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American top model Carolyn Murphy by photographer Steven Meisel

Beautiful American top model Carolyn Murphy
Listed 9th on the Forbes top-earning models list, Carolyn Murphy has earned $3.5 million in one year. Born on August 11, 1973 in Florida, she wasn’t too ambitious in her youth. A girl with a strong modeling appearance, contrary to many familiar stories, did not think about the modeling career. She worked as a waitress in a beach-side restaurant, and who knows what fate would Carolyn have chosen if her mother had not persuaded her to go to models school. A short time later, after a few photo shoots in small magazines, extraordinarily beautiful Carolyn Murphy was noticed. Having received several very tempting offers, newly made model went to conquer the fashion capitals – Paris and New York. Further fate of Carolyn Murphy was incredibly lucky – as if by magic, her face starts appearing on the covers of the most prestigious magazines.
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Rare Black Tiger cub at Hangzhou Zoo

A Rare Black Tiger cub appeared in Hangzhou Zoo, Zhejiang province, east China. The tiger cub was born without traditional stripes. His color is completely black and it attracts the attention. The tiger is very unusual, although in his behavior there is absolutely no difference from his brothers and sisters. The tiger is very playful and feels fine, no wonder people pay so much attention to him, but he does not mind at all. As scientists say, such an unusual color may be due to pseudo-melanism, i.e. strips widened to such an extent that merge with each other.
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Large statement necklace and tiara with flower motif. Vogue Fall 2014 Accessories

Vogue Fall 2014 Accessories predict the most important trend for neck jewelry in 2015, whether it’s necklaces, chokers, or chains – their volume, it has to be massive. To find graceful and slender neck ornaments in the collections of famous brands is virtually impossible. In the coming year, all the signs of gigantism and shock value and many neck ornaments are made of bright material in large format. This style will feature all models of jewelry for the neck – from the suspension to necklaces, chokers, lockets, chains and even beads. Brooch of live orchids, artificial lilies or unidentifiable flowers – an important accessory, especially pertinent to the lapels of a coat.
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Editorial Trapped for GLASbook. Photo Ekaterina Belinskaya. Russian model Anastasya Goryunova. Artwork by Polish costume designer Agnieszka Osipa

Slavic Glory by Agnieszka Osipa. Agnieszka Osipa is a professional costume and fashion designer from Poland. She graduated from the Lodz Academy of Fine Arts, with diploma in fashion design. The exquisite costumes of a talented designer Agnieszka Osipa are beautiful and breathtakingly powerful. She says that it can take up to two weeks to create a headdress, sometimes less, depends on particular design.
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Actress Margarita. 1909. Million Scarlet Roses from Niko Pirosmani

Million Scarlet Roses from Niko Pirosmani. Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani (5 May 1862 – April 9, 1918) was a primitivist, one of those artists about whom people far from understanding art, say: “I would have painted not worse than that”. But only a blind man can not see the whole poignancy of the artist’s painting. Behind the apparent naivete of painted on canvas animals and holiday feasts are hidden deep feelings – pain through the joy and pleasure through pain. And it becomes more than obvious if you know a little about the life of Niko Pirosmani. When asked about the age, Niko replied with a shy smile: “How should I know?” Time for him went his own way and did not correlate with boring numbers on the calendar.
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Old photo, The Ouled Nail exotic dancers

The Ouled Nail – Berber tribes living in the vicinity of the towns of El Djelfa, Bou Saada Chellala and the Ouled Nail Mountains, a part of the Atlas Mountains of Algeria. The origin of these tribes lost in the depths of history. And though they were converted to Islam in the 7-8 centuries AD, they were able to preserve their identity and uniqueness until the 20th century. Traditionally, women held the central role in the tribe. They did not wear traditional Muslim veil, moved freely across the expanses of their territory without a male escort, even in adolescence. Worked as a dancer. Accumulated sufficient condition to marry. They had independence even more than many “liberated women” today.
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Bizarre look of the beautiful Cranberry Sea in British Columbia, Canada

Beautiful Cranberry Sea
When Canadian Maple autumn begins, on the surface of the flooded plantations floats cranberry. Thus, amazing red Sea of quite a bizarre look appear. Meanwhile, the bright red sea of floating cranberries signals the start of the six week long harvest season. Sometimes, up to their waists, dastar-turbaned Sikh Canadians roam in the water. And this makes the monitoring of gathering the berries process even more surprising. By the way, Canada – the main center of non-Indian Sikh diaspora. Considered a national treasure of Canada (and the USA), the large-fruited cranberry sea has some peculiarities. In particular, its fruits contain air chambers, allowing the berries float on the surface. When the harvest season begins, the plantations of cranberry bushes became filled with water. Accordingly, berries come off. And it only remains to drive them to the edge of the pond and catch already clean berries out of the water.
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