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30 September 2011

  • 12:00, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Aretha Franklin while receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom


  • 00:00, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Utzon Center, Aalborg

29 September 2011

  • 12:00, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Albertine at the Police Doctor's Waiting Room

28 September 2011

  • 23:50, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Archaic Corinthian script


  • 11:35, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss, M.D. (1825–1889)

27 September 2011

  • 23:20, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Poster for To Whom it May Concern


  • 11:05, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Archibald Clark in 1860

26 September 2011

  • 22:50, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

A bigfin reef squid exhibiting iridescent reflections of divers' lights at night at the Komodo National Park


  • 10:35, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Paustian house, Copenhagen

25 September 2011

  • 22:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Mendelson building from northeast


  • 10:05, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

E751 as Croatian A9 motorway

24 September 2011

  • 21:50, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Shinchū the silkworm moth eating a demon


  • 08:45, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Turkish Slave (Portrait of a Young Woman; Italian: Schiava turca) by Parmigianino

23 September 2011

  • 20:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

The Phoenix Tower, from which King Charles watched his army lose the Battle of Rowton Heath


  • 08:15, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

A kidney garden spider in Japan

22 September 2011

  • 20:00, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Portrait of Galeazzo Sanvitale by Parmigianino


  • 08:00, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Bronze ceremonial vessel from the Shang Dynasty


  • 00:00, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Artist's impression of Laccognathus embryi

21 September 2011

  • 16:00, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Frontispiece of the La Flora libretto published 1628


  • 08:00, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Matangi, Kalighat painting


  • 00:00, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

The Monument to the Women of World War II, London

20 September 2011

  • 16:00, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Fresco of Saint Mercurius in the Dragalevtsi Monastery


  • 08:00, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Mårup Church before its dismantlement


  • 00:00, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

A Peruvian woman in a hat, smiling at the camera

19 September 2011

  • 16:00, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

The base of the stele


  • 08:00, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

A red, white and black lighthouse at dusk with a large bridge in the background


  • 00:00, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Marcel Janco in 1953

18 September 2011

  • 16:00, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Haines Shoe House


  • 08:00, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society (1831)


  • 00:00, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

17 September 2011

  • 16:00, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Nils Erik Bæhrendtz and 14-year-old Ulf Hannerz in Kvitt eller dubbelt


  • 08:00, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Przemysł II of Poland


  • 00:00, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

All Saints Church, Thorpe Bassett

16 September 2011

  • 16:00, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

The Prussian Painting at the Sukiennice Museum in Kraków, Poland


  • 08:00, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Portrait of Hugh Lawson White


  • 00:00, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

A Philadelphia ACF-Brill trolleybus built in 1947

15 September 2011

  • 16:00, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Eucalyptus oreades


  • 08:00, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

1976 replica of medieval Coventry Cross


  • 00:00, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Australian women's wheelchair basketballer Liesl Tesch shoots from inside the key in the game against the US at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games.

14 September 2011

  • 16:00, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

West Wing Week Title Sequence


  • 08:10, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Empress Shōshi with her son Atsuhira, c. 1008


  • 00:00, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

River of Water of Life

13 September 2011

  • 16:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

A red, brick church with long, thin windows and a bell tower behind the building


  • 08:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Jane Dieulafoy, c. 1895


  • 00:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

James Underdown at work at CFI West

12 September 2011

  • 16:00, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest


  • 08:00, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Plate 256, Purple Heron, of Pitt's digitized collection of Audubon's Birds of America


  • 00:00, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Chief gate of temple

11 September 2011

  • 16:00, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

President George W. Bush speaking at Ground Zero with Bob Beckwith beside him


  • 08:00, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

HMS Dainty, a D class destroyer


  • 00:00, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Illustration from Henry Davenport Northrop, "Treasures of the Bible," published 1894

10 September 2011

  • 16:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Fujiwara Seika was one of the major pioneers of Neo-Confucianism in Edo Japan.


  • 08:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

1822 illustration of the Camphill Column


  • 00:00, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Eucalyptus punctata

9 September 2011

  • 16:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

The Brizlee Tower


  • 08:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

The tombstone of Yossele the Holy Miser, found in the back of the Remuh Cemetery in Kraków, Poland


  • 00:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Leech sucking blood

8 September 2011

  • 16:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Yellow bloodwood


  • 08:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Princess Kekāuluohi


  • 00:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Sphaerechinus granularis

7 September 2011

  • 16:00, 7 September 2011 (UTC)


  • 08:00, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

The black brittle star (Ophiocomina nigra)


  • 00:00, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Olle Björklund in Aktuellt (1960)

6 September 2011

  • 16:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

St Michael's Church, Whittington, from the south


  • 08:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

The seven armed starfish (Luidia ciliaris)


  • 00:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

The Olds, Wortman & King building in 2011

5 September 2011

  • 16:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Lt Col C. S. Drew, led the Owyhee Reconnaissance


  • 08:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Tadeusz Rejtan, fragment of the painting by Jan Matejko


  • 00:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Red-headed Honeyeater adult male

4 September 2011

  • 16:00, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Charlie B's Backpackers, a Category II heritage building demolished after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake


  • 08:00, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker

  • ... that the species name of the Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker (pictured) means "bloodstained"?
  • ... that the upcoming game Borderlands 2 allows players to throw their empty guns at enemies to injure them?
  • ... that the pollen of Texas wild rice becomes non-functional within one hour after it is released?
  • ... that before founding the humanitarian fashion label OmniPeace, Mary Fanaro considered selling chocolate to help end poverty in Africa?
  • ... that members of a club earn a special platinum prize for visiting 394 places in the US?
  • ... that it takes more muscles to smile than it does to frown?


  • 00:00, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Academy Hall, a wooden, white building topped with a square cupola

3 September 2011

  • 16:00, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Design of toilet

  • ... that Charles Sylvester described toilets in 1819 at the new Derby Infirmary that cleaned themselves and exchanged foul air every time they were used (see diagram)?
  • ...that QRpedia lets museum visitors quickly see Wikipedia articles about exhibits, on their mobile phones, in their own language?
  • ... that among those killed in the 1740 Batavia massacre were 500 prisoners and hospital patients?
  • ... that the 1924 Australian silent film Fisher's Ghost was not shown in Sydney because it was deemed "too gruesome"?
  • ... that Banksia plagiocarpa was undescribed for 112 years after it was first collected?
  • ... that Sir Geoffrey Francis Archer's young lions almost caught General Edmund Allenby's pet stork?


  • 08:00, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Princess Sophia, c. 1821


  • 00:00, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

West end of St Maxentius' Church, Bradshaw

2 September 2011

  • 16:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Dummy Taylor


  • 08:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

State Insurance Building, Liverpool


  • 00:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Siddhivinayak Temple, Siddhatek

1 September 2011

  • 16:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

The purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus)


  • 08:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Temple shikara


  • 00:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Black and white portrait of Urmuz