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Hood ornament “Spirit of Ecstasy” (commonly known as “Emily”) of a Rolls-Royce Phantom II.

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View towards Sorano, Italy- taken from San Rocco viewpoint (W of Sorano) during blue hour.  

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Gaztelugatxe, Bermeo, Basque Country, Spain.

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Basketball, European Qualifiers, match between Germany and Poland in July 2022: Dennis Schröder (GER, 17). Today is his birthday.

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

Crested hawk-eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus ceylanensis) feeding on an egret in Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka.

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View across Lake Siskiyou in Northern California to Mount Shasta. At 4317 m, the stratovolcano is the second highest peak in the Cascade Range.

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Half-opened seed pods of a beech (Fagus sylvatica) Focus stack of 57 photos.

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

Remains of the World Trade Center complex in downtown New York City, United States, after the September 11 attacks. Image taken by NOAA's Cessna CitationJet on September 23, 2001, from an altitude of 3,300 ft (1,005 m) using a Leica/LH systems RC30 camera.

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Iceberg in the Northeast Greenland National Park photographed on this day 20 years ago.

Rita Willaert from 9890 Gavere, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Northwest view up to the pediment, rotunda, and dome of the California State Capitol in Sacramento. California was admitted as the 31st state of the Union 175 years ago today.

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A Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) and her two chicks in a tree hole, National Botanical Garden, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Palácio do Planalto, seat of the Brazilian Federal Executive. In late September afternoon, the height of the dry season, the setting sun gives a special color to the monument. Today is Independence Day in Brazil.

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