U.S. Marines raising theAmerican flag onMount Suribachi during theBattle of Iwo Jima. Today is theUnited States Marine Corps birthday on which it turns 250 years old.

+/− [da],+/− [en]

English : Detail of astained glass window inSt. Barbara's Church (Kutná Hora,Czech Republic). The window depictsSt. Aloysius,St. Monica,St. Francis of Assisi, andSt. Joseph in prayer. Today isAll Saints' Day.

English : Thismemento mori sculpture adorns the Tomb ofGisleni, at theParish Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Today isAll Souls' Day.

English : Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), Red Sea, Egypt

English :Photo art “Miracles of nature” based on a yellowginkgo leaf andintentional camera movement

English :Margaret D. Foster, seen in her lab. The original caption by the National Photo Company is "Miss Margaret D. Foster,Uncle Sam's only woman chemist, Oct. 4/19" - that's possibly a bit misleading, though shedefinitely was the first female chemist in theUnited States Geological Survey team.

English :Fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana monachus), chasing prey inCayo,Belize. This is what the bird looks likewhen it is flying normally, but not grabbing an insect.

English :Cervus nippon inKremenets Hills,Ternopil Oblast,Ukraine.

English : Two tender mushrooms (Mycena galericulata) on dead wood lying under the trees. Focus stack of 20 photos.

English : Twochestnut-tailed starlings (Sturnia malabarica) kissing while perched on a branch inSatchari National Park, Bangladesh

English :U.S. Marines raising theAmerican flag onMount Suribachi during theBattle of Iwo Jima. Today is theUnited States Marine Corps birthday on which it turns 250 years old.

English :James Montgomery Flagg used the familiar figure of "Uncle Sam" and thus created the most famousrecruiting poster by theU.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 isVeterans Day in theUnited States.

English :Chapel of the Sacred Heart in the Jaszczurówka neighborhood ofZakopane, Poland.

English : A macro shot of ared-and-green macaw's (Ara chloropterus) eye,Serra da Capivara National Park,Piauí state, Brazil.

English : 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 theSpalti di Toro group, in theFriulian Dolomites Natural Park,Friuli-Venezia Giulia,Italy.

English :Delila Hatuel is foil fencing olympic athlete. Today is her birthday.

English : Basilica, Xavier, Navarre, Spain. The basilica belongs to the ensemble of theCastle of Xavier, built in the 10th century, although the basilica was not built until end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Ofeclectic 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.

English : Work shed on the Boshuisweg. Location: Kroondomein Het Loo. (Detail)

English :Structures with different colored sand on thebeach ofMorro Jable,Fuerteventura, Spain

English :Le concert champêtre (English:Woodland Music-makers), a 1857 oil-on-canvas by the French painterJean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

English : Geological fieldworks, underground in theEstonian oil shale mine to study the variablemineralogical andchemical composition andmicrostructure in the differentlayers of the oil shale profile.

English : Small grove of trees at sunset in late autumn (Massenbach,Schwaigern, Germany).

English :Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)Gatun Lake,Panama

English : A full-size test article of theSpaceX Crew Dragon namedDragonFly fires its eightSuperDraco engines in a development test of its ability to land with the accuracy of a helicopter using only thethrusters. 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 beneathparachutes. SpaceX, in partnership withNASA’sCommercial Crew Program, is developing the Crew Dragon andFalcon 9 integrated system to takeastronauts to launch astronauts to theInternational Space Station from the United States.

English : View of the frozen Knollenteich inHof (Saale), Bavaria, Germany. The cube-shaped concrete water drainage system is completely surrounded by the frozen pond.

English : "Plate Dance" (Tari Piring) performance fromSumatra (Indonesia) that may include dancing on broken plates and 'face washing' with plate shards.

English : Two wood knots which resemble two eyes, a simple example ofpareidolia. Detail of a wooden fence inBeilstein, Germany.

English : A shattered ceilinglight 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 areLED light bulbs with E27Edison screw. The hook in the ceiling suddenly came lose one day and the lamp crashed to the floor in an apartment inBrastad,Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. Photographed in natural light from the window. Focus stacked from 10 photos.

English : Port and lighthouse overnight storm with lightning inPort-la-Nouvelle in theAudedepartment in southernFrance.

English : TheSabhaMandap of theSun Temple, Modhera, India.

English : Vineyard worker atGuadalupe Valley, Baja California, Mexico, where 95% of Mexican wines are produced.