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When you look back across the history of art, things go missing. Interesting things. For example, it seems ancient people didn't have a word to describe the color of the sky. The "b" word-blue? They didn't use it. That’s the argument, anyway...... It wasn't until much later, when blue paints were invented (which happened in Egypt), that "blue" became a descriptor—when you could buy or sell it..... The Newest Missing Thing That was our guess. And now-ta-da-I've got another one, a second thing that ancients saw all the time but failed to describe. And this one is even more basic....

You’re hired! Marla Maples, who was married to Donald Trump in the '90s, will compete on season 22 of Dancing With the Stars, multiple sources confirm to Us Weekly. Maples married the presidential hopeful in 1993, after their infamous affair during his marriage to first wife Ivana Trump. Trump and Maples later divorced in 1999 and have one child together, Tiffany Trump, 22.

This is a well done video of Marty McFly arriving back to the present time from the past, just to realize that Donald trump was President. It's a joke, but well done. Like Trump or not, this is funny. Marty Realizes Trump Became President

Stacey Dash left viewers feeling a little clueless during Sunday’s Oscars. The actress-turned-Fox News pundit — who recently waged a feud with BET — made a surprice appearance during the 88th annual Academy Awards, introduced by host Chris Rock as the “director of our new minority outreach program.”

Fifty Shades of Grey and Fantastic Four triumphed at the awards ceremony where no one wants to win, claiming the joint prize of Worst Picture at the Razzies on Saturday night. The adaptation of EL James' erotic novel hit the spot in several categories, also being awarded worst actor and actress for Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson's performances.

What a treat. I belive this is a limpkin. I've seen him at this location one other time, but didn't have my camera. I was shooting out the window of my car with the bird about 30 yards away. He was in shadow so the colors and contrast a little off. Let's see more pictures FReepers. Never too many birds!

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Those who have passed through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s classical collection may recall some of the vases on display—the ones that feature naked women toweling off after a bath, pre- or post-coitus, or cozying up to some Adonis. A little porno-lite from ancient Greece as an aperitif to the Roman nudes. One expects to see plenty of nudes at the Met, but few know that the museum is overrun by classy escorts. Indeed, the naked ladies decorating those ancient Greek vases were essentially upscale sex workers, known as hetaerae. They chose their male customers and were paid in gifts...

The 20ft tall (6m) sculpture, called The Kiss, was positioned at Salisbury Cathedral, inviting people to walk in-between the wrists. But it has been shifted off North Walk as a decision was taken that it was not well enough illuminated in the dark. Artist Sophie Ryder wrote online that people were "walking through texting". Some had "bumped their heads", she said.

Took a walk by the lake this afternoon and finally got some decent shots of a little blue heron. He was not as skittish as usual.

When the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was first released in November last year, it included provisions dictating the kinds of penalties that should be available in cases of copyright infringement... What does this surreptitious change from “paragraph” to “subparagraph” mean?...

Here's the first reaction of brand new Houghton entering students being introduced to the unique foods found only in Western New York State, little delicacies that I long for, and can find nowhere else. In some cases, you will see either a strong like or a decided dislike to some of these, from natives of New York City, Maine, Canada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire. Virginia, Texas, California, Vietnam, and Barbados.

US Soldiers Pose with the Bodies of Moro (Muslim) Insurgents, Philippines; circa 1906 On March 7, 1906, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood massacred as many as 1,000 Filipino Muslims, known as Moros, who were taking refuge at Bud Dajo, a volcanic crater on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines. The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Bud Dajo Massacre, was a counter insurgency action fought by the United States Army against Moros in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion phase of the Philippine - American War. After the United States...

The Beatles’ kaleidoscopic opus Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band arrived in 1967, the “Summer of Love”, the season of psychedelia and LSD, free love and hippy idealism. That all faded into 1968, a year of violence and dread. The Vietnam War raged with no end in sight, civil rights protests and vicious backlashes roiled across America, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, the hippie enclave at Haight-Ashbury descended into a quagmire of hard drugs and crime, protesters and police skirmished at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Czechoslovakia was invaded, numerous countries around the world were...

Children of celebrities are often lucky enough to inherit their famous parents' good looks, but sometimes they're nearly a genetic copy! Click through to check out some pics of famous ladies and their daughter doppelgangers,

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MOSCOW, - An anti-smoking poster on the streets of Moscow is going viral online due to its unusual star -- U.S. President Barack Obama. Dmitry Gudkov, Russian State Duma opposition deputy, posted a picture to Facebook of the anti-smoking ad, which features Obama with a cigarette in his mouth. "Smoking kills more people than Obama, although he kills a lot of people. Don't smoke -- don't be like Obama," the poster reads in Russian. "I am disgusted and ashamed of what appears on the streets of the Russian capital," Gudkov said. Obama famously quit smoking under pressure from first lady...

As the grand re-opening of the refurbished Al. Ringling Theatre nears, take a look back at its construction more than 100 years ago in this collection of Centennial Tales columns written by Sauk County Historical Society President Paul Wolter.

Due to the ingrained political correctness in the American culture there are certain musical compositions that are essentially banned from American radio. Here is my short list with brief explanationa of why I think they are "banned." This an effort to lighten things up around here so join the fun and add your own. "When A Man Loves a Woman" - Percy Sledge. Obviously, this song offends homosexuals and "animal lovers." "I'd Love To Change The World" Alvin Lee and Ten Years After. While this tune is a tribute to socialism as it seems to be promoting "tax the rich,...