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.

Signboard of the office.

A placard from the Beirut demonstrations.

Being a child, and sort of crawling around the house, I remember these Turkish carpets, and there were these scenes, these battle scenes, these love scenes.

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

Depictions of Santa in Syrian Artworks

New rock paintings found in Machu Picchu.

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.

One of Akram Ruslan's cartoons that outraged Assad regime.

Trici Venola's wonderful Istanbul drawings and reflections at her Drawing On Istanbul blog Plein Air drawing in Turkey blogging about the site and the process.

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.

Indeed, Yazan doesn't just paint famous people.

They appear in Egyptian tomb paintings from 3000 BC.

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.

AnimationPAN lets users to create flipbook like animations easily.

This series of photos became known as Picasso's light drawings.

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.

Email conversion Amazon offers an email based service that will convert GIF, PNG, and BMP graphics to AZW.

Google has doodles for other religious holidays Muslims form a huge chunk of their customer base much larger than, say, Pakistanis, or people who like Escher Google has doodles for birthdays and other days that only a tiny portion of the world celebrates Google is a PUBLIC company (which does matter)

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.