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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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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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Archaeological area of Cantona, Puebla, Mexico.

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Bust of Germanicus, Getty Villa, California. The young Germanicus is depicted before the Roman rite of depositio barbae, the first shaving of the beard. Adopted by emperor Tiberius, Germanicus should succed him as Emperor, if he hadn't died on this day 2007 years ago.

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PO boxes at the historic U.S. Post Office in downtown Chico, California. Today is International World Post Day.

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Jaguar (Panthera onca) drinking from the river in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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Coturnix coromandelica (Rain Quail) in Bhigwan, Maharashtra, India.

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Berries from a Mahonia aquifolium shrub. Focus stack of 19 photos.

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

Twin mills (front: green mill, 1856; rear: red mill or Schoof’s mill, 1706), Greetsiel, Krummhörn, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Baciccio's Triumph of Franciscan Order depicts the Apostles recommending Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and other Franciscans to Christ for admittance into Heaven. The fresco is on the vaulted ceiling of the Church of the Twelve Holy Apostles in Rome. This year is the 800th anniversary of Francis of Assisi's death. Today is his feast day.

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Brown booby (Sula leucogaster plotus) male in flight over Michaelmas Cay, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

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Gene Autry in 1942. Autry died on this date in 1998.

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