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Picture of the day for November 1, 2020

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Old choir at St Paul's Cathedral in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 31, 2020

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Lutheran Parish Church of Hallstatt, Upper Austria. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 30, 2020

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A female Northern Masked Weaver Ploceus taeniopterus near Lake Baringo, Kenya. Lake Baringo is one of the two large freshwater lakes in Kenya's Great Rift Valley. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 29, 2020

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Anglichanka Rock (Anglichanka literally means "English woman"), a protected natural area in Buryatia, Russia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 28, 2020

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Panoramic view of the city of Alicante from the Santa Bárbara Castle, Spain. The city has a population of aprox. 330.000 and is a popular touristic destination as it's located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The castle, located on 166 metres (545 ft)-high Mount Benacantil, dates from the 9th century.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 27, 2020

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Funfair Send in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyWikipedia: Münster • North Rhine-Westphalia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 26, 2020

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Rosa 'Rosengräfin Marie Henriette'. Flower.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 25, 2020

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View of the Red Mosque in Schwetzingen Palace gardens, Germany, built in 1779–1796. It was never actually a working mosque; instead it was aimed to show Europe’s newfound Enlightenment tolerance to other religious traditions.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 24, 2020

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The Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City, USA. It opened in 1887, one of the first American synagogues established by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and underwent a 20-year restoration which finished in 2007.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 23, 2020

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Strawberry top shell (Clanculus pharaonius), a sea snail found in the shallow subtidal zone throughout the tropics of the Indo-Pacific region.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 22, 2020

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Safari Endeavour vessel exploring the Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, United States.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 21, 2020

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Main building of the University of Wrocław, which was established on this day in 1702. View from the River Oder.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 20, 2020

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The total phase of the June 15, 2011 lunar eclipse lasted an impressive 100 minutes. Its entire duration is covered in this composite of a regular sequence of digital camera exposures, tracking the dark lunar disk as it arced above the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 19, 2020

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Game reserve in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyAlfred von Croÿ commissioned the english landscape architect Edward Milner with the gardening in the 1860s. The work was carried out by the gardener Charles Barnard.Wikipedia: Dülmen • Edward Milner. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 18, 2020

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Lauenstein Castle in Upper Franconia is a medieval hilltop castle where English pounds were counterfeited by prisoners during the Second World War to destabilize the currency of the war opponents. From March to June 1944, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was under house arrest in the castle.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 17, 2020

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The cruise ship AIDAperla at Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam with the high-rises De Rotterdam and World Port Center.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 16, 2020

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Hermitage of St Bartholomew, Canyon of the Lobos River Natural Park, province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain. The hermitage was built in the beginning of the 13th century, and shows the transition from Romanesque to Gothic styles. The temple is located in a remote and quiet location inside the Lobos River Canyon, a National Park.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 15, 2020

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The so-called "Musentempel" in the agra park in Markkleeberg (Saxony) on a sunny autumn day.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 14, 2020

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Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) in the Exotenhaus of the Karlsruhe Zoo.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 13, 2020

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Lough Hyne, seen from a drone 100m above Knockomagh, County Cork, Ireland.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 12, 2020

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Polyporus varius on a dead Sorbus. Location. Natuurterrein De Famberhorst.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 10, 2020

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A male Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus chrysippus) butterfly near Kumarakom, Kerala, India. Known in Africa as the African Monarch, it is one of the first butterflies depicted in art: a representation was found in a 3500-year-old tomb in Luxor, Egypt.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 9, 2020

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Panoramic view of the city of Puno next to the Lake Titicaca, in the Peruvian Andes, not far from Bolivia. Puno is the capital city of the Puno Province and has a population of approx. 150,000. It was established in 1668 by the Spanish nobleman and viceroy Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro. The lake is, by volume of water, the largest in South America and, with a surface elevation of 3,812 metres (12,507 ft), is considered the highest navigable lake in the world. The lake has a maximum length of 190 kilometres (120 mi), a maximum width of 80 kilometres (50 mi), and a surface area of 8,372 square kilometres (3,232 sq mi). The water volume is 893 cubic kilometres (214 cu mi), with a maximum depth of 281 metres (922 ft) and an average depth of 107 metres (351 ft).. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 8, 2020

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De Rotterdam is a building on the Wilhelminapier in the Kop van Zuid district in Rotterdam, designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1998. Detail of facade.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 7, 2020

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16 years ago (2004) in this day, James Hetfield with Metallica was performing in a concert at Corel Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 6, 2020

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Gaet'ale Pond (a small hypersaline lake with hot springs) in the Danakil Depression in Afar Region of Ethiopia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 5, 2020

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Wrangel Tower in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Russia. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 4, 2020

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Panoramic view of the Matanuska River near Palmer, Alaska, United States.. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 3, 2020

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Beach in New Brighton, New Zealand. Learn more .

Picture of the day for October 2, 2020

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"Notgeld" banknote: one billion Mark, Bayerische Notenbank (1923). Learn more .