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31 December 2010[edit]

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1934 Peace dollar


  • 14:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Byzantine silk with quadriga (four-horse chariot)


  • 08:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Interior of a Victorian art workshop


  • 02:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

A lake

30 December 2010[edit]

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Exterior view of Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Richmond, VA


  • 14:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Supermoto motorcycles transition from dirt obstacles to paved track.


  • 08:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Crocodilian skull behind glass


  • 02:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick

29 December 2010[edit]

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A large building with a square tower at one end


  • 14:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Pub sign showing a man with a patch on his left eye, a parrot on his right shoulder, and the words "Jamaica Inn"


  • 08:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

A short, square tower, with gravestones near its base


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28 December 2010[edit]

  • 20:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

A shark's head, with jaws open displaying teeth


  • 14:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Coma Pedrosa


  • 08:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

President Obama signs law into effect, on December 17, 2010, as members of Congress and others look on.


  • 02:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Doris Roberts in 2010

27 December 2010[edit]

  • 20:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Alto Vista Chapel


  • 12:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Lake Engolasters


  • 06:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Woodrush deployed in northern water


  • 00:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

A church interior with an intricate red mural above an arch, consisting of Christ in Majesty, various angels, saints and other figures

26 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

A shiny faceted brilliant diamond


  • 12:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Anykščiai Church


  • 06:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

A mainly stone church with a round tower on the left, to the right is a nave with a porch, and a chancel at a lower level


  • 00:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

An engraving of the US flag and the word Christmas

25 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

James Van Inwagen cropped from University of Michigan football team portrait of 1889


  • 12:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Gelobet seystu Jhesu Christ in Walter's Geystliche gesangk Buchleyn


  • 06:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

A 16th century music book


  • 00:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Hardback book with a red cover, the title "Christmas Carols, New and Old" and an image of the Virgin Mary and Jesus

24 December 2010[edit]

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The gargoyle of Spinola at Magdalene College, Cambridge


  • 12:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Man in military uniform with peaked cap seated at a desk beside a box marked "RAAF Ballot Box"


  • 06:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

The Legend, libretto cover


  • 00:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

A mosque

23 December 2010[edit]

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A single female of Zaprionus indianus sporting the characteristic white striping for the genus


  • 12:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

A group of whitish mushrooms with flat caps and thin stems


  • 06:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Satyavati


  • 00:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

A two-story gray stone building on a raised basement with entry steps leading to the front door and a wooden cupola rising from the center of the roof photographed on a cloudy day with autumn leaves on a surrounding tree and the ground in front.

22 December 2010[edit]

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Stereoscopic map of Sotra Facula


  • 12:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)


  • 06:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Cuernavaca Cathedral


  • 00:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Spragg Bag air test

21 December 2010[edit]

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An engraving of a train-like vehicle that has a large treadmill and four horses attached


  • 12:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Portrait of John Vigor Brown, 1910


  • 06:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Glacier Blanc, a large glacier


  • 00:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Painting of Madonna and Child by Giotto di Bondone

20 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Photo of a young Lenin with moustache and short beard


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A concrete square tower supporting a semicircular structure resembling an airport control tower


  • 06:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Electron scan micrography of Aceria anthocoptes

19 December 2010[edit]

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Soviet memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten made of Harz granite


  • 12:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)


  • 06:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Photograph of John Bloomingston cropped from a University of Michigan football team portrait


  • 00:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

A light brown stone building with a pointed roof, green shutters and white columns on the front. In front of it are a sidewalk, a blue marker with gold writing, and a portion of street. Black letters above the front columns read "Holland Land Office Museum", which is also on a banner across the front.

18 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

A monochrome engraved head-and-shoulders portrait of Hyder Ali. He is wearing a large bejeweled turban, and is cleanshaven except for a long bushy moustache.


  • 12:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Wasp with black and yellow-orange stripes and long ovipositor


  • 06:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Informal portrait of grinning mustachioed man in wide-brimmed hat and military uniform


  • 00:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Walter D. Graham photograph from 1904 University of Michigan football team portrait

17 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

An old black and white photo of a stately country house


  • 12:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

An abbey on a hilltop


  • 06:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Harry Yount


  • 00:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

A postcard with a blocky skyscraper

16 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Cropped photograph of Philadelphia Athletics slugger Socks Seybold, c. 1902


  • 12:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

A black and yellow bee perched on a green leaf


  • 06:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

A photograph of the gills and stem of yellow mushrooms


  • 00:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

A smiling young man

15 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

A closed, flaming iron stove setup up on a rail track


  • 12:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

A white lighthouse with a short stairway, a light gallery and lantern and a red dome, showing against blue cloudy sky, with a tree and the left and some vegetation below


  • 06:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Ole Carlson House c.1900


  • 00:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

A large warship steaming in choppy water; black smoke drifts up from the ship's two tall funnels

14 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Informal portrait of grinning man in peaked cap and military uniform leaning against an aircraft fuselage


  • 12:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Boesch, Hummel, and Maltzahn Block


  • 06:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

A green reptile with a short, wide head and an open mouth


  • 00:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

A large, dull red railcar on four sets of wheels sits on a short section of track

13 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Winecoff Hotel


  • 12:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)


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Photograph of a South African Railways Class 15F steam locomotive


  • 00:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

A yellow building with a tower rising from the center, topped by a conical red roof

12 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Description of the image


  • 12:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Perry Nelson House


  • 06:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

A cobalt blue building which houses the Frida Kahlo Museum


  • 00:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Green Parrot sitting on branch

11 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

A large round-roofed building running the width of the image behind a city street and trees. At the right are two conical towers and an entrance pavilion.


  • 12:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


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An early helicopter with side-by-side rotors, bubble cockpit and American World War II-era insignia


  • 00:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

10 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

West side of the Red Basilica


  • 12:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Coffee plantation in India


  • 06:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Woodwrae Stone, rear view


  • 00:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

A chunk of silvery metal with fibrous structure

9 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

A white submarine is attached to a pole and ready to be dropped into the ocean.


  • 12:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

A sari-clad, crowned woman holding two children and standing on a cat


  • 06:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Salvation Army Headquarters


  • 00:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

A white stuccoed building with three-storey towers flanking a central recessed entrance bay with "HIPPODROME" on a panel beneath a parapet. A low glazed roof spans the façade.

8 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

A still life of flowers in a vase including striped tulips


  • 12:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Tiny (1 mm) Wolffia arrhiza plants on a person's fingers


  • 06:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

A gridiron football player wearing a green jersey with his helmet tipped back on his head

7 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

A small ceramic statue of a human


  • 12:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Motorway moise barrier completely enveloping a section of the motorway


  • 06:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Photothèque museum in Luxembourg City


  • 00:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

The Sandolo, which lacks the Gondola's high prow

6 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Lise Meitner


  • 12:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
A stone church seen from the south, with a central tower in front of which is a two-storey gabled porch. To the left is a short nave, and to the right an apsidal chancel.


  • 06:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

A bright red, high-wing, clear-nosed, pusher-engined aircraft, with yellow registration C-IXII on the tail, sits nose-high in a grassy field with a Piper Cub behind it.


  • 00:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Fragments of a written page

5 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Photograph of Thomas H. McNeil, Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias


  • 12:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Sarah Palin


  • 06:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Booby Island Light (c. 1957)


  • 00:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Aiguille Dibona mountain

4 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Olivia Shakespear


  • 12:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Yanar Dag – Flaming Hillside, Azerbaijan


  • 06:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Photograph of William Wilson Talcott taken from the 1901 University of Michigan yearbook


  • 00:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Black-painted twin-engined high-wing military aircraft in flight

3 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

A head and shoulders photograph of an American-Japanese man


  • 12:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Blue kitchen


  • 06:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

A very large high-winged glider on a concrete ramp, marked with United States Air Force insignia

2 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

bright yellow flower spikes


  • 12:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

portrait photo of an older man with a long beard


  • 06:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

A streetscape of Madison Avenue and Madison Square Park showing the 48-story building of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower and the 1906 building of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church to its left


  • 00:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

A dog pants, sitting atop a pile of rubble

1 December 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

A three-dimensional rendition of a bathymetric map of Patton Seamount


  • 12:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Mott as an Egyptian military officer, a middle-aged man with a full beard wearing an elaborate uniform with a fez


  • 06:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

The 1906 building of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church


  • 00:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Painting of the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena