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en This user is a native English speaker. af-3 Hierdie gebruiker het 'n uitstekende begrip van Afrikaans. nl-3 Deze gebruiker spreekt uitstekend Nederlands. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
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Useful links

• MVR review list is here
• QI link is here
• VI submission link is here
• VI review link is here
• FI review link is here
• Cache purge = CTRL+F5
• Commons:Photo challenge
• Promotions archive is at User:Martinvl/Promotions 20xx (where xx is "15", "16" etc).

My Valued and Quality Images (United Kingdom)

Roughly north to south.

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  Lanercost Priory, founded in 1165 as an Augustine House, in the village of Lanercost
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  Tomb of Francis Close, Carlisle Cathedral
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  South Portal of Carlisle Cathedral
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  Pump Room at the Thompson dry dock (where the RMS Titanic was built)
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  Thompson Graving Dock, Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast where the RMS Titanic was built
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  Steam Yatch Gondola (originally built 1859), on Coniston Water.
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  Principia or administrative block of the Hardknott Roman Fort, Cumbria
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  Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass, Cumbria
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  Church of St Oswald, Castle Bolton: a Grade II listed building
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  Mary, Queen of Scots' bedchamber, Bolton Castle
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  St Andrews Church, Aysgarth, North Yorkshire dating from the late 14th Century.
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  Chimney flue, Middleham Castle
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  Venus Fountain at Bolsover Castle
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  Interior of the Riding House at Bolsover Castle
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  Shillito Cross in Shillito Woods, Ramsley Moor, Derbyshire.
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  St Michael's Row, Chester; A grade II listed building
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  Spiral staircase in the Well Tower of Caernarfon Castle
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  National Trust plaque at the start of the footpath up the Glyderau and the Devil's Kitchen in English and Welsh.
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  Milestone at Betws-y-Coed on Telford's Shrewsbury to Holyhead road.
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  Monogram of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick), on the towers of Hardwick Hall.
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  Dinas Emrysis strongly associated with the legend of y Ddraig Goch (the Welsh Red Dragon).
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  Dolwyddelan Castle from the south.
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  South-west facade of Wollaton Hall Services Ranges (Nottingham).
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  Interior view of the Solar Wing of Ludlow Castle
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  Robocut2 RC40 remote controlled mowing machine in operation at Croft Ambery
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  Priory Church of St Mary, Canons Ashby
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  Reconciliation by Vasconcellos, Coventry Cathederal
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  West end of Kings College Cambridge chapel from across the River Cam
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  Bridge over the Wye at Builth Wells
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  Church at Croome D'Abitot, Worcs; a Grade I listed building.
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  Chinese Bridge at Croome Court (NT)
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  Glanusk Bridge and Tower spanning the River Usk on the Glanusk Estate (about 2.5 km west of Crickhowell)
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  Lifting bridge at Talybont-on-Usk across the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
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  Horse-drawn tram on display at Talybont-on-Usk used on the 13 kilometre narrow-gauge Brinore Tramway (opened 1814, closed 1865).
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  Limestone kilns at Talybont-on-Usk. Materials for the kilns arrived on Bryn Oer Tramway which had its terminus above the kilns.
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  Tretower Castle, a Grade I-listed twelfth century motte and bailey castle in Powys
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  Crickhowell Bridge, Wales
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  East portal of the now-abandoned Torpantau Tunnel in Powys, Wales.
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  West end of the Abbey Church of St Mary (Tintern Abbey) located on the western (Welsh) bank of the River Wye.
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  Maintenance cradle, Clifton suspension bridge
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  Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
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  Royal Mail Coach
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  Weather vane on top of Tower of London
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  Plot of pressure during the October 1987 storm.
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  Remains of the South Gate of Calleva Atrebatum (near Silchester) taken from inside the city walls.
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  Five Arch Bridge, built between 1822 and 1827 across the River Bourne at the top end of the Virginia Water Lake
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  Gnarled oak tree (Quercus) in The Valley Gardens, Windsor Great Park
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  Totem Pole at Virginia Water.
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  The Vyne (NW view), Hampshire
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  The Vyne under restoration
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  South-east facade of and main entrance to The Vyne
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  Elvetham Hall front entrance.
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  Church of St Mary at Elvetham Hall, Hampshire.
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  Minley Manor near Yateley
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  Reed bed at Fleet Pond
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  Water level gauge at Fleet Pond
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  Gable of All Saints Church, Fleet after the fire of 22 June 2015
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  A County Commercial Super Four 754 Tractor on display at Calthorpe Park, Fleet
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  Hampshire File and Rescue Service fire engine
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  Differences in thermal conductivity demonstrated by snow melting on paving stones
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  Eelmoor Flash on the Basingstoke Canal
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  Stag beetle Stumpery in Welensey Woods, Aldershot
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  Front view of Hatchlands Park near East Clandon in Surrey built in 1756/7 for Admiral Edward Boscawen.
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  Lion and Lamb House, Farnham
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  Traffic loses a lane to make way for pedestrians in Farnham during COVID-19
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  An Anderson Shelter on exhibition at the Rural Life Centre, Tilford.
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  A 1901 Aveling and Porter 10 ton Class R10 single-cylinder, two gear steamroller
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  Coppiced Sweet Chestnut woodland at Hindhead Common
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  Stourhead and and Apollo Temple.
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  South facade of Barrington Court, a Grade I listed Tudor style stately home
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  Barrington House, a Grade II listed originally built in 1674 as stables for Barrington Court.
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  Multi-faceted sundial, Barrington Court, Somerset dating from the 1920s.
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  Guildford Guildhall Clock (1683)
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  Hindhead tunnel southern portal
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  Polesdon Lacey from the west
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  Old Scotney Castle, Kent (NT)
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  "Illusionary [or secret] door" at Mottisfont Abbey linking the study with the owner's dressing room.
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  Gargoyle. Chichester Cathedral
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  Exbury House near Southampton
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  Beaulieu River tidal mudflats taken from Exbury Gardens
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  Statue of a dancer by Tom Merrifield (1984) depicting Spartacus outside the Festival Theatre, Chichester.
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  Cricket at Priory Park, Chichester
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  Petworth House from the west
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  Henry VII's arms on the Market Cross, Chichester
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  Medina Terrace, a listed building on Hove sea-front, dating from 1875.
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  Wight Ryder I - Portsmouth to Isle of Wight catamaran.
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  Type 24 pillbox overlooking English Channel at Hive Beach, near Burton Bradstok
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  Portable 50 cm quadrat on Burton Bradstok beach
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  East Cliff, West Bay, Dorset, part of the Jurassic Coast.
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  Architrave of the Lyme Regis Guildhall showing the borough's coat of arms
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  Lyme Regis harbour viewed from Holmbush Car Park
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  Merlin's Cave where, according to legend, the wizard Merlin plucked the infant Arthur from the sea.
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  Reconstriction of Daphne du Maurier's study
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  Elizabethan era prosthetic arm on display in the Great Hall, Cotehele House, Cornwall.
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  The Cheesewring, a rock formation on Bodmin Moor
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  The South Phoenix Mine Engine House, Minions, Cornwall, which now houses the Minions Heritage Centre.
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  The Shamrock, a sailing barge now maintained by the National Trust at Cotehele Quay.
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  Chart showing population of England 1550 - 2010.
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  Cricket umpires' on-field personal equipment
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  Meccano model of a the Southern Rail 4-6-4 Tank Locomotive No 333 "Remembrance".

My Valued and Quality Images (Europe excl United Kingdom)

Roughly north to south.

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  Great Windmill of Skerries, Ireland; An Irish National Monument
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  The Domhnach Airgid, remodelled in about 1350, was believed to have originally contained relics associated with St Patrick.
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  The Glensheen gold gorget (or collar) dates from 800 to 700 BC and was found in a rock fissure in Co. Clare in 1932.
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  Roscrea Brooch, one of the 100 items that record Ireland's history.
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  Memorial to Ernest Walton, Trinity College, Dublin
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  Memorial to those who were executed or imprisoned (including my father) by the Nazi "Peoples Court of Justice".
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  Flag of the Amsterdam Chapter of the Dutch East India Company
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  Replica of De Amsterdam originally built in built in 1748 and lost in the English Channel during its maiden voyage in 1749.
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  Statue of a Beguine [nun] in the Beguinehof, Amsterdam
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  Kelvin/Celsius Thermometer. (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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  Kerkboog (Church archway), St Stephens Chuch, Nijmegen from inside the churchyard
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  Coat of arms of the Dutch city of Nijmegen
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  Witches Scale, Oudewater
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  Graslei, a pedestrialised thoroughfare in Ghent along the Leie
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  Choir of the Abbey Church of Sainte-Marie de Fontcaude, France
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  Western facade of the Château-Abbey Cassan, France
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  Ground floor hall of the Château-Abbey de Cassan
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  Engine "040 T 1751" of the Train à Vapeur des Cévennes (Cevennes heritage railway), Saint-Jean-du-Gard
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  Gateway to the Château de Pézenas
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  Tomb of Cardinal Guillaume Briçonnet (1445 - 1514), Narbonne Cathederal
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  Noilly Prat boutique, Marseillian, France
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  Malpas Tunnel on the Canal du Midi
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  Square signs based on road signs are used for water traffic in some countries.
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  Fountain of Titan, Béziers
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  War memorial, Béziers
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  Hôtel de Flottes de Sébasan, Pézenas, France
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  Marseillan Harbour
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  Pont Vieux, Carcassonne
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  Entrance to Marseillan in French and Occitan
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  Rue du Portail d'Amont, Faugères, a village in S. France
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  Water Tribunal of Valencia
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  Statue of Dom Pedro IV, Lisbon
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  Eroded sandstone formations at Bolnuevo, Spain known as the "Ciudad Encantada de Bolnuevo" (Enchanted City of Bolnuevo).
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  Medieval cistern at Lorca Castle, Spain
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  Replica of the Giralda weathervane on Seville Cathederal
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  Giraldillo, taken from the Real Alcazar (Seville).
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  Jardin de las Damas at the Alcázar of Seville
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  Torre del Oro, Seville
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  Alhambra from the Generalife
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  Generalife summer palace from the Alhambra (Granada).
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  Phillip V city gate, Ronda

My Values and Quality Images (Excl Europe)

Roughly east to west

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  The Carnival Spirit in Sydney Harbour, 2013
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  Sydney Harbour Bridge hinge at the southern end of the bridge.
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  Australian Naval Ensign flying at half mast thereby making way for the "invisible flag of death".
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  Engine room of HMAS Onslow, an Australian submarine.
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  Half-sized model of a triceratops, (Great Otway National Park, Australia).
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  Rainforest canopy walkway, Great Otway National Park
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  Orange Free State field gun captured in the Boer War, photographed in Perth, Australia.
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  Colenso Power Station (c 1973)
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  Graves of the victims of the Armoured Train cemetery - an action in which Churchill was captured.
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  Liliesleaf main house - the ANC "safe house" which was raided in 1963 and resulted in the "Rivonia trial".
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  The Liliesleaf outbuildings, ostensibly the servant's quarters, but in reality the ANC offices.
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  Domestic solar heater in Johannesburg that supplies hot water for the servant's quarters.
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  Equitorial sundial at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens.
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  26 Metre dish, HartRAO, South Africa
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  Elephants trunk wrestling in the Addo Elephant National Reserve.
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  Fourth order Fresnel lense in situ in the Elizabeth Donkin lighthouse, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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  Port Elizabeth City Hall
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  Cannon in Port Elizabeth museum that was preserved under sea-water for 300 years as a result of resting on a pair of cast-iron cannon.
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  Elephant footprint in Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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  Shanty town outside Caledon, South Africa
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  Vergelegen homestead, Somerset West.
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  Vergelegen library & garden
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  One of five camphor trees (Cinnamomum camphora) at the Vergelegen wine estate, Somerset West South Africa.
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  Theology Seminary, Stellenbosch - af:Teologiese Kweekskool (Stellenbosch).
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  Postboxes at Stellenbosch post office.
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  Powder Magazine at Stellenbosch, built by the VOC between 1776 and 1777
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  Groot Constantia, Cape Town
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  Flower of the Mimetes cucullatus taken at Kirstenbosch.
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  Dorp Straat in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
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  Koopmans-de Wet House, cape Town
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  Cape Town City Hall
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  Entrance to the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
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  Heraldry above the entrance to the Castle of Good Hope (Cape Town)
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  Eighteenth Century cannon and tools at the Castle of Good Hope.
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  Kat Balcony, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
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  Ceremonial acceptance of the key by the Castle of Good Hope guards to open the castle gate.
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  18th Century VOC 2 lb cannon at Cape of Good Hope Castle
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  A tame (Cape Fur seal at the Hout Bay harbour.

My Valued and Quality Images that are not Linked to a Specific Country

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  A selection of instruments calibrated in metric units.
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  Original definition of the kilometre
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  Yashica 635 TLR camera with telephoto lens and viewer
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  Log-log plot of planetary period against orbital radius and methematical interpretation of the plot (Kepler's third law).
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  Explanation of dates in ISO 8601 format.
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  Deviations between the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) and national copies of the IPK at periodic recalibrations.

Images that I proposed for VI status, but which I did not take

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  Langalibalele - King of the amaHlubi (1836-1889)
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  Classical Ammeter
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  "Narrow Candle" Catcus (via MVR)
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  St Isaacs Cathederal, St Petersburg (Replaced old VI via MVR)
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  White Rhinoseros (via MNR), Featured picture here.
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  Mouth of the Tugela River
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  Restaurant du Musée d'Orsay
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  Christuskirche, Windhoek, a noted landmark in Windhoek.
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  On the ridge of the Drakensberg amphitheatre, close to the lip of the Tugela Falls
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  SAR Class NG G11 NG55 (2-6-0+0-6-2) Garratt-type steam locomotive hauling a mixed train approaching Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal.
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  The famous speed record holding steam locomotive No. 4468 Mallard.
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  NZASM 46 tonner locomotive at Witbank.
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  Aerial view of the Victoria Falls
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  Conical tower, Zimbabwe ruins
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  Conical tower, Zimbabwe ruins
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  LNER 4472 "Flying Scotsman" at Leamington Spa
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  Road up the Sani Pass, South Africa heading towards the Lesotho border.
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  Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Denarius
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  Aerial view of Premier Mine, South Africa
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  Mount Kilimanjaro: photo taken in Moshi, Tanzania
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  Kilimanjaro from Amboseli National Park
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  Great Mosque of Djenné, en:Djenné, Mali
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  Dorze hut, Ethiopia
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  Water taxi in Mali
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  Oasis and old town of Taghit
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  stage coach that ran between between Salisbury and Umtali (now Mutare), Southern Rhodesia
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  Pietermaritzburg City Hall, built 1893, rebuilt 1901 after a fire.
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  Table Mountain from Signal Hill
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  Grave of Cecil John Rhodes
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  Statue of Molly Malone on Grafton Street, Dublin
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  GNR Stirling 4-2-2 no. 1 at Doncaster Works
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  Einhard Basillica, Michelstadt-Steinbach. Einhard was a confidant and, according to local legend, son-in-law of Charlemagne
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  Hôtel de ville, Charleroi
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  Railway line across the Nullarbor plain - 478 km dead straight railway.
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  SW end of the 32.5 km Afsluitdijk near Den Oever (Netherlands). Friesland can be seen in the distance.
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  Clogwyn railway station, (779 m above sea level) the pen-ultimate station of the 6.4 km Snowdon Mountain Railway
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  Cecil (John) Rhodes (1853-1902)
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  Niels Bohr Commemoration Meeting, 1963 featuring at least seven Nobel laureates
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  Silicon sphere from the Avogadro Project
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  Replica of the Batavia at sea.
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  Strokkur geyser (about 50 metres from the now dormant Great Geysir) erupting.
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  HMS Illustrious returning to port.
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  Peace Palace (1907), The Hague
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  Swiss Class Ce 6/8 II articulated crocodile electric locomotive
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  Outeniqua Choo Tjoe crossing the Kaaimans River bridge
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  Indian Ambulance Corps during the Boer War. Gandhi is in the middle of the middle row.
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  Bayeux Tapestry - Scene 57: the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings
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  Tainan Confucius Temple
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  Steam Engine No 1 of the Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway Company (1899)
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  2-6-6-0 Mallet locomotive Class MB of Natal Government Railways
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  Anderson shleter before addition of earthworks. (Bedford Museum)

More of my images

These images were taken by me and are used by at least three Wikipedia articles (number given in brackets), but for various reasons have not been classified as Valued images or Quality images.

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  1 kg weight with a credit card to show its size (21)
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  [fictitous] Wessex Bank Statement showing IBAN (19)
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  IBAN useage (10)
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  Insect hotel, Heligan (10)
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  Road sign, Germany (9)
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  Crown on Blauwbrug, Amsterdam (8)
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  Spinaker Tower, Portsmouth (8)
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  Map of Falkland Islands Economic Zone (8)
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  Homo Naledi skull, Sterkfontein (7)
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  Cricket bat alongside a metre-stick (7)
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  Chapmans Peak Drive, Western Cape (7)
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  Derwent Dam which was used for training the Dam Busters. (7)
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  Log-log chart showing planetary orbital time against radius. (7)
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  Road through Meiringspoort (6)
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  1939 Fowler 0-4-0 industrial locomotive (5)
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  Giants Causeway (4)
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  Moorish & Christian architecture, Cordoba (4)
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  Geodesic observatory showing icoshedron outline (4)
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  Great Hall, Tretoer Court (3)
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  Wray Castle, Cumbria (3)
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  2 pound canon, Cape Town Castle (3)
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  Bezier Cathederal (3)
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  Footpath through the Sierra Espuña (3)
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  Locks of Fonseranes (Canal du Midi) near Béziers taken from the upstream side. (3)
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  ThorntonsForce, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. (4)

These images were taken by me, are not listed above and used outside the Wikimedia Project. Link to relevant articles shown.

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  Old A3 at Devils Punch Bowl[1]
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  Art gallery, Carcassonne [2]
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  Mixed unit addition example [3]
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  "Europeans only" bench from the Apartheid era [4][5]
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  Falkland Islands in Gondwana (adapted by me) [6]
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  Tower of London ravens[7]
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  Definition of a hectare (copied from my .png file)[8]

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This place is a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the reference 739.