Personal view.Certainly these tourists, standing at the base of the enormous statue “Statues” redirects here. For other uses, see Statues (disambiguation). A statue is a sculpture depicting a specific entity, usually a person, event, animal or object. Its primary concern is representational. A small statue is called statuette. of Christ the Redeemer Christ the Redeemer (often from Spanish and Portuguese Cristo Redentor) may be a reference to:
Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r , could have bought a postcard of the ubiquitous symbol of Brazil. But why, when you can have your own little slice of reality? Since the first photograph was taken, in an eight-hour process on a summer day in 1827, our fascination with the taking and keeping photos has only grown: Imagine the thousands of tons of scrapbooks, albums and shoe boxes of photos in the world's closets, holding millions and millions of shots, some repetitive, some unique, all of them priceless price·less adj. 1. Of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Highly amusing, absurd, or odd: a priceless remark. to their owners. Now imagine the huge leap forward we're taking into cheap, easy digital photography. Internet search engines today sort through 880 million images online in a few seconds (nearly 300 of them alone of this statute), and that's just the big public, free database. We're just getting started documenting our world, and there's no telling if we'll ever tire of snap, snap, snapping our way through life. BEST OF LATIN AMERICA Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST WINNER: FLAVIO NAIDIN--RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL |
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