:00, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
Zanzibar butterflyfish
Zanzibar butterflyfish

9 December 2017

  • 00:00, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Marcus Beck
Marcus Beck

8 December 2017

  • 00:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Cucumber offering to Kappas
Cucumber offering to Kappas

7 December 2017

  • 00:00, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
Paul Bonhomme, competing in the London leg of the 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Championship
Paul Bonhomme, competing in 2007

6 December 2017

  • 00:00, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
  • ... that Johann Sebastian Bach sang as a choir member for two years at St. Michaelis in Lüneburg, a brick Gothic former abbey church?
  • ... that Elizabeth Marshall was one of the first women to become a pharmacist in the United States?
  • ... that more than two-thirds of children with egg allergy will outgrow it by the time they are 16 years old?
  • ... that Robert Sickinger, the father of Chicago's "off-Loop" theater scene, ended up running a telemarketing company?
  • ... that, despite being affected by poverty, language barriers, and prejudice, first-generation immigrants have better health outcomes than subsequent generations by way of the immigrant paradox?
  • ... that remote sensing helps geologists study otherwise inaccessible areas such as Antarctic ice shelves?
  • ... that Japanese voice actress Ai Kayano worked in the beauty industry to pay for her voice acting school tuition?
  • ... that the lethal mushroom Amanita subpallidorosea was discovered when two people died in 2014 after eating it in China?

5 December 2017

  • 00:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Fluffy sculpin
Fluffy sculpin

4 December 2017

  • 00:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Purple sidewalk jewels
Purple sidewalk jewels

3 December 2017

  • 00:00, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Olga FitzGeorge and her son
Olga FitzGeorge and her son

2 December 2017

  • 00:00, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Hoysala emblem
Hoysala emblem

1 December 2017

  • 00:00, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Solimana
Solimana