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31 July 2013

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Knightly portrait of King John of Bohemia


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Com Beach


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Campus Point

30 July 2013

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Huang Zunxian when at an old age


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Le Sacre du Printemps (Pina Bausch Tanztheater, Wuppertal), 2009


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Dale Myers

29 July 2013

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Diana dancing in Travolta dress


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Bunge church, Gotland

28 July 2013

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The Great Oak, painted by Allen Butler Talcott


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South façade of Bramshill House, a Jacobean mansion in Hampshire, England


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Lynx urinating, the urine turning to the mythical stone lyngurium. 13th-century English manuscript

27 July 2013

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SNSP meeting


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Anatomical drawing by Andreas Vesalius

26 July 2013

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Castle Itter


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A musette accordion player


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Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin

25 July 2013

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Pinner House, photographed in 2007


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Sean McColl competing at the 2012 Bouldering World Cup in Munich


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Nadia Comăneci

24 July 2013

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Roundel skate


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Atlas humanoid robot


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Steen in position during the 2012 season

23 July 2013

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Medieval Town of Toruń, view from the tower of the Old Town City Hall


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Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney


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A Polish Nobleman - the painting

22 July 2013

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Execution of Jews in Ivanhorod


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The nave, the paintings visible above the arches

21 July 2013

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Front view of the Sikorski Memorial, Gibraltar


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Jasmine Kara in 2013

20 July 2013

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Ruins of Karakhoja


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The Nativity

19 July 2013

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Western jumping mouse


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Indoor view of Estadio Chile

18 July 2013

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Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain


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Moquegua river valley

17 July 2013

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Astrophysicist Jean Swank


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Rotary milking parlor

16 July 2013

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Brigadier Simone Wilkie


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Workers fight the fire on the Deepwater Horizon, 21 April 2010.

15 July 2013

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Plaza San Lorenzo Ruiz fronts the Binondo Church


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New Brighton Tower

14 July 2013

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Mural Presencia de América Latina at Casa del Arte (Concepción, Chile)


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Ivetofta Church

13 July 2013

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Nancy flying an American flag


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The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel

12 July 2013

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Portrait of Joshua Soule Zimmerman

11 July 2013

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Rokel River Estuary at Freetown


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Pate drum

10 July 2013

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John W. Dwinelle


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Photograph of the Davis Theater along Lincoln Avenue


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Han Dynasty

9 July 2013

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Cologne Opera


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Cat Creek, Petroleum County, Montana


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8 July 2013

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Lucy Island Lighthouse built in 1907


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Nik Wallenda


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Miriam Battista as crippled Minnie Ginsberg in Humoresque, 1920

7 July 2013

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Nancy Chang, winner of the 2012 Biotechnology Heritage Award


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Mae West's RV


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View of Tompkins Corners United Methodist Church from the southwest on a late winter day in 2009

6 July 2013

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The Ilyushin Il-76TD that crashed in 2011; picture taken in 2007

  • ... that several attempts to get to the wreckage of an Azeri aircraft (pictured) that crashed near Kabul in 2011 were repelled by gunshots?
  • ... that Bruno Möhring was a proponent of high-rise construction in Berlin at a time when most of his fellow German architects opposed skyscrapers?
  • ... that a prisoner of the French at Laghouat told the Red Cross, "Technically we are not prisoners of war but up to the present have not been able to find a difference"?
  • ... that at the Onda Cero Sport Awards in 2009, Manuel Garnica Roldan earned an award for the best athlete with a disability?
  • ... that in 2012 Nimbuzz moved its headquarters from Rotterdam to New Delhi, to be closer to the mobile Internet boom expected to happen in India in the next five years?
  • ... that in 2000–09, approximately 3.1 million acres in the United States were under rice production?
  • ... that Djoemala was paired with Roekiah for four films despite the latter already being married?


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Sheep farm in Wales


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inspiring hyperbolic

5 July 2013

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Tēvita ʻUnga


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One of a pair of armlets from the Oxus Treasure, which has lost its inlays of precious stones or enamel.


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Swami Vivekananda

4 July 2013

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Firefighters on the Blackwater fire of 1937


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Emperor Gaozong of Tang


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Schauspielhaus Wuppertal, 2005

3 July 2013

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Ashy-gray tube-nosed bat in flight


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Elsa Hosk


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Queen Pōmare and her family during the French invasion of Tahiti, 1845

2 July 2013

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Screenshot from the Rymdkapsel video game, with colorful tetromino-shaped pieces that form the floor of a space station where tiny rectangles work on station maintenance tasks and staying alive


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The tavern when it was first built in the 1640s


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The ant-like male

1 July 2013

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TowerFall combat between three players


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Chairil Anwar


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Female specimen