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31 May 2012

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Stańczyk (painting)


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Kutjevo manor, site of a wine cellar operating since 1232


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Canis Minor as depicted by Johannes Bode

30 May 2012

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Photograph of the Dog House Dunay-3 radar taken by a KH-7 spy satellite


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Hirola (Damaliscus hunteri) are often referred to as the "four-eyed antelope", due to their large preorbital glands.


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"The Mother of Sisera Looked out a Window" by Albert Joseph Moore

29 May 2012

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Kate Upton


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Eric Whitacre conducts, 2007

28 May 2012

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Răutu's official portrait


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Student pilot of No. 4 Service Flying Training School boarding his Avro Anson, March 1942


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The roundhead bushclover (Lespedeza capitata)

27 May 2012

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Replica of Dakota VT-CLA's tail


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Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain in Washington, DC


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Kenmore (Spotsylvania County, Virginia)

26 May 2012

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The sacrament house at St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir, Scotland

  • ... that the ruin of St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir, in northeastern Scotland has a highly decorated, stone sacrament house (pictured) set inside a former window?
  • ... that Uthayan is the only newspaper in Jaffna which did not cease publication during the Sri Lankan Civil War, amid numerous attacks and threats?
  • ... that Bruno Müller was implicated in Nazi atrocities against Polish academics, Ukrainian Jews, and prisoners in a slave labor camp, but died a free man?
  • ... that the a cappella group Straight No Chaser changed its name to Another Round?
  • ... that Mike Daniels, now a rookie for the Green Bay Packers, was first noticed by the American football team when they were scouting other Iowa linemen?
  • ... that there are two versions of Roy Lichtenstein's In the Car, one of which set the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein work?
  • ... that although the town of Saint Saëns provided 60,000 francs towards the construction of its own railway line, it was only enough to pay for the station?


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Kuriyama river, Kurimoto, Katori city, Japan


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The spiny scallop with its tentacles extended

25 May 2012

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Grande halle de la Villette, 2012


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Polenlager 10 in Siemianowice Śląskie


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The Great Wave off Kanagawa

24 May 2012

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Lord Mersey


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Underside of a Forbes sea star


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Hexagonal crystal of reddish-brown shigaite with pink rhodochrosite

23 May 2012

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Poster for the second exhibition at the Salon des Cent in April 1894 featuring Eugène Grasset's work


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I'll Have Another wins the 2012 Kentucky Derby.


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Example of sculpture

22 May 2012

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Ayu Utami in 2005


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Giulia Marletta


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Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński, before 1939

21 May 2012

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Pont Flavien


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Silver Star Cafe, Port Hedland


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A Lego tire on a red wheel

20 May 2012

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The young queen, the regent, group of chiefs and inhabitants of Rimatara, c. 1889


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Kalamalo (Eragrostis variabilis)


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Map of Monmouth by John Speed, 1610

19 May 2012

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Gate tower, Monnow Bridge


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A Rose turret on display at Royal Air Force Museum London


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Muhlenbergia capillaris

18 May 2012

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Gregory's tree, a large boab tree


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The Queen's South Africa Medal


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Ascension, church in Jelenia Góra

17 May 2012

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Looking west at the Civil War Unknowns Monument, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia


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Amado Boudou, vice president of Argentina


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Lauren Jackson

16 May 2012

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The central structure of N44


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Mrs. Boulanger (Marie Julienne Halligner) (1786–1850)


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Derek Jeter

15 May 2012

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Juvenile leaves of prickly ash


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Iridescent peacock tail feathers demonstrate structural coloration.


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Cy Young with the Boston Americans in 1902

14 May 2012

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Tristram's Jird, Meriones tristrami (Mammalia, Gerbillinae)


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The Orfordness Beacon today


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Mira Lesmana, 2007

13 May 2012

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A goat suckling a baby in Cuba, 1903


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Prambanan Temple Complex


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Two men shaking hands in front of flags

12 May 2012

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Paul Shuey pitching


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Rosa blanda


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Faillace's picture of General MacArthur and the Emperor at Allied GHQ in Tokyo. September 17, 1945.

11 May 2012

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The Andrew Freedman Home


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Women polishing and cleaning household silver; early 20th-century painting by Fritz Stotz


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Smallflower false foxglove

10 May 2012

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Polish soldiers 1588–1632


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Mont Aiguille and Grand Veymont from the south


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United States Navy Rear Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr. (1882–1942), photographed as a captain

9 May 2012

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Jadwiga Apostoł at Auschwitz, 1942


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San Lorenzo Monument 1


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Phyllotaxis spirals of Aloe polyphylla, a strong natural pattern

8 May 2012

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Lewis performing "Homeless" in concert


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Zig-zag wattle


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Dieter Thomas Heck

7 May 2012

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Bristol F.2b


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Nikolaus Simrock


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Wonderland Theatre at Canada's Wonderland is themed as a castle.

6 May 2012

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Pipa player, Yulin Cave 25


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Wiesbaden City Palace

5 May 2012

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Lady Gaga


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Mount Oxley


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Aimee Murch

4 May 2012

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H-13/FFH-13 during the winter


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Slender grouper (Anyperodon leucogrammicus)


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Gligor Sokolović while fighting for the Chetniks in Macedonia (between 1904 and 1908)

3 May 2012

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Saint George Palace, Rennes


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Hannah Kempfer (circa 1922)


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German Stationhouse in Nowy Targ, 1940

2 May 2012

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Fedor Kelling in 1895


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Audience waiting for the performance of Simon & Garfunkel


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Limaria fragilis

1 May 2012

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The Pearl and the Wave


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Bancroft fielding for the Giants


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The mosque viewed from northeast in a drawing of 1877, from A.G. Paspates' Byzantine topographical studies