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31 March 2011

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Schematic drawing of six planets orbiting around a sun-like star


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Photograph of a medieval stone castle with two rectangular towers in the foreground


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A small, young slow loris is gripped by its limbs while its front teeth are cut with fingernail cutter.

30 March 2011

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Two bunches of white grapes


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A group of diamond miners panning at the edge of a man-made pond


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The top of Brown Willy, with many granite boulders, some piled up to form a cairn, next to the trig point

29 March 2011

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Black and white photo of two standing men, below an archway, facing a number of seated men and women


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The Stone Plinth in front of the Sign of the Kiwi


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Portrait of Pére Tanguy by Vincent van Gogh, 1887–88

28 March 2011

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St John the Evangelist Church at Hollington, Hastings, Sussex, England


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A black-and-white portrait of a young man in formal dress


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A flint church with a red tied roof and a tower at the west end, seen from the southeast

27 March 2011

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James Moody with bassist Todd Coolman in background


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View of a collapsed church

26 March 2011

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Bronze sculpture of a woman in a sunbonnet leading her son


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Indian widow painting

25 March 2011

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Photograph of Charles Watkins cropped from 1898 Michigan Wolverines baseball team portrait


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A stone pylon with two gold stars at the sides, below which are inscribed "A Jose Rizal"

24 March 2011

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A structure coated with marble impounds a reservoir.


  • 08:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

A photograph of the head of a bat.


  • 00:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Captain Philemon Pownoll

23 March 2011

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The failed Gleno Dam, right portion destroyed


  • 08:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Saigō-no-Tsubone, or "Lady Saigo"


  • 00:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Painting of the Pavlovsk train station in 1862

22 March 2011

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A room packed with paintings and curios


  • 08:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Photograph of University of Michigan athlete Arthur Karpus in 1918


  • 00:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Items related to Santa Muerte and Santería

21 March 2011

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A classical portico with four columns and the entrance to the church beyond


  • 00:00, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Snow on the eastern slope of Steens Mountain

20 March 2011

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Ruins of a Bronze Age Acropolis with Cyclopean structures. The main entrance is seen on the right and a burial site on the left.


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A painting of Reza Abbasi


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Juliet with arm raised

19 March 2011

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A two-story yellow brick building on the corner of Hunter Street and Cooper Avenue with purple and green trim. A pointed section above the roof has "1888" in large letters written on it. In the rear, at the top of the image, is a wooded, rocky ridgeline.


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18 March 2011

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Molokai twinsorus fern


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Sirikit Dam


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University of Michigan football player Fred Rehor

17 March 2011

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The stone tower of a church with buttresses and an octagonal top stage with a clock


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Brabourne Stadium


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16 March 2011

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Mario Lemieux


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Small-toothed sportive lemur (Lepilemur microdon) in Vohiparara, Ranomafana National Park

15 March 2011

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A piece of ivory showing a lion devouring a man


  • 08:00, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Photo of Ray Barnhart


  • 00:00, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

The head and shoulders of a grey-haired, bespectacled man sitting at a table wearing a beige military uniform

14 March 2011

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13 March 2011

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A tall flint tower with the body of the church extending beyond it


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Chilean blue crocus in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden

12 March 2011

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Rice farmer holding part of his harvest in each hand


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11 March 2011

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Vickers Wellington Mk2


  • 09:40, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

View up a clock tower with a stone base and iron railings


  • 01:50, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Farmer with deep water rice

10 March 2011

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Daguerreotype photography of the composer, seated in an arm chair, dressed in a suit


  • 10:10, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

The gills of a whiting infested by two blood-sucking Lernaeocera branchialis


  • 02:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

View of a stone church

9 March 2011

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Portrait of a middle-aged black woman, wearing a dark dress with a white collar

8 March 2011

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Hikmat Abu Zayd, the first female cabinet minister in Egypt.


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B&w photo of a statue, with multi-storey buildings in the background

7 March 2011

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=View of a medieval Byzantine-style church's front facade and bell tower slightly from below, with partially destroyed stone walls in the foreground


  • 10:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

View of a brigantine rigged two-masted sailing ship at anchor with sails furled, a raised observation deck is visible between the two masts


  • 02:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Drawing of horn-shaped fossil

6 March 2011

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B&w photo of a church in Gothic Revival style


  • 10:00, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Dark-haired man with stubbly beard and mustache, wearing gold-brocade clothing and hat


  • 02:00, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Reuben Wells, an old steam engine on display in a museum, against a painted backdrop

5 March 2011

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Smiling woman with brown hair, wearing a white pearl necklace.

4 March 2011

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The eastern view of the castle Český Šternberk


  • 10:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Stielgranate 41 fitted on the PaK-36 barrel


  • 02:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Design from black marble with other rocks

3 March 2011

  • 18:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Coryphantha ramillosa, a round cactus with dark spines and a single pink flower on the top


  • 10:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

A flint church with red tiled roofs seen from the southwest, showing a tower with a battlemented parapet, the nave with a porch, and the chancel


  • 02:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

A Persian miniature showing a musician playing a lute for a seated man inside a large house

2 March 2011

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A large canal lock built of limestone, almost entirely empty of water and clearly abandoned

1 March 2011

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A small flint church seen between trees from the southeast, with a battlemented tower at the far end


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Detached Badger at work


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University of Michigan pole vault champion Charles Dvorak in 1903