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An Iranian motorist rides his motorbike past a mural depicting a scene from the torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, on a major highway in the Iranian capital Tehran, June 1, 2004.

Carved antler discovered at the Grotte de Lortet rock shelter in the French Pyrenees

“There’s a photograph of artist H.R. Giger holding his 1980 Oscar for Visual Effects (Alien, 1979) while wearing souvenir Mickey Mouse ears that he got at nearby Disneyland before the awards ceremony. Refusing to take the hat off, Giger stares ahead with dark, stubborn eyes wearing a white choker band, and a black button-down shirt, while holding the new Oscar at his chest. In silhouette he’s something like a symmetrical monster with big round ears; bionic hood ornament. The son of a Swiss chemist, Giger had gone Hollywood.” — Stephanie La Cava

Cape buffalo Syncerus caffer

Albert Dürer Lucas (British,1828-1919)

Still life of seashells and pearls, 1875