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 Pachliopta pandiyana, Malabar rose, is a swallowtail butterfly endemic to the wet jungles of South India. Change image |
English : Pachliopta pandiyana, Malabar rose, is a swallowtail butterfly endemic to the wet jungles of South India.
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Sixteen photographs assembled in sequence show the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second, in December 2016. Choose a new media file |
English : Sixteen photographs assembled in sequence show the International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second, in December 2016.
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 Alley of the Bazaar in Arg-e Bam, or, Bam Citadel, the largest adobe building in the world and an UNESCO world heritage site, located in Bam, Kerman Province, southeastern Iran. The origin of this enormous citadel on the Silk Road can be traced back to the Achaemenid Empire (6th-4th centuries BC) and even beyond. The citadel was destroyed by the devastating 2003 Bam earthquake that cost over 26,000 lives and is being reconstructed since then. Change image |
English : Alley of the Bazaar in Arg-e Bam, or, Bam Citadel, the largest adobe building in the world and an UNESCO world heritage site, located in Bam, Kerman Province, southeastern Iran. The origin of this enormous citadel on the Silk Road can be traced back to the Achaemenid Empire (6th-4th centuries BC) and even beyond. The citadel was destroyed by the devastating 2003 Bam earthquake that cost over 26,000 lives and is being reconstructed since then.
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It’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy that drive weather, biology and more. In addition to keeping life alive on Earth, the sun also sends out a constant flow of particles called the solar wind, and it occasionally erupts with giant clouds of solar material, called coronal mass ejections, or explosions of X-rays called solar flares. Choose a new media file |
English : It’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy that drive weather, biology and more. In addition to keeping life alive on Earth, the sun also sends out a constant flow of particles called the solar wind, and it occasionally erupts with giant clouds of solar material, called coronal mass ejections, or explosions of X-rays called solar flares.
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_female_underside.jpg) Female silver-spotted skipper butterfly ( Hesperia comma). To celebrate 40 years since the publication of A Nature Conservation Review which identified the most important places for nature conservation in Great Britain. It included the Grade I Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve, an important Site of Special Scientific Interest for the silver-spotted skipper. Change image |
English : Female silver-spotted skipper butterfly ( Hesperia comma). To celebrate 40 years since the publication of A Nature Conservation Review which identified the most important places for nature conservation in Great Britain. It included the Grade I Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve, an important Site of Special Scientific Interest for the silver-spotted skipper.
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The "Black Horse Cavalry" leading the presidential delegation down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. for the second inauguration of William McKinley in 1901. Choose a new media file |
English : The "Black Horse Cavalry" leading the presidential delegation down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. for the second inauguration of William McKinley in 1901.
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,_Parkbank_--_2016_--_1398.jpg) Bench in the Gasthuisstraat in Bredevoort, Gelderland, Netherlands Change image |
Today in the United States of America, it is Coast Guard Day, which commemorates the founding of the United States Coast Guard in 1790. This video is of the MV Cougar Ace listing in July 2006, from which the Coast Guard rescued 23 crew members. Choose a new media file |
English : Today in the United States of America, it is Coast Guard Day, which commemorates the founding of the United States Coast Guard in 1790. This video is of the MV Cougar Ace listing in July 2006, from which the Coast Guard rescued 23 crew members.
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_female_in_flight_2.JPG) Female Red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus). Like Usain Bolt, this hummingbird is a Jamaican endemic Change image |
English : Female Red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus). Like Usain Bolt, this hummingbird is a Jamaican endemic
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Exactly one year ago today, the 2016 Summer Olympics opened, with an opening ceremony directed by Fernando Meirelles, Daniela Thomas and Andrucha Waddington. This video is a timelapse of the Barra Olympic Park during the Olympics at night. Choose a new media file |
English : Exactly one year ago today, the 2016 Summer Olympics opened, with an opening ceremony directed by Fernando Meirelles, Daniela Thomas and Andrucha Waddington. This video is a timelapse of the Barra Olympic Park during the Olympics at night.
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 Sunset in the nature reserve “Westruper Heide” at the flowering of the heath, Haltern am See, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Sunset in the nature reserve “Westruper Heide” at the flowering of the heath, Haltern am See, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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 Alpine pasture Tauscherböden in the Tauern Valley near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia Change image |
English : Alpine pasture Tauscherböden in the Tauern Valley near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia
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An HD video of the view seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery as she conducted her flyaround of the International Space Station after undocking during STS-119. Choose a new media file |
English : An HD video of the view seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery as she conducted her flyaround of the International Space Station after undocking during STS-119.
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 Larva of a Marumba species of moth in the family Sphingidae. Change image |
Today is the Secret Society of Happy People's Happiness Happens Day, which was started in 1999 and designed to promote happiness. This video is of Gen Nyema giving a TEDxGreenville talk called "Happiness is all in your mind". She teaches that we cannot put our happiness at the whim of other people and of circumstances. If we want to be happy, we have to "stop outsourcing our happiness to other people" and cultivate a source of inner peace. Choose a new media file |
English : Today is the Secret Society of Happy People's Happiness Happens Day, which was started in 1999 and designed to promote happiness. This video is of Gen Nyema giving a TEDxGreenville talk called "Happiness is all in your mind". She teaches that we cannot put our happiness at the whim of other people and of circumstances. If we want to be happy, we have to "stop outsourcing our happiness to other people" and cultivate a source of inner peace.
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 Sunflower head. Ukraine. Change image |
English : Sunflower head. Ukraine.
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Pollination of a sunflower. Choose a new media file |
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 View of the rich ceiling of the Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, possibly the most impressive christian temple in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The construction of the Armenian Apostolic church, formaly known as Holy Savior Cathedral, began in 1606 and was finished between 1655 and 1664. The temple was dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618. Change image |
English : View of the rich ceiling of the Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, possibly the most impressive christian temple in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The construction of the Armenian Apostolic church, formaly known as Holy Savior Cathedral, began in 1606 and was finished between 1655 and 1664. The temple was dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618.
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Mr. Hadi Ahmadi was there the day after the earthquake. His work was critical in the rebuilding process during the first years after the earthquake. "When I arrived there, everything was destroyed. There were bodies on the streets. Everything had collapsed." This video shows the reconstruction of Arg-e Bam Citadel in Bam, Iran - which was the largest adobe building in the world. Choose a new media file |
English : Mr. Hadi Ahmadi was there the day after the earthquake. His work was critical in the rebuilding process during the first years after the earthquake. "When I arrived there, everything was destroyed. There were bodies on the streets. Everything had collapsed." This video shows the reconstruction of Arg-e Bam Citadel in Bam, Iran - which was the largest adobe building in the world.
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_--_2015_--_4655.jpg) Dortmund-Ems Canal (view from a bridge) in the hamlet Berenbrock, Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Dortmund-Ems Canal (view from a bridge) in the hamlet Berenbrock, Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Time lapse sequence of a locking in Anderten lock (located at Hannover, Germany). The real time shown in this video was approx. 35 min. Choose a new media file |
English : Time lapse sequence of a locking in Anderten lock (located at Hannover, Germany). The real time shown in this video was approx. 35 min.
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 Quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. The gate was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built between 1788 to 1791. It suffered considerable damage in World War II and during the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall. The area around the gate was featured most prominently in the media coverage of the tearing down of the wall in 1989, and the subsequent German reunification in 1990. After the 1806 Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Napoleon was the first to use the Brandenburg Gate for a triumphal procession and took its Quadriga to Paris. After Napoleon's defeat in 1814 and the Prussian occupation of Paris the Quadriga was restored to Berlin and redesigned as a Prussian triumphal arch. The gate was restored from 2000 to 2002 to its current appearance. Change image |
English : Quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. The gate was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built between 1788 to 1791. It suffered considerable damage in World War II and during the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall. The area around the gate was featured most prominently in the media coverage of the tearing down of the wall in 1989, and the subsequent German reunification in 1990. After the 1806 Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Napoleon was the first to use the Brandenburg Gate for a triumphal procession and took its Quadriga to Paris. After Napoleon's defeat in 1814 and the Prussian occupation of Paris the Quadriga was restored to Berlin and redesigned as a Prussian triumphal arch. The gate was restored from 2000 to 2002 to its current appearance.
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 High altar of St. Pölten Cathedral, Lower Austria. Altarpiece Assumption of Mary by Tobias Pock (1658). Change image |
English : High altar of St. Pölten Cathedral, Lower Austria. Altarpiece Assumption of Mary by Tobias Pock (1658).
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The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. It was directed by Harry Hoyt with special effects by Willis O'Brien. Choose a new media file |
English : The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. It was directed by Harry Hoyt with special effects by Willis O'Brien.
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 Sculpture “Wasser-Plastik” (Heinz Mack, 1977) at the LBS Westdeutsche Landesbausparkasse in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Sculpture “Wasser-Plastik” (Heinz Mack, 1977) at the LBS Westdeutsche Landesbausparkasse in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Newsreels from May 1968 - Construction of a 40 m ferris wheel in the factory in the Holland town Vlodrop to check the construction and the first ride. Choose a new media file |
English : Newsreels from May 1968 - Construction of a 40 m ferris wheel in the factory in the Holland town Vlodrop to check the construction and the first ride.
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 Detail of Lion column (see also: Emblem of India) in Kamala Nehru Park, Mumbai Change image |
Today is the National Liberation Day of Korea, celebrated in both North Korea and South Korea. This video shows part of the Arirang Festival, held in the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2012. This festival possess an important ideological character praising the Workers' Party of Korea, its armed forces, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Choose a new media file |
English : Today is the National Liberation Day of Korea, celebrated in both North Korea and South Korea. This video shows part of the Arirang Festival, held in the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2012. This festival possess an important ideological character praising the Workers' Party of Korea, its armed forces, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
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 Charaxes psaphon, Plain Tawny Rajah, a rare butterfly found in South India, belongs to the Leafwings subfamily of Nymphalidae. Change image |
English : Charaxes psaphon, Plain Tawny Rajah, a rare butterfly found in South India, belongs to the Leafwings subfamily of Nymphalidae.
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.jpg) A male Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) on the island of Rinca in the Komodo National Park. The world's largest living species of lizard: to celebrate the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence on 17 August 1945 Change image |
English : A male Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) on the island of Rinca in the Komodo National Park. The world's largest living species of lizard: to celebrate the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence on 17 August 1945
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 Blue hour view of the pagan temple in the Bazaar square, Old city (İçəri Şəhər), Baku, Azerbaijan. The Old City of Baku, which dates at least from the 12th century, became the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the country in 2000. Change image |
English : Blue hour view of the pagan temple in the Bazaar square, Old city (İçəri Şəhər), Baku, Azerbaijan. The Old City of Baku, which dates at least from the 12th century, became the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the country in 2000.
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 A honey bee, in contrast with the stingless honey bee, is any bee member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. In the United States, National Honey Bee Day is an awareness day observed on the third Saturday of August. Change image |
English : A honey bee, in contrast with the stingless honey bee, is any bee member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. In the United States, National Honey Bee Day is an awareness day observed on the third Saturday of August.
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Tangled Tangoist (1914) is an American silent short film directed by George D. Baker with John Bunny and Flora Finch. Choose a new media file |
English : Tangled Tangoist (1914) is an American silent short film directed by George D. Baker with John Bunny and Flora Finch.
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 NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick, STS-130 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the five-hour, 48-minute spacewalk, Patrick and astronaut Robert Behnken (out of frame), mission specialist, completed all of their planned tasks, removing insulation blankets and launch restraint bolts from each of the Cupola's seven windows. Change image |
English : NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick, STS-130 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the five-hour, 48-minute spacewalk, Patrick and astronaut Robert Behnken (out of frame), mission specialist, completed all of their planned tasks, removing insulation blankets and launch restraint bolts from each of the Cupola's seven windows.
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Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American film directed by Michael Gordon, based on Brian Hooker's translation of Edmond Rostand's play, with José Ferrer in the title role. Choose a new media file |
English : Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American film directed by Michael Gordon, based on Brian Hooker's translation of Edmond Rostand's play, with José Ferrer in the title role.
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 View of the rich ceiling of the interior courtyard of the Borujerdi House, a historic house located in Kashan, Iran. The house dates from 1857 and was constructed by architect Ustad Ali Maryam for a wealthy merchant as proof of love to his wife. Change image |
English : View of the rich ceiling of the interior courtyard of the Borujerdi House, a historic house located in Kashan, Iran. The house dates from 1857 and was constructed by architect Ustad Ali Maryam for a wealthy merchant as proof of love to his wife.
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Look like a winner (1971) is a US army training film intending to give guidance on grooming and social behaviour to Women's Army Corps recruits. Choose a new media file |
English : Look like a winner (1971) is a US army training film intending to give guidance on grooming and social behaviour to Women's Army Corps recruits.
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 Rally Lisboa-Dakar 2006. In the picture Marc Coma (Nº2), winner of the Rally Dakar 2006, in the moto category. The image took place somewhere in the 2006 route. Change image |
English : Rally Lisboa-Dakar 2006. In the picture Marc Coma (Nº2), winner of the Rally Dakar 2006, in the moto category. The image took place somewhere in the 2006 route.
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Mechanical Doll (1922) is an American silent animated cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer from the Out of the Inkwell series. Choose a new media file |
English : Mechanical Doll (1922) is an American silent animated cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer from the Out of the Inkwell series.
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 Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France, as seen from above Change image |
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English : Buildering and roof walking in a French city
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 St. Bartholomew's is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the Berchtesgadener Land district of Bavaria in Germany. An annual pilgrimage to St. Bartholomew's is held on the Saturday after 24 August, starting from the Austrian municipality of Maria Alm and crossing the Berchtesgaden Alps. Change image |
English : St. Bartholomew's is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the Berchtesgadener Land district of Bavaria in Germany. An annual pilgrimage to St. Bartholomew's is held on the Saturday after 24 August, starting from the Austrian municipality of Maria Alm and crossing the Berchtesgaden Alps.
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 Interior view of main dome of Jvari, a UNESCO World Heritage Site monastery from the 6th century located on a hill over Mtskheta, former capital of the Kingdom of Iberia, Georgia. Change image |
English : Interior view of main dome of Jvari, a UNESCO World Heritage Site monastery from the 6th century located on a hill over Mtskheta, former capital of the Kingdom of Iberia, Georgia.
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Brief recording of The Gong, a numbers station believed to have been operated by East German secret services. Choose a new media file |
English : Brief recording of The Gong, a numbers station believed to have been operated by East German secret services.
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First documentary sequences of living gorillas, shot in 1921 by Carl Akeley with a specially improved camera during an expedition to Mt. Mikeno in the Virunga Mountains at the edge of what was then Belgian Congo. Choose a new media file |
English : First documentary sequences of living gorillas, shot in 1921 by Carl Akeley with a specially improved camera during an expedition to Mt. Mikeno in the Virunga Mountains at the edge of what was then Belgian Congo.
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 A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (nose art Thunderbird), below, and a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flying in a heritage flight formation during 2006 Defenders of Liberty Airshow at Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, USA, on May 12, 2006. Change image |
English : A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (nose art Thunderbird), below, and a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flying in a heritage flight formation during 2006 Defenders of Liberty Airshow at Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, USA, on May 12, 2006.
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A United States Air Force strategic bomber B-52 Stratofortress escorted by fighters USAF F-16 Fighting Falcons and Republic of Korea Air Force F-15K Slam Eagles during a low-level flight in the vicinity of Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, on January 10 2016. Choose a new media file |
English : A United States Air Force strategic bomber B-52 Stratofortress escorted by fighters USAF F-16 Fighting Falcons and Republic of Korea Air Force F-15K Slam Eagles during a low-level flight in the vicinity of Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, on January 10 2016.
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A locomotive parade during the rail transport exhibition Expo 1520 in 2013 on the railway test circuit in Shcherbinka, Moscow region, Russia Choose a new media file |
English : A locomotive parade during the rail transport exhibition Expo 1520 in 2013 on the railway test circuit in Shcherbinka, Moscow region, Russia
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 Ceiling of the central room of the Windcatcher (Emarat e Badgir), built during the reign of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and part of the Golestan Palace, the former royal Qajar complex in Iran's capital city, Tehran. The UNESCO World Heritage Site belongs to a group of royal buildings that were once enclosed within the mud-thatched walls of Tehran's arg ("citadel") and is one of the oldest of the historic monuments in the city. Change image |
English : Ceiling of the central room of the Windcatcher (Emarat e Badgir), built during the reign of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and part of the Golestan Palace, the former royal Qajar complex in Iran's capital city, Tehran. The UNESCO World Heritage Site belongs to a group of royal buildings that were once enclosed within the mud-thatched walls of Tehran's arg ("citadel") and is one of the oldest of the historic monuments in the city.
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A scene from Sherlock Holmes, a 1916 American silent film directed by Arthur Berthelet, starring William Gillette. The film was based on a 1899 play where Gillette also played the leading role. It was considered to be lost, but a copy was found in France in 2014. Choose a new media file |
English : A scene from Sherlock Holmes, a 1916 American silent film directed by Arthur Berthelet, starring William Gillette. The film was based on a 1899 play where Gillette also played the leading role. It was considered to be lost, but a copy was found in France in 2014.
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_male_3.jpg) A male emerald damselfly (Lestes sponsa) which flies in England from late June through to September. The Gachalá emerald, one of the most valuable emeralds in the world, was discovered 50 years ago in Colombia Change image |
English : A male emerald damselfly (Lestes sponsa) which flies in England from late June through to September. The Gachalá emerald, one of the most valuable emeralds in the world, was discovered 50 years ago in Colombia
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 Decomposition of a backward somersault in 14 photographs by Eadweard Muybridge (1887). Choose a new media file |
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A plane landing at Malé International Airport in the Maldives. Choose a new media file |
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