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The old town of Zug, Switzerland, at blue hour +/− [new], +/− [en]

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English : Synevyr National Nature Park, Strymba Mountain in winter. Carpathians, Ukraine.

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English : Dome of the Palace of Post and Telegraf in Valencia, Spain. The building, located in the City Hall Square, was built between 1915 and 1923, by architect Miguel Ángel Navarro in eclectic style and still provide post services today.

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English : Experiment with lens ball and light stick

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English : Vintage car meets UNESCO world heritage site: Volkswagen Beetle, export model, built 1957, in front of Porta Nigra in Trier

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English : A 1899 theatrical poster promoting Sissieretta Jones. She was born on this date in 1868.

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English : A rose gold roller skate compared with an orange high-heeled one. 161 years ago today, James L. Plimpton received the U.S. patent for the four-wheel roller skate he invented.

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English : Winter morning in the Carpathian National Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

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English : An African common toad swimming in Lake Sibhayi, South Africa

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English : This new Hubble image shows the scatterings of bright stars and thick dust that make up spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy.

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English : The Mont Blanc ("white mountain") located on the French-Italian border. Rising 4,807.81 m (15,774 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in the Alps mountain range and in Western Europe.

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English : An ultrawide angle panoramic view along the inside of L'Umbracle, designed by renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain.

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English : Ana Rosa metro station, green line, São Paulo, Brazil

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English : Building in downtown Caracas, Venezuela

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English : A panorama showing the Uluguru Mountain Ranges, in Tanzania

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English : Dried out lake in Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia.

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English : Part of the facade of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington, USA

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English : The old town of Zug, Switzerland, at blue hour

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English : Praia Grande (Big Beach) at the end of the day. Porto Covo, Portugal.

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English : Chelonoidis vicina in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos National Park, Ecuador

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English : Falling rain in downtown León, Guanajuato, Mexico. León was founded on this day in 1576.

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English : Night in Esztergom, Hungary. Simor János street during its reconstruction.

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English : Yellow fungus (Tremella mesenterica) on dead branch. Focus stack of 21 photos.

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English : Krakow / Poland - View of Wawel Castle from Vistula

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English : Night view of the hill town of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, India. Established as a hill-station in the early 19th century, the town served as the summer capital of British India until the end of British rule in India. The town became the capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh on 25 January 1971.

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English : Edinburgh Castle from the Grass Market, ca. 1865-ca. 1885.

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English : A tea garden in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim. The country is the second largest producer of tea in the world.

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English : Remnant of one Scleroderma citrinum in beautiful earthy colors between fallen leaves. Location, De Famberhorst. Focus stack of 20 photos.

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English : "The Black Spot" (1887) by French artist Albert Bettannier. This painting shows a teacher pointing to a black spot on the map of France, where it lost the provinces of Alsace–Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War. This loss will lead to the rise of a deep hatred and demand for revenge against Germany, called revanchism.

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English : Close up of an orange-winged amazon's (Amazona amazonica) eye, Jalapão State Park, Tocantins, Brazil.

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English : Red and yellow bell peppers in water

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English : Pottery maker doing his work. Banshkhali, a village a few kilometres from Chittagong town, Bangladesh. For decades locals there have pursued a pottery tradition, crafting all manner of wares from raw clay to fire in the kilns.

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