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West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria.

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Another beautiful Camano Island sunset

The Colosseum was built between 72 and 80 AD and is the largest amphitheatre ever built. It is the symbol of the Italian capital Rome.

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The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024.

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Zernez, Wildenberg Castle in Zernez. Garden shed in the inner garden.

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Bunker 26 in the Dülmen-Visbeck special ammunition depot, Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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View from Okrążek rock in Piekary towards Vistula River, southern Poland. Tyniec Abbey on the right and Camaldolese Monastery on the left.

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U.S. President Barack Obama's official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012. Today is his birthday.

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Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus), Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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La Fuentona, Muriel de la Fuente, Soria, Spain. The natural spring is a natural monument since 1998. There are only 6 such monuments in the Community of Castile and León (the biggest in Spain by surface).

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Édouard Manet's The Café-Concert, 1878. Scene set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart, where women on the fringes of society freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen. Today is International Beer Day.

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Triumph of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Andrea Pozzo, celebrates the work of Ignatius of Loyola and the Society of Jesus in the world by depicting the saint welcomed into paradise by Christ and surrounded by allegorical representations of the four continents. The trompe-l'œil fresco adorns the flat ceiling of the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius. Today is Ignatius of Loyola's feast day.

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