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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

Image: 243 ida

1913 Great Meteor Procession [videos]

The 1913 Great Meteor Procession occurred on February 9, 1913. It was a unique meteoric phenomenon reported from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles …

Image: Gustav Hahn 1913 Great Meteor Procession

747 Winchester [videos]

747 Winchester is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1913, and is named after the town in which it was discovered, Winchester, Massachusetts, in the USA. — Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2007 …

A three-dimensional model of 747 Winchester based on its light curve

753 Tiflis [videos]

753 Tiflis is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after Georgia's capital city Tiflis. — References — External links — Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets — 753 Tiflis at the JPL Small-Body Database — Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements …

A three-dimensional model of 753 Tiflis based on its light curve

770 Bali [videos]

770 Bali is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Flora family. It was discovered on 31 October 1913, by German astronomer Adam Massinger at the Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. The asteroid was named after the Indonesian island of Bali. — References — External links …

A three-dimensional model of 770 Bali based on its light curve.

771 Libera [videos]

771 Libera, provisional designation 1913 TO, is a metallic asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, about 29 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Joseph Rheden at the Vienna Observatory in Austria, on 21 November 1913.The metallic X-type asteroid orbits the …

Lightcurve-based 3-D model of Libera

772 Tanete [videos]

772 Tanete is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. Since 2004 it has been observed in stellar occultation four times. Its size is best described by an ellipse measuring 124.1±1.2 km x 116.1±1.2 km. — See also — List of Solar System objects by size — References — External links — 772 Tanete …

A multichord occultation by Tanete

History of Ireland [videos]

The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to about 12,500 years ago, shortly after the receding of the ice after the younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaternary ended around 9700 BC, and heralds the beginning of Prehistoric Ireland, which includes the archaeological periods known as the …

Kevin's monastery at Glendalough, County Wicklow

A page from the Book of Kells that opens the Gospel of John

A tower house near Quin, County Clare. The Normans consolidated their presence in Ireland by building hundreds of castles and towers such as this.

Irish soldiers, 1521 – by Albrecht Dürer.

Holy Crown of Hungary [videos]

The Holy Crown of Hungary, also known as the Crown of Saint Stephen, was the coronation crown used by the Kingdom of Hungary for most of its existence; kings have been crowned with it since the twelfth century. — The Crown was bound to the Lands of the Hungarian Crown …

The Holy Crown

Back of the Holy Crown

The crown depicted in the 15th-century Fugger Chronicle. All images of the crown before the mid-17th century show the cross in its original upright position.

Holy Crown of Hungary, 1857

Trojan War [videos]

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most …

The Burning of Troy (1759/62), oil painting by Johann Georg Trautmann

The Judgment of Paris (1904) by Enrique Simonet

Thetis gives her son Achilles weapons forged by Hephaestus (detail of Attic black-figure hydria, 575–550 BC)

The Abduction of Helen (1530–39) by Francesco Primaticcio, with Aphrodite directing

Tim Duncan [videos]

Timothy Theodore Duncan is an American former professional basketball player. He spent his entire 19-year career with the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association. — Duncan started out as a swimmer, and did not begin playing basketball until …

Duncan with the Spurs in 2011

Duncan at the free throw line in 2005

Duncan backs down Ben Wallace in a 2005 game.

Duncan defending in the key against the Milwaukee Bucks in 2008

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park [videos]

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, established on August 1, 1916, is an American national park located in the U.S. state of Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. The park encompasses two active volcanoes: Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and Mauna Loa, the world's most massive shield …

Pāhoehoe and {{okina}}a{{okina}}ā lava flows

Lava erupting from the Pu{{okina}}u {{okina}}Ō{{okina}}ō vent in June 1983

Aerial view of Halema{{okina}}uma{{okina}}u Crater, September 2009

The Volcano Art Center was the Volcano House Hotel from 1877 to 1921.

History of Wales [videos]

The history of Wales begins with the arrival of human beings in the region thousands of years ago. Neanderthals lived in what is now Wales, or Cymru in Welsh, at least 230,000 years ago, while Homo sapiens arrived by about 31,000 BC. However, continuous habitation by modern humans dates from the …

Roman Walls at Caerwent (Venta Silurum), erected c. 350.

Gravestone of King Cadfan ap Iago of Gwynedd (died c. 625) in Llangadwaladr church

Medieval kingdoms of Wales shown within the boundaries of the present day country of Wales and not inclusive of all.

King Hywel Dda depicted in a 13th-century manuscript

Lake Como [videos]

Lake Como is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of 146 …

Panoramic view of Lake Como with the Alps and Bellagio

Aerial photograph of Lake Como, showing its distinctive three-armed shape

Villa Carlotta

Villa Melzi d'Eril

Early American currency [videos]

Early American currency went through several stages of development during the colonial and post-Revolutionary history of the United States. Because few coins were minted in the thirteen colonies that became the United States, foreign coins like the Spanish dollar were widely circulated. Colonial …

Obverse and reverse of a three pence note of paper currency issued by the Province of Pennsylvania and printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1764

Continental One Third Dollar Note (obverse)

A fifty-five dollar Continental issued in 1779

Image: US Colonial (CT 178) Connecticut 2 Jan 1775 OBV

Edward VIII [videos]

Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December the same year, after which he became the Duke of …

Edward in uniform as colonel of the Welsh Guards, 1919

Edward (second from left) with his father and younger siblings (Albert and Mary), photograph by his grandmother Alexandra, 1899

Edward as a midshipman on board HMS Hindustan, 1910

Edward during the First World War

Kate Winslet [videos]

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas and tragedies, and is often drawn to portraying troubled women. Winslet is the recipient of several accolades, including three British Academy Film Awards, and is among the …

Winslet at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival

Peter Jackson gave Winslet her first film role as a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Judi Dench (pictured) and Winslet played the novelist Iris Murdoch at different ages in Iris (2001).

Winslet at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

Double eagle [videos]

A double eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. The coins are made from a 90% gold and 10% copper alloy and have a total weight of 1.0750 …

The 1849 liberty head design by James B. Longacre

The 1907 high relief double eagle designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Side of the 1907 "high relief" double eagle showing edge lettering and surface detail

The Smithsonian specimen of the 1933 Saint Gaudens double eagle

Gold certificate [videos]

A gold certificate in general is a certificate of ownership that gold owners hold instead of storing the actual gold. It has both a historic meaning as a U.S. paper currency and a current meaning as a way to invest in gold. — Banks may issue gold certificates for gold that is allocated …

A $10,000 1934 gold certificate depicting Salmon P. Chase, Smithsonian Institution

$100 1882 gold certificate depicting Thomas Hart Benton

$100 gold certificate (1934) depicting Benjamin Franklin

$1,000 1882 gold certificate depicting Alexander Hamilton

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [videos]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist …

View from Fifth Avenue

Staircase at the Vatican Museums designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932

Students sketching at the entrance to the Sackler Center

Image: Paul Cézanne, c.1899, Homme aux bras croisés (Man With Crossed Arms), oil on canvas, 92 x 72.7 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Jon Hamm [videos]

Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an American actor best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series Mad Men. — For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances in television series Providence, The Division, What …

Hamm at PaleyFest in 2014

Hamm in November 2008

Hamm, with former partner Jennifer Westfeldt, at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 21, 2008

Hamm on the set of The Town in September 2009

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

Paris [videos]

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major …

Gold coins minted by the Parisii (1st century BC)

The Palais de la Cité and Sainte-Chapelle, viewed from the Left Bank, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (month of June) (1410)

The storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, (Musée de la Révolution française)

The Paris Opera was the centrepiece of Napoleon III's new Paris. The architect, Charles Garnier, described the style simply as "Napoleon the Third."

Cliffs of Moher [videos]

The Cliffs of Moher are sea cliffs located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. They run for about 14 kilometres. At their southern end, they rise 120 metres above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head, and, eight kilometres to …

Looking north towards O'Brien's Tower

A 19th-century Photochrom postcard of the cliffs, with Leacmayornagneeve rock in the foreground

Visitor centre

Cliffs of Moher Cruise

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

Michael Jordan [videos]

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American former professional basketball player who is the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. He played 15 seasons in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls …

Jordan in 2014

Jordan going in for a slam-dunk for the Laney High School varsity basketball team, 1979–80

Jordan's number 23 jersey among others in the rafters of the Dean Smith Center

Jordan with coach Phil Jackson, 1997

Indian Head gold pieces [videos]

The Indian Head gold pieces or Pratt-Bigelow gold coins were two separate coin series, identical in design, struck by the United States Mint: a two-and-a-half-dollar piece, or quarter eagle, and a five-dollar coin, or half eagle. The quarter eagle was struck from 1908 to 1915 and from 1925–1929 …

The Indian Head eagle, designed by Saint-Gaudens, was the basis for the designs for the smaller gold pieces.

Examples of the Indian Head gold pieces grouped with modern coins for size comparison purposes

Saint-Gaudens' double eagle design, which the Mint hoped to modify for the smaller gold coins

Mint Director Frank A. Leach thought well of the new coins despite the controversy.

Naples [videos]

Naples is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan. In 2017, around 967,069 people lived within …

Naples - Top:Panorama view of Mergellina Port, Mergellina, Chiaia area, over view of Mount Vesuvius, Second left:Naples Directional Center (Centro Direzionale di Napoli) and Spaccanapoli Street, Second right:Via Toledo Street, Third left:Naples Media Center, Third right:Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino), Bottom:View of Centro Direzionale di Napoli, from Naples Railroad Station

Top:Panorama view of Mergellina Port, Mergellina, Chiaia area, over view of Mount Vesuvius, Second left:Naples Directional Center (Centro Direzionale di Napoli) and Spaccanapoli Street, Second right:Via Toledo Street, Third left:Naples Media Center, Third right:Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino), Bottom:View of Centro Direzionale di Napoli, from Naples Railroad Station

Mount Echia, the place where the polis of Parthenope arose

A scene featuring the siren Parthenope, the mythological founder of Naples

The Gothic Battle of Mons Lactarius on Vesuvius, painted by Alexander Zick

Jewel House [videos]

The Jewel House is a vault housing the British Crown Jewels in the Waterloo Block at the Tower of London. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and refurbished in 2012. Regalia have been kept in various parts of the Tower since the 14th century after a series of …

Entrance to the Jewel House

The Chamber of the Pyx, Westminster Abbey

The Imperial State Crown

A Scots Guards sentry outside the Jewel House

Cartier (jeweler) [videos]

CARTIER International SNC, or simply Cartier, is a French luxury goods conglomerate which designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells jewellery and watches. Founded by Louis-François Cartier in Paris in 1847, the company remained under family control until 1964. The company …

Champs-Élysées store in Paris

Bismarck sapphire necklace (1935), now at the US National Museum of Natural History

Cartier on Mexico City's Avenida Presidente Masaryk

Monomakh's Cap [videos]

Monomakh's Cap, also called the Golden Cap, is a chief relic of the Russian Grand Princes and Tsars. It is a symbol-crown of the Russian autocracy, and is the oldest of the crowns currently …

Monomakh's Cap in the foreground and Kazan Cap in the background

Image: Russian regalia

Battle of Lake Trasimene [videos]

The Battle of Lake Trasimene was a major battle in the Second Punic War. The Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius. Hannibal's victory over the Roman army at Lake Trasimene remains, in terms of the number of men involved, the largest …

Lake Trasimene battlefield, from the lake.

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