To mark International Day of Peace, we invite you to look closely at the colorful sail in today"s homepage photo. It"s a composite of 120 small panels painted by children from different ethnic and social backgrounds—each panel offers a message of hope for a better world. The Ship of Tolerance is part of an international outreach program created by the Kabakov Foundation that aims "to promote art as a medium for communication and cooperation between diverse cultures while nurturing the growth and development of young artists in all disciplines." Children are taught the importance of understanding others and making friends with those outside their own cultural experiences. You"re looking at an installation that was moored in Lake Zug, Switzerland.
A gentle wind fills this sail
Today in History
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Not your average sandcastle
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Anybody out there?
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Just a couple of yellow-billed hornbills
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Gunnerside, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England
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A new park with a new mission
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Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Lands End, Cornwall, England
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Great horned owl near Lake Tohopekaliga, Florida
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Paradise, found
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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
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Cable car station, Graubünden, Switzerland
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Bardenas Reales Biosphere Reserve and Natural Park, Spain
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Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia
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Bowling Ball Beach in Mendocino County, California
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Stepping stones in Tollymore Forest Park, Northern Ireland
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Sunlight sets Iceland s Eyjafjallajökull aglow
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Notes from an underground lake
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A place called ‘Peace’ in India
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International Day of the Tropics
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World Elephant Day
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Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Oktoberfest, Munich, Germany
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International Haiku Poetry Day
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Honoring the fallen
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National Park Week: Olympic National Park, Washington
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Dog days of summer
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Vietnam’s new bridge deserves a big hand
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National Park Week: Yosemite National Park, California
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Autumn comes to Old Town
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