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17 Januari 2024
The old town of Zug, Switzerland, at blue hour +/− [sw], +/− [en]

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Template:Potd/2024-01-01 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-02 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-03 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-05 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-06 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-07 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-08 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-09 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-10 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-11 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-12 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-15 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-16 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-17 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-18 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-19 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-20 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-21 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-22 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-24 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-25 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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

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Template:Potd/2024-01-26 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-27 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-28 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-29 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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Template:Potd/2024-01-31 (sw) Kubadilisha picha

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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