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Picture of the day for November 1, 2019

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Stone house on the Bolshoi Zayatsky Island, Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, Russia.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 31, 2019

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Northern part of Lake Wanaka with surrounding mountains, New Zealand.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 30, 2019

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Fountain at National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 29, 2019

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Women working in a rice field near Junagadh, Gujarat, India. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 28, 2019

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Treetop of "Los Dragos Gemelos". Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 27, 2019

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A pile of banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 26, 2019

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Chair-O-Plane at the funfair Send in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyThe autumn Send 2019 starts today.Wikipedia: Münster • North Rhine-Westphalia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 25, 2019

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The galaxy Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 24, 2019

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View of the exterior of the Pula Arena, an amphitheatre located in Pula, Croatia. This Roman edifice was constructed between 27 BC and 68 AD and is among the largest surviving Roman arenas in the world. At the same time, is the best preserved ancient monument in Croatia and the only remaining amphitheater having all four side towers with all three Roman architectural orders entirely preserved.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 23, 2019

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Apricot jam in a glass canning jar with slices of bread. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 22, 2019

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Passage through wall in the Chinese Garden in the Hortus Haren in Haren, Groningen, Netherlands. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 21, 2019

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Landscape of salt and sulfur formations and hot springs on Dallol volcano, Afar Region, Ethiopia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 20, 2019

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Monument to Emperor Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg (Russia). Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 19, 2019

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Valley of Tasman River in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in Canterbury Region, South Island of New Zealand.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 18, 2019

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Cathedral-Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World, Montreal, Canada. The construction of the cathedral, ordered by Ignace Bourget, began in 1875 in order to replace the former Saint-Jacques Cathedral which had burned in 1852. The building is a scale model of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome and the new church was consecrated in 1894. In 2000 the cathedral was designated a National Historic Site of Canada.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 17, 2019

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Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which on its first commemeration in 1987, had 100,000 people gathering on Human Rights and Liberties Plaza in Trocadéro to honour victims of poverty, hunger, violence and fear. This photo shows a female beggar in Guanajuato, Mexico.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 16, 2019

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Garden locust (Acanthacris ruficornis). In the 1870s, the largest locust swarm in history was recorded in the USA and was estimated to contain over 12 trillion (12,000,000,000,000) locusts.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 15, 2019

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Bridge to Gracht Castle in Erftstadt (NRW, Germany). Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 14, 2019

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Hochschwab (2,277 metres (7,470 ft) – view from Hochanger mountain (1,682 metres (5,518 ft)) near Turnau, Styria, Austria. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 13, 2019

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Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) near its whale calf, breaching off to keep away males. Taken offshore (Tahiti, French Polynesia).. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 12, 2019

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War memorial monument ("Kriegerdenkmal"), Hofgarten, in front of the Bayerische Staatskanzlei, Munich, Germany. The monument is composed of an open crypt, that consist of 12 stone blocks, lcoated in the middle of a rectangular pit. The crypt just contains the statue of a dead soldier, a work of Bernhard Bleeker. The monument was inaugurated in 1924. The original statue was replaced by a bronze cast in 1972, and is now exhibited in the Bavarian Army museum in Ingolstadt.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 11, 2019

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Meadow at dawn near Desenka railway halt. Vinnytsia Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 10, 2019

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Helophilus pendulus in France. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 9, 2019

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Dome of the Spanish Synagogue (in Czech Španělská synagoga) in Josefov, Prague, Czech Republic. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 8, 2019

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Panorama of Tasman Lake in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, South Island of New Zealand.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 7, 2019

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1849 "Annie" Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, who died 170 years ago today.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 6, 2019

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Panoramic view of Salar de Carcote, a salt flat located in northern Chile. It covers an area of around 108 square kilometres (42 sq mi) and its surface elevation is 3,690 metres (12,110 ft).. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 5, 2019

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Knapweed fritillary butterfly (Melitaea phoebe) in Bulgaria. Bulgaria became an independent state on 5 October 1908.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 4, 2019

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Altar of Our Lady at the Catholic parish church Hallstatt, Upper Austria. Lienhart Astl (signed), 1510–1520.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 3, 2019

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Sunset in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. High peak on left site is Ben Lomond (974m). Scotland. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 2, 2019

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Eurygaster maura on eyelet.. Learn more .