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Lestes dryas is a species of damselfly in the family Lestidae, the spreadwings. Its common names include emerald spreadwing, scarce emerald damselfly, and robust spreadwing. This species is native to the Holarctic realm, especially northern parts of Eurasia and North America, and relictual in North Africa. It is about 35 to 42 millimetres (1.4 to 1.7 in) long, with the males generally longer than the females. The males have a wingspan of about 45 millimetres (1.8 in), and the females of about 47 millimetres (1.9 in). Both sexes of L. dryas have largely metallic green bodies with a bronze iridescence, with blue pruinescence developing as they age. This male emerald spreadwing was photographed in Kulna, Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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Helen Kendall

... that Helen Kendall (pictured) was one of 446 Canadians to receive the Royal Red Cross for her service in World War I?
... that suggested responses to nihilism include detachment, resignation, defiance, disruption, and the creation of new values?
... that Sumahadi, a future Indonesian minister of forestry, was the only person in his cohort to graduate without a thesis?
... that Joe Pantoliano thought that he would star in This Is Us, not an episode of The Last of Us?
... that the first UK private toll road in a century operated for 14 weeks in 2014?
... that The Dark Domain was said by one critic to have placed its author "within the canon of supernatural greats"?
... that Remedios Varo's only sculpture, Homo rodans, is accompanied by a satirical anthropological manuscript?
... that it was feared that Earl Ohlgren had broken his neck during an NFL exhibition game, but he was actually just in shock?

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Kate Moss in 2019

The illusion of Kate Moss is an art piece first shown at the conclusion of the Alexander McQueen runway show The Widows of Culloden (Autumn/Winter 2006). It consists of a short film of English model Kate Moss (pictured) dancing slowly while wearing a long, billowing gown of white chiffon, projected life-size within a glass pyramid in the centre of the show's catwalk. Although sometimes referred to as a hologram, the illusion was made using a 19th-century theatre technique called Pepper's ghost. McQueen conceived the illusion as a gesture of support for Moss; she was a close friend of his and was embroiled in a drug-related scandal at the time of the Widows show. It is regarded by many critics as the highlight of the Widows runway show, and it has been the subject of a great deal of academic analysis, particularly as a wedding dress and as a memento mori. The illusion appeared in both versions of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a retrospective exhibition of McQueen's designs. (Full article...)

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