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Sand dunes of the Thar Desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan. On this day in 1949, the state was formed after a merger of several Rajput princely states into the Indian Union following India's independence from British colonial rule.
 
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A video zooming-in onto Morpho menelaus butterfly wings down to sub-microscopic scale (with narration by the Lawrence Hall of Science, a public science center in Berkeley, USA).
 
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