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: The Wilhelm scream is a commonly employed sound effect featured in over 200 films, with its origins dating back to 1951 in the movie Distant Drums. It is frequently inserted during scenes depicting gunshots, falling, or explosions.
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: Bullet traces (vandalism) in the
watchtower
in the former
arsenal
in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dulmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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:
Neighbors
is a 1920 comedy short film directed, written, produced, and starring Buster Keaton
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: In August 2023, New Zealand Police's Operation Pakari in Southland resulted in the arrest of over 20 individuals for violent offenses, following a series of previous incidents across the region.
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Country Lads
is a 1941 New Zealand short film. It went on to screen in New Zealand cinemas as the first production released by the newly born
National Film Unit
. It features footage of troops parading through central Wellington and their departure for Europe and North Africa during
World War II
.
Adolf Hitler
had called the Kiwi soldiers "poor deluded country lads"; but here the description is turned into a compliment.
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: Winter mountaineering in France, near Grenoble. Gully Paul Arthaud (or Gully Zia) then we wanted to continue with the crossing of the N-S ridges of the Oreille du Loup. We learned good lessons from this first experience which, despite the conditions, was carried out without major risks. It was a very good course to start winter mountaineering because it did not require a high technical level and there were multiple escape routes (so low commitment).
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: Detail of a
Eucomis
(crested lily). The crest develops from the beautiful mottled stem. Focus stack of 16 photos.
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: In 2014, villagers in
Cambodia
's Prey Lang forest say illegal logging has been on the rise in their area, but they are powerless to prevent the deforestation that threatens their way of life.
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: Blind accordion player, Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
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Sao Paulo, A Sinfonia da Metropole
is a 1929 Brazilian documentary film by Rodolfo Lustig and Adalberto Kemeny, inspired by Walter Ruttmann’s
Berlin: Die Sinfonie Der Großstadt
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: Roping up on a glacier is one of the basic techniques for progressing in mountaineering. There are several techniques and several knots to know.
The Ecrins guides present to us today everything you need to know about rope-up on a glacier for 2, 3 or more people. We are going to talk about knots, torso rings, mobile or fixed gallows and the adaptation of the rope to the terrain.
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Burgos Cathedral
was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on October 31, 1984. It is the only Spanish cathedral that has this UNESCO distinction independently, without being linked to the historic center of a city.
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: View of
Cholatse
(6,440 metres (21,129 ft)),
Ama Dablam
and other Himalayan peaks in Chola Valley south of the Great Himalayan Range in Mahalangur Himal, Nepal,
Himalayas
. The first documented ascent of Cholatse was made on April 22, 1982 by a team of US climbers.
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: Until the Space X's Crew Dragon entered service, crews serving on the
International Space Station
started and ended their journeys in
Kazakhstan
. When it’s time to come home, they strap in for a parachute landing in the middle of the spare and remote steppe of the central Asian country.
To bring their crew members home, a small NASA team makes the trip from Houston to Kazakhstan. NASA’s Dan Huot filmed one such trip in June 2016 when NASA’s
Tim Kopra
landed with British astronaut
Tim Peake
and Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko
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House on Haunted Hill
is a 1959 American
supernatural horror film
produced and directed by
William Castle
, written by
Robb White
and starring
Vincent Price
,
Carol Ohmart
,
Richard Long
,
Alan Marshal
,
Carolyn Craig
and
Elisha Cook Jr.
Price plays an eccentric millionaire, Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle, has invited five people to the house for a “haunted house” party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000. As the night progresses, the guests are trapped within the house with an assortment of terrors. This film is perhaps best known for its promotional gimmick Emergo. April 24th is the birthday of William Castle.
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: One of the last
A380
convoy on the
, in early 2020. This route allowed the transport of outzide structural sections of the airliner to Toulouse, France, for final assembly.
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: The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American synchronzied sound romantic drama film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni.
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: We live in a
Universe
of unimaginable scale and almost incomprehensible beauty. How is the light from the Universe transformed into the images that have inspired generations by making the Universe come to life?
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: After a short introduction by Eric Platt, unidentified musicians play a violin and piano duet to demonstrate the Welsh Sound Recording System in 1930. Eric Platt then introduces the system again, while curious children come to watch.
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