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1850: The Ninth Wave
Ivan Aivazovsky: The Ninth Wave (1850) The title is a reference to a traditional belief among sailors that waves grow larger and larger in a sequence up to the ninth wave—the largest—and then the sequence begins again.
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Tagged 19th Century, Armenia, Ivan Aivazovsky, Painting, Russia, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, The Ocean
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1956: I’m Putting My Queer Shoulder to the Wheel
America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Allen Ginsberg, Books, China, IWW, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, LGBTQ, Poetry, Russia, Sacco & Vanzetti, Scottsboro Boys, Socialism & Communism, Tom Mooney, USA, William S. Burroughs
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2015: Moon and Sea
George Dmitriev: Moon and Sea (c. 2015)
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Tagged 21st Century, Art, George Dmitriev, Painting, Russia, Seascapes, The Ocean
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1895 & 1901: Two Angels
Carlos Schwabe: Angel of Hope (1895) Mikhail Vasilevich Nesterov: The Angel of Sorrow (1900-1901)
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Angels, Art, Carlos Schwabe, Mikhail Vasilevich Nesterov, Painting, Russia, Switzerland
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1933: Osip Mandlestam Writes his Last Poem
And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry tree. It was all leaflife and starshower, unerring, self-shattering … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Christian Wiman, Joseph Stalin, Osip Mandlestam, Poetry, Russia, Soviet Union
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