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31 January 2006

  • 22:34, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Column of Phocas


  • 11:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Cortile del Belvedere

  • ...that in the Vatican's Cortile del Belvedere Bramante created the first monumental formal garden design of the Renaissance?
  • ...that
    Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
    , named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?
  • ...that
    Tamerlane
    ?
  • ...that the rise of
    Old Price Riots, which lasted for more than two months in 1809
    ?


  • 05:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

30 January 2006

  • 21:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

A 1930 Alexander Eaglerock Model A-14


  • 12:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Alexander Buturlin

29 January 2006

  • 22:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

27 January 2006

  • 09:20, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Bateleur

26 January 2006

  • 22:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

25 January 2006

  • 23:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 11:34, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • ...that the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi was the most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Saint Petersburg?
  • ...that the
    lethargic
    when not working, but extremely agile and convincing when it feels that its family is threatened?
  • ...that the
    ninth century
    ?
  • ...that, according to tradition, the twisting
    Constantine
    ?

24 January 2006

  • 23:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Nepenthes rajah

  • ...that Nepenthes rajah, the most famous of all pitcher plants, produces traps up to 40 cm in height and has been known to catch prey as large as rats, frogs and lizards?
  • ...that the
    Stalin
    gave official permission to start its manufacture?
  • ...that benshi were the people who narrated Japanese silent films until the 1930's?
  • ...that the fourteen nations designated
    anti-tank
    rounds?


  • 15:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Andrey Matveyev


  • 00:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

23 January 2006

  • 09:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
  • ...that there were only 3 steel dams built in the United States, although at one time steel dams were thought to offer many competitive advantages over other types of dam?
  • ...that the
    WWII
    ?
  • ...that the German films based on the works of
    Edgar Wallace are generally considered a distinct subgenre of crime film
    ?
  • ...that
    talkie
    ?

22 January 2006

  • 22:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

20 January 2006

  • 17:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 10:49, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 04:07, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

19 January 2006

  • 19:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 11:24, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

18 January 2006

  • 22:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Dupuy de Lôme

  • ...that
    ironclad warship, and the first large airship
    in history?
  • ...that in Baroque Rome, when the Austrian-born artist-designer Johann Paul Schor was not collaborating with Bernini, he might be called on to design sculptural architecture to be executed in sugar at a banquet?
  • ...that the
    Jinricksha Station is Singapore's last reminder of the once ubiquitous rickshaw, which was phased out after World War II
    ?
  • ...that a puddle was blamed for the death of a mediæval merchant who drowned while crossing it, believing it to be only shallow, when it was actually deep enough to engulf him and his horse?


  • 03:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Francis in his car

17 January 2006

  • 18:31, 17 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 06:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

16 January 2006

  • 21:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 12:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Anatoly Durov

15 January 2006

  • 22:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

13 January 2006

  • 18:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Roasting of Coffee


  • 09:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
  • ...that at Cirque d'hiver (the "Winter Circus") in Paris, the idea of stylish evening circus performances for fashionable audiences was invented by Louis Dejean?
  • ...that "
    burnt alive
    ?
  • ...that alligation is a practical method for solving arithmetic problems related to mixtures?

12 January 2006

  • 22:05, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Metropolitan Board of Works


  • 09:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Tegernsee Abbey


  • 00:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Marble Palace

11 January 2006

  • 11:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Plongeur submarine

10 January 2006

  • 22:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)



  • 08:03, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Khreschatyk

9 January 2006

  • 23:45, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Depiction of a hydra


  • 13:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Albert Einstein


  • 06:30, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

8 January 2006

  • 21:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Central Fire Station, Singapore

6 January 2006

  • 05:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

5 January 2006

  • 14:46, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 05:40, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Marian column in Rome

4 January 2006

  • 17:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 10:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)


  • 02:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

3 January 2006

  • 12:27, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

2 January 2006

  • 23:00, 2 January 2006 (UTC)