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Grimus. Grimus is a 1975 fantasy and science fiction novel by Salman Rushdie. It was his literary debut . The story loosely follows Flapping Eagle, a young Native American man who receives the gift of immortality by drinking a magic fluid. Thereafter, Flapping Eagle wanders the earth for 777 years 7 months and 7 days, searching for his immortal ...
Coordinates. 14°41′51″S75°8′6″W / 14.69750°S 75.13500°W. Location of Nazca lines in Peru. The Nazca lines ( / ˈnɑːzkə /, /- kɑː / [ 1 ]) are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [ 2 ] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in ...
Ornithischia (/ ˌ ɔːr n ə ˈ θ ɪ s k i. ə /) is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds. [6] The name Ornithischia, or "bird-hipped", reflects this similarity and is derived from the Greek stem ornith-(ὀρνιθ-), meaning "bird", and ischion (ἴσχιον), [a] meaning "hip". [7]
Africa has a rich fossil record, but it is patchy and incomplete. It is rich in Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs. African dinosaurs from these time periods include Megapnosaurus, Dracovenator, Melanorosaurus, Massospondylus, Euskelosaurus, Heterodontosaurus, Abrictosaurus, and Lesothosaurus. In the Middle Jurassic, the sauropods Atlasaurus ...
Paleoart. Paleoart (also spelled palaeoart, paleo-art, or paleo art) is any original artistic work that attempts to depict prehistoric life according to scientific evidence. [1] Works of paleoart may be representations of fossil remains or imagined depictions of the living creatures and their ecosystems. While paleoart is typically defined as ...
Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art. The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason". The website was brought down for several months by ...
Inkscape. Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor for traditional Unix-compatible systems such as GNU / Linux, BSD derivatives and Illumos, as well as Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming ...
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica. / 45.957056°N 10.297333°E / 45.957056; 10.297333. The rock drawings in Valcamonica (Camonica Valley) are located in the Province of Brescia, Italy, and constitute the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world. [ 1] The collection was recognized by UNESCO in 1979 and was Italy's first ...