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28 February 2011[edit]

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A hermit crab carrying two large sea anemones on its shell.


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Portrait of the cellist with a moustache, looking to the left


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A cat-sized primate with a dark stripe down its back is held in a gloved hand against the chest.


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A tripartite Roman city gate with a minaret on its right side

27 February 2011[edit]

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Title page to the Second "Lamp" or Book of The Monument of Matrones


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The lower part of a brightly painted screen showing four figures


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A brick house with white ornate wooden trim seen from the front. Its roof has a small pointed section in the middle, and the front door is boarded over. There is snow on the ground in front and the steps.

26 February 2011[edit]

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Tamil Nadu Forest Department, established in 1856 by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn


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a large concrete dam holds back a lake, with green hills in the background


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A one-story yellow wooden building with a pointed roof held up by columns at the front and a small addition on the left in a cemetery. In the front is a wooden door with "1823" on it. It is autumn, and the ground and roof are covered with yellow fallen leaves. A tree with yellow leaves and an American flag are visible in the background.


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A man in cavalier costume on horseback

25 February 2011[edit]

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A dark-skinned man wearing a light-colored suit and tie and holding two maracas is seen from below at an angle.


  • 12:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

The long furcae of this larva's tail suggested the genus name "Bucephalus" meaning "ox head". Etching by Ernst Haeckel (1904).


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A white-painted warship with two masts and two funnels. H59 is painted on the side of her hull.


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A seated, grey-haired man in desert camouflage uniform

24 February 2011[edit]

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Photo of downtown Rosendale Village in upstate New York


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Portrait of Rayko Daskalov


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Paul Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching, depicting a nude Tahitian girl lying on her stomach


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The mushroom Cortinarius vanduzerensis

23 February 2011[edit]

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Monochrome engraving of a carved bust of the earl


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Albert Clément driving a 1906 Clément-Bayard racing car


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A black and white photograph of a propeller-driven passenger airplane skimming over a highway at a sod airport


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A old stone church without a roof

22 February 2011[edit]

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Thomas Jepson Gascoyne, in a publicity pose used for his 1901 racing activities in the US


  • 12:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

A photograph of Enchophora sanguinea from the side


  • 06:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

A white conical lighthouse with a lantern, double gallery, and red dome


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Large brown-black beetle with long antennae and developed claws

21 February 2011[edit]

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An illustration of a two-funneled warship at high speed


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A stone church seen from the northeast showing part of the chancel, the nave with clerestory, a north porch, and an embattled tower with a statue on the top of each corner


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Fer grapes, also known as Braucol


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The workers of the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard question their wages.

20 February 2011[edit]

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Bottom-dwelling sea creature consisting of a brown bowl-like vessel that holds many green tentacles with pink tips


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Alexei Kosygin in 1967 at the Glassboro Summit Conference


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A dwarf sits cross-legged on a plinth next to a women, with two children below.


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Engineers and technicians at the Marshall Space Flight Center placing a Saturn V ground test booster (S-IC-D) into the dynamic test stand

19 February 2011[edit]

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Basalt lion found in 1955


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The ruins of a church from the southeast showing from the left a battlemented tower, the gable end of the roofless south transept, and the roofed chancel


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Clematis morefieldii


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The Balancing Rocks on Bank Notes of Zimbabwe

18 February 2011[edit]

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A collection of green-yellow glass jars fluorescing under UV light


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A bright red missile with white-and-black-striped wings is mounted on an underwing pylon of a straight-winged aircraft, ready for flight testing.


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Black-and-white drawing of a bearded man in a library


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White conical lighthouse with red dome, a green roofed structure seen at the far background

17 February 2011[edit]

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Oswald Hall in 2009


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A drawing of an early steam velocipede and a man standing behind it


  • 06:00, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Portrait photo of a bearded man in his late 50s


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A stone church with red tiled roofs seen from the southeast, showing a battlemented tower, a nave with a clerestory, a south porch and a chancel

16 February 2011[edit]

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A view of Chesme Church


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A 3D life restoration of Belemnotheutis


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A racing driver in a purple-and-white firesuit, black cap and dark glasses broods while waiting in the pits.


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A brown dog with white markings in its fur

15 February 2011[edit]

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Four view drawing of the Daimler Reitwagen motorcycle


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A brindle brown dog stands pointing left with its head facing the camera.


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A three-story building with an ornate brick front


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Illustration of a scaly animal with a robust head, heavy body, and thick limbs

14 February 2011[edit]

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Half-male, half-female torso sculpture


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Restored sugar windmill at Betty’s Hope


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A missile with jet engine atop sits in a workshop.

13 February 2011[edit]

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Figure of roaring lion


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A church in Vetka


  • 06:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Stone monkeys playing billiards in the Kildare Street club house, Dublin, of 1860


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A stone church tower with a level top, gently arched pointed windows and a small wooden door in the base. In front of it are telephone lines and a set of steps.

12 February 2011[edit]

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Digitized version of a 15th century tempera on canvas painting of the Roman goddess Venus


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Composer sitting at a table, looking up from a sheet of music


  • 06:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

A river cuts through a forest that blankets the base of a mountain range, with a massive mountain range in the background.


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2nd century Roman mosaic with images of gladiators with spears and shields

11 February 2011[edit]

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While three men stand by watching, a fourth man hurries to collect a spare tyre and change it onto his open-topped car.


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Gastropod with wing-like parapodia and translucent shell


  • 06:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Head and shoulders of a 50-year-old European man in Burmese monk's robes


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Black and white photograph of a man wearing military uniform sitting down. He is holding several bank notes and is surrounded by military equipment including a helmet, a rifle, several types of ammunition and soldiers' personal equipment.

10 February 2011[edit]

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A man in Generalissmo-appearing garments looks at the camera, plumed hat by his side.


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Spring-loving centaury (Centaurium namophilum), a rare plant endemic to Ash Meadows


  • 06:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Hubble Space Telescope image of Type Ia Supernova 1994D (SN1994D) in Galaxy NGC 4526


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Sumatran Rhinoceros in the Way Kambas Sanctuary

9 February 2011[edit]

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Black-and-white photo of a man with dark hair and dark eyebrows, wearing a dark blazer and a necktie and lighter-colored trousers, sitting in a chair and holding a cigarette in his left hand


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New Ulm Oil Company Service Station


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Scolex of the rodent tapeworm, Hymenolepis microstoma


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A small stone church

8 February 2011[edit]

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A small grey black and brown bird with a red bill


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Chautla's "English Castle"


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R&G Corset ad from the rear cover of the October 1898 issue of Ladies' Home Journal

7 February 2011[edit]

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A high-wing aircraft without any engines, dark on top and white underneath, with tricycle gear and late-WW2 American markings, sits inside its hangar with equipment behind.


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A light brown sandstone lighthouse with two red horizontal bands and red cupola


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A discus weather buoy


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6 February 2011[edit]

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Musiktheater im Revier, the rectangular structure of the theater at night from the street


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A man in a suit and tie with mustache and beard


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Green lacewing larva


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Two flatworms stood up on their tails facing each other, about to penis fence

5 February 2011[edit]

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A large warship bristling with guns plows through the water at high speed; thick black smoke pours out of its three tall funnels.


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A line drawing of a spoked wheel velocipede with a steam engine


  • 06:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Fragrant prickly apple (Harrisia fragrans), a rare species of cactus endemic to Florida


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A BLT sandwich on toasted bread

4 February 2011[edit]

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A detailed floor mosaic


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A sixty-year-old man in uniform, with a moustache, in profile facing left


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Grosses Universal-Lexicon


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The bell tower at Mission Hill Winery

3 February 2011[edit]

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Clouds against a blue sky with a multicolored rainbow-like shine


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Tazua Falls on Cuango River in Angola


  • 06:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Basaltic formations in the form of Organ Pipes


  • 00:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Herne Bay College, formerly Eddington College

2 February 2011[edit]

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B&w portrait photo of a woman aged 60


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A black beetle with orange spots on its abdomen


  • 06:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

A vividly coloured rectangular painting with a golden border


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A glowing blue circular plasma

1 February 2011[edit]

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San Juan Bautista monastery church


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The ROKS Choi Young at sea.


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Beyonce Knowles in silver sequined dress with hair flying in the air