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| ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP Near Big Sky, Montana Ann Telling Photo |
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| Scarborough Harbor Frederick William Elwell British Artist |
| View of Scarborough harbor from Castle Hill. Shows the old harbor at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, with Oliver's Mount beyond.
Fred and Mary Elwell had a particular sentimental attachment to Scarborough since they spent their honeymoon there in 1914. In 1931, 55 of Elwell's paintings were exhibited at Scarborough Public Library to honorr his election as an Associate of the Royal Academy. |
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 ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO (TOKYO) NUMBER EIGHTY-NINE |
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| Moon Pine, Ueno (Ueno sannai Tsuki no matsu) |
| We have actually seen this tree before, in plate 11, as part of a much wider panorama over Shinobazu Pond. Here it is as though the artist had moved in with a telephoto lens, peering directly through the looped branch of this curious tree. The other view was published in 4/1856, near the start of the series, before the artist had begun to use this kind of compositional contrivance. It was over a year later that he returned to the scene with a very different way of looking at it.
In Edo, there was a particular taste for naming trees that were distinguished by their age or their form. Pine trees, which tend to live long and grow in strange shapes, were the most common of these, and four other prints in this series include the name of a famous pine in the title. The name "Moon Pine" referred not only to the full round shape we see here, but also to various phases of the moon that could be discerned by looking at the tree from different angles. |
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This palm tree is a member of the coconut family, and its fruit takes 10 years to mature, looks like a Siamese coconut (2 joined together) and weighs up to 50 pounds. It is found only on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. Empty shells were washed ashore in India long before the source was known, and they were considered to have magical properties.
Can you name this palm tree and its fruit?
PASS YOUR MOUSE OVER THE QUESTION MARKS FOR THE ANSWER! |
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| GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE |
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 |  THAT I HAVE NOT READ ... BUT WOULD LIKE TO |
 | A nameless young black man wends a tortuous path from a southern town--where a local white men's club mockingly awards him a scholarship to a black college--to the streets of New York City, where everybody, black and white, left and right, man and woman, seems to have their own ideas about who he is and what purpose he can serve. Evenhandedly exposing the hypocrisies and stereotypes of all comers, Invisible Man is far more than a race novel, or even a bildungsroman*. It's the quintessential American picaresque** of the 20th century. |
*BILDUNGSROMAN--a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development; a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
 **PICARESQUE--pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero ALSO, of or relating to a type of fiction in which the hero, a rogue, goes through a series of episodic adventures. It originated in Spain in the 16th century |
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| RED SEA BREAM |
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| On a white field is a blue shield emblazoned with the image of a Native American, Massachuset. He holds a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. The arrow is pointing downward representing peace. The white star represents Massachusetts as one of the original thirteen states. Around the shield is a blue ribbon with the motto: "By the Sword We Seek Peace, but Peace Only Under Liberty". Above the shield is an arm and sword, representing the first part of the motto. This flag was adopted in 1915 and amended in 1971. | |
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| BARN IN GALLATIN COUNTY, MONTANA Ann Telling Photo |
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The product we know today came into being in 1902, but it had existed in similar forms for generations.
During the Christmas season of 1902, packaging became an important factor. It was designed with a string attached to it so it could be hung as a Christmas tree ornament. In total, there have been 37 different varieties, currently there are 22. More than 40 million packages of these are sold each year, and they are exported to 17 countries. They are turned out at the rate of 12,000 per minute, and nearly 6,000 miles of string are used on the packages. Poet-philosopher Christopher Morley wrote a poem named for them. What are they? PASS YOUR MOUSE OVER THE QUESTION MARKS FOR THE ANSWER! |
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| WILD HYACINTH Ann Telling Photo |
