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30 June 2012

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St Lawrence's Church, Appleby, from the northeast


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A seven-string guitar with the open strings annotated with the notes D-G-B-D-G-B-D


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Marie Bankhead Owen

29 June 2012

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The Ropewalk at Karlskrona


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Brennan at a 2008 parade


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Brown Treecreeper

28 June 2012

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The Lidder Valley at Pahalgam


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An overlay of the HNCACB and CBCA(CO)NH triple-resonance NMR experiments for a small protein


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Dworshak Dam seen from above

27 June 2012

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Grunnsund at the 1984 Innsbruck Winter Games


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Isidor Isaac Rabi


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Brick seven-story hotel

26 June 2012

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Model of French corvette Sphinx


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Juliet Opie Hopkins


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Matt Cain's perfect game

25 June 2012

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Space-filling molecular model of methylazoxymethanol acetate


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Szkieletor in 2008


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Pale spear-nosed bat

24 June 2012

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HMS Kildangan, photographed in 1919


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Beacon on Taketomi


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A bespectacled Barry Stuppler in a tan suit with a blue shirt and a gold tie.

23 June 2012

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R. L. Holdsworth


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Guinotia dentata


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Fresco of Jesus at Transfiguration Church

22 June 2012

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Maryana Marrash


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Red-necked Avocet in flight


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Health workers protest near Salmaniya Medical Complex following reports that paramedic crews and doctors were attacked in the 17 February raid at Pearl Roundabout.

21 June 2012

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The Parthenon, c. 1802


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Stanford University PhD robe


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Hessentag 2011

20 June 2012

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Jack Enzenroth in 1910


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Image of volcano


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Forest pathway at Foxley Wood

19 June 2012

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All Saints Church, Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England


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Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth


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St Mary's Church, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England

18 June 2012

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Diaboleite at the New York Museum of Natural History


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The mansion at Fall Hill (Spotsylvania County, Virginia)


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Inception Motorsports' red No. 30 Chevrolet on track at Charlotte Motor Speedway

17 June 2012

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Mahadev Govind Ranade wearing the Puneri pagadi


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Wall poem by Alexander Blok

16 June 2012

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National League Umpire Dolly Stark


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Looking north along Hall, 2010


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Edith Unnerstad

15 June 2012

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Dicathais orbita


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USS Enterprise leads Carrier Strike Group Twelve


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Santa Fina

14 June 2012

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Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus


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Łazienkowska Thoroughfare


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Male Namaqua Sandgrouse

13 June 2012

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Fred Tenney, pictured circa 1897


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The Nelson Rooms at 2 Glendower Street


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Port of Póvoa de Varzim

12 June 2012

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Cypresses in Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889)


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The Centripetal Spring Armchair in the catalogue of the 1851 Great Exhibition


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Sometra factory in operation, 2005

11 June 2012

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Church of St Helen


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Two pilots of No. 7 EFTS RAAF discuss the day's flying next to their Tiger Moth training biplanes.


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The Long Point Light and Battery, on the site of a ghost village in Provincetown, Massachusetts

10 June 2012

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A red and white Chevrolet race car rounds a curve on a racing course.


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Madame Moitessier


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Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God

9 June 2012

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The Wedding Dance, a 1566 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder


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Queenie Newall at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London


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Andrews Tavern (Spotsylvania County, Virginia)

8 June 2012

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French dancer, Mademoiselle Parisot, in the provocative type of costume she was known for in her performances in London in the 1790s and 1800s


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Kingsley House and Hendre House


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Ruins of Kilbirnie Castle and House

7 June 2012

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Weldy Walker in 1883


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Samantha Richards at the Opals' camp


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Agincourt Square

6 June 2012

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1859 1p "In Ps" tete-beche pair of stamps issues by the State of Buenos Aires


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Illustration of a Red-winged Blackbird from Bird Neighbours

5 June 2012

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Leicestershire celebrating a victory


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Red-colored crystal of sarkinite


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Bloomsbury Farm in Spotsylvania County, Virginia

4 June 2012

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Liberdade glider


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1917 mugshot of Ben Kuhl


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Reconstruction of the Saxon Princess bed burial, Kirkleatham Museum

3 June 2012

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St Oswald's church


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Amylostereum laevigatum


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Outside of Uriarte Talavera

2 June 2012

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Tropical Storm Beryl approaching Florida on May 27, 2012


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Portrait of Madame Cézanne


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Sammy Cox in 1890

1 June 2012

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Niels Kaas, a Danish chancellor


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Baby gas mask in the Monmouth Regimental Museum


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Stanisław Klimecki