For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity.

That is an arresting thought.

While the achievements are significant, the omissions are also striking.

Rajaratnam s trial is remarkable in many ways.

Kouchner s popularity is a curious phenomenon.

The concerted international response, both public and private, has been truly remarkable.

The extraordinary international response to the tsunamis that devastated South Asia is a remarkable political phenomenon.

The numbers are striking at least 1 million Americans have type 1 diabetes mellitus, and only a few thousand donor pancreata are available each year.

These protests are striking not only for the sensitive nature of the issues they address, but for the broad based support they have elicited.

Most of our cultural heritage has tended to look backward, romanticizing the past.

These similarities in economic performance are striking, given that macroeconomic policy in the US and the eurozone has been so different.

Signboard of the office.

A placard from the Beirut demonstrations.

A remarkable observation supports this analogy viruses behave like individual pieces of programs, using the cell as the machine needed to make them multiply and subsequently propagate (often by destroying the machine).

And they even hanged a sign over a highway

They raised a banner and urged for their salary to be paid.

Girl holding a sign during one of the protests. It reads O Jabhat Al Nusra.

Pitang holding a placard which reads I am a child labourer .

Promotional banner for the orchestral adaptation of Cocorí .

Protesters hold a banner that reads Our future is in debt.

First, it is one of the few insider trading cases ever to be brought against a professional hedge fund manager. Historically, both state and federal attorney generals have preferred to prosecute occasional traders, who stick out like a sore thumb.

We decided that I can't put a do not enter sign next to the vent.

A Simple Solution posted on Twitpic by Arabist

Unescorted ladies are not allowed, reads a restaurant sign in Saudi Arabia.

Indeed, rather than using existing approaches and processes to compete, these entrants created radical new game plans, rewriting the target industry s rules. Their creativity and passion enabled them to subdue and in some cases even destroy less adaptable giants remarkably quickly.

So if we go and look at this piece of content, President Obama's State of the Union address from just a few weeks ago, and look at what we find in this same data set, at the same scale, the engagement properties of this piece of content are truly remarkable.

And I have a little sign on my fridge, and it says, Because I'm the daddy, that's why.

Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, sign at entrance, Katakolon (Peloponnese, Greece).

The slaves did not immediately flock to Sonthonax's banner, however.

The film s charts are not boring, but actual showstoppers Reich makes the point that the mid 1940 s to the mid 1970 s were decades of relative income equality, which corresponded with overall affluence.

She headed to a nearby library and got a cardboard which she wrote on لا للتصاريح المذلة عند مدخل مخيم نهر البارد

A local photographer and activist tweeted one of the most striking banners of the picket

A banner paying homage to Nelson Mandela takes on the unanimous popularity of the South African leader in Brazil to call those who admire his legacy to support human rights.

Marcell Shehwaro and her mother in a poster made and shared by Jordanian blogger Mohammed Al Qaq on Facebook.

Meanwhile, positive role models like Nitish Kumar of Bihar, Narendra Modi of Gujarat, and Navin Patnaik of Orissa have all been returned to power as Chief Ministers at least once all have delivered remarkable results while maintaining an unblemished record of personal integrity.

In Khoy (photo above) protesters hung a banner on a bridge saying the death of Lake Urmia is the death of Azerbaijan.

A child carries a banner at the Emek movie theatre protest on April 5, 2014.Photo by Görkem Keser.

While trade and its share in national income have grown rapidly in most developed and developing countries over the past half century, remarkably, the average African experience does not follow this pattern.

Only a red banner reading in white letters Stop the killing. We want to build a country for all Syrians

The following video shows Rima bravely holding the banner in front of cars while a group of women applaude her gesture.

In Barcelona, on Las Ramblas for some film festival, I did the Hollywood sign going and coming, made a building out of it, and they built it.

A large banner held up by protesters reads 'International resistance against the Austerity Imposed by the Troika and Governments.'.

We miss Neda (referring to the young woman whose death during the 2009 demonstrations was caught on camera)

Discussion and questions for consideration

The General Assembly decides to defer for future consideration the following agenda items and related documents