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Himeji Castle
Japanese castle complex
Hoatzin
The hoatzin ( ) or hoactzin ( ) (Opisthocomus hoazin) is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and Orinoco Basins in South America. It is the only extant species in the genus Opisthocomus which is the only extant genus in the Opisthocomidae family under the order of Opisthocomiformes. Despite being the subject of intense debate by specialists, the taxonomic position of this family is still far from clear.
lime
green and acidic citrus fruit of various Citrus species
Srebrenica genocide
killings of Bosniaks in July 1995
Charles IX of France
King of France (1550–1574)
Common myna
species of bird
Gliridae
A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae (this family is also variously called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by different taxonomists). Dormice are nocturnal animals found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. They are named for their long, dormant hibernation period of six months or longer. There are nine genera and 28 living species of dormice, with half of living species belonging to the African genus Graphiurus.
dolmen
thumb|Poulnabrone dolmen, [[the Burren, County Clare, Ireland]] thumb|Dolmens in Amudalavalasa|Amadalavalasa, [[Andhra Pradesh, India]]
Common Chiffchaff
species of bird
Pirkanmaa
Pirkanmaa (; ; ), also known as Tampere Region in government documents, is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, South Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Päijät-Häme, Kanta-Häme and Southwest Finland. Most of the water area in the Kokemäki River watershed is located in the Pirkanmaa region, although Lake Vanajavesi is partly in the Kanta-Häme region. The region got its name from Pirkkala, which in the Middle Ages comprised most of present-day Pirkanmaa. Tampere is the regional center and capital of Pirkanmaa, and at the same time the largest city in the region.
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
Betty Ford
First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
leatherback sea turtle
species of reptile
Benito Pérez Galdós
Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920)
fire salamander
species of amphibian
Yul Brynner
russian-born american actor (1920–1985)
Roman Forum
Ancient Roman center of the city, a landmark of Rome, Italy
Capra ibex
species of mammal
Great Leap Forward
1958–1962 Chinese socioeconomic campaign
Boeing 707
1957 airliner family
Øresund Bridge
road and railway bridge over Øresund
Molotov cocktail
incendiary weapon using flammable liquid in a bottle
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)
Lego
Lego (, ; ; stylised as LEGO) is a brand of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Its pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Assembled Lego models can be taken apart, and their pieces can be reused to create new constructions.
Thomas Gainsborough
English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
Helena Augusta
saint, first wife of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great (250-330)
Motacilla citreola
species of bird
Pietro Mascagni
Italian composer known for operas (1863–1945)
French Riviera
Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France
Bassano del Grappa
Italian comune
nova
frame|right|Artist's conception of a white dwarf, right, Accretion (astrophysics)|accreting hydrogen from the [[Roche lobe of its larger companion star]]
Masada
Masada ( '''', 'fortress'; ) is a mountain-top fortress complex in the Judaean Desert, overlooking the western shore of the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel. The fort, built in the first century BC, was constructed atop a natural plateau rising over above the surrounding terrain, east of modern Arad.
surface tension
tendency of a liquid surface to shrink to reduce surface area
Srebrenica
Srebrenica (, ) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a small mountain town, with its main industry being salt mining and a nearby spa.
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)
Asparagales
Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) are a diverse order of flowering plants in the monocots. Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification, Asparagales are the largest order of monocots with 14 families, 1,122 genera, and about 36,000 species, with members as varied as asparaguses, orchids, yuccas, irises, onions, garlics, leeks, and other alliums, daffodils, snowdrops, amaryllis, agaves, butcher's broom, agapanthuses, Solomon's seal, hyacinths, bluebells, spider plants, grasstrees, aloes, freesias, gladioli and crocuses.
Loreto
hill town and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche
Gordian III
Roman emperor (225-244)
Sissy Spacek
American actress
Illyria
In classical and late antiquity, Illyria (; , Illyría or , Illyrís; , Illyricum) was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
Founding Fathers of the United States
group of Americans who led the revolution against Great Britain
Çatalhöyük
Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk; , ; ; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC. Çatalhöyük overlooks the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey, approximately from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan.
Jane Wyman
American actress (1917–2007)
Chuck Palahniuk
American novelist, essayist
Jean-Antoine Watteau
French painter (1684-1721)
Adelie penguin
a species of bird common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent
Russian alphabet
Modern writing system of 33 letters
Paros
Paros (; ; ) is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea and part of the Cyclades island group. It lies 8 kilometers (5 miles) west of Naxos, separated by a narrow channel and about south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros covers about , including numerous uninhabited offshore islets. Its closest neighbor is the municipality of Antiparos, located to the southwest. In ancient Greece, the island was home to the city-state of Paros.
Rock Hudson
American actor (1925–1985)
Dąbrowa Górnicza
city in the Dąbrowa Basin (the Lesser Poland part of the Silesian Voivodeship), Poland
Loretta Young
American actress (1913–2000)
Gasherbrum II
mountain in Pakistan and China
Eduard Bernstein
German politician and theorist (1850–1932)
Mexican Revolution
nationwide armed struggle in Mexico (1910–1920)
Kiel Canal
canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein
energy drink
any beverage that contains high levels of a stimulant ingredient, usually caffeine, as well as sugar, and often supplements, such as vitamins or carnitine
Temple of Heaven
imperial complex of religious buildings in Beijing, China
liberal arts education
part of the formal education during the Roman Empire; 7 free arts still considered together the basis for a traditional academic program in Western higher education
Anjelica Huston
American actress (born 1951)