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![]() View of Carpathian National Park from Hoverla. Carpathian National Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Change image |
English : View of Carpathian National Park from Hoverla. Carpathian National Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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1st of May demonstration in Brno (2011), Czech Republic. Police wants to separate left and rights parts demonstraters. Choose a new media file |
English : 1st of May demonstration in Brno (2011), Czech Republic. Police wants to separate left and rights parts demonstraters.
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![]() Earrings found in 1915 at Gyeongju. Diameter of the circle in the center is 3.5 centimeter. Change image |
English : Earrings found in 1915 at Gyeongju. Diameter of the circle in the center is 3.5 centimeter.
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Two cats eating meat. Choose a new media file |
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![]() View from Balcón de Europa in Nerja (on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain), view north-east Change image |
English : View from Balcón de Europa in Nerja (on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain), view north-east
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Oilfield pumpjack in Hockley County, Texas Choose a new media file |
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This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission. The colors enhance the chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences between the rocks that make up Mercury's surface. Choose a new media file |
English : This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission. The colors enhance the chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences between the rocks that make up Mercury's surface.
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![]() Eurema blanda, Three-Spot Grass Yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in Asia. Change image |
English : Eurema blanda, Three-Spot Grass Yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in Asia.
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A demonstration of tying a tie. Choose a new media file |
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![]() Branches of Suaeda vera (Shrubby Sea-blite). In the "Lido de Thau", an area protected by the Conservatoire du littoral. Sète, Hérault, France. Change image |
English : Branches of Suaeda vera (Shrubby Sea-blite). In the "Lido de Thau", an area protected by the Conservatoire du littoral. Sète, Hérault, France.
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The Return of Ulysses (1908). Adapted by Mr. Jules Lemaître of the Académie française from Homer's Odyssey. Choose a new media file |
English : The Return of Ulysses (1908). Adapted by Mr. Jules Lemaître of the Académie française from Homer's Odyssey.
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Bones inside the ossuary in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora, the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people. Change image |
English : Bones inside the ossuary in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora, the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people.
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Video demonstration of making waffles. Choose a new media file |
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Speech by Harry S. Truman announcing the surrender of Germany, providing people with hope that World War II would come to a close. Choose a new media file |
English : Speech by Harry S. Truman announcing the surrender of Germany, providing people with hope that World War II would come to a close.
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![]() Holy Mountains Monastery (complex of the architecture monuments of national significance). Sviatohirsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Change image |
English : Holy Mountains Monastery (complex of the architecture monuments of national significance). Sviatohirsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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Jellyfish moving in Sea Life Centres, Munich. Choose a new media file |
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![]() Toompea Castle that houses the Parliament of Estonia. Change image |
The tradition's historical methods of doing laundry by hand in Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum, 2008. Choose a new media file |
English : The tradition's historical methods of doing laundry by hand in Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum, 2008.
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Label being printed in a freshly made PVC pipe in a factory in Uttar Pradesh, India. Choose a new media file |
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A young Ural owl in Albu Parish. Change image |
A flesh fly filmed in the UK. Choose a new media file |
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Thick-headed fly (Myopa buccata) on dandelion (Taraxacum), filmed in Germany. Choose a new media file |
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![]() Town Event Hall ("Stadthalle") of Mülheim an der Ruhr at blue hour Change image |
English : Town Event Hall ("Stadthalle") of Mülheim an der Ruhr at blue hour
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![]() Iron sculpture Zauberlehrling (sorcerer's apprentice) looking like a deformed and dancing power pole, photographed at sunset. Created for EMSCHERKUNST, an art exhibition in the public space. Change image |
English : Iron sculpture Zauberlehrling (sorcerer's apprentice) looking like a deformed and dancing power pole, photographed at sunset. Created for EMSCHERKUNST, an art exhibition in the public space.
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![]() Venus flytrap anemone (Actinoscyphia aurelia) in the Gulf of Mexico. Change image |
Sea conditions encountered by vessels involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Choose a new media file |
English : Sea conditions encountered by vessels involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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![]() Reflection on Matsimäe Pühajärv in Järva County. Change image |
Liesegang band experiment. Red material is gelatin with Mg sulfate and a drop of red food coloring; clear material above it is concentrated ammonium hydroxide. Diffusion of NH4OH into the gelatin causes discontinuous precipitation of Mg hydroxide Choose a new media file |
English : Liesegang band experiment. Red material is gelatin with Mg sulfate and a drop of red food coloring; clear material above it is concentrated ammonium hydroxide. Diffusion of NH4OH into the gelatin causes discontinuous precipitation of Mg hydroxide
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![]() Jack Johnson performing at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu Hawaii. Today he turns forty. Change image |
English : Jack Johnson performing at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu Hawaii. Today he turns forty.
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English : Betty Boop's Birthday Party is a 1933 animated short film.
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![]() Young paper wasp queen (Polistes dominula) guarding her nest and eggs. Change image |
The Yellow Rose of Texas recorded by Roy Rogers on 10/24/1947 Choose a new media file |
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Feeding and training of sea lion in Ljubljana Zoo. Choose a new media file |
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![]() A supernova remnant in Large Magellanic Cloud in X-rays and visible light. Change image |
Pseudobiceros bedfordi is a species of flatworm in the family Pseudocerotidae. Choose a new media file |
English : Pseudobiceros bedfordi is a species of flatworm in the family Pseudocerotidae.
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Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow at night. Change image |
Shoe Lacing Methods Choose a new media file |
English : Shoe Lacing Methods
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![]() Panoramic view of Desenberg, western view. The hill Desenberg, a former volcano, near the village Daseburg is located in the area of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the most remarkable landmark of Warburger Börde flatlands. Change image |
English : Panoramic view of Desenberg, western view. The hill Desenberg, a former volcano, near the village Daseburg is located in the area of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the most remarkable landmark of Warburger Börde flatlands.
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Lip smacking exchanges in a naturalistic setting between mother and infant rhesus macaques. Choose a new media file |
English : Lip smacking exchanges in a naturalistic setting between mother and infant rhesus macaques.
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Great Masterwort (Astrantia major), found near Mitterbach am Erlaufsee, Lower Austria Change image |
English : Great Masterwort (Astrantia major), found near Mitterbach am Erlaufsee, Lower Austria
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The Song of the Volga Boatmen (1902 record by Feodor Chaliapin) Choose a new media file |
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Oviposition of Cyrtopogon lateralis, a European species of robber fly. Choose a new media file |
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![]() Musuem of mining (Bergbaumuseum) in Bochum at blue hour Change image |
Landing of Airbus A320 registered HA-LPM at sunset in Romania on Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, Bucharest. Choose a new media file |
English : Landing of Airbus A320 registered HA-LPM at sunset in Romania on Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, Bucharest.
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An aerial view of Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town, South Africa. This media was submitted as part of the Wiki From Above media competition in May 2015. Choose a new media file |
English : An aerial view of Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town, South Africa. This media was submitted as part of the Wiki From Above media competition in May 2015.
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![]() A panoramic view of Glenfinnan site in Scotland. Change image |
Landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis returning from mission STS-71 on Shuttle Landing Facility on 7 July 1995. Choose a new media file |
English : Landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis returning from mission STS-71 on Shuttle Landing Facility on 7 July 1995.
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![]() St. James's Church in Rothenburg ob der Tauber photographed from town hall tower Change image |
A Vectron MS departs from Ostrava Svinov train station (Czech Republic). Choose a new media file |
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![]() The capture of wild horses will be held in May in the nature reserve Merfelder Bruch near Dülmen on the last Saturday. Change image |
English : The capture of wild horses will be held in May in the nature reserve Merfelder Bruch near Dülmen on the last Saturday.
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Annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus) in Tokyo, Japan. Choose a new media file |
English : Annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus) in Tokyo, Japan.
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