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Australian singer Kylie Minogue smiles as she poses for photographers with the OBE she received from Britain's Prince Charles for her services to music at Buckingham Palace in London July 3, 2008.
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Serena (L) and Venus Williams of the U.S. talk to each other during their quarter-finals doubles match against Bethanie Mattek of the U.S. and Sania Mirza of India at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 2, 2008.
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Acrobats perform during the presentation of A400M military aircraft in Seville, southern Spain June 26, 2008. Europe unveiled the A400M military aircraft on Thursday, giving the public a first glimpse of a powerful turboprop plane built to supply seven NATO countries with urgently needed strategic airlift capacity.
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A group of people look at the sun, standing on the rocky crest filled with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory of Kokino, soon after sunrise on June 21, 2008, on the day of the summer solstice. The ancient astronomic observatory, located about 80 km northeast of Skopje, dates more than 4.000 years back in time. It is ranked by NASA as the fourth ancient observatory in the world.
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Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Arganda del Rey, on the outskirts of Madrid, Saturday, July 5, 2008.
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Peruvian archaeologist Sergio Chavez looks at a piece from the Tiawanacu culture next to his assistant at the Cundisa site in downtown Copacabana, on the shores of lake Titicaca near the border with Peru, July 4, 2008. Chavez says that some of the artefacts found at the site belong to the Tiwanaku and Incan cultures which populated the area thousands of years ago. His team has unearthed several tombs with human remains, as well as textiles, clay pots and jewellery at the site in tourist hotspot Copacabana, which was discovered by chance last month when builders started laying the foundations for a new market. Picture taken July 4, 2008.
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EUGENE, OR - JULY 05: Allyson Felix is pictured after competing in the women's 200 meter semi-finals during day seven of the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials at Hayward Field on July 5, 2008 in Eugene, Oregon.
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A man looks at a Salvador Dali sculpture entitled Lobster Telephone made in 1936 at the Tate Modern art gallery, London, 30 May 2007. Tate Modern are displaying a range of works of art by Salvador Dali including films sculptures and paintings
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A woman reacts in front of Salvador Dali's and Edward James' 'Mae West Lips Sofa', left, and other art objects, at the exhibition 'Surreal Things', in central London's Victoria and Albert Museum, Tuesday March 27, 2007. The new exhibition opening March 29 explors the link between surrealism and commerce and the show charts the way surrealism evolved, in short order, from cutting-edge art movement to design element to advertising tool, used to sell everything from perfume to automobiles. Surrealism emerged in the 1920s as a subversive artistic movement out to challenge accepted ideas and _ influenced by Sigmund Freud _ liberate the unconscious.
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Spanish artist Salvador Dali's "Retrospective woman's bust" is exhibited on the opening day of "Surreal Things", a 250-piece art exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao February 28, 2008. The exhibition, organized with London's Victoria and Albert museum, deals with Surrealist objects and their relationship with commercial design.
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936, by Salvador Dali, shown in this 05 March 2007 photo copy, is part of the exhibition titled "Barcelona and Modernity: Guadi to Dali" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and running from 07 March-03 June 2007. The first comprehensive survey of its type ever mounted in America, the exhibition explores the diverse and innovative work of Barcelona's artists, architects, and designers in the years between the Barcelona Universal Exposition of 1888 and the imposition of the Fascist regime of Francisco Franco in 1939. The exhibition features some 300 works, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, posters, decorative objects, furniture, architectural models, and designs. Barcelona and Modernity offers new insights into the art movements that advanced the city's quest for modernity and confirmed it as the primary center of radical intellectual, political, and cultural activities in Spain
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