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Electric/Water type Regional variants for Tympole, Palpitoad, and Seismitoad, based on electric plugs, headphones, whack-a-mole arcade machines, and Pipa pipa (Surinam toad)

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2020-06-30

Hi I’m Anaïs, a Dutch artist and illustrator with Surinamese and Indian roots. I love painting portraits using earthy toned, minimal colour palettes.

❤️My Instagram: https://t.co/T1sAesBuDQ

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2020-06-27

In 1699, naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects: https://t.co/BFfM36jY9E. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry via

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2020-06-25

In 1699, Maria Sibylla Merion sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname to study the life cycle of tropical insects. Here’s her watercolor of an Achilles morpho butterfly on a West Indian cherry from an exhibition at . theme today:

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2020-06-25

I ❤️ her works - I got this book for my daughter sometime back. Everytime I open it my jaws drop at the drama she created in those images like this “Shoreline Purslane and Suriname Toad”

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2020-06-22

The blue and white china bowl is typical of a Dutch still life of this period, while the blue-backed manakin is a native of Surinam.

Herolt was the eldest daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them (more)...

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2020-06-10

it would not be necessary to bring wine to Surinam; rather it would be possible to bring wine from there back to Holland, for the grapes can be harvested more than once a year’.

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2020-06-09

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🎼 I simply remember (a few of) his favorite things & then I don’t feel so sad 🎶

1.Vogelgids voor Suriname, 1940
Jan Joost ter Pelkwijk (1914-42)
https://t.co/Yb60tAByAS
2.Miriam Makeba
https://t.co/BJOO02Sgqe
3.Vlinders & klaprozen, 1889
Vincent van Gogh

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2020-06-09

It been a long time since I used this app. Ahhh meet my most loved daughter: Suriname (need to give her a human name u_u)

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2020-05-28

🦋 Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium.
Amsterdam: Voor den auteur, als ook by G. Valck,[1705].
https://t.co/fifeGO2VNf

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2020-05-06

3/3 Agneta Block was a patron of naturalist/artist Maria Sibylla Merian, who recorded this pineapple w/ exciting cockroaches in her Insects of Surinam, 1705.

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2020-04-22

Louise von Panhuys (1763-1844): Germanic botanical artist and landscape painter. She went to Surinam and created volumes of botanical specimens; mainly, she painted watercolours of plant specimens, with attention to scientific accuracy.

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2020-04-22

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Insects de Surinam, 1726

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
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2020-04-19

Johanna Herolt (1668-1723): Germanic botanical artist born into a prominent family of Science & Art. In 1691, she moved to Amsterdam, where she set up a studio painting flowers & botanical subjects. In 1711, she moved to Surinam; paintings various flora there.

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2020-04-18

This exhibit features some of our most beautifully illustrated rare books, such as Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705).

https://t.co/cpCeke7O85

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2020-04-18

Day 10 of 'Food & drink'

's 1705 copy of ‘Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium’ by Maria Sibylla Merian illustrates the life cycle of insects and includes the plants that would be a source of food to the species. Her favourite was the pineapple.

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2020-04-10

2/2 Pineapple & cockroaches, from The Insects of Suriname, 1719 edition. Brought to you by traveler, naturalist, & artist Maria Sibylla Merian.

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2020-04-02

Born today in 1647, botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian took an early interest in She retained indigenous names for the not-yet-described species she found in Suriname and performed controlled laboratory experiments to investigate caterpillars' plant preferences.

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2020-04-03

Engravings from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705) by naturalist and scientific illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian.

Merian was born 1647. Further details about her remarkable life: https://t.co/dvqS0lc41j

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2020-04-02

2/2 Life cycle of the Menelaus Blue Morpho butterfly, beautifully documented by Maria Sibylla Merian for her book on the insects of Surinam. Today is her birthday.

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2020-04-02