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A train is hauling lead ore from the San Cristobal mine (Bolivia) to the port city of Antofagasta (Chile). +/− [en]

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Chinese workers are going to the downtown Pingyao for early morning job, June 2007. Change image

English : Chinese workers are going to the downtown Pingyao for early morning job, June 2007.

2

Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, who died on this day in 1519. Change image

English : Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, who died on this day in 1519.

3

Flying geese at sunrise in the hamlet Börnste, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Wikipedia: Grey goose · Dülmen · Sunrise Change image

English : Flying geese at sunrise in the hamlet Börnste, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Wikipedia: Grey goose · Dülmen · Sunrise

4

Common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe. Change image

English : Common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe.

5

Northern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus), Ukraine. Photo taken in the wild. Change image

English : Northern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus), Ukraine. Photo taken in the wild.

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The picture was taken from the trail to Mt Fyffe and depicts Kowhai River at the bottom with the ranges West of Mt Fyffe. Kaikoura Ranges, New Zealand Change image

English : The picture was taken from the trail to Mt Fyffe and depicts Kowhai River at the bottom with the ranges West of Mt Fyffe. Kaikoura Ranges, New Zealand

7

Tokyo Metro train crosses the Kanda river, while, above, a set of JR East just leaves Ochanomizu. Photo taken at Ochanomizu, Tokyo, Japan. Change image

English : Tokyo Metro train crosses the Kanda river, while, above, a set of JR East just leaves Ochanomizu. Photo taken at Ochanomizu, Tokyo, Japan.

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Rock hyrax (also called a rock rabbit) (Procavia capensis), Erongo, Namibia. Along with the manatee, hyraxes are the animals most closely related to elephants. Change image

English : Rock hyrax (also called a rock rabbit) (Procavia capensis), Erongo, Namibia. Along with the manatee, hyraxes are the animals most closely related to elephants.

9

Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Gaifū kaisei), also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei). Change image

English : Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Gaifū kaisei), also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei).

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Stokes Hill Wharf in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia Change image

English : Stokes Hill Wharf in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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Seeds of a Calendula officinalis . Change image

English : Seeds of a Calendula officinalis .

12

Yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) in Pushcha-Vodytsia Park, Kyiv, Ukraine. Change image

English : Yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) in Pushcha-Vodytsia Park, Kyiv, Ukraine.

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The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City, which first opened to the public on May 13, 1911. Change image

English : The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City, which first opened to the public on May 13, 1911.

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Exemplar of African darter (Anhinga rufa) looking for fish in the Chobe River, Chobe National Park, Botswana. Change image

English : Exemplar of African darter (Anhinga rufa) looking for fish in the Chobe River, Chobe National Park, Botswana.

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Platform of Kievskaya (FL) metro station in Moscow Change image

English : Platform of Kievskaya (FL) metro station in Moscow

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Hvannhagi lake at Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Change image

English : Hvannhagi lake at Suðuroy, Faroe Islands.

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A train is hauling lead ore from the San Cristobal mine (Bolivia) to the port city of Antofagasta (Chile). Change image

English : A train is hauling lead ore from the San Cristobal mine (Bolivia) to the port city of Antofagasta (Chile).

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Polonina of shepherds after a thunderstorm. Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Ukraine. Change image

English : Polonina of shepherds after a thunderstorm. Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Ukraine.

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African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), Lake Ziway, Ethiopia. Change image

English : African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.

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Light trail of the largest German ferry M/S Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Warnemünde, Germany Change image

English : Light trail of the largest German ferry M/S Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Warnemünde, Germany

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Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) courtship behaviour. Kinburn Peninsula, Ukraine. Change image

English : Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) courtship behaviour. Kinburn Peninsula, Ukraine.

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Aveiro lighthouse, west coast of Portugal. Change image

English : Aveiro lighthouse, west coast of Portugal.

23

A female African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) with her six-week-old baby in the Matetsi Safari Area, Zimbabwe, having just crossed the border from Botswana. Change image

English : A female African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) with her six-week-old baby in the Matetsi Safari Area, Zimbabwe, having just crossed the border from Botswana.

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Parboiled rice with chicken, peppers, squash, peas and tomato. Change image

English : Parboiled rice with chicken, peppers, squash, peas and tomato.

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Five antennas of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, near Narrabri (New South Wales). This photograph was taken in the late phase of the construction process (~1984). Change image

English : Five antennas of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, near Narrabri (New South Wales). This photograph was taken in the late phase of the construction process (~1984).

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Inventor Nikola Tesla in December 1899, reading in his laboratory of Colorado Springs next to his giant "magnifying transmitter" high voltage generator while the machine produces huge bolts of electricity. This photo was in fact a promotional stunt by photographer Dickenson V. Alley. Change image

English : Inventor Nikola Tesla in December 1899, reading in his laboratory of Colorado Springs next to his giant "magnifying transmitter" high voltage generator while the machine produces huge bolts of electricity. This photo was in fact a promotional stunt by photographer Dickenson V. Alley.

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Aerial shot of the Church of the Savior on Blood in Saint Petersburg, Russia Change image

English : Aerial shot of the Church of the Savior on Blood in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Detail of Distinction Hotel facade, Christchurch, New Zealand Change image

English : Detail of Distinction Hotel facade, Christchurch, New Zealand

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California gull (Larus californicus) landing in Palo Alto Duck Pond, Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, California. Change image

English : California gull (Larus californicus) landing in Palo Alto Duck Pond, Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, California.

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Fortress. Today is the day of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. Change image

English : Fortress. Today is the day of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.

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Wrocław Główny, the largest railway station in Poland in terms of the number of passengers serviced. Change image

English : Wrocław Główny, the largest railway station in Poland in terms of the number of passengers serviced.

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