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30 November 2008

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Jacques-Désiré Laval


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St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley


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River Dee


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Hillary Clinton

29 November 2008

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Ilse Stanley


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Bar Winged Prinia


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Isabella I of Castile


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Mermithidae

28 November 2008

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Diamphidia nigroornata, larva


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Kumusi River from overhead


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By Dawn's Early Light

27 November 2008

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40-foot Telescope


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Regiment de la Rey


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The Abbey in the Oakwood


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Shiva

26 November 2008

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Thomas Arne


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100 McAllister Street


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Sinking of the SS Sanct Svithun

25 November 2008

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The Sea of Ice


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Bombardment of Tamsui


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Kampana tower, Kotor


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Saladin, King of Egypt from a 15th-century illuminated manuscript

24 November 2008

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Book of Leinster


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The Stages of Life


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Shakespeare's House

23 November 2008

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Irworobongdo


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Robert de LaSalle


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Flora Perini


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Cesira Ferrani

22 November 2008

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Photograph of state china service of Ronald Wilson Reagan


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La Charrette, Parkmill


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Agustín de Iturbide


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C/1743 X1, from W. Valentiner's Das Wissen der Gegenwart, 27. Band: Kometen und Meteore

21 November 2008

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John Luttrell (soldier)


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A specimen of Mercenaria mercenaria. The adductor muscles have been cut, the valves are gaping. The internal anatomy is visible, including the paired siphons to the right


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Felix Pedro


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Confederate Monument in Murray

20 November 2008

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Replica of the Nassak Diamond


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Recycling bins in Japan


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The Wood of the Self-Murderers

19 November 2008

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Portrait of Mary I


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George Julian Zolnay


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Suraj Tal


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Golden White-eye

18 November 2008

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Sandi Jackson


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View of spillway of Pando Dam in India


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Rahr West Art Museum


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The M139 4.5-in. spherical sarin bomblet used in the Little John rocket

17 November 2008

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Adhesive bandage


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Templo Mayor


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Georges Bizet

16 November 2008

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The Rolls-Royce LiftSystem coupled to an F135 turbofan at the Paris Air Show in 2007


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Moses Montefiore Windmill


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Li Yong and Guido Mantega


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Minoru Ōta

15 November 2008

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Central Park skyscraper in Perth, Australia


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Pitkin watch


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Richard Maack


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La Nouvelle branch

14 November 2008

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Psilocybe montana


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Location of the 1970 Tonghai earthquake


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A Royal Coachman fly


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Montigny Mitrailleuse

13 November 2008

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Nepenthes northiana, by Marianne North


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Heliamphora nutans


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William Rogers


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Kaba class destroyer

12 November 2008

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Iodine unit


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Force-feeding of Lilian Lenton


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Little Pied Cormorant


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Thaddeus Fairbanks

11 November 2008

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The BankWest Tower in Perth, Western Australia


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Barack Obama delivering his acceptance speech


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Lady Liberty of Cedar Rapids


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Jack Dorsey

10 November 2008

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Arabian Hall of the Winter Palace


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Cannon Building, Troy, New York


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Joseph Haydn


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Kohler-Andrae State Park


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Bert Bolle Barometer

9 November 2008

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CZ 2075 RAMI


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Hart-Cluett Mansion, Troy, NY


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Noonday Globe snail, Patera clarki nantahala


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Starry Night


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"The Ghost of a Flea", c.1819-20, by William Blake

8 November 2008

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MS Astor


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Replica of the Star of the South in Reich der Kristalle museum, Munich


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Norton 16H


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Lobster mushrooms


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Detail of The Family of Sir Thomas More by Rowland Lockey, after Hans Holbein the Younger, 1592

7 November 2008

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Hydnellum peckii


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Ariel W/NG 350


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Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake


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Green flash in San Francisco, U.S.


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Seattle-Union Trust Building Annex

6 November 2008

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Great Piece of Turf – Durer


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Elimia virginica shell


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Noisy Friarbird


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Spectacle Reef Light


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The Raising of Lazarus, 15th century

5 November 2008

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Buffalo pebble snail


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Market Square (Lviv)


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Treriksröset, the point where the borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet.


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Male Asian Paradise Flycatcher

4 November 2008

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Artillery at Point Nepean


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Portrait Of Madame Riviere


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The Sigiriya rock and surrounding gardens


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Mountains in Ladakh

3 November 2008

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Mossy leaf-tail gecko, camoflaged on a branch


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Speaker iconThe Transit of Venus March


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Canal du midi


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Lake Pichola

2 November 2008

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Vieilles Chansons pour les Petits Enfants: Avec Accompagnements


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Hijazi Railway


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Whitefin trevally


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An ancient Greek coin portraying Nabis of Sparta (reign 207-192 BC)

1 November 2008

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Naksansa


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Frank Wyatt as Duke of Plaza-Toro


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Wycoller Hall


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"The Galactic Ghoul"