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  Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Derby I like that, could be a new style bonnet
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  Doge Leonardo Loredan 500 hundred years later he is still waiting for his hat style to make a comeback
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  Baron van Omphal Not me, I like my feather duster

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• Frankenmuth, Michigan. The food, served family style, is generally American or midwestern-style, like chicken dinners, seafood, steaks, fresh baked goods, and European desserts. Originally built as the Exchange Hotel by Henry Reichle in 1856, in 1927, William Zehnder, Sr. purchased the hotel and remodeled the building, including redesigning the facade to look like Mount Vernon. In the 1980s, it was one of the ten largest restaurants in the United States, with seating for 1,500 people. Zehnder's serves almost a million people annually. John Zehnder, the executive chef and food and beverage manager at Zehnder's, received the 2011 Hermann G. Rusch Chef's Achievement Award from the American Culinary Federation
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• AgnosticPreachersKid ) Koi is a pet fish, kept in ponds because they are believed to bring luck and money to the house. These guys are fighting for the food in a pond at the United States National Arboretum. The koi varieties are distinguished by coloration, patterning, and scalation. Some of the major colors are white, black, red, yellow, blue, and cream. Common carp were bred to a new breed, the koi, with bright colors, in Japan
  in the 1820s. By the 20th century, a number of color patterns had been established, most notably the red-and-white that is called Kohaku in Japanese. New koi varieties are still being actively developed.
• Napoleon I. He also served in combat at Ciudad Real and during the French invasion of Russia
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• Apse of Our Lady of the Assumption (created by Chris Woodrich, nominated by Crisco 1492) Our Lady of the Assumption, located at 350 Huron Church Road in Windsor, Ontario, is the oldest continuous parish in Ontario. On July 7, 1842 the cornerstone of the present church was laid. Three years later, on July 20, 1845, the new 60 by 120 feet (18 m × 37 m) rectangular church was inaugurated under Fr. Pierre Point S.J. This rectangular structure forms the nave of the present parish. The church's high altar, spacious sanctuary, communion rail, and pipe organ make it an impressive and appropriate home for this historic liturgy, which attracts churchgoers from throughout southern Ontario and southeastern Michigan.
• Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, was one of the Swedish artists who aspired to create a national Swedish art
  . August Malmström's Dancing Fairies is a widely recognised work in its home country.
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• Hanna Pauli (1864–1940). An open-air painting, Breakfast Time depicts a tranquil scene with a table set for breakfast on a sunny morning. Placed at the bottom right of the picture is a table covered with a white tablecloth alongside a bench and two chairs. It is positioned under a tree with its branches stretching over the table. A maid is approaching the table carrying a tray in her hands. The light is reflected from the shiny objects on the table and from the white tablecloth. The painting was completed by Hanna Pauli by the summer of 1887; later that year, in the autumn, she became engaged to her future husband, Georg Pauli, who was also an artist. When the painting was completed she was still unmarried and the signature is her maiden name. Breakfast Time was exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 and the Chicago World's Fair
  in 1893.
• objets d'art. He was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession
  movement. Klimt's primary subject was the female body. It's safe to say that he liked his ladies, naked.
• West Azerbaijan in Iran and west of the southern portion of the Caspian Sea. At its full size, it was the largest lake in the Middle East and the sixth largest saltwater lake
  on Earth, with a surface area of approximately 5,200 km² (2,000 mile²), 140 km (87 mi) length, 55 km (34 mi) width, and 16 m (52 ft) depth. To infinity and beyond!
• Lady Elizabeth Hamilton is by George Romney. The Duchess of Hamilton was considered one of the most beautiful women of the day. George Romney is a kinsman of American businessmen and politicians George W. Romney (1907–1995) and Mitt Romney; their ancestor Miles Romney
  was George Romney's first cousin.
• Echidna catenata, commonly known as the chain moray, is a moray eel found in shallow parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, where its range extends from Bermuda, Florida, and the Bahamas to the Antilles and Brazil. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It is a carnivore and feeds on such organisms as crabs, which are the mainstay of its diet, shrimps, worms, and small fish
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• Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution, Aged 141 (created by William Heath, restored and nominated by SchroCat) This is a political cartoon based on the Burke and Hare murders, a series of murders committed in Edinburgh, Scotland, over a period of about ten months in 1828. The killings were attributed to Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses of their 16 victims to Doctor Robert Knox as dissection material for his well-attended anatomy lectures. Before 1832, there were insufficient cadavers legitimately available for the study and teaching of anatomy in Britain's medical schools. As medical science began to flourish in the early nineteenth century, the demand for cadavers rose sharply, but at the same time the legal supply failed to keep pace. One of the main sources—the bodies of executed criminals—had begun to dry up owing to a reduction in the number of executions being carried out in the early nineteenth century.
• Rock im Park 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany. Williams was discovered in 2003 by managers Dave Steunebrink and Richard Williams, who signed the 14-year-old to a two-year production deal. In the 2007 Kerrang! Readers' Poll she finished second to Evanescence's Amy Lee
  in the "Sexiest Female" category, going on to win the first place spot for "Sexiest Female" a year later in the 2008 poll, and again in the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 poll
• Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
  , it is difficult to observe due to its extremely low brightness. This filamentary structure can be found in the constellation Taurus, close to the border of Aurigua, in roughly the same line of sight as the star Elnath. Approximately 3000 light years away, the nebula stretches about 150 light years across.
• Charolais, around Charolles, in France. The breed tends to be large muscled, with bulls weighing up to 1,100 kilograms (2,400 lb) and cows up to 900 kilograms (2,000 lb). The breed was introduced in the southern US from Mexico in 1934. In Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela, following the rural flight of farmers, many Charolais cattle were abandoned; they have survived in the wild feeding on Espeletia
  schultzii, a high altitude shrub.
• Isfahan, Iran. The Dome ceiling of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque was described by Robert Byron
  , a British travel writer, who wrote about this sight:

  I know of no finer example of the Persian Islamic genius than the interior of the dome: The dome is inset with a network of lemon-shaped compartments, which decrease in size as they ascend towards the formalized peacock at the apex... The mihrāb in the west wall is enameled with tiny flowers on a deep blue meadow. Each part of the design, each plane, each repetition, each separate branch or blossom has its own somber beauty. But the beauty of the whole comes as you move. Again, the highlights are broken by the play of glazed and unglazed surfaces; so that with every step they rearrange themselves in countless shining patterns... I have never encountered splendor of this kind before.

• National Gallery in London. It portrays Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, in his ceremonial garments with the corno worn over a linen cap, and is signed "IOANNES BELLINVS" on a cartellino
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  Dome ceiling of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
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  Portrait of the 100 Hundred Beech Trees
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  Portrait of the 88 Fairies that made a comeback

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• There are lots of great contributions here, for which the creators and nominators deserve much credit. I especially appreciate Ealdgyth's excellent and numerous contributions in the field of obscure historical Englishmen. Articles on well-known subjects are often monumental and impressive, but the fun of discovery is always waiting whenever I click on a name or word that I've never heard before. Ealdgyth has been at it ever since I've been a member, and his/her articles have never failed to tickle that part of the mind which derives pleasure from the musty smell of a fascinating old book.-RHM22 (talk) 03:48, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  

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