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English : Detail of the head of a Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii), Lobos Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The blue-footed booby is a long-winged seabird with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft). The species is 90 cm (35 in) high and is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet. Although the blue-footed boobies are usually associated to the Galápagos Islands (where half of all breeding pairs nest), they can be found from the Gulf of California down along the western coasts of Central and South America down to Peru.

English : Illuminated window of the Observant Church in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

English : Auguste Victoria Compound is a church-hospital complex located on the northern side of Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.

English : Rose chafer beetles (Cetonia aurata) on thistle (Carduus sp.) Bükk National Park, Hungary. The Siege of Budapest was celebrated on 4 April between 1950–1989. It no longer a general holiday.

English : Panorama view of the Khumbu Khola valley above Pheriche. To the left are the peaks of Tawoche (6542 m) and Cholatse (6440 m).

English : The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. Raphael died on April 6, 1520.

English : Romanesque crucifixion group at Seckau Basilica, Styria, Austria

English : Sloping up bare fields, a track with green grass and a lonely pear tree near the Hohe Strasse southeast of Herbolzheim, Neudenau, Germany.

English : Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens), male

English : Polish newspaper headline "The President is Dead". Thirteen years ago today, the Polish government plane Air Force 101 crashed in Smolensk, Russia.

English : Interior of Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul

English : 120" HDPE pipe installation in Mexico City. The pipe is manufactured using virgin high density polyethylene resin.

English : Altaysky Nature Reserve. View of the Chulyshman River Valley.

English : Apartments of Fox Plaza at 1390 Market Street, San Francisco

English : Silver relic coffin of Adalbert of Prague (956-997), Gniezno Cathedral, Gniezno, Poland. The coffin was made by Peter von der Rennen of pure silver in 1662 after the previous one, established in 1623 by King Sigismund III Vasa himself, was robbed by the Swedes in 1655, during the Swedish invasion. The Brick Gothic cathedral served as the coronation place for several Polish monarchs and as the seat of Polish church officials continuously for nearly 1000 years. Throughout its long and tragic history, the building stayed mostly intact making it one of the oldest and most precious sacral monuments in Poland.

English : Three arch bridge (“Dreibogenbrücke”) in Olfen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

English : Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, stamen under the microscope (magnification ×9).

English : Assembly hall inside the University main building in Tartu, Estonia.

English : Aerial view of the Croatian town Motovun

English : Cervus nippon in Kremenets Hills, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

English : Jahangir welcoming Shah 'Abbas, ca. 1618, attributed to Bishandas. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC

English : St. Pölten, Austria, Landhausviertel-Boulevard

English : Traditional house in the village of Malo Ilino, Železnik, Macedonia.

English : Main stage of the Theatre on Podil. Andriivskyi Descent, Kyiv, Ukraine.

English : Dreifaltigkeitssäule (St. Pölten) Austria

English : MC Fitti at Rock am Ring 2013

English : African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa subrufa), Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa. Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994.

English : Nyhavn, district in Copenhagen, Denmark.

English : Flower of a Camellia × williamsii 'Roger Hall'. Focus stack of 11 photos.

English : Traditional sulfur mining at Ijen Volcano, East Java, Indonesia. This image shows the dangerous and rugged conditions the miners face, including toxic smoke and high drops, as well as their lack of protective equipment. The pipes over which they are standing serve to guide sulfur vapors and condense them, thereby easing (well, relatively at least) production.