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Constantin Perskyi had coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 24, 1900.
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Photo in a poster that was distributed around 1969 to Bell System customers by AT&T for free to those responding to ads placed in consumer magazines.
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A New York Central Mercury train is dwarfed by Cleveland’s Union Station, November 1936.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts
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Ceiling in Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Canada,May 2007
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Chateau d'Angers, Loire Valley, France
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Chateau de Courances at Courances, Essonne, France
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Digital sculpture "No Time for Love" by Gordon Tarpley
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One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi (1.5 km) wide and 300 mi (500 km) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds. That number, if accurate, would likely represent a large fraction of the entire population at the time.
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Wotan as Winter God 1898 Carla Wenckebach
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“Dream of Omnipotence” by Giovanni Sottile
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Polish Armor composed of 1,074 plates. 16th century.
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