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 View from the top of Sossusvlei, Namibia. Change image |
Histoire d'un crime, a 1901 French silent short by Ferdinand Zecca, is considered to be the earliest French crime film and one of the first to use realistic settings. Choose a new media file |
English : Histoire d'un crime, a 1901 French silent short by Ferdinand Zecca, is considered to be the earliest French crime film and one of the first to use realistic settings.
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Dragon boat racing is an annual traditional sports event in Southeast Asian and Pacific countries. Choose a new media file |
English : Dragon boat racing is an annual traditional sports event in Southeast Asian and Pacific countries.
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 Frenet-Serret-frame moving along a helix around a torus. As a side note: Today is National Doughnut Day Choose a new media file |
English : Frenet-Serret-frame moving along a helix around a torus.
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 Town hall, Christchurch City, New Zealand Change image |
Dream Home, a video entry into Wiki Loves Africa contest 2022, from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Choose a new media file |
English : Dream Home, a video entry into Wiki Loves Africa contest 2022, from Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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 Sunrise in Jasmund National Park in Rügen island, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Change image |
English : Sunrise in Jasmund National Park in Rügen island, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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Entry to the photography contest Wiki Loves Africa 2022, on the theme "Home and Habitat in Africa". Choose a new media file |
English : Entry to the photography contest Wiki Loves Africa 2022, on the theme "Home and Habitat in Africa".
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Traffic on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, IL, next to Lake Michigan. Choose a new media file |
English : Traffic on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, IL, next to Lake Michigan.
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A short documentary covering 3 cases of Egyptian street vendors, belonging to the informal sector of the economy in the city of Cairo. Choose a new media file |
English : A short documentary covering 3 cases of Egyptian street vendors, belonging to the informal sector of the economy in the city of Cairo.
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 Carmelite Monastery, Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Change image |
Short video about Hannah Arendt and her thought Choose a new media file |
English : Short video about Hannah Arendt and her thought
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 Poster for the première of Claude Debussy and Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique on 30 April 1902. A landmark in 20th-century music, it tells the story of a love triangle between Mélisande, her husband Goloud and his brother Pelléas, neither of which ever really know or understand her. Change image |
English : Poster for the première of Claude Debussy and Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique on 30 April 1902. A landmark in 20th-century music, it tells the story of a love triangle between Mélisande, her husband Goloud and his brother Pelléas, neither of which ever really know or understand her.
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Belgian Pride Parade at Kunstberg on 21st of May 2022 Choose a new media file |
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 Crested or Oriental honey buzzard (female) perched on a tree in the Mudumalai National Park, India. Unlike other raptors, the crested honey buzzard eats mainly the larvae and combs of honey bees and wasps. While perched, it follows the flight lines of bees to locate their nests. Change image |
English : Crested or Oriental honey buzzard (female) perched on a tree in the Mudumalai National Park, India. Unlike other raptors, the crested honey buzzard eats mainly the larvae and combs of honey bees and wasps. While perched, it follows the flight lines of bees to locate their nests.
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Timelapse-video of solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 (exactly 1 year ago) from Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia. Taken from a digital camera with an X-ray film filter. Choose a new media file |
English : Timelapse-video of solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 (exactly 1 year ago) from Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia. Taken from a digital camera with an X-ray film filter.
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 The old observatory on Pip Ivan, known as "Biały Słoń", built in 1938 at 2,028 m in Carpathian National Nature Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Change image |
English : The old observatory on Pip Ivan, known as "Biały Słoń", built in 1938 at 2,028 m in Carpathian National Nature Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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An aerial capture from an aircraft viewing from the eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai on January 14, 2022 Choose a new media file |
English : An aerial capture from an aircraft viewing from the eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai on January 14, 2022
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.jpg) A Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Written in the letters "BLM" is a partial list of names of Black Americans killed by police from Eric Garner to George Floyd. Change image |
English : A Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Written in the letters "BLM" is a partial list of names of Black Americans killed by police from Eric Garner to George Floyd.
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And in a crooked dance - Ukrainian spring girl, Odessa, Ukraine. Today is the Christian holiday of Pentecost. Choose a new media file |
English : And in a crooked dance - Ukrainian spring girl, Odessa, Ukraine. Today is the Christian holiday of Pentecost.
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 Neues Schloss Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach, NRW, Germany, built from 1703-1711, now a palace hotel. Change image |
English : Neues Schloss Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach, NRW, Germany, built from 1703-1711, now a palace hotel.
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Quo Vadis, a 1913 Italian film by Enrico Guazzoni, was one of the first blockbusters in the history of cinema. Choose a new media file |
English : Quo Vadis, a 1913 Italian film by Enrico Guazzoni, was one of the first blockbusters in the history of cinema.
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 Aragonite crystal - Los Molinillos, Cuenca, Spain. Size 4×3.6×3.5 cm, weight 100 g Change image |
A documentary film on Cultural Heritage of Adi people of Arunachal Pradesh, procuded by RIWATCH Choose a new media file |
English : A documentary film on Cultural Heritage of Adi people of Arunachal Pradesh, procuded by RIWATCH
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 Night view of the Moscow Kremlin, meaning "fortress inside a city", a fortified complex in the center of Moscow, Russia. It is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers and the Grand Kremlin Palace, former Tsar's Moscow residence. The complex now serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation. Change image |
English : Night view of the Moscow Kremlin, meaning "fortress inside a city", a fortified complex in the center of Moscow, Russia. It is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers and the Grand Kremlin Palace, former Tsar's Moscow residence. The complex now serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation.
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Geldingadalur eruption 2021.03.24, Iceland. Choose a new media file |
English : Geldingadalur eruption 2021.03.24, Iceland.
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_in_water.jpg) Ground agama (Agama aculeata) in water in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa. 16 June is Youth Day in South Africa. It is a public Holiday linked to the Soweto uprising of 1976. Change image |
English : Ground agama (Agama aculeata) in water in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa. 16 June is Youth Day in South Africa. It is a public Holiday linked to the Soweto uprising of 1976.
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A drone flight over Alaskan Way in Seattle, Washington during reconstruction in May 2022. Choose a new media file |
English : A drone flight over Alaskan Way in Seattle, Washington during reconstruction in May 2022.
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 Front of a church bench at the Holy Cross chapel (Kreuzkapelle) in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Front of a church bench at the Holy Cross chapel (Kreuzkapelle) in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Talk on astrophysics by the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory, France. Choose a new media file |
English : Talk on astrophysics by the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory, France.
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 Two falu red fishing huts and a motorboat by the cliff in Rågårdsdal, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. Change image |
English : Two falu red fishing huts and a motorboat by the cliff in Rågårdsdal, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden.
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.jpg) To celebrate Pride Month in 2021, Lincoln Center, a performing arts complex in Manhattan, New York City, USA, lit its landmark fountain rainbow colors. Change image |
English : To celebrate Pride Month in 2021, Lincoln Center, a performing arts complex in Manhattan, New York City, USA, lit its landmark fountain rainbow colors.
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Mollweide projected animation of CO2 data from the OCO-2 mission. Data spans from September 2014 to August 2015. As the data cycles through the year, you can see an increase CO2 concentrations across the northern hemisphere going from winter to spring. Then in the summer, as vegetation reaches it's peak, there is a noticeable decline in CO2 concentration throughout the entire northern hemisphere. Choose a new media file |
English : Mollweide projected animation of CO2 data from the OCO-2 mission. Data spans from September 2014 to August 2015. As the data cycles through the year, you can see an increase CO2 concentrations across the northern hemisphere going from winter to spring. Then in the summer, as vegetation reaches it's peak, there is a noticeable decline in CO2 concentration throughout the entire northern hemisphere.
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Feeding dive of a yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) in Otago Peninsula, New Zealand, 18.12.2015. Footage recorded during pilot study trialling new HD cameras deployed on a penguin. Video covers a single dive including prey encounter and capture. Fish captured is an Opalfish (Hemerocoetes monopterygius). Camera: Mobius ActionCam modified by Mike McPherson to allow timed and extended recording. Choose a new media file |
English : Feeding dive of a yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) in Otago Peninsula, New Zealand, 18.12.2015. Footage recorded during pilot study trialling new HD cameras deployed on a penguin. Video covers a single dive including prey encounter and capture. Fish captured is an Opalfish (Hemerocoetes monopterygius). Camera: Mobius ActionCam modified by Mike McPherson to allow timed and extended recording.
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 Reftinsky reservoir in Sverdlovsk region, Russia. Change image |
A group that monitors landmines says more than 25,000 people have been killed or injured in landmine accidents in Afghanistan since 1978. An Afghan expert on unexploded ordinances told VOA he has made it his life's mission to defuse the devices before they maim and kill. But as VOA's Azizullah Popal and Zabihullah Ghazi found in this report from Afghanistan, Seraj Ahmad Afghanmal can't save everyone from the terrible consequences of a landmine explosion. Shaista Sadat Lami narrates their story. Choose a new media file |
English : A group that monitors landmines says more than 25,000 people have been killed or injured in landmine accidents in Afghanistan since 1978. An Afghan expert on unexploded ordinances told VOA he has made it his life's mission to defuse the devices before they maim and kill. But as VOA's Azizullah Popal and Zabihullah Ghazi found in this report from Afghanistan, Seraj Ahmad Afghanmal can't save everyone from the terrible consequences of a landmine explosion. Shaista Sadat Lami narrates their story.
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 St. Clara's Cathedral of the beginning of XX century, Horodkivka village, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Change image |
English : St. Clara's Cathedral of the beginning of XX century, Horodkivka village, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.
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Some images of a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) out in the open and then "hidden" in a small crevasse. Choose a new media file |
English : Some images of a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) out in the open and then "hidden" in a small crevasse.
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 Ceiling of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Change image |
English : Ceiling of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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White night over the Neva. Celebration "Scarlet Sails 2021" (general rehearsal on June 24, 2021). Sailing ship "Brig Russia" in Saint Petersburg. Choose a new media file |
English : White night over the Neva. Celebration "Scarlet Sails 2021" (general rehearsal on June 24, 2021). Sailing ship "Brig Russia" in Saint Petersburg.
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 Bohinj Lake in the morning, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Today is the Statehood Day of Slovenia. Change image |
English : Bohinj Lake in the morning, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Today is the Statehood Day of Slovenia.
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Video of the Merrie Melodies short "A Tale of Two Kitties", which fell into the public domain as United Artists, the last rightsholder of the work, failed to renew the copyright on time. Choose a new media file |
English : Video of the Merrie Melodies short "A Tale of Two Kitties", which fell into the public domain as United Artists, the last rightsholder of the work, failed to renew the copyright on time.
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_male_2.jpg) Amber mountain rock thrush (Monticola sharpei erythronotus) male, Montagne d'Ambre National Park, Madagascar. Madagascar gained full Independence from France on 26 June 1960. Change image |
English : Amber mountain rock thrush (Monticola sharpei erythronotus) male, Montagne d'Ambre National Park, Madagascar. Madagascar gained full Independence from France on 26 June 1960.
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Baking pizzas on a USAF McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender Choose a new media file |
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 Ruins of the Syria Street in the Ancient Phrygian town of Laodicea on the Lycus, near Denizli, Turkey Change image |
English : Ruins of the Syria Street in the Ancient Phrygian town of Laodicea on the Lycus, near Denizli, Turkey
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In 2017, the musicians of the Tattooin group set a high bar for themselves like mountains, to conquer Elbrus and play their favorite hits on the summit. Choose a new media file |
English : In 2017, the musicians of the Tattooin group set a high bar for themselves like mountains, to conquer Elbrus and play their favorite hits on the summit.
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 Relief of triumph of Shapur I over Valerian at Naqsh-e Rostam (ca. 241–272 AD), located in Persepolis, Iran. This carving depicts a famous scene in which the Roman Emperor, Valerian, is kneeling before Shapur I and asking for mercy. Shapur defeated Valerian at the Battle of Edessa, in which the entire Roman army was destroyed and Valerian became Shapour's prisoner. This was the first and only time a Roman emperor was taken prisoner. The Emperor Philip the Arab is depicting standing and Gordian III is dead at the feet of Shapur's horse. Change image |
English : Relief of triumph of Shapur I over Valerian at Naqsh-e Rostam (ca. 241–272 AD), located in Persepolis, Iran. This carving depicts a famous scene in which the Roman Emperor, Valerian, is kneeling before Shapur I and asking for mercy. Shapur defeated Valerian at the Battle of Edessa, in which the entire Roman army was destroyed and Valerian became Shapour's prisoner. This was the first and only time a Roman emperor was taken prisoner. The Emperor Philip the Arab is depicting standing and Gordian III is dead at the feet of Shapur's horse.
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A 10-ft high glacier wall broke off in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, sliding onto the highway. Several tourists were stranded even as they were warned to stay away from the moving wall of the glacier. The piece of the glacier can be seen sliding towards the cars on the highway, even as tourists kept trying to capture the incident on camera. Several cars were stranded as well. The Border Roads Organisation cleared the roads on Saturday itself, when the incident occured. Choose a new media file |
English : A 10-ft high glacier wall broke off in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, sliding onto the highway. Several tourists were stranded even as they were warned to stay away from the moving wall of the glacier. The piece of the glacier can be seen sliding towards the cars on the highway, even as tourists kept trying to capture the incident on camera. Several cars were stranded as well. The Border Roads Organisation cleared the roads on Saturday itself, when the incident occured.
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 Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, Canada. Change image |
English : Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, Canada.
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Preparation of Cantonese siu mai Choose a new media file |
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 Two scientists inside LIGO Pre-Stabilized Laser enclosure, wondering what went wrong. Change image |
This descent from K2 will go down in history as one of the most daring descents ever made on skis. Following his solo ascent to the summit – without oxygen – Andrzej Bargiel spent the next seven-plus hours getting down from the 8,611 m peak. Choose a new media file |
English : This descent from K2 will go down in history as one of the most daring descents ever made on skis. Following his solo ascent to the summit – without oxygen – Andrzej Bargiel spent the next seven-plus hours getting down from the 8,611 m peak.
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