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ribeye steak, beef, cow, meat
Scottish fold, cat, feline
Great White Shark
A poet in Heian period clothing writing poetry during a festival at Jōnan-gū shrine in Kyōto, Japan.
A scary old jack-o-lantern on black. Halloween pumpkin, trick or treat. Halloween holiday
The Antennae galaxies colliding.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983.
Frankenstein, Boris Karloff (1931). Directed by James Whale
Amelia Earhart sitting in the cockpit of an Electra airplane.
On March 28, 2013, the day after the official Holi festival, revelers in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India, join in the fun during the Huranga, a public amusement in which men spray women with coloured liquid as the women attempt to tear off the men’s clothes.
Albert Einstein.
Abandoned school in Pripyat in the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant
Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Frederick T. Stuart, c. about 1845
Banksy Snorting Copper stenciled graffiti on Curtain Road, in Shoreditch, London taken circa 2005, before it was later vandalised and covered over.
Astronomical clock from the 14th century that can be used to determine religious feast days until the year 2019; in the cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Lyon, France.
This image shows the distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the early Triassic period (approximately 252 to 247 million years ago). At this time, most of Earth’s landmasses were connected, forming the supercontinent Pangea. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown in the inset at the lower right.
'Pirate Week' Spotlight.
Photo of open treasure chest with shinny gold, Island, pirate
Pirate Barbarossa also known as redbeard
Model Pirate Ship with fog and water
Julius Caesar in full Gaius Julius Caesar (100? BCE-44 BCE) statue in Rimini, Italy. Roman general and statesman and dictator
Gilles de Rais.
Florence, Italy Statue of David by Michelangelo
Stained glass window showing ten Christian saints. St Peters Church, Cound, Shropshire, England.
close up of a football, gridiron
Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, 1935.
Albert Einstein.
game and gambling, gaming machines, chess playing Turk, design by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734 - 1804), built by Christoph Mechel, mechanical turk
Self Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, dated around 1887. Oil on canvas 42x34cm
This extremely well preserved Egyptian mummy is that of a man who lived during the Ptolemaic Period. His name, written hastily, can be read as either Pachery or Nenu;
Guide dog is helping a blind man in the city, service dog, service animal, labrador
Environmental problem of plastic rubbish pollution in ocean
'John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I' by Henry Gillard Glindoni. Oil painting 18th century. Pentimento, occult, sorcery, magic.
Aerial photograph of the rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf that preceded the July 2017 calving event.
People run from bulls on street during San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain
Hong Kong. Hong Kong harbour. Hong Kong special administrative region of China, located to the east of the Pearl River (Xu Jiang) estuary on the south coast of China.
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