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The biggest exhibition, this one is a real event in the dolls world. In the historical centre of the Russian capital you’ll find an exposition covering 5600 square meters. We are supposed to have 25-30 thousand visitors. There will be more than 1000 participants from 26 countries of the world. Thousands of works will tell you about the connections between dolls and different cultural aspects – for masses, elite, folk and subculture...

Artist Norm Magnusson has been placing politically and socially provocative historical markers up and down Interstate 75 for his I-75 Project. Norm Magnusson (born March 20, 1960) is a New York-based artist and political activist. Founder of the art movement funism, he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion...

A white elephant (also albino elephant) is a rare kind of elephant, but not a distinct species. Although often depicted as snow white, their skin is normally a soft reddish-brown, turning a light pink when wet. They have fair eyelashes and toenails. White elephants are only nominally white. Of those currently kept by the Burmese rulers — General Than Shwe regards himself as the heir of the Burmese kings — one is grey and the other three are pinkish, but all are officially white...

Adansonia grandidieri (Grandidier's Baobab), the grandest and most famous of Madagascar’s six baobabs, is an endangered species in the genus Adansonia. It is endemic to Madagascar. A.grandidieri is named to commemorate the French botanist and explorer, Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921). This is the kind of tree that is shown in the movie Madagascar as the giant tree in the island's centre...

A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Most modern cockpits are enclosed, except on some small aircraft, and cockpits on large airliners are also physically separated from the cabin. From the cockpit an aircraft is controlled on the ground and in the air. Cockpit as a term for the pilot's compartment in an aircraft first appeared in 1914...