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Facets of our Music, our Instruments - the film shows the history of Indian music and instruments. Choose a new media file |
English : Facets of our Music, our Instruments - the film shows the history of Indian music and instruments.
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 Germany’s largest oil field Mittelplate Change image |
English : Germany’s largest oil field Mittelplate
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Gulliver's Travels, a 1939 American cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. Choose a new media file |
English : Gulliver's Travels, a 1939 American cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios.
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 Martin Sesaker representing Norway in curling at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics. Change image |
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English : Slow-Motion record of the blasting of the AfE-Tower (AfE-Turm) in Frankfurt, Germany, 2 February 2014. Recorded with 240 fps, played in 24 fps (10x slowed down).
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 Niels Simonsen, Retreat from Dannevirke, 1864, 1864, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot Episode of the retreat from Dannevirke, 5 - 6 February 1864 - Battle of Sankelmark and Oeversee. Change image |
English : Niels Simonsen, Retreat from Dannevirke, 1864, 1864, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot
Episode of the retreat from Dannevirke, 5 - 6 February 1864 - Battle of Sankelmark and Oeversee. |
"Heritage Place" from the album The Simple Life, Part 1, composed and sung by Josh Woodward. Choose a new media file |
English : "Heritage Place" from the album The Simple Life, Part 1, composed and sung by Josh Woodward.
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 Zenit-B soviet SLR film camera with soviet Helios-44-2 lens. Change image |
Demonstration on 26 October 2014 in the Sivens Dam site, France. On that date, the police killed Rémi Fraisse, 21-year-old student protesting against the construction project. Choose a new media file |
English : Demonstration on 26 October 2014 in the Sivens Dam site, France. On that date, the police killed Rémi Fraisse, 21-year-old student protesting against the construction project.
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Flight over the ruins of Berlin, July 1945. Choose a new media file |
English : Flight over the ruins of Berlin, July 1945.
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 Domestic cat on snow, a ten month old female. Change image |
Ground handling Process at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, time-lapse video. Choose a new media file |
English : Ground handling Process at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, time-lapse video.
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 American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978), pictured in 1949. He was the first African-American composer to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra (his Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" in 1931), the first to have an opera produced by a major opera company (Troubled Island in 1949), and the first to have an opera performed on television (A Bayou Legend broadcast in 1981). Change image |
English : American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978), pictured in 1949. He was the first African-American composer to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra (his Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" in 1931), the first to have an opera produced by a major opera company (Troubled Island in 1949), and the first to have an opera performed on television (A Bayou Legend broadcast in 1981).
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Poem La Nuit de décembre by Alfred de Musset, performed by Bernard Gahide for the Thalie Envolée project. Choose a new media file |
English : Poem La Nuit de décembre by Alfred de Musset, performed by Bernard Gahide for the Thalie Envolée project.
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 Interior (apartment) of the old distillery Löhning, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Interior (apartment) of the old distillery Löhning, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Varanasi ghats, Ganga river, India, 1899. Choose a new media file |
English : Varanasi ghats, Ganga river, India, 1899.
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 Interior of Laon Cathedral Notre-Dame, Picardy, France Change image |
English : Interior of Laon Cathedral Notre-Dame, Picardy, France
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Maersk - Triple-E: Semi-launch time-lapse. Choose a new media file |
English : Maersk - Triple-E: Semi-launch time-lapse.
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 Panoramic view from Sgurr Fiona, An Teallach massif, Scotland. Change image |
English : Panoramic view from Sgurr Fiona, An Teallach massif, Scotland.
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Interview, original work of a wikireporter to Adolfo Garcé, political scientist of Uruguay about the current situation of this country Choose a new media file |
English : Interview, original work of a wikireporter to Adolfo Garcé, political scientist of Uruguay about the current situation of this country
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 Roundhouse wipers having lunch in their rest room, Chicago & North Western Railroad, Clinton, Iowa, USA (April 1943). Change image |
English : Roundhouse wipers having lunch in their rest room, Chicago & North Western Railroad, Clinton, Iowa, USA (April 1943).
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Cosmos Laundromat is a free animation film made with the Blender software. Choose a new media file |
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English : An adult female proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) at Labuk Bay, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
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Video clip by Agence Cumulus. Choose a new media file |
English : Video clip by Agence Cumulus.
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 Reading, 1892, oil on carvas, by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior. Displayed in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Change image |
English : Reading, 1892, oil on carvas, by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior. Displayed in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
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Activist documentary on the independence vote in Catalonia, by AlterJT. Choose a new media file |
English : Activist documentary on the independence vote in Catalonia, by AlterJT.
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 While orbiting over the Gulf of Alaska and moving toward the west coast of the United States, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this panorama looking north into the snow-covered landscape of Canada’s Coast Mountains, the Canadian Rockies, and Vancouver Island. Change image |
English : While orbiting over the Gulf of Alaska and moving toward the west coast of the United States, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this panorama looking north into the snow-covered landscape of Canada’s Coast Mountains, the Canadian Rockies, and Vancouver Island.
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Instrumental Oriental Music of India. Choose a new media file |
English : Instrumental Oriental Music of India.
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 Veined rapa whelk, four views of the same specimen Change image |
English : Veined rapa whelk, four views of the same specimen
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Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), commander of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, descends the ladder of the Apollo Lunar Module (or Lunar Excursion Module, LEM) to become the first human to step foot on the surface of the Moon. Transcription: Choose a new media file |
English : Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), commander of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, descends the ladder of the Apollo Lunar Module (or Lunar Excursion Module, LEM) to become the first human to step foot on the surface of the Moon.
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 Kayaker playboating at Saint-Clément-sur-Durance's canoe stadium, on the Durance river (France). Change image |
English : Kayaker playboating at Saint-Clément-sur-Durance's canoe stadium, on the Durance river (France).
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Portraits, by kynd. Automatically generated based on the photos shared under Creative Commons. Choose a new media file |
English : Portraits, by kynd. Automatically generated based on the photos shared under Creative Commons.
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Suddenly (1954) is an American film noir directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale. Choose a new media file |
English : Suddenly (1954) is an American film noir directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale.
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.jpg) Male ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) guarding his territory from the top of a tomato stake. He will chase off any other hummingbirds that try to feed in "his" area. Change image |
English : Male ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) guarding his territory from the top of a tomato stake. He will chase off any other hummingbirds that try to feed in "his" area.
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Extract from the movie Je lutte donc je suis, by Yannis Youlountas. Choose a new media file |
English : Extract from the movie Je lutte donc je suis, by Yannis Youlountas.
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English : An El 14 electric locomotive hauling a container train on the Dovre Line, near Dombås, Norway.
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The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station on April 20, 2014, delivering almost 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and supplies for the Expedition 39 crew. Choose a new media file |
English : The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station on April 20, 2014, delivering almost 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and supplies for the Expedition 39 crew.
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 Fountain of the Virgin (Fontaine de la Vierge) at Square Jean XXIII and apse of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, France Change image |
English : Fountain of the Virgin (Fontaine de la Vierge) at Square Jean XXIII and apse of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, France
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Quartet San Francisco plays Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo by Rick Derringer at Yoshi's, Oakland, Calif., September 26, 2013. Choose a new media file |
English : Quartet San Francisco plays Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo by Rick Derringer at Yoshi's, Oakland, Calif., September 26, 2013.
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 Holiday lights and reflections from the USS Russell (DDG 59), an Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer, moored in the Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Change image |
English : Holiday lights and reflections from the USS Russell (DDG 59), an Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer, moored in the Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction. Choose a new media file |
English : Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction.
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Ethel: voice, synths, live mix; Radikalibre: Guitar, synths, live mix, musical production; by Veneno para las hadas. Choose a new media file |
English : Ethel: voice, synths, live mix; Radikalibre: Guitar, synths, live mix, musical production; by Veneno para las hadas.
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 Artist's speculative impression of a Hot Jupiter, a type of extrasolar planet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet, comparable in mass to Jupiter, is so close to its red dwarf star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. The planet is only 750,000 miles (about 1.207 million kilometres) from the star, 1/130th the distance between Earth and the Sun. Change image |
English : Artist's speculative impression of a Hot Jupiter, a type of extrasolar planet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet, comparable in mass to Jupiter, is so close to its red dwarf star that it completes an orbit in 10.5 hours. The planet is only 750,000 miles (about 1.207 million kilometres) from the star, 1/130th the distance between Earth and the Sun.
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The damselfly Platycnemis pennipes washing itself. Choose a new media file |
English : The damselfly Platycnemis pennipes washing itself.
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 A reflection on sand and water. Change image |
English : A reflection on sand and water.
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Soviet Toys, a Russian political stop motion film of 1924 by Dziga Vertov, considered to be Soviet Union's oldest animated film. Choose a new media file |
English : Soviet Toys, a Russian political stop motion film of 1924 by Dziga Vertov, considered to be Soviet Union's oldest animated film.
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The Remake of Tears of Steel by CASIA. Thanks to the Blender software and the open source project Mango! Choose a new media file |
English : The Remake of Tears of Steel by CASIA. Thanks to the Blender software and the open source project Mango!
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Original film sound track of Bandhan, a 1940 Indian Bollywood film directed by N. R. Acharya. Choose a new media file |
English : Original film sound track of Bandhan, a 1940 Indian Bollywood film directed by N. R. Acharya.
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 Ceiling fresco of the Marble Hall at Seitenstetten Abbey (Lower Austria) by Paul Troger (1735): The Harmony between Religion and Science Change image |
English : Ceiling fresco of the Marble Hall at Seitenstetten Abbey (Lower Austria) by Paul Troger (1735): The Harmony between Religion and Science
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