Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.

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Despite its association with punk fashion, however, the faded effect was copied by many individuals not associated with the subculture, who dipped their jeans in diluted bleach and embellished them with metal studs, embroidery and rhinestones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone


Rhinestones on a tiara

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Aurora Borealis tends to reflect whatever color is worn near it, and it is named after the Aurora Borealis atmospheric phenomenon, also known as the "Northern Lights".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora


Red and green auroras, Norway

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The painting Aurora Borealis (see Aurora Borealis) (1865) by American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church is widely interpreted to represent the conflict of the American Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War


An 1863 photo of Gordon, distributed in the North during the war.

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Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing political parties, and later split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding a definite end to its expansion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing


Citizen Know Nothing: The Know Nothing Party's nativist ideal.

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In the late 19th century, Democrats would call the Republicans "Know Nothings" in order to secure the votes of Germans, as in the Bennett Law campaign in Wisconsin in 1890.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin


Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Spring Green

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The area draws hundreds of thousands of visitors yearly to its quaint villages, seasonal cherry picking, and fish boils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_boil


Platter of Fish Boil, which is traditionally served in Door County.

Bonus Link: Door County Dining Must Do--The Door County Fish Boil

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Salt is the only seasoning used, and used only to raise the specific gravity of the water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_gravity


Testing specific gravity of fuel.

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Specific gravity is commonly used in industry as a simple means of obtaining information about the concentration of solutions of various materials such as brines, hydrocarbons, sugar solutions (syrups, juices, honeys, brewers wort, must etc.) and acids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must


Grapes being pressed to create must.

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In Roman Catholic Eucharistic liturgy, must may be substituted for sacramental wine, on condition that the ordinary has granted permission for the benefit of a priest or lay person who should not, usually because of alcoholism, ingest wine; but in normal circumstances it may not be used in place of wine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(officer)


Pope Pius XI, depicted in this window at Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu, was ordinary of the universal Church as well as the Diocese of Rome from 1922 to 1939. At the same time, Bishop Stephen Alencastre, Apostolic Vicar of the Sandwich Islands, was the ordinary of what is now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.

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This is not to say that the Orthodox Church has a Congregationalist polity; on the contrary, the local priest functions as the "hands" of the bishop, and must receive from the bishop an antimension and chrism before he is permitted to celebrate any of the Sacred Mysteries (sacraments) within the diocese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_mysteries


Wrisberg epitaph in Hildesheim Cathedral, showing distribution of the divine graces by means of the church and the sacraments, or mysteries. By Johannes Hopffe 1585.

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Although the term "mystery" is not often used in anthropology, access by initiation or rite of passage to otherwise secret beliefs is an extremely common feature of indigenous religions all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology


A Punu tribe mask. Gabon Central Africa

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Nutritional anthropology is a synthetic concept that deals with the interplay between economic systems, nutritional status and food security, and how changes in the former affect the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security


Goats are an important part of the solution to global food security because they are fairly low-maintenance and easy to raise and farm.

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At the food production level, natural disasters and drought result in crop failure and decreased food availability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster


Fallen trees caused by the Tunguska meteoroid of the Tunguska event in June 1908.

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It is believed that Pompeii was destroyed by a pyroclastic flow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii


Portrait of the baker Terentius Neo with his wife found on the wall of a Pompeii house. (Portrait of Paquius Proculo)

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In the 4th century BC, it was fortified. Pompeii remained faithful to Rome during the Second Punic War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War


Tomb of the Numidian king Massinissa (c. 238–c. 148 BC). Massinissa, leader of the Massyli tribe, was originally an ally of Carthage and fought against the Romans in Iberia. But, after the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC, he switched sides. His support at the Battle of Zama was critical to the Roman victory. Massinissa remained a staunch Roman ally for the rest of his long life. Site: Shoumaa el-Khroub, near Constantine, Algeria

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At the Ebro, he split the army into three columns and subdued the tribes from there to the Pyrenees within weeks, but with severe losses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebro


The source of the Ebro in Fontibre.

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Aragonite, a mineral named for Aragon, attests to the fact that carbonates are abundant in the central Ebro Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon


Loarre, one of the most important Romanesque castles in Europe

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In Summer 2008, the international exposition of Expo 2008 was held in Zaragoza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2008


Channel of brave waters

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Canada's Cirque du Soleil participated with acrobats, actors, gymnasts, singers and musicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_du_Soleil


On stage at the 1993 finale of Nouvelle Expérience.

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A new idea became to come shape the performing arts, Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté toured Europe as a folk musician and busker after quitting college.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_performance


Street musician Luc Arbogast in Lyon, France.