Commons:Potd/2011-08 (pt)

English : Hot air balloon festival in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. November 2010.

English : Clynotis severus, Female, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia

English : Türk Yıldızları (Turkish Stars) at the Kecskemet Air Show.

English : Toronto (Canada): Illuminated CN Tower at night

English : American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)

English : Dutch army (Panzerhaubitze 2000) firing on Taliban in Chora District, Afghanistan

English : Altamont Commuter Express crossing the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, between Fremont and San Jose in USA. The train is hauled by an EMD F40PH and consists of Bombardier Bi-Level VI coaches, including a cab car.

English : Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus), Valdes Peninsula, Argentina

English : This skull of a Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is displayed at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France

English : Moni Agios Triadas, Meteora, Greece

English : Immature bracket fungi Dryad's saddle (Polyporus squamosus) and beetles (Diaperis boleti). Ukraine.

English : A nearly full moon sets as the space shuttle Discovery sits atop Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

English : Anniversary: 50 years ago, the Berlin Wall was built – the picture shows members of Kampfgruppen on 13 August 1961 on the west side of the Brandenburg Gate directly to the demarcation line

English : Sebastien Toutant, a snowboarder, at the downtown Quebec big air competition.

English : Detailed map of Indian national highways.

English : “The Fall of Reynolds” – The death of John Fulton Reynolds at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, depicted by Alfred Rudolph Waud.

English : Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis), male feeding on suet, Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, Quebec, Canada

English : Rapperswil is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located at the east side of the Lake Zurich.

English : Fingerprint Cowry (Cyphoma signatum) – Haiti

English : Clock Tower in Graz, Styria, Austria

English : Avian flu vaccine development by Reverse Genetics technique.

English : Male wild Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in the Botanical Garden at Portoviejo, Ecuador.

English : Marmolada, the highest mountain of the Dolomites at sunset.

English : Barred Owl (Strix varia) yawning, Domaine Maizerets, Quebec City, Canada

English : Solar annular eclipse of 15 January 2010 in Jinan, PRC

English : Gais is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.

English : Wild Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in the Botanical Garden at Portoviejo, Ecuador. A female individual, as seen from the relatively short dorsal spines and the green body colouration.

English : Jaral de Berrios, probably the most important Hacienda of colonial times. Its owner at one time was one of the largest landowners in the world. Located in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico.

English : Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in a sea anemone (Heteractis magnifica)

English : Sella group in the Dolomites, Italy

English : Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus)