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English : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, III. Presto. (Performance: Fulda Symphonic Orchestra)
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 Bog lake in Suru Bog, Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, Estonia. Change image |
English : Bog lake in Suru Bog, Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, Estonia.
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English : John Deere 4020 tractor pulling a New Holland forage harvester and Gehl wagon while harvesting a hay field in rural Wisconsin, United States (June 2009)
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 Giant Sequoias photographed into the sky Change image |
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English : Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) "cleans" a rain gutter in Berlin next to the German Wikimedia headquarters.
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 Scaly Wood Mushroom (Agaricus silvaticus) Change image |
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English : Females of Hylecoetus dermestoides lay eggs into boreholes of bark beetles on a fallen dead beech.
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 The river Alzette in Luxembourg Pfaffenthal, as seen from the bridge called Béinchen. Change image |
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English : Audio recording of Nuit Rhénane by Guillaume Apollinaire by Valéry Stasser for the Opération Thalie Envolée.
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 Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) Change image |
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English : Action of a drop of soap on a puddle of oil at the surface of water.
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 Common spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) on Pakri Peninsula, Northwestern Estonia. Change image |
English : Common spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) on Pakri Peninsula, Northwestern Estonia.
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 The Dome of the Chain (Arabic: قبة السلسلة, Qubbat al-Silsila) in front of The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע), on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. Change image |
English : The Dome of the Chain (Arabic: قبة السلسلة, Qubbat al-Silsila) in front of The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע), on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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English : Footage of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken shortly after the liberation
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 The Heart and Soul nebulae are seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Change image |
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English : Audio recording of Le Vin de l'Assassin by Charles Baudelaire by Arnaud Sottiaux for the Opération Thalie Envolée.
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English : Music video for "Tak, Kurwa" from the Ukrainian satanic pop metal band Semargl.
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 Manor Osthoff (Detail of South Front) in Dulmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Change image |
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English : The Blue Angels, Marine Corps' C-130 Hercules, affectionately known as Fat Albert, flies over the Silent Drill Platoon at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.
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 View from Palace of Culture and Science towards Świętokrzyska Street in Warsaw, Poland Change image |
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English : Video of beluga whales
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.JPG) Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria. Change image |
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English : The first Boeing 787 for Jetstar taxis to its hangar at Melbourne Airport on 9 October 2013 after a 13,000km delivery flight from Boeing's Everett Factory in Seattle.
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 Jõesuu watchtower on the northern shore of Lake Võrtsjärv. Change image |
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English : Jerusalem Light Rail, Israel
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English : Aria "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (David Liao, baritone, and Mira Guo, piano)
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 View of the cathedral and city walls of the middle age town of Albarracín, Teruel, Aragon, Spain. Change image |
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 Flower of Tigridia pavonia at Conservatoire botanique national de Brest. Change image |
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English : Dusky leaf monkey, spectacled langur, or spectacled leaf monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) - Kaeng Krachan National Park.
The sound at background far away is from a singing Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar).
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 Tuscan countryside in June after the wheat harvest, Tuscany, Central Italy. Change image |
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English : Audio recording of Les Chercheuses de Poux by Arthur Rimbaud by Laura Dussard for the Opération Thalie Envolée.
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 The south facade of the Luxembourg Palace, seat of the French Senate, located in Paris. The palace was built from 1615 to 1631 by architect Salomon de Brosse. Change image |
English : The south facade of the Luxembourg Palace, seat of the French Senate, located in Paris. The palace was built from 1615 to 1631 by architect Salomon de Brosse.
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English : Conchita Wurst presenting herself and the name of the song she is performing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. The clip is in English.
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 "Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines": oil on canvas, Rome 1807. Author: Hendrik Voogd (Amsterdam 1768 - Rome 1839). Preserved in the Rijksmuseum. Change image |
English : "Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines": oil on canvas, Rome 1807. Author: Hendrik Voogd (Amsterdam 1768 - Rome 1839). Preserved in the Rijksmuseum.
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 Fishermen huts by the Suitsu river in Matsalu National Park. Change image |
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English : The Red Man's View is a 1909 American Western film.
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 Saint Barbara in a 15th century fresco on the apsidal arch of the "St. Jacob church" in Ortisei, in Val Gardena, Italy. Change image |
English : Saint Barbara in a 15th century fresco on the apsidal arch of the "St. Jacob church" in Ortisei, in Val Gardena, Italy.
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 "Civitas Dei" (the City of God), Neo Byzantine style mosaic of the ceiling at the entrance of the Cathedral of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Change image |
English : "Civitas Dei" (the City of God), Neo Byzantine style mosaic of the ceiling at the entrance of the Cathedral of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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English : Calling males of the European tree frog (Hyla arborea)
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English : Enrico Caruso and Titta Ruffo's only surving recording together: "Sì, pel ciel marmoreo giuro!" from Giuseppe Verdi's 1887 opera Otello. (Recorded 8 January 1914 in New York City)
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_--_2012_--_4.jpg) Roy's Cafe & Motel in Amboy (California, USA) Change image |
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English : Cabiria is a 1914 Italian silent movie. The film is set in ancient Sicily during the period of the Second Punic War.
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_lehekarv_(trihhoom)_311_0804.JPG) Scanning electron micrograph of a trichome from Tallinn University of Technology. Change image |
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 Sant'Angelo bridge (Ponte Sant'Angelo), Saint Peter's Basilica, at dusk, from Umberto I bridge, Rome, Italy. Change image |
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English : A time-lapse of Tacloban's flight line from midday to nightfall. Tacloban Air Base was the hub for aid going in to Tacloban and evacuated Filipinos leaving for Manila during Operation Damayan.
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English : Slow motion picture sequence of a hatching female Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella) taken in southern Germany.
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 Madeira Airport Runway. The concrete pillars of the 2000 extension completed to extend the runway, winning the 2004 IABSE Outstanding Structure Award Change image |
English : Madeira Airport Runway. The concrete pillars of the 2000 extension completed to extend the runway, winning the 2004 IABSE Outstanding Structure Award
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English : Audio recording of La Loreley by Guillaume Apollinaire by Antoine Motte dit Falisse for the Opération Thalie Envolée.
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