Category Archives: World in Pictures

Jacob’s Well Texas

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Jacob’s Well is a perennial karstic spring in the Texas Hill Country flowing from the bed of Cypress Creek, located northwest of Wimberley, Texas.The twelve foot (four meter) diameter mouth of the spring serves as a popular swimming spot for the local land owners whose properties adjoin Cypress Creek. From the opening in the creek bed, Jacob’s Well cave descends ... Read More »

Atlantic Ocean Road

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The Atlantic Ocean Road or the Atlantic Road (Norwegian: Atlanterhavsveien) is a 8.3-kilometer (5.2 mi) long section of County Road 64 that runs through an archipelago in Eide and Averøy in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. It passes by Hustadvika, an unsheltered part of the Norwegian Sea, connecting the island of Averøy with the mainland and Romsdalshalvøya peninsula. It runs between ... Read More »

Feed Birds

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A mother and her child feed birds in the Belarus capital, Minsk. Read More »

An Orchid Festival

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Ellie, a horticulturist at Kew, stands on a ladder as she makes final adjustments during a media preview of an Orchid festival at Kew Botanical Gardens in London.  The exhibition is open to the public from Feb. 8 to March 9, and it includes a new new Phalaenopsis hybrid ‘Diamond Sky’ that has not been seen before. Read More »

Top of the World

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Norway’s 63,000-mile coastline boasts otherworldly fjords, bays, and islands. Here, the towering peaks of Norway’s Lofoten Islands make Kirkefjorden seem a world unto itself. Photograph by Orsolya Haarberg Read More »

Riding Bicycle During Sunset

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A woman rides her bicycle during sunset in Hannover, northern Germany. Picture: DPA/AP Read More »

Dog Lover

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you prefer orange or lemon-lime? A dog lover shows off her parka pooches at an international dog exhibition in Minsk. PHOTO BY VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Read More »