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White teatfish (Holothuria fuscogilva), Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt. This species of sea cucumber, also known as white teeth, is found in shallow waters near islands and around coral reefs in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific ocean. Juvenile cucumbers live in shallower waters (such as inter-tidal zones) and then migrate to deeper waters as they mature. Adult cucumbers weigh between 2.4 and 4 kilograms. They are oval in shape and have a firm texture. This species cucumber has lateral papillae (teats) which are often buried in the sand. As it's consumed as a food and is part of a large commercial fishery across its range, it was listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List in 2010 due to overfishing.

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I sought the wood in summer
When every twig was green;
The rudest boughs were tender,
And buds were pink between.
Light-fingered aspens trembled
In fitful sun and shade,
And daffodils were golden
In every starry glade.
The brook sang like a robin—
My hand could check him where
The lissome maiden willows
Shook out their yellow hair.

“How frail a thing is Beauty,”
I said, “when every breath
She gives the vagrant summer
But swifter woos her death.
For this the star dust troubles,
For this have ages rolled:
To deck the wood for bridal
And slay her with the cold.”

I sought the wood in winter
When every leaf was dead;
Behind the wind-whipped branches
The winter sun set red.
The coldest star was rising
To greet that bitter air,
The oaks were writhen giants;
Nor bud nor bloom was there.
The birches, white and slender,
In deathless marble stood,
The brook, a white immortal,
Slept silent in the wood.

“How sure a thing is Beauty,”
I cried. “No bolt can slay,
No wave nor shock despoil her,
No ravishers dismay.
Her warriors are the angels
That cherish from afar,
Her warders people Heaven
And watch from every star.
The granite hills are slighter,
The sea more like to fail;
Behind the rose the planet,
The Law behind the veil.”

This poem is in the Public Domain.

Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – 1947) American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for "One of Ours", a novel set during World War I.
Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience.

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Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), hunting at Richardson Bay near Strawberry, California.

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Desert elephant (Loxodonta africana) spraying sand on herself while guarding her sleeping baby. She has covered the baby with a branch. In Damaraland, Namibia.

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James A. Michener - (February 3, 1907 - October 16, 1997) American writer who wrote more than 40 books. The majority of his books depicted generational family sagas. The list of Michener's books includes Hawaii, Return to Paradise and his first book, Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize.

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Gotland Grand National 2023. Gotland Grand National has long been considered the world’s largest Enduro competition and was first run in 1984.

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Photo taken near Thórsmörk, Iceland. "I thought something was moving next to my window, so i quickly grabbed my camera with a fixed 50mm lens, and asked a friend to hold the pocket lamp…i had to manual focus so there is a whole series of photos behind it, but this one was the sharpest. There was a mouse under the snow, under the window, and that is what got this little foxy so curious…she did not get it" By Jonatan Pie on Unsplash

Archaeological area of Cantona, Puebla, Mexico.

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