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 Édouard Manet's The Café-Concert, 1878. Scene set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart, where women on the fringes of society freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen. Today is International Beer Day. Change image |
English : Édouard Manet's The Café-Concert, 1878. Scene set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart, where women on the fringes of society freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen. Today is International Beer Day.
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English : The carillon rendition of the first Swiss national anthem "Rufst du, mein Vaterland" (those tune is the same as God Save the King). Today is National Day in Switzerland
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 La Fuentona, Muriel de la Fuente, Soria, Spain. The natural spring is a natural monument since 1998. There are only 6 such monuments in the Community of Castile and León (the biggest in Spain by surface). Change image |
English : La Fuentona, Muriel de la Fuente, Soria, Spain. The natural spring is a natural monument since 1998. There are only 6 such monuments in the Community of Castile and León (the biggest in Spain by surface).
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 U.S. President Barack Obama's official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012. Today is his birthday. Change image |
English : U.S. President Barack Obama's official photograph in the Oval Office on 6 December 2012. Today is his birthday.
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English : In Singapore: Seth is on a budget today so we’re on a hunt for the cheapest hawker dishes - nothing above $2.50. These stalls are such a rare find in this day and age and economy, it’ll be interesting to see why these hawkers decided to keep their prices so low and how they manage to stay afloat.
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 View from Okrążek rock in Piekary towards Vistula River, southern Poland. Tyniec Abbey on the right and Camaldolese Monastery on the left. Change image |
English : View from Okrążek rock in Piekary towards Vistula River, southern Poland. Tyniec Abbey on the right and Camaldolese Monastery on the left.
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English : The Trump administration is planning to defund the U.S. Chemical Safety Board,[1] which investigates industrial chemical accidents and publishes informative videos like this one.
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 Bunker 26 in the Dülmen-Visbeck special ammunition depot, Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Change image |
English : Bunker 26 in the Dülmen-Visbeck special ammunition depot, Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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English : German video about what people during the Middle Ages believed, awaited sinners after death: the torments of hell.
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_71.jpg) Zernez, Wildenberg Castle in Zernez. Garden shed in the inner garden. Change image |
English : Zernez, Wildenberg Castle in Zernez. Garden shed in the inner garden.
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English : This is an animated set of x-rays of a webcam, taken with an industrial computer tomograph.
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.jpg) The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024. Change image |
English : The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024.
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English : A video that explains the philosophical current of empiricism. Subtitles available.
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English : Breakfast at the Bodega (2022), a short film about a young man trying to live out his dreams as a French pastry chef despite his father's wishes.
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 West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria Change image |
English : West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria
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English : Common yellow gilder (Cymothoe egesta), Kakum National Park, Ghana. Feeding on overripe banana
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English : This animation shows the temperature from 1880-1884 to 2013-2017, as compared to a baseline average from 1951 to 1980. Blue colors were cooler and red warmer.
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English : Ensemble of the Solovetsky Monastery in the fog on a summer evening. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
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English : A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed, and produced by Georges Méliès.
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.jpg) A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc HH 30 around a newly formed star produced by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. It is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. Herbig-Haro objects are small nebulae found in star formation regions, marking the locations where gas outflowing from young stars is heated into luminescence by shockwaves. HH 30 is an example of where this outflowing gas takes the form of a narrow jet. The source star is located on one end of the jet, hidden behind an edge-on protoplanetary disc that the star is illuminating. Change image |
English : A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc HH 30 around a newly formed star produced by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. It is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. Herbig-Haro objects are small nebulae found in star formation regions, marking the locations where gas outflowing from young stars is heated into luminescence by shockwaves. HH 30 is an example of where this outflowing gas takes the form of a narrow jet. The source star is located on one end of the jet, hidden behind an edge-on protoplanetary disc that the star is illuminating.
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English : In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the third chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009.
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.jpg) The Victorious Youth is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100 BCE, in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, displayed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California. It was found on this day of 1964 in the sea off Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy. Change image |
English : The Victorious Youth is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100 BCE, in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, displayed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California. It was found on this day of 1964 in the sea off Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
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.jpg) This painting on the ceiling in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, a church on Via Veneto in Rome, depicts the Virgin Mary being assumed body and soul into heaven. Today is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary in much of Western Christianity or the Dormition of the Mother of God in Eastern Christianity. Change image |
English : This painting on the ceiling in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, a church on Via Veneto in Rome, depicts the Virgin Mary being assumed body and soul into heaven. Today is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary in much of Western Christianity or the Dormition of the Mother of God in Eastern Christianity.
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English : The Bureau of Land Management utilizes goats to help reduce fuel loads, slow shrub encroachment and decrease some of the invasive plants in Fort Ord National Monument, California, USA.
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 Eruption of Strokkur (Icelandic for "churn") a fountain geyser located in the Haukadalur geothermal area, southwest of Iceland. Change image |
English : Eruption of Strokkur (Icelandic for "churn") a fountain geyser located in the Haukadalur geothermal area, southwest of Iceland.
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English : Buffalo cross the river in a village near Hue, Vietnam.
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 Position light (with image of St. Christopher) of a Rolls-Royce Phantom II Change image |
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English : A plump muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) grooms himself. Muskrats make underwater trails through marshes that they continue to use through the winter.
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.jpg) Flower buds of a Agapanthus praecox Snow White. A pure white dwarf, 45 cm. Focus stack of 50 photos. Change image |
English : Flower buds of a Agapanthus praecox Snow White. A pure white dwarf, 45 cm. Focus stack of 50 photos.
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 Shrine dedicated to Shiva situated at the shore of the Gangabal Lake, a high altitude glacial lake in the Indian Himalayas. The lake is situated at the foot of Mount Haramukh in Jammu and Kashmir, and is called Gangabal meaning 'place of Ganga' in Kashmiri language. It is considered sacred in Hinduism as an abode of Shiva and used by Kashmiri Hindus to immerse the ashes of their dead after cremation. It has been described as a place of pilgrimage in several ancient Hindu texts and an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the lake starts from a nearby 8th century Shiva temple. This picture was taken in the month of Shravan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, which is dedicated to the worship of Shiva. Change image |
English : Shrine dedicated to Shiva situated at the shore of the Gangabal Lake, a high altitude glacial lake in the Indian Himalayas. The lake is situated at the foot of Mount Haramukh in Jammu and Kashmir, and is called Gangabal meaning 'place of Ganga' in Kashmiri language. It is considered sacred in Hinduism as an abode of Shiva and used by Kashmiri Hindus to immerse the ashes of their dead after cremation. It has been described as a place of pilgrimage in several ancient Hindu texts and an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the lake starts from a nearby 8th century Shiva temple. This picture was taken in the month of Shravan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, which is dedicated to the worship of Shiva.
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,_franja_marina_Teno-Rasca,_Tenerife,_España,_2022-01-09,_DD_52.jpg) Moray eels (Muraena augusti) and a cleaner shrimp (Lysmata grabhami), Teno-Rasca marine strip, Tenerife, Spain. It belongs to the family of moray eel and is endemic of the Canary Islands, Madeira and Azores. It is non-migratory, and dwells at a depth range of 0 to 250 metres (0 to 820 ft), most often at around 0 to 50 metres (0 to 164 ft). Muraena augusti is active during the night and hides in holes or crevices during the day. It can reach up to 100 centimetres (39 in) length and is a carnivore that feeds on small fishes, shrimps and crabs. Like all other moray eels their vision is poor but their sense of smell extraordinary. Change image |
English : Moray eels (Muraena augusti) and a cleaner shrimp (Lysmata grabhami), Teno-Rasca marine strip, Tenerife, Spain. It belongs to the family of moray eel and is endemic of the Canary Islands, Madeira and Azores. It is non-migratory, and dwells at a depth range of 0 to 250 metres (0 to 820 ft), most often at around 0 to 50 metres (0 to 164 ft). Muraena augusti is active during the night and hides in holes or crevices during the day. It can reach up to 100 centimetres (39 in) length and is a carnivore that feeds on small fishes, shrimps and crabs. Like all other moray eels their vision is poor but their sense of smell extraordinary.
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English : Three fifths of the Earth's surface is under the ocean, and the ocean floor is as rich in detail as the land surface with which we are familiar. This animation simulates a drop in sea level that gradually reveals this detail.
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 A woman from the Koch tribe with a lamb. Change image |
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 Male lion (Panthera leo) in Maasai Mara National Park. The Leo astrological sign ends at this time of year. Change image |
English : Male lion (Panthera leo) in Maasai Mara National Park. The Leo astrological sign ends at this time of year.
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English : An aerial look at The Vessel, the $150 million public art installation at Hudson Yards, New York City, USA. The piece was designed by Thomas Heatherwick.
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 The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour on Horseback by Giuseppe Castiglione Change image |
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 Patriotic graffiti in Vinnytsia, Ukraine during the war, 2022. Change image |
English : Patriotic graffiti in Vinnytsia, Ukraine during the war, 2022.
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 Wildlife photographer in a ghillie suit. Some wild animals are very difficult to approach without disturbing them, which sometimes leads some wildlife photographers to wear a ghillie suit when they go in search of them. By remaining undetected, wildlife photographers can observe animal behaviour that would otherwise not be observable if the animal would have had knowledge of human presence.) Change image |
English : Wildlife photographer in a ghillie suit. Some wild animals are very difficult to approach without disturbing them, which sometimes leads some wildlife photographers to wear a ghillie suit when they go in search of them. By remaining undetected, wildlife photographers can observe animal behaviour that would otherwise not be observable if the animal would have had knowledge of human presence.)
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English : Geroldsau Waterfall from the lower bridge at the shelter on 13 March 2020
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.jpg) View of the old town of Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, seen from the islet Unterwöhrd in the river Kocher. Change image |
English : View of the old town of Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, seen from the islet Unterwöhrd in the river Kocher.
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English : Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reenters the atmosphere after completing a 1.4 million-mile, 25.5 day Artemis I mission to the Moon.
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.jpg) Children play with bicycle tires among large conical piles of rice at a processing mill in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh Change image |
English : Children play with bicycle tires among large conical piles of rice at a processing mill in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh
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English : Ann-Sophie Qvarnström creating a silver chain in her workshop. Photographed at Sophies Silver's workshop in Visby, Gotland, Sweden.
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 TDK tape head cleaner cassette "HCL-11" made of clear hard plastic. The plastic is birefringent and demonstrates internal stress as coloured patterns (photoelasticity) when photographed using cross-polarisation. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released on this date in August 1963. Change image |
English : TDK tape head cleaner cassette "HCL-11" made of clear hard plastic. The plastic is birefringent and demonstrates internal stress as coloured patterns (photoelasticity) when photographed using cross-polarisation. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released on this date in August 1963.
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English : This video shows the property of carbon dioxide to go into a supercritical state with increasing temperature.
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 American chocolates from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Change image |
English : American chocolates from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
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English : Slow-motion video of a singing male katydid Conocephalus fuscus. Many crickets sing at ultrasonic frequencies inaudible to human. This video has been slowed down by a factor of four. By slowing it down, the singing sound becomes audible to humans.
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 A caterpillar of the spurge hawk moth (Hyles euphorbiae), photographed in the Scrivia riverbed, in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, Italy. The larvae of this Europiean hawk moth eat the leaves and bracts of the leafy spurge (Euphorbia virgata), which gives the species its common name. Change image |
English : A caterpillar of the spurge hawk moth (Hyles euphorbiae), photographed in the Scrivia riverbed, in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, Italy. The larvae of this Europiean hawk moth eat the leaves and bracts of the leafy spurge (Euphorbia virgata), which gives the species its common name.
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English : Mary Shelley was born 228 years ago today. This is a video about her life and the book Frankenstein. Subtitles available.
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 Formula 1, Dutch Grand Prix 2024: Carlos Sainz jr (ESP, Scuderia Ferrari). Today is this year's Grand Prix. Change image |
English : Formula 1, Dutch Grand Prix 2024: Carlos Sainz jr (ESP, Scuderia Ferrari). Today is this year's Grand Prix.
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English : The 1951 film trailer for Bedtime for Bonzo
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