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31 October 2010

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A Halloween hermit crab in a conus shell walks across an aquarium bottom


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Distorted skull


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Main façade as seen from the Collegiate Church

30 October 2010

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A stone church seen from the south, with a tower surmounted by a battlemented parapet on the left, and the nave with a porch and the chancel to the right


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A tomb bearing the effigies of a man and a woman, their hands held in prayer

29 October 2010

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Plutonium-238 glowing because of its radioactivity


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A Douglas DC-6 painted in blue and white United Airlines livery. The DC-6 is powered by four propeller engines.


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A house built of red stone house with a curved, sloping roof and white wooden top, seen from the side. It has brick chimneys at either end and some ivy on the visible side.

28 October 2010

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A metal tree welded from rusty parts


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A stone church with a tower and spire, seen from the southwest


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27 October 2010

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A yellow bus with a dark blue stripe running its length; the bus number is 50 and its destination says Cranleigh.


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Earth's shadow and Belt of Venus

26 October 2010

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Radha as Khandita with the nayaka Krishna


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Suncus etruscus on a human thumb

25 October 2010

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A line of about five men are marching in a New Guinean jungle.


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Jökulsárlón lagoon in southeastern Iceland


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24 October 2010

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An ornate Romanesque Revival church built of grey stone


  • 12:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

A three-story building near the coast, depicted in an early 20th century card


  • 06:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

A row of white grave markers on the left and right of a stone walkway with a large American flagpole in the center


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HMS Nairana

23 October 2010

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Engraving dated 1808 showing Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, a pair of conjoined twins born in Biddenden, Kent in either 1100 or 1500.


  • 12:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Pyana river


  • 06:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Satellite image of Chott Melrhir lake in Algeria


  • 00:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

The Japanese battlecruiser Haruna undergoing sea trials at high speed in 1915

22 October 2010

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Closeup of eyes of female in the painting Mona Lisa


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Photograph, by Carl Van Vechten, of Débria Brown as Carmen, at the New York City Opera, in 1958

21 October 2010

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Ramón de Bonifaz, man on horse


  • 12:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Archbishop of Adelaide John O'Reily


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Antimonial cups


  • 00:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Rødkilde Højskole, a folk high school on the island of Møn, Denmark

20 October 2010

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A man wearing a white shirt and blue tie, talking on the phone while seated behind a large, rectangular, sculpted wooden desk


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19 October 2010

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An external shot of the entrance to a building. The facade is composed of alternating columns of protruding red brick and in-set glass windows. The building is at least three stories high. Mounted to a projecting cover over the entrance is a set of large red letters spelling out "Museum". Works of art are visible on the walls of the foyer.


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Catherine de San Juan

18 October 2010

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Heishi rock at Kamome Island, Sea of Japan


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Stone church


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17 October 2010

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Medieval miniature of a fortified city in the centre, attacked on both sides


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Village in wooded setting with hills

16 October 2010

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Tunnel portal, variable traffic signs indicating traffic flow direction and speed limit enforced are visible at the tunnel entrance and to the side of the road


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Large red-brick university, with a golden spire


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A small, white crustacean on a decaying leaf

15 October 2010

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A black-painted ship with three masts lacking yards or sails and a plough-shaped ram bow


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Marguerite Bériza


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14 October 2010

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  • ... that a tributary of the
    Chusovaya River
    (pictured) naturally dives underground for about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi)?
  • ... that John Douglas conducted more than 50 opera productions at Temple University?
  • ... that the southernmost section of the
    river terraces
    ?
  • ... that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916, the crew of the
    Zeppelin L.19
    died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
  • ... that, while serving in the Solomon Islands during World War II, Austin Volk discovered a river which he named "Brown Bear River" in honor of his alma mater, Brown University?
  • ... that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch, aired by ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
  • ... that the
    People's Republic of China
    ?
  • ... that letters from the 17th-century Catholic monk Ansaldo Cebà to a married Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam, included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?


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A running quarterback in 1960s vintage American football equipment looks downfield to pass while clutching the football in both hands.

13 October 2010

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Chart showing the increase (in red) over the baseline (in blue) of people receiving SSDI and SSI payments in the U.S. in 1987 and 2003


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Woman in white dress in profile


  • 06:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

The St. Johns River Light, a decommissioned lighthouse in Mayport, Jacksonville, Florida


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12 October 2010

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A concrete structure blocking a river discharges water


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Photograph showing the Belgian research ship Belgica trapped in ice in Antarctica, 1898


  • 06:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Sir Tristram and la Belle Isoude drink the love potion


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11 October 2010

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Elisha Winfield Green, sketch of black man in a suit


  • 12:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Benson raft


  • 06:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Summer truffle (Tuber aestivum)


  • 00:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

A gray wooden house seen from the side, lit by a setting sun from the left. Its roofline curves in segments, with a brick chimney at the crest. The upper section has wood shingled siding in a scale pattern.

10 October 2010

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World's tallest mountain, snow capped


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Side view of a small Byzantine-style medieval church constructed out of bricks and mortar. The church's entrance is visible. A street lamp and greenery in the surrounding area.


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An ancient, round building projection faced in stone and featuring decorative arches and window


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Part of the south face of a small stone church, seen from an angle, with tiled roofs and a gabled, wooden porch

9 October 2010

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A magnified image of Pthirus gorillae, a short and broad six-legged louse


  • 12:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

A stone church in a town seen from the southeast. St the far end is a large tower surmounted by a truncated spire with pinnacles and, at the top, a ball finial


  • 06:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Image of GAVE showing watermelon signs


  • 00:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Plymouth Congregational Church in 1870

8 October 2010

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Hazelnut candles


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A circular sandstone font standing on an octagonal base, bearing a floral decoration


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A close up of a Santa Muerte image


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7 October 2010

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A demonstration of flame fougasse, somewhere in Britain. A car is surrounded in flames and a huge cloud of smoke. In the foreground, a soldier can be seen running from left to right.


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A cluster of a salmon-pink ear-shaped fungus growing on the ground

6 October 2010

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Angelic painting of angels on black background


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Slender mushroom with long thin yellowish stem and reddish-orange cap


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Abraham Ortelius – Tvrcici imperii descriptio

5 October 2010

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Brick school bldg


  • 12:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

A brown wooden sign with the words "Speakers' Corner" in white


  • 06:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Man in his early 50s wearing a lawyers' wig and gown, standing in front of a book shelf


  • 00:00, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Archaic Greek letter with three lines

4 October 2010

  • 18:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

A wooden African drum


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A photograph of the galaxy NGC 3109


  • 00:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Gros-Mécatina

3 October 2010

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Hall of Fame at World Golf Village


  • 12:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
A broad church in brick with stone dressings, seen from the northeast, with a canted apse, a crocketted pinnacle, and in the distance a tower, also with crocketted pinnacles


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Machu Picchu

2 October 2010

  • 18:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Three stout, brown mushrooms with prominent umbos and a white substance on the cap growing from soil. One is lying down, revealing the gills.


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The Devil's Acre in the shadows of Westminster Abbey


  • 00:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

A bird with a yellow breast, red head and black sides with white spots sat on a branch

1 October 2010

  • 18:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Soldiers marching down the street with a boy chasing his father


  • 12:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

View of Casco Bay from the Eastern Promenade Park


  • 06:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Flooding in Slovenia


  • 00:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Fall of the Alamo