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How was the Windows 10 desktop background created?

The background picture for the Windows 10 desktop is not at all a product of creativity in a graphic editor. To create it, Microsoft brought in a photography studio that used a large four-screen structure, cameras, various lights, and smoke.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is the difference between a donkey and a donkey?

What is the difference between a donkey and a donkey? Absolutely nothing. The fact is that both of these names refer to the same animal, more precisely to the male donkey (the female is called a donkey). The donkey is one of the first domesticated animals. The Egyptians domesticated donkeys over 5000 years ago.

Due to their exceptional usefulness, these animals are bred all over the world. There are many varieties of donkeys. For example, in Somalia and other parts of Africa, there are wild Somali donkeys, cautious animals that live in groups of 5 to 20 individuals, feeding on dry grass and shrubs in the desert. Most of the local tribes hunt Somali donkeys for their skin and meat or catch them for sale, so today this animal is quite rare.

Several species of wild donkeys live in Asia. One of them, the Syrian donkey, which once lived in Syria and other areas of the Middle East, is now, in all likelihood, already extinct.

The donkey is adapted to life in the desert and can do without water for some time. At the time of the birth of offspring, donkeys gather in large herds, but soon break up into small groups and disperse throughout the country. Modern donkeys are descendants of the Nubian donkeys from northeast Africa, which were once found throughout the territory from the Nile to the Red Sea. But most species of wild donkeys have already been exterminated, and now people are trying to protect a few surviving species from a similar fate. In many parts of Mexico and Central America, the donkey is a common means of transportation, replacing the horse or car.

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