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Picture of the day for August 1, 2020

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Female Common Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) on a Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) in Bernwood Forest, Oxfordshire. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 31, 2020

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A newborn baby girl yawning.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 30, 2020

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A Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) at the Etschlsattel (2,546 metres (8,353 ft)) near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia, Austria. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 29, 2020

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Interior of the parish church (Christ the King Church) in Mallnitz, Carinthia, Austria. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 28, 2020

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A male Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo), Crockford Stream, Hampshire. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 27, 2020

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Monastery of La Monjía, a fortified monastery located in Fuentetoba, municipality of Golmayo, near the Pico Frentes mountain, Province of Soria, Spain. The Romanesque church was erected by Benedictines in the 11th century but the fortification was added in the 16th century by the Counts of Castejón.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 26, 2020

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Sunset skyline in Umm al-Fahm, Israel. Mosque of Omar (Umm Al-Fahm) can be seen on the right, and Mosque of Abdullah ibn Masud next to it.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 25, 2020

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Książ is the largest castle in the Silesia region, located in northern Wałbrzych in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 24, 2020

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Two-time Olympic champion Yevgeniya Kanayeva from Russia performs at the 2012 Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix in Austria.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 23, 2020

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National Museum building in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 22, 2020

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Stratocumulus clouds above the northwestern Pacific Ocean, about 460 miles east of northern Honshu, Japan.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 21, 2020

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Panoramic view of the Copper River, Glennallen, Alaska, United States.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 20, 2020

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Three Parisian women watching the solar eclipse of 8 April 1921 on the Cour du Havre, next to the Gare Saint-Lazare.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 19, 2020

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Portal with early 20th-century maiolica at the Resurrection Church in Vichuga, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 18, 2020

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Koshary, a popular Egyptian dish.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 17, 2020

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A compound seed capsule of an American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), grown in a Dutch garden.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 16, 2020

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Turks Window at the parish church Perchtoldsdorf (Lower Austria), illustrating the devastation of the town on 16 July 1683, during the Battle of Vienna. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 15, 2020

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The monumental Wittelsbacher fountain in the northern part of central Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. The sculpture on the left is of a woman seated on a bull, holding a bowl, and depicts the healing qualities of water; on the right, a man sits astride a horse and hurls a rock, representing water's destructive power. Built between 1893 and 1895, the design follows drawings of the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 14, 2020

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Large White (Pieris brassicae) butterfly on a Brown Knapweed (Centaurea jacea) flowerhead, Mitterbach am Erlaufsee, Lower Austria. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 13, 2020

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30th Street Station, Philadelphia, illuminated in honor of the 2016 Democratic National Convention.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 12, 2020

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Musk-mallow (Malva moschata) with raindrops, Mitterbach am Erlaufsee, Lower Austria. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 11, 2020

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A composite imaginary view of Japan: silk textile from the Meiji era, now in the Khalili Collection of Japanese Art. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 10, 2020

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Sun getting through fog in the New Zealand bush, Bryant Range. The picture was taken on the trail between Rocks Hut and Middle Creek Hut. This section is part of Te Araroa Trail. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 7, 2020

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Dune ripples near Sossusvlei in the Namib Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 6, 2020

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Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) looking for food in the waves on Lake Windermere. Bowness-on-Windermere, England. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 5, 2020

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Ten Million Mark "Notgeld" banknote from Trier, Germany (1923), designed by Fritz Quant, view of Trier after a copperplate print by Matthäus Merian (1646).. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 4, 2020

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Common blue damselflies (Enallagma cyathigerum) mating in Whitecross Green Wood, Buckinghamshire. The composite shows how the female swings her abdomen to initiate pairing.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for July 3, 2020

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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 July 2, 2020

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Cusheon Lake is the third largest lake of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. This picture was taken from a pier on a public beach by Cusheon Lake Road in the early morning, about 2 hours after the sunrise. Learn more .