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 View of quiet Monroe Harbor in fall at dawn, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Change image |
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English : Recipe for roast pork belly sandwich.
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 Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) near Chobe Game Lodge in Chobe National Park Botswana. The lodge has an all-female guiding team. Change image |
English : Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) near Chobe Game Lodge in Chobe National Park Botswana. The lodge has an all-female guiding team.
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English : National anthem of the Federated States of Micronesia, performed by the United States Navy Band.
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English : Instrumental performance of the national anthem of Dominica, "Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour", by the United States Navy Band.
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 St. John Nepomuk Chapel in Hiddingsel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
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English : «Hymn of the Isthmus», Panama national anthem, instrumental version, adopted as national anthem in 1906.
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 125 Bolivares share certificate, issued by the mining company Compañia Minera El Callao on 1. March 1887 in Ciudad Bolívar (Venezuela). Graphic design with underground mining scene, richly ornamented with coats of arms and monograms of the society. Change image |
English : 125 Bolivares share certificate, issued by the mining company Compañia Minera El Callao on 1. March 1887 in Ciudad Bolívar (Venezuela). Graphic design with underground mining scene, richly ornamented with coats of arms and monograms of the society.
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English : Belfort Retro Vélo Tour, in Belfort, June 24, 2023.
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 F-35 Heritage Flight Team performs in Bell Fort Worth Alliance Air Show 2018, Fort Worth, Texas. Change image |
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English : Unheard-of instruments in the saxophone family. Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the saxophone, was born on 6 November 1814.
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 Speyer, Germany: view from the tower of the Altpörtel (Old Gate) to southeast over the roofs of the old town to the Gedächtniskirche (left) and to the Saint Joseph Church (centre) behind which the sun is sinking. Change image |
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 Top view of 201 Dome Mosque, Tangail District, Bangladesh. Change image |
English : Top view of 201 Dome Mosque, Tangail District, Bangladesh.
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English : Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness is a 1927 documentary film shot in Thailand by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack who later directed King Kong.
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 People sitting in the Tuileries Garden in front of the Roue de Paris (France). This 60-metre (200 ft) tall Ferris wheel was originally installed for the 2000 millennium celebrations. Change image |
English : People sitting in the Tuileries Garden in front of the Roue de Paris (France). This 60-metre (200 ft) tall Ferris wheel was originally installed for the 2000 millennium celebrations.
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English : Instrumental recording of the "Nokor Reach" (English: "Royal Kingdom"), the national anthem of Cambodia.
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 Hortus Haren. (Laetiporus sulphureus) on (Ginkgo biloba). Change image |
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English : Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
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English : St. Stefan Dečanski (Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia), icon, Jasenovac Monastery, Croatia.
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English : Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, in French. LibriVox recording by Nadine Eckert-Boulet. Part 1, chapter 1.
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 Cape May Lighthouse, Cape May, New Jersey, at sunset. The lighthouse was built in 1859, automated in 1946, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1973. Change image |
English : Cape May Lighthouse, Cape May, New Jersey, at sunset. The lighthouse was built in 1859, automated in 1946, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1973.
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 10th century stone sculpture of the Hindu God Vishnu at Sheshnarayan Temple at Pharphing, near Kathmandu, Nepal. Change image |
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English : The fumaroles near the summit crater of Mount Damavand, Iran, in May of 2014.
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English : Panorama from the Tête de Girbault.
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 Hercegovačka Gračanica is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located on the historic Crkvina Hill over the city of Trebinje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The monastery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and completed in 2000, is largely a copy of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo. Change image |
English : Hercegovačka Gračanica is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located on the historic Crkvina Hill over the city of Trebinje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The monastery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and completed in 2000, is largely a copy of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo.
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English : Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is an animated film of 1939 by Dave Fleischer and Paramount Pictures, with the character Popeye The Sailor.
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 This 18th-century stained glass window depicts Elizabeth of Hungary, whose feast day is today. It is located in the City Museum of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Change image |
English : This 18th-century stained glass window depicts Elizabeth of Hungary, whose feast day is today. It is located in the City Museum of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
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English : The national anthem of the Kingdom of Morocco, the "Cherifian Anthem", performed instrumentally by the United States Navy Band circa 2003.
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 Daedalea quercina. Location, De Famberhorst. Focus stack of 21 photos. Change image |
English : Daedalea quercina. Location, De Famberhorst. Focus stack of 21 photos.
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English : Marcel Proust manuscript. II — À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU. A — Autograph manuscripts. XXVII-XXX. Notebooks. XXVII. Reading notes and preparatory notes for the essay on Sainte-Beuve, mostly from 1908. 60 f. - 255 × 65 mm. - Gray canvas notebook decorated on the upper cover with a figurine representing a tall blond young man.
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 Representation of King Ramesses II on his chariot during the Battle of Kadesh against the Hittite Empire (13th century BC). Bas-relief of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt. Change image |
English : Representation of King Ramesses II on his chariot during the Battle of Kadesh against the Hittite Empire (13th century BC). Bas-relief of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt.
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English : Happy Veterans Day, everyone! I’m forever grateful to our veterans and their families.
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 Children of the Banna tribe in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts. Change image |
English : Children of the Banna tribe in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts.
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English : Inauguration of a place named after former French president Jacques Chirac in the city of Belfort (France) in June 2023.
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 Posthumous official presidential portrait of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Change image |
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English : National Anthem of Lebanon.
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 Édifice Price at night, Quebec city, Canada Change image |
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English : National Anthem of Haiti.
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 Maribor, Slovenia, center of town, alley to river Drau Change image |
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English : Surinamese national anthem, performed by the U.S. Navy Band.
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 Adelie penguins in the South Shetland Islands. Change image |
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English : Cinq Minutes de cinéma pur is a 1926 French experimental short by Henri Chomette.
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 Top view of Kantanagar Temple. The Kantanagar Temple is a late-medieval Hindu temple in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. The Kantajew Temple is a religious edifice belonging to the 18th century. The temple belongs to the Hindu Kanta or Krishna and this is most popular with the Radha-Krishna cult (assemble of memorable love) in Bengal. Change image |
English : Top view of Kantanagar Temple. The Kantanagar Temple is a late-medieval Hindu temple in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. The Kantajew Temple is a religious edifice belonging to the 18th century. The temple belongs to the Hindu Kanta or Krishna and this is most popular with the Radha-Krishna cult (assemble of memorable love) in Bengal.
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English : Airshow Kaivopuisto Helsinki Finland 9.6.2017.
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English : The interior of the upper church floor of Bürgersaalkirche, a former Jesuit church in Munich.
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English : "Himni i Flamurit", the national anthem of Albania, performed instrumentally by the United States Navy Band circa 2003.
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 The Ambassadors (1533), painting by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) with the portraits of Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador to the court of Henry VIII of England, and Georges de Selve, bishop of Lavaur. The painting is famous for including, in the foreground at the bottom, the anamorphosis of a human skull that becomes visible from a very shallow angle, from bottom right to bottom left. Change image |
English : The Ambassadors (1533), painting by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) with the portraits of Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador to the court of Henry VIII of England, and Georges de Selve, bishop of Lavaur. The painting is famous for including, in the foreground at the bottom, the anamorphosis of a human skull that becomes visible from a very shallow angle, from bottom right to bottom left.
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English : 1927 Fox newsreel on George Hossfield, world champion of typists.
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 The Blue Marble (2007) Change image |
English : The Blue Marble (2007)
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English : Celebration of the Victory in Europe Day on 8 May 2023 in the town of Meroux-Moval (France).
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