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31 January 2013

  • 16:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Female flowers of Richeria grandis


  • 08:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Barcelona Metro 9000 Series at Para-lel Station

30 January 2013

  • 16:00, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Alexander W. Monroe


  • 08:00, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Dresden Kreuzschule, 1869


  • 00:00, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Gorce Mountains, view from Jaworzyna

29 January 2013

  • 16:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Michael Winner at a 2008 book signing


  • 08:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Alfonso XI, king of Leon and Castile


  • 00:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Botik (engraving)

28 January 2013

  • 16:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Carved ivory box

  • ... that the 4th-century
    early Christian art
    "?
  • ... that
    Nickel-Strunz classification
    ?
  • ... that when a
    Pikoo
    (1980), he was told "you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house next door—we will accept that"?
  • ... that Usmar Ismail's film Enam Djam di Jogja was censored because of its depiction of Dutch soldiers?
  • ... that the video for The Cure's 1987 single "Why Can't I Be You?" featured Robert Smith dancing in a bear suit?
  • ... that
    Penn State
    lost by one point?
  • ... that stings from Tamoya ohboya, named for the exclamation "oh boy", cause severe pain and skin damage?


  • 08:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

St Peter, Syburg, tower


  • 00:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Blaufränkisch grapes growing in the Burgenland region of Austria

27 January 2013

  • 16:00, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Frank McCormick of the Boston Braves in 1949


  • 08:00, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Washington School building in 2009


  • 00:00, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Tokatliyan Hotel branch in Pera (today's Beyoglu)

26 January 2013

  • 16:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Aquatint of Venice from Lerebours's Excursions Daguerriennes (1842)


  • 08:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Church of St Michael


  • 00:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

25 January 2013

  • 16:00, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Romain Grosjean


  • 08:00, 25 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Pope Alexander VI

24 January 2013

  • 16:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Members of the Soldier Artificer Company in working dress, c. 1786


  • 08:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Elaine Didier


  • 00:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

St Edith's Church, Eaton-under-Heywood, from the southeast

23 January 2013

  • 16:00, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

The European birch aphid (Euceraphis punctipennis) on a leaf


  • 08:00, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
  • ... that Usmar Ismail's (pictured) Darah dan Doa has been considered both his directorial debut and the first Indonesian film, although he had already directed two films?
  • ... that in 1961,
    eastern Sahara
    , with primary reserves of 80 million tons?
  • ... that Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine?
  • ... that before the Ba'ath Party took power in Syria, Tell Touqan was a feudal village where most residents worked as laborers for land owned by seven families?
  • ... that Toby Love called his song "Tengo Un Amor" the "door-opener" for all of his future success?
  • ... that the Singaporean film
    YouTube star
    Dr Jia Jia's film debut?
  • ... that the French racehorse Caracalla was rated the best horse in the world in 1946?


  • 00:00, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

David Gunness

22 January 2013

  • 16:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Orontium aquaticum


  • 08:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Bobbi Sue Luther, photographed in 2007


  • 00:00, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

21 January 2013

  • 16:00, 21 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 08:15, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

The Kaaba in Mecca


  • 00:30, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Woodcut of Great Bustard by Thomas Bewick

20 January 2013

  • 16:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

The Sikhote-Alin is the largest IIAB meteorite.


  • 09:00, 20 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 01:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Front view of Varahanatha Temple

19 January 2013

  • 17:30, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Luidia quinaria


  • 09:45, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

A Ladak Pika, photographed in 2007


  • 02:00, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Theodor Ippen in Shkodër wearing a northern Albanian costume

18 January 2013

  • 16:00, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

A colossal stone sculpture of Varaha in Khajuraho, India


  • 08:00, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

The “Venerina” of Clemente Susini (anatomical wax model) displayed in the Museum of Palazzo Poggi, Bologna - Italy.


  • 00:00, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

The Red-necked Footman (Atolmis rubricollis) on a flower

17 January 2013

  • 16:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Tunnel "Harry" from the Great Escape.


  • 08:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Holger Stromberg in 2011


  • 00:20, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Kankalamurti

16 January 2013

  • 16:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

The England centuries honours board


  • 08:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Twisted spire of St Mary's Church, Cleobury Mortimer


  • 00:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Colored drawings of a shell of the giant conch, Lobatus galeatus, from Louis Charles Kiener, 1843

  • ... that shells of the Eastern Pacific giant conch,
    pre-Incan
    civilization nearly 3000 years ago?
  • ... that in 1970, the English
    Scientology does not engage in religious worship
    ?
  • ... that opera singer Thérésa was "admired" by Napoleon III?
  • ... that the award-winning Indonesian war film Serangan Fajar and the 1963 Hollywood film PT 109 have been compared for their "mild hagiography" of their countries' leaders?
  • ... that Rhett A. Hernandez took command of the U.S. Second Army upon its reactivation in 2010?
  • ... that in the video game
    work visa
    to continue working on the planet?
  • ... that Tsholofelo Thipe, who represented South Africa in the 400 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, failed drug tests in 2012 due to her contraceptive?

15 January 2013

  • 16:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Shi Jianqiao


  • 08:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Lourdes in Kraków

14 January 2013

  • 16:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

The Manila Cathedral is the main landmark in the vicinity of Plaza de Roma.


  • 08:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Anthropomorphized glob of goo from the game

13 January 2013

  • 16:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Paedophryne swiftorum


  • 08:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Bride and groom in Minangkabau marriage


  • 00:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

12 January 2013

  • 16:00, 12 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 08:00, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Swami Vivekananda


  • 00:00, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

11 January 2013

  • 16:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Benjamin Orange Flower (1858–1918)


  • 08:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Provinces of Laos


  • 00:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

10 January 2013

  • 16:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

View of the White Elephant Cave in Phnom Sorsia

  • ... that the White Elephant Cave (similar cave pictured) in Phnom Sorsia mountain, Cambodia, is named after the many stalagmites which have the shape of white elephants?
  • ... that Italian Antonio Lago bought the Paris factory of Automobiles Talbot and founded the French Talbot-Lago marque?
  • ... that
    Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
    in order to regain the trust of its players?
  • ... that "
    George III
    's favourite songs, was written by an Irish republican revolutionary leader who became a British government double agent?
  • ... that fashion magazine
    Teresa of Avila and Bernadette of Lourdes
    ?
  • ... that the National Intercollegiate Band, established in 1947 by Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, is the oldest intercollegiate band in the United States?
  • ... that a
    Armenian Genocide
    remembrance day?


  • 08:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Manuscripts of the Quran found in the attic of the Great Mosque of Sana'a


  • 00:00, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Palitana temples on Shatrunjay

9 January 2013

  • 16:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Octopus macropus deimatic display


  • 08:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

A portrait of a bearded man wearing a South African ODI uniform


  • 00:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

St. Peter's from across State Street

8 January 2013

  • 16:00, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Flabellina verrucosa


  • 08:05, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Nugroho Notosusanto


  • 00:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

7 January 2013

  • 16:00, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Sweetbriar Hall, Nantwich


  • 08:00, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Actinoscyphia aurelia


  • 00:00, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

A large mound covered with grass and surrounded by brush and trees. A thin stairway ascends to the mound's summit.

6 January 2013

  • 16:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Rimac Concept One electric sports car at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show


  • 08:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Shiva offering discus (Chakra) to Vishnu

5 January 2013

  • 12:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Daiwa Major in 2005


  • 00:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

4 January 2013

  • 12:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Old postcard of the Rollstone Boulder on Rollstone Hill


  • 00:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Male Biorhiza pallida

3 January 2013

  • 12:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

The Keep at Woollards Field, Brighton, pictured under construction in December 2012


  • 00:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

2 January 2013

  • 12:00, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

The chariot


  • 00:00, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Htou-tjyen playing cards

1 January 2013

  • 12:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

The Galapagos penguin, which numbers approximately 1800


  • 00:00, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Benstonite with calcite