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 Balzhinima Tsyrempilov shooting from the Buryat bow. Photographed in Aginskoe settlement, Transbaikalia, Russia. Change image |
English : Balzhinima Tsyrempilov shooting from the Buryat bow. Photographed in Aginskoe settlement, Transbaikalia, Russia.
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Military truck convoy of the Indian Army on the Leh–Manali Highway. Choose a new media file |
English : Military truck convoy of the Indian Army on the Leh–Manali Highway.
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 The main office complex of the ADAC (General German Automobile Club) in Munich was designed by Sauerbruch Hutton and opened in 2012. Change image |
English : The main office complex of the ADAC (General German Automobile Club) in Munich was designed by Sauerbruch Hutton and opened in 2012.
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Traditional carnatic music performed by Brahma Sri Tiruchendur Appadurai Aiyengar, recorded in Madras (1910). Choose a new media file |
English : Traditional carnatic music performed by Brahma Sri Tiruchendur Appadurai Aiyengar, recorded in Madras (1910).
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 Interior view of one of the domes of the Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran. The mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site started its construction in 1611, during the Safavid dynasty per order of Abbas I of Persia. It's considered one of the masterpieces of Persian architecture in the Islamic era. Change image |
English : Interior view of one of the domes of the Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran. The mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site started its construction in 1611, during the Safavid dynasty per order of Abbas I of Persia. It's considered one of the masterpieces of Persian architecture in the Islamic era.
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Interview of Robert Patrick, who turns 60 years old today. Choose a new media file |
English : Interview of Robert Patrick, who turns 60 years old today.
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 Hoverflies (Simosyrphus grandicornis) mating in midair. Taken in October 2006 at Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia. Change image |
English : Hoverflies (Simosyrphus grandicornis) mating in midair. Taken in October 2006 at Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia.
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Subsisting fragment from Drama in a Gypsy Camp near Moscow, a Russian 1909 silent short by Vladimir Siversen, believed to be the oldest film with Romani actors. Choose a new media file |
English : Subsisting fragment from Drama in a Gypsy Camp near Moscow, a Russian 1909 silent short by Vladimir Siversen, believed to be the oldest film with Romani actors.
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His Prehistoric Past is a 1914 American silent short directed by Charlie Chaplin. Choose a new media file |
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The Curse of Quon Gwon, a 1916 film by Marion E. Wong, is believed to be the earliest subsisting Chinese American film. Choose a new media file |
English : The Curse of Quon Gwon, a 1916 film by Marion E. Wong, is believed to be the earliest subsisting Chinese American film.
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 Panoramic view from the Hagener Hütte at the mountain pass Niederer Tauern near Mallnitz (Carinthia) towards Naßfeld Valley, High Tauern National Park, federal state of Salzburg, Austria Change image |
English : Panoramic view from the Hagener Hütte at the mountain pass Niederer Tauern near Mallnitz (Carinthia) towards Naßfeld Valley, High Tauern National Park, federal state of Salzburg, Austria
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Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 American documentary film by William Wyler on the eponymous B-17 Flying Fortress. Choose a new media file |
English : Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 American documentary film by William Wyler on the eponymous B-17 Flying Fortress.
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 The western facade of Schloss Falkenlust. The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984. Change image |
English : The western facade of Schloss Falkenlust. The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
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English : Song of a thrush nightingale recorded in 1910 by Max Hampe in Bremen for the Gramophone Company.
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 Droste effect with red lighting as part of the Interference visual effects event in the Tunis Medina, Tunisia. Change image |
English : Droste effect with red lighting as part of the Interference visual effects event in the Tunis Medina, Tunisia.
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Le Pont Mirabeau and Marie, two French poems, read in 1913 by their author, Guillaume Apollinaire. Choose a new media file |
English : Le Pont Mirabeau and Marie, two French poems, read in 1913 by their author, Guillaume Apollinaire.
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 Lake Stappitz in the Seebach Valley near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia, Austria Change image |
English : Lake Stappitz in the Seebach Valley near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia, Austria
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A hundred years ago women got the right to vote in Germany during the Novemberrevolution 1918 Choose a new media file |
English : A hundred years ago women got the right to vote in Germany during the Novemberrevolution 1918
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_mating.jpg) Marsh fritillaries (Euphydryas aurinia) mating in Brickes Wood, Lydlinch, Dorset. Today is World Kindness Day. Change image |
English : Marsh fritillaries (Euphydryas aurinia) mating in Brickes Wood, Lydlinch, Dorset. Today is World Kindness Day.
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Château Margaux, a zarzuela by Manuel Fernández Caballero, sung by Lola Membrives and Paco Martínez, recorded in 1903 in Barcelona. Choose a new media file |
English : Château Margaux, a zarzuela by Manuel Fernández Caballero, sung by Lola Membrives and Paco Martínez, recorded in 1903 in Barcelona.
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.jpg) Renovation in the attic of the Heiligengrabe monastery, Brandenburg, Germany Change image |
English : Renovation in the attic of the Heiligengrabe monastery, Brandenburg, Germany
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Video from the International Space Station in 8k resolution. Choose a new media file |
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Lorna Doone is a 1922 American silent film by Maurice Tourneur based on the eponymous novel by R. D. Blackmore. Choose a new media file |
English : Lorna Doone is a 1922 American silent film by Maurice Tourneur based on the eponymous novel by R. D. Blackmore.
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 The western facade of Schloss Augustusburg. The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark. Change image |
English : The western facade of Schloss Augustusburg. The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark.
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Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood is a 1922 American silent film by Allan Dwan with Douglas Fairbanks. Choose a new media file |
English : Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood is a 1922 American silent film by Allan Dwan with Douglas Fairbanks.
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Affaires de cœur is a 1909 French silent animated short by Émile Cohl. Choose a new media file |
English : Affaires de cœur is a 1909 French silent animated short by Émile Cohl.
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 Frescos in the ceiling of the church of the Cocoș Monastery, Romania. The monastery, located in a forest clearing 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Niculițel, was built between 1883 and 1913 and is dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. Change image |
English : Frescos in the ceiling of the church of the Cocoș Monastery, Romania. The monastery, located in a forest clearing 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Niculițel, was built between 1883 and 1913 and is dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos.
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A Quasimodo fly (Curtonotum simile) lays eggs into wet sand beside an acacia in the Al Marmoum Conservation Reserve, Emirate of Dubai, UAE. Choose a new media file |
English : A Quasimodo fly (Curtonotum simile) lays eggs into wet sand beside an acacia in the Al Marmoum Conservation Reserve, Emirate of Dubai, UAE.
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 Lake Tekapo in Canterbury Region, New Zealand. Change image |
English : Lake Tekapo in Canterbury Region, New Zealand.
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Bill Hammack on the golfball is a 2010 short video on the technical creativity of the golf ball. Choose a new media file |
English : Bill Hammack on the golfball is a 2010 short video on the technical creativity of the golf ball.
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_male.jpg) Male black darter dragonfly (Sympetrum danae). 20 November is Zumbi dos Palmares, Black Awareness Day (Black Consciousness Day), a public holiday in Brazil. Change image |
English : Male black darter dragonfly (Sympetrum danae). 20 November is Zumbi dos Palmares, Black Awareness Day (Black Consciousness Day), a public holiday in Brazil.
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Gokul Gaav Ke Choriwa sung by Fazal Hussain Khan and recorded in Lahore in 1904 by William Sinkler Darby. Choose a new media file |
English : Gokul Gaav Ke Choriwa sung by Fazal Hussain Khan and recorded in Lahore in 1904 by William Sinkler Darby.
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 The abandoned farmhouse at the Kelvin A. Lewis Farmstead in Creeds, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Change image |
English : The abandoned farmhouse at the Kelvin A. Lewis Farmstead in Creeds, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Colibri is a 1936 Brazilian song composed by Ary Barroso and performed by Odete Amaral. Choose a new media file |
English : Colibri is a 1936 Brazilian song composed by Ary Barroso and performed by Odete Amaral.
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 Umeda Sky Building, designed by Hiroshi Hara and completed in 1993, is the nineteenth-tallest building in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers (173m) that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center. Change image |
English : Umeda Sky Building, designed by Hiroshi Hara and completed in 1993, is the nineteenth-tallest building in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers (173m) that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center.
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Bully Boy is a 1914 British short featuring the illustrator Lancelot Speed. Choose a new media file |
English : Bully Boy is a 1914 British short featuring the illustrator Lancelot Speed.
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On November 23, 1960, the TIROS-2 weather satellite was launched. Unlike TIROS-1 which was limited to the visible spectrum, TIROS-2 also included two infrared radiometers for analysing frontal zones. Choose a new media file |
English : On November 23, 1960, the TIROS-2 weather satellite was launched. Unlike TIROS-1 which was limited to the visible spectrum, TIROS-2 also included two infrared radiometers for analysing frontal zones.
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.jpg) Signed promotional photograph of Farida Arriany, c. 1960. Change image |
English : Signed promotional photograph of Farida Arriany, c. 1960.
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Cohen owes me 97 dollars is a typical Tin Pan Alley song composed by Irving Berlin and recorded by Rhoda Bernard in 1906. Choose a new media file |
English : Cohen owes me 97 dollars is a typical Tin Pan Alley song composed by Irving Berlin and recorded by Rhoda Bernard in 1906.
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 View of one of the Yeddi Gumbez Mausoleums at dusk in Şamaxı, Azerbaijan. The cemetery dates from 1810 and was built for a family of Mustafa khan – the last khan of Shamakhi. Change image |
English : View of one of the Yeddi Gumbez Mausoleums at dusk in Şamaxı, Azerbaijan. The cemetery dates from 1810 and was built for a family of Mustafa khan – the last khan of Shamakhi.
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One of the first recordings of Balinese gamelan in 1928. Choose a new media file |
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 Interior of the parish- and pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary at Maria Saal, Carinthia, Austria Change image |
English : Interior of the parish- and pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary at Maria Saal, Carinthia, Austria
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Today at 11 am CET, the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German parliament is discussing the law on the third gender. In the course of the week the plenum of the Bundestag is expected to pass the law, which will come into force before New Year's Eve. Choose a new media file |
English : Today at 11 am CET, the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German parliament is discussing the law on the third gender. In the course of the week the plenum of the Bundestag is expected to pass the law, which will come into force before New Year's Eve.
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,_Innenhafen_--_2017_--_1699.jpg) Mooring rings at the port of Copenhagen, Denmark Change image |
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The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual is a French 1912 film by Georges Tréville, based on Conan Doyle's eponymous short story featuring Sherlock Holmes. Choose a new media file |
English : The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual is a French 1912 film by Georges Tréville, based on Conan Doyle's eponymous short story featuring Sherlock Holmes.
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Dancers on the #unteilbar (indivisible) demo of 240000 participants in protest against right wingers to show #wirsindmehr (we are more) on 13 October 2018 in Berlin between Alexanderplatz and Brandenburg gate. Choose a new media file |
English : Dancers on the #unteilbar (indivisible) demo of 240000 participants in protest against right wingers to show #wirsindmehr (we are more) on 13 October 2018 in Berlin between Alexanderplatz and Brandenburg gate.
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Burglars of Baghdad Castle is a 1926 Japanese anime by Noburō Ōfuji. Choose a new media file |
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