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  2. Kara Walker - Wikipedia

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    Website. karawalkerstudio .com. Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.

  3. List of paintings by Gustav Klimt - Wikipedia

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    21. 1909–1910 – The Park ( oil on canvas, 110.5 cm × 110.5 cm) One of Klimt's paintings closer to abstraction, but not quite embracing it in full. The multiplicity of colours and reedy forms of vegetation infuse a sense of vivaciousness that connects with Nature's life cycle.

  4. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    Spinning dancer. The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, [ 1][ 2] involves the apparent direction of motion ...

  5. Cadillac de Ville series - Wikipedia

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    1950 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville Cadillac Coupe de Ville badging. The name "DeVille" is derived from the French de la ville or de ville meaning "of the town". In French coach building parlance, a coupé de ville, from the French couper (to cut) i.e. shorten or reduce, was a short four-wheeled closed carriage with an inside seat for two and an outside seat for the driver and this smaller ...

  6. 5 garden parties made headlines and history - AOL

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    The 1924 garden party, however, had even greater significance: On June 5, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation allocating over $6 million to build three new military hospitals. An ...

  7. Miss California - Wikipedia

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    The Miss California competition selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss America competition. The pageant began in Santa Cruz in 1924 and was held there in 1925. During the years 1926 through 1946 in years when the Miss California pageant was held, the competition was primarily in San Francisco and Venice, California.

  8. A 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus Was Just Unsealed—and the Mummy ...

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    Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...

  9. List of Nickelodeon short films - Wikipedia

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    The series' production was documented in an art exhibit at the Art Center Highland Park in Highland Park, Illinois from 2010 until 2013. Plot. Two irregularly shaped puppet creatures, Hocle and Stoty, have misadventures in Twilo Park, the far-off corner of Nick Jr. Characters. Hocle is a tall pink-colored creature with a high-pitched voice.