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30 September 2013[edit]

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Water catchments on the East Side of Gibraltar in 1992


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European ground squirrel


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Image of Bhavatarini at the Dakshinshwar Kali Temple, West Bengal, India

29 September 2013[edit]

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Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.


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Self-portrait by Maximilien Luce, c. 1925–1930


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Fossil Rhus malloryi

28 September 2013[edit]

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German soldiers parading in Brussels


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grasshopper nematode (Mermis nigrescens)


  • 00:00, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Death's Door, illustration by William Blake

27 September 2013[edit]

  • 15:55, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Swami Vivekananda


  • 07:40, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

A male Albanian water frog sitting on a wet leaf.

26 September 2013[edit]

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The Jellico U.S. Post Office and Mine Rescue Station in 1916


  • 14:00, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Punchbowl depicting Indigenous Australians


  • 05:45, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

An American wandering spider (Cupiennius salei)

25 September 2013[edit]

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John Plagis circa 1942


  • 13:15, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Shanghai Museum


  • 05:00, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Red-browed Amazon

  • ... that one of the reasons that the Red-browed Amazon (pictured) is "Endangered" is that it is collected for the pet trade?
  • ... that Sir Adrian Poyning's orders for the English forces at Newhaven included the stricture that "Any English who shall fight without the town shall lose his right hand"?
  • ... that Orda Cave underneath the Ural Mountains in Russia is the largest underwater gypsum cave in the world?
  • ... that Kim Am, an 8th-century Korean scholar, shaman and "master of yin-yang", was the only person to hold the title of the "Great Professor of Astronomy" in Korean history?
  • ... that an Arizona schoolteacher was fired in 1971 on allegations she claimed to be a witch and taught witchcraft to her students?

24 September 2013[edit]

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The Librarian


  • 12:30, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Nina Davuluri


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Udny Castle

23 September 2013[edit]

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Mycena purpureofusca


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The HMCS Dundas


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photo

22 September 2013[edit]

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The Church Covered by Sand is named after Saint Lawrence, in Danish Sct. Laurentii Kirke


  • 08:00, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, an 1882 painting by Édouard Manet


  • 00:00, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Almagro-Corral-de-Comedias

21 September 2013[edit]

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Wales in 1916


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Evania appendigaster


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Jens Bang's House

20 September 2013[edit]

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European flounder


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Pod parachute fungus


  • 00:00, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Wim T. Schippers, 1999

19 September 2013[edit]

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Joseph Favre


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Settsu at anchor on 7 April 1940


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Senator John Sherman (1823-1900)

18 September 2013[edit]

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Commodus in the guise of Hercules


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Profile view of a Tauidris tatusia worker


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Moai Statues at Ahu Akivi on Easter Island

17 September 2013[edit]

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Healy Hall, containing the Kennedy Institute of Ethics


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Shangguan Yunzhu in the early 1940s


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Algol A and B form an eclipsing binary

16 September 2013[edit]

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Torentje van Drienerlo, a 1979 artwork by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, on the University of Twente campus in Enschede


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Wall sculpture on the Norfolk Hotel


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Buurtpoes Bledder

15 September 2013[edit]

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Main entrance to Kirkpatrick Chapel


  • 08:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Sister Christine


  • 00:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Heat Treatment Workshop at Darnall Works

14 September 2013[edit]

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Willenberg at Treblinka in August 2013


  • 08:00, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Photograph of Eitetsu Hayashi after a 2001 concert in Tokyo


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Connie Hill

13 September 2013[edit]

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Savi's Warbler


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female southern tree funnel-web, venom dripping from fangs


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De Bange 155 mm cannon

12 September 2013[edit]

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View of the central part of Lille Vildmose


  • 08:00, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Civil War CDV of Gordon at the Baton Rouge Union camp during his medical examination, 1863


  • 00:00, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Meral Tasbas

11 September 2013[edit]

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Mithun Chakraborty


  • 08:00, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Abbotsford Bridge from the riverbank on the Victorian side


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The HMCS Port Arthur during her commissioning on May 26, 1942

10 September 2013[edit]

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Blake's sketch of his vision of Owen Glendower


  • 08:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Tubaria punicea


  • 00:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Aphid giving birth

9 September 2013[edit]

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Margaret as a newlywed


  • 08:00, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Hypselosaurus egg


  • 00:00, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Kevin Pillar

8 September 2013[edit]

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Roslags-Bro Church


  • 08:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Ed, Edd n Eddy creator Danny Antonucci


  • 00:00, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

HMS Defence at anchor

7 September 2013[edit]

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Kumarakottam Temple towers


  • 08:00, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Founders Tower


  • 00:00, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Rose Lambert

6 September 2013[edit]

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Corral de comedias de Almagro on the Plaza Mayor


  • 08:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Wing Commander Frank Headlam, c. 1941–43


  • 00:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

5 September 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Common Grasshopper Warbler singing


  • 08:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Posthumous, 14th century Yuan Dynasty portrait of Genghis Khan


  • 00:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Groomes from 1947 Indiana University yearbook

4 September 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

The Idolmaster arcade game cabinet


  • 08:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Morchella rufobrunnea


  • 00:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

  • ... that the Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (pictured) often uses a piece of snakeskin in the lining of its nest?
  • ... that Cleveland Hall was the base for anarchists and international revolutionaries in London?
  • ... that Monte Westmore's workload as makeup supervisor on Gone with the Wind was blamed for his death by heart attack?
  • ... that a pet feed, which is now manufactured in several countries, originated from a recipe devised and cooked by a French vet in his garage?
  • ... that Derrick Green, rated the No. 1 running back in the college football recruiting Class of 2013, has been described as follows: "Look at him from the back and the side, he's a huge human being"?
  • ... that the only copy of the book La Promenade du sceptique by Denis Diderot was confiscated by police on two occasions?

3 September 2013[edit]

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Mary I of England touching her subject


  • 08:00, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Black wildebeest


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Double lock on the Givors canal at Tartaras

2 September 2013[edit]

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Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana


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HMS Unicorn at anchor in a Japanese port, 1951


  • 00:00, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Hemaris thysbe

1 September 2013[edit]

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Page of the Bible


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Schule at the 1904 Summer Olympics


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Portrait by Maria Verelst