Ruth St Denis

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The Peacock (no date).

Dancer Ruth St Denis (1879–1968) strikes Art Nouveau poses in the New York Public Library’s Denishawn Collection, now at Flickr.

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Radha (1904).

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Peacocks
Rene Beauclair
Elizabetes Iela 10b, Riga
The Maison Lavirotte
Whistler’s Peacock Room
Beardsley’s Salomé
The art of Hernan Gimenez
Images of Nijinsky

Jewel beetle

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A 40X close-up of Chrysochroa fulgens, the iridescent Jewel Beetle, showing part of the insect’s eye. A stereomicroscopy photo by Charles Krebs, and one of the winners in the 2008 Olympus Bioscapes Digital Imaging Competition. Scientific American has larger images.

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How many leaf beetles can dance on the head of a pin?
The art of Jo Whaley
Endangered insects postage stamps