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President Barack Obama jokingly mimics U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney’s ‘not impressed’ look while greeting members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team in the Oval Office.

National park ‘Sviati Hory’ (Holy Mountains), Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.”n

A swallow drinking while flying over a swimming pool

Averbode Abbey church interior, Belgium

A view to Romsdalen from the Litlefjellet ridge between Romsdalen and Vengedalen, Møre og Romsdal, Norway.

Castle Neuschwanstein at Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany

Cigarette smuggling with a book. This exhibit was on display in the Main Custom Office in Munich.

Cologne Cathedral at night in Köln, Germany

“A Namaqua chameleon in threat display, Namib desert, Namibia

Macrocranion species “are often described as forest-floor predators, about the size of small squirrels but with longer limbs” This one is described as “Eocene, Messel, Germany; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany.

Enchanted Forest, Garajonay National Park, La Gomera, Spain

Gypsum crystals of the Naica cave, person in the Cave of the Crystals” for scale. Photographs taken from inside Naica Mine in Mexico are rare, yet the photographer released this one to the Commons.

Harbor entrance with Bavarian Lion, the New Lighthouse and the Schwaben in Lindau (Lake Constance, Germany).”

Indian street-seller hands displaying green chickpeas

Island Neuwerk near HamburgIsland Neuwerk near Hamburg in Germany’s Wadden Sea in Germany’s Wadden Sea

James Webb Space Telescope Mirror

This is Jeju Island in South Korea

Night view of Macau Science Center

Newborn bat of Lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis). Captured within 12 hours from the birth.

Night view of Santa Maria della Salute basilica in Venice

Rainbow over Sickla kaj, Södra Hammarbyhamnen, Stockholm

Wiesen Viaduct between Wiesen and Filisur, Switzerland.

This photo is of “Sahrawi tribal men performing fantasia at the Tan-Tan (Moussem) Festival in Tan-Tan, Morocco.” You don’t see that every dayHere’s another stunner in Nature Views. “Sand dunes in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Older dunes are reddish and larger, newer dunes are yellow-brown

Aircraft Rescue Firefighting training (U.S. Marine Corps).

Nature View from the “Second chamber of the Smoo Cave, Durness in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland

The other end of the spectrum, photo submission under Plants and fungi: “SEM image of Tradescantia pollen and stamens

“Vintage travel gear seller at the marche Dauphine, Paris”.

Singapore National Day Parade fireworks, preview Marina Bay Sands floating platform

NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida

NASA in the 1980. Caption: The April 12 (1981) launch at Pad 39A of STS-1, just seconds past 7 a.m., carries astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen into an Earth orbital mission scheduled to last for 54 hours, ending with unpowered landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California

Swiss House (Schweizerhaus) at palace garden of Ritzenbüttel Castle.”

Two Rhaetian Railways ABe 4/4 III multiple units with a local train are just crossing the spiral viaduct near Brusio, Switzerland.

Night view of The Széchenyi Chain Bridge from Buda Castle in Budapest Jagadir Pps