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Fact Glastonbury 2016, Part 1

Let the fun begin. Revellers carry their belongings as they arrive at Worthy Farm in Somerset for the Glastonbury Festival, Britain, June 22, 2016. Around 180,000 are expected to attend. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Wire)

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24 Jun 2016 13:58:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Glastonbury 2016, Part 3

Revellers react after falling in the mud at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival, Britain, June 26, 2016. (Photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)

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27 Jun 2016 12:30:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Milky Way Over ...

Milky Way over Switzerland

The Milky Way is the galaxy in which Earth is contained. This name derives from its appearance as a dim “milky” glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term “Milky Way” is a translation of the Classical Latin via lactea, from the Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (pr. galaxías kýklos, “milky circle”). The Milky Way appears like a band because it is a disk-shaped structure being viewed from inside. The fact that this faint band of light is made up of stars was proven in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used his telescope to resolve it into individual stars. In the 1920s, observations by astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.

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20 Jun 2012 10:11:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Swimming Pool Art Installation by Leandro Erlich

In one of the Museum’s courtyards is a swimming pool framed by a limestone deck. When seen from the deck, the pool appears to be filled with deep, shimmering water. In fact, however, a layer of water only some 10 centimeters deep is suspended over transparent glass. Below the glass is an empty space with aquamarine walls that viewers can enter. The work sets up an unfolding sequence of experiences—we view the pool through the glass wall enclosing the courtyard; from the deck, looking down into the pool; and from the interior of the pool, looking up. The Swimming Pool might hence be considered a place where, slowly, with time, different perspectives and perceptions of self and others all come to intersect.

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25 Aug 2012 07:31:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Washington County Fairgrounds Gun Show

A large variety of weapons were for sale at the Washington County Fairgrounds Gun Show that drew thousands of people over the weekend, on March 22, 2013. (Photo by Gary Porter)

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24 Mar 2013 09:43:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Underwater Sculpture, Part 3

“The banker”. Underwater Sculpture, Museo Subacuático de Arte, Cancun. (Photo by Jason deCaires Taylor/UnderwaterSculpture)

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28 Mar 2014 11:28:00,post received 0 comments

Touching “Flying Houses”, Part 2

Laurent Chehere's “Flying Houses”: “The Great Illusion”. (Photo by Laurent Chehere)

French photographer Laurent Chehere's “Flying Houses” exhibit takes workaday houses and lets them lift the imagination. The exhibit is showing at the Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York. Photo: Laurent Chehere's “Flying Houses”: “The Great Illusion”. (Photo by Laurent Chehere)

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27 Aug 2014 09:23:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Ukraine Crisis, Part 3

A pro-Russian supporter with the Russian national flag on her shoulders takes part in a meeting in Simferopol, March 6, 2014. Crimea's parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

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