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Self-portrait by Anna Bilińska, 1887.

Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Wild Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) at Creux du Van with the Swiss Alps in the background during sunset.

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

Fortified city of Carcassonne during the blue hour, France. Founded during the Gallo-Roman period, the citadel derives its reputation from its 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long double surrounding walls interspersed by 52 towers. The medieval citadel, situated on a hill on the right bank of the river Aude, was restored at the end of the 19th century by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. In 1997, it was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites because of its exceptional testimony to the architecture and planning of a medieval fortress town.

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

Narrow-banded dartwhite (Catasticta flisa postaurea) on Mimosa pudica, Villa Gerar, Silvania, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

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Vineyard worker at Guadalupe Valley, Baja California, Mexico, where 95% of Mexican wines are produced.

Tomas Castelazo, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

The Sabha Mandap of the Sun Temple, Modhera, India.

Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Port and lighthouse overnight storm with lightning in Port-la-Nouvelle in the Aude department in southern France.

Maxime Raynal from France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

A shattered ceiling light fixture on a bamboo floor mat. The lamp was a semi flush mounted light fixture with a shallow glass dome of clear glass coated with white glass on the inside. In the fixture are LED light bulbs with E27 Edison screw. The hook in the ceiling suddenly came lose one day and the lamp crashed to the floor in an apartment in Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. Photographed in natural light from the window. Focus stacked from 10 photos.

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Two wood knots which resemble two eyes, a simple example of pareidolia. Detail of a wooden fence in Beilstein, Germany.

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"Plate Dance" (Tari Piring) performance from Sumatra (Indonesia) that may include dancing on broken plates and 'face washing' with plate shards.

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View of the frozen Knollenteich in Hof (Saale), Bavaria, Germany. The cube-shaped concrete water drainage system is completely surrounded by the frozen pond.

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A full-size test article of the SpaceX Crew Dragon named DragonFly fires its eight SuperDraco engines in a development test of its ability to land with the accuracy of a helicopter using only the thrusters. The company conducted two tethered tests vehicle attached to a crane so engineers could refine the landing software and systems on the spacecraft. SpaceX envisions returning people to Earth from space on the power of thrust instead of beneath parachutes. SpaceX, in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, is developing the Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 integrated system to take astronauts to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from the United States.

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