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31 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Vakwerkhuizen in Chester


  • 11:42, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Blue-winged Kookaburra


  • 03:42, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

The Steam Ship President, Lieut. Roberts R.N. Commander. The Largest in the World. Supposed to have struck an ICEBERG on her voyage from New York to Liverpool in March 1841 and sunk with all on board

30 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Mather Inn


  • 11:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

The Coboconk train station


  • 03:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Ganoga Falls in Ricketts Glen State Park

29 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Banksia verticillata at Mt Barker, WA, US


  • 11:42, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Oriental Theatre ceiling dome


  • 03:42, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Cookie in 2007

28 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Douro Valley, Portugal


  • 11:42, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Bulbine bulbosa


  • 03:42, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

27 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Drosera regia with prey


  • 11:42, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

SMS Scharnhorst


  • 03:42, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack

26 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Hemimysis anomala


  • 11:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Jag Mandir


  • 03:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

The Peace Candle

25 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

2008 Trafalgar Square Christmas tree


  • 11:42, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Nativity at Night, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, c. 1490


  • 03:42, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Davis in 1861

24 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

2006 Ndocciata in Agnone, Italy


  • 11:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Mike Godwin


  • 03:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Nancy Pelosi

23 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

David Pearson


  • 11:42, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Cryptothecia rubrocincta


  • 03:42, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

The "Warrior Bird" pigeon memorial at Beach House Park

22 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Miguelites


  • 11:42, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

The Vegreville egg


  • 03:42, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

The Romanov Tercentenary Egg

21 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Selling a Wife, painting by Rowlandson (1812)


  • 11:42, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Bunaken Island seen from Manado Tua island


  • 03:42, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Erling Folkvord

20 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Puputan


  • 11:42, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Satellite map showing the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain


  • 03:42, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

A 1930s-era biplane, marked with a Nazi swastika, resting on its floats on the water

19 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Miss World 2009 Kaiane Aldorino at her homecoming celebrations in Gibraltar, 17 December 2009


  • 11:42, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

City Palace, Udaipur


  • 03:42, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Mauna Kea silversword

18 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Artist's illustration of a gamma-ray burst


  • 11:42, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

President Obama speaking at Cairo University, June 4, 2009


  • 03:42, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama, USA

17 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Savannah Samson


  • 11:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Freshwater crab


  • 03:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Danube landscape near Regensburg c. 1528 by Albrecht Altdorfer – one of the earliest Western pure landscapes

16 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:42, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Portrait of Caroline von Wolzogen by Carl von Ambère


  • 11:42, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

One of the two world's largest silver pots at Palace Jaipul


  • 03:42, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Morse floating dry dock

15 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:35, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Junagarh Fort


  • 11:35, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Banksia petiolaris


  • 03:35, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

HMS New Zealand

14 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:35, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Hippalectryon


  • 11:35, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Thomas Baker c. 1917


  • 03:28, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

13 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:28, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

John Dillinger


  • 11:28, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Construction of a portion of the Federal Triangle complex in 1937


  • 03:28, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Oʻahu ʻAkepa

12 December 2009[edit]

  • 19:28, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Sanath Jayasuriya


  • 11:21, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Brown stingray


  • 03:14, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Hawa Mahal in Jaipur

11 December 2009[edit]

  • 18:49, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


  • 10:49, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

An Ossabaw Island Hog


  • 02:42, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

John N. Irwin

10 December 2009[edit]

  • 18:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


  • 10:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Marsh Rice Rat (Oryzomys palustris)


  • 02:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Red stingrays

9 December 2009[edit]

  • 18:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

An ESO image of Terzan 5


  • 12:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Parliament House, Singapore


  • 06:14, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ruins of the Smallpox Hospital


  • 00:14, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

File:Canfield Island and the West Branch Susquehanna River

8 December 2009[edit]

  • 18:14, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Bouncing bomb


  • 12:14, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Siege of Breda, 1624


  • 06:21, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

The west side of the Cutts-Madison House at 721 Madison Place NW, Washington, D.C., United States


  • 00:07, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Sharington, drawn by Hans Holbein the Younger

7 December 2009[edit]

  • 18:07, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Yacata pyramid in Tzintzuntzan


  • 12:19, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

The Shakyamuni Buddha statue of Shey Monastery


  • 06:07, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

View of Laerdalsoren, on the Sognefjord, 1901


  • 00:00, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Thomas B Walker

6 December 2009[edit]

  • 18:00, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Rommelspargel poles placed during WWII


  • 12:00, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Surya icon


  • 05:56, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Mexican silver jar with bird handle

5 December 2009[edit]

  • 23:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Opium poppy seed pod


  • 17:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Western facade


  • 10:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

1885 portrait of Cleveland Rockwell


  • 04:26, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

4 December 2009[edit]

  • 22:08, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted, Denmark


  • 16:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


  • 10:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Old Dutch Church, Kingston, New York


  • 02:48, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

3 December 2009[edit]

  • 20:40, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Blaschka models of jellyfish


  • 11:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Shanti Stupa


  • 05:28, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

The front of the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in 2009

2 December 2009[edit]

  • 23:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Hispaniola Solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus)


  • 17:39, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


  • 11:00, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Beryl Riley riding a buckjumper at the Sydney Show, 1944


  • 03:46, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Front view of the Precious Blood Church in Los Angeles

1 December 2009[edit]

  • 21:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Photograph of Vichaichan a.k.a. Prince George Washington

Olsztyn castle

Precuneus

St. Nicolas clock