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Added on: 3rd Jan 2015

 

LIGHTNING STRIKING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

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Photo – Jay Fine:  With the New Jersey shoreline in the background

the Statue of Liberty is lit up by a lightning strike. Although this bolt

didn’t directly strike Lady Liberty it is estimated that she does

get hit a couple times a year.

 

 

THE STONE WALLS OF ISLA GUAÑAPE NORTE

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Photo – Tomas Monita:  The stone walls of Guañape Norte keep bird

droppings, also known as guano, from falling into the ocean.

This allows farmers to harvest them by hand and use the guano for

fertilizer. In this picture you see a worker returning bones and

feathers that were sifted out.

 

 

WHERE EAST MEETS WEST

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Photo – Bruno Morandi:  Wearing traditional dress this teenager

shoots a basketball at a makeshift rim near Batsumber village on

the Mongolian steppe. Little courts like the one you see here are

springing up in rural villages around the country as the games

starts to catch on with the younger generation.

 

 

HARBIN INTERNATIONAL ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL

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Photo – Zhang Dawei:  Every year in the capital of China’s northernmost

province one of the largest ice and snow festivals in the world is held.

The colourful monuments showcasing palaces, pagodas, and

sculptures will stand for nearly a month in the cold Siberian air.

 

 

MILITARY EXERCISES

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Jung Yeon-Je:  During a military exercise near the Korean demilitarized

zone a South Korean tank, slightly camouflaged with tree branches,

fires smoke shells while passing man made dirt mounds.

 

 

HARVEST MOUSE IN A WHEAT FIELD

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Photo – J. L. Klein and M. L. Hubert:  On a bright sunny morning in

eastern France, this harvest mouse is caught balancing

precariously in an Alsace wheat field. As the smallest rodent

in Europe they use their tail as a third appendage and build

nests that slightly resemble those of a bird.

 

 

DOG LEAPING ACROSS BEACH WALL

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Photo – Alvaro Sanchez-Montañes:  In the coastal town of Essaouira,

Morocco this dog clears a gap in the beach wall with the African

coastline looming in the distance.

 

 

THE SAWTOOTH ALPS

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Photo – Kevin Kunstadt: On these sawtooth peaks in the eastern

Alps of Italy hikers rest on a well kept field sloping down

one side of the mountain.

 


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