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Panoramic view of Noordhoek, a suburb of Cape Town with a population of ca. 32,000, South Africa.

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Common blackbird (Turdus merula mauritanicus) female.

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English : Mode change of a "dual-mode vehicle," a vehicle that can run on both tracks and rail. Japan's Asa Kaigan Railway became the first in the world to begin full-scale operation in 2022.

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Female scarlet darter dragonfly (Crocothemis erythraea) in Bulgaria. Today is Liberation Day in Bulgaria, celebrating independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878.

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English : Female scarlet darter dragonfly (Crocothemis erythraea) in Bulgaria. Today is Liberation Day in Bulgaria, celebrating independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878.

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English : Le Bateau ivre, by Arthur Rimbaud, in French. LibriVox recording by Nadine Eckert-Boulet.

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View from McQueen Pass towards Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury, New Zealand

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English : Ukrainian air defence shot down a Russian target on 25 February. Its wreckage damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Today is the ninth day since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Row of trees between fields in the Börnste hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : British Hong Kong used to be a port of call for US Navy ships

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A bridge reflected in the Canal du Midi in Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, France

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English : Destruction of Kharkiv by Russian troops during Russian invasion of Ukraine. 1 March 2022.

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Detail of the facade of the Palmsches Haus, an exemplary timber-framed house built in 1610 in Mosbach, Germany.

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English : On the composer's birthday, Maurice Ravel's Boléro, Lamoureux Orchestra, directed by Ravel himself, first part.

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Afsluitdijk Monument and surroundings. Bollards in the IJsselmeer.

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English : The Awakening, by Kate Chopin. LibriVox recording by eight female readers: Kara Shallenberg, Anita Roy Dobbs, Michelle Crandall, Caroline Mercier, Sandra in Wales, Kymm Zuckert, Kristen McQuillin, Gesine. Chapters I-V.

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Snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis), Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal.

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English : Scott Joplin playing the ragtime composition "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1916

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Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri, female)

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English : Macao, a small Cantonese city.

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The modern skyline of Vilnius, Lithuania, as viewed at dusk from Gediminas' Tower looking north-west. Re-Establishment of Lithuania is celebrated on this day.

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English : Montage of different places and activities in Estonia from March to December 2021

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A green heron (Butorides virescens) hunting for prey in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA

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English : Salammbô, by Gustave Flaubert, in French. LibriVox recording by Françoise. Chapter 1. Le Festin.

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Stone bridge in Bardo, Poland

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English : Making a snowman in Kõrvemaa, Estonia (January 2022)

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Narcissus 'Ice Follies' blooms with creamy white flowers. The crown is wide and has a wavy edge.

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English : A step-by-step cut through the Menger sponge, resulting in interesting shapes.

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Baby African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana), Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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English : Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (solo version). LibriVox recording by Ruth Golding. Chapter 1.

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Piana, Southern Corsica, France : the Calanques of Piana.

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Margherita Lambertini, first aid surgeon of the San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy, at the end of her shift during the COVID-19 pandemic. 19 March 2020.

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English : Sitting on the rim of a bowl, two honey bees are drinking from the water inside the bowl.

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Icy farm road and stream with trees near Merfeld in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : U.S. Navy ships assigned to Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group joined ships of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Escort Flotilla 1, Escort Flotilla 4, and the Royal Canadian Navy, while aircraft from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, JMSDF and Japan Air Self Defense Force fly in formation during "Keen Sword 21", a military exercise.

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English : Germinal, by Émile Zola, in French. LibriVox recording by Françoise. Part I - Chapter 1.

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English : Long Live the Bull! is a 1926 American stop-motion cartoon by Joseph Sunn.

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Cuckooflower or Lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis). Taken in Waldpark in Mannheim-Neckarau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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English : Making thermal cards based on cholesteric liquid crystals.

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Historic centre of Kłodzko, Poland

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English : Perseverance rover landing

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Abandoned train at Janakpur station.

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English : The Navigator is a 1924 American comic film starring Buster Keaton.

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Quanhua Temple, located in the Lion's Head Mountain Scenic Area, Taiwan.

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English : Starship spacecraft flight animation
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A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius. The calf has remoras attached to its body.

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English : Histoires extraordinaires (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque), by Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Charles Baudelaire. LibriVox recording in French by Irene Alvarez Domenech; YasmineHaggag; Christiane Jehanne; Margot; Stéphanie; Linda Olsen Fitak; Rémi; Ulrike Denis; Isad. Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue, part 1.

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Four ladies wearing yukatas, in front of the North Gate (Kita So-Mon) of Kiyomizu-dera temple, Kyoto, Japan.

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English : Wilson cloud chamber

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Mount Otkliknoy Greben in the Taganay range, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

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English : The Black Pirate is a 1926 American silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks.

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An absolutely stunning and monumental double hemisphere wall map of the world by Samuel Dunn dating back to 1794

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A brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) foraging in the snow in a Shakespeare garden in Manhattan, New York, USA. Brown thrashers are in the same family as catbirds and mockingbirds and are known for having over 1000 song types.

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English : A brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) foraging in the snow in a Shakespeare garden in Manhattan, New York, USA. Brown thrashers are in the same family as catbirds and mockingbirds and are known for having over 1000 song types.

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English : The city of Mariupol is located on the Azov Sea, near the front line of Russia's military intervention against Ukraine.

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English : The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells. Librivox recording by Rebecca Dittman. Book 1, Chapter 1.

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Five different commercial buns from Vienna. Top: normal bread, organic wholemeal bread from the Gradwohl bakery; below: pumpkinseed bread, from the Mann bakery: bread machine, double buns

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