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,_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04-19,_DD_01.jpg) Orbicular (round body) batfish (Platax orbicularis), Red Sea, Egypt. It belongs to the family Ephippidae, the spadefishes and batfishes. This species is found in the Indo-Pacific but has been recorded outside its native range in the western Atlantic Ocean. The adult can reach a total length of 40 centimetres (16 in). Change image |
English : Orbicular (round body) batfish (Platax orbicularis), Red Sea, Egypt. It belongs to the family Ephippidae, the spadefishes and batfishes. This species is found in the Indo-Pacific but has been recorded outside its native range in the western Atlantic Ocean. The adult can reach a total length of 40 centimetres (16 in).
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English : Diving exercises of the young swans with their parents at the Knollenteich (Hof (Saale)) in the evening.
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 A circa 1660–70 Pahari painting from Basohli, Jammu, India, depicting the Hindu goddess Bhadrakali being worshipped by the three supreme gods of Hinduism: Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, to pacify her after she killed the demon Mahishasura, who could not be killed by them, the men or other gods. Her victory over the demon is celebrated by Hindus as the victory of good over evil on the day of Vijayadashami, which is today. Change image |
English : A circa 1660–70 Pahari painting from Basohli, Jammu, India, depicting the Hindu goddess Bhadrakali being worshipped by the three supreme gods of Hinduism: Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, to pacify her after she killed the demon Mahishasura, who could not be killed by them, the men or other gods. Her victory over the demon is celebrated by Hindus as the victory of good over evil on the day of Vijayadashami, which is today.
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 Three doors of the bunker 26 in the Dülmen-Visbeck special ammunition depot, Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Three doors of the bunker 26 in the Dülmen-Visbeck special ammunition depot, Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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 Side view of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi from the north-west, showing the imposing structure of the Basilica and monastery located in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Today (4th October) is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, Patron of Ecologists. Change image |
English : Side view of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi from the north-west, showing the imposing structure of the Basilica and monastery located in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Today (4th October) is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, Patron of Ecologists.
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English : A spoken version of the English Wikipedia article on the curse of knowledge as of December 2019.
The curse of knowledge, also called the curse of expertise or expert's curse, is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person who has specialized knowledge assumes that others share in that knowledge or has difficulty to put themselves in the position of the person with less knowledge. Advanced options
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English : A video explaining strength training exercises – particularly the dumbbell bench press and the dumbbell incline bench press.
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English : Drone view of Lake Willoughby, Vermont, with Mount Hor on the left and Mount Pisgah on the right
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English : A video portraying a city from a tourist perspective: Stockholm. The virtual tour shows various popular places of the city (timestamps in the video description).
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.jpg) Damaged building in the kibbutz Be'eri in Israel, following the October 7th massacre by Hamas. Today marks two years since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in Israel, which were the bloodiest in Israel's history. Change image |
English : Damaged building in the kibbutz Be'eri in Israel, following the October 7th massacre by Hamas. Today marks two years since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in Israel, which were the bloodiest in Israel's history.
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English : U.S. American computer scientist and mathematician Jennifer Tour Chayes on how technologies of the future will shape our world in an interview video of the The Mind of the Universe series.
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English : S-charl, rapids in the mountain stream Clemgia, a tributary of the Inn
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English : A talk at Wikimania 2025 about the upcoming integration of interactive Our World in Data components into Wikipedias via the OWID Gadget.
These interactive data visualizations have already been integrated into Basque Wikipedia. So far, in other Wikipedias static images by OWID have been widely used across articles that for example can only show data for one year. Functional examples and further info can be found at MDWiki:WikiProjectMed:OWID. Advanced options
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 Illuminated manuscript of the Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Book of hours for Parisians), or "Book of Hours of Charles VIII" King of France (1468 - 1498). The folio shows Saint Denis, first bishop and patron of Paris, walking with his head in his hands after his execution. Today is the feast day of Saint Denis. Change image |
English : Illuminated manuscript of the Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Book of hours for Parisians), or "Book of Hours of Charles VIII" King of France (1468 - 1498). The folio shows Saint Denis, first bishop and patron of Paris, walking with his head in his hands after his execution. Today is the feast day of Saint Denis.
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English : A NASA video on tracking of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas more potent than CO2 where changes in emissions have a faster impact on the level of global warming.
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.jpg) Gabrielle Aplin performing live at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, California. Today is her birthday. Change image |
English : Gabrielle Aplin performing live at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, California. Today is her birthday.
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English : A drone video of Summit Camp in Greenland, a year-round staffed research station near the apex of the Greenland ice sheet. Elevation: 3208 m; Wind mean: 10 km/h; Temperature: -20°C.
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 Explosive Ordnance Disposal 1st Class Christopher Courtney assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Six (EODMU-6), Det. 16 assists his team members during Special Purpose Insertion Extraction (SPIE) training from an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) shown below the helicopter was launched on this day 50 years ago. Change image |
English : Explosive Ordnance Disposal 1st Class Christopher Courtney assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Six (EODMU-6), Det. 16 assists his team members during Special Purpose Insertion Extraction (SPIE) training from an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) shown below the helicopter was launched on this day 50 years ago.
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English : This narrated animated video by NASA shows the accumulated change in the elevation of the Greenland ice sheet between 2003 and 2012.
The coastal areas of the ice sheet lost far more height, or "thinned", compared to the more inland regions. Advanced options
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 Coney (Cephalopholis fulva) camouflaged on a rock, Fernando de Noronha Marine National Park, Pernambuco, Brazil Change image |
English : Coney (Cephalopholis fulva) camouflaged on a rock, Fernando de Noronha Marine National Park, Pernambuco, Brazil
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English : In this video tutorial, a drug technician with Vancouver Coastal Health explains how to use fentanyl test strips at home.
Take-home fentanyl test strips are available for free at several locations in Vancouver and other communities across Vancouver Coastal Health. Advanced options
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English : A tutorial video for the board game, Dixit.
The game contains a set of cards illustrated with surreal or dreamlike images where players have to select cards from their hand that match a phrase told by the designated storyteller player, and then attempt to guess which of the cards is from the storyteller. Advanced options
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English : Talk about the migration to the free and open source office suite LibreOffice and the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for over 30,000 clients in the government of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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 Church of El Salvador, Luesia, Zaragoza, Spain. The church is located in the highest area of the nucleus of the village of Luesia, next to the remains of the old medieval castle, to which it is historically and constructively associated. Its origin dates back to the end of the 11th century with the construction of the semicircular triple apse head with a double crypt at the bottom, while the body with three naves was built throughout the 12th century and the two portals on its southern fronts and occidental already respond to models from the beginning of the 13th century. The Romanesque building underwent a profound reform though in the mid-16th century. The main altarpiece is a Romanesque piece carved in wood; polychrome and gilt. The work is attributed to Gaspar Ramos, a sculptor from Sangüesa, who executed it around 1630. Change image |
English : Church of El Salvador, Luesia, Zaragoza, Spain. The church is located in the highest area of the nucleus of the village of Luesia, next to the remains of the old medieval castle, to which it is historically and constructively associated. Its origin dates back to the end of the 11th century with the construction of the semicircular triple apse head with a double crypt at the bottom, while the body with three naves was built throughout the 12th century and the two portals on its southern fronts and occidental already respond to models from the beginning of the 13th century. The Romanesque building underwent a profound reform though in the mid-16th century. The main altarpiece is a Romanesque piece carved in wood; polychrome and gilt. The work is attributed to Gaspar Ramos, a sculptor from Sangüesa, who executed it around 1630.
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English : A spoken version of the English Wikipedia article on J. R. R. Tolkien as of January 2022.
He was an English writer and philologist and the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as well as various other works set in the fictional Middle-earth. Advanced options
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_male_2.jpg) Mauritius fody (Foudia rubra) male, Île aux Aigrettes, Mauritius. An endangered bird, endemic to Mauritius. A wild bird that has been ringed as part of a successful conservation plan. Change image |
English : Mauritius fody (Foudia rubra) male, Île aux Aigrettes, Mauritius. An endangered bird, endemic to Mauritius. A wild bird that has been ringed as part of a successful conservation plan.
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English : A slow motion video of the most widespread locust species, the migratory locust, jumping up.
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.jpg) Vineyards with colourful autumn leaves at the Scheuerberg in Neckarsulm, Germany. Change image |
English : Vineyards with colourful autumn leaves at the Scheuerberg in Neckarsulm, Germany.
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English : An interview video of Gillian Forrester to find out how hand dexterity in both humans and our Great Ape cousins can teach us about the origins of language.
Gillian Forrester is a professor of comparative cognition at the University of Sussex, director of the Comparative Cognition Group known for investigating the behaviour and brain organisation of human and non-human apes and a popular science educator. Advanced options
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 Top view of grafted Gymnocalycium mihanovichii (chin cactus). The host cactus has been digitally blanked out. The red body is about 3.5 cm (1.4 in) diameter. The small "moons" are 0.5–0.8 cm (0.20–0.31 in) diameter. House plant in Ooty, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India. Focus stack of 89 images using PMax mode of ZereneStacker. Change image |
English : Top view of grafted Gymnocalycium mihanovichii (chin cactus). The host cactus has been digitally blanked out. The red body is about 3.5 cm (1.4 in) diameter. The small "moons" are 0.5–0.8 cm (0.20–0.31 in) diameter. House plant in Ooty, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India. Focus stack of 89 images using PMax mode of ZereneStacker.
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English : A time-lapse video of 5.5 days of oyster mushroom growth.
Here, Pleurotus ostreatus var. columbinus is grown on a recycled cardboard and coffee grounds. Advanced options
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English : NASA video explaining how satellites of the Landsat program with their 50-year record of Earth helps scientists track the health of coastal ecosystems.
These vulnerable systems protect shorelines from erosion, serve as fish nurseries, and sequester large amounts of climate change causing carbon dioxide. Advanced options
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.jpg) View of the village of Gyakar surrounded by a poplar grove in the Upper Mustang region of Nepal. The summits of the Damodar Himal, the Purkung Himal and the Annapurnas are visible in the distance. A suspended bridge over the deep canyon (left) connects it to the neighbouring Chele village and thence to the rest of Nepal. Change image |
English : View of the village of Gyakar surrounded by a poplar grove in the Upper Mustang region of Nepal. The summits of the Damodar Himal, the Purkung Himal and the Annapurnas are visible in the distance. A suspended bridge over the deep canyon (left) connects it to the neighbouring Chele village and thence to the rest of Nepal.
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 Mural Kinderfreuden by German painter Dieter M. Weidenbach. Today is his 80th birthday. Change image |
English : Mural Kinderfreuden by German painter Dieter M. Weidenbach. Today is his 80th birthday.
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English : An English audiobook of the short story "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" by science fiction horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price.
The recording was imported from LibriVox, a website for free audiobooks. Advanced options
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.jpg) American actress Margaret Qualley at 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Today is her birthday. Change image |
English : American actress Margaret Qualley at 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Today is her birthday.
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English : An audio version of the English Wikipedia article about the hippocampus as of September 2025.
The hippocampus is a major component of the brain of humans and many other vertebrates, playing important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation. Advanced options
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English : West view of Melk Abbey, Lower Austria
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English : A video about the open source overlay network I2P built for online anonymity and censorship resistance, similar to the more popular Tor network. The video shows anonymous torrenting using the built-in BitTorrent application called I2PSnark and the darkweb of I2P.
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 African blue flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) at Kibale forest National Park, Uganda. Change image |
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English : A video by Context News describing the impacts of climate change on Mount Everest and the surrounding Himalayas, and the downstream impacts on communities that use that water and what can be learned from it as temperatures on the Himalayan peaks rise faster than in other parts of the world.
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 A beach chair on the beach of Juliusruh is illuminated by the rising morning sun. Change image |
English : A beach chair on the beach of Juliusruh is illuminated by the rising morning sun.
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English : An audio version of the English Wikipedia article "Introduction to general relativity" as of May 2021.
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 A red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) eating a nut in Bednarski Park (Kraków, Poland). Change image |
English : A red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) eating a nut in Bednarski Park (Kraków, Poland).
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English : A talk at the Wikimedia conference Wikimania 2024 about a "multimedia gap" in Wikipedia and Commons of audio files.
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 Gotland Grand National 2023. Gotland Grand National has long been considered the world’s largest Enduro competition and was first run in 1984. Change image |
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English : A video showing how locally-installed generative AI (Stable Diffusion) can be used for video game design such as for the creation of textures for game elements like room walls. The video shows how to install and use an extension for the cross-platform game engine editor Unity Editor so that the AI can be used for this from within the game editor.
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 Portrait of a Peacock dance performer during the harvest festival of Thai Pongal in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Change image |
English : Portrait of a Peacock dance performer during the harvest festival of Thai Pongal in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
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English : A video providing an overview of three dynamic list-making tools for and based on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons: Listeria, PetScan and Wiki List tool. It explains how to use them and a few applications they could be used for.
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 Schwetzingen Palace gardens, Schwetzingen, Germany: view from the Garden Theatre to the Temple of Apollo. Change image |
English : Schwetzingen Palace gardens, Schwetzingen, Germany: view from the Garden Theatre to the Temple of Apollo.
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English : A video showing a mummy from ancient Egypt.
Egyptologists at Chicago's Field Museum have opened the coffin of a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy to repair damage. The necessity of performing conservation work gives scholars a rare opportunity to see a mummy from the inside and to learn more about ancient Egyptian burial practices. Advanced options
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 Illustration of Davy Jones sitting on his locker, wearing a pirate captain's uniform. Today is Halloween. Change image |
English : Illustration of Davy Jones sitting on his locker, wearing a pirate captain's uniform. Today is Halloween.
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English : A music video illustrating psychedelic art and electronic rock fused with trance music elements. Cosmic Dust Bin – Interstellar
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