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November
2009
19:14 UTC
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Topographic map in French of Quebec, Canada, with 2000' census cities  +/− (en)

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Map of California as an island. Ink and watercolor with pictorial relief.
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Icebergs are breaking off glaciers at Cape York, Greenland.
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Butterfly, Vindula arsinoe.
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The Bell in Chersonesos, Crimea
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HMS Belfast, diagram of the boiler.
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Phoenicoparrus jamesi, a group of James's Flamingos at Laguna Hedionda in Bolivia.
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Pioneers Organization member pin depicting Vladimir Lenin.
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Reverse of the Great Seal of the United States.
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ULPower UL260i Aero Engines
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Mountains from Hatcher Pass (Alaska)
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Portrait of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, 1901.
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The coat of arms of the College of Arms from a 1595 manuscript called Lant's Roll.
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Category F5 tornado (upgraded from initial estimate of F4) viewed from the southeast as it approached Elie, Manitoba on Friday, June 22nd, 2007.
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A Northwestern Crow (Corvus caurinus) near Whittier, Alaska.
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"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sandwiched by billowing clouds above and smoke and steam clouds below, Space Shuttle Atlantis hurtles past the lightning mast on top of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Male Tenerife Lizard (Gallotia galloti galloti); Las Cañadas, Tenerife, Spain
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Windsor Castle Upper Ward Quadrangle panoramic view. Taken with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS lens.
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Section of two segments of a Polychaete (Nephtys sp.), showing internal anatomy. The large structure on the right is a parapod. (labeled in English)
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Swiss rescue helicopter in action: Rega's Eurocopter EC-145 (model BK 117-C2) with registration "HB-ZRE".
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Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history
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Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, 1775.
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Flower of baobab (Adansonia digitata) in longitudinal section, Burkina Faso, between Fada N'Gourma and Ouagadougou
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Picture of a Boat Orchiden (Cymbidium Clarisse Austin 'Best Pink') flower chain.
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A crevasse (moulin) in the Langjökull glacier, Iceland. At the time it was perhaps three or four meters long, a meter wide and some 30-40 meters deep.
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Topographic map in French of Quebec, Canada, with 2000' census cities
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Stained glass windows at Notre-Dame, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Sabah State Mosque minaret in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (Borneo).
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Field of hay bales, Omeo Victoria, Australia.
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Rhellica gymnadenia (Gymnadenia rhellicani), close to Gletschertafel, Lötschental, Switzerland
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Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. "And lo! towards us coming in a boat / An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: 'Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!'" (Longfellow's translation) "And, lo! toward us in a bark / Comes an old man, hoary white with eld, / Crying "Woe to you, wicked spirits!"
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