According to Wikipedia:

In South Korea, women give chocolate to men on February 14, and men give non-chocolate candy to women on March 14. On April 14 (Black Day), those who did not receive anything on the 14th of Feb or March go to a Chinese restaurant to eat black noodles and “mourn” their single life.

One winter evening on Mount Diablo, 3800 feet from sea level.

Specular reflection courtesy of Toyota’s 2007 Camry Hybrid.

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (aka Muni) first started service on December 28th, 1912. Today, it services around 200 million riders per year over a 46.7 square mile area with approximately 1000 buses, 200 streetcars, and 40 cable cars.

Muni’s Kirkland Division (ca. 1948) facility provides wash, repair, and storage service to approximately fifty vehicles.

One out of five people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lives below the poverty line. [Census 2000]

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This portrait of Sun Yat-sen (孫中山 / Sūn Zhōngshān) was taken from the obverse side of a circulated 50 NT coin minted in 2005. The 28 mm wide coin was first minted in 2002 by the Central Mint of China (中央造幣廠) in Taiwan and features both the Chinese and Arabic numeral 50 (五十) on the reverse side.

A cold winter day in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania …

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public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        System.out.println(“Hello world!”);
    }
}

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The Three Laws of Robotics as defined by Isaac Asimov:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.