Images Dated 4th October 2006

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) (oil on canvas) (b&w photo)

XJF115856 Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) (oil on canvas) (b&w photo) by Danish School, (16th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: established Uraniborg observatory on island of Hven; made the most accurate astronomical observations to date in Europe; proved that a nova was a star; insisted that the five planets revolved around the sun which in turn revolved around the Earth; his nose was made silver after losing his in a duel;); Danish, out of copyright

© Bridgeman Images

Road To Tagami

A mother and child, and a rickshaw driver walk past a terraced hillside on the road to Tagami, Niigata, Japan, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

© 2006 Getty Images

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common porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum, feeding on high brush cranberry leaves, Takshanuk mountains

common porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum, feeding on high brush cranberry leaves, Takshanuk mountains, northern southeast Alaska

© Steven J. Kazlowski / DanitaDelimont.com

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