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Microsoft said they wanted not just to license the image for use as Windows XP's default wallpaper, but to buy all the rights to it. [10]: 3:37 [24] They offered O'Rear what he says is the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image; however, he signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.
O'Keeffe experimented with depicting flowers in her high school art class. Her teacher explained how important it was to examine the flower before drawing it. So, O'Keeffe held it in different ways, capturing different perspectives of the flowers, and also created studies of only a portion of the flower.
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The Oval Office has become associated in Americans' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten her father ...
The national flower of the Republic of China was officially designated as the plum blossom by the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China on 21 July 1964. [1] The plum blossom, known as the meihua ( Chinese : 梅花 ; pinyin : méihuā ), is a symbol for resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity, because plum blossoms often bloom ...
The Nazca lines (/ ˈ n ɑː z k ə /, /-k ɑː / [1]) are a group of over 700 geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [2] [3] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. [4]
The flowers are capable of producing ink used by artists such as Morrison Polkinghorne to produce abstract images of the landscapes of southern Asia. [39] One example of a flower lotus is Wanlian. Also known as bowl lotus, wanlians are any miniature cultivars of N. nucifera sized between 5 and 8 centimetres (2.0 and 3.1 in).