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The largest waterfall in the world.

The beautiful landscapes of southern Bavaria, Germany, Europe. By Johannes Heuckeroth.

If you keep an open mind, there's more chance you'll catch the big ideas.

The tiny board, made from fossil ivory and ebony, flips up on wincy hinges to reveal 32 minuscule chess pieces. The ring itself is sterling silver, and there's only one of them, made by Arduosity, who notes "I can tell you it is impossible, near impossible to set up."

The Tungurahua volcano spews fumes and lava in Huambalo, Ecuador, Feb. 27, 2016.

A vintage car with U.S. flags drives by the U.S. embassy in Havana. The United States and Cuba formally resumed diplomatic relations, as the Cuban flag was raised at the U.S. State Department in a historic gesture toward ending decades of hostility between the Cold War foes.

The Aleutian Islands are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to both the United States and Russia. Photo by Chris Burkard, and more great shots are at the source included.

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Enhanced color image from Juno

Photo by William Patino

Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, nobody knows exactly how lightning is produced. What is known is that charges slowly separate in some clouds causing rapid electrical discharges (lightning), but how electrical charges get separated in clouds remains a topic of much research. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder.

The National Center for Health Statistics reports the average life expectancy in the United States is 77.9 years. According to the CDC, the leading causes of death in the United States are (in descending order) heath disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. There are so many ways to die early. What follows is a list of activities, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, and your chances of dying from them.

A visitor holds an umbrella in a lavender field in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province