“Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. with a short description annexed to each plate” (1849). Coloured wood engravings by J. W. Whymper (Whimper).

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Sigmund Walter Hampel (Austrian, 1868-1949).

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NEW HIGHEST SINGLE-DAY NUMBER OF RECOVERIES!

The DOH reports 58 new recoveries from bringing the country's total to 353. This made the number of recoveries surge above the number of deaths (349).

The previous record was yesterday, with 53 new recoveries.

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Fate/Grand Order Material VIII will release on May 2. Will include Servants from Xiang Yu (226) to Asclepius (249).

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Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, and Takashi Shimura (#botd) pictured watching a Noriko Sengoku relax during their meeting before shooting STRAY DOG (1949).

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➡️L’Athénienne vertueuse,1762, par Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809).
➡️Femmes grecques à la fontaine, par Papety Dominique (1815-1849).

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Henri Charles Manguin (1874-1949).
Mimosas en fleurs, 1907.

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Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) Anemones (1937), Anemones (1953) & Anemones (1949). Dufy had a sketchy relaxed style of painting & this is readily apparent in his studies of the flower. They are the essence of 1950s French style.

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The artist returned to England in 1847. He lived with the Prinseps family for 21 years after 1850. The artist gained a commission from the Houses of Parliament (1852-3). The Good Samaritan (1850), Satan (1847) & Life’s Illusions (1849).

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The Tex Avery Cat, like The Wolf, was another great Avery character that never received a name. Both with Spike and as a solo, he starred in some hilarious cartoons, his masterpiece being BAD LUCK BLACKIE (1949).

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What a great day to be talking about - four days before it opens to the public, and on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I (30 Jan 1649). Here is his son, Charles II, ruling the waves...

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Antoni Tàpies - El Foc de les Espines (The Fire of Thorns) (1949).

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Happy Birthday to Edgar Allan Poe (Jan. 19, 1809 – Oct. 7, 1849).

Poe died virtually penniless. Here he is from my "Made of Money" series, created as a reminder that our best people aren't always rewarded with wealth, and that our wealthiest people aren't always our best.

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Day 26 of is Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952). Bowen wrote many supernatural tales and some of her best are found in THE LAST BOUQUET: SOME TWILIGHT TALES (1933) and THE BISHOP OF HELL AND OTHER STORIES (1949).

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Yunosuke Ito in Kon Ichikawa’s “Human Patterns”(1949).

市川崑「人間模様」(1949)の怖い伊藤雄之助。

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“Use this color.” Concept art by Lou Bunin for Alice in Wonderland (1949).

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Pride of Burma (Amherstia nobilis). by Walter Hood Fitch for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 75 (1849). View more in : https://t.co/V81fkjto5A and on my blog for the https://t.co/xi9a9ToKz4

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Steve Hanks
(San Francisco, b. 1949).

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🎨 British Esther Borough Johnson (1867-1949).

🖼 Tea table in the garden 1925.
Impressionism.

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Airing on at 8 p.m. EST is BATTLEGROUND (1949). If you haven't seen it, watch it. Terrific ensemble cast, but notice the focus is really Marshall Thompson transformation. This is one of my top five favorite films.

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