Picture of the Day

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People walk through the snow-covered landscape near the Swiss village of Hirzel south of Zurich.

 

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1931 | AFGHANISTAN - photojournalist Maynard Owen Williams marveled how, in this Herat, Afghanistan, bazaar, no one blinked during the three seconds required to make the exposure.

 

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1964 | TANZANIA - A touching moment between primatologist and National Geographic grantee Jane Goodall and young chimpanzee Flint at Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Reserve.

 

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1963 | NEPAL - The first American team to summit Mount Everest in 1963 included National Geographic’s Barry Bishop.

 

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1994 | BOTSWANA - Renowned wildlife filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert photograph an elephant at extremely close range in Botswana’s Savuti region, one of Africa’s last unspoiled wildernesses.

 

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1995 | INDIA - By setting off a camera trap, a female tiger captures her own image in Bandhavgarh National Park.

 

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PERU - The “Ice Maiden,” the 500-year-old mummy of a young Inca girl found on a Peruvian mountaintop by archaeologist in-Residence Johan Reinhard.

 

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UGANDA - A lion climbs a tree to sleep, in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth Park.

 

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BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears have white coats. They are known to the local people as spirit bears.

 

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Salvadoran Jorge Aguilar takes part in the sixth stage of Dakar Rally between Arica and Calama, Chile.

 

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Lucio Alvarez and co-driver Ronnie Graue of team Toyota compete in stage 9 from Tucuman to Cordoba during the 2013 Dakar Rally on Jan. 14 in Tucuman, Argentina.

 

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Carlos Sainz and co-pilot Timo Gottshalk of team Buggy compete during the stage from Pisco to Nazca on day three of the Dakar Rally on Jan. 7 in Pisco, Peru.

 

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Chile's Claudio Rodriguez rides his Honda motorcycle during the second stage of the Dakar Rally.

 

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Brazil's Guilherme Spinelli is seen stuck in a flooded river during Stage 8 of the Dakar Rally between Salta and Tucuman, Argentina.
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Brazil's Guilherme Spinelli, left, observes his Mitsubishi stuck in a river below, as a helicopter passes with an unidentified motorcycle, during Stage 8 of the Dakar Rally between Salta and Tucuman, Argentina.