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  2. Olmec alternative origin speculations - Wikipedia

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    Both almond-shaped eyes and snarled mouths are characteristic of the were-jaguar motif common in Olmec art. Olmec alternative origin speculations are non-mainstream pseudohistorical theories relating to the formation of Olmec civilization which contradict generally accepted scholarly consensus, which holds that Olmec civilization is entirely ...

  3. Evolution of the eye - Wikipedia

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    In a lensless eye, the light emanating from a distant point hits the back of the eye with about the same size as the eye's aperture. With the addition of a lens this incoming light is concentrated on a smaller surface area, without reducing the overall intensity of the stimulus. [ 6 ]

  4. Almond - Wikipedia

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    The word almond is a loanword from Old French almande or alemande, [23] descended from Late Latin amandula, amindula, modified from Classical Latin amygdala, which is in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek amygdálē (ἀμυγδάλη) [23] [24] (cf. amygdala, an almond-shaped portion of the brain). [25] Late Old English had amygdales 'almonds'. [24]

  5. Eye of Providence - Wikipedia

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    The Eye of Providence can be found on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, as seen on the U.S. $1 bill, depicted here.. The Eye of Providence or All-Seeing Eye is a symbol depicting an eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by rays of light or a halo, intended to represent Providence, as the eye watches over the workers of mankind.

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  7. Almond Blossoms - Wikipedia

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    Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh.

  8. Dutch letter - Wikipedia

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    Dutch letters in Iowa. The Dutch letter (also referred to as banket letter, [1] almond letter, butter letter, [2] and in Dutch as banketstaaf, banketletter, boterletter, and letterbanket) is a type of pastry that is typically prepared using a mixture of flour, eggs and butter or puff pastry as its base and filled with almond paste (or persipan), dusted with sugar and shaped in an "S" or other ...

  9. Compound eye - Wikipedia

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    Compound eye of Antarctic krill as imaged by an electron microscope. A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.It may consist of thousands of ommatidia, [1] which are tiny independent photoreception units that consist of a cornea, lens, and photoreceptor cells which distinguish brightness and color.