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lemba

30 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Jane Withers

29 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Round bezel ring from the West Yorkshire Hoard

28 November 2020

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James R. Hall

27 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4848

26 November 2020

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Nine new Labour Party MPs

25 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 
1950 cover of Women's Barracks

24 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Black-cowled oriole

23 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Benjamin Britten

22 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Daughter of the Dragon film poster

21 November 2020

lemba
  • 00:00, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Tibetans with yak and sheep with salt bag, 1898

20 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Six-fingered glove and prop sword from The Princess Bride

19 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
 
William "Fatty" Foulke

18 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Tourist taking a picture at the Berlin Holocaust memorial

17 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Casaba-type warhead

16 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Sam Quek

15 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
 
A dog bedecked with flower garlands

14 November 2020

lemba
  • 00:00, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Andrew J. Stofan studying slosh dynamics

13 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 
2b2t's destroyed spawn-in area

12 November 2020

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  • 00:00, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Kanutus Johannis's ex libris

11 November 2020

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  • 12:00, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Larvae, pupae, and adult cactus lady beetles


  • 00:00, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 
A fictional vision from 1922 of a floating city in 10,000 years

10 November 2020

lemba
  • 12:00, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
 
"Modern Strategy" (Moltke), 1884


  • 00:00, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
 
"We have only one goal ... Victory at all costs!" (29 April 1942)

9 November 2020

lemba
  • 12:00, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Mural in the apse of Vä Church
  • 00:00, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Alma John

8 November 2020

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  • 12:00, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 
St Mark's Campanile


  • 00:00, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Marian Anderson

7 November 2020

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  • 12:00, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Election apportionment diagram in the layout of the Bundestag
  • 00:00, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Neelofa and Nabil on MeleTOP

6 November 2020

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  • 12:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Cem river in Kelmend, Albania
  • 00:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Shah Jalal's open-roofed grave

5 November 2020

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  • 12:00, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
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Indian stamp honouring Sachin Tendulkar

4 November 2020

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  • 12:00, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 
City Investing Building
  • 00:00, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Mary Dee
  • ... that Mary Dee (pictured), a popular radio personality in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, is widely regarded as the first African-American woman disc jockey in the United States?
  • ... that same-surname marriage was prohibited for periods in ancient China?
  • ... that voter turnout increased by 32 percentage points following the passage of Herbert Payne's bill to introduce compulsory voting in Australian federal elections?
  • ... that unlike neighboring tribes, the Pastia people of south Texas escaped detection by Spanish explorers until the early 18th century?
  • ... that the 2020 film A Life on Our Planet is David Attenborough's self-described "witness statement" on how human activity has affected the environment?
  • ... that Augustine's views of Christian theology were developed in opposition to Pelagianism, which he declared a heresy?
  • ... that Ita Maximowna, who trained as a painter in Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, began working in scenic and costume design after World War II and went on to work internationally?
  • ... that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender, the first live television drama in the US divided for broadcast on separate nights, "leaving audiences dangling on the cliff"?

3 November 2020

lemba
  • 12:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Macrolepiota albuminosa
  • 00:00, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (1857)


2 November 2020

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  • 12:00, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Tom Pope playing for Port Vale





  • 00:00, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 
Scorpion roller coaster

1 November 2020

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Krishna Lal Adhikari in prison