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2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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   Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

3. Ītzpāpālōtl - Wikipedia

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   Ītzpāpalōtl [a] ("Obsidian Butterfly") was a goddess in Aztec religion. She was a striking skeletal warrior and death goddess and the queen of the Tzitzimimeh . She ruled over the paradise world of Tamōhuānchān , the paradise of victims of infant mortality and the place identified as where humans were created.

4. Edward William Godwin - Wikipedia

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   Northampton Guildhall, built 1861–64, displays Godwin's "Ruskinian Gothic" style Design, 1872 (V&A Museum no. E.515-1963). Edward William Godwin (26 May 1833 – 6 October 1886) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began his career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide ...

5. Butterfly - Wikipedia

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   Possibly the original butter-fly. [6] A male brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word straightforwardly from Old English butorflēoge, butter-fly; similar names in Old Dutch and Old High German show that the name is ancient, but modern Dutch and German use different words (vlinder and Schmetterling) and the common name often varies substantially ...

6. Budgie (desktop environment) - Wikipedia

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   Budgie is an independent, free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that targets the desktop metaphor.Budgie is developed by the Buddies of Budgie organization, which is composed of a team of contributors from Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.

7. James McNeill Whistler - Wikipedia

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   James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA (/ ˈ w ɪ s l ər /; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.

8. Fractal-generating software - Wikipedia

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   Fractals are generated in music visualization software, screensavers and wallpaper generators. This software presents the user with a more limited range of settings and features, sometimes relying a series pre-programmed variables. Because complex images can be generated from simple formula fractals are often used among the demoscene. [4]

9. The Swallow's Tail - Wikipedia

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   Thom suggested that in four-dimensional phenomena, there are seven possible equilibrium surfaces, and therefore seven possible discontinuities, or "elementary catastrophes": fold, cusp, swallowtail, butterfly, hyperbolic umbilic, elliptic umbilic, and parabolic umbilic. [1] "The shape of Dalí's Swallow's Tail is taken directly from Thom's four ...