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Dagsins mynd
23 august 2025

The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour on Horseback by Giuseppe Castiglione +/− [fo], +/− [en]

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Niðanfyri sæst eitt yvirlit yvir tær myndir, ið verða vístar sum Dagsins mynd á forsíðuni frá Commons. Henda síðan gevur møguleika fyri týðing av myndatekstinum til so mong mál sum gjørligt.

Allar dagsins myndir mugu vera Útvaldar myndir á Commons. (Útvaldar myndir verða valdar eftir góðskukriterium, ið semja fæst um her). Vel, um gjørligt, myndir frá teimum seinast valdu, ið ikki longu hava verið dagsins mynd.

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Dagsins mynd kann takast við á einari síðu við hjálp frá hesi fyrimynd:
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Myndin kann verða víst við at nýta:
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Myndateksturin kann verða vístur við at nýta:
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English : Édouard Manet's The Café-Concert, 1878. Scene set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart, where women on the fringes of society freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen. Today is International Beer Day.

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English : La Fuentona, Muriel de la Fuente, Soria, Spain. The natural spring is a natural monument since 1998. There are only 6 such monuments in the Community of Castile and León (the biggest in Spain by surface).

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English : Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus), Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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English : U.S. President Barack Obama's official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012. Today is his birthday.

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English : View from Okrążek rock in Piekary towards Vistula River, southern Poland. Tyniec Abbey on the right and Camaldolese Monastery on the left.

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English : Bunker 26 in the Dülmen-Visbeck special ammunition depot, Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : Zernez, Wildenberg Castle in Zernez. Garden shed in the inner garden.

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English : The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024.

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English : The Colosseum was built between 72 and 80 AD and is the largest amphitheatre ever built. It is the symbol of the Italian capital Rome.

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English : West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria

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English : Common yellow gilder (Cymothoe egesta), Kakum National Park, Ghana. Feeding on overripe banana

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English : Ensemble of the Solovetsky Monastery in the fog on a summer evening. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

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English : A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc HH 30 around a newly formed star produced by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. It is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. Herbig-Haro objects are small nebulae found in star formation regions, marking the locations where gas outflowing from young stars is heated into luminescence by shockwaves. HH 30 is an example of where this outflowing gas takes the form of a narrow jet. The source star is located on one end of the jet, hidden behind an edge-on protoplanetary disc that the star is illuminating.

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English : The Victorious Youth is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100 BCE, in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, displayed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California. It was found on this day of 1964 in the sea off Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy.

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English : This painting on the ceiling in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, a church on Via Veneto in Rome, depicts the Virgin Mary being assumed body and soul into heaven. Today is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary in much of Western Christianity or the Dormition of the Mother of God in Eastern Christianity.

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English : Eruption of Strokkur (Icelandic for "churn") a fountain geyser located in the Haukadalur geothermal area, southwest of Iceland.

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English : Position light (with image of St. Christopher) of a Rolls-Royce Phantom II

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English : Flower buds of a Agapanthus praecox Snow White. A pure white dwarf, 45 cm. Focus stack of 50 photos.

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English : Shrine dedicated to Shiva situated at the shore of the Gangabal Lake, a high altitude glacial lake in the Indian Himalayas. The lake is situated at the foot of Mount Haramukh in Jammu and Kashmir, and is called Gangabal meaning 'place of Ganga' in Kashmiri language. It is considered sacred in Hinduism as an abode of Shiva and used by Kashmiri Hindus to immerse the ashes of their dead after cremation. It has been described as a place of pilgrimage in several ancient Hindu texts and an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the lake starts from a nearby 8th century Shiva temple. This picture was taken in the month of Shravan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, which is dedicated to the worship of Shiva.

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English : Moray eels (Muraena augusti) and a cleaner shrimp (Lysmata grabhami), Teno-Rasca marine strip, Tenerife, Spain. It belongs to the family of moray eel and is endemic of the Canary Islands, Madeira and Azores. It is non-migratory, and dwells at a depth range of 0 to 250 metres (0 to 820 ft), most often at around 0 to 50 metres (0 to 164 ft). Muraena augusti is active during the night and hides in holes or crevices during the day. It can reach up to 100 centimetres (39 in) length and is a carnivore that feeds on small fishes, shrimps and crabs. Like all other moray eels their vision is poor but their sense of smell extraordinary.

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English : A woman from the Koch tribe with a lamb.

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English : Male lion (Panthera leo) in Maasai Mara National Park. The Leo astrological sign ends at this time of year.

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English : The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour on Horseback by Giuseppe Castiglione

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English : Patriotic graffiti in Vinnytsia, Ukraine during the war 2022.

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English : Wildlife photographer in a ghillie suit. Some wild animals are very difficult to approach without disturbing them, which sometimes leads some wildlife photographers to wear a ghillie suit when they go in search of them. By remaining undetected, wildlife photographers can observe animal behaviour that would otherwise not be observable if the animal would have had knowledge of human presence.)

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English : View of the old town of Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, seen from the islet Unterwöhrd in the river Kocher.

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English : Children play with bicycle tires among large conical piles of rice at a processing mill in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh

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English : TDK tape head cleaner cassette "HCL-11" made of clear hard plastic. The plastic is birefringent and demonstrates internal stress as coloured patterns (photoelasticity) when photographed using cross-polarisation. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released on this date in August 1963.

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English : American chocolates from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory

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English : A caterpillar of spurge hawk moth (Hyles euphorbiae), photographed in the Scrivia riverbed, in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, Italy. The larvae of this Europiean hawk moth consumes the leaves and bracts of the leafy spurge (Euphorbia virgata), from which the common name of the species derives.

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English : Formula 1, Dutch Grand Prix 2024: Carlos Sainz jr (ESP, Scuderia Ferrari). Today is this year's Grand Prix.

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