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30 June 2006

  • 17:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Higgins Glass

29 June 2006

  • 17:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 04:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

28 June 2006

  • 04:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Flag of the European Union

27 June 2006

  • 11:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

The original scalloped margin dome, known as "The Tick"

26 June 2006

  • 18:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 04:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

25 June 2006

  • 20:08, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 08:54, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Joe Walker and the X1-E

24 June 2006

  • 13:54, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Ulriksdals palace

  • ...that
    mansard roofs
    ?
  • ...that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria?
  • ...that
    Mount Vernon
    ?
  • ...that
    Tatar wrestling
    , horse racing, race-in-sack, pillar-climbing, egg-in-spoon-in-mouth-racing, and finding a coin in a bowl of sour milk?
  • ...that a
    Roman man once received the surname of "Tricongius" for his ability to drink three congii of wine (9.8 litres; 2.6 gallons) in one sitting in a feat that he once performed before Emperor Tiberius
    ?
  • ...that Akira Endo received the 2006 Japan Prize for his discovery of the popular statin drugs, used to treat high cholesterol?


  • 04:22, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Zona Heaster Shue, the Greenbrier Ghost

23 June 2006

  • 11:38, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 00:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

American Buffalo coin

22 June 2006

  • 12:13, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Mareorama


  • 00:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

21 June 2006

  • 17:13, 21 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 00:21, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Australian middle-weight boxer Jim Hall

20 June 2006

  • 15:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 02:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Aleksey Remizov

19 June 2006

  • 05:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Ivan Betskoy

18 June 2006

  • 19:15, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church


  • 09:13, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Belton House

17 June 2006

  • 21:19, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  • ...that the recordings of
    counterrevolutionary
    ?
  • ...that Szinva Terrace, the newest public square in Miskolc, Hungary, features a small artificial waterfall built into the wall bordering the Szinva stream?
  • ...that the coat of arms of Greenland depicts a polar bear raising its left forepaw, breaking with the heraldic tradition of showing the right forepaw raised, because polar bears are left-handed?
  • ...that Chicago composer Margaret Bonds wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five?
  • ...that the last male-line descendant of
    George Brasov
    , died in a road accident whilst exiled in France at the age of 20?


  • 07:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Submission of the Banu Nadir

16 June 2006

  • 15:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

"Stinkpot" turtle


  • 01:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

15 June 2006

  • 10:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

14 June 2006

  • 22:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

spinulosa


  • 02:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

12 June 2006

  • 23:16, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande

11 June 2006

  • 17:35, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 11:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 02:06, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

10 June 2006

  • 17:18, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Portrait of Maria Pavlovna


  • 07:58, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

9 June 2006

  • 21:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 12:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Rev. William Mitchell


  • 04:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

8 June 2006

  • 21:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Henryk Zieli?sk


  • 20:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • ...that the film
    autism
    ?


  • 10:54, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 02:31, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

7 June 2006

  • 15:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Anichkov Palace in Saint Petersburg


  • 00:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

6 June 2006

  • 09:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

All Saints Church, Western Australia


  • 00:37, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Venus Anadyomene by Titian, ca. 1525

5 June 2006

  • 11:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

4 June 2006

  • 22:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 12:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


  • 02:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

3 June 2006

  • 02:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Black-necked Stilt

2 June 2006

  • 11:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

1 June 2006

  • 22:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Flag of the United Kingdom


  • 12:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)