Thursday, July 31, 2008

Amedeo Modigliani Seated Nude painting

Amedeo Modigliani Seated Nude paintingAmedeo Modigliani Red Nude paintingAmedeo Modigliani Landscape painting
For you," panted Sloper. "Listen, I heard you're the new Captain. When're you holding trials?"
"I'm not sure yet," said Harry, thinking privately that Sloper would be very lucky to get back on the team. "I'll let you know."
"Oh, right. I was hoping it'd be this weekend -"
"But Harry was not listening; he had just recognized the thin, slanting writing on the parchment. Leaving Sloper in mid-sentence, he hurried away with Ron and Hermione, unrolling the parchment as he went.
Dear Harry,
I would like to start our private lessons this Saturday. Kindly come along to my office at 8 P.M. I hope you are enjoying your first day back at school.

Lord Frederick Leighton Return of Persephone painting

Lord Frederick Leighton Return of Persephone paintingLord Frederick Leighton Perseus on Pegasus Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda paintingLord Frederick Leighton Perseus and Andromeda painting
Look," said Ron delightedly, gazing ar his schedule, "we've got a free period now. . . and a free period after break . . . and after lunch . . . excellent."
They returned to the common room, which was empty apart from a half dozen seventh years, including Katie Bell, the only remaining member of the original Gryffindor Quidditch team that Harry had joined in his first year.
"I thought you'd get that, well done," she called over, pointing at the Captains badge on Harry's chest. "Tell me when you call trials!"
"Don't be stupid," said Harry, "you don't need to try out, I watched you play for five years. . . ."
"You mustn't start off like that," she said warningly. "For all you know, there's someone much better than me out there. Good teams have been ruined before now because Captains just kept playing the old faces, or letting in their friends...."

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Edward Hopper Sunday painting

Edward Hopper Sunday painting
Edward Hopper Morning Sun painting
"I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo," said Ron, looking down at his bare chest.

"Harry, your eyesight really is awful," said Hermione, as she put on glasses.

   Once dressed, the fake Harrys took rucksacks and owl cages, each containing a stuffed snowy owl, from the second sack.

   "Good," said Moody, as at last seven dressed, bespectacled, and luggage-laden Harrys faced him. "The pairs will be as follows: Mundungus will be traveling with me, by broom –"

"Why'm I with you?" grunted the Harry nearest the back door.

   "Because you're the one that needs watching," growled Moody, and sure enough, his magical eye did not waver from Mundungus as he continued, "Arthur and Fred –"

Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting

Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting
Peter Paul Rubens The Judgment of Paris painting
There was a sudden, deafening roar from somewhere nearby. Harry straightened up with a jerk and smacked the top of his head on the low door frame. Pausing only to employ a few of Uncle Vernon's choicest swear words, he staggered back into the kitchen, clutching his head and staring out of the window into the back garden.

   The darkness seemed to be rippling, the air itself quivering. Then, one by one, figures began to pop into sight as their Disillusionment Charms lifted. Dominating the scene was Hagrid, wearing a helmet and goggles and sitting astride an enormous motorbike with a black sidecar attached. All around

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Edgar Degas Woman Combing Her Hair painting

Edgar Degas Woman Combing Her Hair painting
Frederic Edwin Church Autumn painting
from the exhaust: Harry felt himself slipping backwards off what little of the seat he had. Hagrid flung backward upon him, barely maintaining his grip on the handlebars – "I think we've lost 'em Harry, I think we've done it!" yelled Hagrid.

   But Harry was not convinced; Fear lapped at him as he looked left and right for pursuers he was sure would come. . . . Why had they fallen back? One of them had still had a wand. . . . It's him. . . it's the real one. . . . They had said it right after he had tried to Disarm Stan. . . .

"We're nearly there, Harry, we've nearly made it!" shouted Hagrid.

   Harry felt the bike drop a little, though the lights down on the ground still seemed remote as stars.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a well-known complication of both solid organ and bone marrow transplantation, with a prevalence estimated to be between 1% to 20% depending on the type of organ transplanted.1,2 PTLD includes a wide spectrum of prolif... ...
Chinese Medical Journal 2008;121(13):1237-1240
This study was supported by : National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 30600586LUO Yi Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China; ZHANG Ai-bin Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China; HUANG He Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China; ZHENG Shu-sen Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, ChinaCorrespondence to:

Friday, July 25, 2008

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting
Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting
ahead. And that is why in this field, I have made recommendations which I am confident will move the American economy ahead, move it firmly and soundly so that there will never be a time when the Soviet Union will be able to challenge our superiority in this field.And so we need military strength, we need economic strength, we also need the right diplomatic policies. What are they? Again, we turn to the past f firmness, but no belligerence, and by no belligerence I mean that we do not answer insult by insult. When you are proud and confident of your strength, you do not get down to the level of Mr. Anruchev and his colleagues,and that example that President Eisenhower has set, we will continue to followBut all this by itself is not enough. It's not enough for us simply to be the strongest nation militarily the strongest economically and also to

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond painting
wreckage of John F Kennedy Jnr's plane has been located, with his body still aboard. "They've got the fuselage and John Kennedy's in it," said a government source. The wreckage of the single engine Piper Saratoga plane was reportedly found during the night in about 100 feet (30 metres) of water. There was no immediate word about whether the women's bodies had been located. The discovery came after US Navy and Coast Guard spent Tuesday night scouring a site 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) southwest of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Richard Larrabee, who was overseeing the search, cancelled a round of TV interviews to go to the USS Grasp, the ship where the wreckage will be deposited after being raised from the ocean floor.

Vincent van Gogh Irises painting

Vincent van Gogh Irises painting
Wassily Kandinsky Farbstudie Quadrate painting

Traffic passes by a McDonald's restaurant in Beijing. Ordinary Chinese would be able to buy more American food products under PNTR.
BEIJING, May 25 — Permanent normal trade relations between the United States and China will mean good news for Chinese consumers: they can expect an influx of American goods at lower prices. Ordinary Chinese will be able to buy more American food products from their neighborhood groceries — citrus, meat and dairy products — as the tariffs on these goods are lowered and the import quotas are raised. For Chen Lanfen, a 51-year-old housewife who recently retired from a government research institute, this is welcome news. “My family likes to buy American goods because of their good quality. But at present their prices are too high and ordinary people cannot afford them,” she said.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Winslow Homer The Houses of Parliament painting

Winslow Homer The Houses of Parliament painting
Winslow Homer The Gulf Stream painting
Today, simply put, everything about the Internet experience generally and the dot-com phenomenon in particular is in doubt.Traditional “old-line” companies are counting their blessings for not having squandered precious resources on the so-called New Economy. We now identify those companies, by the way, in laudatory tones rather than pejorative ones: They tend to have meaningful revenues, positive cash flows and profits that don’t require footnotes to discern their value.If the phenomenon were dead, we’d just say so and get on with more important issues. But the Internet isn’t dead — even though parts of it may be dying. It’s evolving, rapidly. How companies, Old and New Economy, position themselves in the coming months to capitalize on that evolution will speak volumes about who will survive, thrive or disappear.

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting
While the Ross tour was "a complete disaster from the very beginning," according to Pollstar editor-in-chief Gary Bongiovanni, there were no other notable flops. Even if acts failed to sell out shows, they made up for the shortfall with hefty ticket prices, he said. Barbra Streisand earned the most for the least work. Her two shows each in New York and Los Angeles grossed $27 million, placing her 14th on this year's list. Her top ticket price was $2,5000. Rounding out the top 10, as measured by gross receipts, were Texas country trio the Dixie Chicks at No. 6 with $47.3 million; Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at No. 7 with $45.9 million; reunited folk veterans Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at No. 8 with $42.1 million; metal heroes Metallica at No. 9 with $42.0 million; and teen star Britney Spears at No. 10 with $40.5 million. Turner wrapped her 95-show, 88-city tour near Los Angeles on Dec. 7. She had announced in June that she would leave the road after 44 years because she di

Martin Johnson Heade A Magnolia on Red Velvet painting

Martin Johnson Heade A Magnolia on Red Velvet painting
Daniel Ridgway Knight Knight Picking Flowers painting
Mir, to be dumped in the Pacific Ocean late February, was in a safe orbit some 200 miles above earth, but Solovyov acknowledged that the hitch was one of the most serious during the station's record-breaking 14-year voyage. "It was a very serious failure, one of the most serious failures when we've lost communications," he told reporters. Solovyov said the situation aboard Mir was under control and that a crisis crew would only be dispatched if experts felt there was a critical situation on board. Cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov and Pavel Vinogradov and a reserve crew are currently completing training for urgent missions, Russian news agencies reported. Yuri Semyonov, head of the Energiya corporation that runs Mir, said the station's solar panels could be the cause of the problem. But speaking to Reuters he dismissed talk of a crisis.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Avtandil paintings

Avtandil paintings
Andy Warhol Dollar Sign 1981

Reduced salt intake can lower blood pressure for healthy and sick people, a new study says.
BOSTON, Jan. 3 — Lowering salt intake appears to significantly reduce high blood pressure whether or not a person already eats a healthy diet, researchers reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.The finding does more than reinforce the conventional wisdom that people with high blood pressure should cut their salt intake. It also suggests that even those without high blood pressure can benefit from a low-salt diet, according to the researchers at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Knight painting

Knight painting
Lady painting
The UN's newest ambassador against poverty is now ranked among the world's highest paid soccer players, in an era of rampant commercialization and spiraling professional salaries."I think if we have those salaries it's because we deserve it," said Zidane, the star of France's winning team at the 1998 World Cup, twice elected FIFA Player of the Year. "I have known difficulty and now I'm taking advantage of what is happening to me.But it's up to the haves to help the have nots."Everyone who has money and who has a heart must do something, it's undeniable," he said.Zidane has been involved privately in a number of humanitarian projects and teamed up with Ronaldo for a UNDP advertising campaign last year.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Diane Romanello paintings

Diane Romanello paintings
Diego Rivera paintings
You know, out with the old, we done beat the Puff Daddy name up enough," he said. "So probably like the first week in June we are going to have a name change ceremony." A Fresh StartIn fact, he would like former President Clinton to change his name. "Bill Clinton, I like his style," Combs said. "He is a survivor, they went at him, he is still standing. I'll probably have Elton John still sing "Still Standing" you know. You know to get it really, really spicy." The new name: P. Diddy. "And you can call me P. or you can call me Diddy, or you can call me P. Diddy, you know what I am saying?," he said. Why the name change? Puffy had too much baggage. "I just need a fresh start," Combs said. "That's all."

flower The Fruit Basket painting

flower The Fruit Basket painting
Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
, when would new nuclear plants be constructed? And would consumers benefit? A Decade in the MakingEven for heavyweight energy companies, nuclear power is the ultimate long-term investment — and gamble, given the high cost and many years needed to build government-approved plants. For instance, New York's Shoreham plant, on Long Island, was scheduled to open in 1978 at a cost of $77 million; a decade later, costs had multiplied tenfold, but the plant never opened and its owner, the Long Island Lighting Co., went out of business in 1998. Federal regulators say that even if energy companies were to begin applying for permission to build new plants immediately, it could

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Diego Rivera The Flower Seller painting

Diego Rivera The Flower Seller painting
Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet painting
Used for Two Days, Discarded Gold or platinum cards are normally targeted because of their higher credit limit, meaning the bank takes longer to realize there is a problem. And criminals spend, on average, about $2,800 per card, with large and frequent transactions typically over a two-day period before discarding the card, according to one expert. While the whole process of getting a cloned card onto the streets can take less than a day, the customer is none the wiser, since his own his credit card is in his wallet. In fact, victims may not realize they’ve been taken until they check their statements at the end of the month.By that time the criminal has moved on and the electronic and paper trails are cold. In lucky circumstances, like Mangold's, bank computers pick up on unusual account activity and contact their client sooner.

childe hassam Poppies Isles of Shoals painting

childe hassam Poppies Isles of Shoals painting
Frederic Edwin Church Landscape in the Adirondacks painting
The shipwrecks made them lean toward the idea that Herakleion and two nearby cities were engulfed by a huge, sudden earthquake and tidal wave some 1,200 years ago. Artifacts to Tour the WorldThe cities had been known only through ancient writings, such as travelogues and comedies, until Goddio's team announced its discovery about a year ago. They say they discovered the ruins in 1996.The writings recounted the city's splendor and decadence, and also referred to a temple dedicated to Heracles — or, in Latin, Hercules — the legendary son of the supreme god Zeus, from whose name the city appears to have taken its name.The writings put the founding of the city more than 2,300 years ago, before ancient Alexandria was founded in 331 B.C.

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings
Avtandil paintings
But what makes the Gakkel Ridge so fascinating to scientists is it spreads at about a twentieth of the pace of other spreading centers. And unlike other ridges, which bubble with heat as molten rock spews onto the ocean floor, Gakkel is sort of like a "big crack in the Earth," according to Henry Dick of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who first came up with the idea of studying the ridge 15 years ago.That means there may be all sorts of life down there that is very different from life near other spreading centers.The Healy will be working jointly with a German icebreaker Polarstern, and the ships will work in tandem along 500 miles of the ridge. First the ships will have to break the ice, then they will drop a rather crude-looking device dubbed unofficially as a "bed of nails." The device will be attached to a long cable, so it can be hauled back up with, researchers hope, chunks of rock from the ridge attached.And when it's all over, the mysteries of the deep should be a little less mysterious.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Claude Lorrain paintings

Claude Lorrain paintings
Claude Monet paintings
And just months ago, Afghanistan's exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah was repeatedly floated as a potential interim leader after the departure of the Taliban. He is believed to be considering returning to the country this year.Experts say monarchs can work as a unifying force, representing all the people and preventing the jockeying for power that characterizes republics.But getting rid of them seems to have few side effects either. The Italians rid themselves of the House of Savoy in 1946, and seem to have no pangs about it.Germany was united as an empire in 1871, but the kaisers lasted less than 50 years. Since World War I, Germans have shown no desire to revive the throne.And in France and the United States, the anniversary of date marking the move to republicanism is celebrated as one of the biggest holidays of the year.

Cottage painting

Cottage painting
Dancer painting
FBI has offered help in the crash investigation, but it remains to be seen if Italy will accept.At his lunchtime press briefing today, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters: "The president just moments ago was informed about the incident in Milan. I have no additional information at all for you at this time. This is a breaking story and we don't have anything else beyond that — the president has been informed.""I think you can presume that we will be — if we are not already — in touch with Italian authorities and will ascertain precisely what the facts are," he said.Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was on his way back to Italy from Bulgaria, and a crisis center is being set up.Airspace at the local Linate airport was reportedly cleared, but Milan's Malpensa international airport, further away from the city center, was not affected.

Hunting paintings

Hunting paintings
impressionist painting
What luxury entails   For those who are determined to hold an impressive wedding ceremony, the party can't be limited to just eating and drinking.   It also requires a band to play up the atmosphere, an experienced host to make the whole ceremony smooth, and numerous roses to add more romance to the party, which means extra costs of at least 6,000 yuan (US).   This is all a radical change from the pre-economic reform period of the 1970s when restaurants were rarely mentioned when talking about weddings, let alone five-star hotels or bands. Wedding banquets were mostly held at the couple's own home, and dishes were prepared by parents and close relatives.   If account is taken of the new apartment, house appliances and the honeymoon, all of which have now been included among the city's new marriage essentials, the cost of getting married is really tremendous.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Steve Hanks Forever a Mystery painting

Steve Hanks Forever a Mystery painting
Gustav Klimt The Tree of Life painting

Pet-mad Hong Kongers can now keep the memories of their dearly departed companions alive in the city's first-ever pet cemetery, media reports said. Although such burial grounds are common ...
Pet-mad Hong Kongers can now keep the memories of their dearly departed companions alive in the city's first-ever pet cemetery, media reports said. Although such burial grounds are common in other parts of the world, until now most of Hong Kong's late furry friends have been dumped in public waste-disposal centres or left in the street for refuse collectors to deal with. For between 6,000 and 12,000 Hong Kong dollars (770-1,540 US dollars) a year, the Moon Animal Memorial Garden in the territory's picturesque rural north will provide a funeral service and plot in landscaped grounds, the South China Morning Post reported.

Peter Paul Rubens Samson and Delilah painting

Peter Paul Rubens Samson and Delilah painting
Guillaume Seignac L'Abandon painting

Have you come across such stamps, which are made from 120-year-old pinewoods and are roughly the thickness of a credit card? Recently, Swiss Post launched its unusual commemorative stamp...
Have you come across such stamps, which are made from 120-year-old pinewoods and are roughly the thickness of a credit card? Recently, Swiss Post launched its unusual commemorative stamp, a square of pinewood with a face value of 5 Swiss francs (US$4).The stamps are designed by Thomas Rathgeb, a graphic artist, to celebrate Switzerland's lumber industry."Rathgeb's design focuses on the sustainability and uniqueness of this natural, living material — the structure of the wood, integrated into the contemporary design, produces a different picture on each stamp. This makes each stamp unique, just as each tree is unique," said Swiss Post.

Monday, July 14, 2008

David Hardy paintings

David Hardy paintings
Dirck Bouts paintings
Among items available on the site are versions of Samuel de Champlain's "Voyages", Jacques Marquette's account of his voyage in North America in 1673 and Theodor de Bry's late 16th century illustrations of native Indian villages."France in America" can be found on the Library of Congress site at http://international.loc.gov/intldl/ -- while the French version "La France en Amerique" is at http://gallica.bnf.fr/France-Amerique.
Of the more than 130 planets found around distant stars, a large number have highly elliptical orbits, crazy oblong shapes that have surprised theorists who try to explain the configurations with near collisions or perturbing disks of gas.
Of the more than 130 planets found around distant stars, a large number have highly elliptical orbits, crazy oblong shapes that have surprised theorists who try to explain the configurations with near collisions or perturbing disks of gas.

Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings

Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings
Benjamin Williams Leader paintings
Sit in a chair with one hand above your navel and one below so you can feel your abs moving in and out. Imagine that your belly is an elevator, and inhale deeply through your nose, expanding your middle fully; this is the "first floor." Now exhale through your mouth, pulling your navel toward your spine; this is the "fifth floor." Do five little squeezes, picturing your navel going out the back of your spine; this is the "sixth floor." Do 10 times.ContractionsSit in a chair, one hand above your navel and one below. Inhale and expand your belly, bring it back about halfway (third floor), then exhale and pull your navel in toward your spine (fifth floor). Squeeze your belly and hold for a moment, counting aloud 1. Release back to the third floor. Do 100 quick repetitions.Standing Pelvic Tilts

Sunday, July 13, 2008

painting idea

painting idea
For example, one couple needed a larger home for their growing family. They lived in a tract development where homes were the same size and approximately the same value. Creating a larger home in a neighborhood of small homes would have been a mistake financially because the most expensive home in the neighborhood usually sells at a discount. Instead of remodeling, these homeowners bought a larger home in a more affluent neighborhood. This house also needs renovations, but the neighborhood easily supports making this kind of investment.The closing: To ensure you make the right choice, weigh your decision to move or remodel carefully based on the cost, the work necessary, the location and nature of your neighborhood and surrounding homes. No matter what your decision may be, with all the information at hand, you'll make a better investment in the end.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen Eva painting
the day of founding its organization to the day of becoming the founder of the People’s Republic of China, Shanghai was always playing an important role in milking the Chinese Communist Party and mothering the birth of a brand New China, despite the old Shanghai was also the old homes of Jiang, Kong, Song, Chen Dynasty and the hotbed of the “Green Gang” and “Red Gang”.
It is said that the “Green Gang” and “Red Gang” were the backbone of Jiang Jie Shi Nationalist Party and once they even assisted Generalissimo Jiang Jie Shi and his Nationalist Army in 4.12 massacre killing hundreds and thousands of revolutionary people, but in my eyes, the notorious “Gang of four” and their historically unprecedented Cultural Revolution was multiple folds worse than these Green and Red gangs, as they have completely ruined the life of more than three generations and tarnished millions upon millions innocent souls of people.
When I was old enough to go to kindergarten, on the first day, I was told we were the luckiest generation ever in China, as we were borne in the New China and were growing up under the Red flag. However, were we the luckiest generation? No! What had actually happened to us was nothing but political campaigns after campaigns, turmoil upon turmoil.
I was told we must listen to Chairman Mao and follow the Communist Party

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings

Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings
Avtandil paintings
He threw his arms up. We were on deck at the time, and the headman of my wood cutters, lounging near by, turned upon him his heavy and glittering eyes. I looked around, and I don’t know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness. ‘And, ever since, you have been with him, of course?’ I said.
“On the contrary. It appears their intercourse had been very much broken by various causes. He had, as he informed me proudly, managed to nurse Kurtz through two illnesses (he alluded to it as you would to some risky feat), but as a rule Kurtz wandered alone, far in the depths of the forest. ‘Very often coming to this station, I had to wait days and days before he would turn up,’ he said. ‘Ah, it was worth waiting for! - sometimes.’ ‘What was he doing? exploring or what?’ I asked. ‘Oh, yes, of course’, he had discovered lots of villages, a lake, too - he did not know exactly in what direction; it was dangerous to inquire too much - but mostly his expeditions had been for ivory. ‘But he

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

childe hassam The Sonata painting

childe hassam The Sonata painting
William Bouguereau The Broken Pitcher painting
Leslie took Dick to Montreal early in May. Gilbert went with her, to help her, and make the necessary arrangements for her. He came home with the report that the Montreal surgeon whom they had consulted agreed with him that there was a good chance of Dick's restoration.
"Very comforting," was Miss Cornelia's sarcastic comment.
Anne only sighed. Leslie had been very distant at their parting.
But she had promised to write. Ten days after Gilbert's return the letter came. Leslie wrote that the operation had been successfully performed and that Dick was making a good recovery.
"What does she mean by `successfully?'" asked Anne. "Does she mean that Dick's memory is really restored?"
"Not likely--since she says nothing of it," said Gilbert. "She uses the

Vladimir Volegov Beauty painting

Vladimir Volegov Beauty painting
Eric Wallis Undressing painting
just looked him over a bit, and then I said calmly, `The only brother I ever had, Mr. Fiske, was buried fifteen years ago, and I haven't adopted any since. As for being a Christian, I was that, I hope and believe, when you were crawling about the floor in petticoats.' That squelched him, believe me. Mind you, Anne dearie, I'm not down on all evangelists. We've had some real fine, earnest men, who did a lot of good and made the old sinners squirm. But this Fiske-man wasn't one of them. I had a good laugh all to myself one evening. Fiske had asked all who were Christians to stand up. I didn't, believe me! I never had any use for that sort of thing. But most of them did, and then he asked all who wanted to be Christians to stand up. Nobody stirred for a spell, so Fiske started up a hymn at the top of his voice. Just in front of me poor little Ikey Baker was sitting in the Millison pew. He was a home boy, ten years old, and Millison just about worked him to death. The poor little creature was always so tired he fell asleep right off whenever he went to church or anywhere he could sit still for a few minutes. He'd been sleeping all through the meeting, and I was thankful to see the poor child getting a rest, believe me. Well, when

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting

Andrew Atroshenko Bold Expression painting
Guan zeju gzj26 painting
off, so I reckon their troubles were all over. It's real nice that that's the way in books anyhow, isn't it, even if 'tistn't so anywhere else?"
"I never read novels," said Miss Cornelia. "Did you hear how Geordie Russell was today, Captain Jim?"
"Yes, I called in on my way home to see him. He's getting round all right--but stewing in a broth of trouble, as usual, poor man.
'Course he brews up most of it for himself, but I reckon that don't make it any easier to bear."
"He's an awful pessimist," said Miss Cornelia.
"Well, no, he ain't a pessimist exactly, Cornelia. He only jest never finds anything that suits him."
"And isn't that a pessimist?"
"No, no. A pessimist is one who never expects to find anything to

Louis Aston Knight paintings

Louis Aston Knight paintings
Leon Bazile Perrault paintings
the gate, and looked steadily at them, with an expression that hardly attained to interest, but did not descend to curiosity. It seemed to Anne, for a fleeting moment, that there was even a veiled hint of hostility in it. But it was the girl's beauty which made Anne give a little gasp--a beauty so marked that it must have attracted attention anywhere. She was hatless, but heavy braids of burnished hair, the hue of ripe wheat, were twisted about her head like a coronet; her eyes were blue and star-like; her figure, in its plain print gown, was magnificent; and her lips were as crimson as the bunch of blood-red poppies she wore at her belt.
"Gilbert, who is the girl we have just passed?" asked Anne, in a low voice.
"I didn't notice any girl," said Gilbert, who had eyes only for his bride.
"She was standing by that gate--no, don't look back. She is still watching us. I never saw such a beautiful face."
"I don't remember seeing any very handsome girls while I was here. There are some pretty girls up at the Glen, but I hardly think they could be called beautiful."

Edward Hopper paintings

Edward Hopper paintings
Edgar Degas paintings
There was more excitement in the air of Green Gables than there had ever been before in all its history. Even Marilla was so excited that she couldn't help showing it--which was little short of being phenomenal.
"There's never been a wedding in this house," she said, half apologetically, to Mrs. Rachel Lynde. "When I was a child I heard an old minister say that a house was not a real home until it had been consecrated by a birth, a wedding and a death. We've had deaths here--my father and mother died here as well as Matthew; and we've even had a birth here. Long ago, just after we moved into this house, we had a married hired man for a little while, and his wife had a baby here. But there's never been a wedding before. It does seem so strange to think of Anne being married. In a way she just seems to me the little girl Matthew brought home here fourteen years ago. I can't realize that she's grown up. I shall never forget what I felt when I saw Matthew bringing in a girl. I wonder what became of the boy we would have got if there hadn't been a mistake. I wonder what his fate was."

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings
Eugene de Blaas paintings
which floats, like a jewel, Abegweit, whose softer, sweeter Indian name has long been forsaken for the more prosaic one of Prince Edward Island.
Diana Wright, three years older than when we last saw her, had grown somewhat matronly in the intervening time. But her eyes were as black and brilliant, her cheeks as rosy, and her dimples as enchanting, as in the long-ago days when she and Anne Shirley had vowed eternal friendship in the garden at Orchard Slope. In her arms she held a small, sleeping, black-curled creature, who for two happy years had been known to the world of Avonlea as "Small Anne Cordelia." Avonlea folks knew why Diana had called her Anne, of course, but Avonlea folks were puzzled by the Cordelia. There had never been a Cordelia in the Wright or Barry connections. Mrs. Harmon Andrews said she supposed Diana had found the name in some trashy novel, and wondered that Fred hadn't more sense than to allow it. But Diana and Anne smiled at each other.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Claude Monet Train In The Country painting

Claude Monet Train In The Country painting
Claude Monet Sunset painting
would never have dreamed of writing a sonnet to her eyebrows. But then, Gilbert could see a joke. She had once told Roy a funny story -- and he had not seen the point of it. She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run. But who could expect a melancholy, inscrutable hero to see the humorous side of things? It would be flatly unreasonable. I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June," said Anne, as she came through the spice and bloom of the twilit orchard to the front door steps, where Marilla and Mrs. Rachel were sitting, talking over Mrs. Samson Coates' funeral, which they had attended that day. Dora sat between them, diligently studying her lessons; but Davy was sitting tailor-fashion on the grass, looking as gloomy and depressed as his single dimple would let him.
"You'd get tired of it," said Marilla, with a sigh.
"I daresay; but just now I feel that it would take me a long time to get tired of it, if it were all as charming as today. Everything loves June. Davy-boy

Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting

Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting
Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting
as Byrney as her nose. But in the end it will be all right."
"You'll have to give up a good many things you've always had, when you marry Mr. Blake, Phil."
"But I'll have HIM. I won't miss the other things. We're to be married a year from next June. Jo graduates from St. Columbia this spring, you know. Then he's going to take a little mission church down on Patterson Street in the slums. Fancy me in the slums! But I'd go there or to Greenland's icy mountains with him."
"And this is the girl who would NEVER marry a man who wasn't rich," commented Anne to a young pine tree.
"Oh, don't cast up the follies of my youth to me. I shall be poor as gaily as I've been rich. You'll see. I'm going to learn how to cook and make over dresses. I've learned how to market since I've lived at Patty's Place; and once I taught a Sunday School class for a whole summer. Aunt Jamesina says I'll ruin Jo's career if I marry him. But I won't. I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better -- the knack of making people

Claude Monet La Japonaise painting

Claude Monet La Japonaise painting
Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
fifteen already, and everybody's else's promised, so there's no use in the rest of us starting to collect, too. I tell you the Boulters are great business people."
"Were you a good boy at Mrs. Boulter's?" asked Marilla severely.
"Yes; but say, Marilla, I'm tired of being good."
"You'd get tired of being bad much sooner, Davy-boy," said Anne.
"Well, it'd be fun while it lasted, wouldn't it?" persisted Davy. "I could be sorry for it afterwards, couldn't I?"
"Being sorry wouldn't do away with the consequences of being bad, Davy. Don't you remember the Sunday last summer when you ran away from Sunday School? You told me then that being bad wasn't worth while. What were you and Milty doing today?"
"Oh, we fished and chased the cat, and hunted for eggs, and yelled at the echo. There's

Friday, July 4, 2008

Albert Bierstadt Westphalian Landscape painting

Albert Bierstadt Westphalian Landscape painting
Albert Bierstadt California Coast painting
Well, new experiences are broadening. Come along, and you'll be able to sympathize with all poor souls who have to play gooseberry often. But where are all the victims?"
"Oh, I was tired of them all and simply couldn't be bothered with any of them today. Besides, I've been feeling a little blue -- just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. I wrote Alec and Alonzo last week. I put the letters into envelopes and addressed them, but I didn't seal them up. That evening something funny happened. That is, Alec would think it funny, but Alonzo wouldn't be likely to. I was in a hurry, so I snatched Alec's letter -- as I thought -- out of the envelope and scribbled down a postscript. Then I mailed both letters. I got Alonzo's reply this morning. Girls, I had put that postscript to his letter and he was furious. Of course he'll get over it -- and I don't care if he doesn't -- but it spoiled my day. So I thought I'd come to you darlings to get cheered up. After the football season opens I won't have any spare Saturday afternoons. I adore football. I've got the most gorgeous cap and sweater striped in Redmond colors to wear to the games. To be sure, a little way off I'll look like a walking barber's pole. Do you know that that Gilbert of yours has been elected Captain of the Freshman football team?"

Andrew Atroshenko The Fan Dancer painting

Andrew Atroshenko The Fan Dancer painting
Howard Behrens Rue de St. Paul painting
Marilla worries a lot about you, but I tell her you've got a lot more sense than I ever thought you would have at one time, and that you'll be all right."
Davy's letter plunged into a grievance at the start.
"Dear anne, please write and tell marilla not to tie me to the rale of the bridge when I go fishing the boys make fun of me when she does. Its awful lonesome here without you but grate fun in school. Jane andrews is crosser than you. I scared mrs. lynde with a jacky lantern last nite. She was offel mad and she was mad cause I chased her old rooster round the yard till he fell down ded. I didn't mean to make him fall down ded. What made him die, anne, I want to know. mrs. lynde threw him into the pig pen she mite of sold him to mr. blair. mr. blair is giving 50 sense apeace for good ded roosters now. I herd mrs. lynde asking the minister to pray for her. What did she do that was so bad, anne, I want to know. I've got a kite with a magnificent tail, anne. Milty bolter

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Franz Marc paintings

Franz Marc paintings
Fabian Perez paintings
mournfully, "but so was Dora's," he added in a tone which indicated that there was yet balm in Gilead.
Anne came running down from the west gable.
"Oh, Gilbert, have you heard the news? Mr. Levi Boulter's old house was struck and burned to the ground. It seems to me that I'm dreadfully wicked to feel glad over that, when so much damage has been done. Mr. Boulter says he believes the A.V.I.S. magicked up that storm on purpose."
"Well, one thing is certain," said Gilbert, laughing, "`Observer' has made Uncle Abe's reputation as a weather prophet. `Uncle Abe's storm' will go down in local history. It is a most extraordinary coincidence that it should have come on the very day we selected. I actually have a half guilty feeling, as if I really had `magicked' it up. We may as well rejoice over the old house being removed, for there's not much to rejoice over where our young trees are concerned. Not ten of them have escaped."
"Ah, well, we'll just have to plant them over again next spring," said Anne philosophically. "

Vittore Carpaccio paintings

Vittore Carpaccio paintings
Warren Kimble paintings
broken off. I don't know what the trouble was but it must have been something terrible, for he went away to the States and never come home since."
"Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things," said Anne, with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered. "Marilla, please don't say anything about my being at Miss Lavendar's to Mrs. Lynde. She'd be sure to ask a hundred questions and somehow I wouldn't like it. . .nor Miss Lavendar either if she knew, I feel sure."
"I daresay Rachel would be curious," admitted Marilla, "though she hasn't as much time as she used to have for looking after other people's affairs. She's tied home now on account of Thomas; and she's feeling pretty downhearted, for I think she's beginning to lose hope of his

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

contemporary abstract painting

contemporary abstract painting
painting idea
painted "Try Purple Pills" all over it.
The committee waited on Judson Parker the next afternoon. Anne pleaded eloquently against his nefarious design and Jane and Diana supported her morally and valiantly. Judson was sleek, suave, flattering; paid them several compliments of the delicacy of sunflowers; felt real bad to refuse such charming young ladies . . .but business was business; couldn't afford to let sentiment stand in the way these hard times.
"But I'll tell what I will do," he said, with a twinkle in his light, full eyes. "I'll tell the agent he must use only handsome, tasty colors. . .red and yellow and so on. I'll tell him he mustn't paint the ads blue on any account."
The vanquished committee retired, thinking things not lawful to be uttered.
"We have done all we can do and must simply trust the rest to Providence," said Janeunconscious imitation of Mrs. Lynde's tone and manner.
"I wonder if Mr. Allan could do anything," reflected Diana.
Anne shook her head.

Famous painting

Famous painting
The Improvers did know, all too well. Even the least imaginative among them could picture the grotesque effect of half a mile of board fence adorned with such advertisements. All thought of church and school grounds vanished before this new danger. Parliamentary rules and regulations were forgotten, and Anne, in despair, gave up trying to keep minutes at all. Everybody talked at once and fearful was the hubbub.
"Oh, let us keep calm," implored Anne, who was the most excited of them all, "and try to think of some way of preventing him."
"I don't know how you're going to prevent him," exclaimed Jane bitterly. "Everybody knows what Judson Parker is. He'd do anything for money. He hasn't a spark of public spirit or any sense of the beautiful."
The prospect looked rather unpromising. Judson Parker and his sister were the only Parkers in

Howard Behrens Lake Como Landing painting

Howard Behrens Lake Como Landing painting
Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze painting
.a caterpillar, a furry, squirming caterpillar. Marilla saw and clutched at him but she was too late. Davy dropped the caterpillar down Lauretta's neck.
Right into the middle of Mr. Allan's prayer burst a series of piercing shrieks. The minister stopped appalled and opened his eyes. Every head in the congregation flew up. Lauretta White was dancing up and down in her pew, clutching frantically at the back of her dress.
"Ow. . .mommer. . .mommer. . .ow. . .take it off. . .ow. . .get it out. . .ow. . .that bad boy put it down my neck. . .ow. . .mommer. . .it's going further down. . .ow. . .ow. . .ow...."
Mrs. White rose and with a set face carried the hysterical, writhing Lauretta out of church. Her shrieks died away in the distance and Mr. Allan proceeded with the service. But everybody felt that it

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Georgia O'Keeffe paintings

Georgia O'Keeffe paintings
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings
Anne Shirley, are you dreaming?"
"I only wish I were. There's no dream about it, though it's very like a nightmare. And Mr. Harrison's cow is in Charlottetown by this time. Oh, Marilla, I thought I'd finished getting into scrapes, and here I am in the very worst one I ever was in in my life. What can I do?"
"Do? There's nothing to do, child, except go and see Mr. Harrison about it. We can offer him our Jersey in exchange if he doesn't want to take the money. She is just as good as his."
"I'm sure he'll be awfully cross and disagreeable about it, though," moaned Anne.
"I daresay he will. He seems to be an irritable sort of a man. I'll go and explain to him if you like."
"No, indeed, I'm not as mean as that," exclaimed Anne. "This is all my fault and I'm certainly not going to let you take my punishment. I'll go myself and I'll go at once. The sooner it's over the better, for it will