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Picture of the day for February 1, 2020

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Christchurch Town Hall of the Performing Arts during the blue hour, Christchurch, New Zealand. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 31, 2020

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Cityscape of Seattle just after sunset, seen from the skyscraper Columbia Center at 701 5th Avenue, Seattle, Washington, USA.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 30, 2020

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A ringed seal (Pusa hispida) in the Laptev Sea near Bolshoy Begichev Island, Yakutia, Russia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 29, 2020

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Indonesian actress Aminah Cendrakasih, who acted in more than a hundred feature films, in the late 1950s. Today is her birthday. Photo by Tati Photo Studio.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 28, 2020

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Forest road from the train platform Desenka to the settlement Slavne. Ukraine, Vinnytsia oblast, Vinnytsia rajon. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 27, 2020

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Castle and Collegiate Church of Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 26, 2020

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Juvenile Ugandan defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa) in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. National Resistance Movement Liberation Day in Uganda is celebrated on 26 January.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 25, 2020

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View of the Salar de Uyuni, the surrounding mountains and giant cactuses (Echinopsis atacamensis) in Incahuasi island, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí Department, southwest Bolivia, not far from the crest of the Andes. This salt flat is, with a surface of 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi), the world's largest.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 24, 2020

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Great Wall of China at Badaling.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 23, 2020

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Veritas RS at the Nürburgring (exit Brünnchen), during the 2007 Oldtimer Festival of the DAMC 05.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 22, 2020

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Early morning balloon flight over the West Bank in Luxor in Egypt.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 21, 2020

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Comme des Garçons clothing on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between exhibit in August 2017.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 20, 2020

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An Orthodox priest with Ethiopian crosses at Abba Pentalewon Monastery in Axum, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 19, 2020

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Remains of the casle of Montuenga, a fortification of the 11th century located in Montuenga de Soria, Province of Soria, Spain.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 18, 2020

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Pyrite (Fool's Gold). Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 17, 2020

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Quackenschloß cave near Engelhardsberg in Wiesenttal, Upper Franconia, Germany.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 16, 2020

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A man working on a glass project after removing it from a kiln in Brooklyn, New York.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 15, 2020

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Krasnopresnenskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 14, 2020

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Aerial view of "The Hummingbird", one of the most popular geoglyph of the Nazca Lines, which are located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. The geoglyphs of this UNESCO World Heritage Site (since 1994) are spread over a 80 km (50 mi) plateau between the towns of Nazca and Palpa and were made, according to some studies, between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 13, 2020

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Winged altar at the parish church Gampern, Upper Austria. Lienhart Astl, around 1490–1500.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 12, 2020

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50 Pfennig Notgeld banknote of Flensburg (1921), the banknote depicts the plebiscite on March 14, 1920, in which it was decided that Flensburg remained part of Germany, signed "JHoltz".. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 11, 2020

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Bee balm (Monarda didyma) seedhead in Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 10, 2020

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Pilgrimage chapel St. Vitus on the Ansberg at Ebensfeld, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 9, 2020

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Paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata, female) portrait. Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 8, 2020

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Amphoras of the underground exhibition in 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, it 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 January 7, 2020

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Painting by Johannes Wilhjelm titled Skagens gamle kirke. Nat, Sand-Covered Church from 1910, Skagens Museum.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 6, 2020

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Altar of the Saint Viktor Church in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 5, 2020

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Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963. He led his country from the ruins of World War II to a productive and prosperous nation that forged close relations with France, the United Kingdom and the United States. During his years in power, West Germany achieved democracy, stability, international respect and economic prosperity ("Wirtschaftswunder"). He was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 4, 2020

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Night view of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia. It was built from 1837 to 1849 on the site of the estate of the Grand Princes, which had been established in the 14th century on Borovitsky Hill. The palace, 125 metres (410 ft) long and 47 metres (154 ft) tall, was formerly the tsar's Moscow residence.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 3, 2020

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Beinn an Dòthaidh (1004m) in the morning sun. Scottish Highlands, Scotland. Learn more .

Picture of the day for January 2, 2020

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Sunset in the woods in Tok, Alaska, United States.. Learn more .