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English : Antonio Canova (1st Nov. 1757 - 13th Oct. 1822), Justice, 1792 (Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milan)
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Song by Ekta Kala Manch, the cultural branch of Ekta Parishad, India. Choose a new media file |
English : Song by Ekta Kala Manch, the cultural branch of Ekta Parishad, India.
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 Detail of the Guanajuato mummies, Mexico. Black and white version. Photo taken at Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato. Change image |
English : Detail of the Guanajuato mummies, Mexico. Black and white version. Photo taken at Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato.
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A juvenile tentacled snake attacking a fish (a fathead minnow). Choose a new media file |
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 Taractrocera ceramas, commonly known as the Tamil Grass Dart, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India. Change image |
English : Taractrocera ceramas, commonly known as the Tamil Grass Dart, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India.
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"Pompeii", track 9 on Josh Woodward's 2010 release Ashes Choose a new media file |
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 Electric locomotive Škoda ChS4-072 in Vinnitsa railway station. This locomotive has been made in February 1968. The Moscow — Odessa train. Change image |
English : Electric locomotive Škoda ChS4-072 in Vinnitsa railway station. This locomotive has been made in February 1968. The Moscow — Odessa train.
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X-ray video of a female American alligator breathing. Choose a new media file |
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 Herbert Lake at Icefields Parkway Change image |
English : Herbert Lake at Icefields Parkway
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Animation of the predicted Andromeda–Milky Way galaxy collision. The Triangulum Galaxy is also shown. Choose a new media file |
English : Animation of the predicted Andromeda–Milky Way galaxy collision. The Triangulum Galaxy is also shown.
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 Fully grown Atlas moth (Attacus atlas, female) from London Zoo. Change image |
A raspy cricket fabricating silk. Choose a new media file |
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 A detail of the Church of Saint-Maimbœuf, Montbéliard, France Change image |
English : A detail of the Church of Saint-Maimbœuf, Montbéliard, France
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Red Square military parade on November 7, 1941 Choose a new media file |
English : Red Square military parade on November 7, 1941
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 A single crystal of Andradite. Change image |
A pair of chimpanzees sharing a papaya fruit. Choose a new media file |
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 The Monkey Puzzle, Rathinda amor (Fabricius) 1775 is a small lycaenid or blue butterfly found in south Asia. Change image |
English : The Monkey Puzzle, Rathinda amor (Fabricius) 1775 is a small lycaenid or blue butterfly found in south Asia.
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English : Tear down this wall. Address from the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin Wall) by Ronald Wilson Reagan
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 Fort de Giromagny, Franche-Comté, France. Change image |
English : Fort de Giromagny, Franche-Comté, France.
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A giggling call of a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), also known as laughing hyena. Choose a new media file |
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 Bow Lake near Icefields Parkway and Crowfoot Mountain, Alberta, Canada Change image |
English : Bow Lake near Icefields Parkway and Crowfoot Mountain, Alberta, Canada
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Emperor penguins form large huddles to keep each other warm. This video shows the traveling waves caused by their coordinated movements that result in well-distributed access to the warmest spots in the middle. Choose a new media file |
English : Emperor penguins form large huddles to keep each other warm. This video shows the traveling waves caused by their coordinated movements that result in well-distributed access to the warmest spots in the middle.
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Mikhail Glinka's Barcarole in G major, from Four Musical Essays (1847). Synthesised performance by Adam Cuerden Choose a new media file |
English : Mikhail Glinka's Barcarole in G major, from Four Musical Essays (1847). Synthesised performance by Adam Cuerden
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 Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, Arrival of Swiss emissaries during the Siege of Strasbourg, bas-relief, 1895. Change image |
English : Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, Arrival of Swiss emissaries during the Siege of Strasbourg, bas-relief, 1895.
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English : A pelagic thresher shark and a giant manta ray interacting in the presence of cleaner fish.
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 The Lindens of Poissy, by Claude Monet (1882). Change image |
English : The Lindens of Poissy, by Claude Monet (1882).
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Trypeta artemisiae is a European species of tephritid, or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. Females oviposit on leafs of Tansy. Choose a new media file |
English : Trypeta artemisiae is a European species of tephritid, or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. Females oviposit on leafs of Tansy.
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English : A parasitized moth caterpillar, bent over the parasitoid wasp pupae that have egressed from it, defends itself and the parasitoid pupae against a stink bug with violent head-swings, resulting in the predator being knocked off the twig.
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 Brooklyn Bridge with Freedom Tower and 8 Spruce Street in the background at dusk, New York, United States. Change image |
English : Brooklyn Bridge with Freedom Tower and 8 Spruce Street in the background at dusk, New York, United States.
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The Acorn worm Meioglossus psammophilus. Choose a new media file |
English : The Acorn worm Meioglossus psammophilus.
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 Pigmy Dartlet (Agriocnemis pygmaea) male, a very small (less than 20mm long, 1-2mm thick) apple green damselfly with black thoracic stripes orange colored terminal abdominal segments. Change image |
English : Pigmy Dartlet (Agriocnemis pygmaea) male, a very small (less than 20mm long, 1-2mm thick) apple green damselfly with black thoracic stripes orange colored terminal abdominal segments.
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"Singing" sounds of an iceberg. Choose a new media file |
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 Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Change image |
Jan Satyagraha 2012 meeting at Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Choose a new media file |
English : Jan Satyagraha 2012 meeting at Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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 South Korean pop group Girls' Generation (SoShi or SNSD) modelling for LG Cinema 3D TV Change image |
English : South Korean pop group Girls' Generation (SoShi or SNSD) modelling for LG Cinema 3D TV
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Calling song of the 17-year periodic cicada Magicicada septendecula. Choose a new media file |
English : Calling song of the 17-year periodic cicada Magicicada septendecula.
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English : Sculptures of St. Isidoro and Juan Luis Vives at the National Library of Spain, in Madrid.
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A nasal rumbling sound of an African bush elephant, visualized with an acoustic camera. Choose a new media file |
English : A nasal rumbling sound of an African bush elephant, visualized with an acoustic camera.
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Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) hunting in its natural habitat at San Vincenzo, Tuskany, Italy. Choose a new media file |
English : Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) hunting in its natural habitat at San Vincenzo, Tuskany, Italy.
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 Papilio clytia form clytia, underside (mimics the Common Indian Crow, Euploea core). The Common Mime, Papilio clytia, is a Swallowtail butterfly found in South and South-east Asia. Change image |
English : Papilio clytia form clytia, underside (mimics the Common Indian Crow, Euploea core). The Common Mime, Papilio clytia, is a Swallowtail butterfly found in South and South-east Asia.
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A larva of the moth Manduca sexta on the wild tobacco plant Nicotiana attenuata, reacting to experimental stimulation. Choose a new media file |
English : A larva of the moth Manduca sexta on the wild tobacco plant Nicotiana attenuata, reacting to experimental stimulation.
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 Center of the large flowering head of a Sunflower (Helianthus annuus), where a ring of mature flowers surrounds the developing floral buds. Change image |
Street scenes, regrading work, etc., Seattle, Washington, c. 1930. Choose a new media file |
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 Five burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia). Change image |
English : Five burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia).
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A Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) eating fish in England. Choose a new media file |
English : A Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) eating fish in England.
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 male Lattice Brown (Kirinia roxelana), taken in Nahal Kelah, Mount Carmel, Israel, June 8, 2011. Change image |
English : male Lattice Brown (Kirinia roxelana), taken in Nahal Kelah, Mount Carmel, Israel, June 8, 2011.
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Disassembled 3.5-inch floppy disk drive reading files Choose a new media file |
English : Disassembled 3.5-inch floppy disk drive reading files
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Territorial call of a male toad, Atelopus franciscus. Choose a new media file |
English : Territorial call of a male toad, Atelopus franciscus.
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 Rosendal Palace. Djurgården, Stockholm. Change image |
English : Rosendal Palace. Djurgården, Stockholm.
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Apollo space suits self-support in lunar gravity. During this scene from Apollo 16, Astronaut Charles Duke drops a hammer on the lunar surface, then jumps repeatedly in order to overcome the self-support of the space suit by compressing the space suit knee joint(s) so that he might retrieve the hammer from the surface. Choose a new media file |
English : Apollo space suits self-support in lunar gravity. During this scene from Apollo 16, Astronaut Charles Duke drops a hammer on the lunar surface, then jumps repeatedly in order to overcome the self-support of the space suit by compressing the space suit knee joint(s) so that he might retrieve the hammer from the surface.
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English : The Common Palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra, is a species of satyrid butterfly found in south Asia.
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A male of the solitary bee Colletes cunicularius pseudocopulating on the flower labellum of the orchid Ophrys lupercalis Choose a new media file |
English : A male of the solitary bee Colletes cunicularius pseudocopulating on the flower labellum of the orchid Ophrys lupercalis
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 View of the old part of Vyborg, Russia. Change image |
Cacao beans being ground along with cinnamon, almonds and sugar, to make chocolate. Location: Mayordomo store in Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico. Choose a new media file |
English : Cacao beans being ground along with cinnamon, almonds and sugar, to make chocolate. Location: Mayordomo store in Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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 Crematorium at Auschwitz I. Change image |
English : Crematorium at Auschwitz I.
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Sugarcane Press, Parque da Guarda, Brazil Choose a new media file |
English : Sugarcane Press, Parque da Guarda, Brazil
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