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The cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris (France) in 2015 during the golden hour.
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The cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris (France) in 2015 during the golden hour.
Antonin Subtil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
The installation "Tusch" by Nevin Aladağ. Today is the UNESCO International World Art Day.
Nevin Aladağ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
4"x3" slide depicting John Wilkes Booth leaning forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln as he watches Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.. The assassination occurred on this date 160 years ago.
unattributed; based on the depiction from a mechanical glass slide by T. M. McAllister of New York, c1865-75 Restored by Adam Cuerden Description BritishImage restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC) Date of birth 8 June 1979 Location of birth United States InfoFieldSee file page for creator info., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
A girl in Maracaibo selling goods for Palm Sunday observance. Today is Palm Sunday.
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Machu Picchu, Peru.
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
The old Jewish cemetery near Waibstadt, Germany. The gravestones in this part date from the 19th century; the photo shows a typical section of that part of the cemetery.
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Beautiful unfurling leaf of a Polystichum setiferum ('Herrenhausen'). Focus stack of 21 photos.
Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
A modernist staircase of the BGK Building in Gdynia, Poland.
Bart Lumber, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
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).
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
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.
Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Male Chocó grasshopper (Opaon varicolor). A wingless short-horned grasshopper endemic to the Andes in Colombia.
Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.