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1858: The Austria
Josef Püttner: Sinking of the Emigrant Ship “Austria” on 13th September 1858 (1858)
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1871: The Burning Ship
Albert Bierstadt: The Burning Ship (ca 1871)
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1900: Exploding Ship
Ivan Aivazovsky: Exploding Ship (1900). The painting is unfinished; Aivazovsky was painting it the day he died.
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1917: Flamingos
Sydney Long: Flamingos (1917)
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1924: Queen of the Clouds
Otto Kuhler: Queen of the Clouds (1924)
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1912: Woudster Road near Oranjewoud
Jan Mankes: Woudster Road near Oranjewoud (1912)
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1838: Gothic
Hubertus van Hove: A Couple in Front of a Gothic Building (1838)
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15 mya: Oecophylla
Up to hundreds of weaver ants…line up side by side in militarily precise rows. They grip the edge of one leaf with the claws and pads of their hindlegs and the edge of the other with their jaws and … Continue reading
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1965: It Was Always Saturday
He was Walt. He owned a Jaguar XXB sports ship with a flat-out velocity of fifteen thousand miles an hour. His shirts came from Italy and his shoes were made in England. As he opened his eyes he looked for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Books, Digital Art, Drugs, Philip K. Dick, Science Fiction, Steve Young, USA
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1945: With These Blows of My Hammer
On September 14, 1945, trade unionist Paul Bebert, a former concentration camp prisoner, destroyed the swastikas that Nazis has affixed to union offices in Hamburg. He read this statement to the crowd: With these blows of my hammer I will … Continue reading
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