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28 February 2013[edit]

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Front door of the House of Tucumán


  • 08:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

LTG Benjamin C. Freakley, commander, U.S. Army Accessions Command


  • 00:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

The facade of St. Joseph's Church in Beijing

27 February 2013[edit]

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Leo Igwe, Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist


  • 08:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Isophyllia sinuosa


  • 00:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Germany's Annabel Breuer at the Germany vs Japan women's wheelchair basketball team at the Sports Centre in Sydney, July 2012

26 February 2013[edit]

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Old Stone Congregational Church


  • 08:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Stone balls used in the Siege of Algeciras (1342–44)


  • 00:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Atlantea tulita

25 February 2013[edit]

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Barbary ground squirrel


  • 00:00, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Johanna Welin in Sydney, 2013

24 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

K-140 highway shield


  • 08:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Symbister House, Whalsay


  • 00:00, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Marie Fox with her dog, aged three

23 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle electric telegraph


  • 08:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Aerial view of The Hole


  • 00:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Jeanie Buss

22 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

The facade of Macau's St. Dominic's Church


  • 08:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Parade at the 2011 Carinval of Huejotzingo


  • 00:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Chaplin worked on the Harrier jump-jet (P.1127)

21 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Sarah Stierch


  • 08:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Istanbul Hilton Hotel seen from north (2011)


  • 00:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Ethiopian farmer affected by podoconiosis

20 February 2013[edit]

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Queen Bertha


  • 08:00, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Middletown Academy building in 2010


  • 00:00, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Justina Vail in 2007

19 February 2013[edit]

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Rare European bison


  • 08:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

A brick house with windows of many sizes, a turret, and an arched entryway, surrounded by statues and a metal fence.


  • 00:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

King James the Conqueror

18 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Kufenstechen festival bareback riding on Noriker horse


  • 08:00, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Monroe Doctrine Centennial half dollar

17 February 2013[edit]

  • 23:48, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Beatrice of Falkenburg


  • 15:33, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Painting of five iconic heroines of Mahabharata and Ramayana epics of Hinduism


  • 07:18, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

A ring of standing stones, which once formed Stanydale Temple's foundations

16 February 2013[edit]

  • 23:03, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Berners Bay


  • 14:48, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Ophionereis reticulata


  • 06:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Alfred Aboya

15 February 2013[edit]

  • 22:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

A red brick church with windows that rise to pointed arches. The sky is blue with a few small clouds.


  • 14:03, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Edina Müller in Sydney in July 2012


  • 05:48, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Tabo Gompa or Monastery

14 February 2013[edit]

  • 21:33, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

John Collins Covell


  • 13:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Empress Maria Leopoldine


  • 05:03, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

House from the corner of Bradshaw and Croton avenues

13 February 2013[edit]

  • 20:48, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Poke-O from US 9 to the north, showing climbing cliffs


  • 12:33, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Caryatids of a Wallace fountain in Paris


  • 04:18, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

A black and white headshot of Fiona Apple singing into a microphone

12 February 2013[edit]

  • 20:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Photo of Landon Carter Haynes, by Mathew Brady


  • 11:38, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Flinthold Church glass mosaic windows in Copenhagen by Jais Nielsen


  • 03:37, 12 February 2013‎ (UTC)

Clinton Romesha in a U.S. Army photograph.

11 February 2013[edit]

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Saly's statue of Frederik V on Horseback


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Bertel Thorvaldsen' s Jason with the Golden Fleece

10 February 2013[edit]

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Three dollar piece


  • 08:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Mary Tileston Hemenway


  • 00:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Mo Cowan

9 February 2013[edit]

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The north-east face of the Aiguille Verte, with the Cordier Couloir marked in purple


  • 08:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

A red brick church with a prominent tower and stained-glass windows, sitting in front of a blue sky


  • 00:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Bermuda Cedar with male cones

8 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Ocean Village Marina in Gibraltar


  • 08:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Signature of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded by Hagop Çerçiyan


  • 00:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Sue, a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen discovered in South Dakota.

7 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Echinus tylodes


  • 08:00, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Viscountess Vane


  • 00:00, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Matanaka Farm - granary, privy and schoolhouse (from left)

6 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Breakneck Battery


  • 08:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

A Straight dancer at the 2005 National Pow Wow.


  • 00:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Handpainted illustration from a 19th century Dean & Son toy book

5 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Bratsk Hydropower Project


  • 08:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Mount Jackson (3184m) in Antarctica


  • 00:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Catherine Courtney in 1883

4 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Bermuda Fish Chowder


  • 08:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Østre Porsgrunn Church


  • 00:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Tholing Monastery

3 February 2013[edit]

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  • 08:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

The false fire urchin (Astropyga radiata)


  • 00:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Mochitsura Hashimoto

2 February 2013[edit]

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  • 08:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Fossil of Andiva ivantsovi


  • 00:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

A three-quarter front view of the Fleetwings XBQ-2A

1 February 2013[edit]

  • 16:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Brasília National Park


  • 08:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery


  • 00:00, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Interior view of Martin's Cave