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Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwall (Mareca strepera) in misty Taudaha Lake during winter, near Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Sunset over the ice of Brofjorden in Sandvik, Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden.

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“Selection” of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to forced labor or the gas chambers. 81 years ago today, on January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army. Today is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Apple orchards after snowfall in Sangla in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. India has the second largest area under apple cultivation in the world and is the fifth largest producer of the fruit globally. More than 90% of India's apple production comes from just two of its northern Himalayan states: Jammu and Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh. Today is Republic Day in India.

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Window in a former joinery workshop in Beilstein, Germany. Hop has grown into the workshop and has draped its tendrils before this window.

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The entrance of the locomotive Hrvatske Željeznice class 2044 with a local train to Zagreb between Turčin and Sveti Ilija, Croatia. July 2009.

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Northwest view of Yugar village and fields, viewed from Phuktal Gompa. Elevation 3,850 m (12,630 ft)), on the left bank of the Tsarap River (elev. 3,820 m (12,530 ft)). In this arid terrain above the tree line, villagers rely on water from the snow-fed Phu Nala (flowing from centre to bottom) for their fields. Zanskar, Ladakh, India.

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Aerial view of 2023 Bishwa Ijtema in Bangladesh. With 5 million adherents, Bishwa Ijtema is the second-largest Muslim gathering in the world.

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Trier, Caspar-Olevian-Saal, Trier. Entrance to the Caspar-Olevian-Saal.

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Giacomo Raibolini painted this image of Saint Sebastian in the likeness of his father, Francesco Francia. Today is Saint Sebastian's feast day in the Catholic Church and Oriental Orthodox Church.

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Grain field in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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The Neckarfront in Tübingen, Germany, seen in the blue hour over the river Neckar. At the left the Hölderlinturm, followed by a row of historic town houses, at the top the tower of St. George’s Collegiate Church.

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