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Tag Archives: Animals
1871: Wasp in a Wig
In 1870, illustrator John Tenniel wrote to Lewis Carroll suggesting that he delete an episode from Through the Looking-Glass: Don’t think me brutal, but I am bound to say that the ‘wasp’ chapter doesn’t interest me in the least, & … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 1970's, 19th Century, Alice, Animals, Art, Books, Great Britain, Illustation, Ilustration, Insects, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, Poetry, Ralph Steadman, Wasps, Wigs
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1894: Swans
Józef Pankiewicz: Nocturne: Swans in the Saxon Garden in Warsaw by Night (1894)
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Tagged 1890's, 1900's, Animals, Art, Birds, Józef Pankiewicz, Poland, Swans, Water
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1773: An Extraordinary Animal
In his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell famously recounts his travels with Samuel Johnson in the highlands and western islands of Scotland. The year was 1773; Johnson was in his mid-sixties. In an 1885 edition of … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Animals, Art, Australia, Books, George Stubbs, Great Britain, James Boswell, Kangaroos, Mammals, Painting, Samuel Johnson, Scotland
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1357: Fruit
In passynge be the lond of CATHAYE toward the higℏ ynde & toward BACHARYE, men passen be a kyngdom þat men clepen CALDILHE, þat is a fuƚƚ fair contre. And þere growetℏ a maner of fruyt as þougℏ it weren … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, Animals, Books, Chaldia, Food and Drink, Great Britain, John Mandeville, Oddities, Plants
2017: How Dogs Vote
African wild dogs vote by sneezing: African wild dogs exhibit dominant-directed group living and take part in stereotyped social rallies: high energy greeting ceremonies that occur before collective movements. Not all rallies result in collective movements, for reasons that are … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Africa, Animals, Botswana, Democracy, Dogs, Mammals
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1795: Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading!
From Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen: ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen, volume 4 (1795): Twenty-four different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, David Hindley, Germany, Great Britain, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Music
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1936: Then It Will Be Over
Here we are, alone again. It’s all so slow, so heavy, so sad … I’ll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They’ve talked. They haven’t said much. They’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Adam Stennett, Animals, Art, Books, Death, France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mammals, Medicine, Mice, Novels, Painting, USA, Writing
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