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	2025-11-09 (en) Two chestnut-tailed starlings (Sturnia malabarica) kissing while perched on a branch in Satchari National Park, Bangladesh
	2025-11-10 (en) U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today is the United States Marine Corps birthday on which it turns 250 years old.
	2025-11-11 (en) James Montgomery Flagg used the familiar figure of "Uncle Sam" and thus created the most famous recruiting poster by the U.S. Army. From April 1917 to autumn of 1918 more than four million pieces of it were printed. Still utilized in more recent times, this print was probably made in 1975. Today is Veterans Day in the United States.
	2025-11-12 (en) Chapel of the Sacred Heart in the Jaszczurówka neighborhood of Zakopane, Poland.
	2025-11-13 (en) A macro shot of a red-and-green macaw's (Ara chloropterus) eye, Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí state, Brazil.
	2025-11-14 (en) View on Val Montanaia (Montanaia Valley), with the Cima Both (2,437 m) on the left and the "Campanile" (2,173 m) in the middle; both are peaks of the Spalti di Toro group, in the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
	2025-11-15 (en) Delila Hatuel is foil fencing olympic athlete. Today is her birthday.
	2025-11-16 (en) Basilica, Xavier, Navarre, Spain. The basilica belongs to the ensemble of the Castle of Xavier, built in the 10th century, although the basilica was not built until end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Of eclectic style, the interior has a unique neogothic nave built with grey stone and white marble. The stained glass is a work of painter Marcelino Santamaría from Burgos. The main altar is an artistic decorative work, carved in stone inlaid with mosaics, bronzes and enamels by the Biais house in Paris. The tabernacle is located on a high relief that represents San Francisco baptizing and preaching.
	2025-11-17 (en) Work shed on the Boshuisweg. Location: Kroondomein Het Loo. (Detail)
	2025-11-18 (en) Structures with different colored sand on the beach of Morro Jable, Fuerteventura, Spain
	2025-11-19 (en) Le concert champêtre (English: Woodland Music-makers), a 1857 oil-on-canvas by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
	2025-11-20 (en) Geological fieldworks, underground in the Estonian oil shale mine to study the variable mineralogical and chemical composition and microstructure in the different layers of the oil shale profile.
	2025-11-21 (en) Small grove of trees at sunset in late autumn (Massenbach, Schwaigern, Germany).
	2025-11-22 (en) Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi) Gatun Lake, Panama
	2025-11-23 (en) A full-size test article of the SpaceX Crew Dragon named DragonFly fires its eight SuperDraco engines in a development test of its ability to land with the accuracy of a helicopter using only the thrusters. The company conducted two tethered tests vehicle attached to a crane so engineers could refine the landing software and systems on the spacecraft. SpaceX envisions returning people to Earth from space on the power of thrust instead of beneath parachutes. SpaceX, in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, is developing the Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 integrated system to take astronauts to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from the United States.
	2025-11-24 (en) View of the frozen Knollenteich in Hof (Saale), Bavaria, Germany. The cube-shaped concrete water drainage system is completely surrounded by the frozen pond.
	2025-11-25 (en) "Plate Dance" (Tari Piring) performance from Sumatra (Indonesia) that may include dancing on broken plates and 'face washing' with plate shards.
	2025-11-26 (en) Two wood knots which resemble two eyes, a simple example of pareidolia. Detail of a wooden fence in Beilstein, Germany.
	2025-11-27 (en) A shattered ceiling light fixture on a bamboo floor mat. The lamp was a semi flush mounted light fixture with a shallow glass dome of clear glass coated with white glass on the inside. In the fixture are LED light bulbs with E27 Edison screw. The hook in the ceiling suddenly came lose one day and the lamp crashed to the floor in an apartment in Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. Photographed in natural light from the window. Focus stacked from 10 photos.
	2025-11-28 (en) Port and lighthouse overnight storm with lightning in Port-la-Nouvelle in the Aude department in southern France.
	2025-11-29 (en) The Sabha Mandap of the Sun Temple, Modhera, India.
	2025-11-30 (en) Vineyard worker at Guadalupe Valley, Baja California, Mexico, where 95% of Mexican wines are produced.
	2025-12-01 (en) Narrow-banded dartwhite (Catasticta flisa postaurea) on Mimosa pudica, Villa Gerar, Silvania, Cundinamarca, Colombia
	2025-12-02 (en) 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.
	2025-12-03 (en) Wild Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) at Creux du Van with the Swiss Alps in the background during sunset.
	2025-12-04 (en) Self-portrait by Anna Bilińska, 1887
	2025-12-05 (en) Milky way seen over the Hochkalter Massif and Lake Hintersee in the German region of Berchtesgadener Land.
	2025-12-06 (en) 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.
	2025-12-07 (en) Salt crystals in the crystallization basin in the museum “Las Salinas del Carmen”, Antigua, Fuerteventura, Spain
	2025-12-08 (en) Window in the west facade of the Lutheran Fishermen's Church in Born auf dem Darß, Germany
	2025-12-09 (en) Val Sinestra. Candlestick fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon) on an erosion field
	2025-12-10 (en)
	2025-12-11 (en) 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.
	2025-12-12 (en) Wild red-chested cuckoo (Cuculus solitarius) at Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda
	2025-12-13 (en)