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Oṣù Agẹmọ 6 - Àìkú

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Banff National Park

Lower Consolation Lake, adjacent to Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Located in the Canadian Rockies, Banff National Park is the oldest national park in Canada and one of the most visited national parks in the world.

Photo credit: Chuck Szmurlo
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Beer Street and Gin Lane

Beer Street and Gin Lane are a pair of 1751 engravings by William Hogarth in support of the then-proposed Gin Act 1751. This Act of Parliament made the distillation of gin illegal in England. Beer Street shows a happy city drinking the 'good' beverage of English beer, whereas Gin Lane claims to show what would happen if people started drinking gin, a harder liquor. People are shown as healthy, happy and hard working in Beer Street, while in Gin Lane they are scrawny, lazy and acting carelessly, including a drunk mother accidentally sending her baby tumbling to its doom.

Image credit: William Hogarth
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Mark Twain

A portrait of American writer Samuel Clemens, best known by his pen name Mark Twain, in his later years. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. Fellow author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."

Photo credit: Unknown
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Japanese Squirrel

The Japanese Squirrel (Sciurus lis) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is endemic to Japan.

Photo credit: Ma2bara
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Oṣù Agẹmọ 18 - Ẹtì

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Hurricane Felix

A view of Hurricane Felix from the International Space Station. At the time of the photo, Felix was south of Kingston, Jamaica with winds of 165 mph (266 km/h) with higher gusts making it a category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. 130 fatalities were directly associated with this storm.

Photo credit: Expedition 15 astronaut (NASA)
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Postman Butterfly

The Postman Butterfly (Heliconius melpomene) is a butterfly whose natural range covers Central America to Southern Brazil. This species has many different colour morphs, and participates in Müllerian mimicry with other distasteful butterfly species. Its caterpillars feed on various species of passion flower.

Photo credit: Richard Bartz
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Oṣù Agẹmọ 20 - Àìkú

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Welding

A welder making boilers for a ship for the Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1942. This welder is shown with a welding helmet, gloves, and other protective clothing.

Photo credit: Alfred T. Palmer
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Spinning wheel

A photochrom of an elderly Irish woman using a spinning wheel, a device for spinning thread or yarn from natural or man-made fibers. Manual spinning wheels were likely invented in the 13th century, replacing the earlier spindle and distaff, and remained in use until automated mass production techniques were invented in the Industrial Revolution. Hand-spinning remains a popular handicraft.

Photo credit: Detroit Publishing Co.
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J'accuse

Émile Zola's famous public letter "J'accuse" to the President of France Félix Faure in protest against the mishandling of the Dreyfus Affair, January 13 1898. The letter accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French General Staff officer sentenced for espionage to penal servitude for life. Zola pointed out judicial errors and lack of serious evidence. The letter was printed on the first page of the newspaper L'Aurore and caused a stir in France and abroad. For publishing this letter, Zola was prosecuted and found guilty of libel and he avoided punishment by fleeing to England. As a result of the popularity of the letter, even in the English-speaking world, J'accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against a powerful person.

Author: Émile Zola
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Oṣù Agẹmọ 24 - Ọjọ́bọ̀

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Oṣù Agẹmọ 27 - Àìkú

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Vanessa atalanta

A Red Admiralty butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) collecting nectar from a Blue Gem flower (Hebe × franciscana). This species is found in temperate Europe, Asia and North America. This large butterfly is identified by its striking dark brown, red and black wing pattern.

Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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Malcolm X

Malcolm X was an American Black Muslim minister and a spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Born Malcolm Little, he changed his surname to "X" as a rejection of his "slave name". Tensions between him and the Nation of Islam caused him to break from the group in 1964. He claimed to have received daily death threats and his house was burned to the ground in February 1965. One week later, Malcolm X was assassinated, having been shot in the chest by a sawed-off shotgun and 16 times with handguns. Three members of the Nation of Islam were convicted.

Photo credit: Ed Ford, New York World-Telegram and Sun
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Patchwork quilt

Mrs. Bill Stagg of Pie Town, New Mexico with her embroidered patchwork quilt that displays all 48 (at the time) United States state flowers and birds, October 1940. Quilting was a very popular early American past time, particularly in the Midwest, where quilting circles were a common social past time for women. Annual town fairs generally included a Quilting Bee, to award excellence in quilting. Handmade quilts were a very common wedding gift for young couples, and were often mentioned specifically in wills due to their sentimental significance.

Photo credit: Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration
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Echinacea paradoxa

A bee feeding on a twisted pair of yellow coneflowers (Echinacea paradoxa).

Photo credit: Derek Ramsey
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