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30 September 2010[edit]

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mountains and glaciers


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A pair of revolvers


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An oil painting of a middle-aged white woman with a soft expression on her face. She is dressed in a black red-stripped dress


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Photograph of a woman with short black hair, wearing a feather boa around her neck

29 September 2010[edit]

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James Bond Island


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Battlemented yellow building


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Water rushes over a concrete structure blocking a river.


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Navy officer in white uniform

28 September 2010[edit]

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Snow covered mountain in sunlight


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The Club, a brightly colored anti-theft device, installed on a car's steering wheel


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Two-story Georgian-style brick plantation house


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Artist's drawing of the ADEOS II satellite

27 September 2010[edit]

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Interior of the domed atrium at West Baden Springs Hotel


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Portrait of Reginald Pinney


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Bronze helmet with peak


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Pink flower

26 September 2010[edit]

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A white building with green shutters and pointed roof. At the front is a pointy tower with a round ball and weathervane on top.


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A stone church seen from the a slight angle at the southwest, with a tower and tall spire on the left and the body of the church extending to the right


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Orius insidiosus feeding on white fly nymphs


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B&w portrait photo of a middle-aged man with a white beard

25 September 2010[edit]

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A star-shaped mushroom with beige "arms" and a rounded purple spore sac on a piece of wood


  • 12:36, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

A corroded golden coloured helmet with a face shape to cover the wearer's face


  • 06:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

A black and white photo of cars in 1917 rounding Dead Man's Curve on either side of a hand-painted centerline


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A white lighthouse with a gallery, a lantern and an external stairway

24 September 2010[edit]

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A decorative bronze and glass brooch with a pin


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Laotian people around a festival tree with strings


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A big mushroom about three times as big as the hand that holds it, whitish with brownish spots or scales on the cap and stem


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The purple-black flowers of the Veratrum nigrum plant growing from a spike raceme or branch

23 September 2010[edit]

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A gray shark with a blunt snout and small black eyes


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A grassy dry moat separates a low wall on the left from the high walls of the fortress. Made of black stone with white mortar, some of the points of the wall have circular guard towers on them.


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A large amount of water rushes over a cliff


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View of Pevek, the northernmost city of Russia

22 September 2010[edit]

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Maxwell Woodhull House


  • 12:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

View through the curved arch structure of a steel bridge, with a mountain in the background


  • 06:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

A Georgian style church seen from the south with round-headed windows and a tower on the left surmounted by a spirelet


  • 00:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Stingray with a leopard-like pattern of dark rings

21 September 2010[edit]

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A brown white drawing with a series of buildings, a church bell tower in the middle and a bridge in the foreground


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Stone castle on a hill


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Black and blue bird


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Three-quarter view of a dark red building with steep grey roof, a symmetrical façade with two recessed and three projecting sections, and terracotta-dressed windows

20 September 2010[edit]

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A stone jail in the shape and color of a large block of limestone


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White Sea coast


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Hanaoka Seishū


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A large concrete structure damming a river with an adjacent building used for hydroelectric generation

19 September 2010[edit]

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Norcon pillbox


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A grey-brown fungus with a resemblance to a horse's hoof growing from the trunk of a tree


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A greenish stingray with a dark mask-like pattern around its eyes and a short tail ending in a caudal fin


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18 September 2010[edit]

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A large gray warship with three turrets and two funnels


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Jaime Cardinal Sin of the Philippines shown wearing a white cassock with a red belt and skullcap holding a microphone


  • 06:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

The front of 1520 Sedwick Avenue. A light brown apartment building is in the background with some trees in the foreground.


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A woodlouse in a desert

17 September 2010[edit]

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Illustration of a slipper lobster, seen from above


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Route of the first round-the-world nonstop flight by a jet airplane


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Iceberg in the Scoresby Sund


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Mountain valley with river, bridge, and village

16 September 2010[edit]

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Portrait of King Louis I of Hungary and Poland wearing the "Hungarian Crown"


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brightly coloured ceramic in the style of an elephant


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A red brick building with a clock tower


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A green cactus with several yellow flowers on a black background

15 September 2010[edit]

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A large, light gray warship bristling with guns sits just offshore; dense black smoke drifts from its three tall funnels.


  • 12:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Cigarette factory in Sumatra


  • 06:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

A stone drum on a stepped base below a tapering section, then a decorated box, then a cross. Around the drum are arched panels with carved writing. It stands in front of trees, some of whose branches partly obscure the decorated box. To the right is a gravestone.


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A blue 2006 Mini Cooper S Checkmate

14 September 2010[edit]

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A two-story gray wooden house with light green shutters seen in winter, with snow on the ground. A long wing with two brick chimneys projects towards the left from a higher rear section. At lower right is a black mailbox with "5Ave" on it next to a clear paved driveway.


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Feng Jia Wei and a friend at the Beijing Stars and Rain School


  • 06:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Torre Mayor in Mexico City


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Sailors taking a reading

13 September 2010[edit]

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A red-roofed yellow building in bright sunlight, built in German colonial style. Over the entrance is a red cross and the inscription "Elisabeth Haus"


  • 12:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

An older man is shown from the chest up, looking into the camera and smiling. He is wearing a gray suit, red patterned tie, and blue shirt. His hair is gray, and the background is a steely blue.


  • 06:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

A wasp tends treehoppers


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Ornate Gothic Revival house, heavily ornamented with gingerbreading

12 September 2010[edit]

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man in Rennaissance era suit with white hair


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Monitor Neosho in the battle on the Cumberland, below Nashville (1864)


  • 06:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

An egg-shaped mushroom with surface scales and forest as a backdrop


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African American man in full Air Force uniform

11 September 2010[edit]

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A brown, diamond-shaped ray with black spots and a whip-like tail, in shallow water next to a pier


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Kelli Scarr playing at Melkweg, 14 July 2009


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C.W. Eckersberg: Woman Standing in Front of a Mirror, 1841


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10 September 2010[edit]

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Photo of Rabbi David Einhorn


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Two stone temple platforms in a grassy area


  • 06:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Ernest Spybuck, Absentee Shawnee Artist. ca. 1910


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A stone church seen from a slight angle, with an embattled tower on the left, the nave in the centre, and the chancel on the right

9 September 2010[edit]

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Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom


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Sketch of woman with long hair and curls and light dress


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E332, ex Réseau Breton, now preserved on the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme

8 September 2010[edit]

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A brown rabbit in the grass


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Aerial view of an aircraft carrier with three small funnels, an island, and both of her aircraft elevators down


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Black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of a clean shaven man with dark hair in an early 20th century business suit


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Man and sharks

7 September 2010[edit]

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A small chapel-like church seen from the south, with a bellcote at the left, a door and a single window


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ScB17C0.25 crystal structure. Boron icosahedra form rings (left) centered by a "tube" (right)


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Green bubble algae


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Savanna grasslands of Maduru Oya National Park

6 September 2010[edit]

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A running rabbit


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bald man with dark suit


  • 06:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Engraving of a three-story structure with a stoop and a cupola


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White mushroom on a stick connected by slime to a finger

5 September 2010[edit]

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Side elevation of St. James Episcopal Church, showing red entrance doors dedicated to Lisette Denison Forth


  • 12:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

A yellow-capped mushroom with a bulbous stem growing in the ground


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Krka Bridge


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Bhutan monastery

4 September 2010[edit]

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"Miss Amelia Van Buren With Cat"


  • 12:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

A small, red, crab-like animal with three pairs of legs and one pair of enlarged claws


  • 06:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

A large white warship at anchor. It has three masts, with furled sails, and one funnel amidships.


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Ruined Roman aqueduct arches at Chaponost, France

3 September 2010[edit]

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Newfoundland two dollar coin


  • 12:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Mountain bike orienteer


  • 06:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

A painting of a battle at sea, several masted warships firing cannon at one another.


  • 00:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

A zoological drawing of a Benthoctopus levis, a reddish-brown coloured octopus.

2 September 2010[edit]

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A stone church in a graveyard seen from the southwest, with a prominent battlemented tower and the body of the church and porch stretching behind it


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Dora Ratjen in competition attire


  • 06:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Picture of the southern end of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge, with the port of Dubrovnik in the background


  • 00:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

A small gray animal with large, pink forefeet

1 September 2010[edit]

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Picture of the Maslenica Bridge, a steel deck arch bridge crossing a narrow inlet of the Adriatic Sea


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Ben Goldwasser of MGMT backstage with bandmate Andrew VanWyngarden in 2008


  • 06:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Israeli Air Force A-4 Skyhawk, a delta-winged single engined ground attack aircraft on display


  • 00:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Henriette d'Angeville, woman mountain climbing