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Choir stalls in the Heiliggrabkapelle, Monastery Endowment of the Holy Grave, Heiligengrabe, Brandenburg, Germany

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English : Choir stalls in the Heiliggrabkapelle, Monastery Endowment of the Holy Grave, Heiligengrabe, Brandenburg, Germany

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English : School strike for climate in Berlin in January 2019.

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Groundhog (Marmota monax) on Laval University campus, Quebec, Canada.

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English : Groundhog (Marmota monax) on Laval University campus, Quebec, Canada.

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English : The Tailor from Torzhok is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky.
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Gas chamber of the Dachau concentration camp, Dachau, near Munich, Germany. It was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. Its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, German and Austrian criminals, and later foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. As U.S. Army troops neared the Dachau sub-camp at Landsberg on 27 April 1945, the SS officer in charge ordered that 4,000 prisoners be murdered. Windows and doors of their huts were nailed shut. The buildings were then doused with gasoline and set afire. There were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented.

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English : Gas chamber of the Dachau concentration camp, Dachau, near Munich, Germany. It was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. Its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, German and Austrian criminals, and later foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. As U.S. Army troops neared the Dachau sub-camp at Landsberg on 27 April 1945, the SS officer in charge ordered that 4,000 prisoners be murdered. Windows and doors of their huts were nailed shut. The buildings were then doused with gasoline and set afire. There were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented.

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English : Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent film by Fred Niblo with some scenes in Technicolor.
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White-throated kingfisher near Jargari, Ludhiana district, Punjab.

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English : White-throated kingfisher near Jargari, Ludhiana district, Punjab.

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English : The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent film by Raoul Walsh starring Douglas Fairbanks.
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A Konica Auto S3 rangefinder camera. Wikimedia Commons has a list of pictures taken with a Konica Auto S3.

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English : A Konica Auto S3 rangefinder camera. Wikimedia Commons has a list of pictures taken with a Konica Auto S3.

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English : Zapateado, a composition for violin by Pablo de Sarasate, performed in 1910 by Jan Kubelík.

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The southern facade of Schloss Augustusburg. The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark.

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English : The southern facade of Schloss Augustusburg. The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark.

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English : 'A padrona 'e 'stu core is a traditional Neapolitan song recorded in 1931 by Gilda Mignonette.

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Interior and high altar of the parish church St. Cyriak in Pfarrwerfen, federal state of Salzburg, Austria

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English : The Sinking of the Lusitania is an American 1918 silent animated short by cartoonist Winsor McCay.

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View of one of the "Monks of the Pacana", huge rock formations created by the erosion of the wind and located near the Salar de Aguas Calientes, Los Flamencos National Reserve, northern Chile.

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English : View of one of the "Monks of the Pacana", huge rock formations created by the erosion of the wind and located near the Salar de Aguas Calientes, Los Flamencos National Reserve, northern Chile.

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English : Behind the Door is a 1919 silent American film by Irvin Willat starring Hobart Bosworth.
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Small red damselfly (Ceriagrion tenellum) female form melanogastrum; Crockford Stream, Hampshire

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English : Performance organized in Hamburg in 2019 by Ende Gelände, a civil disobedience protesting against global warming.
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Former Hanebuth Mansion (“Haus am Weststrand”) and restaurant “Giftbude”, Norderney, Lower Saxony, Germany

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English : Colonel Heeza Liar Foils the Enemy is a silent 1915 animated short by John Randolph Bray.

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BMW Mini at sunrise on a country lane in the hamlet Börnste, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : BMW Mini at sunrise on a country lane in the hamlet Börnste, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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English : A Bike-Flash in Germany, warning trucks not to run over cyclists when turning right.

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Waterfalls in the Seebach Valley near Mallnitz, High Tauern National Park, Carinthia, Austria

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English : A flock of birds fly in a swarm over a slough near the Padilla Bay Shore Trail in Washington state.

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White cultivar Hippeastrum 'Intokazi'

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English : The Aktionstag zum §219a (activist day on the ban on advertising of abortion) took place at Rosa-Luxemburg-Place in front of the Volksbühne in Berlin.
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The Maximilianeum in Munich, seat of the Bavarian State Legislature, at night with light trails created by a passing streetcar.

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English : The Maximilianeum in Munich, seat of the Bavarian State Legislature, at night with light trails created by a passing streetcar.

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English : The Cyclonudista is the yearly World Naked Bike Ride in Brussels.
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View of one of the 5 buildings in the Masoudieh Mansion, Tehran, Iran. The mansion dates from 1878 and is named after Prince Masoud Mirza, son of Persia's king Naser al-Din Shah. The building houses the first Iranian library and museum back to the beginning of the 20th century.

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English : View of one of the 5 buildings in the Masoudieh Mansion, Tehran, Iran. The mansion dates from 1878 and is named after Prince Masoud Mirza, son of Persia's king Naser al-Din Shah. The building houses the first Iranian library and museum back to the beginning of the 20th century.

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English : A 2017 motorcade in Berlin in support of Deniz Yücel.

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A footbridge reflected in the former salt ponds of Peyriac-de-Mer, France.

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English : Police in the Year 2000 is a 1910 French silent science-fiction short.
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English : The Platz da für mein SUV!? protest promoted a city limit of 70 and a minimum speed of 250 on the Autobahn.

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The Bavarian National Museum (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum) in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and one of the largest art museums in Germany.

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English : Crainquebille is a 1922 French silent film by Jacques Feyder, based on Anatole France's eponymous short story.
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Female village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus cucullatus) in The Gambia

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English : The Martin-Niemöller-Foundation invited to an "intervention against the reconstruction of the Garrison Church Potsdam" under the motto "Spirit of Weimar - Spirit of Potsdam".

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Reflections in the Uyuni salt flat during sunrise, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí Department, southwesten Bolivia, not far from the crest of the Andes. This salt flat is, with a surface of 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi), the world's largest, and during the rain saison (December-February) offers spectacular reflexions.

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English : Reflections in the Uyuni salt flat during sunrise, Daniel Campos Province, Potosí Department, southwesten Bolivia, not far from the crest of the Andes. This salt flat is, with a surface of 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi), the world's largest, and during the rain saison (December-February) offers spectacular reflexions.

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Sunflower at a field in Köcking, market town Eberndorf, district Völkermarkt, Carinthia, Austria, EU

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English : Shattered Dreams, also known as Bolshevism on Trial, is a 1919 American silent propaganda film by Harley Knoles, based on the 1909 novel Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California by Thomas Dixon Jr..
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Czech helicopter Mi-24/Mi-35

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English : A visit to Hamburg Planetarium in February 2019
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English : Haus-Rucker-Co created the Rahmenbau (Landschaft im Dia) as part of documenta 6.
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'Loft' storehouse from Berdal, southern Vinje, Telemark, Norway. Built 1750-60. Now at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.

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English : 'Loft' storehouse from Berdal, southern Vinje, Telemark, Norway. Built 1750-60. Now at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.

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English : Onésime et le drame de famille is a 1914 French silent short comedy film by Jean Durand with all characters of the family members played by Ernest Bourbon.
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English : The bicycle path in the Leo-Baeck-Straße in Zehlendorf was set up at the request of elementary school pupils.
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Comedian, Zoe Lyons, publicity shot.

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English : Istikhbar Djarka. is a traditional Algerian song recorded in 1929 by Mahieddine Bachtarzi, then nicknamed "the Caruso of the desert".

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Main nave of the St. Sarkis Cathedral, Tehran, Iran. The Armenian Apostolic temple was constructed between 1964 and 1970 and was work of Serkisian brothers in memory of their parents.

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English : The Vertikaler Erdkilometer is a 1000 m deep copper filled hole, that was drilled through a parking garage.