Images I have created, significantly modified, or dug up from obscure public domain sources, and uploaded to Commons.

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  Racking up a game of baseball pocket billiards (racker's view) using an oversized triangle rack for 21 balls. The 1 ball on the foot spot, the 2 on the racker's right corner, the 3 opposite, on the left, and the 9 in the middle of the third row from the apex. All other balls are placed randomly. The balls are (16-21) an Aramith baseball add-on set, and (1-15) Aramith Super Pros.
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  A set of Aramith-brand 16–21 pool balls for playing baseball pocket billiards. They are added to an existing set of 1-15 American-style pool balls, and racked using the illustrated oversized triangle for 21 balls.
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  Racking up a game of cribbage pool, with the 15 ball in the middle, no two corner balls adding up to 15, and the apex ball on the foot spot. (Closeup.)
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  Racking up a game of cribbage pool, with the 15 ball in the middle, no two corner balls adding up to 15, and the apex ball on the foot spot. (Wide version.)
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  Racking up a game of cribbage pool, with the 15 ball in the middle, no two corner balls adding up to 15, and the apex ball on the foot spot. (Cropped version.)
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  Racking up a game of seven-ball using the diamond rack more commonly used for nine-ball, but sideways. The 1 ball is about to be placed on the foot spot to complete the rack. (Expansive-view version.)
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  Racking up a game of seven-ball using the diamond rack more commonly used for nine-ball, but sideways. The 1 ball is about to be placed on the foot spot to complete the rack. (Cropped-view version.)
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  Racking up a game of seven-ball using a special hexagonal seven-ball rack, and incidentally also using a special 7 ball that borrows the black color and stripe, respectively, of the " money balls" in the games of eight-ball and nine-ball, to make it stand out more. The 1 ball is on the foot spot. (Closeup.)
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  Racking up a game of seven-ball using a special hexagonal seven-ball rack, and incidentally also using a special 7 ball that borrows the black color and stripe, respectively, of the " money balls" in the games of eight-ball and nine-ball, to make it stand out more. The 1 ball is on the foot spot. (Expansive-view version.)
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  Racking up a game of seven-ball using a special hexagonal seven-ball rack, and incidentally also using a special 7 ball that borrows the black color and stripe, respectively, of the " money balls" in the games of eight-ball and nine-ball, to make it stand out more. The 1 ball is on the foot spot. (Cropped-view version.)
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  Racking up a game of three-ball, in triangle formation, using the standard large triangle rack more commonly used for eight-ball and straight pool. In this example, the 2 ball is on the foot spot. (Expansive-view version.)
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  Racking up a game of three-ball, in triangle formation, using the standard large triangle rack more commonly used for eight-ball and straight pool. In this example, the 2 ball is on the foot spot (Cropped version.)
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  Racking up a game of three-ball, in triangle formation, using a miniature triangle rack specifically for three-ball. In this side-view example, the 8 ball is on the foot spot, and this is a practice-game rack — the 8 and 9 are used because they are the intimidating " money balls" in two popular games, while the 6 is used because it is the hardest to see on the green baize.
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  Racking up a game of three-ball, in straight line formation, using the diamond rack more commonly used for nine-ball, but at an angle so that its side perfectly aligns the balls with the center diamonds on the head rail and foot rail. In this example, the 2 ball is on the foot spot. (Expansive-view version.)
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  Racking up a game of three-ball, in straight line formation, using the diamond rack more commonly used for nine-ball, but at an angle so that side is perfectly aligns the balls with the center diamonds on the head rail and foot rail. In this example, the 2 ball is on the foot spot. (Cropped version.)
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  The initial set up of bottle pool. (Expansive-view version.)
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  The initial set up of bottle pool. (Cropped-view version.)
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  Montage showing in bottle pool how the shake bottle is righted (upside down) where it falls (as judged by the mouth of the bottle) after being knocked over.
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  One of many valid racks in the pocket billiards (pool) game of nine-ball; the 1 ball is at the apex of the rack and is on the foot spot, and the 9 ball is in the middle, with all other balls placed randomly, and all balls touching.
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  One of many valid racks in the pocket billiards (pool) game of kelly pool; the 1 ball is at the apex of the rack and is on the foot spot, the 2 is in the corner to the racker's right, and the 3 ball in the left corner, with all other balls placed randomly, and all balls touching.

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  Cue balls from (left to right): Russian pool (68 mm [2¹¹⁄₁₆ in]), carom (61.5 mm [2⁷⁄₁₆ in]), American-style pool (57 mm [2¹⁄₄ in]), British-style pool (56 mm [2³⁄₁₆ in]), and snooker (54 mm [2¹⁄₈ in]). Not shown: scaled-down pool balls for children's smaller tables; common sizes are 51 mm (2 in) and 28 mm (1¹⁄₈ in).
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  A standard set of carom billiards balls (61.5 mm [2⁷⁄₁₆ in] diameter), including a red object ball, a plain white cue ball, and a dotted cue ball for the opponent. Some games use an additional object ball.
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  A " measel ball", the relatively new, spotted cue ball used in televised tournaments in pool, and now also in snooker and carom billiards as well. The spots help demonstrate the ball-spin effects of " english". Many actual players, not just audience members, favor these balls for the same reason, and they are especially good for practice, to ensure that one has a straight stroke. (Expansive-view version.)
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  A " measel ball", the relatively new, spotted cue ball used in televised tournaments in pool, and now also in snooker and carom billiards as well. The spots help demonstrate the ball-spin effects of " english". Many actual players, not just audience members, favor these balls for the same reason, and they are especially good for practice, to ensure that one has a straight stroke. (Cropped closeup.)
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  A striped 8 ball, to make the " money ball" in the game of eight-ball stand out better. While originally intended for use with novelty sports team logo ball sets (this 8 ball is intended to be reminiscent of referee uniforms), it is actually ideal for color-blind players, and arguably should be used in televised eight-ball tournaments, since it better distinguishes the 8 ball from the usually very dark 4, 7 and 6 balls.
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  A special cue ball for practicing, devised by pro player James Rempe. It features "targets" (one simple, one [shown] complex) for aim-training for " english", " draw" and other forms of cue ball control.
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  Comparison of 68 mm (2¹¹⁄₁₆ in) Russian and 57 mm (2¹⁄₄ in) American-style billiard balls for pool.
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  The 5 balls from various unusual, decorative sets of pocket billiards (pool) balls.
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  Various novelty pocket billiards balls. Clockwise from the top: Red and white balls and markers from a novelty game called Starball; an Elvis Presley commemorative cue ball from Graceland; a leopard-patterned 9 ball; colorful balls from a poker-themed set; regular balls and the small "jack" from a miniature bocce set used on a table instead of a lawn or court.

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  An oblique view of a corner pocket of a pool table. (See " billiard table" for other table types.)
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  An downward view of a corner pocket of a pool table, showing the leather lattice that forms the pocket. (See " billiard table" for other table types.)
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  A view of one of the two side pockets of a pool table, showing the leather lattice that forms the pocket. (See " billiard table" for other table types.) This is the broader, right-hand version of the image.
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  A view of one of the two side pockets of a pool table, showing the leather lattice that forms the pocket. (See " billiard table" for other table types.) A cropped, left-hand version of the image.
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  A leather shake bottle and plastic pills or peas as used in Kelly pool.
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  A leather shake bottle as used in Kelly pool and bottle pool.
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  A wall-mounted scoreboard for straight pool and other billiard games played to a point count. The first player uses the top sliders, and the second player the bottom ones. Scoring with this model is done in 20s.
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  A typical wall-mounted rack for the storing of pool cues, billiard balls, game racks (a different sense of the term "rack"), and other pool equipment.
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  A removable, spring-loaded pair of shims for a pool table's pocket. A set of six pairs of such shims can be used to make all of the pockets "tighter" (notice how little clearance the 1 ball has), for practicing shot accuracy in pool.
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  A pool cue with all of its major parts labeled.
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  A closeup of the weave of the worsted wool type of baize ( billiard table cloth). This particular sample is Simonis 760, a high-end pocket billiards (pool) cloth; it is napless, unlike snooker cloth, and smooth and non-fuzzy, unlike typical bar pool cloth.
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  A somewhat-closeup view of baize, the type of fabric used to cover billiard tables, showing its weave clearly, and with an American-sized pool ball for scale. This particular sample is Simonis 760, a very high-end pocket billiards cloth; it is napless, unlike snooker cloth, and smooth and non-fuzzy, unlike typical bar pool cloth.
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  A manufacturer's sample board showing various styles of diamond inlays for billiard tables.
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  A manufacturer's sample board showing various styles of diamond inlays for billiard tables. (Sideways version.)
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  Stacks of plywood-backed billiard table bed slates. The cheaper, darker ones on top are noticeably thinner than the higher-quality light grey ones.
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  Stacks of plywood-backed billiard table bed slates. The cheaper, darker ones on top are noticeably thinner than the higher-quality light grey ones. (Alternate view.)
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  Stacked pool table frames showing the support struts for the table bed slates.
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  A variety of pool cues.
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  A variety of pool cue cases.
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  Illustration of a training template for billiard balls (for the game of nine-ball in this case). ^[1]
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  An example of the kinds of marks that shooting massé shots can leave on the billiard table's baize. Oh, and there's a cue ball, of course.
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  Box top of a box of 1 dozen cubes of William A. Spinks Company billiard chalk, ca. 1900–1910. Note the endorsement by Jacob Schaefer Sr..
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  Illustration of the principle of dime- and nickel-radius cue tips.
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  German billiards player Paul Kerkau, shooting on an ornate billiards table, ca. 1920
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  German billiards player Paul Kerkau, shooting on a rare billiards table in the shape of an elongated octagon, ca. 1920
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  Billiards glasses (a.k.a. snooker specs, pool spectacles) - eyeglasses for cue sports. They have tall lenses, set unusually high, so that when the head is lowered over the cue stick for aiming, with the nose pointing downward, the eyes can still look through the lenses instead of over them.

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  1911 Mecca cigarette card featuring American carom billiards champion (and later convicted murderer and sanatorium inmate) Calvin Demarest
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  1888 cigarette card featuring American carom billiards world champion Maurice Daly. The 1.5 by 2.75 inch lithographed card was part of a nine-card billiards set, from a larger series of sports cards, "The World's Champions", that were included in packs of cigarettes produced by Allen & Ginter's Tobacco Company, of Richmond Virginia.
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  Great portrait (ca. 1922) of William A. Spinks, American carom billiards champion, co-inventor of modern billiard chalk, oil investor, flower farmer and avocado farmer (originator of the Spinks avocado cultivar). He was around 56 in this pic, from Billiards Magazine, January 1923 issue.
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  Photo (1924) of William A. Spinks. This is a cropped copy of his passport application, to just show the photo, including his signature.
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  Same, without the signature.
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  William A. Spinks again, with his wife, Clara, in 1922. Another cropped passport shot.
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  William A. Spinks's signature, cleaned up from a passport application on microfilm.
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  An extreme massé shot by William A. Spinks during an 1893 exhibition game against Jacob Shaefer Sr. Starting from bottom left, his cue ball swerves into and caroms off one object ball, then due to its extreme spin rebounds into the cushion four times before finally rolling away for a perfect, scoring hit on the other ball. And Spinks actually lost this game. Note: This is a derivative work; only the caption was available in large size, so I took the image and massaged the caption into it.
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  Jules Grévy, 4th President of France, in a portrait as a billiards player (he was in fact an avid one), from the 12 July 1879 issue of Vanity Fair.
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  Advertising flyer/poster for a March 12, 1889 exhibition (at Jacob Schaefer Sr.'s billiard hall in New York City) by Yank Adams of his finger billiards skills and trick shots.
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  Portrait of Yank Adams; detail from an advertising flyer/poster for a March 12, 1889 exhibition (at Jacob Schaefer Sr.'s billiard hall in New York City) by Adams of his finger billiards skills and trick shots.
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  Portrait of Charles R. Morin, three-cushion billiards world champion (1911). Cleaned-up version of image from the Bain Collection, U.S. Library of Congress.
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  German billiards player Hugo Kerkau about to shoot a massè shot, on an undersized carom billiards practice table, ca. 1920.
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  German billiards player Paul Kerkau, shooting on an ornate billiards table, ca. 1920
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  German billiards player Paul Kerkau, shooting on a rare billiards table in the shape of an elongated octagon, ca. 1920

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  A game of English ground billiards, ca. 1300s (woodcut reprinted 1801)
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  A game of French ground billiards, 1480 woodcut (reprinted 1985).
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  "Elégante au billard" ('Elegant at Billiards'), by Alfred Stevens (b. 1823, Brussels, d. 1906, Paris). Oil on canvas, mounted on parquet panel. A Victorian aristocratic woman playing carom billiards. Private collection.

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  Empty ( ball-free) diagram of an American-style pool table.
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  Member countries of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), updated as of November 2011 (based on original 2008 map by Howard the Duck ( talk · contribs). Where sources differ, the most "inclusive" map has been created, trusting that the continental confederations know better than WPA who their local member states are.

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  A Balmoral, a type of cap ( bonnet in Scottish English) that is often a part of formal and casual civilian Highland dress as well as Scottish regiment uniform. This contemporary version is black wool, with black grosgrain headband, cockade and ribbons, a red yarn toorie, and a clan crest badge on the cockade.

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  Albinistic former Solomon Islander militant leader Stanley "Sataan" Kaoni surrenders weapon to NZ forces after ceasefire. Source: New Zealand Defense Force press release, June 5, 2002
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  Same, but a cropped closeup.

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  A bordered version of the Olympic flag of Chinese Taipei (the name of Taiwan in sporting contexts). Based on unbordered version made by someone else; the border makes it work much better as a flag icon.
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  A bordered version of the Paralympic flag of Chinese Taipei. Based on unbordered version made by someone else.
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  Blank map of US states and Canadian provinces. (thin lines join areas of the same state/province for one-click coloring). Black-and-white version with transparent background; Hawaii shown to scale but moved closer. (Based on someone else's version - non-transparency, greyish version with more distance between Hawaii and the continent.)
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  A tautologous sign in Albuquerque, New Mexico, marking the location of a ravine named Arroyo del Oso ('Small-canyon of the Bear') in Spanish, and Bear Canyon in English. The sign's phrasing "Bear Canyon Arroyo" thus means 'Bear Canyon Small-canyon'. The reversed form of the tautology, "Arroyo del Oso Canyon" has also been used, though not on official signage.

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  Late 18th-century illustration of a game of doubles jeu de paume or "real tennis", in an indoor court that is wider, taller and shorter than those shown in many other 1600s-1700s illustrations of the game and compared to modern courts. From Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Paris, 1785; Vol. 7, p. 103: "Paulmerie, Jeu de Paulme et Construction de la Raquette"), Denis Diderot & Jean le Rond d'Alembert (actual artist uncertain)
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  Late 18th-century illustration of jeu de paume or "real tennis" paddle-bats (battoirs) and (in various stages of construction) strung racquets or triquets. From Diderot & d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, same page as the preceding image.
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  Hand-colored engraving of Manx and Turkish Angora cats (heavily stylized), from Our Living World: An Artistic Edition of the Rev. J.G. Wood's Natural History of Animate Creation – Mammalia Vol. 1, Rev. John George Wood, p. 163, published 1885 by Selmer Hess. This is one of the earliest published illustrations of either breed. I bought this on eBay at considerable expense for the express purpose of scanning this historical image for commons.
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  Manx cat detail from the larger engraving.
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  Turkish Angora detail from the larger engraving.
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  The Captive, oil, 1891, by Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936). A famous and controversial painting, for its sexual implications (rather strong for the art of the period), its stereotyping of Native Americans (though based on a true story; see below), and, conversely, its " noble savage" romanticization of them. Interesting backstory, as provided by Robfergusonjr ( talk · contribs):

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  "In 1838, Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife came to the Oregon Territory to establish a mission to the Cayuse Indians under the sponsorship of the New England Mission Board. In time, immigrants also came to the area and settled around the Whitman mission. All went well until there was an epidemic of measles. The Indians were stricken by the disease and, though treated by the Whitmans, were not able to respond so well to medical treatment. Angry and terrified, they accused Dr. Whitman of deliberately poisoning them to get their land. In late November of 1847, they attacked the mission and murdered most of the staff, including Dr. Whitman and his wife. A number of others were taken captive, among them Lorinda Bewly, a seventeen-year-old teacher at the mission, who was spared from death by a Cayuse chief named Five Crows. When he saw her, he decided that he would enjoy the novelty of a white woman for a wife. Needless to say, this did not meet with a favorable response from the captured girl. Couse's painting shows us a dramatic scene – Lorinda is lying on the floor of the chief's teepee, unconscious, with bloody bonds testifying to a terrified but courageous struggle. Five Crows is seated on the floor, staring at her and unable to fathom her behavior, her aversion to him. Couse has shown us two cultures in tragic juxtaposition, and we are able perhaps to have an understanding of each."

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  The point of a barnstar; can be used as a Wikipedia award for something not quite worthy of the Minor Barnstar but still worthy of note. Works best on very pale backgrounds, such as #E6F7F7 or paler, or plain white. Was (slightly) anti-aliased for white. See example usage.
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  Double-redirect arrows, for use in Wikipedia (etc.) anywhere an icon might be wanted to indicate a "redirect ⇒ [...] redirect ⇒ actual article" relationship, or something about such a relationship, such as a WikiProject for fixing double-redirects.
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  A sport in Canada icon for use with WikiProject banners, stub templates, etc.
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  Screenshot of an infobox on a Wikipedia article, for illustrative purposes in pages about infoboxes.
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  An icon (e.g. for userboxes) indicating opposition to the abuse of ellipses (...'s) to close sentences.
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  Question mark. Intended for use as a DYK icon (not necessarily the "official" DYK icon). Due to anti-aliasing, will work best on very light backgrounds. Based on someone else's version, but fixes truncation and width problems of the original.
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  This Wikipedia barnstar is awarded to editors for stellar work in the area of providing instruction, such as how-to and help pages, template documentation, process and policy instructions, talk-page explanations of complicated things, or one-on-one mentoring. (Barnstar based on two existing images from Commons.) Give one with {{ Instructor's Barnstar}}.
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  Icon indicating " cue sports current events" (for billiards, pool, snooker), featuring a clock, an ivory-toned cue ball with a red dot, and a black object ball.