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.

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

A placard from the Beirut demonstrations.

Signboard of the office.

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).

Promotional banner for the orchestral adaptation of Cocorí .

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

She feared, for example, that more specialized instruments such as the conventions on racial discrimination, the rights of the child and discrimination against women might be short changed in any consolidated process for consideration of country reports.

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.

Some political prisoners were able to hang a banner outside their cell. They urged the Pope to look into the worsening human rights situation in the country.

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.

A protestor carries a sign which reads Name Mohammed Mursi Profession Mohammed Hosni. Photograph from the We are all April 6 Facebook group

A sign at the Istanbul anti war protest which reads Hands off Syria, shared by Cherine_89 on Twitter. Reposted with permission.

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

In the early morning, three women were reportedly arrested while trying to hang a protest banner in Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Eventually, over 190 cities worldwide sent rolls of cloth to Paris, France, where they were sewn together into one continuous banner.