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30 June 2008

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Service badge of Operation Noble Eagle


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Class at a secondary school in Pendembu, Sierra Leone


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Cape Maclear

29 June 2008

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Madonna, photographed by David Shankbone


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Siamese method


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Hwajeon

28 June 2008

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Tartan of Nova Scotia


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Philipse Manor train station


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Fairey Swordfish of 820 Naval Air Squadron passing over HMS Ark Royal in 1939

27 June 2008

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Perseus of Macedon


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Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum


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Mexico 1-real eagle stamp of 1864

26 June 2008

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Albert Pujols


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Monkey Bay, Malawi


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Silene acaulis

25 June 2008

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Russula claroflava


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The Legg Mason Building is the tallest building in Baltimore


  • 04:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Budweiser Clydesdales

24 June 2008

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Nkhata Bay


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Scaly hedgehog


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Archie Old's route around the world


  • 02:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Mask of Tutankhamun

23 June 2008

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100 North Tampa, the tallest building in Tampa, Florida


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A Canadian CF-18, winner of the NFA program, flies off the coast of Hawaii

22 June 2008

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Woodsia alpina


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Abert Rim, Oregon


  • 06:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Boletus radicans


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Dobbs Ferry, NY, post office

21 June 2008

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Benjamin Harrison Home


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Suitports

20 June 2008

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Estherwood


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George Haden


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Majorelle Garden in Morocco


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MF Storegut

19 June 2008

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Australian White Ibis


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Millersburg Ferry


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Ebell of Los Angeles

18 June 2008

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El Greco Apartments, Los Angeles


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Robert Sterling Yard


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Christ Episcopal Church

17 June 2008

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Chase Promenade


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New York City Police Museum

16 June 2008

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Jean Miélot


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Warwick Village Historic District


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A juvenile Mountain Gorilla

15 June 2008

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Harry Peckham by Joseph Wight of Derby


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Red Bridge, Bern


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Female Black Java chicken


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14 June 2008

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Andreas Frederik Krieger


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Crescent Honeyeater

13 June 2008

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Christopher Smart


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Catholic Church of St. Catherine


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Bulgarian forces rout the Byzantines at Anchialos in 917


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Pitis

12 June 2008

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A Delaware chick at three weeks old


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John Sowden House, Los Angeles


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Coin of Yazdgard I (399–421), Sasanian king

11 June 2008

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Cozy Dog Drive-In Sign


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Polyphemos Painter


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Neil Hamilton Fairley

10 June 2008

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Hatshetsup temple


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HNoMS Kjell


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Harris Theater


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Eberswalde Hoard

9 June 2008

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Culver Randel Mill


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Uri-On


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McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink


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Pale Yellow Robin

8 June 2008

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Haridasa Thakur, depicted in a temple exhibition image


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Italian Wall Lizard


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Clinton Jencks starring in Salt of the Earth, a film based on his story

7 June 2008

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The Greencards in concert


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Guettarda speciosa


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Vratislav Brabenec


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A rock in a tree in Yellowwood State Forest

6 June 2008

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R101 airship


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A model of Pinnacle@Duxton


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Gällsta Runestone U 229

5 June 2008

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Kramgasse


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Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument and Triangle


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Hugh de Largie


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The statue of Lady Justice on the Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen

4 June 2008

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Agujjim


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Suffern, New York post office


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Class II 1804 Silver Dollar


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Female Leaden Flycatcher

3 June 2008

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Norman entrance of St Marys Church, Chepstow


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Viktorija Čmilytė


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Verdeja

2 June 2008

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The virginals, a keyboard instrument


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St. Paul with two swords - Springinklee woodcut


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White-throated Treecreeper


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Portland Armory

1 June 2008

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Hayyim Selig Slonimski


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A reconstruction of a Teuchitlan village


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Florida Tropical House


  • 02:26, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Hollywood Studio Club