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Geological fieldworks, underground in the Estonian oil shale mine to study the variable mineralogical and chemical composition and microstructure in the different layers of the oil shale profile.

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Le concert champêtre (English: Woodland Music-makers), a 1857 oil-on-canvas by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

Structures with different colored sand on the beach of Morro Jable, Fuerteventura, Spain.

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

Work shed on the Boshuisweg. Location: Kroondomein Het Loo. (Detail).

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Basilica, Xavier, Navarre, Spain. The basilica belongs to the ensemble of the Castle of Xavier, built in the 10th century, although the basilica was not built until end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Of eclectic style, the interior has a unique neogothic nave built with grey stone and white marble. The stained glass is a work of painter Marcelino Santamaría from Burgos. The main altar is an artistic decorative work, carved in stone inlaid with mosaics, bronzes and enamels by the Biais house in Paris. The tabernacle is located on a high relief that represents San Francisco baptizing and preaching.

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Delila Hatuel is an Olympic foil fencer. Today is her birthday.

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View on Val Montanaia (Montanaia Valley), with the Cima Both (2,437 m) on the left and the "Campanile" (2,173 m) in the middle; both are peaks of the Spalti di Toro group, in the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

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A macro shot of a red-and-green macaw's (Ara chloropterus) eye, Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí state, Brazil.

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Chapel of the Sacred Heart in the Jaszczurówka neighborhood of Zakopane, Poland.

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James Montgomery Flagg used the familiar figure of "Uncle Sam" and thus created the most famous recruiting poster by the U.S. Army. From April 1917 to autumn of 1918 more than four million pieces of it were printed. Still utilized in more recent times, this print was probably made in 1975. Today is Veterans Day in the United States.

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U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today is the United States Marine Corps birthday on which it turns 250 years old.

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

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