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Drosera capensis, commonly known as the Cape sundew, is a perennial rosette-forming carnivorous plant in the family Droseraceae. It is endemic to the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. As in all sundews, the leaves are covered in stalked, mucilage-secreting glands (or 'tentacles') that attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey. When prey is captured, the tentacles bend inward and the leaves curl around it, preventing escape and enhancing digestion by increasing the surface area of the leaf in contact with the prey. This time-lapse video shows a D. capensis leaf curling up around a Mediterranean fruit fly over a period of approximately six hours.Video credit: Scott Schiller

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Panorama of Along the River During Ching Ming Festival, 18th century remake of a 12th century original by Chinese artist Zhang Zeduan

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Take photos of the following (listed on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Washington, D.C.):

List of Washington, D.C. embassies

Circles in DC:

Anna J. Cooper Circle - intersection of 3rd and T Streets in the LeDroit Park neighborhood
Grant Circle - intersection of New Hampshire and Illinois Avenues and Varnum and 5th Streets
Pinehurst Circle - intersection of Western and Utah Avenues and 33rd and Worthington Streets
Sherman Circle - intersection of Illinois Avenue, Kansas Avenue, 7th Street, and Crittenden Street NW
~~Tenley Circle - Tenleytown.~~
Westmoreland Circle - straddling the Maryland and Washington border, at the intersection of Western Avenue, Butterworth Place, Massachusetts Avenue, Dalecarlia Parkway, and Wetherill Road.

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