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Red-legged seriema Cariama cristata, to celebrate Ladies Day (Gold Cup Day) at Royal Ascot

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Le Petomane is an American silent short produced by Edison Studios during the Exposition Universelle (1900) and the only subsisting film on Joseph Pujol, a French flatulist, filmed during his show at the Moulin Rouge, a Paris cabaret.

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