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Picha ya siku
22 Mei 2025
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Worm's-eye view of Tokyo Skytree, Japan. The tower was opened to the public on this day in 2012.
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1


Kubadilisha picha
English : The submerged St. Nicholas Church in Mavrovo, North Macedonia. Built in 1850, the church served as the main village church of Mavrovo. With the construction of the hydroelectric power station in Mavrovo and the artificial Mavrovo Lake, the church got submerged under water in 1953.

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Kubadilisha picha
English : A man wearing face mask cycling by Wat Phra Kaew outside the wall of the Grand Palace, Bangkok.

3


Kubadilisha picha
English : Canoes on the coast, Tsitsikamma National Park (part of Garden Route National Park), Eastern Cape, South Africa

4


Kubadilisha picha
English : Church of St Joseph, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal

5


Kubadilisha picha
English : Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) male in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

6


Kubadilisha picha
English : Motorsport, IDM, Finale Hockenheimring 2022: Melvin van der Voort (NED, Niederlande), IDM Supersport 600.

7


Kubadilisha picha
English : Lake Seliger in Ostashkovsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia.

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Kubadilisha picha
English : Deelerwoud, (the eastern part.) Birchs on a heathland.

9


Kubadilisha picha
English : Interior of the Estates Theatre in Prague, Czechia

10


Kubadilisha picha
English : Crooked doors and decaying brickwork of a building in Savannakhet, Laos

11


Kubadilisha picha
English : Barn swallow juvenile (Hirundo rustica rustica) at the Ormož Basins nature reserve, Slovenia. Taken during a period when the storm Boris blocked migration routes, and low temperatures left the swallows struggling to find prey and stay warm in that area. This one was visibly weak, nevertheless, it had just caught a moth, with remains visible around the beak, and its scales on the face.

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Kubadilisha picha
English : Örebro Castle on the Svartån river in Sweden.

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Kubadilisha picha
English : American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) close up

14


Kubadilisha picha
English : 50th International Dixieland Festival Dresden: Allotria Jazz Band on the open-air stage 'Junge Garde', trombone. The 53rd festival is taking place this week.

15


Kubadilisha picha
English : Green garden lizard (Calotes calotes). A juvenile has climbed a flowering bush, hoping to catch the female common jezebel butterfly (Delias eucharis) in the Sinharaja Forest, Viharahena, Sri Lanka

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Kubadilisha picha
English : Spanish-American biophysicist Eva Nogales in 2023. Today is her birthday.

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Kubadilisha picha
English : Ore bunker in the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

18


Kubadilisha picha
English : Closed flower of an Oenothera stricta 'Sulphurea' (Night bloomer) Focus stack of 54 photos.

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Kubadilisha picha
English : Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Ras Muhammad National Park, Egypt.

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Kubadilisha picha

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Kubadilisha picha

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Kubadilisha picha
English : Worm's-eye view of Tokyo Skytree, Japan. The tower was opened to the public on this day in 2012.

23


Kubadilisha picha
English : Huvudsta metro station, Stockholm

24


Kubadilisha picha
English : This image of Mary Help of Christians was painted after the original by Lucas Cranach the Elder and is located in Maria Hilf pilgrimage church (Moosbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Today is the feast day of Mary Help of Christians in the Catholic Church.

25


Kubadilisha picha
English : The Taras horizon landscape reserve at dawn in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

26


Kubadilisha picha
English : Runners in tunnel. São Martinho do Porto, Portugal.

27


Kubadilisha picha
English : The window in a cafe in San Gimignano opens on Valdelsa, in Tuscany (Italy).

28


Kubadilisha picha
English : Bicycle parked in front of a graffitied building façade with doors, in a street near Kloveniersburgwal, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Front view.

29


Kubadilisha picha
English : Kishū Kumano iwatake tori by Hiroshige II, a Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e style, depicting the harvesting of iwatake mushrooms (Umbilicaria esculenta) near Kumano in the Kishū Domain.

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Kubadilisha picha
English : This stained glass window (1880) located in the Cathédrale Saint-Louis (La Rochelle, France) depicts Joan of Arc. Today is St. Joan's feast day.

31


Kubadilisha picha
English : Fresh water collecting in the valleys between sand dunes in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. A layer of rock beneath the sand prevents the rain water from dissipating during the rainy season, resulting in a broad expanse of lagoons.

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