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31 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Ninth century ivory plaque from Genoels-Elderen (present-day Belgium)

SMS Von der Tann

A vineyard in the California wine region of Anderson Valley

Henri Rougier and his Turcat-Méry car before the inaugural Monte Carlo Rally

30 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Jacob Svetoslav depicted on a coin

Rankoth Vehera

Restoration of Batropetes

Slava after her scuttling

29 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

William d'Ufford from a stained glass window in St Andrews church in Wimpole

Shiva as Sharabha

Howard A. Hanson Dam

Reconstructed wooden building at the Bedford Village Archeological Site, Pennsylvania

28 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Cincinnatus Leconte

Statue of Martín Alonso Pinzón in Palos de la Frontera, Spain

Alexander Pentland

Isaac M. Wise Temple

27 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Dunvegan Castle

Suvarnadurg Fort

Goldsmith Maid beating Judge Fullerton on July 16, 1874, in East Saginaw, Michigan, where she ran one mile in 2 minutes 16 seconds

Capture of Princesa, c. 1740 painting

26 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Example of Flemish mannerism in Poland

Vineyards in Barossa Valley

Rynda in Sydney in 1888

Stone tortoise at Thien Mu Pagoda, Vietnam

25 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

The Greyhound pub, Tinsley Green, West Sussex

Morya Gosavi

Quarter Pounder

Jensen FF

24 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

EkaterinaII

Henry Perrine Baldwin

Walnut Hills High School

Rochdale Town Hall, Rochdale, Greater Manchester

23 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Monument to the Pinzón Brothers in their native Palos de la Frontera, Spain

Marbled whipray

Williamson trade-off model

Ponds in the Upper Harz Water Regale near Buntenbock

22 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Inedible fungus Hydnellum peckii (bleeding tooth fungus)

Vishnu resting on serpent Shesha, Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh

Agaricus texensis

Marcus Cornish's life-size bronze sculpture of Paddington Bear that stands in Paddington Station in London

21 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Wharf of the Caravels

A replica of the Niña

Barnsley fern

Mazunte beach

20 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, about 1900

St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, People's Republic of China

Borodino class battlecruiser Izmail

19 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Dancing Ganesha

Morgaon Ganesha temple

Jordan Eberle

Channel from beach to lagoon at La Ventanilla

18 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Polonnaruwa Vatadage

Paduka footwear

PRR 4859

William Laud

17 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Vivary Park, Taunton, Somerset

General Aubert Dubayet with French officers being received by the Grand Vizier in 1796

St Andrew's Church, Worthing, West Sussex

16 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Observations by the corps at the Battle of Mainz

Spotted Quail-thrush

The Fontanilla

15 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Jallikattu

Harold E. Stassen.jpg

York Imperial apple

14 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Gee's Golden Langur

Conquest of Antioch

Orthalicus reses

The Hortus Palatinus gardens

13 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Lalitha Mahal

Arthur C. Clarke in 2005

The bitter oyster mushroom (Panellus stipticus)

12 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

The green and red Ampelmännchen, designed by Peglau

The Miami Orange Bowl stadium, in February 2006

Prince Árpád on the cyclorama "Arrival of the Hungarians"

11 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Mingun, Myanmar: The Mingun Bell

Union Geyser, Shoshone Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park

Frukosten hos Ledoyen

10 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Atlantic ghost crab beside its burrow

Rod Stewart in 1976

Andrew Cowper, c. 1917

The prototype Tracked Hovercraft, RTV 31, preserved at Railworld

9 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Map of the 1833 territorial division of Spain.

Donald Bradman

View of the memorial tower and the Cross of Sacrifice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

8 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Split Rock Lighthouse on a cliff above Lake Superior

Gniezno Doors

Detail of equestrian statue of General John F. Reynolds by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown

Washoe Lake in the foreground with a mountain in the background

7 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Karen O of Karen O and the Kids

Clement-Bayard Airship circa 1910

A hotel external wall displaying the name "Valley Ho" in stylized raised letters

Paradox Valley

6 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Eyendorf windmill

Dal Lake

The P-51 restored by the Red Tail Project

Imperator Aleksandr II

5 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Supreme Court Building, Singapore

Emperor Augustus cameo; center of Cross of Lothair

Salvage of the Mary Rose in October 1982

4 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

The Galley Subtle as depicted in the Anthony Roll

Carved shankhas

Charles Eaton

I. M. Pei in 2006

3 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Main entrance of the castle

Pic du Midi de Bigorre observatory

Farnham Maxwell-Lyte

2 January 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

1895 player Forrest Hall

Argentine Corvette Uruguay

Sagittaria lancifolia

1896 Michigan football team

1 January 2010[edit]

  • 17:42, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

1899 coach Gustave Ferbert

Lyceum, Port Sunlight

New York City Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano