DK Metcalf battled with Jalen Ramsey all night, only managing 6 receptions for 59 yards the last time the Hawks played the Rams on Dec. 27, 2020 in Seattle, WA. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
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FILE — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a Women’s History Month event in Washington, March. 18, 2015. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT197
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Members of artist John Grade’s team secure part of his large sculpture “Boundary” in the North Satellite Terminal at SeaTac International Airport. Monday May 10, 2021 When completed, the piece of salvaged Alaskan Yellow Cedar measures 40’ H x 85’ W x 25’ D Grade has other massive pieces in the Seattle Art Museum lobby and at MOHAI. LO Linesonly 217084
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Keira Sweeney looks up at an Allosaurus, the largest meat eater during the late Jurassic Period, featured in the Dinosaur Discovery exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, May 6, 2021. The zoo’s new exhibit features dozens of “the world’s largest and most life-like dinosaurs.” Visitors are able to learn more about the historic creatures as the dinosaurs move, breathe and roar throughout the exhibit. The exhibit was created by Dino Don Inc., the only maker of full-sized robotic dinosaurs, which are featured in zoos and museums around the world, according to the Woodland Park Zoo.
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