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Chinese dragon sculpture or statue.

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The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?

Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.

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The tomb of Saint Nicholas in the crypt of the Basilica di San Nicola, Bari, Apulia, Italy

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Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) standing on rock, side view, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

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land art

In Western painting: Land art
…is Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden, Stonypath, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Dotted with clumps of trees harbouring stone tablets inscribed with allusive epigrams, it speaks knowingly of the 18th-century principle of the Picturesque rather than courting the sublime effects of American land art.
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