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Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

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The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

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The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives receiving a deputation of female suffragists, January 11, 1871, a lady delegate (identified as Victoria Woodhull) reading her argument (cont'd)

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

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A ball swishes through the net at a basketball game in a professional arena.

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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

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Bird in Space

sculpture by Constantin Brancusi

Also known as: “Maiastra”

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discussed in biography

In Constantin Brancusi: Maturity of Constantin Brancusi
…of polished-bronze sculptures, all entitled Bird in Space. The elliptical, slender lines of these figures put the very essence of rapid flight into concrete form.
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modern sculpture

In Western sculpture: Avant-garde sculpture (1909–20)
His bronze Bird in Space became a cause célèbre in the 1920s when U.S. customs refused to admit it duty free as a work of art.
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