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Street scene from the French Quarter.

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A close view of a beautiful pink orchid.

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An underwater view of a coral reef.

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Gray wolf (Canis lupus) over a deer carcass at the International Wolf Center, near Ely, Minnesota.

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A copy of the Luther-translated Bible lies open to the New Testament on a coarse wooden table in a dimly-lit, sparsely-furnished room.

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Merchants set up their tables in the early morning fog.

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A child runs down a dirt road in a bleak African village.

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An aerial view of the Nazca Lines. They are a series of drawings of animals, ge ometric figures, and birds ranging up to 1,000 feet in size.

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In this macro close-up, a bromophemol solution is dripped on raindrops found on a daisy petal to test their acidity.

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Boat race on Lake Minnetonka.

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Cape Point in South Africa.

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A brazier adorned with an effigy of the deity Tlaloc.

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Carmine bee eater birds nesting in a cliff along the Tinga River.

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Sunrise in Oxford, England. Oxford is the city where Lawrence grew up and went to school.

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Twilight view of the Grand Sable Dunes at Michigan's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

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Pillars of a Sabaean moon-god temple jut from the desert near Marib, Yemen, offering clues to a powerful kingdom that may have been ruled by the legendary Queen of Sheba, mentioned in both the Koran and the Bible.

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Pilgrims on the Barkhor.

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An elephant drinks from a waterhole made by swimming pool overflow.

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A giant green sea anemone eating a red cancer crab.

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Common goldeneye duck, Bucephala clangula, swimming past snowy shore.

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A 300x magnification of lipids. An ultraviolet light makes the membranes flores cent.

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Ben Langwell perches on a shelfstone ledge to peer into the 25-foot deep water.

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The submersible Little Hercules sits just under the water along side the research vessel Northern Horizon.

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A dam is being constructed near a fourteenth century fortress.

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Researchers use nets to collect specimens of pacu, a fish that eats fruits and nuts.

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A lizard, perhaps an agamid lizard, clings to a tree branch in the rain forest.

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