in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important discoveries in the history of paleoanthropology.

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Buxton Pavillion Gardens c1908,

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Inferno, 1908, by Franz von Stuck

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Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert, 1817 – 1908, French academic painter, Mona Luccia

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Illustrations from Peter Newell's The Hole Book, 1908, a story about Tom Potts who shoots an unstoppable bullet that tunnels through both the story-world and the physical book itself: https://t.co/oNgGai0g2k

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➤ “Quien ama a su madre, jamás será perverso” - Alfred Musset
➤ “Madre e hijo en la playa”, Joaquín Sorolla, 1908, colección privada,
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➤ “Viaducto de L'Estaque”, Georges Braque, 1908, © (izq.)
➤ “El Embalse, Horta de Ebro”, Pablo Picasso, 1909 © (der.)

➤ Abro mini🧶

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➤ “Barcos en Martigues”, Raoul Dufy, 1908,
➤ “No sigo ningún sistema. Las reglas son sólo apoyos a ser echados a un lado cuando llega la hora de la creación” - Raoul Dufy
🧶 /FIN

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“Be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.”
Oberon, Act 2, Sc 1, AMND
Img: Arthur Rackham, 1908, detail.

A leviathan is a sea monster, originally referred to in the Hebrew bible. In Rackham’s time it was thought of as a dragon/crocodile hybrid.

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Una pausa per gli occhi e per la mente, uno spazio di pura, semplice e rilassante armonia cromatica.

Qui, Monet (chi altro?):

- 1880,
- 1908,
- 1899,
- 1897,

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https://t.co/HM0LLlrsga Providence is currently booking available appointments for upcoming Providence COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics for Providence residents 75 or older & residents 65+ who live in the hardest-hit neighborhoods comprised of zip codes 02907, 02908, 02909

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In Peasants' War, 1901–1908, Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945) addresses the great German Peasants' War of 1524-25. Aimed at the abolition of serfdom and compulsory labor, it failed because of the brutal repression exerted by the aristocracy, who slaughtered...

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daily kirby it’s hard to judge if the sizing on a sweater is right when it’s only partially done and also a different size than you -n-

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in 1908, Boule presented his study on the specimen known as the La Chapelle Neanderthal to Académie des Sciences. He argued that Neanderthals were a separate, extinct species of human relative.

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Sunset, 1908, Arkhip Kuindzhi

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Medusa, 1892 & 1908, by Franz von Stuck

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Vrouw met zwarte hoed, 1908, Felix Valloton

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17 septembre 1908, meurt soudainement à 56 ans, Henri Julien, peintre et pionnier de la québécois. Dessinateur pour différents journaux et illustrateur, il s'adonne à la peinture à partir de 1900, son aquarelle la plus célèbre reste la "Chasse-galerie".

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