Russia"s Lake Baikal is a record-holding wonder: It"s the world"s oldest (25 million years), deepest (over 5,000 feet in some parts), and largest freshwater lake (more than 20 percent of the Earth"s fresh surface water by volume). Baikal lies in the deepest continental rift on Earth, and because the rift is geologically active, the tectonic plates continue to move farther apart.
The Pearl of Siberia
Today in History
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Honoring our veterans
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Keep watching the skies
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Whale hello there!
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Beethoven s 250th
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Dressed to impress
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Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bavljenac Island
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Class, please take out a No. 2 pencil…
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A valley view at 9,000 feet
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The tortoise and the finch
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A ‘circus of chaos’ for Stravinsky
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Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey
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World Population Day
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Azaleas blooming on Hwangmaesan Mountain, South Korea
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Winter scenery near Kuhmo, Finland
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Life in the slow lane
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Cuban tody, Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba
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Happy 300th, NOLA!
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A truly American monument
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Kjell Henriksen Observatory
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3,000 years of history
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Fall for birding
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Dyavolski Most
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Norway s Kjeragbolten boulder
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Panda Day
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Chestnut-eared aracari in the Pantanal, Brazil
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Lucian Blaga National Theater, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Welcome to El Cervantino
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Bird’s-eye view of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California