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A modernist staircase of the BGK Building in Gdynia, Poland.

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Portrait of a geometric moray (Gymnothorax griseus), Red Sea, Egypt. This moray eel belongs to the family Muraenidae and is found throughout the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea at depths to 40 metres (130 ft). Its length is up to 65 centimetres (26 in).

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Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, taken by William Gottlieb at the Downbeat Club, New York, 1947. Today, 110 years ago, she was born in Philadelphia.

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View towards Signal Hill at night, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

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Male Chocó grasshopper (Opaon varicolor). A wingless short-horned grasshopper endemic to the Andes in Colombia.

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Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount Jerusalem.

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Landscape of Pitigliano, Tuscany.

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Central Berlin (Berlin-Mitte) seen from Fischerinsel.

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The Pillars of Creation captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first photo taken of this structure.

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"Lantingji Xu" scroll (Shenlong version). Today’s lunar calendar day is the third day of March (Chinese: 三月初三), is the Shangsi Festival, a traditional festival in ancient China. Legend has it that on the Shangsi Festival in 353, Wang Xizhi held an Orchid Pavilion Gathering and wrote the "Lantingji Xu". The original is lost. This Tang Dynasty copy by Feng Chengsu (馮承素) is considered the best of all the extant copies.

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Jantar Mantar, an astronomical observatory built in the 1730s in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

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The main greenhouse of the Botanical Garden of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Today is the city's 332nd anniversary.

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