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The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is a medium-sized perching bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about 20 centimetres (8 inches) long and has glossy black plumage, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts, with an unmusical but varied song. The starling has about a dozen subspecies breeding in open habitats across its native range in temperate Europe and western Asia, and it has been introduced elsewhere. This bird is resident in southern and western Europe and southwestern Asia, while northeastern populations migrate south and west in winter. The starling builds an untidy nest in a natural or artificial cavity in which four or five glossy, pale blue eggs are laid. These take two weeks to hatch and the young remain in the nest for another three weeks. The species is omnivorous, taking a wide range of invertebrates, as well as seeds and fruit. The starling's gift for mimicry has been noted in literature including the medieval Welsh Mabinogion and the works of Pliny the Elder and William Shakespeare. This common starling was photographed at Bodega Head on the northern coast of the U.S. state of California.Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg
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[edit]- Sort out naming problem on Norman Foster
- Constantin Brancusi
- Man Ray
- Naum Gabo
- Adolphe Muron Cassandre expand - The designer of the poster Normandie.
- Sir George Frampton (1860 - 1928) British sculptor.
- Make Cadbury a proper disambig page (removing some elements from Cadbury-Scwepps, and add an article on the Cadbury family and their model village etc (or is that Bournville)
- Expand King's College chapel.
- New Art Gallery Walsall
- The Ancient of Days - avoid Ancient of Days
- John Outram and the Judge Institute
- Correct and expand Hnefatafl
- Fill out Wikipedia:Sculpture basic topics
- Stourbridge Fair with links from Isaac Newton (in depth) and Nottingham Goose Fair.
- Shredded Wheat the first breakfast cereal (1989? Quaker Oats - 1891), with white tiled factory built at Niagara Falls in ~1920. See [2] [3]
- Cornelia Parker
- expand Louise Bourgeois
- Proteus Cabinet of Tobin and Pepper of the Polytechnic Institution, see also Pepper's ghost
- David Duvant Victorian magician at the Egyptian Hall. Introduced motion pictures to UK and invented most cinematic special effects, founded the Magician's Circle, cf George Melliere.
- Glenfinnan Viaduct
- Shower as in bath.
- Expand / re-writePost-Impressionism.
- Margaret Hughes - first appearance of a regular professional actress in Britain 1660 as Desdemona. Also Ann Marshall [4]
- Bed of nails
- Argand & Lewis Lamps http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/closeups/illumination/argand/lewis-lamp.htm
- Hurley Weir - Kayaking.
- Image:TOYOTA IMTS.jpg Toyata Intelligent Multimode transit system
- Bateleur Eagle - common large snake eagle in Africa
- Chris Wise bio
- Aphrodite of Cnidus - statue of Aphrodite by Praxiteles, quite possibly the first fully nude female figure which established the canon of the female nude in Western Art. In particular establishing the pose and form for the Venus de Milo and much later Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. In its day, it also put Cnidus on the map as a tourist attraction.
- Opisthodomos - part of an ancient temple at the back of the cella. Been deleted, but is a valid article.
- Inigo Jones - brought the King Post Truss from Italy, then extended it to produce the Queen Post Truss, used in the Banqueting House (King-post exists).
- David Hume and atempted excommunication trial by Rev George Anderson(?)
- Varaztad Kazanjian expand and merge with Varaztad Hovhannes Kazanjian (or are they a coincidence) an engineer who retrained as a dentist and became a founding father of reconstructive surgery during WWI even though he was still a dentist. He had to retrain again as a surgeon in order to continue to practice when he returned to America.
Spain
[edit]- Salida Procesional - not sure of best English translation - possibly 'Penitents March'
- Primera salida procesional del Señor de la Paz de Fátima (in Spanish)
- Mp3s of procesional bands mostly from Seville
- CD of procesional bands
- video of procesional in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2004
- article on The Brotherhoods of Penance of Seville
- Flickr collection (cc-by-sa)
- Rewrite masking for primary graphic design usage.
- Andalusia
- White Towns of Andalusia
- Seville
- Córdoba, Spain
- Mezquita
- Detailed article on Mezquita with photos
- alfiz - architectural term for blind arch related to Mihrab
- Chapel for Henry of Trastamara (1334-1379) near the centre, with fine plaster work in the mudejar style
- Mezquita on andalucia.com
- Mezquita photos on islamicarchitecture.org
- Ronda
- Bullfighting
- Antonio Ordóñez for photo of statue at Ronda
- Granada
Picture targets
[edit]Cambridge
[edit]- Grantchester orchard - Rupert Brooke's favourite place - 'and is it perchance time for tea'.
- Byron pool on river to Granchester - popular with Lord Byron and later Rupert Brooke for swimming naked.
- PA Technology Center, Richard Rogers - Melbourn
East Anglia
[edit]- Happisburgh in Norfolk for coastal erosion
- Southend hotrod cruisers - Friday and Saturday nights hotrodding.org
London
[edit]- The Ritz Hotel
Clarence House- Dulwich Picture Gallery
Apsley House - Hyde park corner- Tyburn tree site of gallows next to Marble Arch - Death of Mrs Lions - poem Shakespear.
- Food Theater Cafe, Daniel Libeskind - Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park
- 88 Wood Street, Richard Rogers - near Barbican
- Sainsbury's and Housing in Camden, Nicholas Grimshaw - 17 Camden Road NW1 and Kentish Town road
- Alexandra Road Housing, Neave Brown - Near Abbey Road, St Johns Wood, NW London
- Financial Times Printworks, Nicholas Grimshaw - Blackwall
- The Thames Barrier - Blackwall Tunnel and Greenwich
- London City Hall, Foster and Partners - Near Tower Bridge
- Myrtle Avenue 747 approach - Heathrow Airport - Off Hatton Road, Hatton Cross tube
- Dray horses from Young's Brewery, Wandsworth SW18 4JD - soon to be retired
- Traffic light tree, Heron Quay, Pierre Vivant 1998 at junctions of Heron Quay Bank, Marsh Wall and Westferry Road.
- Movida night club - Samy Sass owner - 7-8 Argyll Street, London, W1F 7TF
Manchester
[edit]- George Best's house in Blossoms Lane, Bramhall - modernist split level house designed by architect Frazer Crane in 1969.
Elsewhere
[edit]- Nottingham Goose fair - start of October
- Walsall Bus Station - see last para A Matter of Life and Death
- Livingston, Scotland skate park [5] - next to Almondvale Centre
Places to visit
[edit]- West Kennet long barrow
- Caledonian Forest at Kinrara and Balavail
- Weald & Downland Open Air Museum - Sash Window restoration
- Montparnasse Cemetery can be found statues carved by Brancusi for a few fellow artists
- Oscar Wilde Memorial by Jacob Epstein 1911 - Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
- Laxton Nottinghamshire [6] the last village in England to use the open field system. [7]
- Barberton, South Africa some of the oldest exposed rocks on the Earth (3.5 bn yrs)
- Far Leys, Bates Lane, in Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire - Nick Drake
- Stair Hole, Lulworth Cove, Dorset for the Lulworth Crumple
Lose threads
[edit]Robert_Irwin could benefit from rewriting.
Write / group / interlink articles on photorealism or photoreal / hyper-realism / super-realism
Remove the section on the Night Watch on Rembrandt and merge with Night Watch (painting)
- Satsuki azalea possible ident for bonsai
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[edit]- Erotic art
- http://www.archaeology.org/0203/abstracts/moche.html
- http://digilander.libero.it/Gaia_xx/Peru.htm
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/pompeii.shtml
- Secret Museum review http://www.spectacle.org/597/yee.html
- Secret Museum book http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520207297/103-7886244-7381459?v=glance
- Baree catalogue to the - musee secret - the secret museum
- Cern abbess giant - chalk figure
- History of post boxes
FPC possibles
[edit]- Image:Cardinal.jpg in Northern_Cardinal - needs larger version from USgov, featured as [8] on German Wiki.
- Image:Comet Hale-Bopp Death Valley.jpg - needs copyright tag - requested.
- List of Orchidaceae genera, probably Image:Ansellia-africana.jpg
- Image:MunichAirport20021029.JPG at Munich International Airport - should be dreary but isn't
- Image:VaticanMuseumStaircase.jpg at Vatican Museum by User:Tille
- Image:Swabian Alb-lionman.jpg the oldest human-animal sculpture (32K yrs)
- Image:Esplanade-nite view.jpg at Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
- Image:Flying_Vespula_vulgaris.jpg or Image:Vespula vulgaris.jpg need to split Common wasp from Yellowjacket
- de:Bild:Wasserläufer bei der Paarung crop.jpg needs moving to Commons and translating article
- de:Bild:Uhu-muc.jpg needs moving to Commons, = Eagle Owl?
- de:Bild:Gestreifter-korallenwaechter.jpg needs moving to Commons and translating article
- Image:Skyline-New-York-City.jpg at New York City
- Image:09-February-2004-ChiangKaiShek-MemorialHall-LanternFestival.jpg at Taipei
- Hot air balloons at night needs placing on a page
- Great Grey Owl at Great Grey Owl.
- Image:Hallimasch3.jpg some type of mushroom
- Port at Buenos Aires, possibly at Buenos Aires or List of seaports
- Image:Gunung Rinjani from Gili Trawangan 1.jpg at Gili Trawangan
- Image:Cordages-mutin.jpg at Rope.
- Image:Alligator_Heads.jpg
- Image:Cleaning up after bullfight.jpg at Bullfighting
- Image:Monument Valley 2.jpg at Monument Valley
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FPA possibles
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[edit]- http://www.sxc.hu/
- http://www.pdphoto.org/
- http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm
- http://yotophoto.com/
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People persecuted by the Christian church
[edit]- Giordano Bruno burnt at the stake in 1600 for suggesting that the universe is infinite.
- Galileo Galilei interned 1633 for insisting that the Earth was not at the centre of the solar system
Interesting
[edit]- Ivar Kreuger - the Swedish match king
- Hypatia of Alexandria - the endpoint of Classical learning is marked by her murder at the hands of a Christian mob.
- Sakichi Toyoda - The King of Inventors and founder of Toyota cars.