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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. H. R. Giger - Wikipedia

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    Li Tobler (1966–1975) Website. hrgiger.com. Signature. Hans Ruedi Giger (/ ˈɡiːɡər / GHEE-gər; German: [ˈɡiːɡɐ]; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as " biomechanical ".

  4. SETI@home - Wikipedia

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    SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Until March 2020, it was run as an Internet-based public volunteer computing project that employed the BOINC software platform. It is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory ...

  5. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.

  6. Avatar (2009 film) - Wikipedia

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    Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film co-produced, co-edited, written, and directed by James Cameron. The cast includes Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver. [ 6 ] It is the first installment in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a ...

  7. Jones (fictional cat) - Wikipedia

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    Species. Cat. Gender. Male. Occupation. Ship's cat. Jones, commonly known as Jonesy, is a fictional ginger American Shorthair cat from the Alien franchise. He is ship's cat on the Nostromo, the setting of the first film of the franchise. In Alien, Jones was portrayed by four lookalike cat actors.

  8. Solway Firth Spaceman - Wikipedia

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    Solway Firth Spaceman. The Solway Firth Spaceman (also known as the Solway Spaceman or the Cumberland Spaceman) is a figure seen in a photograph taken on 23 May 1964 by fireman, photographer and local historian Jim Templeton (13 February 1920 – 27 November 2011). The picture was taken on Burgh Marsh, situated near Burgh by Sands, overlooking ...

  9. Windows Spotlight - Wikipedia

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    Universal Windows Platform. Fluent Design System. v. t. e. 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.