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This photochrom print depicts a male Irish peasant farmer standing in doorway while smoking a pipe. Today is International Pipe Smoking Day.

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Plains zebras (Equus quagga) in Maputo National Park, Mozambique.

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                   Sonnet

Oh for a poet—for a beacon bright
To rift this changeless glimmer of dead gray; 
To spirit back the Muses, long astray,
And flush Parnassus with a newer light;
To put these little sonnet-men to flight
Who fashion, in a shrewd mechanic way, 
Songs without souls, that flicker for a day, 
To vanish in irrevocable night,

What does it mean, this barren age of ours? 
Here are the men, the women, and the flowers, 
The seasons, and the sunset, as before.
What does it mean? Shall there not one arise 
To wrench one banner from the western skies, 
And mark it with his name forevermore?

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 – 1935) was an American poet born in Maine. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
This poem is in the public domain.

Austrian nordic combined skier Manuel Einkemmer.

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One Hundred Horses by Giuseppe Castiglione, painted in 1728. Collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. Today is Chinese New Year. In traditional Chinese culture, today marks the beginning of Horse Year.

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I was fortunate to come across a group of Pelicans preening in one of the little bays near the fishing piers in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. These three were lined up nicely, and gave me their best profiles for this shot.

Pedestrian crossing on Market Street at Third Street, San Francisco, as seen from One Kearny St.

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