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President Dmitry Medvedev has purchased a Proteksan-Turquoise 53m superyacht valued at approximately €30 million as a venue to host world leaders in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The superyacht, currently named Leo Fun is to be renamed as Sirius by her new owner. She was built by Proteksan-Turquoise for an Italian businessman and launched back in 2009. She has been operating as a charter yacht and it’s believed Medvedev purchased the yacht after renting her for charter...

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

Ice cubes in a tray Ice cube trays are designed to be filled with water, then placed in a freezer until the water freezes to ice, producing ice cubes. Trays are often flexible, so the frozen cubes can be easily removed by flexing the tray. An alternative system is an aluminum tray with a lever that raises the ice cubes, freeing them from the tray. A motorized version of this is found in most automatic ice-making freezers...

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini, is an Italian automaker. The company was founded by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, with the objective of producing a refined grand touring car to compete with established offerings from marques like Ferrari. The company's first models were released in the mid-1960s, and were noted for their refinement, power, and comfort...

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (reporting mark AMTK), is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union Station in Washington, D.C. All of Amtrak's preferred stock is owned by the U.S. federal government...

A POTD is an acronym for "Photo of the Day", "Picture of the Day", "Post of the Day" or "Poll of the Day". It is a term most commonly used by online digital photography communities as an honor to outstanding photos that are selected daily from among that community's membership. They can either be tagged as POTD or displayed in a special page on that site...