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29 February 2008

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Hagia Sophia


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Clifford Embroidered Stool Borage Hardwick Hall

28 February 2008

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Tablet press animation


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Ngo Dinh Diem


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27 February 2008

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Milion


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Milion


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Piri Reis Map


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Meister des Hildegardis-Codex

26 February 2008

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Phước Duyên Tower, Thiên Mụ Padoga


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Nantwich Aqueduct, Acton


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Master Juba


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Princess Helena

25 February 2008

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Jacobus Latimus


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Wilanów Palace sundial


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Kinzie Street bridges

24 February 2008

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Radcliffe Tower


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Urnes style


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3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment


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HMS Calliope in the 1880s

23 February 2008

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Dendera zodiac


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Pope Clement IX


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Mysore Palace


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Fabyan Windmill

22 February 2008

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Hiram Wesley Evans


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The piping clan MacCrimmon.


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Munich Cage Cup from Cologne, dated to the mid-4th Century CE

21 February 2008

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Beelzebufo size comparison


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Schaerbeek Gate in 1612


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St Leonard's Church


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Chevron House

20 February 2008

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Durga statue


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The Annunciation, miniature by Jacquemart de Hesdin from Les Petites Heures of John, Duke of Berry, c. 1400


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Chester Town Hall


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Saxon Garden in Warsaw

19 February 2008

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Abbey of Port-Royal, Distributing Alms to the Poor by Louise-Magdeleine Hortemels c. 1710


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Centennial Tower


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Lal Bagh Botanical Garden in Bangalore

18 February 2008

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Simris Runestone


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Pizhi Pagoda


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Wharncliffe Crags


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Fir Island

17 February 2008

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Springleaf Tower in Singapore


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Taishū engeki


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Tribute Money


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Fuji Xerox Towers

16 February 2008

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Tin Brook, Walden


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Gomphus floccosus


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Hitachi Tower

15 February 2008

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Princess Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart by Alexis Simon Belle


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Métro léger de Tunis


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Ayatollah Khomeini's Grave at Behesht-e Zahra

14 February 2008

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Alexis Simon Belle


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Sailors Carousing - Ibbetson


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Henry Howard in 1800

13 February 2008

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Rio Urubamba


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Grey Towers National Historic Site


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Wetmore locking through the Weitzel, bound for England


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12 February 2008

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HMS Shannon boarding Chesapeake


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Chocim stronghold


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11 February 2008

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10 February 2008

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Traverse des Sioux


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9 February 2008

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Molyneux's celestial globe


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8 February 2008

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One Pillar Pagoda


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Look at me!


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Mount Parish air raid precaution tunnel

7 February 2008

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Illustration from Nuova Cronica


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Princess Louise, 1901

6 February 2008

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Canterbury Presbyterian Church


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Sarcophagus of Gustav I


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Lydia

5 February 2008

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Vermont coppers, obverse


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Xa Loi Pagoda

4 February 2008

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Jospeh Farington


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Donald Hardman

3 February 2008

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Sir John Lade


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USS Dawson.


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SS George Washington Carver

2 February 2008

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La Mojarra Stela 1


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Terzan 7

1 February 2008

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington



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Pont Notre-Dame


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1787 self portrait of Carl Frederik von Breda