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  2. Bliss (image) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...

  3. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Wallpaper (computing) A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device. On a computer, wallpapers are generally ...

  4. Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.

  5. Digital Blasphemy - Wikipedia

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    Only subscribers have access to the highest-resolution wallpapers. As of July 2007, many wallpapers were converted to display on mobile devices, such as cell phones and tablets, and the first 1080p animated wallpaper was created. Digital Blasphemy wallpapers were used in Stardock's weather product, The Natural Desktop. Reception

  6. Wikipedia:Featured pictures - Wikipedia

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    One or more featured pictures are chosen as the picture of the day (POTD). You can include a box displaying the current POTD anywhere (e.g. your user page) by adding the text { { pic of the day }} or { { POTD }} where you want the picture to be shown. Featured pictures from all Wikimedia projects can be browsed by subject or by country on ...

  7. William Morris wallpaper designs - Wikipedia

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    William Morris wallpaper designs. The British literary figure and designer William Morris (1834-1896), a founder of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, was especially known for his wallpaper designs. These were created for the firm he founded with his partners in 1861, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company, and later for Morris and Company.

  8. Among the Sierra Nevada, California - Wikipedia

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    Among the Sierra Nevada, California (also known as Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains) is an 1868 oil-on-canvas painting by German-American artist Albert Bierstadt which depicts a landscape scene of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Created at his studio in Rome, the painting was exhibited throughout Europe, creating interest in ...

  9. Decorative painting in Hälsingland - Wikipedia

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    Initially, Helsingian farmers were content to confine the use of wallpaper to a single room, usually the small chamber of the "parstuga" and at the beginning of the century even this custom was a rare one. Printed wallpapers are considered to have inspired stencil based wall-painting, which was introduced during the 1830s by Jonas Wallström.

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