The Major Oak of Sherwood Forest.
Size in 1790: Trunk at ground level: 34 ft 4 in circum; at 1 yard: 27 ft 4 in; at 2 yards: 31 ft 9 in. Measured by: Major Hayman Rooke
Size in 1990: Height=16 metres, average diameter=337 cms, species robur, measured by: Alan F.Mitchell

A girl straightens her overcoat as she passes one of the monuments in the open-air museum of World War II in Kiev. Ukraine, along with Russia and other post-Soviet countries celebrated Victory Day on May 9, 2008, marking the end of the war.

Moon over Patagonia : View of the sunset in Bariloche, in the Patagonian Andes, Argentina.
(AFP/Juan Mabromata)

Baby giraffe.

Sign in Negril, Jamaica.