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Swan and Cygnet  ❀

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Jared Joslin …..Floral Still Life with a Snake Eating a Frog

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lina gordievsky

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Sandro Botticelli, detail of the three Graces from “La Primavera”

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By Vince O’Sullivan

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NASA

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Verfallene Kapelle / Chapel Ruin (1845, Oil on canvas) - Carl Hasenpflug

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A la campagne by The smiling monkey

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Wonders of the drifting world…

Radiolarians (Polycystinea) are microplanktonic Protozoa characterized by a delicate skeleton of opaline silica, visible here as tiny ocre-colored dots. On the top left is a colonial radiolarian – Christian Sardet, ‘Plankton – Wonders of the Drifting World’, Univ. Chicago Press 2015 “Take a Breath and Thank Plankton. One out of every five breaths taken by any (and every) life form on the planet comes from a diatom. Diatoms are a kind of phytoplankton: that is, microscopic plants drifting in all bodies of water. They carry out photosynthetic processes, ultimately producing oxygen in the air we breathe. Like diatoms, single-celled algae that also form silica skeletons, radiolarians sink after death, trapping atmospheric carbon in the sediment of the deep oceans. The composition and distribution of their fossils are used to estimate past water temperature and salinity in the oceans.” Unraveling the Mysteries of Radiolarians | AMNH…

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Eduard Bagritsky, from “Black Bread,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”