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Lanterns on the forecourt of the pier at sunset, Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus), Kruger National Park, South Africa. Identified as Tatiana, female, six years old.

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Audi Sport quattro concept at Frankfurt Motor Show 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany. The company was founded on this day 116 years ago.

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Pelagic stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea), Cape Palos, region of Murcia, Spain. This species of stingray has a worldwide distribution in waters warmer than 19 °C (66 °F), and migrates seasonally to spend the summer closer to the continental shelf and at higher latitudes. The only stingray that almost exclusively inhabits the open ocean, this species is typically found in surface waters down to a depth of 100 m (330 ft). The pelagic stingray typically grows to 1.3 m (4.3 ft) long and 59 cm (23 in) across. It's an active predator that captures prey by wrapping its pectoral fins around it, before manipulating it to the mouth. A wide variety of organisms are represented in its diet: crustaceans, molluscs, bony fishes, sea horses and filefish, comb jellies and medusae, and polychaete worms.

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A cavalryman of the French Republican Guard during the Bastille Day military parade. This regiment is responsible for special security duties in Paris (including guarding important public buildings) and for providing guards of honour at official ceremonies.

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Seed pods of Heracleum sphondylium. Focus stack of 89 photos.

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A dragon blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari) in the Diksam Plateau, on the island of Socotra, Yemen.

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Soba noodles deliveryman in Tokyo, 1935. Photo by the Mainichi Shimbun. Piles of soba bowls were packed on the shoulders of bicycle couriers.

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Saint Anne, an 8th or 9th century Makurian wall painting, painted al secco with tempera on plaster, found at the Faras Cathedral within old Nubia in present-day Sudan.

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Rifling of a M75 cannon (year 1891, Austro-Hungarian). Exposition of Ljubljana Castle (Ljubljana, Slovenia). The photo was made by macro stacking of 43 pictures.

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Statue of a saint, placed above the facade of the St. Anthony Cathedral of Breda, in the Netherlands. In her left hand she holds a cross and in her right hand a ciborium (host chalice). Above the chalice floats a radiant host, a prominent expression of regained Catholic pride. Below the statue is written: "A.D. MDCCCXXXVII", Anno Domini 1837, the year the cathedral was built.

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Diamond vault of the neo-Gothic Collegium Novum in Kraków, Poland.

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