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Astronomical object [videos]

An astronomical object or celestial object is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structures that exists in the observable universe. In astronomy, the terms object and body are often used interchangeably. However, an astronomical body or celestial body is a single, tightly bound …

The Sun, a G-type star

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624 Hektor [videos]

624 Hektor is the largest Jupiter trojan and the namesake of the Hektor family, with a highly elongated shape equivalent in volume to a sphere of approximately 225 to 250 kilometers diameter. It was discovered on 10 February 1907, by astronomer August Kopff at Heidelberg Observatory in …

Star field showing Hektor (apmag 15)

628 Christine [videos]

628 Christine is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. — References — External links — Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets — NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Datasite page on this space object — 628 Christine at the JPL Small-Body Database — Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit …

A three-dimensional model of 628 Christine based on its light curve

629 Bernardina [videos]

629 Bernardina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. — References — External links — Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets — NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Datasite page on this space object — 629 Bernardina at the JPL Small-Body Database — Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit …

A three-dimensional model of 629 Bernardina based on its light curve

631 Philippina [videos]

631 Philippina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on March 21, 1907. — Photometric of this asteroid made in 1981 gave a light curve with a period of 5.92 ± 0.01 hours with a brightness variation of 0.20 in magnitude. In 2007 lightcurve data showed …

A three-dimensional model of 631 Philippina based on its light curve

Gemstone [videos]

A gemstone is a piece of mineral crystal which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. However, certain rocks and occasionally organic materials that are not …

Spanish emerald and gold pendant at Victoria and Albert Museum

Nearly 300 variations of diamond color exhibited at the Aurora display at the Natural History Museum in London.

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Image: Pendant

Enzo Ferrari (automobile) [videos]

The Enzo Ferrari is a 12 cylinder mid-engine sports car named after the company's founder, Enzo Ferrari. It was developed in 2002 using Formula One technology, such as a carbon-fibre body, F1-style electrohydraulic shift transmission …

Enzo Ferrari

The F140B V12 engine

The Ferrari Enzo used the F1 transmission and had a gear shift indicator on the steering wheel telling the driver when to change gears

The Ferrari Enzo used carbon ceramic brake discs, a first for a Ferrari road car

Stephen Curry [videos]

Wardell Stephen Curry II is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. A six-time NBA All-Star, he has been named the NBA Most Valuable Player twice and won three NBA championships with …

Curry with the Warriors in 2017

Curry at the 2008 NCAA Tournament

Curry defends against Allen Iverson in 2009

Curry about to pass while being guarded by John Wall and Nenê of the Washington Wizards. Curry averaged 7.7 assists per game during the 2014–15 NBA regular season, good enough for sixth best in the league.

Gulf War [videos]

The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by …

Donald Rumsfeld, US special envoy to the Middle East, meets Saddam Hussein on 19–20 December 1983.

Kuwaiti Armed Forces M-84 main battle tanks

Kuwait Air Force McDonnell Douglas A-4KU Skyhawk ground-attack aircraft

Iraqi Army T-72M main battle tanks. The T-72M tank was a common Iraqi battle tank used in the Gulf War.

United States dollar [videos]

The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its territories per the United States Constitution since 1792. In practice, the dollar is divided into 100 smaller …

Series of 1917 $1 United States bill

Spanish silver real or peso of 1768

Continental One Third Dollar Bill (obverse)

Image: 500 USD note; series of 1934; obverse

History of Sweden [videos]

The history of Sweden starts when the Polar cap started receding. The first traces of human visitation is from ca 12000 BC. — Written sources about Sweden before 1000 AD are rare and short, usually written by outsiders, and not until the 14th century are there any longer historical texts produced in …

Swedish tribes in Northern Europe in 814

Gustav Vasa (Gustav I) in 1542

Gustavus Adolphus, victor at the Battle of Breitenfeld, 1631

This family crypt and the chapel above it in highly ornate coffins house the remains of all four of the Wittelsbach Dynasty monarchs of Sweden whose high-powered period (1654–1720) has been called the Caroline Era for Kings Carl X Gustav, Carl XI and Carl XII.

Napoleonic Wars [videos]

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom. The wars stemmed from the unresolved disputes …

Austerlitz

French victory over the Prussians at the Battle of Valmy in 1792

Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Rivoli in 1797

French victory over the Austrians and Russians at the Second Battle of Zürich

Musée d'Orsay [videos]

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings …

Main Hall of the Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay as seen from the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor

Musée d'Orsay Clock, Victor Laloux, Main Hall

The interior of the museum.

Barry Bonds [videos]

Barry Lamar Bonds is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. He received seven NL MVP awards, eight Gold Glove awards, 12 Silver Slugger awards, and 14 …

Bonds in 2006

Bonds on the field

Bonds at the plate with the Giants

Bonds in August 2006 with the Giants

History of Argentina [videos]

The history of Argentina can be divided into four main parts: the pre-Columbian time or early history, the colonial period, the period of nation-building, and the history of modern Argentina. — Prehistory in the present …

History of Argentina - The changing state of Argentina. The light green area was allocated to indigenous peoples, the light pink area was the Liga Federal, the hatched areas are subject to change during the period.

Portrait of José de San Martín.

The changing state of Argentina. The light green area was allocated to indigenous peoples, the light pink area was the Liga Federal, the hatched areas are subject to change during the period.

Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas by Cayetano Descalzi around 1841

President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

Duesenberg [videos]

Duesenberg Motors Company was an American manufacturer of race cars and luxury automobiles. It was founded by brothers August and Frederick Duesenberg in 1913 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where they built engines and race cars. The brothers moved their operations to …

Duesenberg family with Fred and August in the middle, ca. 1886

1923 Duesenberg Model A touring car at the Louwman Museum

1930 J Walker La Grande Torpedo Phaeton

Model J engine

Vasco da Gama [videos]

Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the …

Bronze statue of Vasco da Gama at his birthplace, Sines, Portugal

Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama leaving the port of Lisbon, Portugal

Pillar of Vasco da Gama in Malindi, in modern-day Kenya, erected on the return journey

United States fifty-dollar bill [videos]

The United States fifty-dollar bill is a denomination of United States currency. The 18th U.S. President, Ulysses S. Grant, is featured on the obverse, while the U.S. Capitol is featured on the reverse. All current-issue $50 bills are Federal Reserve Notes. — As of December 2013, the …

1862 $50 Legal Tender note

1880 $50 Legal Tender, depicting Benjamin Franklin

1891 Silver Certificate

1914 Federal Reserve Note

Lille [videos]

Lille is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders. On the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and …

Lille city centre.

The 'Vieille Bourse' on the 'Grand Place'

Entrance to the 'Vauban Citadel' (17th century)

The black dots around the windows (not the decorative cartouches) are Austrian cannonballs lodged in the façade.

History of Israel [videos]

The Land of Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish people, the place where the Hebrew Bible was composed and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity. It contains sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Samaritanism, Druze and the Bahá'í Faith. — The …

Es Skhul cave

The Merneptah Stele. While alternative translations exist, the majority of biblical archaeologists translate a set of hieroglyphs as "Israel," representing the first instance of the name in the historical record.

City of David in Jerusalem

The route of the exiles to Babylon

Polish Crown Jewels [videos]

The only surviving original piece of the Polish Crown Jewels from the time of the Piast dynasty is the ceremonial sword – Szczerbiec. It is currently on display along with other preserved royal items at the Wawel Royal Castle Museum in Kraków. — Several royal crowns were made, including several …

Replicas of the Crown of Bolesław I the Brave, the royal orb and sceptre used for the coronation of Stanisław II August in 1764

Regalia of King Augustus III

Polish replica of the Holy Lance, Wawel Cathedral Treasury

Crown of Bolesław I the Brave

Pearl [videos]

A pearl is a hard glistening object produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as a conulariid. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in …

Various pearls

Georgian seed pearl gold ring

$Pearl - Electron microscopy image of a fractured surface of nacre$

A black pearl and a shell of the black-lipped pearl oyster. The iridescent colors originate from nacre layers.

Electron microscopy image of a fractured surface of nacre

Louis XI of France [videos]

Louis XI, called "Louis the Prudent", was King of France from 1461 to 1483, the sixth from the House of Valois. He succeeded his father Charles VII. — Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revolt known as the …

Louis XI wearing his Order of Saint Michael

In this painting by Jean Fouquet, Louis's father Charles VII is depicted as one of the three magi, and it is assumed that Louis, then Dauphin, is one of the other two.

Margaret Stewart of Scotland

Charlotte of Savoy

Robert Downey Jr. [videos]

Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor and singer. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal difficulties, and a resurgence of commercial success in middle age. For three consecutive years from 2012 …

Downey at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International

Downey at the premiere of Air America, 1990

Downey promoting Iron Man in Mexico City in 2008

Downey with Rachel McAdams at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International

Legion of Honour [videos]

The Legion of Honour is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte and retained by all later French governments and régimes. — The order's …

Louis Philippe I, King of the French, wearing the sash of the order

Image: Premiere legion dhonneur

Image: Napoleon coat IMG 1412

Image: Debret Premiere distribution des decorations de la Legion d'honneur

Lyon [videos]

Lyon is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located in the country's east-central part at the confluence of the …

Lyon - Top: Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Place des Terreaux with Fontaine Bartholdi and Lyon City Hall at night. Centre: Parc de la Tête d'Or, Confluence district and the Vieux Lyon. Bottom: Pont Lafayette, Part-Dieu district with the Place Bellecour in foreground during Festival of Lights.

Top: Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Place des Terreaux with Fontaine Bartholdi and Lyon City Hall at night. Centre: Parc de la Tête d'Or, Confluence district and the Vieux Lyon. Bottom: Pont Lafayette, Part-Dieu district with the Place Bellecour in foreground during Festival of Lights.

The Roman-era Theatre on the Fourvière Hill

Lyon under siege in 1793

The lion, symbol of the city, on display at Maison des avocats

Amber [videos]

Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. Amber is used in jewelry. It has also been used as a healing agent in folk …

An ant inside Baltic amber

A mosquito in amber

The Amber Room was reconstructed using new amber from Kaliningrad

National Archaeological Museum of Siritide to Matera

BMW [videos]

BMW AG is a German multinational company which currently produces automobiles and motorcycles, and also produced aircraft engines until 1945. — The company was founded in 1916 …

BMW headquarters in Munich

BMW IIIa aircraft engine

BMW model 3/15PS (BMW Dixi) from 1930

BMW 801 engine

Taylor Lautner [videos]

Taylor Daniel Lautner is an American actor, voice actor, and model. He is known for playing Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series based on the novels of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. — Lautner began his acting career playing bit roles in comedy series such as The …

Lautner at the 2012 Comic-Con

Lautner with Twilight costars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards

Lautner at the Abduction premiere, 2011

Catherine Deneuve [videos]

Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, known professionally as Catherine Deneuve, is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model and producer. She gained recognition for her portrayal of icy, aloof and mysterious beauties for various directors …

Catherine Deneuve in 1995

Catherine Deneuve at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival

Deneuve in 1999

Demi Moore [videos]

Demi Gene Guynes, professionally known as Demi Moore, is an American actress, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to pursue an acting career and appeared in the men's pornographic magazine Oui in 1981. After making her film …

Moore at the Academy Awards in 1989 with Bruce Willis

Moore and Kutcher in September 2008

Image: Demi Moore 2010 Time 100 Shankbone

Order of St. George [videos]

The Order of Saint George is today the highest purely military decoration of the Russian Federation. Originally established November 26, 1769 as the highest military decoration of the Russian Empire by Empress Catherine the Great. After …

Georgi Pulevski wearing a cross of the Order of Saint George, conferred for his part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)

Order of Saint George, first class Breast Star and Sash

Image: Order of St. George, 4th class RF

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco [videos]

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. The permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums, with about 150,000 objects, is organized into …

The de Young Museum, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The Legion of Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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