Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Day For November 20, 2024
• 11/20/24 at 11:03AM •A man in a boat at Ratargul Swamp Forest, Bangladesh
A man in a boat at Ratargul Swamp Forest, Bangladesh
A solitary mangrove tree on the emerald tropical beach. Havelock Island (Swaraj Dweep), Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean.
Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Sparassis crispa in natural habitat. Focus stack of 20 photos.
Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris), Gal Oya Reservoir, Sri Lanka.
Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Ice crystals on barbed wire in Hausdülmen, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Entrance to the Shazdeh Garden (meaning the Prince`s Garden in Mahan), a historical garden near Mahan, Iran. The 5.5 hectares big garden was built for Mohammad Hassan Khan Sardari Iravani ca. 1850 and was entirely remodeled and extended around 1870 during the eleven years of his governorship in the Qajar dynasty.
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Olive-bellied sunbird (Cinnyris chloropygius) flying from a flower to another at Kibale forest National Park, Uganda. The bird is looking at the flower on the right to choose it before landing on it.
Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Lightning strikes over the Presidential Palace, in Brasília. After the terrorist attacks of ISIS on different cities in France, Brazil expresses its sympathy by displaying the colors of the French flag on the Palácio da Alvorada. Nov 13, 2015.
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Nature reserve Petgatten De Feanhoop. German Herkules windmill in Petgatten de Feanhoop. Year of construction 1926.
Agnes Monkelbaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.
Crash landing of a U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat (Number 30) of Fighting Squadron 2 (VF-2) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), into the carrier's port side 20mm gun gallery, 10 November 1943. Lieutenant Walter L. Chewning, Jr., USNR, the Catapult Officer, is seen climbing up the plane's side to assist the pilot from the burning aircraft. The pilot, Ensign Byron M. Johnson, escaped without significant injury. Enterprise was then en route to support the Gilberts Operation. Note the plane's ruptured belly fuel tank. Today is Veterans Day in the United States.
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