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30 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:15, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Carlos Ruiz

  • 03:40, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Rainer with a specimen of cervical vertebrae

29 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Denmark Street at its junction with Charing Cross Road, looking at Chris Bryant's Musical Instruments

  • 08:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

A prawn cocktail

  • 00:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

A bright marquee is reflected over a wet, dark street; the name Riverview is visible above.

28 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Charles Loraine Smith on a horse

  • 08:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Dracaena kaweesakii

  • 00:30, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Pi-Chacán‎ sculpture, Tübingen

27 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Frankish Tower

  • 08:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Edmondston-Alston House

  • 00:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Mahaganapati

  • ... that Mahaganapati (pictured) is a depiction of the Supreme Being?
  • ... that the Huysman Gallery of Los Angeles closed after less than a year due to a controversial poster for its War Babies exhibition?
  • ... that the French missionary and explorer Prosper Philippe Augouard was dubbed "Cannibal Bishop"?
  • ... that the Soviet Armenian newspaper Kommunist became the opposition newspaper Golos Armenii in the 1990s?
  • ... that Thakur Ganpat Singh was re-elected to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly with an increased margin, after his election had been declared void in 1953?
  • ... that the 1967 song "Days of Pearly Spencer" features a "strange 'phoned-in' chorus"?
  • ... that at the time, King William IV's public mourning of his son-in-law, the husband of his illegitimate daughter Lady Augusta FitzClarence, was considered scandalous?

26 June 2014[edit]

  • 08:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Flag of Sierra Leone

  • 00:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Elephants at a waterhole in Tsavo East National Park in Kenya

25 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Jake Gyllenhaal

  • 08:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

St. Joseph's Church in Semarang

  • 00:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Boletus appendiculatus, Eggingen, Germany

24 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:14, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Arch-braced hammerbeam roof in Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland

  • 08:30, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Hideki Tōjō

  • 00:45, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Heather Willauer holding samples of synthetic fuel

23 June 2014[edit]

  • 13:50, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Modi sworn in as the Prime Minister

  • 05:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Bernward Column in Hildesheim Cathedral, 2005

22 June 2014[edit]

  • 21:20, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Katy Perry at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball 2012 in New York City

  • 07:25, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

U.S. Airmail (Graf Zeppelin) stamp of 1930

21 June 2014[edit]

  • 23:10, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Landing on Stac Lee (from St Kilda)

  • 08:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

The Ram's Head and the Stork, features of Treak Cliff Cavern

  • 01:10, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Audie L. Murphy

20 June 2014[edit]

  • 13:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe

  • 05:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Schloss Weimar, view from the south

19 June 2014[edit]

  • 21:05, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Kakan Hermansson

  • 12:50, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Synanthedon myopaeformis

  • 04:35, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

An aerial view of NOAAS Pisces (R 226)

18 June 2014[edit]

  • 20:35, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Male Wakatobi flowerpecker

  • 05:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Papercut self-portrait

17 June 2014[edit]

  • 21:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

South and east elevations, 2013

  • 13:50, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

A mare and foal of the Exmoor breed

Sílvia Pérez Cruz in 2008

16 June 2014[edit]

  • 21:48, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Southern black flycatcher

  • 10:00, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

National emblem of Oman

  • 01:27, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Budd SPV-2000

15 June 2014[edit]

  • 09:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Baggböle manor

  • 01:20, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Felton Hervey in a group

14 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

A sciapod from Pliny's Natural History

  • 08:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

WonderSwan

  • 00:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Man in the mud

13 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Typhoon Pat on August 30, 1985

  • 08:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Haplochromis vonlinnei

  • 00:00, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Underground lake

12 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Justina Ford

  • 08:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Chippenham Lodge with significant damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake

  • 00:00, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Meditation, by Lang Jingshan

11 June 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Drawing of the blue nuthatch (subspecies Sitta azurea nigriventer) by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, from George Robert Gray's Genera of Birds (c. 1844-49).

  • 08:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Jessie Traill in 1936

  • 00:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury, 1906

10 June 2014[edit]

  • 12:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Parade in 2006

  • 00:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

President Barack Obama greets Jack Hoffman in the Oval Office, April 29 2013

9 June 2014[edit]

  • 12:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Cymbiola nobilis

  • 00:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Cumberland Island horses on the beach

8 June 2014[edit]

  • 12:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Soraya Post

  • 00:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

June 4 Memorial Museum

7 June 2014[edit]

  • 12:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Close-up of 'Meiclusif', a rose by Meilland

  • 00:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Approaching Omaha

6 June 2014[edit]

  • 11:48, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Venus de Quinipily

5 June 2014[edit]

  • 23:33, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Most of the buildings in the district

  • 11:18, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Bill Gates in 2013

4 June 2014[edit]

  • 23:03, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Hezilo chandelier

  • 10:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Postcard of a Sun Lounge interior

3 June 2014[edit]

  • 22:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Race horse wearing a nasal strip

  • 10:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Xu Lai

2 June 2014[edit]

  • 22:03, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

The Speyer wine bottle

  • 09:48, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Clal Center, Jerusalem, Israel

1 June 2014[edit]

  • 21:33, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Princess Marie of Baden, c. 1842

  • 09:18, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Flag of the Gambia