Click through to see the wildest and most wondrous happenings, captured firsthand by his lens.
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But this otherwordly ballet was slightly eerie, too, suggesting human ability to restage nature's most wondrous mysteries.
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They had failed to notice—I say this in all objectivity—one of the most wondrous occurrences in the history of humankind.
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Throw him into that same grouping with Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic and Joel Embiid when we talk about this league's most wondrous international talents.
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This narrative unfolds exclusively in the illustrations, going unmentioned by the text, revealing how the most wondrous acts can go unnoticed, unless you look closer.
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He was Missio&aposs business partner, and was remembered by Klassen for creating "the most wondrous and scariest haunted houses" for the school&aposs Halloween Fair.
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Besides new discoveries or the intrigue of alien encounters, perhaps the most wondrous aspect of Voyager 2's mission is the distance it has traveled: nearly 11 billion miles.
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The cause was liver cancer, said Marc Hartzman, who included Mr. Fox in his book "American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers," published in 19543.
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No, really: You literally asked for it in the comments of this post from last weekend — a roundup of the most wondrous, female-centered oral sex scenes in the (non-porn) movies.
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In other words, by presenting the most wondrous objects in his home as an expression of global knowledge, and by traveling the world to obtain them, he was elevated in his country's esteem.
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And all around the US, it was Mother Nature who put on perhaps the most wondrous show of all: the simultaneous display of corpse flowers across states that curiously bloomed together with stunning stench.
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Her greatest achievement was building the memorial temple at Deir el-Bahri, which is one of the most wondrous temples in ancient Egyptian history — all while fighting to keep her claim to the throne. 3.
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Just when you thought Odell Beckham Jr.'s 2018 could not get ANY better ... super hot Instagram model Lindsey Pelas has invited OBJ to one of the most wondrous, mystical places in the world ... her DMs.
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At risk is one of the most wondrous migrations on earth, where tens of millions of monarchs, each weighing only about as much as a paper clip, flutter south from Canada and the northern United States for as far as 3,000 miles.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have detected another exotic feature on one of the solar system's most wondrous worlds, a large field of dunes on the surface of the distant, frigid dwarf planet Pluto apparently composed of wind-swept, sand-sized grains of frozen methane.
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They are secure in the knowledge that their island is wildly beautiful — imagine alpine mountains rising from Mediterranean shores — so they assume that whichever pink granite inlet, mountaintop lake or boulder-strewn valley you do see, even if it's not the best known, will be among the most wondrous sights of what, you've now realized, is your flat and boxed-in life.
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You have, indeed, been unto my daughtren and my beloved physician a most wondrous runner.
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Woolsey was born in 1880Hartzman, Marc (2005). American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. p. 178. . in Rabun County, Georgia.
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Schlitzie (alternatively spelled Schlitze or Shlitze; September 10, 1901 – September 24, 1971), possibly born Simon MetzHartzman, M. (2006). American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. p. 210. . Google books, retrieved 2013-01-16.
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Over the following decades, the islanders use the moai to travel to the distant homeworld and reclaim their alien inheritance. Finally, in December 1902, as the last party of islanders departs from Rapa Nui, Stockwood accompanies them to see the last sight of his life, the most wondrous sight of all; a world reborn.
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Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer. Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", she won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".
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During his stay at the hotel, Dickens had described Great Yarmouth to his wife in a letter thus Yarmouth was the most wondrous sight his eyes had ever beheld. He also, during this visit met James Sharman who was the keeper of the Britannia Monument, on whom he supposedly based the character of Ham Peggotty. In the hotel’s Palm court, a menu which has been signed by Dickens during his stay there is on display.
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It had a population of 3,342 at the 2010 United States Census. It is located on the Atlantic Ocean's Jersey Shore, between Asbury Park to the north and Bradley Beach to the south. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Ocean Grove is noted for its abundant examples of Victorian architecture and the Great Auditorium, acclaimed as "the state’s most wondrous wooden structure, soaring and sweeping, alive with the sound of music".
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He had also a sultan's sword of 16 000 ducats' worth, 30 precious horse trappings and 20 different private-use armours. The papal nuncio wrote in his diary I also saw twenty suits of royal armour of which four were of most wondrous workmanship, namely with a beautiful sculpture and figures set with silver [...] It cost six thousand scudos. The king's possession included a rich collection of tapestries (360 pieces), commissioned by him in Brussels in the years 1550–1560, which decorated the castle's walls. The king's treasures were scattered after his death.
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Friedrich Rochlitz, portrait by Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld, c 1820 Johann Friedrich Rochlitz (12 February 1769 - 16 December 1842) was a German playwright, musicologist and art and music critic. His most notable work is his autobiographical account Tage der Gefahr (Days of Danger) about the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 — in Kunst und Altertum, Goethe called it "one of the most wondrous productions ever to have been written". A Friedrich-Rochlitz-Preis for art criticism is named after him — it is awarded by the Leipzig Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kritik and was presented for the fourth time in 2009.
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Originally the Auditorium could accommodate an audience of almost 10,000, before many sections of smaller, wooden seats were replaced in later years with cushioned, theater-style seating having armrests; at present it can seat 6,250 persons. The Auditorium has been called, "the state’s most wondrous wooden structure, soaring and sweeping, alive with the sound of music". Its superb acoustics, resulting from its barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling, have been widely acclaimed; famed conductor Leonard Bernstein once compared it to Carnegie Hall. In the days before electronic amplification, this allowed a preacher to be heard throughout the vast space.
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The Sierra Madre Occidental range cuts a north–south swath through northern Mexico, splitting the state of Durango into eastern and western parts. In extreme southwestern Durango, several hundred kilometers south of the land of the Northern Tepehuan of Chihuahua and across this mountainous rupture live the Southern Tepehuan. The sublime variance of the peaks and canyons rent from the earth by two rivers, the Mezquital and the Huazamota, and their tributaries, renders the discordant beauty of some of the roughest and most wondrous land in Mexico. This terrain makes communication possible only by unmaintained dirt roads and trails.
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We > look forward to reaping "a golden harvest not yet sown", but shall > "sometimes pause a moment" to think of yesterday, and the old school and its > associations will find a place in our hearts "most wondrous kind". Thoughts > of games, songs, and the friends we made give way to thanks that the school > has taught us wisdom in both thought and deed. In the soaring finale, pupils > past and present raise their voices to cheer St Mary's, and wish her long > life, with the repeated Latin exclamation Vivat! In the 1980s the song was replaced with a completely new song, with words more in tune with the School's co-educational, lay-teacher status.
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Aloisia Wagner (born 1906/1907, date of death unknown), better known by her stage name Violetta, was born without legs or arms with a condition known as tetra-amelia syndrome. She was born in Hemelingen, Germany, and had a lengthy career in sideshow performance.Marc Hartzman -American sideshow: an encyclopedia of history's most wondrous 2005 p225 "Having not a single arm, leg, or stump, Violetta was known as the Trunk Woman and the Human Torso. She was born Aloisia Wagner in Germany in 1907, and came to America in April 1924 to exhibit herself at Coney Island Dreamland." left On March 23, 1924, she left her birth city of Bremen-Hemelingen, Germany, with her stepbrother and manager, Karl Grobecker, aboard the SS George Washington which arrived in New York on April 3, 1924.
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For instance, in the 9th century, Abbo Cernuus, the only witness whose account of the Siege of Paris survives, called the invading Vikings the "spawn of Pluto."Dic igitur, praepulchra polis, quod Danea munus / Libavit tibimet soboles Plutonis amica, Bella Parisiacae urbis 1.21, as noted by Nirmal Dass, "Temporary Otherness and Homiletic History in the Late Carolingian Age: A Reading of the Bella Parisiacae urbis of Abbo of Stain-Germain-des-Prés," in Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France (Ashgate Publishing, 2010), p. 106. In his earlier edition, translation, and commentary of the work, Dass gives "Speak, most wondrous of cities, of the gift the Danes brought for you, / Those friends of Pluto", in Viking Attacks on Paris: The 'Bella Parisiacae Urbis' of Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Peeters, 2007), pp.
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Retrieved 3 January 2018Bernard, David (2005) "Absentee: Donkey Stock EP", PopMatters, 4 August 2005. Retrieved 3 January 2018 The NME called it a "lugubrious wonder", with James Jam considering "Michaelson’s grumbled, world-weary mumble...the most wondrous sound to trickle out of a human being’s voicebox all year".Jam, James (2005) "Absentee : Donkey Stock", NME, 12 September 2005. Retrieved 3 January 2018 In 2006, the band released the James Ford-produced album, Schmotime, which was well received by the music press, including a 7.1 Pitchfork rating.Hogan, Marc (2006) "Absentee Schmotime", Pitchfork, 22 August 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2018 In 2008, they released their final album, Victory Shorts. The album received a four-star review from AllMusic, with Tim Sendra describing it as "an assured, confident, and quite often brilliant album...a triumph of wit, emotion, and scarred beauty that is sure to rank with the best albums of 2008", also receiving positive reviews from Q, Uncut, and The Guardian.
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