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View of the coastal artillery site Castillitos, Cartagena, Spain. It was built together with the coastal artillery Cenizas in order to protect the entrance to the Bay of Cartagena in the Mediterranean Sea. The construction took place between 1933 and 1936 following a project from 1926 during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. It's a Spanish National Heritage Monument since 1985.

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Prinia socialis (Ashy Prinia) in Ajodhya Hills, West Bengal, India.

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Golden jackal (Canis aureus) in azureum flowers (Jim Corbett National Park, India).

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Pilot boat outside Öja island (Landsort), Stockholm Archipelago's most southern point.

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Blunt-headed burrowing frog (Glyphoglossus molossus). Hua Hin District, Thailand.

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Euganean Hills are a group of hills of volcanic origin that rise to heights of 300 to 600 m in Veneto, Italy.

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Pig heads in a market. Today is the Feast of Saint Mark. According to legend, ninth century Venetian sailors smuggled Saint Mark's relics out of Muslim-controlled Alexandria by covering them with pork.

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Rapanui Rock during sunset, Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Saint George; upper altarpiece of the main altar of the parish church St. Georg, built in 1750 - 1751 by Peter Thumb (1681–1767), Hüfingen-Mundelfingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Today is Saint George's Day.

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Glaucidium cuculoides (Asian barred owlet) in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India.

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The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze sculpture made by unknown Etruscan sculptors (5th century BC), with the twins Romulus and Remus added in the late 15th century AD, by sculptor Antonio del Pollaiuolo. The sculptural group depicts a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome, occurred on 21 April 753 BC.

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A shepherd wearing a red turban, smiling and waving in the setting sun at Jawai Bandh in Rajasthan, India.

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