The Earth at night circa 2000oct23.
Credit: NASA: Visible Earth. NASA allows free use of this image, but apparently has not declared it public domain which is NASA's usual practice. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC.
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The Etruscan shrew is the smallest known living mammal.
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Mathematician Emmy Noether (1882--1935) when young.
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Karl Benz's 1894 Velo model which was entered in the first car race.
The don't make them like this any more.
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Philosopher, mathematician, physicist Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646--1716) with big hair.
I think that hair is phoney.
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The electromagnetic spectrum with a blow-up of the visible range.
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