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Canadian musician and author Leonard Cohen in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1976.
An illustration depicting the brain-spine interface: a microarray of electrode on a primate brain, a pulse generator and spinal implant composed of 16 electrodes.
Scientists show that a wireless link between the brain and the spinal cord can help paralyzed monkeys regain control of their legs.
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Portrait of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (Venosa, 1566-Gesualdo, 1613), Italian composer. Painting by Francesco Mancini. Naples , Museo Storico Musicale
This nobleman and composer led a troubled life and left behind some unsettling musical compositions.
President-elect Donald Trump (right) shaking hands with running mate Mike Pence prior to Trump’s victory speech, November 9, 2016.
On November 8, 2016, Republican Donald Trump surprised pundits and pollsters by defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election.

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Selma March
Arm in arm, Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King (in light-coloured suit), leading the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965.
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Political march from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital, Montgomery, that occurred March 21–25, 1965. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
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Skyline of Seattle, Wash. Seattle: 10 Claims to Fame George and Martha Washington were married in 1759. First Ladies of the United States
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Jerry J. Rawlings
Ghanian Pres. Jerry J. Rawlings addressing the United Nations Millennium Summit, Sept. 7, 2000.
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Military and political leader in Ghana who twice (1979, 1981) overthrew the government and seized power. His second period of rule (1981–2001)...
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Japanese garden, flowers, botanicals, botany, trees, foliage, water, bridge “The Most Perfect Refreshment”: A Garden Quiz Lake Mead (the impounded Colorado River) at Hoover Dam, Arizona-Nevada, U.S. The light-coloured band of rock above the shoreline shows the decreased water level of the reservoir in the early 21st century. 7 Lakes That Are Drying Up
Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece Secret Service Code Names of 10 U.S. Presidents
Cluster of green ferns. Pteridophytes, plants, greenery, flora, tracheophytes. Botany Basics: Fact or Fiction?
Arrangement of the phases of the moon in total eclipse with Blood Moon 9 Celestial Omens Self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1889; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 57.8 cm x 44.5 cm. Name That Artist
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aurochs
Skeleton of an aurochs (Bos primigenius), an extinct wild ox of Europe.
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Bos primigenius extinct wild ox of Europe, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), from which cattle are probably descended. The aurochs survived...
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“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
Barry Goldwater
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Comet McNaught with filamentary tail and the Moon over the Pacific Ocean, photographed from Paranal Observatory, Chile, January 2007.
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A small body orbiting the Sun with a substantial fraction of its composition made up of volatile ices. When a comet comes close to the Sun, the ices sublimate...
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