Torture Tues: You know how I can't stop laughing when someone gets hurt in a comical way??? Well, I'm STILL chuckling as I replay Nica P's AWESOME tumble today HAHAHAHHA... Hairy Hannah came ripping down the hilly trail to greet Nica P and when she got to Nica P, her leash got tangled in Nica P's leg and Nica P went airborne!! I am sooooooooooooo bummed I didn't get that one on video!!! But you know??? Because Nica P is so fit and strong, she just got right up and we all had a good laugh!!! If she weren't in shape, she would have been laying on the dirt for a very long time hahhahahaha!!! And come to think of it, Aloha G took a tumble tripping over Ellie-G yesterday ... not to mention my epic face plant into the cement when I tripped over the uneven surface of the sidewalk as I was racing Wailee in the dark...if we weren't in shape, it would have not been so funny!! Another reminder of the great benefits of staying healthy!!!

Another thing I missed on video....Wailee chasing geese/ducks towards the pond...we thought she was going to stop at the shore but my coyote jumped into the water and then had a look on her face like, "Uh ohhhh...." hahahha....after a moment of thought, she put those kangaroo legs into action and sprung up and BOUNCED/Hopped/Pranced back to shore!! I'm pretty sure the geese/ducks were laughing thinking, "You got your bachi!!"

Anyways, it was another awesome Torture Tues...After our 1 Mile XC Warm-Up, we did Arms/Legs/Cardio then Abs/Paddles.

After class, the Spam-Dogs had some off-leash fun. Ellie-G wore Wailee out with her wrestling game!!! I've never seen Wailee to tired hahahhah!!! After her bath to get the pond water off hahaha, she jumped on the couch and conked out!! HAHAH!!

Great stuff Windy M, Skinny S, Half T, Terminator, Killer A, Aloha G, Ab Queen, Nica P, Ripped L, Cat W and all the Spam-Dogs!!

Marble sculpture, conjoined tragi-comical theatrical masks.

Axel Munthe (1857-1949) was a psychiatrist and physician, born in Sweden and sometime Physician to the Swedish royal family.

He acquired Villa San Michele on the island of Capri in 1887 and, in the course of renovation, decorated it with antiquities found on mainland Italy and sometimes on Capri, along with many copies.

A portion of a comical specimen, rather.

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In the Tucson Mountain District of Saguaro National Park west of Tucson, Arizona, on October 6th, 2015, along the Desert Discovery Trail.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:

F817.S18 Saguaro National Park (Ariz.)—Pictorial works.

QK495.C11 Saguaro—Pictorial works.

QH104.5.S6 Deserts—Southwestern States—Pictorial works.

QK142 Desert plants—Southwestern States—Pictorial works.

F817.S6 Sonoran Desert—Pictorial works.

F817.P5 Pima County (Ariz.)—Pictorial works.

F819.T943 Tucson Metropolitan Area (Ariz.)—Pictorial works.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Writing in the late 18th and early 19th century, Elizabeth Hamilton produced fiction, satire, comical sketches, philosophical essays, historical biography, theological treatises, and essays on educational theory. She is best known for her novel The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808) with its vivid depictions – and biting satires – of Scottish peasant life. A lively and entertaining tale, The Cottagers of Glenburnie also skilfully discusses and dissects class issues, British imperialism, and war.

Also included here are three examples of Hamilton’s non-fiction: Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education (1801); Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, Wife of Germanicus (1804); and Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman (1806). All three present different aspects of Hamilton’s educational theories. Taken together, these works show how, despite its ostensibly simple plot and style, Glenburnie brings together the political and social concerns of the day with the Scottish Enlightenment interest in theories of the mind and of moral education on which Hamilton drew throughout her career.

The Cottagers of Glenburnie is a fascinating example of early 19th-century women’s fiction.

The Cottagers of Glenburnie

From Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education

From Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, Wife of Germanicus

From Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman

Francis Jeffrey, Review of Cottagers of Glenburnie

Gloss of Hamilton’s Scots Terms

Explanatory Notes

Dr Pam Perkins is Associate Head of the Department of English, Film and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Cover illustration: detail from ‘Elizabeth Hamilton’. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823).

Illustration courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

Cover design: Mark Blackadder.

Torture Tues: You know how I can't stop laughing when someone gets hurt in a comical way??? Well, I'm STILL chuckling as I replay Nica P's AWESOME tumble today HAHAHAHHA... Hairy Hannah came ripping down the hilly trail to greet Nica P and when she got to Nica P, her leash got tangled in Nica P's leg and Nica P went airborne!! I am sooooooooooooo bummed I didn't get that one on video!!! But you know??? Because Nica P is so fit and strong, she just got right up and we all had a good laugh!!! If she weren't in shape, she would have been laying on the dirt for a very long time hahhahahaha!!! And come to think of it, Aloha G took a tumble tripping over Ellie-G yesterday ... not to mention my epic face plant into the cement when I tripped over the uneven surface of the sidewalk as I was racing Wailee in the dark...if we weren't in shape, it would have not been so funny!! Another reminder of the great benefits of staying healthy!!!

Another thing I missed on video....Wailee chasing geese/ducks towards the pond...we thought she was going to stop at the shore but my coyote jumped into the water and then had a look on her face like, "Uh ohhhh...." hahahha....after a moment of thought, she put those kangaroo legs into action and sprung up and BOUNCED/Hopped/Pranced back to shore!! I'm pretty sure the geese/ducks were laughing thinking, "You got your bachi!!"

Anyways, it was another awesome Torture Tues...After our 1 Mile XC Warm-Up, we did Arms/Legs/Cardio then Abs/Paddles.

After class, the Spam-Dogs had some off-leash fun. Ellie-G wore Wailee out with her wrestling game!!! I've never seen Wailee to tired hahahhah!!! After her bath to get the pond water off hahaha, she jumped on the couch and conked out!! HAHAH!!

Great stuff Windy M, Skinny S, Half T, Terminator, Killer A, Aloha G, Ab Queen, Nica P, Ripped L, Cat W and all the Spam-Dogs!!

Woodpeckers really are a comical....at least this one was!!! This is a Lewis & Clark's Woodpecker. They are quite plentiful around the area I live. I get about 4 or 5 different woodpecker species in my yard. They're all so beautiful!!! Hope you all had a great Christmas!!!! 👍

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Torture Tues: You know how I can't stop laughing when someone gets hurt in a comical way??? Well, I'm STILL chuckling as I replay Nica P's AWESOME tumble today HAHAHAHHA... Hairy Hannah came ripping down the hilly trail to greet Nica P and when she got to Nica P, her leash got tangled in Nica P's leg and Nica P went airborne!! I am sooooooooooooo bummed I didn't get that one on video!!! But you know??? Because Nica P is so fit and strong, she just got right up and we all had a good laugh!!! If she weren't in shape, she would have been laying on the dirt for a very long time hahhahahaha!!! And come to think of it, Aloha G took a tumble tripping over Ellie-G yesterday ... not to mention my epic face plant into the cement when I tripped over the uneven surface of the sidewalk as I was racing Wailee in the dark...if we weren't in shape, it would have not been so funny!! Another reminder of the great benefits of staying healthy!!!

Another thing I missed on video....Wailee chasing geese/ducks towards the pond...we thought she was going to stop at the shore but my coyote jumped into the water and then had a look on her face like, "Uh ohhhh...." hahahha....after a moment of thought, she put those kangaroo legs into action and sprung up and BOUNCED/Hopped/Pranced back to shore!! I'm pretty sure the geese/ducks were laughing thinking, "You got your bachi!!"

Anyways, it was another awesome Torture Tues...After our 1 Mile XC Warm-Up, we did Arms/Legs/Cardio then Abs/Paddles.

After class, the Spam-Dogs had some off-leash fun. Ellie-G wore Wailee out with her wrestling game!!! I've never seen Wailee to tired hahahhah!!! After her bath to get the pond water off hahaha, she jumped on the couch and conked out!! HAHAH!!

Great stuff Windy M, Skinny S, Half T, Terminator, Killer A, Aloha G, Ab Queen, Nica P, Ripped L, Cat W and all the Spam-Dogs!!

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Writing in the late 18th and early 19th century, Elizabeth Hamilton produced fiction, satire, comical sketches, philosophical essays, historical biography, theological treatises, and essays on educational theory. She is best known for her novel The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808) with its vivid depictions – and biting satires – of Scottish peasant life. A lively and entertaining tale, The Cottagers of Glenburnie also skilfully discusses and dissects class issues, British imperialism, and war.

Also included here are three examples of Hamilton’s non-fiction: Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education (1801); Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, Wife of Germanicus (1804); and Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman (1806). All three present different aspects of Hamilton’s educational theories. Taken together, these works show how, despite its ostensibly simple plot and style, Glenburnie brings together the political and social concerns of the day with the Scottish Enlightenment interest in theories of the mind and of moral education on which Hamilton drew throughout her career.

The Cottagers of Glenburnie is a fascinating example of early 19th-century women’s fiction.

The Cottagers of Glenburnie

From Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education

From Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, Wife of Germanicus

From Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman

Francis Jeffrey, Review of Cottagers of Glenburnie

Gloss of Hamilton’s Scots Terms

Explanatory Notes

Dr Pam Perkins is Associate Head of the Department of English, Film and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Cover illustration: detail from ‘Elizabeth Hamilton’. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823).

Illustration courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

Cover design: Mark Blackadder.

Torture Tues: You know how I can't stop laughing when someone gets hurt in a comical way??? Well, I'm STILL chuckling as I replay Nica P's AWESOME tumble today HAHAHAHHA... Hairy Hannah came ripping down the hilly trail to greet Nica P and when she got to Nica P, her leash got tangled in Nica P's leg and Nica P went airborne!! I am sooooooooooooo bummed I didn't get that one on video!!! But you know??? Because Nica P is so fit and strong, she just got right up and we all had a good laugh!!! If she weren't in shape, she would have been laying on the dirt for a very long time hahhahahaha!!! And come to think of it, Aloha G took a tumble tripping over Ellie-G yesterday ... not to mention my epic face plant into the cement when I tripped over the uneven surface of the sidewalk as I was racing Wailee in the dark...if we weren't in shape, it would have not been so funny!! Another reminder of the great benefits of staying healthy!!!

Another thing I missed on video....Wailee chasing geese/ducks towards the pond...we thought she was going to stop at the shore but my coyote jumped into the water and then had a look on her face like, "Uh ohhhh...." hahahha....after a moment of thought, she put those kangaroo legs into action and sprung up and BOUNCED/Hopped/Pranced back to shore!! I'm pretty sure the geese/ducks were laughing thinking, "You got your bachi!!"

Anyways, it was another awesome Torture Tues...After our 1 Mile XC Warm-Up, we did Arms/Legs/Cardio then Abs/Paddles.

After class, the Spam-Dogs had some off-leash fun. Ellie-G wore Wailee out with her wrestling game!!! I've never seen Wailee to tired hahahhah!!! After her bath to get the pond water off hahaha, she jumped on the couch and conked out!! HAHAH!!

Great stuff Windy M, Skinny S, Half T, Terminator, Killer A, Aloha G, Ab Queen, Nica P, Ripped L, Cat W and all the Spam-Dogs!!

Torture Tues: You know how I can't stop laughing when someone gets hurt in a comical way??? Well, I'm STILL chuckling as I replay Nica P's AWESOME tumble today HAHAHAHHA... Hairy Hannah came ripping down the hilly trail to greet Nica P and when she got to Nica P, her leash got tangled in Nica P's leg and Nica P went airborne!! I am sooooooooooooo bummed I didn't get that one on video!!! But you know??? Because Nica P is so fit and strong, she just got right up and we all had a good laugh!!! If she weren't in shape, she would have been laying on the dirt for a very long time hahhahahaha!!! And come to think of it, Aloha G took a tumble tripping over Ellie-G yesterday ... not to mention my epic face plant into the cement when I tripped over the uneven surface of the sidewalk as I was racing Wailee in the dark...if we weren't in shape, it would have not been so funny!! Another reminder of the great benefits of staying healthy!!!

Another thing I missed on video....Wailee chasing geese/ducks towards the pond...we thought she was going to stop at the shore but my coyote jumped into the water and then had a look on her face like, "Uh ohhhh...." hahahha....after a moment of thought, she put those kangaroo legs into action and sprung up and BOUNCED/Hopped/Pranced back to shore!! I'm pretty sure the geese/ducks were laughing thinking, "You got your bachi!!"

Anyways, it was another awesome Torture Tues...After our 1 Mile XC Warm-Up, we did Arms/Legs/Cardio then Abs/Paddles.

After class, the Spam-Dogs had some off-leash fun. Ellie-G wore Wailee out with her wrestling game!!! I've never seen Wailee to tired hahahhah!!! After her bath to get the pond water off hahaha, she jumped on the couch and conked out!! HAHAH!!

Great stuff Windy M, Skinny S, Half T, Terminator, Killer A, Aloha G, Ab Queen, Nica P, Ripped L, Cat W and all the Spam-Dogs!!

Painting Cabinet 89

Jan Steen (1626 - 1679), among other things active in The Hague, Haarlem and Leiden

In the tavern garden

Oil on oak wood

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

In the encircled with vine pergola of a garden premises lovers spend a summer evening. Jan Steen, a master of narrative genre painting, worked often with comical allusions. So reflect the two dogs under the bench the approach of the couple at the table. Karoline Luise acquired the painting in 1763 for 250 guilders from the collection Hendrik Verschuring from The Hague.

Malereikabinett 89

Jan Steen (1626 - 1679), tätig unter anderem in Den Haag, Haarlem und Leiden

Im Wirtshausgarten

Öl auf Eichenholz

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

In der weinberankten Laube eines Gartenlokals verbringt ein Liebespaar einen Sommerabend. Jan Steen, ein Meister des erzählenden Genrebildes, arbeitete vielfach mit komischen Anspielungen. So spiegeln die beiden Hunde unter der Bank die Annäherung des Paares am Tisch. Karoline Luise erwarb das Gemälde 1763 für 250 Gulden aus der Sammlung Hendrik Verschuring aus Den Haag.

Collection

The foundation of the collection consists of 205 mostly French and Dutch paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries which Margravine Karoline Luise acquired 1759-1776. From this collection originate significant works, such as The portrait of a young man by Frans van Mieris the Elder, The winter landscape with lime kiln of Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, The Lacemaker by Gerard Dou, the Still Life with hunting equipment and dead partridge of Willem van Aelst, The Peace in the Chicken yard by Melchior de Hondecoeter as well as a self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn. In addition, four still lifes of Jean Siméon Chardin and two pastoral scenes by François Boucher, having been commissioned directly by the Marchioness from artists.

A first significant expansion the museum received in 1858 by the collection of canon Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788-1865) with works of religious art of the 15th and 16th centuries. This group includes works such as two tablets of the Sterzinger altar and the wing fragment The sacramental blessing of Bartholomew Zeitblom. From 1899 to 1920, the native of Baden painter Hans Thoma held the position of Director of the Kunsthalle. He acquired old masterly paintings as the tauberbischofsheim altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald and drove the expansion of the collection with art of the 19th century forward. Only his successors expanded the holdings of the Art Gallery with works of Impressionism and the following generations of artists.

The permanent exhibition in the main building includes approximately 800 paintings and sculptures. Among the outstanding works of art of the Department German painters of the late Gothic and Renaissance are the Christ as Man of Sorrows by Albrecht Dürer, the Carrying of the Cross and the Crucifixion by Matthias Grünewald, Maria with the Child by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the portrait of Sebastian Brant by Hans Burgkmair the elder and The Nativity of Hans Baldung. Whose Margrave panel due to property disputes in 2006 made it in the headlines and also led to political conflicts. One of the biggest buying successes which a German museum in the postwar period was able to land concerns the successive acquisition of six of the seven known pieces of a Passion altar in 1450 - the notname of the artist after this work "Master of the Karlsruhe Passion" - a seventh piece is located in German public ownership (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne).

In the department of Dutch and Flemish paintings of the 16th century can be found, in addition to the aforementioned works, the portrait of the Marchesa Veronica Spinola Doria by Peter Paul Rubens, Moses strikes the rock and water flows for the thirsty people of Israel of Jacob Jordaens, the still life with kitchen tools and foods of Frans Snyders, the village festival of David Teniers the younger, the still life with lemon, oranges and filled clay pot by Willem Kalf, a Young couple having breakfast by Gabriel Metsu, in the bedroom of Pieter de Hooch, the great group of trees at the waterfront of Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael, a river landscape with a milkmaid of Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp as well as a trompe-l'œil still life of Samuel van Hoogstraten.

Further examples of French paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries are, the adoration of the golden calf of Claude Lorrain, preparations for dance class of the Le Nain brothers, the portrait of Marshal Charles-Auguste de Matignon by Hyacinthe Rigaud, the portrait of a young nobleman in hunting costume of Nicolas de Largillière, The storm of Claude Joseph Vernet and The minuet of Nicolas Lancret. From the 19th century can be found with Rocky wooded valley at Civita Castellana by Gustave Courbet, The Lamentation of Eugène Delacroix, the children portrait Le petit Lange of Édouard Manet, the portrait of Madame Jeantaud by Edgar Degas, the landscape June morning near Pontoise by Camille Pissarro, homes in Le Pouldu Paul Gauguin and views to the sea at L'Estaque by Paul Cézanne further works of French artists at Kunsthalle.

One focus of the collection is the German painting and sculpture of the 19th century. From Joseph Anton Koch, the Kunsthalle possesses a Heroic landscape with rainbow, from Georg Friedrich Kersting the painting The painter Gerhard Kügelgen in his studio, from Caspar David Friedrich the landscape rocky reef on the sea beach and from Karl Blechen view to the Monastery of Santa Scolastica. Other important works of this department are the disruption of Adolph Menzel as well as the young self-portrait, the portrait Nanna Risi and The Banquet of Plato of Anselm Feuerbach.

For the presentation of the complex of oeuvres by Hans Thoma, a whole wing in 1909 at the Kunsthalle was installed. Main oeuvres of the arts are, for example, the genre picture The siblings as well as, created on behalf of the grand-ducal family, Thoma Chapel with its religious themes.

Of the German contemporaries of Hans Thoma, Max Liebermann on the beach of Noordwijk and Lovis Corinth with a portrait of his wife in the museum are represented. Furthermore the Kunsthalle owns works by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Carl Spitzweg, Arnold Böcklin, Hans von Marées, Wilhelm Leibl, Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Trübner and Max Klinger.

In the building of the adjacent Orangerie works of the collection and new acquisitions from the years after 1952 can be seen. In two integrated graphics cabinets the Kupferstichkabinett (gallery of prints) gives insight into its inventory of contemporary art on paper. From the period after 1945, the works Arabs with footprints by Jean Dubuffet, Sponge Relief RE 48; Sol. 1960 by Yves Klein, Honoring the square: Yellow center of Josef Albers, the cityscape F by Gerhard Richter and the Fixe idea by Georg Baselitz in the Kunsthalle. The collection of classical modernism wandered into the main building. Examples of paintings from the period to 1945 are The Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay, the Improvisation 13 by Wassily Kandinsky, Deers in the Forest II by Franz Marc, People at the Blue lake of August Macke, the self-portrait The painter of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the Merzpicture 21b by Kurt Schwitters, the forest of Max Ernst, Tower gate II by Lyonel Feininger, the Seven Deadly Sins of Otto Dix and the removal of the Sphinxes by Max Beckmann. In addition, the museum regularly shows special exhibitions.

Sammlung

Den Grundstock der Sammlung bilden 205 meist französische und niederländische Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, welche Markgräfin Karoline Luise zwischen 1759 und 1776 erwarb. Aus dieser Sammlung stammen bedeutende Arbeiten, wie das Bildnis eines jungen Mannes von Frans van Mieris der Ältere, die Winterlandschaft mit Kalkofen von Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Die Spitzenklöpplerin von Gerard Dou, das Stillleben mit Jagdgeräten und totem Rebhuhn von Willem van Aelst, Der Friede im Hühnerhof von Melchior de Hondecoeter sowie ein Selbstbildnis von Rembrandt van Rijn. Hinzu kommen vier Stillleben von Jean Siméon Chardin und zwei Schäferszenen von François Boucher, die die Markgräfin bei Künstlern direkt in Auftrag gegeben hatte.

Eine erste wesentliche Erweiterung erhielt das Museum 1858 durch die Sammlung des Domkapitulars Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788–1865) mit Werken religiöser Kunst des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Zu dieser Gruppe gehören Werke wie zwei Tafeln des Sterzinger Altars und das Flügelfragment Der sakramentale Segen von Bartholomäus Zeitblom. Von 1899 bis 1920 bekleidete der aus Baden stammende Maler Hans Thoma die Position des Direktors der Kunsthalle. Er erwarb altmeisterliche Gemälde wie den Tauberbischofsheimer Altar von Matthias Grünewald und trieb den Ausbau der Sammlung mit Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts voran. Erst seine Nachfolger erweiterten die Bestände der Kunsthalle um Werke des Impressionismus und der folgenden Künstlergenerationen.

Die Dauerausstellung im Hauptgebäude umfasst rund 800 Gemälde und Skulpturen. Zu den herausragenden Kunstwerken der Abteilung deutsche Maler der Spätgotik und Renaissance gehören der Christus als Schmerzensmann von Albrecht Dürer, die Kreuztragung und Kreuzigung von Matthias Grünewald, Maria mit dem Kinde von Lucas Cranach der Ältere, das Bildnis Sebastian Brants von Hans Burgkmair der Ältere und die Die Geburt Christi von Hans Baldung. Dessen Markgrafentafel geriet durch Eigentumsstreitigkeiten 2006 in die Schlagzeilen und führte auch zu politischen Auseinandersetzungen. Einer der größten Ankaufserfolge, welche ein deutsches Museum in der Nachkriegszeit verbuchen konnte, betrifft den sukzessiven Erwerb von sechs der sieben bekannten Tafeln eines Passionsaltars um 1450 – der Notname des Malers nach diesem Werk „Meister der Karlsruher Passion“ – eine siebte Tafel befindet sich in deutschem öffentlichen Besitz (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln).

In der Abteilung niederländischer und flämischer Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts finden sich, neben den erwähnten Werken, das Bildnis der Marchesa Veronica Spinola Doria von Peter Paul Rubens, Moses schlägt Wasser aus dem Felsen von Jacob Jordaens, das Stillleben mit Küchengeräten und Lebensmitteln von Frans Snyders, das Dorffest von David Teniers dem Jüngeren, das Stillleben mit Zitrone, Orangen und gefülltem Römer von Willem Kalf, ein Junges Paar beim Frühstück von Gabriel Metsu, Im Schlafzimmer von Pieter de Hooch, die Große Baumgruppe am Wasser von Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael, eine Flusslandschaft mit Melkerin von Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp sowie ein Augenbetrüger-Stillleben von Samuel van Hoogstraten.

Weitere Beispiele französischer Malerei des 17. bzw. 18. Jahrhunderts sind Die Anbetung des Goldeen Kalbes von Claude Lorrain, die Vorbereitung zur Tanzstunde der Brüder Le Nain, das Bildnis des Marschalls Charles-Auguste de Matignon von Hyacinthe Rigaud, das Bildnis eines jungen Edelmannes im Jagdkostüm von Nicolas de Largillière, Der Sturm von Claude Joseph Vernet und Das Menuett von Nicolas Lancret. Aus dem 19. Jahrhundert finden sich mit Felsiges Waldtal bei Cività Castellana von Gustave Courbet, Die Beweinung Christi von Eugène Delacroix, dem Kinderbildnis Le petit Lange von Édouard Manet, dem Bildnis der Madame Jeantaud von Edgar Degas, dem Landschaftsbild Junimorgen bei Pontoise von Camille Pissarro, Häuser in Le Pouldu von Paul Gauguin und Blick auf das Meer bei L’Estaque von Paul Cézanne weitere Arbeiten französischer Künstler in der Kunsthalle.

Einen Schwerpunkt der Sammlung bildet die deutsche Malerei und Skulptur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Von Joseph Anton Koch besitzt die Kunsthalle eine Heroische Landschaft mit Regenbogen, von Georg Friedrich Kersting das Gemälde Der Maler Gerhard Kügelgen in seinem Atelier, von Caspar David Friedrich das Landschaftsbild Felsenriff am Meeresstrand und von Karl Blechen den Blick auf das Kloster Santa Scolastica. Weitere bedeutende Werke dieser Abteilung sind Die Störung von Adolph Menzel sowie das Jugendliche Selbstbildnis, das Bildnis Nanna Risi und Das Gastmahl des Plato von Anselm Feuerbach.

Für die Präsentation des Werkkomplexes von Hans Thoma wurde 1909 in der Kunsthalle ein ganzer Gebäudetrakt errichtet. Hauptwerke des Künstlers sind etwa das Genrebild Die Geschwister sowie die, im Auftrag der großherzöglichen Familie geschaffene, Thoma-Kapelle mit ihren religiösen Themen.

Von den deutschen Zeitgenossen Hans Thomas sind Max Liebermann mit Am Strand von Noordwijk und Lovis Corinth mit einem Bildnis seiner Frau im Museum vertreten. Darüber hinaus besitzt die Kunsthalle Werke von Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Carl Spitzweg, Arnold Böcklin, Hans von Marées, Wilhelm Leibl, Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Trübner und Max Klinger.

Im Gebäude der benachbarten Orangerie sind Werke der Sammlung und Neuankäufe aus den Jahren nach 1952 zu sehen. In zwei integrierten Grafikkabinetten gibt das Kupferstichkabinett Einblick in seinen Bestand zeitgenössischer Kunst auf Papier. Aus der Zeit nach 1945 finden sich die Arbeiten Araber mit Fußspuren von Jean Dubuffet, Schwammrelief >RE 48:Sol.1960< von Yves Klein, Ehrung des Quadrates: Gelbes Zentrum von Josef Albers, das Stadtbild F von Gerhard Richter und die Fixe Idee von Georg Baselitz in der Kunsthalle. Die Sammlung der Klassischen Moderne wanderte in das Hauptgebäude. Beispiele für Gemälde aus der Zeit bis 1945 sind Der Eiffelturm von Robert Delaunay, die Improvisation 13 von Wassily Kandinsky, Rehe im Wald II von Franz Marc, Leute am blauen See von August Macke, das Selbstbildnis Der Maler von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, das Merzbild 21b von Kurt Schwitters, Der Wald von Max Ernst, Torturm II von Lyonel Feininger, Die Sieben Todsünden von Otto Dix und der Abtransport der Sphinxe von Max Beckmann. Darüber hinaus zeigt das Museum regelmäßig Sonderausstellungen.

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Flying kites on a chilly day in spring. Actually, I think we were attempting to 'fight' kites, but the synchronizing of the hands was a pure fluke, and pretty comical, if ya ask me.

What's not comical, is the insanity of watching Biden get away with attempting to get OPEC to interfere with our elections by withholding their decision to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day until after the mid-term election next Tuesday. The reason for doing that is because it makes the Democrats look weak on the world stage, and because cutting production WILL push oil and gas prices higher. And even a Democrat can figure out that higher gas prices is a bad thing for him or herself.

That invitation, request, threat, whatever it was, to have OPEC hold their announcement to protect the Democrats and allow them to hold onto power HAS to be an impeachable offense. Even though the POTUS has wide latitude when it comes to foreign policy, there have to be limits.

After all, they impeached Trump simply for asking Ukraine to investigate (not indict, not convict.. simply investigate) the obvious corruption of the Ukrainian business that had Hunter Biden as a board member. Exposing that corruption might have spared us all from the nightmare of a Biden presidency, where he simultaneously calls for unity while calling "MAGA" supporters a threat to democracy.

Tonight, he is accusing Republicans of "erecting gallows on January 6th to hang Vice President Mike Pence", and blaming Republicans for the attack on Paul Pelosi. But somebody put the teleprompter too far to the side, forcing Biden to keep looking to his left and right to read the lies written there, and giving him a shifty, nervous appearance. A lot of liars give themselves away that way - looking around the room to see if people are buying their lies.

This man is an embarrassment to America, but especially to those who were duped into believing he was just good ol' "middle of the road" Joe. I'd *like* to believe most of America sees through the lies and cheap shots, but I worry.

Italian postcard by RA, no. 2052. Photo: Varischi Artico & Co. Milano.

Mercedes Brignone (1885-1967) was an Italian theatre, film and television actress. She was a major star in Italian silent cinema of the 1910s and early 1920s. In the 1930s and early 1940s she often played secondary parts in Italian sound films.

Mercedes Brignone was born in Madrid in 1885 as the daughter of Italian stage actor Giuseppe Brignone. Already as a child she started to perform with her father and became a lively comical actress. In 1903 she married actor Uberto Palmarini with whom she worked in the same theatre company. Probably her first film role was in the short Il marito in campagna (Milano 1912), which co-starred Umberto Mozzato. It was an adaptation of the French boulevard comedy Le mari à la campagne by Bayard and De Vally. From 1914 she had a steady career in Italian films, first in shorts but soon in feature-length films. Brignone starred in these films, which in 1914 were all Milano productions, often directed by Baldassarre Negroni and often with Livio Pavanelli and Palmarini co-acting (such as La corsa all’abisso/The Pace That Kills, La dote del burattinaio/The Puppet’s Dowry, Il re dell’Atlantico, Vizio atavico; all 1914). In 1914/ 1915 Brignone left Milano and played at one company after another. In 1915 she played in Mezzanotte by Augusto Genina and the adaptation of Salvatore Di Giacomo’s play A San Francisco, directed and co-acted by Gustavo Serena. In 1916 Brignone played in Medusa velata (Ugo De Simone), Espiazione (Mario Corte) and La Gioconda (Eleuterio Rodolfi). While reunited with Palmarini in Medusa velata and playing with her brother Guido and his wife Lola Visconti Brignone in Espiazione, Brignone acted opposite Helena Makowska and Mozzato, the actor of her first film. La Gioconda, based on Gabriele D’Annunzio’s play, narrates the bizarre story of a sculptor (Mozzato) who neglects his wife (Brignone) for his femme fatale-like model (Makowska). When the wife pleas to save her marriage, the model wants to crush the sculpture for which she modelled. The wife tries to save the statue, but looses her hands in doing so. The film is considered lost now even if it was widespread at the time, but postcards of the film still exist.

In 1917 Brignone played in La flotta degli emigranti (Leopoldo Carlucci) co-starring Ileana Leonidoff, Il delitto dell’opera (Rodolfi), Ah! Le donne (Rodolfi), Cause ed effetti (Ugo Gracci), and Amleto/Hamlet (Rodolfi), which starred monstre sacré of the Italian stage Ruggero Ruggeri as Hamlet opposite Brignone as Queen Gertrude and Makowska as Ophelia. Some years ago the film was found back and restored. By then Rodolfi had founded his own company for which Brignone did various films: after Amleto followed Un dramma di Vittoriano Sardou (1918), La signora Rebus (1918), La maestrina (1919), Il buon Samaritano (1919), Federica d’Illiria (1919), the remake of Il marito in campagna (with Mario Almirante directing instead of Rodolfi), Il mio amante (Almirante 1920), La lotta per la vita (Guido Brignone 1920), Il privilegio dell’amore (Rodolfi 1921), and Il quadro di Osvaldo Mars (Brignone 1921). In the latter film, Mercedes Brignone is a countess who discovers there is a daring painting about to be exposed publicly, which shows her in a Salome outfit and nothing much more. She cuts the painting to pieces but is also accused of the murder of the painter Osvaldo Mars (Domenico Serra). The film was found back in South-America by the Bologna film archive and restored by them. Il quadro di Osvaldo Mars intriguingly shows the double nature of the countess: restrained and violent, but Brignone also plays a double role of the lookalike of the countess, a farmer’s wife who leaves husband and child to climb the social ladder.

Guido Brignone, who had been active as film director from 1916 on, had already started to direct his sister in the film Il perfetto amore (1918) for the Cines company. After Il quadro di Osvaldo Mars he directed her again in Le campane di San Lucio (1921). After that, Mercedes Brignone became not star but co-star of Il segreto del morto (Luigi Romano Borgnetto 1922) with Carlo Aldini and Liliana Ardea, I due sergenti (Brignone 1922) with Giovanni Cimara and Vasco Creti – the film was based on a popular French novel, often filmed in Italy - and Maciste e il nipote d’America (Rodolfi 1924), with Bartolomeo Pagano, of course.

Mercedes Brignone returned to film as a governess in the first Italian sound film, La canzone dell'amore (1930), starring Dria Pola. By now Brignone had to satisfy with smaller parts, as in Nerone (Alessandro Balsetti 1930) starring Ettore Petrolini, La stella del cinema (Almirante 1931) with Leda Gloria, Corte d’Assise (Brignone 1931) with Marcella Albani, Rubacuori (Brignone 1931) with Armando Falconi and Tina Lattanzi, Seconda B (Goffredo Alessandrini) with Maria Denis and Sergio Tofano, Il serpente a sonagli (Raffaele Matarazzo 1935) with Nino Besozzi, La marcia nuziale (Mario Bonnard 1936) with Kiki Palmer, Teresa Confalonieri (Brignone 1937) with Marta Abba, Vivere (Brignone 1938) with Tito Schipa, L’antenato (Brignone 1938) with Paola Barbara, the comedy Il marchese di Ruvolito (Matarazzo 1939) with Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo, Il documento (Mario Camerini 1939) with Ruggeri, Falconi and Denis, Torna, caro ideal! (Brignone 1939) with Claudio Gora, Cenerentola e il signor Bonaventura (Sergio Tofano 1941) with Silvana Jachino and Paolo Stoppa, Sant’Elena, piccola isola (Umberto Scarpelli /Renato Simoni 1943) – in which Brignone played Madama Letizia vs. Ruggeri as Bonaparte, La primadonna (Ivo Perilli 1943) starring Anneliese Uhlig and Maria Mercader, and Il fiore sotto gli occhi (Brignone 1944) with Gora and Mariella Lotti.

In the postwar era Mercedes Brignone played with several theatre companies, often performing in comedies, and collaborating with Ruggero Ruggeri and Tino Carraro. She seldom played in films anymore. Last (bit) parts were in Lorenzaccio (Raffaello Pacini 1951) and Vacanze d’inverno (Camillo Mastrocinque/Giualiano Carnimeo 1959). For RAI radio she acted in Aurelia (Enzo Ferrieri 1949), while on television she was visible in two stage plays (Romanticismo, 1954, and Pane altrui, 1957) and participated as Olga in the musical spectacle Biblioteca di Studio Uno: Al Grand Hotel (1964) and as Signora Biron in the episode L’affare Picpus (1965) in the series Le inchieste del commissario Maigret, starring Gino Cervi. Mercedes Brignone died in 1967 in Milan. As sister of director and actor Guido Brignone she was the aunt of his daughter, actress Lilla Brignone.

Sources: Italian Wikipedia, IMDB, Vittorio Martinelli, Il cinema muto italiano.

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Comically proportioned and extremely crude model of the Ford Sierra XR4I by Suntoys. Part of a 30 vehicle set. Mint and boxed.

Comical postcard with a 1912 postmark, addressed to Rhea Bevier, Albany, Oregon, and signed "Tommy". The car is more like 1906 or 1907. It resembles a Rambler or perhaps a Northern?

Here is a comical depiction of a visit to the Paris Catacombs, which from very early on was a tourist attraction, and perhaps the first place to make death into a spectacle in Paris. More accessible and more mysterious than the cemeteries, the catacombs were a perfect location to transform the morbid into a spectacle. We see that the visitors in this picture are of two classes. The man with the lantern appears to be the guide and of a lower class, while the ladies and the gentlemen in tails appear to be upper class tourists, perhaps not even from Paris. The morbid nature of a catacomb is downplayed in the sketch, with a silly practical joke being portrayed. Also, the fact that ladies are even pictured in the location is making a statement about what kind of place one should conceive the catacombs to be.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

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Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

From watching Buzzards above the moors near Harden Moss to following a heron on the canal with a few comical goats thrown in I didn't have a bad weekend really. The Buzzards seemed to appear out of nowhere as usual, moving fast and flying high they took a bit of tracking. The heron on the other hand took an hour to walk from the other side of the reservoir to a point close to me. it stopped at an awkward angle for me to photograph it without me moving and being seen. It then did a short flight to the canal, I moved and sat on a parapet wall above a deep drop in to a canal lock. The heron skipped over the canal and came so close that I had to lean back as far as I could without actually moving and being seen just to get the bird in the frame. At times I could only get partial shots. It them flew past me, almost brushing me and landed nearby on the towpath. Fortunately on this Saturday evening it was quiet and as it walked along the towpath I shadowed it at a distance, it flew in to the canal and was eventually frightened off by dogs. My arms were killing me I'd been holding the lens and camera in front of me non stop for an hour, fighting the cramp in my left arm. The things we do.

The goats on the wall top were a bit of a distraction as I followed three Buzzards messing around in a field near a farm in the afternoon and I snatched a few shots, the one behind was headbutting the others from behind to make them keep moving, very comical.

San Antonio Texas SeaWorld marine mammal park A comical show called The Cannery Row Caper featuring sea lions and Walrus 2012 Shamu oceanarium Amusement Animals Marine life Sea World

With his comical and endearing take on figurative representation, Wu Qiong once again engages in social commentary by creating Laura, a character beyond social convention. Regardless of whether male or female, the moustached figure is resplendent in flamboyant cabaret apparel. The character looks upwards with characteristic facial expressions of closed eyes and open mouths - but seems to exhibit pride and confidence rather than bewildered idealism.

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Great day on the Farne Islands with Hans Davis ( Sadloafer). Complete puffinfest. Wonderfully iconic, these sea birds never fail to captivate. Will soon be leaving the islands to go to sea until next Spring. Magical!

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"Your skin is like an tired". Here Men's beauty salon Hua Feng. Of this shop "No.1 esthetician, Katagiri Ayana" is beaten to death. Can talk to the ghost "investigator Kashiwagi Masahiko lieutenant" is the circumstances 聴収. However slick sales pitch of "Ayana" is in good health even if it becomes a ghost. Disposal to receive counseling to reverse. Yet somehow, I grabbed hold of her "secret" is the key to solve the case!. Investigation begins with a Hall of Fame of the beauty of men, but the suspect just people unusual including "Ijuin colleagues". How and struggle of "timid Kashiwagi-kun!"? Latest excellent condition comical mystery, long-awaited.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

japaneseforeignexchange says:

In the early afternoon, I went to a calligraphy lesson. Little kids know so much kanji, I feel sorry for them, as if part of their childhood as been stolen by their education. It was comical listening to how little boys talk with a "manly" tone, using endings such as "da" and "zo" at the end of a sentence. They're just little kids but probably think it sounds "cool" and "adult-like."

The woman giving calligraphy lessons in her home said I looked like an American doll, and that I had a beautiful smile, which I don't understand because the Japanese people are so fit and beautiful. When I saw her dog, she said this was the first time he had not barked when meeting a new person, and said that it was because he could see my kindness in my face. I was just being myself, and yet was showered with comments. I probably won't meet her again, but she left a strong impression on me. She had such a sweet personality. Making friends in Japan is an art with tradition. I hope I will taking back with me the art of friend-making and gift-giving. The kindness of the Japanese people have really touched me.

After calligraphy lessons, we went my mother's friend's house. When I met her, I could see that she was very passionate about traditional Japanese culture. And sure enough we spend the entire time looking through albums of pictures of people wearing kimonos and visiting special places in Japan. If my mother is able to take me, the woman will dress me up in the kimonos she owns (some ten thousand dollars!) and take pictures. I told her I was really impressed by how she melds the old with the new, and that her passion radiates to other people, and she keeps culture alive. Her son was really cute. I thought he was 25 or so, but then I learned he was the same age. How can he be so buff at such a young age? But like all young Japanese guys, he was also incredibly shy.

I asked my grandmother a lot of questions today. I think she probably has an unique perspective because she has lived through a world war, and watched a country change dramatically. Grandmother's generational (through-out the world) has seen things such as TV introduced, and know what life was like beforehand. It was sad to hear that Japanese school has always been strict, and that her teacher used to hit the students with rulers. Today on TV, I saw a coast-guard trainer kick a student repeatedly. Sometimes people can be a bit extreme.

In the early morning, a taifun will go over Wakayama. To be honest, I'm a little excited. It was supposed to come this evening. I heard the door rattling, and screamed, but it was only Grandma, who laughed when I told her I thought she had been the taifun. I am confined to my sister's island, because walking through the courtyard is apparently dangerous because things fly at you.

Four or so days ago, there was a small earthquake. I started banicking, wondering where I should take cover (there really is nothing. Japanese tables are too low), but it stopped quickly. And a day or two later, there had been a lightning storm. Noticing it had been following me home from school, I had stopped using my umbrella, which, in a practical sense, is a metal rod. I was so close to the house when a huge boom sounded right above me. I saw the bolt go over me at an angle into an area beyond a few houses or so. Pretty exciting stuff, I must say . . .

My new host family are sweethearts. They're releived that I'm not like their previous host students. My host sister, whom I share a room with, has such a direct, say-it-as-it-is American personality. She just returned from the U.S. two weeks ago.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Paestum is two hours down the autostrada from Pompeii but the contrast is almost comical. A day earlier we had been suffocating in Pompeii, failing miserably to dodge tour guides and being barked at by the custodians. The next day we were on our own in the wide open green spaces of Paestum, sharing a picnic on the steps of a temple with the security guard

The site is so far off the tourist track that it is almost invisible. What they miss is one of the greatest Hellenic sites, the three Doric temples dedicated to Hera and Athena are among the best preserved Greek temples anywhere. But don’t tell them......

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That evening we stayed at the charming resort down of Sta Maria Castellabate on the sandy (and uncrowded) Cilento coast

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so our yearly photos were last night. as is usually for the barrett family, it was comical.

first, i hadn't figured out outfits until yesterday. yes, i had 5 months but that is besides the point. you know I detest shopping in any form. but I got it figured out and, I must say, we all looked pretty darn cute in the practice run

second, this place was in rochester hills. which is fine; except for 6pm on a friday. I left as SOON as the kids got out of school thinking there might be a little traffic. Ummmm..... 2 hours!!!! 2 hours to go 68 miles. Uggh. I generally have a tad of road rage. :) i like to drive fast and I don't like people in my way. so this was really no fun. except that the kids were super great and we listened to good music... so i guess it wasn't all that bad.

third, i had to eat mcdonalds. barf. enough said. but after two hours it was the only choice in the 10 minutes we had before meeting the photog

fourth, and this is the big one. We get there and I dress the kids (you can't let kids wear their clothes for a car ride and feed them) in their 'formal attire'. guess who forgot his pants??? yep, the boy. the boy from space who forgets just about everything on every single day. I had to leave the van and take an adult walk. and call my sister. who laughed and said 'it wouldn't be authentic if Q didn't forget something.' then i let it go. and q wore his gray track pants with grass and grease stains. *sigh*

fifth... we had a great time. its odd to be the receipient of a family session. i'm thinking all the time about what lens she has, is the light good here, where are the highlights, do we look like ourselves.... honestly. i can't wait to see what she saw :) besides 5 goofballs who are loud and busy!!

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

January 22, 2014: A group of Adélie Penguins on the shores of Detaille Island on northern end of the Arrowsmith Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. [DSC_2322]

Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!

LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.

Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!

Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!

Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.

Handcrafted wedding cake toppers that are custom made to the client's spefications.

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Comical windvane seen in Salisbury.

This folio went over like a lead balloon. It was comical satirical and serious mixed with transitional decay during socio-economic change while also a satire of the vacuously introspective '70's.

The here and now being the hereafter has been a lifelong urge for history to be documented as it happens to ensure future accuracy. This folio was a light hearted example of professional application for these new Art School courses. But instead of responsibly demonstrating such opportunities, lecturers did the irresponsible opposite by psychologically preventing them entering students' minds through constant scathing remarks against vocational photography.

So what did they think was the purpose of this course? and,

How the hell were students going to make a living from their professional training?

I was outnumbered and privately furious with their expensive irresponsibility. It was costing students their whole lives ahead with many convinced that profit from their art was evil. Some became quite vitriolic.

The folio was also a reaction against lazy students who were praised for "folios" of shots from one roll taken of the same subject to represent six months' work. Their submissions were dialogues of appropriated superficial rhetoric and not visual communication.

Those apathetic '70's were as intellectually oppressive as as any dictatorship. After six semesters of censorship by ambient ignorance, I was absolutely livid and fed up with living in these "deep and meaningful" '70's, so produced this parody. But the satire backfired against the overwhelming ignorance.

This former Mobil station was tucked away from everything in Wellington St St Kilda. It was close to home so photography conditions could be selected. This north-west view against the sun produced the most texture but the lightest sky, however, the arrow cloud with the prospect of 200% darkroom burning convinced me this would help the final devastated statement.

Ugly two storey flats in '70's tumbled bricks now occupy this site opposite Crimea St.

Photo by Sharleen Benoit

...attacks the unsuspecting rubber chicken. And, as if the chicken wasn't already limp enough, the plump purple clad, bug-eyed alien savagely twisted and wrung its neck while grunting, moaning and seemingly enjoyed the process of destroying the fabricated fowl.

This band of musical terrestrials was entertaining but when the lead singer pulled out the chicken and his bizarre antics with that began, well, the show turned comical and then hilarious. Perhaps it was the unexpectedness of the action - up until that, they were just a colourful musical/comedy act, simply clownish.

Maybe that's what makes comedy side-splitting, when it's unexpected. The element of surprise or shock, like the pie-in-your-face or the guy who slips on the banana peel or the comic who, relating the story, has a great and surprising last line.

The Just for Laughs Festival is one of my favourite festivals and already, I've been twice, just to walk around the site and spend day and evening, taking in the colours, comedy and joie de vivre. Montrealers love their city, are endlessly grateful for summer and really put on a great show; the Just for Laughs festival is one of those, one of several dozen that runs on the sizzling days and sultry nights of our glorious summer.

"The largest comedy festival in the world invites you to Montréal. Every summer, the festival tickles the city into a laughing frenzy with galas, street art, theatre productions, and stand-up performances. Hosting some 1,700 artists from 19 countries as well as over 2 million festival-goers, Just For Laughs offers 1,600 performances, including 1,200 free outdoor shows."

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Said to be The oldest pub in Sandown est. 1857