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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft said they wanted not just to license the image for use as Windows XP's default wallpaper, but to buy all the rights to it. [ 10 ] : 3:37 [ 24 ] They offered O'Rear what he says is the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image; however, he signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.

  3. Metro (design language) - Wikipedia

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    The Music+Video hub on Windows Phone. Microsoft Design Language (or MDL), [1] previously known as Metro, is a design language created by Microsoft.This design language is focused on typography and simplified icons, absence of clutter, increased content to chrome ratio ("content before chrome"), and basic geometric shapes.

  4. Freeport, The Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama of the northwest part of The Bahamas.In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of pineyard with substantial areas of swamp and scrubland by the Bahamian government with a mandate to economically develop the area.

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  6. Caribbean art - Wikipedia

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    Archaeologists have determined that humans have been living in the Caribbean islands for nearly 6,000 years. [1] The first inhabitants were an ancient Arawak people who migrated from the lowland river basins of South America; since before European colonization, the islands had experienced several large migrations from the surrounding mainlands and within the archipelago. [1]

  7. JPEG XR - Wikipedia

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    JPEG XR [4] (JPEG extended range [5]) is an image compression standard for continuous tone photographic images, based on the HD Photo (formerly Windows Media Photo) specifications that Microsoft originally developed and patented. [6]

  8. Geography of the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    The Bahamas map of Köppen climate classification. The climate of the Bahama islands is mostly tropical savanna , with two seasons, a hot and wet summer (wet season) and dry winter (dry season). During the wet season, which extends from May through October, the climate is dominated by warm, moist tropical air masses [ 1 ] as the Bermuda High ...

  9. Bimini Road - Wikipedia

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    Bimini Island North Bimini Island of the Bahamas. The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near the island of North Bimini in the Bimini chain of islands. The Road consists of a 0.8 km (0.50 mi)-long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular limestone blocks.