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The Daily Alta California publication office building, San Francisco
- View of the three-story building where the Daily Alta California Newspaper's publication office was located. A man stands at the entrance to the building.
David head (Michelangelo)
- David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. David is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft)marble statue of the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
- Author: Michelangelo
Moby-Dick
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee.
- Author: Herman Melville