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Today's Classic:
.時鳥我身ばかりに降雨か
hototogisu waga mi bakari ni furu ame ka
cuckoo--
is this rain falling
only on me?
Kobayashi Issa
Image (ukiyo-e): 'Cuckoo Flying in the Rain' (ca.1835), Utagawa Hiroshige
@DonatoMarinelli @CasulaGiuliana @PreziosaGemma @672Cilia @giusyoni @albaniangirl0 @angygel22 @Ile2S @GiovannaDiTroia @DonatellaNicit2 @luciarizzo64 🙏🏻Donato👏🏼e per la #Buonanotte x te/voi ...
“Di tutte le stelle tu sei la più bella, stella della sera.”
(Saffo)
Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835)
“La morte di Saffo” 1801
Museo Baron Gérard, Bayeux
I've heard the phrase 'the hills have eyes', but I've never heard 'the ground has teeth' before 🤔
Edward Lear kangaroo from 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', v.1 (1835)
@OfficialZSL #library #rarebooks #kangaroo #Australia
MOONBATS. The pejorative expression comes from the Great Moon Hoax (1835) in which U.S scientists 'discovered' human-like creatures on the moon: "Unlike earth-bound humans, these creatures ... had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs."
Seishū Hanaoka (1760-1835), a Japanese surgeon, developed a herbal concoction he called tsusensan, which allowed him to remove a breast tumour from a patient on October 13, 1804. The Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists have a Datura flower in their emblem in honour of this.
Deutschlands Vögel in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (1835) https://t.co/1NUeBF1yU5 @BioDivLibrary
Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835) is probaly best known for his psychological Gothic Novel 'Confessions of a Justified Sinner' (1824) inter alia, but he also produced some great ghost stories - the revenge tale 'Mary Burnet' is regarded as one of the finest in the 19c.
Look at that face! Look at those EARS! Brown Long-eared #Bat (Plecotus auritus) (c1835): https://t.co/W5zPxoucWZ #UnexpectedlyCute #BatWeek
Vi è un'energia immensa nei cieli di questi acquerelli di John Constable (1834-1835).
La potenza della natura e il potenziale del talento.
Caspar David Friedrich's "Sea Shore in Moonlight" (c.1835) @KunsthalleHH #art #twitart
Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)
Musica: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano
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Snowy Heron (1835)
John James Audubon
more works by this artist:
http://t.co/iOBY7RkHqJ …
#art