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31 January 2014[edit]

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Head on with HMCS Protecteur

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Han dynasty watchtower remnants

30 January 2014[edit]

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The flag of Herm

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Mary, by Albrecht Dürer

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Bill Armour in 1905

29 January 2014[edit]

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The Silver Cross Tavern

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Valley View

28 January 2014[edit]

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Vern Bickford in late 1953

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Part of the seafront of Brighton and Hove, from Adelaide Crescent (left) to the Norfolk Hotel (right), in April 2013

27 January 2014[edit]

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The Banks of the Marne at Dawn, a Pointillist watercolor painting by Albert Dubois-Pillet, c. 1888

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Audie Murphy as Whispering Smith

26 January 2014[edit]

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The Robinson-Finlay wedding party

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Male Black-breasted Thrush

25 January 2014[edit]

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Male spider resting on female

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Renoir's La Parisienne (1874)

  • ... that Renoir's oil painting La Parisienne (pictured) was shown at the first Impressionist exhibition, in Paris in 1874?
  • ... that Hussein Samatar was the first Somali American elected to public office in Minnesota?
  • ... that the mural on the Von Bock House in Tartu in Estonia shows a building that is just down the street?
  • ... that the prickly brown ray was accidentally discovered by an expedition to study shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico?
  • ... that Linda Nolan was labelled "Naughty Nolan" due to her posing in risqué publicity photos?
  • ... that although Piotr Skarga's Sejm Sermons political treatise was ignored during his lifetime, he was labeled a "patriotic seer" centuries after his death?
  • ... that because the Spitzen Gebel was used by Bremen piano movers, drinkers can get a "swig from the lamp"?

24 January 2014[edit]

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Kitty Jutbring

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Krakatoa eruption, lithograph

  • 00:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

An aerial view of "The Doughnut" in 2004

  • ... that GCHQ replaced 50 buildings with a single doughnut (pictured)?
  • ... that Marie Jansen reportedly earned a half a million dollars in musical theatre, but after declaring bankruptcy was unable to pay her weekly seven dollar lodging bill while working as a seamstress?
  • ... that Charles Augustus Magnussen, villain in the Sherlock episode "His Last Vow", was described as "the one man [Sherlock] truly hates"?
  • ... that Juliana R. Force brought about the first public showing of American folk art in the United States?
  • ... that Cincinnati's Fenwick Club was established as a Catholic alternative to the YMCA?
  • ... that Tiwi islander Matthias Ulungura was the first Australian to take a Japanese prisoner-of-war on Australian soil during World War II?
  • ... that in the comedy film Frank, Michael Fassbender's character wears a large papier-mâché head throughout the film?

23 January 2014[edit]

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Miners in the Sierras

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Amaravati Marble

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Interior of new building on the opening day

22 January 2014[edit]

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The Anointing of Queen Alexandra at the Coronation of Edward VII

  • 08:00, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Illustration of Velodona togata

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Hall of Memory Birmingham

21 January 2014[edit]

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Photograph of 'Bus Stop', an oil painting by Andrew Stevovich

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Chinese character for Li (李)

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Matthew Ahmann standing next to Martin Luther King Jr.

20 January 2014[edit]

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Killion Munyama

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Kursura as a museum ship

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Enåker Church

19 January 2014[edit]

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Mangrove Robin

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Three-cent nickel, reverse

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Grace Gates

18 January 2014[edit]

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Kiryat Wolfson

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Omi Shrine

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South-western view of Hanger Wood

17 January 2014[edit]

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Chemical structure of 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol

  • 08:00, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

The Mills Community House in Benzonia, Michigan

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Blakeley

16 January 2014[edit]

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Elizabeth Island off Cape Horn, copy of Fletcher's manuscript map

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William Hastie.jpg

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Early-19th-century performance of aerial suspension illusion in India

15 January 2014[edit]

  • 16:00, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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Intense Tropical Cyclone Amara near the island of Rodrigues on December 21, 2013

  • ... that Cyclone Amara (pictured) caused a complete suspension of flights to and from Rodrigues?
  • ... that Orangina's bottle, shaped like an orange, with a glass texture designed to mimic the fruit, was introduced by Jean-Claude Beton in 1951?
  • ... that a New York Times reviewer wrote that Xiu Xiu's 2013 Nina Simone tribute album Nina accentuated Simone's "spooky, unsettling side"?
  • ... that ruins found underneath a Cairo market in 2006 could belong to the largest sun temple built by Ramesses II?
  • ... that Ameer Abdullah decided to return for his senior year at Nebraska because "life is bigger than football"?
  • ... that the hymn Soldiers of Christ, Arise is known as "The Christian's bugle blast" due to the military-based call to arms in its lyrics?
  • ... that Hal Peck reached Major League Baseball even after shooting off two of his toes?
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Wappocomo viewed from Cumberland Road (West Virginia Route 28) in July 2013

14 January 2014[edit]

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Run Run Shaw in 1927

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Photo of Mary E. Clarke

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Brumback Library, seen at nightfall

13 January 2014[edit]

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Stapleford Cross

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Pocillopora verrucosa, commonly known as rasp coral or knob-horned coral

  • 01:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Kielce Bus Station

12 January 2014[edit]

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Musicians of Bremen sculpture

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One of the C-BASS telescopes

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Menura superba - Superb Lyrebird

11 January 2014[edit]

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Rebecca Simonsson (2013)

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North Koreans bowing to statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang

Chris Waddle

10 January 2014[edit]

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Ruth A. Parmelee and Armenian children

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Stone church tower of Walnut Hills Presbyterian Church, without its church

  • 00:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster

  • ... that when the Statue of Richard Grosvenor (pictured) was created in the 1860s, it was said to have been the largest sculpture in Britain to be carved from a single block of marble?
  • ... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
  • ... that Kotschy's gecko climbs well despite not having adhesive pads on its toes?
  • ... that Gary Loveman was a Harvard professor before his present occupation as CEO of Caesars Entertainment, and his career became a business case study at Stanford?
  • ... that video game Dropsy began as an illustrated story for which the plot was guided by commentators on a Something Awful forum post?
  • ... that before his rugby career, Luke Baldwin competed in track and field in secondary school?
  • ... that instead of repairing their damaged ships at the Venetian arsenal in Corfu, many captains chose to sink them?

9 January 2014[edit]

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Statue for the shipwrecked boys in Hoorn

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Phil Fish at GAMMA 3D 2008

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Barzillai J. Chambers

8 January 2014[edit]

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Wellingtonia Avenue in Berkshire

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False stonefish

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Angel from Annunciazione

7 January 2014[edit]

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Ernest Yarrow

  • 08:00, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

An American Black Duck in flight

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late-model LS3/5A made by Spendor

6 January 2014[edit]

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Adoration of the Magi

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Obverse of the Lafayette dollar

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Profile view of ant Paratrechina longicornis

5 January 2014[edit]

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The restored Magistrate of Brussels

  • 08:00, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

The tsunami fish at Seaside Aquarium

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Chester War Memorial

4 January 2014[edit]

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Sophie Radford de Meissner, circa 1910s

  • 08:00, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Tropical Depression Jebi over Vietnam on August 3, 2013

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PL-01 at the International Defence Industry Exhibition in 2013

3 January 2014[edit]

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Ruined houses on Stroma

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Portrait of an unknown man in plate armour normally attributed to Peter Paul Rubens

  • 00:00, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Apollo of Cyrene

2 January 2014[edit]

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The E. Janssen Building is on the National Register of Historic Landmarks.

  • 08:00, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

1 January 2014[edit]

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Saxifraga paniculata

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The first space selfie of Curiosity

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A black bun cut open to reveal the fruitcake filling