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A macro shot of a red-and-green macaw's (Ara chloropterus) eye, Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí state, Brazil. +/− [en]
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 Detail of a stained glass window in St. Barbara's Church (Kutná Hora, Czech Republic). The window depicts St. Aloysius, St. Monica, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Joseph in prayer. Today is All Saints' Day. Change image |
English : Detail of a stained glass window in St. Barbara's Church (Kutná Hora, Czech Republic). The window depicts St. Aloysius, St. Monica, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Joseph in prayer. Today is All Saints' Day.
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 This memento mori sculpture adorns the Tomb of Gisleni, at the Parish Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Today is All Souls' Day. Change image |
English : This memento mori sculpture adorns the Tomb of Gisleni, at the Parish Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Today is All Souls' Day.
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English : In this video about air pollution, scientists explain how they tracked air pollution trends in various regions and 195 cities around the globe.
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,_mar_Rojo,_Egipto,_2023-04-14,_DD_64.jpg) Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), Red Sea, Egypt Change image |
English : Bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma), Red Sea, Egypt
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English : Photo art “Miracles of nature” based on a yellow ginkgo leaf and intentional camera movement
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English : On 21 April 2023, a coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun, spewing out a burst of plasma that generated a severe geomagnetic storm on Earth two days later.
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 Margaret D. Foster, seen in her lab. The original caption by the National Photo Company is "Miss Margaret D. Foster, Uncle Sam's only woman chemist, Oct. 4/19" - that's possibly a bit misleading, though she definitely was the first female chemist in the United States Geological Survey team. Change image |
English : Margaret D. Foster, seen in her lab. The original caption by the National Photo Company is "Miss Margaret D. Foster, Uncle Sam's only woman chemist, Oct. 4/19" - that's possibly a bit misleading, though she definitely was the first female chemist in the United States Geological Survey team.
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English : A tutorial video for the board game Catan: Seafarers.
This expansion of the board game Catan adds ships, gold fields, and the pirate to the game. Advanced options
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_in_flight_Cayo.jpg) Fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana monachus), chasing prey in Cayo, Belize. This is what the bird looks like when it is flying normally, but not grabbing an insect. Change image |
English : Fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana monachus), chasing prey in Cayo, Belize. This is what the bird looks like when it is flying normally, but not grabbing an insect.
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English : A drone video of the Ohepalu Nature Reserve, centering on the Ohepalu bog with people swimming in it swiveling to lake Ohepalu Lake.
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English : U.S. President Ronald Reagan's radio address to his nation on Free and Fair Trade from Camp David, Maryland.
Reaganomics refers to the economic policies implemented by him in the 1980s, which focused on decreased government spending, tax cuts, and neoliberal deregulation to stimulate economic growth. Advanced options
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.jpg) Two tender mushrooms (Mycena galericulata) on dead wood lying under the trees. Focus stack of 20 photos. Change image |
English : Two tender mushrooms (Mycena galericulata) on dead wood lying under the trees. Focus stack of 20 photos.
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_kissing,_Satchari_National_Park_(alt).jpg) Two chestnut-tailed starlings (Sturnia malabarica) kissing while perched on a branch in Satchari National Park, Bangladesh Change image |
English : Two chestnut-tailed starlings (Sturnia malabarica) kissing while perched on a branch in Satchari National Park, Bangladesh
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English : An interview video of British physical geographer Hannah Cloke about the extreme weather.
Hannah Cloke is a Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading. She was awarded the European Geosciences Union Plinius Medal in 2018 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours. The main fields of her scientific publications are land surface models, large scale hydrology, and ensemble flood forecasting. Advanced options
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 U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today is the United States Marine Corps birthday on which it turns 250 years old. Change image |
English : U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today is the United States Marine Corps birthday on which it turns 250 years old.
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English : A time-lapse animation of satellite pictures, showing Lonar crater lake changing its color from a green to a reddish pink in a span of 3 days in June 2020.
Reports by Agharkar Research Institute, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute and Geological Survey of India suggested that lowered water levels and high salinity caused growth of Halobacterium and increased Carotenoid levels, which in turn led to color change. Advanced options
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_I_want_you_for_U.S._Army._1917._101_x_76_cm._(Coll..Nr._3116).jpg) James Montgomery Flagg used the familiar figure of "Uncle Sam" and thus created the most famous recruiting poster by the U.S. Army. From April 1917 to autumn of 1918 more than four million pieces of it were printed. Still utilized in more recent times, this print was probably made in 1975. Today is Veterans Day in the United States. Change image |
English : James Montgomery Flagg used the familiar figure of "Uncle Sam" and thus created the most famous recruiting poster by the U.S. Army. From April 1917 to autumn of 1918 more than four million pieces of it were printed. Still utilized in more recent times, this print was probably made in 1975. Today is Veterans Day in the United States.
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English : Video of a solar filament of a coronal mass ejection being launched. Filaments are thread-like dense, somewhat cooler, clouds of material that are suspended above the solar surface by loops of magnetic field. Filaments can erupt fully or partially and these erupted material can be observed in form of coronal mass ejections which can collide with Earth's magnetosphere, where they can cause geomagnetic storms, aurorae, and in rare cases damage to electrical power grids.
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 Chapel of the Sacred Heart in the Jaszczurówka neighborhood of Zakopane, Poland. Change image |
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A macro shot of a red-and-green macaw's (Ara chloropterus) eye, Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí state, Brazil. Change image |
English : A macro shot of a red-and-green macaw's (Ara chloropterus) eye, Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí state, Brazil.
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 View on Val Montanaia (Montanaia Valley), with the Cima Both (2,437 m) on the left and the "Campanile" (2,173 m) in the middle; both are peaks of the Spalti di Toro group, in the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. Change image |
English : View on Val Montanaia (Montanaia Valley), with the Cima Both (2,437 m) on the left and the "Campanile" (2,173 m) in the middle; both are peaks of the Spalti di Toro group, in the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
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English : James Webb Telescope's telescope structure arriving at Joint Base Andrews on August 24, 2015 aboard a U.S. Air Force C-5 cargo plane.
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 Delila Hatuel is foil fencing olympic athlete. Today is her birthday. Change image |
English : Delila Hatuel is foil fencing olympic athlete. Today is her birthday.
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English : Metadata like meta tags or RDFa can enhance web content. This video is part of Web Science MOOC.
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 Basilica, Xavier, Navarre, Spain. The basilica belongs to the ensemble of the Castle of Xavier, built in the 10th century, although the basilica was not built until end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Of eclectic style, the interior has a unique neogothic nave built with grey stone and white marble. The stained glass is a work of painter Marcelino Santamaría from Burgos. The main altar is an artistic decorative work, carved in stone inlaid with mosaics, bronzes and enamels by the Biais house in Paris. The tabernacle is located on a high relief that represents San Francisco baptizing and preaching. Change image |
English : Basilica, Xavier, Navarre, Spain. The basilica belongs to the ensemble of the Castle of Xavier, built in the 10th century, although the basilica was not built until end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Of eclectic style, the interior has a unique neogothic nave built with grey stone and white marble. The stained glass is a work of painter Marcelino Santamaría from Burgos. The main altar is an artistic decorative work, carved in stone inlaid with mosaics, bronzes and enamels by the Biais house in Paris. The tabernacle is located on a high relief that represents San Francisco baptizing and preaching.
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_35a.jpg) Work shed on the Boshuisweg. Location: Kroondomein Het Loo. (Detail) Change image |
English : Work shed on the Boshuisweg. Location: Kroondomein Het Loo. (Detail)
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 Le concert champêtre (English: Woodland Music-makers), a 1857 oil-on-canvas by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Change image |
English : Le concert champêtre (English: Woodland Music-makers), a 1857 oil-on-canvas by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
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 Geological fieldworks, underground in the Estonian oil shale mine to study the variable mineralogical and chemical composition and microstructure in the different layers of the oil shale profile. Change image |
English : Geological fieldworks, underground in the Estonian oil shale mine to study the variable mineralogical and chemical composition and microstructure in the different layers of the oil shale profile.
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English : Climate change explained with Temperature Circle 1880–2020 based on NASA GISTEMP data.
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.jpg) Small grove of trees at sunset in late autumn (Massenbach, Schwaigern, Germany). Change image |
English : Small grove of trees at sunset in late autumn (Massenbach, Schwaigern, Germany).
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English : Mathematical exhibit to illustrate Ernst Chladni figures, available on the collection of Matemateca IME-USP, São Paulo, Brazil
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.jpg) A full-size test article of the SpaceX Crew Dragon named DragonFly fires its eight SuperDraco engines in a development test of its ability to land with the accuracy of a helicopter using only the thrusters. The company conducted two tethered tests vehicle attached to a crane so engineers could refine the landing software and systems on the spacecraft. SpaceX envisions returning people to Earth from space on the power of thrust instead of beneath parachutes. SpaceX, in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, is developing the Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 integrated system to take astronauts to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from the United States. Change image |
English : A full-size test article of the SpaceX Crew Dragon named DragonFly fires its eight SuperDraco engines in a development test of its ability to land with the accuracy of a helicopter using only the thrusters. The company conducted two tethered tests vehicle attached to a crane so engineers could refine the landing software and systems on the spacecraft. SpaceX envisions returning people to Earth from space on the power of thrust instead of beneath parachutes. SpaceX, in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, is developing the Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 integrated system to take astronauts to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from the United States.
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 View of the frozen Knollenteich in Hof (Saale), Bavaria, Germany. The cube-shaped concrete water drainage system is completely surrounded by the frozen pond. Change image |
English : View of the frozen Knollenteich in Hof (Saale), Bavaria, Germany. The cube-shaped concrete water drainage system is completely surrounded by the frozen pond.
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English : View to Vltava river during 2013 European floods from Jirásek bridge in Prague, Czech Republic.
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 "Plate Dance" (Tari Piring) performance from Sumatra (Indonesia) that may include dancing on broken plates and 'face washing' with plate shards. Change image |
English : "Plate Dance" (Tari Piring) performance from Sumatra (Indonesia) that may include dancing on broken plates and 'face washing' with plate shards.
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English : Maribor is the second largest Slovenian city located near the border with Austria. It is set amid wine-region hills on the Drava River.
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.jpg) Two wood knots which resemble two eyes, a simple example of pareidolia. Detail of a wooden fence in Beilstein, Germany. Change image |
English : Two wood knots which resemble two eyes, a simple example of pareidolia. Detail of a wooden fence in Beilstein, Germany.
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 A shattered ceiling light fixture on a bamboo floor mat. The lamp was a semi flush mounted light fixture with a shallow glass dome of clear glass coated with white glass on the inside. In the fixture are LED light bulbs with E27 Edison screw. The hook in the ceiling suddenly came lose one day and the lamp crashed to the floor in an apartment in Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. Photographed in natural light from the window. Focus stacked from 10 photos. Change image |
English : A shattered ceiling light fixture on a bamboo floor mat. The lamp was a semi flush mounted light fixture with a shallow glass dome of clear glass coated with white glass on the inside. In the fixture are LED light bulbs with E27 Edison screw. The hook in the ceiling suddenly came lose one day and the lamp crashed to the floor in an apartment in Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. Photographed in natural light from the window. Focus stacked from 10 photos.
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English : Connecticut Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross reading his 1938 Thanksgiving Proclamation to his cabinet. This was the first sound film ever made featuring a Governor of Connecticut.
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 Port and lighthouse overnight storm with lightning in Port-la-Nouvelle in the Aude department in southern France. Change image |
English : Port and lighthouse overnight storm with lightning in Port-la-Nouvelle in the Aude department in southern France.
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English : Native American flute tune performed on a 1987 flute crafted by Arthur "Two Crows" Yates (Minqua-Cherokee descent)
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English : A time-lapse video of a mushroom growing over multiple days.
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 Vineyard worker at Guadalupe Valley, Baja California, Mexico, where 95% of Mexican wines are produced. Change image |
English : Vineyard worker at Guadalupe Valley, Baja California, Mexico, where 95% of Mexican wines are produced.
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English : This narrated visualization illustrates the effect by showing how ship exhaust gas leaves bright cloud trails (ship tracks).
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