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31 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Millennium Stadium


  • 13:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Margarethe Siems as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, 1911


  • 07:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick, West Sussex


  • 01:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The Pennsylvania State Capitol, West side

30 July 2009[edit]

  • 19:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Lipman Postal Card, invented by John P. Charlton


  • 13:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Sir Edward Buller, 1st Baronet


  • 07:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Animation of the creation of molded part with an undercut


  • 01:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Applegate Lake Oregon

29 July 2009[edit]

  • 18:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Australian musician Monique Brumby in 2005


  • 12:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

The Windmills of Kinderdijk


  • 06:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Mandelbrot set


  • 00:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

1550-1069 BC copy of the scripture written in hieratic script

28 July 2009[edit]

  • 18:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

The Falcon


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  • 06:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Woman wearing a fringed Chilkat blanket, a hamatsa neckring and mask representing deceased relative who had been a shaman.


  • 00:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Guy Bluford

27 July 2009[edit]

  • 18:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

A white Scottish Fold


  • 12:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel, Washington, D.C.


  • 06:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Nursehound, Scyliorhinus stellaris


  • 00:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

The hagioscope (window) of the anchorite's cell at St Julian's Church

26 July 2009[edit]

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Map of Stellaland, from Scottish Geographical Magazine of 1885


  • 12:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Swaledale ewe in the Lake District


  • 06:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

SS Archimedes


  • 00:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

head of a Marco Polo sheep

25 July 2009[edit]

  • 18:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Fossilized leaves of Lonchopteris rugosa


  • 12:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Annette Nelson as 'The Mountain Sylph'


  • 06:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Guard tower at Banashankari temple


  • 00:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

A Leafy Sea Dragon (Phycodurus eques)

24 July 2009[edit]

  • 18:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Mars as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope


  • 12:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Lieutenant General Harold L. George, USAAF


  • 06:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Banaue Rice Terraces


  • 00:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

A fragment of Campo del Cielo meteorite

23 July 2009[edit]

  • 18:05, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Soviet stamp, commemorating the 30th anniversary of Problems of Peace and Socialism


  • 12:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Pantelegraph


  • 06:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Jamie M. Morin


  • 00:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

East face of Sabil Abu Nabbut

22 July 2009[edit]

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A whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium


  • 06:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America in the night of November 12, 1833


  • 00:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

USS Maryland

21 July 2009[edit]

  • 18:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Death of Ulrich von Jungingen


  • 12:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Marble putto on fire surround in Bankfield Museum


  • 08:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Chester Rows


  • 00:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

26 Brunswick Terrace, Hove, showing the cupola of the former Roof-top synagogue

20 July 2009[edit]

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The Gunpowder Plot


  • 11:59, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

A mass of ice calves and crashes into the sea


  • 05:56, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Jones House

19 July 2009[edit]

  • 23:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

The "Rhenish helm" spire of the Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting


  • 17:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

A large plane destroyed by the March 25, 1948 tornado


  • 11:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Moire


  • 05:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

George Lycurgus

18 July 2009[edit]

  • 23:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Northern sennet


  • 17:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Isabelia virginalis


  • 11:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Conrad Hubert


  • 05:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Portrait of ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre

17 July 2009[edit]

  • 23:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

K-Bob's Steakhouse sign


  • 17:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Squatina squatina, also known as Squatina angelus


  • 11:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Ina Coolbrith


  • 05:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera

16 July 2009[edit]

  • 23:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Victor M. Blanco Telescope


  • 16:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

William Henry Sheppard


  • 10:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)


  • 03:51, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

HAWAII Overprint Note

15 July 2009[edit]

  • 21:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Anteros by Alfred Gilbert, 1885; from the Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus


  • 15:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

1909 Victor flash lamp with 1903 View camera


  • 09:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Now regarded as beautiful, until the mid-1960s killer whales were widely believed to be savage and dangerous.


  • 03:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Edmund Burke

14 July 2009[edit]

  • 21:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

"The Storming of the Bastille", Visible in the center is the arrest of Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (1740-1789), Watercolor painting


  • 15:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Samuel Coleridge


  • 09:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre, c. 1790


  • 03:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Nd:YAG laser

13 July 2009[edit]

  • 21:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Polyozellus multiplex


  • 15:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Monochorionic monoamniotic twins


  • 09:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Old Man of Hoy


  • 03:36, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Map of Albany, New York, drawn by John Miller, in 1695

12 July 2009[edit]

  • 21:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Chief Justice Isaac Blackford


  • 15:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)


  • 09:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Shanhua Temple


  • 03:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Diorhabda carinata

11 July 2009[edit]

  • 21:35, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Raoiella indica


  • 15:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Frances Appleton Longfellow


  • 08:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Hubert Humphrey


  • 02:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Franklin Morse

10 July 2009[edit]

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Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe; two modern saints in the Herz Jesu church, Kassel


  • 08:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

3D representation of the Local Oxidation Nanolithography process. A voltage pulse applied between the AFM tip and the scanned surface yields to the formation of a liquid meniscus that confines a nanometric oxidation reaction.


  • 02:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Stephen Chow

9 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Cesare Orsenigo with Hitler and von Ribbentrop


  • 14:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Yaxchilan Lintel 24


  • 08:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Chittorgarh Fort


  • 02:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Digitalis

8 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Nancy Cartwright


  • 14:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Wrought iron bombard 1450 Langeais


  • 08:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

St Matthew's Church, Buckley


  • 02:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian

7 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Eyelash Cup


  • 14:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Craig Campbell


  • 08:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

First official airmail stamp issued by Poste italiane in May 1917


  • 02:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Nils Kjaer

6 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

The Hon-dō at Shin-Yakushi-ji


  • 14:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

McCann Rescue Chamber


  • 08:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Aerial view of the facility


  • 02:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Left ventricular hypertrophy, short axis view, by Patrick J. Lynch

5 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

The keep of Craigie Castle, near Riccarton, Scotland


  • 14:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Holmium oxide, left: natural light, right: fluorescent lamp light


  • 08:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) at Cleland wildlife park, South Australia


  • 02:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Edmund Burke

4 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Syng inkstand


  • 14:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Slava Zaitsev


  • 08:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Samanalawewa Dam

3 July 2009[edit]

  • 23:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery


  • 17:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Headroom framing


  • 11:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

St. Michael's Church


  • 05:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Velvet belly lantern shark

2 July 2009[edit]

  • 23:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Allen Steckle, 1899


  • 14:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Federico Romero circa 1917


  • 08:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Astraeus hygrometricus


  • 02:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Flag of Nunavut

1 July 2009[edit]

  • 20:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Markus Howell


  • 14:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Richie Hall


  • 08:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

A Papuan king parrot


  • 02:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

The chapel of Jesus College, Oxford