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Salvador Dalí was a Catalan-Spanish artist who became one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. A skilled draftsman, he is best known for his surrealist work identified by its striking, bizarre, dreamlike images. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. In addition to painting, his artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, photography, and an Academy Award-nominated short cartoon, "Destino," on which he collaborated with Walt Disney; it was released posthumously in 2003. An artist of great imagination, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. (more...)

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1002 - King Ethelred II ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
1954 - Great Britain defeated France at the Parc des Princes in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup.
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Morphology of a sterile female worker wasp. It can be identified as a female by both the number of divisions on its antenna and by its sting. This particular wasp is very close in likeness to a yellowjacket found commonly all around the world.

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