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31 January 2008

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Cornelis Ketel

30 January 2008

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USS Bexar (APA-237


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Black Rock Forest


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Thomas Trueblood

29 January 2008

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28 January 2008

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Abbas Tyabji


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Malik Umar Hayat Khan by artist Major A.C. Lovett


  • 05:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Peewee Valley Confederate Cemetery

27 January 2008

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USS Meriwether (APA-203


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26 January 2008

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José Joaquin Estudillo

25 January 2008

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Confederate memorial


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24 January 2008

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23 January 2008

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22 January 2008

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21 January 2008

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Charles Le Gendre

20 January 2008

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19 January 2008

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18 January 2008

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Sankey Valley Park


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17 January 2008

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St Barnabas' Church, Bromborough


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16 January 2008

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The Gleaners

15 January 2008

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Peake's painting of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of James I of England


  • 14:32, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hampton Mansion


  • 04:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

14 January 2008

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Frauenfriedenskirche, Frankfurt


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13 January 2008

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Deanmill, Western Australia


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12 January 2008

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Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial

11 January 2008

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Mount Elbrus


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Razorbelly scad (Alepes kleinii)


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An Olmec statue

10 January 2008

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Churchill and a ship's cat


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Canadian Star of Courage


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All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Germany

9 January 2008

  • 21:57, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
  • ...that the
    Hood Mockingbird
    (pictured) will occasionally attack people in an attempt to get fresh water from them?
  • ...that despite its northern location, the Ahr produces more red wine from grapes like Pinot noir than any other wine region in Germany?
  • ...that
    confectioner
    , once produced the Seven Up Bar and the Chicken Dinner Bar?
  • ...that upon his 1915 arrest from the lines of the 12th Cavalry at Meerut, Vishnu Ganesh Pingle is said to have had enough explosives to blow up an entire regiment?
  • ...that Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the Mercians when her mother Æthelflæd died in 918, but was deposed by King Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year?
  • ...that when
    Dos Fraye Vort
    , he did not speak Yiddish?
  • ...that the
    citrate
    ?
  • ...that
    International Labor Organization
    ?
  • ...that the
    Armia Krajowa
    ?


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The Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria, in Braniewo, Poland


  • 05:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Bobsled track

8 January 2008

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Cleftbelly trevally (A. atropos)


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Westinghouse Time Capsule


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Smocking sampler

7 January 2008

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typical portable engine


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Grossmarkthalle


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6 January 2008

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Paul G. Goebel


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Black Spiny-tailed Iguana


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5 January 2008

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Image:Schloss Hellenstein


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Grand Duke Sergei Mikailovich

4 January 2008

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Possible Lakotah borders


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3 January 2008

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Fremantle Markets


  • 14:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Look at me!


  • 08:32, 3 January 2008 (UTC)


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Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha, Coimbra, Portugal

2 January 2008

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Bell XGAM-63 Rascal USAF

1 January 2008

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Aesop's Fables


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Crested Shelduck