December 2025

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English : Narrow-banded dartwhite (Catasticta flisa postaurea) on Mimosa pudica, Villa Gerar, Silvania, Cundinamarca, Colombia

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English : Fortified city of Carcassonne during the blue hour, France. Founded during the Gallo-Roman period, the citadel derives its reputation from its 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long double surrounding walls interspersed by 52 towers. The medieval citadel, situated on a hill on the right bank of the river Aude, was restored at the end of the 19th century by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. In 1997, it was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites because of its exceptional testimony to the architecture and planning of a medieval fortress town.

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English : Wild Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) at Creux du Van with the Swiss Alps in the background during sunset.

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English : Self-portrait by Anna Bilińska, 1887

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English : Milky way seen over the Hochkalter Massif and Lake Hintersee in the German region of Berchtesgadener Land.

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English : St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church (1766) was relocated from the village of Glotovo, Vologda Oblast to the Museum of Wooden Architecture at the Kremlin in Suzdal, Russia. Today is Saint Nicholas Day in much of Eastern and Western Christianity.

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English : Salt crystals in the crystallization basin in the museum “Las Salinas del Carmen”, Antigua, Fuerteventura, Spain

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English : Window in the west facade of the Lutheran Fishermen's Church in Born auf dem Darß, Germany

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English : Val Sinestra. Candlestick fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) on an erosion field

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English : Mountaineers descending into Chola Valley, 5,200 metres (17,100 ft) a. s. l., in good weather conditions, with a panoramic view over snow-capped Himalayan peaks to the south of the Great Himalayan Range in Mahalangur Himal, Nepal, Himalayas. Today is International Mountain Day.

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English : Wild red-chested cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) at Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda

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English : WAB BDhe 4/4 railcar no. 115 with a Bt control car headed down from Kleine Scheidegg to Wengernalp, Switzerland.

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English : A 2-weeks old baby hamster with red eyes. Today is voice actress Haruna Ikezawa's birthday. She voiced Laruna Haruna, the owner of the titular hamster, in the 2000 anime adaption of Hamtaro

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English : Short-nosed unicornfish (Naso brevirostris), Red Sea, Egypt. This species has a maximum published total length of 60 centimetres (24 in). It occurs in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Adults feed mainly on gelatinous zooplankton, while juveniles mainly feed on benthic algae. The switch from grazing to preying on gelatinous zooplankton coincides with the development of the bony protuberance.

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English : Soaked in rain Cyclamen coum sown between the roots of an Alder (Alnus) Focus stack of 10 photos.

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English : Crystallization basins in the museum “Las Salinas del Carmen”, Antigua, Fuerteventura, Spain

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English : Snowy landscape around the Schmidbachtal in Beilstein, Germany, with a distinctive old pear tree.

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English : View of coastline northwest from above Manarola: fields and steep trail to Volastra in foreground, Corniglia Station and town centre, north to Punta Mesco. Depicts the north half of Cinque Terre National Park coastline. Liguria, Italy

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English : Snow on Ayase river by Shōtei Takahashi. 1915 woodcut print from the Rijksmuseum collection.

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English : JŽ 06-018 steam locomotive gear, museum steam locomotive, Central station Ljubljana, Slovenia

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English : Poznań Town Hall with Christmas decorations.

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English : A 1928 advertisement featuring Santa holding a sack of Sunkist lemons.

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English : The American heavy metal band Soulfly at the With Full Force Summer Open Air 2018 in Ferropolis, Germany

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English : Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) male, Dovrefjell National Park, Norway

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English : The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown

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English : Pirogue running on the Mekong in front of an island hosting a Samanea saman (rain tree) and other trees, at sunset with pink clouds, seen from Don Det, Si Phan Don, Laos.

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Januari 2026

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English : New Year's fireworks over the Swabian village Eberhardzell near Biberach an der Riss. Today is New Year's Day.

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English : Blue whale skeleton at the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London, England. 'Hope', nickname of the blue whale skeleton, is 25.2 metres (83 ft) long and is suspended from the ceiling since July 14th 2017. Blue whales are the largest creature ever to have lived in the Earth. In the 1800s there was an estimated amount of 250,000 blue whales across the world's oceans. After decades of commercial hunting the species was to the brink of extinction, with only around 400 surviving in 1966. That year the world took action in London and decided to legally protect blue whales from commercial hunting. Since then the population of blue whales has steadily grown to its current level of around 20,000.

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English : The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known as The Skating Minister (1790s), by Henry Raeburn.

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English : Chestnut-naped antpitta (Grallaria nuchalis ruficeps), Reserva Las Tangaras, Chocó, Colombia.

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English : Shaped by capsizing and melting, this growler was transformed into a modern sculpture. Western side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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English : The site of the former Götaverken Cityvarvet (Götaverken City Shipyards) in Gothenburg.

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English : Vasabron (Vasa bridge) across the Norrström in Stockholm, with Stockholms Stadshuset (city hall) in the background.

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English : A chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) on Deception Island in Antarctica.

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English : Public picnic table at the Arenas Negras recreational area (Tenerife, Spain).

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English : Winter on the Himmeldunkberg. View over the Southern High Rhön

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English : The ceiling mosaic in the Baptistry of Neon in Ravenna, Italy depicts the Baptism of Jesus. Built around 6th century A.D., the building is a UNESCO World heritage site. Today is the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord in much of Western Christianity.

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English : Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus) near Scottsadale,Tasmania, Australia

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English : View in northeast direction from the parking lot at Mirador Astronómico de Sicasumbre, Pájara, Fuerteventura, Spain

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English : WAB Bhe 4/8 149 EMU with control car BDt 254 headed down from Kleine Scheidegg to Wengernalp, Switzerland.

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English : Yellowbar angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus), Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt. This marine angelfish is distributed throughout the Persian Gulf, the northwestern Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea south to 19°S. In 2009 it was recorded off the coast of Lebanon in the eastern Mediterranean, probably as a result of Lessepsian migration from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal. Pomacanthus maculosus is found at depths of between 4 and 50 metres (13 and 164 ft). It is a solitary species that lives in sheltered areas, often where there is a mixture of coral and silt. Their diet is dominated by sea sponges and tunicates, although other invertebrates will be eaten opportunistically. The females attain sexual maturity when the reach around 5.5 years of age and a total length of 21.6 centimetres (8.5 in). The maximum longevity is thought to be 36 years old. They are protogynous hermaphrodites and the older females can change sex to become males when there is a shortage of males. The larvae are planktonic. The yellowbar angelfish is occasionally collected for the aquarium trade and in some parts of the Persian Gulf it has been recorded in fish markets.

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English : The atmospheric plume from an underwater volcano eruption in the Pacific nation of Tonga is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Pacific Ocean northwest of Auckland, New Zealand.

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English : Seeds of an Iris pseudacorus. Focus stack of 18 photos.

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English : The Neckarfront in Tübingen, Germany, seen in the blue hour over the river Neckar. At the left the Hölderlinturm, followed by a row of historic town houses, at the top the tower of St. George’s Collegiate Church.

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English : Grain field in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : Giacomo Raibolini painted this image of Saint Sebastian in the likeness of his father, Francesco Francia. Today is Saint Sebastian's feast day in the Catholic Church and Oriental Orthodox Church.

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English : Trier, Caspar-Olevian-Saal, Trier. Entrance to the Caspar-Olevian-Saal.

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English : Aerial view of 2023 Bishwa Ijtema in Bangladesh. With 5 million adherents, Bishwa Ijtema is the second-largest Muslim gathering in the world.

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English : Northwest view of Yugar village and fields, viewed from Phuktal Gompa. Elevation 3,850 m (12,630 ft)), on the left bank of the Tsarap river (elev. 3,820 m (12,530 ft)). In this arid terrain above the tree line, villagers rely on water from the snow-fed Phu Nala (flowing from centre to bottom) for their fields. Zanskar, Ladakh, India

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English : The entrance of the locomotive Hrvatske Željeznice class 2044 with a local train to Zagreb between Turcin and Sveti Ilija, Croatia. July 2009

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English : Window in a former joinery workshop in Beilstein, Germany. Hop has grown into the workshop and has draped its tendrils before this window.

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English : Apple orchards after snowfall in Sangla in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. India has the second largest area under apple cultivation in the world and is the fifth largest producer of the fruit globally. More than 90% of India's apple production comes from just two of its northern Himalayan states: Jammu and Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh. Today is Republic Day in India.

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English : “Selection” of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to forced labor or the gas chambers. 81 years ago today, on January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army. Today is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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English : Sunset over the ice of Brofjorden in Sandvik, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden

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English : Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwall (Mareca strepera) in misty Taudaha Lake during winter, near Kathmandu, Nepal.

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English : Lake Baikal in winter. Ice ridges near Olkhon island in Pribaikalsky National Park.

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English : Isambard Kingdom Brunel standing before the launching chains of the SS Great Eastern. The ship was launched on this day in 1858.

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