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 The submerged St. Nicholas Church in Mavrovo, North Macedonia. Built in 1850, the church served as the main village church of Mavrovo. With the construction of the hydroelectric power station in Mavrovo and the artificial Mavrovo Lake, the church got submerged under water in 1953. Change image |
English : The submerged St. Nicholas Church in Mavrovo, North Macedonia. Built in 1850, the church served as the main village church of Mavrovo. With the construction of the hydroelectric power station in Mavrovo and the artificial Mavrovo Lake, the church got submerged under water in 1953.
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English : The playing of the pipe organ in Immanuel Church in Tel Aviv, Israel. Today is Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel's Independence Day).
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.jpg) A man wearing face mask cycling by Wat Phra Kaew outside the wall of the Grand Palace, Bangkok. Change image |
English : A man wearing face mask cycling by Wat Phra Kaew outside the wall of the Grand Palace, Bangkok.
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English : Intersectional feminist demonstration in Berlin on the meadow between the Chancellery, Paul Löbe House, Reichstag building, Platz der Republik and the Tipi. Before the formation of the new federal government made up of the parties CDU, CSU and SPD under the then still to be elected Chancellor Friedrich Merz, activists in costumes inspired by Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel ‘The Handmaid's Tale’ demonstrated against what they claim is dismantling of human rights with their heads bowed under the slogans ‘Not my government’ and ‘Handmaid's tale riot’.
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,_Kanus_an_der_Küste_--_2024_--_1990.jpg) Canoes on the coast, Tsitsikamma National Park (part of Garden Route National Park), Eastern Cape, South Africa Change image |
English : Canoes on the coast, Tsitsikamma National Park (part of Garden Route National Park), Eastern Cape, South Africa
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 Church of St Joseph, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal Change image |
English : Church of St Joseph, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
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English : Je Vivroie liement, a 14th century French virelai written by Guillaume de Machaut, performed by Emilio Villalba.
The video may be Commons' best representation of the broad music genre medieval music. The recreated mechanical stringed musical instrument is a hurdy-gurdy. Advanced options
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English : An underwater video of a jellyfish, recorded by a remotely operated underwater vehicle at a depth of about 800 m below sea level in the waters of the volcanic Smith Island of Japan. The captured specimen was then analyzed and found to be representing a new species, which was named Santjordia pagesi and has this specimen as its holotype.
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 Motorsport, IDM, Finale Hockenheimring 2022: Melvin van der Voort (NED, Niederlande), IDM Supersport 600. Change image |
English : Motorsport, IDM, Finale Hockenheimring 2022: Melvin van der Voort (NED, Niederlande), IDM Supersport 600.
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 Lake Seliger in Ostashkovsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia. Change image |
English : Lake Seliger in Ostashkovsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia.
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English : Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging of a child swallowing pineapple juice. Such juice contains an inherent concentration of paramagnetic manganese, which serves as a contrast agent and appears bright. The background noise results from the rapid switching of electromagnets that assist in the imaging process, particularly by encoding spatial information.
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_04.jpg) Deelerwoud, (the eastern part.) Birchs on a heathland. Change image |
English : Deelerwoud, (the eastern part.) Birchs on a heathland.
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English : A time-lapse video of the Milky Way seen from Earth and a rock formation called Toadstool in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah, USA.
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English : Interior of the Estates Theatre in Prague, Czechia
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English : Larva of the giant waterbug (Lethocerus patruelis) attacking a fish (Pseudorasbora parva) in an example of predator–prey reversal.
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English : Crooked doors and decaying brickwork of a building in Savannakhet, Laos
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English : A LibreOffice tutorial video explaining how to create charts with the open source office suite LibreOffice.
On English Wikipedia, a new WikiProject Data Visualization has recently been proposed whose activities would include the creation of charts. Advanced options
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 Barn swallow juvenile (Hirundo rustica rustica) at the Ormož Basins nature reserve, Slovenia. Taken during a period when the storm Boris blocked migration routes, and low temperatures left the swallows struggling to find prey and stay warm in that area. This one was visibly weak, nevertheless, it had just caught a moth, with remains visible around the beak, and its scales on the face. Change image |
English : Barn swallow juvenile (Hirundo rustica rustica) at the Ormož Basins nature reserve, Slovenia. Taken during a period when the storm Boris blocked migration routes, and low temperatures left the swallows struggling to find prey and stay warm in that area. This one was visibly weak, nevertheless, it had just caught a moth, with remains visible around the beak, and its scales on the face.
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English : A tour of a Wikipedia articles, explaining various subjects such as the article layout. The video is part of a tutorial series.
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English : Illustration of the process of generating a scientific illustration of an oviposition by a parasitic wasp (Xenomorphia resurrecta) into a fly puparium based on 3D rendering of micro-CT data of fossil specimens.
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English : American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) close up
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 50th International Dixieland Festival Dresden: Allotria Jazz Band on the open-air stage 'Junge Garde', trombone. The 53rd festival is taking place this week. Change image |
English : 50th International Dixieland Festival Dresden: Allotria Jazz Band on the open-air stage 'Junge Garde', trombone. The 53rd festival is taking place this week.
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English : Calling song of the cicada Magicicada septendecim.
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_juvenile_and_common_jezebel_(Delias_eucharis)_female.jpg) Green garden lizard (Calotes calotes). A juvenile has climbed a flowering bush, hoping to catch the female common jezebel butterfly (Delias eucharis) in the Sinharaja Forest, Viharahena, Sri Lanka Change image |
English : Green garden lizard (Calotes calotes). A juvenile has climbed a flowering bush, hoping to catch the female common jezebel butterfly (Delias eucharis) in the Sinharaja Forest, Viharahena, Sri Lanka
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English : A video on underwater robots for precision aquaculture from New Zealand's Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge
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 Spanish-American biophysicist Eva Nogales in 2023. Today is her birthday. Change image |
English : Spanish-American biophysicist Eva Nogales in 2023. Today is her birthday.
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English : A NASA video about the Solar Sail Demonstration test at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama on 13 October 2022 where the 400 square meter sail quadrant was unfurled for the first time
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.jpg) Closed flower of an Oenothera stricta 'Sulphurea' (Night bloomer) Focus stack of 54 photos. Change image |
English : Closed flower of an Oenothera stricta 'Sulphurea' (Night bloomer) Focus stack of 54 photos.
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English : A time-lapse video of Bacillus cereus growing.
An image was taken every five minutes for approximately 87 hours, at room temperature. Each morning heating was started and caused moisture to build up on the lid of the petri plate. Advanced options
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,_parque_nacional_Ras_Muhammad,_Egipto,_2022-03-28,_DD_56.jpg) Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Ras Muhammad National Park, Egypt. Change image |
English : Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Ras Muhammad National Park, Egypt.
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English : An animated video from NASA explaining Earth's oceanic processes' impacts on weather and climate in the context of climate change.
The animations use Earth science data from a variety of sensors on NASA Earth observing satellites to measure physical oceanography parameters such as ocean currents, ocean winds, sea surface height and sea surface temperature. Advanced options
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 Ursus arctos arctos from the Bear Sanctuary in Synevyr National Nature Park, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. Change image |
English : Ursus arctos arctos from the Bear Sanctuary in Synevyr National Nature Park, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
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English : Developing nerve cell clusters in the subesophageal ganglion of a stage 3 Pseudopallene sea spider. The image shows a virtual transverse section moving from back to front through the ganglion, created using a 3D reconstruction program on confocal laser-scanning microscopy data. The sample is stained and immunolabeled to highlight acetylated tubulin in red (marking parts of the cytoskeleton), a specific phospho-histone in yellow (marking dividing cells), and Hoechst stain H33342 in blue (marking cell nuclei). One histone-labeled cell visible at around 19s in the left front stream is in prophase, an early stage of cell division. On the right side, the image sequence enters the more sideward (antero-lateral) palpal cell cluster. Several flattened glial cell nuclei are visible in the nerve sheath. The front-upper (antero-dorsal) part of the ganglion shows slight damage.
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 Landscape in the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine Change image |
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English : A caldera is a large, usually circular volcanic depression formed when magma is withdrawn or erupted from a shallow underground magma reservoir. It is often difficult to visualize how calderas form. In the video a simple experiment using flour, a balloon, tubing, and a bicycle pump provides a helpful visualization to help explain caldera formation.
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English : Worm's-eye view of Tokyo Skytree, Japan. The tower was opened to the public on this day in 2012.
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 Huvudsta metro station, Stockholm Change image |
English : Huvudsta metro station, Stockholm
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English : A 960fps 40x slow-motion video of a Vespa analis, the yellow-vented hornet, a species of common hornet found in Southeast Asia.
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 This image of Mary Help of Christians was painted after the original by Lucas Cranach the Elder and is located in Maria Hilf pilgrimage church (Moosbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Today is the feast day of Mary Help of Christians in the Catholic Church. Change image |
English : This image of Mary Help of Christians was painted after the original by Lucas Cranach the Elder and is located in Maria Hilf pilgrimage church (Moosbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Today is the feast day of Mary Help of Christians in the Catholic Church.
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English : A compilation of drone video clips of diverse subjects and places.
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.jpg) The Taras horizon landscape reserve at dawn in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine Change image |
English : The Taras horizon landscape reserve at dawn in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine
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 Runners in tunnel. São Martinho do Porto, Portugal. Change image |
English : Runners in tunnel. São Martinho do Porto, Portugal.
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English : A video showing the open source operating system Kubuntu – it explains what is new in its version 24.10.
Kubuntu is a free, user-friendly Linux distribution based on KDE's desktop software and on the Ubuntu operating system. Advanced options
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 Bicycle parked in front of a graffitied building façade with doors, in a street near Kloveniersburgwal, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Front view. Change image |
English : Bicycle parked in front of a graffitied building façade with doors, in a street near Kloveniersburgwal, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Front view.
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English : 3D model of the head of a Nile crocodile embryo.
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 Kishū Kumano iwatake tori by Hiroshige II, a Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e style, depicting the harvesting of iwatake mushrooms (Umbilicaria esculenta) near Kumano in the Kishū Domain. Change image |
English : Kishū Kumano iwatake tori by Hiroshige II, a Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e style, depicting the harvesting of iwatake mushrooms (Umbilicaria esculenta) near Kumano in the Kishū Domain.
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English : A slow-motion video of bees by a beekeeper. Watch them bustling into each other and bringing back loads of pollen. Around 2:50 you can see two of the bees collide mid-air.
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 This stained glass window (1880) located in the Cathédrale Saint-Louis (La Rochelle, France) depicts Joan of Arc. Today is St. Joan's feast day. Change image |
English : This stained glass window (1880) located in the Cathédrale Saint-Louis (La Rochelle, France) depicts Joan of Arc. Today is St. Joan's feast day.
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 Fresh water collecting in the valleys between sand dunes in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. A layer of rock beneath the sand prevents the rain water from dissipating during the rainy season, resulting in a broad expanse of lagoons. Change image |
English : Fresh water collecting in the valleys between sand dunes in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil. A layer of rock beneath the sand prevents the rain water from dissipating during the rainy season, resulting in a broad expanse of lagoons.
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