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30 November 2009

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Anglo-Saxon tower and baptistery of St Peter's

The French battleship Jean Bart

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

USS Borie (DD-215)

29 November 2009

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Korzok Monastery5

World's End, a sheer precipice, is in Horton Plains National Park.

Adalaj Stepwell

Danskammer Generating Station, on the Hudson River in the Town of Newburgh, 2008

28 November 2009

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Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901

Nefertiti bust

Diagram showing stages of missile interception by the Arrow system. The picture shows a hostile missile trajectory and that of the Black Sparrow air-launched target missile used in firing tests.

Captain Richard Bowen

27 November 2009

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Principal gate of Quan Thanh Temple

A typical habitat of Udawalawe is open grasslands.

Vin Santo

Norton's gramophone mechanical filter

26 November 2009

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Paul C. Donnelly, 1969

George Mackinolty

Biomphalaria glabrata

Konstanty Laszczka, with nude in clay

25 November 2009

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Reservoir at Oderteich

A long haired Russkiy Toy

Cover of satirical "Monkeyana".

HMS Beagle

24 November 2009

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South Stoneham Church

Kumquats on tree branch

Lizard Trachylepis atlantica on islands Fernando de Noronha

Gnomon Saint Sulpice

23 November 2009

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Hiroki Kikuta during a 2008 panel

U2 performing Ultraviolet (Light My Way) in New Jersey

The ultralight InterPlane Skyboy in Cornwall, Canada

The rear 18-inch turret of HMS Furious

22 November 2009

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Parker's Buildings

A streetcar built by United Streetcar

Tikal Temple I

21 November 2009

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Campus Saint-Cyr

Gulbarga Fort

Greg Kinnear

Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Church

20 November 2009

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The Youth's Companion Building

the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket

Band of kilted soldiers

St Bendt's Church, Ringsted (1170)

19 November 2009

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HMAS Australia (1911)

Pikachu Jumbo of All Nippon Airways

bluespotted ribbontail ray

18 November 2009

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HMS Glatton

Joe Cada

An airman aboard an aircraft carrier greases a part of a jet blast deflector.

17 November 2009

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Map of the tectonic plates near the Sunda megathrust

Indian Rhinoceros

Louis-Nicolas Robert

16 November 2009

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The Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 in East Berlin

Underground/subway train T1000 at Jernbanetorget station, Oslo

Portuguese dogfish

Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery

15 November 2009

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Day of the Dead commemorations at San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico City

North bridges, Halifax

Myojakdo-Painting of Cats and Sparrows

Escape route of Große

14 November 2009

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Holyrood Church, Southampton

Michael Jackson in 1988

Walden United Methodist Church

13 November 2009

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Rembrandt as seen by MESSENGER

1972 Advertisement for Jumbo Jet roller coaster

Margaret Nicholson's assault of George III

12 November 2009

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Lewes Borough Bonfire Society

Rowhouses at 157 East 78th in Manhattan's Upper East Side


11 November 2009

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Talavery pottery of Puebla, Mexico

John D. Paris

Ferdinand von Schill

Macleay's Swallowtail

10 November 2009

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TiME lander (artist's rendering)

The Young Pretender

A World War I fighter aircraft shows its factory-applied lozenge camouflage alternating with bright pink sections.

Butterworth Building

9 November 2009

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Siege of Algiers 1541

Devastation of Godesburg

8 November 2009

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El Aguas Vivas

Sandcastle worm in laboratory

7 November 2009

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Madrepora oculata coral in habitat

A magnet levitating over a high-Tc superconductor

Interior courtyard of al-Azhar Mosque

6 November 2009

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The Chrobry II Battalion

5 November 2009

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El Infiernito

Henry Petre in 1914

Guildford Treadwheel crane

A military jet painted in two-color desert camouflage

4 November 2009

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Jefferson's polygraph

TS Leda

Specimens of carrot-foot Amanita

3 November 2009

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The Brazilian battleship Aquidabã

Tabitha Brown

BSA C11 (250 cc)

2 November 2009

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The Great Pit, the result of a 1687 cave-in

Houses at 208-218 East 78th Street in Manhattan

Gwalior Fort

1 November 2009

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USAT McClellan

Juan Perón

Saint Death representation