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1 ӱлӱрген ай 2023
Building of the State Historical Museum view from the Red Square, Moscow, Russia. The host of the Russian history museum was built based on Sherwood's neo-Russian design between 1875 and 1881. +/− [alt], +/− [en]

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English : Building of the State Historical Museum view from the Red Square, Moscow, Russia. The host of the Russian history museum was built based on Sherwood's neo-Russian design between 1875 and 1881.

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English : Group of trees in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : A waitress with Hacker-Pschorr, one of the traditional beers allowed to be served at Oktoberfest. She wears a Dirndl, a traditional women's dress of Bavaria. Today is the last day of the festival this year.

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English : Small pratincole (Glareola lactea), Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka

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English : Fields and meadows at the western slope of the Mittelberg mountain, near Neckarkatzenbach, Neunkirchen, Germany. The photo was taken shortly before sunset at an evening in October.

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English : The winding road to Shingo La, a 5,090 m (16,700 ft) Himalayan mountain pass in northern India connecting the Lahaul region of Himachal Pradesh with the Zanskar region of Ladakh.

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English : The CN Tower and the Toronto Harbour viewed from the Toronto City Centre Airport

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English : Yellow papillae flatworm (Thysanozoon nigropapillosum) swimming at 40 ft (12 m) depth, Manta Ray Bay, Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.

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English : Gentle evening sunlight in a riparian forest at the riverbank of the Southern Bug in the Buzk’s Gard National Nature Park, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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English : Cracked skin of a Horse-chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum conker. Focus stack of 15 photos.

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English : Rowan berries (Sorbus aucuparia). Ukraine, Vinnytsia

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English : View of Gokyo Lakes from Gokyo Ri, 5,300 metres (17,400 ft) a. s. l. Ngozumpa Glacier, the largest and longest glacier in the Himalayas, is right below, along with commanding views over nearby Cholatse, Taboche, Kangtega, Thamserku and other peaks of the Khumbu Himalayas.

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English : Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Today is actor Sacha Baron Cohen's birthday. He voiced King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur, in the 2005 film Madagascar

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English : Shila village on the right bank of the Tsarap River, Zanskar, Ladakh, India. Surrounded by groves of birch in autumn colouration. Elev. 3,590 m (11,780 ft).

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English : View of the Tower of Hercules near the center of A Coruña, Galicia, north-western coast of Spain. The 55 metres (180 ft) hight tower, an ancient Roman lighthouse, is the oldest (almost 1900 years) Roman lighthouse in use today and the second tallest lighthouse in Spain (after the Faro de Chipiona). The lighthouse was rehabilitated in 1791 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009.

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English : Golden Gate Bridge (in fog), San Francisco, California, USA

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English : Breil-Brigels, Panorama road between Waltensburg / Vuorz and Breil/Brigels, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland. Carved out passage.

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English : View to the east from Cho La, 5,400 metres (17,700 ft) a. s. l., a feature-rich mountain pass to the south of the Great Himalayan Range in the Everest Zone of Nepal, Himalayas. Glacial field covered with snow, black cliffs exposing geological layers and a small glacial lake in the valley ahead.

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English : Issued 100 years ago: "Notgeld" banknote: 1 000 000 000 Mark (1923), Trier, design: Fritz Quant (signed: "Quant"), RV: "Hauptmarkt" Trier (1849)

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English : Tomorrow begins the annual MassKara Festival in the Philippines, one of the most important celebrations in the country since 1980.

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English : Demirci Rocks. Demirci Yayla Sanctuary, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine.

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English : Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis ispida) female with dragonfly larva , Hungary.. October 23rd marks the day of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

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English : The James H. Clark Center at Stanford University in California, which opened on October 24, 2003.

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English : Boccale Castle, Calafuria Nature Reserve, Tuscany, Italy.

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English : A panoramic view of Srinagar, the summer capital and largest city of Jammu and Kashmir, India, as seen from the Shankaracharya Hill.

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English : Tübingen, Germany: the river Neckar between the island with its famous Plane trees avenue (at the left) and the old city (at the right) in autumn.

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English : Reflection of the sky in the glass facade of a building in Parque Cultural Paulista located in Paulista Avenue, São Paulo, Brazil

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English : Historical plenary chamber in Museum of the Republic in Ankara. Originally it served as the plenary hall of the 2nd Parliament of Turkey, which started with the proclamation of the Turkish Republic on 29 October 1923.

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English : Jubilee and Munin, two of the ravens of the Tower of London. Born in 2012, Jubilee (male) was offered to Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond Jubilee. Munin (female), born in 1995, is the oldest raven of the Tower.

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