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wood-and-stucco pagoda at the Hōryū Temple complex

Tōdai Temple: Great Buddha Hall

Phoenix Hall, Byōdō Temple

Tai-an tea room

Xavier and the Western Princes on Horseback

Gate of Sunlight

Tokyo National Museum

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Young men throw balloons and glitter from above the mosque at the celebration Eid Al-Fitr after prayers playing with balloons outside of Al-seddeeq mosque, Al-Mansourah, Egypt. 17 July 2015.

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Pluto. The Changing Faces of Pluto. Most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003.

10 Important Dates in Pluto History

Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere

Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?

solar eclipse, sun, moon, astronomy, space

How Do You Tell the Difference Between Total, Annular, Solar, and Lunar Eclipses?

Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

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wood-and-stucco pagoda at the Hōryū Temple complex

Tōdai Temple: Great Buddha Hall

Phoenix Hall, Byōdō Temple

Tai-an tea room

Xavier and the Western Princes on Horseback

Gate of Sunlight

Tokyo National Museum

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Torii gate at entrance to a Shinto shrine on Mount Hakone, east-central Honshu, Japan. (gateways)

Everything in Art and Design (Part Four) Quiz

Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.

Architecture: The Built World