Gustav Klimt The Beethoven Frieze painting

Gustav Klimt The Beethoven Frieze paintingGustav Klimt Schloss Kammer Am Attersee II painting
Well, as I'm not invited to any parties," said Ron, getting to his feet again, "I think I'll go to bed."
He stomped off toward the door to the boys' dormitories, leaving Harry and Hermione staring after him.
"Harry?" said the new Chaser, Demelza Robins, appearing suddenly at his shoulder. "I've got a message for you."
"From Professor Slughorn?" asked Harry, sitting up hopefully.
"No ... from Professor Snape," said Demelza. Harry's heart sank. "He says you're to come to his office at half past eight tonight to do your detention — er — no matter how many party invitations you've received. And he wanted you to know you'll be sorting out rotten flobberworms from good ones, to use in Potions and — and he says there's no need to bring protective gloves."

Steve Hanks Reflecting painting

Steve Hanks Reflecting paintingGuan zeju Reflecting painting
"Very good. Personally, I am inclined to think that she used a love potion. I am sure it would have seemed more romantic to her, and I do not think it would have been very difficult, some hot day, when Riddle was riding alone, to persuade him to take a drink of water. In any case, within a few months of the scene we have just witnessed, the village of Little Hangleton enjoyed a tremendous scandal. You can imagine the gossip it caused when the squire's son ran off with the tramp's daughter, Merope."
"But the villagers' shock was nothing to Marvolo's. He returned from Azkaban, expecting to find his daughter dutifully awaiting his return with a hot meal ready on his table. Instead, he found a clear inch of dust and her note of farewell, explaining what she had done."

John Collier The Water Nymph painting

John Collier The Water Nymph paintingJohn Collier Spring painting
Merope shook her head frantically, pressing herself into the wall, apparently unable to speak.
"But I got him, Father!" cackled Morfin. "I got him as he went by and he didn't look so pretty with hives all over him, did he, Merope?"
"You disgusting little Squib, you filthy little blood traitor!" roared Gaunt, losing control, and his hands closed around his daughter's throat.
Both Harry and Ogden yelled "No!" at the same time; Ogden raised his wand and cried, "Relaskio!"
Gaunt was thrown backward, away from his daughter; he tripped over a chair and fell flat on his back. With a roar of rage, Morfin leapt out of his chair and ran at Ogden, brandishing his bloody knife and firing hexes indiscriminately from his wand.
Ogden ran for his life. Dumbledore indicated that they ought to follow and Harry obeyed, Merope's screams echoing in his ears.

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Necklace painting

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait with Necklace paintingFrida Kahlo Self Portrait with Monkeys paintingFrida Kahlo Self Portrait with Cropped Hair painting
Oh... er... no, I haven't got quite that much," said Hermione, walking on. "And... what about this lovely... um... skull?"
"Sixteen Galleons."
"So it's for sale, then? It isn't being... kept for anyone?"
Mr. Borgin squinted at her. Harry had the nasty feeling he knew exactly what Hermione was up to. Apparently Hermione felt she had been rumbled too because she suddenly threw caution to the winds.
"The thing is, that... er... boy who was in here just now, Draco Malfoy, well, he's a friend of mine, and I want to get him a birthday present, but if he's already reserved anything, I obviously don't want to get him the same thing, so... um..."
It was a pretty lame story in Harry's opinion, and apparently Borgin thought so too.
"Out," he said sharply. "Get out!"
Hermione did not wait to be asked twice, but hurried to the door with Borgin at her heels. As the bell tinkled again, Borgin slammed the door behind her and put up the closed sign.

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting

Gustav Klimt two girls with an oleander paintingGustav Klimt Fir Forest paintingRaphael Deposition of Christ painting
It doesn't matter," said Harry impatiently. "Just hurry!"
But Knockturn Alley, the side street devoted to the Dark Arts, looked completely deserted. They peered into windows as they passed, but none of the shops seemed to have any customers at all. Harry supposed it was a bit of a giveaway in these dangerous and suspicious times to buy Dark artifacts... or at least, to be seen buying them.
Hermione gave his arm a hard pinch.
"Ouch!"
"Shh! Look! He's in there!" she breathed in Harry's ear.
They had drawn level with the only shop in Knockturn Alley that Harry had ever visited, Borgin and Burkes, which sold a wide variety of sinister objects. There in the midst of the cases full of skulls and old bottles stood Draco Malfoy with his back to them, just visible beyond the very same large black cabinet in which Harry had once hidden to avoid Malfoy and his father. Judging by the movements of Malfoy's hands, he was talking animatedly. The proprietor of the shop, Mr. Borgin, an oily-haired, stooping man, stood facing Malfoy. He was wearing a curious expression of mingled resentment and fear.

Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting

Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting
Edgar Degas Woman Combing Her Hair painting
"Oh, Aberforth is just the tip of the dung heap," laughs Skeeter. "No, no, I'm talking about much worse than a brother with a fondness for fiddling about with goats, worse even than the Muggle-maiming father – Dumbledore couldn't keep either of them quiet anyway, they were both charged by the Wizengamot. No, it's the mother and the sister that intrigued me, and a little digging uncovered a

nest of nastiness – but, as I say, you'll have to wait for Chapters nine to twelve for full details. All I can say now is, it's no wonder Dumbledore never talked about how his nose got broken."

Family skeletons notwithstanding, does Skeeter deny

Edmund Blair Leighton The End of The Song painting

Edmund Blair Leighton The End of The Song painting
Frank Dicksee Romeo and Juliet painting
Harry ripped open the paper and found page thirteen. The article was topped with a picture showing another familiar face: a woman wearing jeweled glasses with elaborately curled blonde hair, her teeth bared in what was clearly supposed to be a winning smile, wiggling her fingers up at him. Doing his best to ignore this nauseating image, Harry read on.

In person, Rita Skeeter is much warmer and softer than her famously ferocious quill-portraits might suggest. Greeting me in the hallway of her cozy H, she leads me straight into the kitchen for a cup of tea, a slice of pound cake and, it goes without saying, a steaming vat of freshest gossip.

"Well, of course, Dumbledore is a biographer's dream," says Skeeter. "Such a long, full eI'm sure my book will be the first of very, very many."

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
That's what should concern us, not the history of ten or fifteen or twenty years ago, but are we doing enough in these areas? What are freedom's chances in those areas. By 1965, 1970, will there be other Cubas in Latin America? Will Guinea and Ghana, which have now voted with the Communists Ghana, which have now voted with the Communists frequently as newly independently countries of Africa, will there be others? Will the Congo government? Will other countries? Are we doing enough in that area? And what about Asia? Is India going to win the economic struggle, or is China going to win it? Who will dominate Asia in the next five or ten years: Communism, the Chinese, or will freedom? The question which we have to decide as Americans: are we doing enough today? Is our strength and prestige rising? Do people want to be identified with us? Do they want to follow the United States' leadership? I don't think they do enough, and that's what concerns me.

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting
Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting
has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend

Claude Monet The Seine At Argenteuil painting

Claude Monet The Seine At Argenteuil painting
Claude Monet The Picnic painting
Gandhi's Assassination:"Bapu (Father) Is Finished!"New Delhi, January 30 (United Press Asso-ciation)- Mohandas K. Gandhi was assassinated today by a Hindu extremist whose act plunged India into sorrow and fear.Rioting broke out immediately in Bombay.The seven-eight-year-old leader whose people had christened him the Great Soul of India died at 5:45 P. M. (7:15 A. M. E. S. T. ) with his head cradled in the lap of his sixteen-year-old grand-daughter, Mani.Just half an hour before, a Hindu fanatic, Ram Naturam, had pumped three bullets from a revolver into Gandhi's frail body, emaciated by years of fasting and asceticism.

Mary Cassatt Tea painting

Mary Cassatt Tea painting
Edward Hopper Gas painting
Scientists say there's no way for astronauts to travel to Mars without recycling their own liquids and solids. The challenge is figuring out how.
Oct. 26 — So you want to go to Mars? Here’s something to think about.You’re going to have to eat and drink the same things, over and over again. What comes out of your body will have to go back in again, day after day after day.NASA estimates that it would take more than 13 tons of water, food and air to keep one person in space for one year. So a three-person crew on a two year mission to Mars would need to take along at least 78 tons of stuff just to stay alive.

childe hassam Wayside Inn Sudbury Massachusetts painting

childe hassam Wayside Inn Sudbury Massachusetts painting
Edgar Degas Four Dancers painting
The Israeli prime minister stressed that if he does not achieve an agreement with the Palestinians, the consequences could be very grave. "Our peace agreements with the Egyptians and the Jordanians will be severely cracked and may collapse," he said.Israel has been more upbeat than the Palestinians about the U.S. plan. "We are talking about proposals which I think, on the face of it, are reasonable," Israeli negotiator Gilead Sher told Israel's Channel Two.Flying back from an early morning meeting in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today, Arafat gave his first response to the peace proposal discussed in Washington this week. Speaking to journalists in Gaza, Arafat said the Palestinians were studying the American proposal and would need time to analyze it in greater detail. "We still have to thoroughly review the American suggestions," Arafat told reporters in Gaza. "There are a lot of obstacles."

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir Sleeping Girl painting
company, to develop the chickens. The deal will combine the nuclear transfer technology used to make Dolly with Viragen's expertise in developing anti-cancer proteins. Drug-filled eggs are only the latest in a series of projects known as "Pharming," in which human pharmaceuticals are produced in plants and animals through genetic engineering. The first transgenic "super mice" were created in 1982, and by 1987 scientists had developed mice that produce a human drug, tPA, to treat blood clots.Since then, pharming projects have broadened to include tobacco plants that could help prevent cervical cancer, bananas that could combat hepatitis B and diphtheria and roosters that carry genes to prevent hepatitis. Scientists have also worked to engineers cows sheep, goats and rabbits so they produce milk that contains proteins to be used against HIV, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and osteoporosis.

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting

Godward Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder painting
John William Waterhouse Echo and Narcissus painting

Tiger Woods, who won the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship in 2000, has been voted Reuters sportsman of the year. Woods is seen hugging his trophy after winning the 100th U.S. Open Golf Championship at the Pebble Beach Golf Links, in Pebble Beach California June 18, 2000.
A joint study by the Associated Press, CNN and six of the nation's top newspapers came to a startling conclusion at the end of 2000: There were in fact professional golfers besides Tiger Woods out there this year. Some guy named Vijay and a few others -- let's call them David, Phil and Ernie, for lack of better names. Frankly, their names aren't that important at the moment. This was the Year of the Tiger, not to be confused with 1999, which is now known as the Year of the Tiger Before Tiger Decided to Play Even Better.

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting

Claude Monet Boulevard des Capucines painting
Thomas Kinkade NASCAR THUNDER painting
Turner outpaced pop heartthrobs 'N Sync, who grossed $76.4 million and rock combo the Dave Matthews Band with $68.2 million. Glam rockers KISS and husband-and-wife country superstars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill rounded out the top five, with $62.7 million and $48.8 million, respectively. Fresno, Calif.-based Pollstar estimated total gross ticket sales reached a new record for the second consecutive year of $1.7 billion, up about 14 percent from 1999's record of $1.5 billion. Turner's haul ranks fifth on the all-time tours of North America, with the Rolling Stones holding the record of $121.2 million from their "Voodoo Lounge" tour of 1994. 'N Sync rank eighth and Dave Matthews Band 10th.

Guillaume Seignac paintings

Guillaume Seignac paintings
George Owen Wynne Apperley paintings

Millions of Napster users were still waiting Sunday to find out when they'd confront a new feature on the song-swapping service -- a dreaded screening technology to weed out 1 million song titles and appease the courts and record labels.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Millions of Napster users were still waiting Sunday to find out when they'd confront a new feature on the song-swapping service -- a dreaded screening technology to weed out 1 million song titles and appease the courts and record labels. But other online music users weren't waiting for the crackdown and instead started swamping other free services.By early Sunday, Napster had not yet started blocking access to Metallica or Dr. Dre songs, or 5,600 other titles the recording industry presented to the

Abstract paintings

Abstract paintings
Angel painting
Often major studios will spend $5 million or more promoting a film as they push for Academy Award votes — in addition to the original marketing costs of the film — while hoping to see a payoff in the form of higher box-offices grosses. "It's an expensive proposition, and if you don't win the best picture, that can hurt," notes Dergarabedian. "But you would be remiss not to try to get that win."And for some studios, it's a valuable long-term investment. Miramax has seen its profile raised dramatically with a string of Oscar successes in the last several years."Miramax having that run of winners in the mid-1990s with The Piano and The English Patient had a big impact," says Davis.Since then the studio has seen Shakespeare in Love — for which it ran an assertive Oscar-lobbying campaign — win the 2000 Academy Award, while Chocolat is considered a dark horse for this year's award. [Miramax and ABCNEWS.com are both owned by the Walt Disney Co.]

Jose Royo paintings

Jose Royo paintings
Juarez Machado paintings
, which is completely unrelated. Since the beginning of the outbreak, there have been several other cases of suspected foot-and-mouth, authorities said. But none of them tested positive.Other WorriesExperts said it was unlikely for foot-and-mouth disease to spread any further into the human population.Professor Tony Hart, an expert in infectious diseases at the University of Liverpool, told the BBC he was not aware of any other case in which the disease moved from one human to another.But, he said there was a distinct danger of an infected human passing the disease on to animals. Health concerns from the foot-and-mouth epidemic also arose today, after Environment Minister Michael Meacher conceded the pyres constructed to burn

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
John Collier Lady Godiva painting
If you can go out there with the right head on your shoulders and you know you can cope with it all, then you're going to have a fantastic time and you're going to make a lot of money," says fellow hostess Melissa Williams. While hostess clubs promote an intimate setting, sexual liaisons with customers are forbidden. The clubs are primarily designed to get men to run large bar tabs. The hostesses are simply the hook to keep customers coming back for more. "I've heard of people spending two, three thousand pounds a night," explains Dai Davies, a British private investigator hired by the Blackman's family. Vanished without a TraceOn July 1, Blackman left the room she shared with Phillips at about 3:30 in the

Jacques-Louis David Male Nude known as Patroclus painting

Jacques-Louis David Male Nude known as Patroclus painting
Claude Monet Regatta At Argenteuil painting
Redstone grew up during the depression, in a tenement of Jewish immigrants in Boston's West End. He excelled in school, finishing Harvard in three years and working in cryptography in World War Two, helping to crack Japanese codes. Redstone then graduated from Harvard Law School and became a successsful Washington lawyer, arguing cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.But in the 1960s, Redstone made a career change, helping take over his father's drive-in movie theater business. Redstone expanded the business to indoor screens and trademarked the word "multiplex," but years later, one rival still called him a "two-bit theater operator from Boston."In 1979, Redstone nearly died in a fire in Boston's Copley Hotel, which he survived by clinging with one hand to a third-story ledge. Forty-five

Steve Hanks Reflecting painting

Albert Bierstadt Autumn in America Oneida County New York painting
Steve Hanks Reflecting painting There will be special driveways along the routes from the Olympic Village to stadiums to make sure the participants arrive at the destination within half an hour. In addition, more roads signs and display screens will be installed.A high-tech Transportation Supervision and Coordination Center will play a major role in controlling the city's traffic. Other systems including computers, a traffic monitoring and guiding accident reporting system will greatly contribute to bet
Your home may be a very dangerous place.Every year, thousands of people are injured by hidden dangers lurking in and around their home.We should be thinking about summer safety.Let's see some useful tips on removing some common dangers that may be lurking in and around your home.
Charcoal GrillsThese grills are very dangerous when lighter fluid is added to coals that are already burning. The flames shoot up, and a wind shift could send the flames your direction and catch your clothing on fire. Also, the flames can travel up the stream of liquid and into the lighter fluid can, causing it to explodeter transportation conditions.

Emile Munier paintings

Emile Munier paintings
Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
Midway through the day, as the market tumbled, President Bush publicly expressed his "great faith" in the U.S. economy, which he said is still poised for growth despite last week's attacks. "I understand it's tough right now. Transportation, business is hurting, obviously the market was correcting prior to this crisis. But the underpinnings for economic growth are there," Bush told reporters at the Pentagon. Shaky Start ExpectedTrading was hardly expected to be business as usual. Many experts were predicting that already shaky financial markets would lose further ground as the damage inflicted on the psyche of the American people filters its way into the economy and the stock market, further undermining the confidence of consumers and investors.

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings

Edmund Blair Leighton paintings
Eugene de Blaas paintings
Estee Portnoy, a spokesman for SFX, Jordan's management agency, said Jordan agreed to donate his salary for the coming season to relief agencies working with the victims of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York."I am especially excited about the Washington Wizards, and I'm convinced we have the foundation on which to build a playoff-contention team," Jordan said. "The opportunity to teach our young players and help them elevate their game to a higher level, and to thank the fans in Washington for their loyalty and support, strongly influenced my decision."Jordan's announcement had been expected Monday, but he had to clear up a last-minute problem with a sponsor.Jordan never ruled out returning to the game, although he sought repeatedly to dampen speculation. At one point, he told reporters he was "99.9 percent certain" that he would stay retired.

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painting idea
For example, William McGrew, a professor of anthropology and zoology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has studied handedness among chimps in the wild and determined that about half the animals are left-handed and half are right-handed."Each individual chimp seems to commit itself to one side or another," he said. "But chimps don't seem to show any overall leanings."William Hopkins, a psychologist at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, disagrees. His studies with chimps in captivity show the animals overwhelmingly favor using their right hands.A common experiment he uses to test for handedness is giving a chimp a long tube with peanut butter lodged inside. If the chimp holds the tube with its left hand and probes for the peanut butter with its right hand, the animal is likely right-handed. Hopkins has found that the chimps almost always attack the peanut butter this way.

beach painting

beach painting
Boat painting
Say goodbye to those super-sized fries. McDonald's is slimming down its menu. The hamburger giant has decided to stop making its trademark Supersize fries and drinks recently.By the end of 2004, super size will no longer be available at America’s 13,000-plus McDonald's outlets except in certain promotions, McDonald's spokesman Walt Riker said.The move comes as the world's largest restaurant company, and fast-food chains in general, are under growing public pressure to give consumers healthier food options in a nation that has suddenly become aware of the health dangers that come with it.McDonald's added entree salads last year and has been moving to provide more fruit, vegetable and yogurt options with its Happy Meals. "This core menu, which has been under development since 2002, simplifies our menu and restaurant operations and provides a balance of choices for our customers," Riker said. "A component of this overall simplification, menu and balanced lifestyle strategy is the ongoing phase-out of the Supersize fry and the Supersize drink options."

Cottage painting

Cottage painting
Dancer painting

A movie began shooting in Shanghai to reflect the saga of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in his 20s from May 10. The film "Deng Xiaoping in 1928" will for the first time cover the love story of ...
A movie began shooting in Shanghai to reflect the saga of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in his 20s from May 10.According to Li Xiepu, the director, the film "Deng Xiaoping in 1928" will for the first time cover the love story of Deng Xiaoping and his first wife Zhang Xiyuan.Deng Xiaoping was only 24 years of age in 1928. He married Zhang, his schoolmate when he studied at a university in Moscow, and the couple lived with Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, Zhou's wife, in a small building in a Shanghai foreign settlement area.Later in 1928, Deng left his wife when he was sent to work in south China's Guangxi region. She died the next year at the age of 24, leaving nothing but a picture of herself.

Claude Monet Sunset painting

Claude Monet Sunset painting
Claude Monet Poppy Field In A Hollow Near Giverny painting
Padron, Lisy's national sales manager, said Lisy did not notice the small plastic figurines until two people complained, but there is no mistaking what the toys represent: At the bottom of each is the product number 9011. 利西有限公司国内销售部经理佩德罗说，直到有两位顾客拿着“9·11”撞楼玩具找到他们投诉之后，他们才意识到情况不对头。这些玩具代表什么意思再明显不过了，因为每个玩具的底部都印上了相同的产品编号9011。The candy bags were distributed by the company's 100 distributors. Most are sold to small Hispanic and Mexican groceries, Padron said. He said 448 of the Twin Tower toys left the warehouse for distribution, but he managed to put a hold on the rest. 此公司100个分销商已经将大部分的糖果销往西班牙和墨西哥的杂货店。448个玩具在仓库里等候销出。但是佩德罗设法停止了销售其余的糖果。

Howard Behrens Lake Como Landing painting

Howard Behrens Lake Como Landing painting
Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze painting

Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the same way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it'll hang around but never hold the ...
Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the same way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it'll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life. And good riddance, say some home computer users. The march of technology must go on. Dell Computer Corp. stopped including a floppy drive in new computers in spring 2003, and Gateway Inc. has followed suit on some models. Floppies are available on request for $10 to $20 extra. More and more people are willing to say goodbye to the venerable floppy, said Gateway spokeswoman Lisa Emard.

Vladimir Volegov Beauty painting

Vladimir Volegov Beauty painting
Eric Wallis Undressing painting

Older recreational gamblers are even healthier than non-gamblers, according to a surprising Yale University study. The results are the opposite of what researchers expected, though the findings ...
Older recreational gamblers are even healthier than non-gamblers, according to a surprising Yale University study. The results are the opposite of what researchers expected, though the findings are not rock-solid. They are based only on telephone reviews.The survey showed that recreational gamblers 65 and older reported being in better health than their peers who don't gamble. The older gamblers also reported less alcoholism, depression, bankruptcy and imprisonment than younger recreational gamblers.But the social aspects of gambling — whether it's slot machines at a casino, poker games with friends or bingo at a church hall — may be an explanation for how the study turned out, Yale epidemiologist Rani Desai said. "There's this whole concept of healthy aging — that folks who continue to remain engaged in activity, especially in the community and in social activities, stay healthier longer, so I think this is a reflection of that. It's not that gambling makes you healthy, it's that gamblers are healthier," Desai said.

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting
Appropriately named "Emirates Palace," the establishment is owned by none other than the government of Abu Dhabi, whose emirate is the largest and wealthiest of the seven-member UAE, pumping some 90 percent of the country's crude.The exact cost of this monument -- whose construction began more than three years ago, required 12,000 laborers and is still not totally over -- remains a secret.But money, which has been flowing thanks to rising oil prices, was clearly not an issue.Rising along the city's corniche with a 1.3-kilometer-long (4,200-foot) sandy beach, Emirates Palace has two identical wings built on either side of a central building featuring 92 suites, the cheaThe young private knelt in front of the somber woman and held out one of the most poignant expressions of honor for a fallen American warrior--the Stars and Stripes, folded with military precision into a neat triangle.pest of which goes for 2,500 dollars a night.

George Inness paintings

George Inness paintings
George Frederick Watts paintings
Assistant Principal Ken Bruce was shot in the chest anrecommends hiking boots. Once equipped, figure out where to go. Experienced hikers recommend tailoring your route to fit an interest, like architecture, food or a view. "Not to belittle trees," says Patty Fares of San Diego's Urban Safaris, "but in nature, you're pretty much limited to trees and maybe birds." Whereas Fares is fond of hiking through her city's Hillcrest neighborhood, which features cool buildings, coffee shops and paths leading into verdant Balboa Park. Despite her arboreal quip, she suggests dipping into a park to let your ears and eyes escape the urban environment. Speaking of others, consider inviting company on your urban hike, starting with family. Burden cites studies that indicate children who walk outdoors, and who live in pedestrian-friendly areas, are less prone to obesity and more d died at a LaFollette hospital, authorities said.Principal Gary Seale was shot in the lower abdomen and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce was hit in the chest. They were in serious condition in intensive care at University of Tennessee

Albert Bierstadt paintings

Albert Bierstadt paintings
Andreas Achenbach paintings

what to do with her unsupervised and sudden freedom. Once again there was little tension between the two of them. Heather's house wasn't getting chewed up, and homecomings weren't tense and angry experiences. Yet here was a case, I thought, where seeing canine behavior in human terms nearly cost an animal its life.Sometimes it does. Harry, a social worker in Los Angeles, wrote me that he had a great rescue dog named Rocket and was happy enough with the experience to adopt a second. Rocket attacked the new dog while Harry was feeding them, then bit a neighborhood kid. "He never forgave me for getting the new dog," Harry explained. "He was so angry with me. I couldn't trust him not to take out his rage on others, so I had him put to sleep."(to be continued)This has been adapted from Katz on Dogs, which is being published this week.

Lady Laura Teresa Alma-Tadema paintings

Lady Laura Teresa Alma-Tadema paintings
Louise Abbema paintings
STEW:That is, they say.. BRENT: Ashley Wilkes is going to marry her. STEW: You know the Wilkes always marry their cousins. BRENT: Now do we get those waltzes? SCARLETT: Of course. BRENT: Yahoo!SCARLETT: It can't be true...Ashley loves me. STEW: Scarlett!(Scarlett couldn't accept the fact ofAshley's marriage, she rushes to find her father. Mr.O'Hara is just back from a ride.)16Mr. O'HARA: (To his horse) There's none in the county can touch you, and none in the state.SCARLETT: Paw? How proud of yourself you are! Mr. O'HARA: Well, it is Scarlett O'Hara. So, you've been spying on me. And like your sister Sue Ellen, you'll be telling your mother on me, that I was jumping again. SCARLETT: Oh, Paw, you know I'm no 'tattle like Sue Ellen. But it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year jumping that same fence......Mr. O'HARA: I'll not have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump. It's my own neck, so it is. SCARLETT: All right Paw, you jump what you please. How are they all over at Twelve Oaks? Mr. O'HARA: The Wilkes? Oh, what you expect, with the barbecue tomorrow and talking, nothing but war... SCARLETT: Oh bother the war....was there, was there anyone

Steve Hanks Ocean Breeze painting

Steve Hanks Ocean Breeze painting
Pino Angelica painting
any that flows between Rheims and Namur,"I literally smacked my cracked lips, or, rather, tried to smack them. The mere thought of that pure water made me mad. If the cardinal had been there with his bell, book, and candle, I would have whipped in and drank his water up, yes, even if he had already filled it with the suds of soap worthy of washing the hands of the pope, and I knew that the whole concentrated curse of the Catholic Church should fall upon me for so doing. I almost think I must have been a little light-headed with thirst and weariness and want of food; for I fell to thinking how astonished the cardinal and his nice little boy and the jackdaw would have looked to see a burned-up brown-eyed, grizzled-haired little elephant-hunter suddenly bound in and put his dirty face into the basin and swallow every drop of the precious water. The idea amused me so that I laughed or rather cackled aloud, which woke the others up, and they began to rub their dirty faces and get their gummed-up lips and eyelids apart.
As soon as we were all well awake we fell to discussing the situation, which was serious enough. Not a drop of water was left. We turned the water-bottles upside down and licked the tops, but it was a failure; they were as dry as a bone. Good, who had charge of the bottle of brandy, got it out and looked at it longingly; but Sir Henry promptly took it away from him, for to drink

John Collier paintings

John Collier paintings
Jose Royo paintings
right. It would be inhuman to talk to those tiny, soft, velvety little creatures as we do to great big boys and girls. Babies want love and cuddling and all the sweet baby talk they can get, and Little Jem is going to have it, bless his dear itty heartums."
"But you're the worst I ever heard, Anne," protested Gilbert, who, not being a mother but only a father, was not wholly convinced yet that Sir Oracle was wrong. "I never heard anything like the way you talk to that child."
"Very likely you never did. Go away--go away. Didn't I bring up three pairs of Hammond twins before I was eleven? You and Sir Oracle are nothing but cold-blooded theorists. Gilbert, just look at him! He's smiling at me--he knows what we're talking about. And oo dest agwees wif evy word muzzer says, don't oo, angel-lover?" Gilbert put his arm about them. "Oh you mothers!" he said. "You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you."
So Little Jem was talked to

Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return painting

Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return painting
Louis Aston Knight Sunny Afternoon on the Canal painting
Indeed you are not," laughed Anne. "I agree with Miss Cornelia that it's a scandal for a woman who isn't sick to eat her breakfast in bed, and almost justifies the men in any enormities."
"Oh, Cornelia!" said Susan, with ineffable contempt. "I think you have better sense, Mrs. Doctor, dear, than to heed what Cornelia Bryant says. I cannot see why she must be always running down the men, even if she is an old maid. I am an old maid, but you never hear me abusing the men. I like 'em. I would have married one if I could. Is it not funny nobody ever asked me to marry him, Mrs. Doctor, dear? I am no beauty, but I am as good-looking as most of the married women you see. But I never had a beau. What do you suppose is the reason?"
"It may be predestination," suggested Anne, with unearthly solemnity.
Susan nodded.
"That is what I have often thought, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and a great comfort it is. I do not mind nobody wanting me if the Almighty decreed it so for His own wise purposes

John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting

John William Waterhouse Gather ye rosebuds while ye may painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting
Marilla sorrowful. Then, as subtly, and coldly, and remorselessly as a sea-fog stealing landward, fear crept into her heart. Why was not Gilbert gladder? Why would he not talk about the baby? Why would they not let her have it with her after that first heavenly--happy hour? Was--was there anything wrong?
"Gilbert," whispered Anne imploringly, "the baby--is all right--isn't she? Tell me--tell me."
Gilbert was a long while in turning round; then he bent over Anne and looked in her eyes. Marilla, listening fearfully outside the door, heard a pitiful, heartbroken moan, and fled to the kitchen where Susan was weeping.
"Oh, the poor lamb--the poor lamb! How can she bear it, Miss Cuthbert? I am afraid it will kill her. She has been that built up and happy, longing for that baby, and planning for it. Cannot anything be done nohow, Miss Cuthbert?"
"I'm afraid not, Susan. Gilbert says there is no hope. He knew from the

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Pierre-Auguste Cot paintings
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The little fat fellow was absurdly like Fred -- just as round, just as red. Anne really could not say conscientiously that she thought him beautiful, but she vowed sincerely that he was sweet and kissable and altogether delightful.
"Before he came I wanted a girl, so that I could call her ANNE," said Diana. "But now that little Fred is here I wouldn't exchange him for a million girls. He just COULDN'T have been anything but his own precious self."
"`Every little baby is the sweetest and the best,' " quoted Mrs. Allan gaily. "If little Anne HAD come you'd have felt just the same about her."
Mrs. Allan was visiting in Avonlea, for the first time since leaving it. She was as gay and sweet and sympathetic as ever. Her old girl friends had welcomed her back rapturously. The reigning minister's wife was an estimable lady, but she was not exactly a kindred spirit.
"I can hardly wait till he gets old enough to talk," sighed Diana. "I just long

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Anne was not without a feeble hope that something might come of it after all. But nothing did. John Douglas came and took Janet driving, and walked home from prayer-meeting with her, as he had been doing for twenty years, and as he seemed likely to do for twenty years more. The summer waned. Anne taught her school and wrote letters and studied a little. Her walks to and from school were pleasant. She always went by way of the swamp; it was a lovely place -- a boggy soil, green with the greenest of mossy hillocks; a silvery brook meandered through it and spruces stood erectly, their boughs a-trail with gray-green mosses, their roots overgrown with all sorts of woodland lovelinesses.
Nevertheless, Anne found life in Valley Road a little monotonous. To be sure, there was one diverting incident.
She had not seen the lank, tow-headed Samuel of the peppermints since the evening of his call, save for chance meetings on the road. But one warm August night he appeared

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting

Claude Monet Winter At Giverny painting
Claude Monet Train In The Country painting
Well, now, run off to bed like a good boy."
"All right. Say, I don't feel mis'rubul any more. I feel fine. Good night."
"Good night."
Anne slipped down on her pillows with a sigh of relief. Oh -- how sleepy -- she was! In another second --
"Anne!" Davy was back again by her bed. Anne dragged her eyes open.
"What is it now, dear?" she asked, trying to keep a note of impatience out of her voice.
"Anne, have you ever noticed how Mr. Harrison spits? Do you s'pose, if I practice hard, I can learn to spit just like him?"
Anne sat up.
"Davy Keith," she said, "go straight to your bed and don't let me catch you out of it again tonight! Go, now!"
Davy went, and stood not upon the order of his going.

Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam painting
Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting
church. They had to resort to the brook in the woods behind the Cotton house. But it was full of trout, and they had a glorious time that morning -- at least the Cottons certainly had, and Davy seemed to have it. Not being entirely bereft of prudence, he had discarded boots and stockings and borrowed Tommy Cotton's overalls. Thus accoutered, bog and marsh and undergrowth had no terrors for him. Dora was frankly and manifestly miserable. She followed the others in their peregrinations from pool to pool, clasping her Bible and quarterly tightly and thinking with bitterness of soul of her beloved class where she should be sitting that very moment, before a teacher she adored. Instead, here she was roaming the woods with those half-wild Cottons, trying to keep her boots clean and her pretty white dress free from rents and stains. Mirabel had offered the loan of an apron but Dora had scornfully refused.
The trout bit as they always do on Sundays. In an hour the transgressors had all the fish they wanted, so they returned to the house, much to Dora's relief. She sat primly on a hencoop in the yard while the others played an uproarious game of tag; and then they all climbed to the top of the pig-house roof and cut their initials on the saddleboard. The flat-roofed henhouse and a pile of straw beneath gave Davy another inspiration. They spent a splendid half hour

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Pino Sweet Repose painting
Johannes Vermeer The Kitchen Maid painting
don't care a single bit about either of them, you know. Herb Spencer is the one I like. Sometimes I really do think he's MR. RIGHT. At Christmas I thought the Spencervale schoolmaster was that. But I found out something about him that turned me against him. He nearly went insane when I turned him down. I wish those two boys hadn't come tonight. I wanted to have a nice good talk with you, Anne, and tell you such heaps of things. You and I were always good chums, weren't we?"
Ruby slipped her arm about Anne's waist with a shallow little laugh. But just for a moment their eyes met, and, behind all the luster of Ruby's, Anne saw something that made her heart ache.
"Come up often, won't you, Anne?" whispered Ruby. "Come alone -- I want you."
"Are you feeling quite well, Ruby?"
"Me! Why, I'm perfectly well. I never felt better in my life. Of course, that congestion last winter pulled me down a little. But just see my color. I don't look much like an invalid, I'm

Leon Bazile Perrault A Water Nymph painting

Leon Bazile Perrault A Water Nymph painting
Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Country painting
the veil dropped again; but the Anne who walked up the dark lane was not quite the same Anne who had driven gaily down it the evening before. The page of girlhood had been turned, as by an unseen finger, and the page of womanhood was before her with all its charm and mystery, its pain and gladness.
Gilbert wisely said nothing more; but in his silence he read the history of the next four years in the light of Anne's remembered blush. Four years of earnest, happy work. . .and then the guerdon of a useful knowledge gained and a sweet heart won.
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.

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Douglas Hofmann dying swan painting
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Lavendar's desk.
"Oh, it's delightful to be living in a storybook," she thought gaily. "It will come out all right of course. . .it must. . .and Paul will have a mother after his own heart and everybody will be happy. But Mr. Irving will take Miss Lavendar away. . .and dear knows what will happen to the little stone house. . .and so there are two sides to it, as there seems to be to everything in this world." The important note was written and Anne herself carried it to the Grafton post office, where she waylaid the mail carrier and asked him to leave it at the Avonlea office.
"It's so very important," Anne assured him anxiously. The mail carrier was a rather grumpy old personage who did not at all look the part of a messenger of Cupid; and Anne was none too certain that his memory was to be trusted. But he said he would do his best to remember and she had to be contented with that.

Vladimir Volegov Yellow Roses painting

Vladimir Volegov Yellow Roses painting
Andrew Atroshenko Ballerina painting
dress; then came the excitement of cutting and making it together, while the happy Charlotta the Fourth basted and swept up clippings. Miss Lavendar had complained that she could not feel much interest in anything, but the sparkle came back to her eyes over her pretty dress.
"What a foolish, frivolous person I must be," she sighed. "I'm wholesomely ashamed to think that a new dress. . . even it is a forget-me-not organdy. . .should exhilarate me so, when a good conscience and an extra contribution to Foreign Missions couldn't do it."
Midway in her visit Anne went home to Green Gables for a day to mend the twins' stockings and settle up Davy's accumulated store of questions. In the evening she went down to the shore road to see Paul Irving. As she passed by the low, square window of the Irving sitting room she caught a glimpse of Paul on somebody's lap; but the next moment he came flying through the hall.
"Oh, Miss Shirley," he cried excitedly, "you can't think what has happened! Something so splendid

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Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen paintings
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tea but I warn you not to expect anything but bread and butter and some cowcumbers. Martha locked up all the cake and cheese and preserves afore she went. She always does, because she says I'm too extravagant with them if company comes."
The girls were hungry enough to do justice to any fare, and they enjoyed Miss Sarah's excellent bread and butter and "cowcumbers" thoroughly. When the meal was over Miss Sarah said,
"I don't know as I mind selling the platter. But it's worth twenty-five dollars. It's a very old platter."
Diana gave Anne's foot a gentle kick under the table, meaning, "Don't agree -- she'll let it go for twenty if you hold out." But Anne was not minded to take any chances in regard to that precious platter. She promptly agreed to give twenty-five and Miss Sarah looked as if she felt sorry she hadn't asked for thirty.
"Well, I guess you may have it. I want all the money I can scare up just now. The fact is

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William Merritt Chase paintings
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Please, Diana, go and explain."
Miss Sarah Copp was a small person, garbed in shabby black, with a hat chosen less for vain adornment than for qualities that would wear well. She looked as amazed as might be expected on seeing the curious tableau in her yard, but when she heard Diana's explanation she was all sympathy. She hurriedly unlocked the back door, produced the axe, and with a few skillfull blows set Anne free. The latter, somewhat tired and stiff, ducked down into the interior of her prison and thankfully emerged into liberty once more.
"Miss Copp," she said earnestly. "I assure you I looked into your pantry window only to discover if you had a willow-ware platter. I didn't see anything else -- I didn't look for anything else."
"Bless you, that's all right," said Miss Sarah amiably. "You needn't worry -- there's no harm done. Thank goodness, we Copps keep our pantries presentable at all times and don't care who sees

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Vladimir Volegov paintings
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announce that a very black cloud was rising rapidly in the northwest.
"I believe we're going to have a heavy thunder-shower," she exclaimed in dismay, "Oh, Anne, what will we do?"
"We must prepare for it," said Anne tranquilly. A thunderstorm seemed a trifle in comparison with what had already happened. "You'd better drive the horse and buggy into that open shed. Fortunately my parasol is in the buggy. Here. . .take my hat with you. Marilla told me I was a goose to put on my best hat to come to the Tory Road and she was right, as she always is."
Diana untied the pony and drove into the shed, just as the first heavy drops of rain fell. There she sat and watched the resulting downpour, which was so thick and heavy that she could hardly see Anne through it, holding the parasol bravely over her bare head. There was not a great

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Vladimir Volegov Beauty painting
Eric Wallis Undressing painting
Anne leaned back in her chair one mild October evening and sighed. She was sitting at a table covered with text books and exercises, but the closely written sheets of paper before her had no apparent connection with studies or school work.
"What is the matter?" asked Gilbert, who had arrived at the open kitchen door just in time to hear the sigh.
Anne colored, and thrust her writing out of sight under some school compositions.
"Nothing very dreadful. I was just trying to write out some of my thoughts, as Professor Hamilton advised me, but I couldn't get them to please me. They seem so still and foolish directly they're written down on white paper with black ink. Fancies are like shadows. . . you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. But perhaps I'll learn the secret some day if I keep on trying. I haven't a great many spare moments, you know. By the time I finish correcting school exercises and compositions, I don't always feel like writing any of my own."
"You are getting on splendidly in school, Anne. All the children like you," said Gilbert, sitting down

Gustav Klimt The Friends painting

Gustav Klimt The Friends painting
Steve Hanks Beauty of the Hot Tub painting
through the Haunted Wood, "the Pyes all live along that road and they won't give a cent unless one of themselves canvasses them."
The next Saturday Anne and Diana started out. They drove to the end of the road and canvassed homeward, calling first on the "Andrew girls."
"If Catherine is alone we may get something," said Diana, "but if Eliza is there we won't."
Eliza was there. . .very much so. . .and looked even grimmer than usual. Miss Eliza was one of those people who give you the impression that life is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a waste of nervous energy truly reprehensible. The Andrew girls had been "girls" for fifty odd years and seemed likely to remain girls to the end of their earthly pilgrimage. Catherine, it was said, had not entirely given up hope, but Eliza, who was born a pessimist, had never had any. They lived in a little brown house built in a sunny corner scooped out of Mark Andrew's