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 Desertic landscape near Elim Dune, Sossusvlei, Namibia Change image |
Filipino food preparation using different cuts of pork. Today, 1 March, is National Pig Day in the USA. Choose a new media file |
English : Filipino food preparation using different cuts of pork. Today, 1 March, is National Pig Day in the USA.
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 Wayang kulit performance by dalang, a form of puppet shadow play originated from the Indonesian island of Java Change image |
English : Wayang kulit performance by dalang, a form of puppet shadow play originated from the Indonesian island of Java
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Broke in China is a 1927 American comical short directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Ben Turpin. Choose a new media file |
English : Broke in China is a 1927 American comical short directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Ben Turpin.
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Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, United States of America, on 9 February 2023 Choose a new media file |
English : Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, United States of America, on 9 February 2023
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 Abandoned Observatory "White Elephant". Carpathian National Nature Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Change image |
English : Abandoned Observatory "White Elephant". Carpathian National Nature Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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_male.jpg) Male African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus) in Kakum National Park, Ghana. Ghana gained independence from the UK on 6 March 1957. Change image |
English : Male African emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx cupreus) in Kakum National Park, Ghana. Ghana gained independence from the UK on 6 March 1957.
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 A dhole (Cuon alpinus) with prey and a Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) in Thailand Change image |
Aerial views of Shoalhaven Heads, Australia Choose a new media file |
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 Woman reading a book in the light from a stained glass window in the Winter prayer hall of Nasir-ol-molk Mosque (Rangha Mosque). Today is International Women's Day. Change image |
English : Woman reading a book in the light from a stained glass window in the Winter prayer hall of Nasir-ol-molk Mosque (Rangha Mosque). Today is International Women's Day.
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.jpg) Inconspicuous white scented little flowers of the Sarcococca hookeriana. Focus stack of 44 photos. Change image |
English : Inconspicuous white scented little flowers of the Sarcococca hookeriana. Focus stack of 44 photos.
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Putting Pants on Philip, directed by Clyde Bruckman, is a 1927 short starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Choose a new media file |
English : Putting Pants on Philip, directed by Clyde Bruckman, is a 1927 short starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
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 Fishing boats on the Jamuna River, Jamuna Bridge West Bank Eco-Park Change image |
Manufacture of typewriter ribbons 100 years ago Choose a new media file |
English : Manufacture of typewriter ribbons 100 years ago
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 Château de Chillon (Switzerland) and Dents du Midi at nightfall Change image |
Let's Go is a 1923 American silent action film directed by William K. Howard and starring Richard Talmadge, Eileen Percy, and Tully Marshall. Choose a new media file |
English : Let's Go is a 1923 American silent action film directed by William K. Howard and starring Richard Talmadge, Eileen Percy, and Tully Marshall.
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English : Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination is a 1923 German silent film directed and co-written by Arthur Robison, and starring Fritz Kortner and Ruth Weyher.
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Drifting is a 1923 silent drama film by Tod Browning starring Priscilla Dean, Wallace Beery, and Anna Mae Wong. Choose a new media file |
English : Drifting is a 1923 silent drama film by Tod Browning starring Priscilla Dean, Wallace Beery, and Anna Mae Wong.
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Russian military helicopter ZSU shot down over Kyiv Reservoir and later pulled out of water. Ukraine. Choose a new media file |
English : Russian military helicopter ZSU shot down over Kyiv Reservoir and later pulled out of water. Ukraine.
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English : Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) during the golden hour. Chobe National Park, Botswana.
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The Little Shop of Horrors, 1960 American horror comedy film Choose a new media file |
English : The Little Shop of Horrors, 1960 American horror comedy film
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 Rough-sawn cut surface of a cherry wood board Change image |
English : Rough-sawn cut surface of a cherry wood board
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The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) is launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on December 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Center-4 East. SWOT is the first satellite mission that will observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface, measuring the height of water in the planet’s lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and the ocean. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the UK Space Agency. Choose a new media file |
English : The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) is launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on December 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Center-4 East. SWOT is the first satellite mission that will observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface, measuring the height of water in the planet’s lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and the ocean. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the UK Space Agency.
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 The 3rd reading room of the Russian State Library in Moscow Change image |
7th Heaven, 1927 American silent romantic drama Choose a new media file |
English : 7th Heaven, 1927 American silent romantic drama
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 One of the pediments of the Orangerie Kassel, Germany Change image |
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 Royal pavilion in Phraya Nakhon Cave in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand Change image |
English : Royal pavilion in Phraya Nakhon Cave in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand
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 triumphal cross - St. Nikolai church - Kiel, Germany Change image |
Fantasy festival in town Fquih Ben Salah, where people ride horses, fighting for the best group of horses in the entire region of Morocco Choose a new media file |
English : Fantasy festival in town Fquih Ben Salah, where people ride horses, fighting for the best group of horses in the entire region of Morocco
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_chicks_2_days_old.jpg) Common blackbird (Turdus merula) chicks 2 days old. Change image |
The flower moth Myathropa florea (Myathropa florea) lays eggs into wood in tree hollow. Choose a new media file |
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 Cloud gliding (advection fog) in Makhtesh Ramon, world's largest "erosion cirque" (steephead valley or box canyons), in Israel. Taken with a drone camera. Change image |
English : Cloud gliding (advection fog) in Makhtesh Ramon, world's largest "erosion cirque" (steephead valley or box canyons), in Israel. Taken with a drone camera.
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Texas City Refinery explosion on 23 March 2005 Choose a new media file |
English : Texas City Refinery explosion on 23 March 2005
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 The breakdown of protein molecules into fragments leads to their crystallization and the appearance of complex structures in the drop. Change image |
English : The breakdown of protein molecules into fragments leads to their crystallization and the appearance of complex structures in the drop.
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Three Ages, 1923 American silent film Choose a new media file |
English : Three Ages, 1923 American silent film
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 Introverted Millipede (Diplopoda). The animal on the left side is a member of a species of Julus, its body is composed of hard, interlocking, sliding parts. The other one on the right side is a member of a species of Polydesmus; it has a pair of defensive glands on each segment on its back. The photograph was taken by the scanning electron microscope with 70 times magnification and has been colored in Adobe Photoshop. Change image |
English : Introverted Millipede (Diplopoda). The animal on the left side is a member of a species of Julus, its body is composed of hard, interlocking, sliding parts. The other one on the right side is a member of a species of Polydesmus; it has a pair of defensive glands on each segment on its back. The photograph was taken by the scanning electron microscope with 70 times magnification and has been colored in Adobe Photoshop.
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Workers of State Emergency Service of Ukraine dismantle damaged constructions of residential building in Kharkiv (Northern Saltivka) after Russian shelling, Ukraine. Choose a new media file |
English : Workers of State Emergency Service of Ukraine dismantle damaged constructions of residential building in Kharkiv (Northern Saltivka) after Russian shelling, Ukraine.
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 Church of St. Michael and Theodore, Chernihiv Change image |
English : Church of St. Michael and Theodore, Chernihiv
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The Birth of a Nation, 1915 American silent epic drama film Choose a new media file |
English : The Birth of a Nation, 1915 American silent epic drama film
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1921 American silent epic war film Choose a new media file |
English : The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1921 American silent epic war film
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 Wanha Satama in Katajanokka, Helsinki. Change image |
English : Wanha Satama in Katajanokka, Helsinki.
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English : Mr. Wu is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starrring Lon Chaney.
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_male_Ranomafana.jpg) Male blue-legged chameleon (Calumma crypticum) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. 29 March is Martyr’s day in Madagascar, commemorating the Malagasy Uprising in 1947. Change image |
English : Male blue-legged chameleon (Calumma crypticum) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
29 March is Martyr’s day in Madagascar, commemorating the Malagasy Uprising in 1947.
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Recovery of Human Remains course at the Anthropology Research Facility in Knoxville, USA Choose a new media file |
English : Recovery of Human Remains course at the Anthropology Research Facility in Knoxville, USA
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 Innsbruck Airport, Austria Change image |
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 Old wooden bridge and Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Church in Leshino, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia Change image |
English : Old wooden bridge and Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Church in Leshino, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
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English : Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde is a 1925 silent spoof of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Stan Laurel.
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