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 Night view of the baroque Turjak Fountain with the Ljubljana Castle in the background, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Change image |
English : Night view of the baroque Turjak Fountain with the Ljubljana Castle in the background, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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 Photo art based on a photograph of a Ferris wheel in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany The original shot used the creative technique of intentional camera movement. This image was mirrored and recomposed to achieve the symmetry effect. Change image |
English : Photo art based on a photograph of a Ferris wheel in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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English : A virtual tour of Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at this spot, nearly 130 million km from Earth, six years ago on 3 December.
"Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by gravity, and shaped like a spinning top. […] Scientists had expected Bennu’s surface to consist of fine-grained material like a sandy beach, but were instead greeted by a rugged world littered with boulders – the size of cars, the size of houses, the size of football fields. Now, thanks to laser altimetry data and high-resolution imagery from OSIRIS-REx, we can take a tour of Bennu’s remarkable terrain." Advanced options
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English : 3 December is Basque language day. Bernard Etxepare was the writer who wrote the first book in Basque. Video with English subtitles.
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 Early 12th-century Romanesque apsis of Notre-Dame-et-Sainte-Barbe de Savigny, Manche, France, with 14th-century murals presenting scenes from the martyrdom of St. Barbara. Her feast day is today on 4 December. Change image |
English : Early 12th-century Romanesque apsis of Notre-Dame-et-Sainte-Barbe de Savigny, Manche, France, with 14th-century murals presenting scenes from the martyrdom of St. Barbara. Her feast day is today on 4 December.
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English : 'A Year in Review' of NOAA satellite imagery during 2023, showing recordings of hurricanes, wildfires, erupting volcanoes, and more
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 Trier, Alter Krahn on the Mosel. Change image |
English : Trier, Alter Krahn on the Mosel.
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English : Eight facts about the Durango Fair focused on Basque culture that opens its doors today. Video with English subtitles.
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English : The first exemplification of one of the world's newest music genres called Future Rave on this platform. The techno derivative genre was established around 2019. Track: Jake Ryan & DSalva - Revival.
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 Christmas lights on the Champs-Élysées Avenue in Paris (France) in 2020. Change image |
English : Christmas lights on the Champs-Élysées Avenue in Paris (France) in 2020.
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English : A cinematographic nature drone video of the reindeer district Svahken sijte in Norway with music "Time of Water" by Daniel Herskedal.
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English : Ukrainian authorities in Bucha exhuming multiple mass graves in 2022 after Russian invading forces committed a massacre of civilians and prisoners of war
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 Common crab spider (Xysticus cristatus) female with prey Carniolan honey bee (Apis melifera carnica), a subspecies of the western honey bee. Near Bled, Slovenia. Change image |
English : Common crab spider (Xysticus cristatus) female with prey Carniolan honey bee (Apis melifera carnica), a subspecies of the western honey bee. Near Bled, Slovenia.
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English : The YouTuber of "How To Make Everything" reconstructs the aeolipile "to see if this very first steam engine could be put to work". "Could the industrial revolution [have] started 2000 years earlier?".
Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius described the aeolipile for an experiment to demonstrate the nature of atmospheric air movements (wind) in his Ten Books on Architecture (30–20 BCE). Advanced options
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 Newly-sown fields of Zangla village on the right bank of the Zanskar River contrasting refreshingly against the stark mountains of this arid region in the Indian Himalayas. The river flows from lower left to centre through a valley that narrows into the Zanskar gorge. Elevation: river 3,510 m (11,520 ft), peaks in centre ~5,200 m (17,100 ft). View from Zangla Fort, Zanskar, Ladakh, India. Change image |
English : Newly-sown fields of Zangla village on the right bank of the Zanskar River contrasting refreshingly against the stark mountains of this arid region in the Indian Himalayas. The river flows from lower left to centre through a valley that narrows into the Zanskar gorge. Elevation: river 3,510 m (11,520 ft), peaks in centre ~5,200 m (17,100 ft). View from Zangla Fort, Zanskar, Ladakh, India.
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English : A video by The Royal Society explaining how scientists using AI "are able to create many new proteins to solve all sorts of problems including disease and food security."
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 Mount Bolshoy Tkhach, 2,368 m (7,769 ft), 20 minutes after sunrise. Republic of Adygea, Western Caucasus. Today is International Mountain Day. Change image |
English : Mount Bolshoy Tkhach, 2,368 m (7,769 ft), 20 minutes after sunrise. Republic of Adygea, Western Caucasus. Today is International Mountain Day.
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English : Recording of the touchdown for sample collection on asteroid Ryugu in 2020 taken by the Japanese probe Hayabusa2.
It left the asteroid in November 2019 and returned the samples to Earth on 5 December 2020. In 2031, it is expected to rendezvous with the small, rapidly-rotating asteroid 1998 KY26. Advanced options
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English : Rally by Wikimedia Deutschland and Bündnis F5 against Sicherheitspaket
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 The image above shows a rare, cloud-free view of the remote Elephant Island on December 13, 2020, as captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. Change image |
English : The image above shows a rare, cloud-free view of the remote Elephant Island on December 13, 2020, as captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8.
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English : A cluster of illegal electrical connections short-circuiting in Cape Town, South Africa.
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 Overview of the city of Horta, one of the three capitals of the archipelago, during the blue hour from Monte da Guia, Faial Island, Azores, Portugal. Change image |
English : Overview of the city of Horta, one of the three capitals of the archipelago, during the blue hour from Monte da Guia, Faial Island, Azores, Portugal.
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 A foggy winter morning in Moulvibazar District, Bangladesh. Today is Victory Day in Bangladesh. Change image |
English : A foggy winter morning in Moulvibazar District, Bangladesh. Today is Victory Day in Bangladesh.
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English : Complete process of hand pump boring in Pakistan
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 Two young Tuberous Parasol Fungi (Chlorophyllum rhacodes) in natural habitat. Focus stack of 16 photos. Change image |
English : Two young Tuberous Parasol Fungi (Chlorophyllum rhacodes) in natural habitat. Focus stack of 16 photos.
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 Nepalese grandmother while preparing food in a traditional kitchen Change image |
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English : Stainless steel is made from iron ore by aluminothermic reaction. To better separate the resulting metal from the slag, cryolite and calcium fluoride was added to the mixture. The result was a stainless steel ingot.
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 Frost-covered lifebuoy attached to a dolphin, captured on Lake Siskiyou in Northern California Change image |
English : Frost-covered lifebuoy attached to a dolphin, captured on Lake Siskiyou in Northern California
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 Carved wooden bench, furniture, textile crafts, lanterns and suspended mobile sculptures, at the wooden Heuan Chan heritage house, stilt building with wooden ceiling, Luang Prabang, Laos. Change image |
English : Carved wooden bench, furniture, textile crafts, lanterns and suspended mobile sculptures, at the wooden Heuan Chan heritage house, stilt building with wooden ceiling, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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 Silhouettes at the Fort of Santo Antônio da Barra, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was constructed to guard the entrance to the Bay of All Saints, during the time of the Portuguese Empire. Change image |
English : Silhouettes at the Fort of Santo Antônio da Barra, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was constructed to guard the entrance to the Bay of All Saints, during the time of the Portuguese Empire.
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English : United States Navy Band performing Silent Night at DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. on December 21, 2014.
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 Nativity of Christ scene from the Kefermarkt Altarpiece. Today is Christmas. Change image |
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 Khone Phapheng Falls, Si Phan Don, Laos. Located on the Mekong River near the border with Cambodia, at 10.7 kilometres (6.6 mi) wide, it is the widest waterfall in the world. Change image |
English : Khone Phapheng Falls, Si Phan Don, Laos. Located on the Mekong River near the border with Cambodia, at 10.7 kilometres (6.6 mi) wide, it is the widest waterfall in the world.
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English : This NASA video explains how astronomers meticulously assembled mankind's deepest view of the universe, the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, from combining Hubble Space Telescope exposures taken over the decade up to 2012. It shows about one thirty-two millionth of the sky.
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 The Seehornsee in the Berchtesgaden Alps. On the right the normal route to the Seehorn. Change image |
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 Satellite picture of the Etna volcano erupting in eastern Sicily (Italy) in December 2018. Change image |
English : Satellite picture of the Etna volcano erupting in eastern Sicily (Italy) in December 2018.
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English : Animated short film by NASA about the OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, the origin of our Solar system and the early Earth.
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 Interior of the Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas Becket was martyred at the altar on this date in 1170. Today is Thomas Becket's feast day. Change image |
English : Interior of the Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas Becket was martyred at the altar on this date in 1170. Today is Thomas Becket's feast day.
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English : NASA Tracks Cyclone Freddy, longest-lived tropical cyclone on record.
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 Humoristic cartoon from Puck on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Greece and Persia. In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended, but the two sides refused to have any relations. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations. Change image |
English : Humoristic cartoon from Puck on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Greece and Persia. In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended, but the two sides refused to have any relations. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations.
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English : 2012 New Year's Eve Fireworks time lapse in Sydney, Australia from Shark Island (Port Jackson)
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