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28 February 2009

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Pollicipes pollicipes


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Rocksavage


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Orbitron


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Tommy Merritt

27 February 2009

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Horace Prettyman (1890)


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Bluespotted trevally


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Joachim Boldsen


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Anostoma octodentatum shell

26 February 2009

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Phallus hadriani


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location of the Wannsee Conference

25 February 2009

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Wonsam


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Traveller's Bungalow, Sispara


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Tapsel gate

24 February 2009

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Pauline Joran


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Ed Chynoweth Cup


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CSS Shenandoah

23 February 2009

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Austrått Manor in Norway


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Imposter trevally


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Geopyxis carbonaria


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Dangui

22 February 2009

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Beverly Eckert


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Tekkiye Mosque


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Brazilian battleship Minas Gerais

21 February 2009

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Chocolate covered bacon from the Minnesota State Fair


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Folkestone White Horse


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Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków


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Lactarius quietus

20 February 2009

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Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse


  • 17:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Xanthoria elegans


  • 11:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Anderson Ruffin Abbott


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Cascin Adelaide Barolo & decanter

19 February 2009

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La Maratona bicycle race


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Cortinarius triumphans


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Franklin "Cappy" Cappon


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A World Series of Poker bracelet

18 February 2009

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His Majesty's Theatre in Perth


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Izmir Clock Tower


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Sodolak's chicken fried bacon

17 February 2009

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64 pounder gun firing at Fort Glanville


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Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1795.


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Comet steamboat

16 February 2009

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Ann Thornton


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Great Auk


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Khan As'ad Pasha, Damascus

15 February 2009

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Charlotte Turner Smith


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Church of St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip


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Sporting school of England


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Japanese icebreaker So-ya

14 February 2009

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Sputnik


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Armenian Postage Stamps by Archak Fetvajian


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Kentucky Railway Museum Station

13 February 2009

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Soyboean aphid


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Sir Thomas Allin


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The Gollaher cabin, a cabin of Lincoln's neighbour now located at Knob Creek Farm


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Canton Island, a coral reef atoll

12 February 2009

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Lincoln Memorial building


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Sesquipedale orchid


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Abraham Lincoln Statue


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Portrait of Charles Darwin

11 February 2009

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Yeay Mao


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Porcelain model by Bustelli


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O.J. Simpson


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Battle of Loyew (1649)

10 February 2009

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Ernest "Aqua" Allmendinger


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Oslo District Court


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Neil Snow

9 February 2009

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Valhalla crater on Callisto


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Georgette Leblanc


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Vice-Admiral James Richard Dacres


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Tirumala natural stone arch

8 February 2009

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USS Connecticut (BB 8)


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Scene on the Magdalene (Church)


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Jaffa Clock Tower


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Cambridge CAP computer

7 February 2009

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Khan al-Umdan


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Defensive tower in Rila Monastery


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Two Xochipala figurines


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American Bison

6 February 2009

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Bacon Explosion


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Lysurus periphragmoides


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Stag's horn fungus


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Red Scapular of the Passion

5 February 2009

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Coast Air ATR-42


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Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower


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A print depicting Great Tom, circa 1776


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Silver Buffaloberry

4 February 2009

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Crazywell Cross


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Arms of Schaw of Sauchie


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Vietnamese water puppet theatre


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Maple Lawn

3 February 2009

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Maryland Residence


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Skuon fried spiders


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Nazi brownshirts enforcing boycott of Jewish store, April 1933


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Three Crosses in Vilnius, Lithuania

2 February 2009

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Sample of English embroidery


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General Aircraft Hamilcar


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Wilkinson TMC


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Amy Winehouse performing in Berlin, 2007

1 February 2009

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Museo Barracco - Giove Ammone


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TRPV1


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Greek sage (Salvia fruticosa)


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Appomattox Court House Historical Park