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Two tender mushrooms (Mycena galericulata) on dead wood lying under the trees. Focus stack of 20 photos.

Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Cervus nippon in Kremenets Hills, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

Byrdyak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana monachus), chasing prey in Cayo, Belize. This is what the bird looks like when it is flying normally, but not grabbing an insect.

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Margaret D. Foster, seen in her lab. The original caption by the National Photo Company is "Miss Margaret D. Foster, Uncle Sam's only woman chemist, Oct. 4/19" - that's possibly a bit misleading, though she definitely was the first female chemist in the United States Geological Survey team.

Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Photo art “Miracles of nature” based on a yellow ginkgo leaf and intentional camera movement.

Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), Red Sea, Egypt.

Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

This memento mori sculpture adorns the Tomb of Gisleni, at the Parish Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Today is All Souls' Day.

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Detail of a stained glass window in St. Barbara's Church (Kutná Hora, Czech Republic). The window depicts St. Aloysius, St. Monica, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Joseph in prayer. Today is All Saints' Day.

Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Illustration of Davy Jones sitting on his locker, wearing a pirate captain's uniform. Today is Halloween.

John Tenniel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Schwetzingen Palace gardens, Schwetzingen, Germany: view from the Garden Theatre to the Temple of Apollo.

Roman Eisele, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Portrait of a Peacock dance performer during the harvest festival of Thai Pongal in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

TAPAS KUMAR HALDER, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Gotland Grand National 2023. Gotland Grand National has long been considered the world’s largest Enduro competition and was first run in 1984.

Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.