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American chocolates from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.

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TDK tape head cleaner cassette "HCL-11" made of clear hard plastic. The plastic is birefringent and demonstrates internal stress as coloured patterns (photoelasticity) when photographed using cross-polarisation. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released on this date in August 1963.

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Children play with bicycle tires among large conical piles of rice at a processing mill in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.

Original: Azimronnie Derivative work: Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

View of the old town of Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, seen from the islet Unterwöhrd in the river Kocher.

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Wildlife photographer in a ghillie suit. Some wild animals are very difficult to approach without disturbing them, which sometimes leads some wildlife photographers to wear a ghillie suit when they go in search of them. By remaining undetected, wildlife photographers can observe animal behaviour that would otherwise not be observable if the animal would have had knowledge of human presence.).

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Patriotic graffiti in Vinnytsia, Ukraine during the war, 2022.

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The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour on Horseback by Giuseppe Castiglione.

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Male lion (Panthera leo) in Maasai Mara National Park. The Leo astrological sign ends at this time of year.

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A woman from the Koch tribe with a lamb.

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Moray eels (Muraena augusti) and a cleaner shrimp (Lysmata grabhami), Teno-Rasca marine strip, Tenerife, Spain. It belongs to the family of moray eel and is endemic of the Canary Islands, Madeira and Azores. It is non-migratory, and dwells at a depth range of 0 to 250 metres (0 to 820 ft), most often at around 0 to 50 metres (0 to 164 ft). Muraena augusti is active during the night and hides in holes or crevices during the day. It can reach up to 100 centimetres (39 in) length and is a carnivore that feeds on small fishes, shrimps and crabs. Like all other moray eels their vision is poor but their sense of smell extraordinary.

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Shrine dedicated to Shiva situated at the shore of the Gangabal Lake, a high altitude glacial lake in the Indian Himalayas. The lake is situated at the foot of Mount Haramukh in Jammu and Kashmir, and is called Gangabal meaning 'place of Ganga' in Kashmiri language. It is considered sacred in Hinduism as an abode of Shiva and used by Kashmiri Hindus to immerse the ashes of their dead after cremation. It has been described as a place of pilgrimage in several ancient Hindu texts and an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the lake starts from a nearby 8th century Shiva temple. This picture was taken in the month of Shravan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, which is dedicated to the worship of Shiva.

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Flower buds of a Agapanthus praecox Snow White. A pure white dwarf, 45 cm. Focus stack of 50 photos.

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