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Two chestnut-tailed starlings (Sturnia malabarica) kissing while perched on a branch in Satchari National Park, Bangladesh.

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

Two tender mushrooms (Mycena galericulata) on dead wood lying under the trees. Focus stack of 20 photos.

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

In a church which is furnish'd with mullion and gable,
With altar and reredos, with gargoyle and groin,
The penitents' dresses are sealskin and sable,
The odour of sanctity's eau-de-Cologne.
But only could Lucifer, flying from Hades,
Gaze down on this crowd with its panniers and paints,
He would say, as he look'd at the lords and the ladies,
"Oh, where is All-Sinners', if this is All-Saints'?"

Edmund Yates (1831 - 1894) British journalist, novelist and dramatist. Born in Edinburgh. In 1854 he published his first book "My Haunts and their Frequenters", after which followed a succession of novels and plays.Yates was perhaps best known as proprietor and editor, under the pen-name of "Atlas", of The World Society newspaper.

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Cervus nippon in Kremenets Hills, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

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

Fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana monachus), chasing prey in Cayo, Belize. This is what the bird looks like when it is flying normally, but not grabbing an insect.

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Margaret D. Foster, seen in her lab. The original caption by the National Photo Company is "Miss Margaret D. Foster, Uncle Sam's only woman chemist, Oct. 4/19" - that's possibly a bit misleading, though she definitely was the first female chemist in the United States Geological Survey team.

Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) American writer, poet, singer, and civil rights activist.
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Photo art “Miracles of nature” based on a yellow ginkgo leaf and intentional camera movement.

Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

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Saratoga Passage - Camano Island

Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), Red Sea, Egypt.

Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) -  Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. and served as consul in 63 BC. His influence on the Latin language was immense. It is generally believed that he wrote wrote more than three-quarters of the Latin literature that is known to have existed in his lifetime.