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Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), Walvis Bay, Namibia.

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English : Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), Walvis Bay, Namibia.

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English : Beech trees in Holosiiv park, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), September 2, 1945.

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English : Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), September 2, 1945.

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An F-15EX Eagle II from the 40th Flight Test Squadron flies in formation during an aerial refueling operation above the skies of Northern California, USA. May 14 2021.

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English : An F-15EX Eagle II from the 40th Flight Test Squadron flies in formation during an aerial refueling operation above the skies of Northern California, USA. May 14 2021.

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English : Driving tips for US Air Force members in Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

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Bunker 23 at the area of the US army at the special ammunition depot in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : Demonstration against mandatory vaccinations and the "sanitary pass" in Belfort, France, August 14th, 2021.

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English : United States soldiers treating animals with de-worming medication in Swaziland

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English : Excerpt of a 1923 American documentary film showing the ascension of a monk in a net at Moni Varlaam in Meteora.

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Issued 100 years ago: 50 Pfennig "Notgeld" banknote (emergency money) of Berlin, district Tiergarten (1921).
The reverse shows the first German steamboat, the "Prinzessin Charlotte von Preußen", around 1830.
However the date 1830 is mistaken, as the "Charlotte von Preußen" was already dismantled in 1824.

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English : Issued 100 years ago: 50 Pfennig "Notgeld" banknote (emergency money) of Berlin, district Tiergarten (1921).
The reverse shows the first German steamboat, the "Prinzessin Charlotte von Preußen", around 1830.
However the date 1830 is mistaken, as the "Charlotte von Preußen" was already dismantled in 1824.

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English : Sappho is a 1921 German silent film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki.

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Vaka 'A Hina, a sculpture by Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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English : Mikhail Glinka's Barcarole in G major, from Four Musical Essays (1847)

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Boy reading a book in Dar ul-Ihsan Mosque, Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.

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English : U.S. president George W. Bush addresses the nation after the attacks on September 11, 2001.

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Mount Hoverla (2,061 m or 6,762 ft) in Carpathian National Nature Park is the highest mountain in Ukraine.

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English : Haunted Spooks is a 1920 silent American comedy film produced by Hal Roach and starring Harold Lloyd.

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Night view of the Rostock power station, Germany

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English : American silent film The Ace of Hearts (1921).

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Dante and Virgil by William Bouguereau (1850), from the Musée d'Orsay Collection.

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The old Jewish cemetery near Heinsheim, Bad Rappenau, Germany. Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, begins today with the sunset.

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English : When the Clouds Roll By is a 1919 silent American comedy film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Douglas Fairbanks.

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Landscape in Sutton, Alaska, United States.

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Sterntor in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : Wikitongues video in Yiddish, narrated in Brooklyn, NYC. The project has recorded hundreds of languages worldwide, aims to sustain and promote all the languages in the world. (subtitles available)

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English : Skateboarding contests have existed since the 1970s. This Dutch short film depicts a skateboarding contest in 1980. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, skateboarding debuted as an olympic sport.

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English : Drone video of castle in Vasilyevskoe Estate, Moscow Oblast, Russia in 2018.

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Lake Poaka on the South Island, New Zealand

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English : Barrel roll over Pirkkala airport.

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English : Aerial survey of the damage caused by the 2018 landslide in Naga, Philippines.

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English : Coney Island at Night, a short silent film from 1905, by director and cameraman Edwin S. Porter. Early films were usually shot in daylight, but Porter perfected a technique for recording at night. The film features a slow pan of Luna Park and Dreamland, amusement parks at Coney Island in Brooklyn.

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A sukkah during Sukkot at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, New York

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English : Venus of Willendorf, 3D

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English : Now or Never is a 1921 silent short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

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Zea mays 'Ottofile giallo Tortonese' , seeds.

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English : This video shows how vaccination with an mRNA vaccine works.

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A JR East 205-600 series 4-car EMU on the Nikko Line.

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English : An Arab man in the Levant pours a traditional cup of Arabic coffee from a dallah.
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View of Hohenbeilstein castle (on top) and of the Unteres Schloss (below) in Beilstein, Germany. The Unteres Schloss is a listed villa built from 1906 to 1908 in historicist style.

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English : Drone footage of Port of Gothenburg in Sweden in the evening

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Piece of chocolate cake, sprinkled with cocoa powder, on a white plate decorated with chocolate sauce.

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English : Aerial video of Shevchenko Park in Kherson, Ukraine.

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Wrocław, Młyński Bridge (Northern) over the River Oder, built in 1885, before the sunrise.

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English : Järva-Jaani, Estonia, July 2021
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