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• 08/12/25 at 07:16AM •Ensemble of the Solovetsky Monastery in the fog on a summer evening. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
Александр Байдуков, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Ensemble of the Solovetsky Monastery in the fog on a summer evening. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
Александр Байдуков, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Common yellow gilder (Cymothoe egesta), Kakum National Park, Ghana. Feeding on overripe banana.
Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria.
Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
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.
Anil Öztas, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
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.
Palonitor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Zernez, Wildenberg Castle in Zernez. Garden shed in the inner garden.
Agnes Monkelbaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Bunker 26 in the Dülmen-Visbeck special ammunition depot, Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
View from Okrążek rock in Piekary towards Vistula River, southern Poland. Tyniec Abbey on the right and Camaldolese Monastery on the left.
Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
U.S. President Barack Obama's official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012. Today is his birthday.
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus), Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
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).
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.