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picturesque

Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . The characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. Picturesquely, Picturesqueness.

Origin: It. Pittoresco: cf. F. Pittoresque. See Pictorial.


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Re: Please help us I.D. this micro-organism

... very interesting. Please keep us posted about the results of PCR tests. Also just out of curiosity, what magnification factors were used in those pictures? Regards, Koyal

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by koyal
Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:13 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Please help us I.D. this micro-organism
Replies: 4
Views: 168

Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... together makes something fascinating to watch change over time. Once you know what is going in one section it applies to all emergent views in the pictures then one thing after another keeps falling into place. And it just so happens the theory of ID glasses has Adam and Eve waving back at us when ...

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by GaryGaulin
Sun May 24, 2009 6:45 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 106
Views: 16661

Future Human Evolution

... mind sees as desirable even though it is not common in our morphology, yet. Artists often exaggerate features this way, or it's airbrushed onto pictures of models. I think it's possible epigenetic switching has what you would call "genetic drift" taking us in that direction. Would ...

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by GaryGaulin
Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:24 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 41
Views: 5601

Civilization of the epoch of the dinosaur is found in Russia

All I see is a bunch of pictures of rocks.

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by alextemplet
Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:35 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Civilization of the epoch of the dinosaur is found in Russia
Replies: 1
Views: 343

Re: Important unknown nanotech within humans

i was hoping some one would wish to put one and one together with the pictures above but i guess not,so let me do it for you, here again is a picture of the silicone found within a morgellons patient http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/insert1.jpg ...

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by vincio
Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:14 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Important unknown nanotech within humans
Replies: 28
Views: 6292
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