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Educative Black Rock Desert

The Black Rock Desert is an arid region of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles north of Reno that encompasses more than 300,000 acres of land and contains more than 120 miles of historic trails. It is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan.

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22 Mar 2013 11:01:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Camouflage Art by Desiree Palmen

“The artist herself produces the camouflage suit. For each photo, for each environment of her choice, she designs a new suit, which again and again has to be made with the greatest precision, or the illusive effect will not work. By uniting the figure with the background, Desiree Palmen reaches a surprising visual effect that requests a special effort for the observing eye: it must disentangle what is flat and what is spatial.”

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24 Jun 2012 02:54:00,post received 0 comments

Fact LEGO Street Art

German graffiti artist, Martin Heuwold aka MEGX, has painted a bridge with an area of 250 square meters to look like it was made from LEGO bricks.

This realistic 3-dimensional LEGO bridge took Heuwold four weeks to complete, with the help of city officials.

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06 May 2015 08:08:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Paper Sculpture by Calvin Nicholls

Calvin Nicholls is a master when it comes to the art of paper reliefs. He manages to capture an essence of gracefulness in each of his sculptures. In this particular collection where the focus is nature here are many of the seventy-five sculptures that were created for the Follet Collection Resources Campaign in response to a request of licensing from art director Lee Sievers. The full collection remains on display at their international corporate headquarters.

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21 Jul 2012 13:25:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Plitvice Lakes National Park

Plitvice Lakes National Park is the oldest national park in Southeast Europe and the largest national park in Croatia. The national park was founded in 1949 and is situated in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The important north-south road connection, which passes through the national park area, connects the Croatian inland with the Mediterranean coastal region.

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12 Aug 2012 16:42:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Dresses this Week, Part 2/2

Cardi B accepts the top rap song award for “I Like It” at the Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Photo)

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05 May 2019 00:05:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Alternative Music Festival in Havana

Dancer Elizabeth Suarez, 29, gets ready to perform at the backstage of a cinema where the “Cuerda Viva” (Live Strings) alternative music festival is taking place, in Havana, February 26, 2016. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

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28 Feb 2016 10:27:00,post received 0 comments

Fact The Day in Photos – June 15, 2020, Part 1/2

A counter-protester gestures during a Black Lives Matter protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, in London, Britain, June 13, 2020. (Photo by Simon Dawson/Reuters)

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15 Jun 2020 00:03:00,post received 0 comments