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Now 60, handpoked by his girlfriend when he was 16

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An ivory snuff bottle carved with the Eighteen Luohan, Japanese, 1860-1910. Dimensions: 6.8cm. Photo courtesy ROBERT KLEINER & CO LTD

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Osprey sculpture by Doug Hays

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Malcolm X praying in the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo, Egypt in August 1964.

Photos by John Launois

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earrings | c. 200 - 300 CE | syro-palestine, roman imperial period

in the royal ontario museum collection

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Duccio di Buoninsegna, Annunciation

“Duccio’s subject is God’s entrance into time: time meaning history, meaning a body.”

-Mary Szybist, “Entrances and Exits”

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 ‘’ things that i found on the way ‘’ Ray Castelo 2018.

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Jiminy Cricket! Meet the Pinocchio anole (Anolis proboscis). For decades, this rarely-seen species was thought to be extinct, until an individual was spotted crossing the road by a group of birdwatchers in 2005! Growing about 3.3 in (8.4 cm) long, this slow-moving lizard inhabits forests throughout parts of Ecuador, climbing trees to escape predators. Only males of this species sport long proboscises. Scientists think these fleshy appendages help them to attract mates.

Photo: John Sullivan, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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A rare Shibayama inlaid ‘Mille-Fleurs’ tsuba, Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912). Photo: Sotheby’s.

of mokko form, each side decorated in the Shibayama style on a silver ground with a dense bouquet of mixed flowers including chrysanthemum, peony, hydrangea and sakura, all skillfully inlaid in stained mother-of-pearl, with elegant cloisonné enamel butterflies among peonies around the seppadai, mokkogata silver mounted mimi, 9.7cm.; 3.8in.

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Jean Fouquet (French, c.1420-1481) Virgin surrounded by seraphim and cherubim, Melun Diptych (right panel), ca.1455 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

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Tibet

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Sideways Planet Uranus

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Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319) Christ and the Samaritan Woman 1310–1311

Tempera and gold on panel 43.5 x 46 cm

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

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~ Helmet.

Culture: Northern Italy,Southern Germany, Austria

Date: ca. 1350 (helmet) and 15th century (helmet decoration)

Owner: Albert von Prankh

Medium: Helmet: Iron, forged, built from individual parts. Paint residue. Textile: felt. Helmet decoration: leather. Textile: linen. Chalk ground, gold leaf and silver plated. Glaze.

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The Ascent of the Prophet to Heaven, Page from the Khamsa of Nizami. Safavid dynasty, Iran. 1600 CE.

The Art Institute of Chicago.