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Date: 18 February 2009: Source: Own work: Author: Marek Ślusarczyk Photo portfolioPermission (Reusing this file)Outside Wikipedia projects you must attribute the work to the author: Marek Ślusarczyk or www.microstock.pl.
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea. Most seashells are made by mollusks, such as snails, clams, and oysters to protect their soft insides. [1] Empty seashells are often found washed up on beaches by beachcombers.
The dome inside the Shell Grotto. The Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent, England.Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells, totalling about 2,000 square feet (190 m 2) of mosaic, or 4.6 million shells.
A shell grotto is a type of folly, a grotto decorated with sea shells. The shell grotto was a popular feature of many British country houses in the 17th and 18th centuries. It suited the Baroque and Rococo styles (which used swirling motifs similar to sea shells) [ 1 ] and often represented the mimicry of architectural features from the Italian ...
Variety of Mollusc shells (gastropods: land snail shells and seashells). Closed and open shells of a marine bivalve, Petricola pholadiformis. A bivalve shell is composed of two hinged valves which are joined by a ligament. Four views of a shell of the land snail Arianta arbustorum The giant clam (Tridacna gigas) is the largest extant species of ...
The Quaker Farms Historic District is a historic district in the town of Oxford, Connecticut, United States. It encompasses a small rural village on Quaker Farms Road ( Connecticut Route 188 ) anchored by the Christ Church Episcopal, an 1812 wood-frame church with Federal and Gothic styling, located at 470 Quaker Farms Road.
Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.
Scammon Farm Historic District is a historic area in Stratham, New Hampshire.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 2023. [2]The farm, dating to 1681 and covering over 150 acres (61 ha) in the late 19th century, is located between the Squamscott River and Portsmouth Avenue (NH Route 108). [2]