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 Puffin (Fratercula arctica) at Látrabjarg, Iceland Change image |
English : Puffin (Fratercula arctica) at Látrabjarg, Iceland
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The Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sept. 23, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz rocket launched on September 26, Kazakh time, and sent Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy on a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station. Choose a new media file |
English : The Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sept. 23, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz rocket launched on September 26, Kazakh time, and sent Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy on a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station.
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 Moyland Castle, side view Change image |
English : Moyland Castle, side view
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Courtship song of a male parasitic wasp, Cotesia congregata. Choose a new media file |
English : Courtship song of a male parasitic wasp, Cotesia congregata.
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 View of Segovia (Spain) from the Alcázar. Change image |
English : View of Segovia (Spain) from the Alcázar.
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Driving westbound along Great Eastern Highway, Greenmount (Western Australia), from Bilgoman Road to the truck arrester bed Choose a new media file |
English : Driving westbound along Great Eastern Highway, Greenmount (Western Australia), from Bilgoman Road to the truck arrester bed
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 Luhasoo bog in Rõuge Parish, Estonia. Change image |
English : Luhasoo bog in Rõuge Parish, Estonia.
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Krishnattam is a temple art in Kerala, India. This video was taken at Guruvayur. Choose a new media file |
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 Batterie de l'Eperon (in Frouard, France): on the left, there is the access to the Counterscarp battery. On the right, there is the access to the gun turret of 155 L. Change image |
English : Batterie de l'Eperon (in Frouard, France): on the left, there is the access to the Counterscarp battery. On the right, there is the access to the gun turret of 155 L.
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A pelagic thresher shark using tail slaps while hunting sardines. Choose a new media file |
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 Lightnings in Belfort (France). Change image |
English : Lightnings in Belfort (France).
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Icius hamatus on oak. Video taken near Monte Borghetto (about 20km south of Lake Garda), Italy. Choose a new media file |
English : Icius hamatus on oak. Video taken near Monte Borghetto (about 20km south of Lake Garda), Italy.
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 Lok 99222 at Central Station Wernigerode, Germany Change image |
English : Lok 99222 at Central Station Wernigerode, Germany
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3D reconstruction of the head of the polychaete Lumbrineris latreilli on the basis of a micro-CT scan. Choose a new media file |
English : 3D reconstruction of the head of the polychaete Lumbrineris latreilli on the basis of a micro-CT scan.
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 Souq Waqif, Doha, Qatar. Change image |
English : Souq Waqif, Doha, Qatar.
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Fragment of the 1917 American silent film Cleopatra Choose a new media file |
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 Sangaste manor main building, built in 1874–1881. Change image |
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 Panoramic view over medieval town of Warburg, picture taken at Fügeler Kanone Change image |
English : Panoramic view over medieval town of Warburg, picture taken at Fügeler Kanone
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Egg grooming behaviour in the termite Reticulitermes speratus. Choose a new media file |
English : Egg grooming behaviour in the termite Reticulitermes speratus.
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 Butternut squash, cultivar variety of Cucurbita moschata, ripe fruits. Ukraine. Change image |
English : Butternut squash, cultivar variety of Cucurbita moschata, ripe fruits. Ukraine.
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"Stride la vampa" from Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore (1853), sung by Gabriella Besanzoni in 1920. Choose a new media file |
English : "Stride la vampa" from Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore (1853), sung by Gabriella Besanzoni in 1920.
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.jpg) The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Marin Headlands at sunrise. Change image |
English : The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Marin Headlands at sunrise.
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The Borkumer Kleinbahn leaving Borkum harbour station (Bahnhof „Reede“) in Borkum-Reede, Landkreis Leer, Lower Saxony, Germany. This narrow gauge railway line is a listed cultural heritage monument. Choose a new media file |
English : The Borkumer Kleinbahn leaving Borkum harbour station (Bahnhof „Reede“) in Borkum-Reede, Landkreis Leer, Lower Saxony, Germany. This narrow gauge railway line is a listed cultural heritage monument.
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,_Cozumel.jpg) A free swimming Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris) with diver, Cozumel, Mexico. Change image |
English : A free swimming Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris) with diver, Cozumel, Mexico.
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3D animation of the skull of a young Kemp's ridley sea turtle, based on µCT data. Choose a new media file |
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 Interior of Prussian Landtag in Berlin, Germany. Change image |
English : Interior of Prussian Landtag in Berlin, Germany.
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2014 Winter Olympics torch relay (Moscow, Russia) Choose a new media file |
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A crash simulation featuring female passengers with a low (left) and high (right) body mass index. Choose a new media file |
English : A crash simulation featuring female passengers with a low (left) and high (right) body mass index.
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 Castle of Borbeck with outbuilding in the evening. Change image |
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 Gynaephora selenitica caterpillar on meadow vetchling in Estonia. Change image |
A contest between males of the jumping spider Cosmophasis umbratica. Choose a new media file |
English : A contest between males of the jumping spider Cosmophasis umbratica.
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 Holy Trinity Cathedral — main cathedral of Trinity Monastery in Chernihiv, Ukraine. View from the bell tower Change image |
English : Holy Trinity Cathedral — main cathedral of Trinity Monastery in Chernihiv, Ukraine. View from the bell tower
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Cello Suite No. 1 in G Allemande by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by John Michel Choose a new media file |
English : Cello Suite No. 1 in G Allemande by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by John Michel
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 The Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory has imaged a region of star formation called NGC 3324. Change image |
English : The Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory has imaged a region of star formation called NGC 3324.
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A glimpse of the beach volleyball tournament Smart Beach Tour 2013 at Binz, Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Choose a new media file |
English : A glimpse of the beach volleyball tournament Smart Beach Tour 2013 at Binz, Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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 Grisblänkan lighthouse outside Öja island, Stockholm archipelago. In the background, Tiljandersknall lighthouse. Change image |
English : Grisblänkan lighthouse outside Öja island, Stockholm archipelago. In the background, Tiljandersknall lighthouse.
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Nemophora metallica ovipositing on a flower of Knautia arvensis. Choose a new media file |
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 Anatomical drawing of a male C. elegans nematode with emphasis on the reproductive system. Change image |
English : Anatomical drawing of a male C. elegans nematode with emphasis on the reproductive system.
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Jack Andraka, the 16-year-old inventor of a breakthrough cancer diagnostic and winner of the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, talks with Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, about open access to the research literature. Choose a new media file |
English : Jack Andraka, the 16-year-old inventor of a breakthrough cancer diagnostic and winner of the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, talks with Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, about open access to the research literature.
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 Oka River in Konstantinovo (Rybnovsky District), Ryazan Oblast, Russia. Change image |
Macromolecular juggling by enzymes, accompanied by music after Ernst Toch. Choose a new media file |
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English : Tian Tan Buddha, also known as the Big Buddha located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, in Hong Kong.
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A fish – the pacific leaping blenny – climbing up a vertical surface of plexiglas. Choose a new media file |
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 Hungary's Áron Szilágyi (L) fences against Russia's Nikolay Kovalev (R) in the men's sabre semi-finals of the 2013 World Fencing Championships 2013 at Syma Hall in Budapest, 10 August 2013. Change image |
English : Hungary's Áron Szilágyi (L) fences against Russia's Nikolay Kovalev (R) in the men's sabre semi-finals of the 2013 World Fencing Championships 2013 at Syma Hall in Budapest, 10 August 2013.
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Song of the owl Otus jolandae from Lombok, Indonesia. Choose a new media file |
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 The Lutheran Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland. Change image |
English : The Lutheran Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland.
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Headbutting between males of the Green humphead parrotfish. Choose a new media file |
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 First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room. Change image |
English : First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room.
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Eye tracking while viewing a driving scene. Choose a new media file |
English : Eye tracking while viewing a driving scene.
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 Sparrowhawk with its prey. Change image |
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A hamster walking. Choose a new media file |
English : A hamster walking.
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 Main facade of the Academy of Athens, Greece Change image |
English : Main facade of the Academy of Athens, Greece
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Djemaa el Fna (La Place) in Marrakech late afternoon on Sat, 19th October 2013 Choose a new media file |
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 S75-22410 (March 1975) --- These five men compose the two prime crews of the joint United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking mission in Earth orbit scheduled for July 1975. Change image |
English : S75-22410 (March 1975) --- These five men compose the two prime crews of the joint United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking mission in Earth orbit scheduled for July 1975.
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American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) fishing in a group on a small lake near Corte Madera, California. Choose a new media file |
English : American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) fishing in a group on a small lake near Corte Madera, California.
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 Castle Neuschwanstein at Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany. Change image |
English : Castle Neuschwanstein at Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany.
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The tank barge Bea heading east on the Mittelland Canal (Mittellandkanal) in Recke, Kreis Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Choose a new media file |
English : The tank barge Bea heading east on the Mittelland Canal (Mittellandkanal) in Recke, Kreis Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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 Row of taxis at the International Commerce Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Change image |
English : Row of taxis at the International Commerce Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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Danse Profane, L 103, pt. 2, written by Claude Debussy, performed by the United States Marine Chamber Orchestra with Major Jason K. Fettig, conducting, MSgt Karen Grimsey, harp soloist on Aug. 14, 2010, at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia. Choose a new media file |
English : Danse Profane, L 103, pt. 2, written by Claude Debussy, performed by the United States Marine Chamber Orchestra with Major Jason K. Fettig, conducting, MSgt Karen Grimsey, harp soloist on Aug. 14, 2010, at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia.
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