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The pug is a "toy" (very small) breed of dog with a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail. Pug puppies are often called puglets. The breed has a fine, glossy coat that comes in a variety of colors, and a compact square body with well-developed muscle. They have been described as multum in parvo ("much in little"), referring to the pug's personality and small size. Known in ancient China as lo-sze, they may have been responsible for both the modern Pekinese and King Charles spaniel...

Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, or Our Lady the Conception the Capuchins, is a church in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, whose brother, Antonio Barberini, was a Capuchin friar. It is located at Via Veneto, close to Piazza Barberini. The crypt is located just under Santa Maria della Concezione, a church commissioned by Pope Urban VIII in 1626...

Bob Donewald, Jr. is an American basketball coach and current head coach the China men's national basketball team. He was an NBA assistant with the New Orleans Hornets and Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001 to 2004, and an ABA (American Basketball Association) head coach from 2004-2005. He is the son Bob Donewald, Sr., a retired American college basketball head coach. Coach Chinese National Team Donewald replaced his predecessor Guo Shiqiang on April 30, 2010...

British photographer Jonathan Griffiths who now lives in Montana, USA spent 15 months to complete this project. These amazing pictures bring a whole new meaning to coming face to face with danger. Photographer Jonathan Griffiths risked his life as he took these breathtaking shots, just inches from tigers, bears and cougars, capturing the moment a lion came so close it was pawing at his lens. In one shot a tiger left condensation on his lens with its breath...

In aerodynamics, the sound barrier usually refers to the point at which an aircraft moves from transonic to supersonic speed. The term came into use during World War II when a number aircraft started to encounter the effects compressibility, a collection several unrelated aerodynamic effects. By the 1950s, new aircraft designs started to routinely "break" the sound barrier...

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...