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 Aurora Australis glows along the horizon from New Harbour Beach in Tasmania, Southwest National Park. Change image |
English : Aurora Australis glows along the horizon from New Harbour Beach in Tasmania, Southwest National Park.
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Today is International Workers' Day. A poor farmer labourer from Maharashtra narrates his story of becoming rich. Choose a new media file |
English : Today is International Workers' Day. A poor farmer labourer from Maharashtra narrates his story of becoming rich.
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 Blue hour view of front of the Royal Palace, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The palace was built as a city hall during the Dutch Golden Age and opened in 1655. The building became the royal palace of King Louis Napoleon and later of the Dutch Royal House. Currently it is one of the 3 palaces at the disposal of the monarch. Change image |
English : Blue hour view of front of the Royal Palace, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The palace was built as a city hall during the Dutch Golden Age and opened in 1655. The building became the royal palace of King Louis Napoleon and later of the Dutch Royal House. Currently it is one of the 3 palaces at the disposal of the monarch.
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A weather vane (an instrument for showing the direction of the wind). Choose a new media file |
English : A weather vane (an instrument for showing the direction of the wind).
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Indian dance (fragments) performed by Elena Tarasova, 2009. Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Choose a new media file |
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 May 4 is a traditional Firefighters' Day in many European countries. On this photo, airmen from the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department conduct training at the Silver Flag area of Kadena Air Base, Japan. Change image |
English : May 4 is a traditional Firefighters' Day in many European countries. On this photo, airmen from the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department conduct training at the Silver Flag area of Kadena Air Base, Japan.
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The Goddess is a 1934 Chinese film by Wu Yonggang. Choose a new media file |
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 Munich shopping mall Fünf Höfe: Detail of "Sphere" by Olafur Eliasson. Change image |
Undercover is a 1943 Office of Strategic Services training film, directed by and featuring John Ford. Choose a new media file |
English : Undercover is a 1943 Office of Strategic Services training film, directed by and featuring John Ford.
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One A.M. is a 1916 Charlie Chaplin film. Choose a new media file |
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_immature_male.jpg) May is a peak month for the common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum). You will see lots of bright blue and black striped ones. This one, from Dry Sandford Pit in Oxfordshire is an immature male and the end of its abdomen is just starting to turn blue. Change image |
English : May is a peak month for the common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum). You will see lots of bright blue and black striped ones. This one, from Dry Sandford Pit in Oxfordshire is an immature male and the end of its abdomen is just starting to turn blue.
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 Panoramic view of the Tara Cathedrals (left) and the Tara salt flat in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Change image |
English : Panoramic view of the Tara Cathedrals (left) and the Tara salt flat in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile.
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Cavatina di Rosina ("Una voce poco fa…") from opera The Barber of Seville. Performed by Aurelia Dobrovolskaya. Recorded in 1914. Choose a new media file |
English : Cavatina di Rosina ("Una voce poco fa…") from opera The Barber of Seville. Performed by Aurelia Dobrovolskaya. Recorded in 1914.
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 Colourful umbrellas hanging over Vestergade, Viborg, Denmark. Change image |
English : Colourful umbrellas hanging over Vestergade, Viborg, Denmark.
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Rapsodia satanica is a 1917 silent Italian film by Nino Oxilia featuring Lyda Borelli in a female version of Faust. Choose a new media file |
English : Rapsodia satanica is a 1917 silent Italian film by Nino Oxilia featuring Lyda Borelli in a female version of Faust.
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 The 17th-century Brill windmill in Buckinghamshire, England Change image |
English : The 17th-century Brill windmill in Buckinghamshire, England
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The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American film by Otto Preminger featuring Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. Choose a new media file |
English : The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American film by Otto Preminger featuring Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak.
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 Thudufushi, formerly one of the uninhabited islands of Alif Dhaal Atoll (South Ari Atoll), Maldives, was developed into a 70 room 4 star plus resort in 1990. Change image |
English : Thudufushi, formerly one of the uninhabited islands of Alif Dhaal Atoll (South Ari Atoll), Maldives, was developed into a 70 room 4 star plus resort in 1990.
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Surviving fragment from With Our King and Queen Through India, a British silent documentary film in Kinemacolor produced by Charles Urban on the 1911 Delhi Durbar. Choose a new media file |
English : Surviving fragment from With Our King and Queen Through India, a British silent documentary film in Kinemacolor produced by Charles Urban on the 1911 Delhi Durbar.
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 Crepuscular ray of light in the north dome room of the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. The mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is one of the oldest still standing buildings in Iran. It was erected in 771 and its architecture was continuously changed until the 20th century. Change image |
English : Crepuscular ray of light in the north dome room of the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. The mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is one of the oldest still standing buildings in Iran. It was erected in 771 and its architecture was continuously changed until the 20th century.
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Srinvivasa Ramanujan – The Mathematician and His Legacy is a 2016 Indian documentary film on the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Choose a new media file |
English : Srinvivasa Ramanujan – The Mathematician and His Legacy is a 2016 Indian documentary film on the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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 Hosta sieboldiana cultivar 'Yellow Splash Rim'. Change image |
English : Hosta sieboldiana cultivar 'Yellow Splash Rim'.
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English : Husseyni Saz Semayissi, traditional music from Turkey played by Hafiz Kemal Bey (kemenche) and Hayrie Hanoum (oud).
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View from a car of the Montjuïc Funicular in Barcelona, Spain. This line connects Paral·lel station of Barcelona Metro with Parc de Montjuïc station at the Montjuïc hill Choose a new media file |
English : View from a car of the Montjuïc Funicular in Barcelona, Spain. This line connects Paral·lel station of Barcelona Metro with Parc de Montjuïc station at the Montjuïc hill
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Raindrops on leaf in slow motion. Choose a new media file |
English : Raindrops on leaf in slow motion.
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 Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre (or Blood Chapel), Monastery Endowment of the Holy Grave, Heiligengrabe, Brandenburg, Germany Change image |
English : Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre (or Blood Chapel), Monastery Endowment of the Holy Grave, Heiligengrabe, Brandenburg, Germany
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Limite is a Brazilian 1931 silent experimental film by Mário Peixoto. Choose a new media file |
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 Pantala flavescens, Globe skimmer, Globe wanderer or Wandering glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. Change image |
English : Pantala flavescens, Globe skimmer, Globe wanderer or Wandering glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae.
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Baron Munchausen's Dream is a 1911 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès, loosely based on Rudolf Erich Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. Choose a new media file |
English : Baron Munchausen's Dream is a 1911 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès, loosely based on Rudolf Erich Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia.
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 The Fernsehturm (in english "Television Tower") is a television tower located in central Berlin, not far from Alexanderplatz, Germany. The tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the administration of the German Democratic Republic with the intention to became a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today. With its height of 368 metres (1,207 ft) (including antenna) it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the second tallest structure in the European Union just beaten by the Riga Radio and TV Tower, which is 50 centimetres (20 in) higher. Change image |
English : The Fernsehturm (in english "Television Tower") is a television tower located in central Berlin, not far from Alexanderplatz, Germany. The tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the administration of the German Democratic Republic with the intention to became a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today. With its height of 368 metres (1,207 ft) (including antenna) it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the second tallest structure in the European Union just beaten by the Riga Radio and TV Tower, which is 50 centimetres (20 in) higher.
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Towards the Light (Danish: Mod Lyset)) is a 1919 Danish silent film by Holger-Madsen starring Asta Nielsen. Choose a new media file |
English : Towards the Light (Danish: Mod Lyset)) is a 1919 Danish silent film by Holger-Madsen starring Asta Nielsen.
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 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. The building is located in the Tiergarten park. It was formerly known as the Kongresshalle conference hall. It was designed in 1957 by the American architect Hugh Stubbins. The building is reflecting in the water basin in front of it. Change image |
English : Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. The building is located in the Tiergarten park. It was formerly known as the Kongresshalle conference hall. It was designed in 1957 by the American architect Hugh Stubbins. The building is reflecting in the water basin in front of it.
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Ave Maria from Gregorian Vespers in honor of Saint Vincent Pallotti (Vesperae de Confessore non Pontifice) recorded by Schola Gregoriana from Pallottine Seminary in Ołtarzew, Poland, conducted by father Dariusz Smolarek. Choose a new media file |
English : Ave Maria from Gregorian Vespers in honor of Saint Vincent Pallotti (Vesperae de Confessore non Pontifice) recorded by Schola Gregoriana from Pallottine Seminary in Ołtarzew, Poland, conducted by father Dariusz Smolarek.
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 Borgmühle (built 1406) in Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
The Pleasure of Your Company is a 1970 U.S. Army educational film for the Women's Army Corps on military etiquette and grooming. Choose a new media file |
English : The Pleasure of Your Company is a 1970 U.S. Army educational film for the Women's Army Corps on military etiquette and grooming.
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_juvenile.jpg) This is a good time of year to spot a juvenile European robin (Erithacus rubecula). You can just see the beginnings of the orange breast. Change image |
English : This is a good time of year to spot a juvenile European robin (Erithacus rubecula). You can just see the beginnings of the orange breast.
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Le Petit Chantecler is a French silent 1910 stop motion film by Émile Cohl, based on Edmond Rostand's Chantecler. Choose a new media file |
English : Le Petit Chantecler is a French silent 1910 stop motion film by Émile Cohl, based on Edmond Rostand's Chantecler.
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 The Red Arrows roll upside down in tight formation during display training over their headquarters at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire Change image |
English : The Red Arrows roll upside down in tight formation during display training over their headquarters at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire
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Cachorro Vira-Lata is a samba-choro composed by Alberto Ribeiro and recorded by Carmen Miranda in 1937. Choose a new media file |
English : Cachorro Vira-Lata is a samba-choro composed by Alberto Ribeiro and recorded by Carmen Miranda in 1937.
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,_Cerro_Brujo,_isla_de_San_Crist%C3%B3bal,_islas_Gal%C3%A1pagos,_Ecuador,_2015-07-24,_DD_151.JPG) Exemplar of red rock crab (Grapsus grapsus), Cerro Brujo, San Cristobal Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Change image |
English : Exemplar of red rock crab (Grapsus grapsus), Cerro Brujo, San Cristobal Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
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Garbage Actually Green Design is a 2010 short educational video by Bill Hammack on garbage and sustainable design. Choose a new media file |
English : Garbage Actually Green Design is a 2010 short educational video by Bill Hammack on garbage and sustainable design.
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 Female leopard (Panthera pardus) descending from its favourite tree, where it spent the warmest hours of the day. Londolozi, Sabi Sand, South Africa Change image |
English : Female leopard (Panthera pardus) descending from its favourite tree, where it spent the warmest hours of the day. Londolozi, Sabi Sand, South Africa
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The Cry of Jazz is a 1959 American documentary film by Ed Bland. Choose a new media file |
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 View of bus station and metro bridge from Slussen towards Gamla stan (Old town) and Riddarholmen. In the background Kungsholmen and Stockholm City Hall Change image |
English : View of bus station and metro bridge from Slussen towards Gamla stan (Old town) and Riddarholmen. In the background Kungsholmen and Stockholm City Hall
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Theatrical trailer of The Maltese Falcon by John Huston. Choose a new media file |
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The Frozen North is a 1922 short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. Choose a new media file |
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 Kitesurfer at sunset, Workum, May 2017. Change image |
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 A wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), lying about 1350 light-years from Earth Change image |
English : A wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), lying about 1350 light-years from Earth
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The Railway Owner is a 1919 Italian silent film by Eugenio Perego based on Georges Ohnet's novel Le Maître de Forges and featuring the Italian diva Pina Menichelli. Choose a new media file |
English : The Railway Owner is a 1919 Italian silent film by Eugenio Perego based on Georges Ohnet's novel Le Maître de Forges and featuring the Italian diva Pina Menichelli.
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 View of some of the Cantalloc aqueducts located near the city of Nasca, Peru. There are more than 40 and they were built by the Nasca culture, a pre-Inca civilization of Nazca, about 1,500 years ago. The aqueducts ensured the supply of water to the city of Nazca and the surrounding fields, allowing the cultivation of cotton, beans or potatoes in an arid region. Change image |
English : View of some of the Cantalloc aqueducts located near the city of Nasca, Peru. There are more than 40 and they were built by the Nasca culture, a pre-Inca civilization of Nazca, about 1,500 years ago. The aqueducts ensured the supply of water to the city of Nazca and the surrounding fields, allowing the cultivation of cotton, beans or potatoes in an arid region.
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Jumping with bicycle. Freeride. Veliky Novgorod, Russia. 2018. Choose a new media file |
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 Leptosia nina, Psyche, Wandering Snowflake, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae found in Asia. Change image |
English : Leptosia nina, Psyche, Wandering Snowflake, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae found in Asia.
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Booked for safekeeping is a 1959 Public Health Service instructional film intending to show policemen proper procedures for handling mentally disturbed citizens. Choose a new media file |
English : Booked for safekeeping is a 1959 Public Health Service instructional film intending to show policemen proper procedures for handling mentally disturbed citizens.
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