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Arts

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The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments.
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Architecture

As part of the <a href="index.php?page=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.burwood.nsw.gov.au%2FFor-Residents%2FEvents-and-Activities%2F150-Years-of-Burwood" target="_blank">150 Years of Burwood Program</a>, Council commissioned artist <a href="index.php?page=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fclaire_foxton%2F%3Fhl%3Den" target="_blank">Claire Foxton</a> to create a mural dedicated to Angus and Malcolm Young from Australian rock band AC/DC. Located on the side of 12 Burleigh Street, the mural is just a few seconds walk from the original Young family home at 4 Burleigh Street Burwood. The Young family moved to Burwood in the 1960's from Scotland and attended both Burwood Public Primary School and Ashfield Boys High School.<br />Designed directly in consultation with the Young family, the mural is based on a photo of the band from the 1970's by photographer Phillip Morris in the early days of the band's formation. The blurred background in the design is also in reference to the original facade of 4 Burleigh Street.
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Revellers dressed as Santa take part in the annual SantaCon celebration in New York City, U.S., December 14, 2024. REUTERS/Heather Khalifa
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American actress Zendaya poses for photographers as she arrives for a fan event promoting the film, Dune: Part Two, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)<br /><br /><br />LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 17: Andrew Garfield poses with a cardboard cutout of Florence Pugh at the "We Live In Time" Headline Gala during the 68th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall on October 17, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFI)<br /><br /><br />LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 16: Rihanna arriving at Selfridges for her Fenty Hair launch party on September 16, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Neil Mockford/GC Images)
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Design

Phil Cicio, an electrician at Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, checks the lights on the ball that will drop in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, at the company's warehouse in New York, Dec. 26, 1991. The ball weighs 200 pounds, is six feet in diameter and contains 180 white outdoor lamps. The tradition dates back to 1907 when the first ball was lowered from the top of One Times Square, then the New York Times building.
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Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, October 25, 2024. REUTERS/Irene Wang
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World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space

Beauty

ATTENTION: EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 01 FEBRUARY 00:01 GMT! FREI FÜR DONNERSTAGAUSGABEN - 30 January 2024, Berlin: The bust of Queen Nefertiti (around 1340 BC) is on display in the Neues Museum. One hundred years ago, on April 1, 1924, the figure of the ancient Egyptian queen was presented to the public for the first time in Berlin, having been discovered twelve years earlier during excavations in Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. (to dpa-KORR Fascination and desire - Nefertiti has been attracting visitors for 100 years) Photo: Christophe Gateau/dpa (Photo by Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Contestant Rikkie Kolle poses after being crowned winner in the Miss Netherlands beauty pageant in Leusden, on July 8, 2023. A transgender woman has won the Miss Netherlands beauty pageant for the first time in the history of the tournament, saying she wanted to be a "voice and role model" for others. Rikkie Kolle, 22, from the southern town of Breda, was crowned at a ceremony on July 8 and will now take part in the Miss Universe contest in El Salvador, the organisers said. (Photo by Evert Elzinga / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by EVERT ELZINGA/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 05: Jools Lebron is seen in FiDi on September 05, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by The Hapa Blonde/GC Images)
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Ben Shabad is crowned winner in a Jeremy Allen White lookalike competition at Humboldt Park in Chicago on Nov. 16, 2024. Shabad won $50 and a pack of cigarettes. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 14: Miss Chile Emilia Dides participates in the The 73rd Miss Universe Competition - Preliminary Competition at Arena Ciudad de Mexico on November 14, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)
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Luxury

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Huge diamond necklace linked to Marie Antoinette scandal sells for $4.8 million
14th November 1947: Mr Schur (centre), chief confectioner at McVitie and Price Ltd, standing next to the official cake for Princess Elizabeth's marriage to Philip Mountbatten which is nine feet tall. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
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