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The shadow of an unknown soldier projected onto the walls of the Tower of London surrounded by candles.
This painting has been variously attributed to Delacroix, Fromentin and to Marie-Guillemine Benoist. Although now unattributed, it is thought to be by a French hand and of the later 19th century.
[Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 66.7 cm]
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...the Mage was fearing for his life, the queen was adamant in her decision to strap him on to that hellfire-machine he had invented...
...still he had an ace up his sleeve, the sparks he had stumbled up on in his tower, he was gonna use them to convince the queen and the people that he was a real mage, a mighty warlock, and if they didn´t cancel the launch he would fry the whole capital with sparks turning the town in to an infernal mayhem...
But for this he needed a bit of planning, he knew the launch site, since the queen was stupid enough to announce it to the whole town so the could be there and watch what would maybe be his last experiment?
....with this plan he giggled a bit in a nervous way, now he would not only fool the grim reaper of his departure in to the misty land, he would also get the power he always had deserved when he "reveal his true magic" for the population, perhaps he would be crowned king, or even better emperor and all would fear him...
so the hours passed and the queens men came to collect him, he was still giggling a bit under his white beard, the soldiers though he had gone a bit more loopy than usual... and perhaps senile too...
when they arrived at the scene for the launch, he saw that almost all people in town had gathered for the even, the queen was seated in a palanquin so she could see over the mob of her loyal subjects...
The mage made sure to stand on the wire hidden by the dust on the street so that he would connect it to the metallic scaffolding underneath his wizard -gown...
The queen asked him if he had any final wish, and corrected herself and said, any specific wish before your departure to the moon,my dear mage?
the Mage Replied: Esmeralda I have, I have a wish to display my true forces for you and the people, this is a waning to all of you, my power are mighty, Make me your new leader or suffer the consequences!
...now was the time when he would display an arc of electric fire, scaring the queen and the people... but some kids had disrupted his circuit earlier that day while playing "launch the wizard" earlier that day...
the result was that he stood there moving his arms like a fool...
...all the people laughed, so did the queen...
She said: "yes I have seen your mighty magic it is as void as always...!
Somehow she pitied this old fool... perhaps she should spare him a certain death?
but now the executioners (doing this work too) strapped him to the rocket...
the mob of people was cheering as in one single voice: Blast him, Blast the phony mage to the moon or perhaps to hell...!!!
Now they queen Had started thinking, am I really this cruel? she was thinking of the monkey, would she do the same to him that he was planning to do to the poor animal, no she couldn´t, perhaps he should do some time in the slammer instead until he repented? she whispered to her man-at-arms to go and stop the executioners...
at this time the fish mongrel dropped a fish he had forgotten under his shirt it hit the point of broken circuitry and unified it, a great amount of power was instantly lead to the wizard strapped to the rocker... it ignited his experiment and off he was...
Kaboooom!!!
...again he got to see the world leave as a small blue orb and the moon became an ever bigger orb in front of him... then he passed out out of fear and actually the rocket went almost all the way to the moon, but lacked the power to break earths attraction so down he came towards the earth again...
now let us move to a different place on earth, somewhere called the buffalo plains by the locals in their language...
Three hunters are on their way home from a failed hunt...
- Hey Jumping Tiger, look here, what a strange crater, it is almost like something fell from the sky with great force...
- Owl Hooters that might be one of those fragile colorless ones that uncle Hurting-Liver was taking about when he came back from the salty lake without water?
- Hey you shouldn´t believe all that your strange uncle tells you, the strange stuff he is brewing is poison to his brain and his stories are as weird as our creation myths...
- Oh he went to shaman university, he studied there for five years...
- Yeah but that university is not exactly Princeton is it, it is just a place for odd bums like your uncle, just a wee bit to sane to put in the sanatarium...
- Hey, Beaver-Pelt look there in the middle of the Crater, just beside those cactuses
- Cacti, didn´t you go to university?
- Hey look at it, his it is a humanoid, but not one of those frail colorless ones... this one has a skin like old parchment!
- poke him with your spear?
- He is alive isn´t he?
- we will take him to our medicine man, he might know what to do?
Perhaps we should use him as that gargoyle from the totem pole that your uncle ruined when he was under the influence of that poison he brews and drinks...
- Yeah tie him up, the council of elders will know what to do...
- at the least we won´t come back empty handed to our village again or hunt down that hedgehog over there...
Ford Thomas Minotour. Ex. Pleasant Valley School District- First Student contract 140.
I just want to point out the wild ways in which the world works. When I went on my school's rafting trip three years ago, at least one of their busses was from this same district. Now, three years later, I find this random bus, in NYC no less, and it could have come from anywhere else in the country- but its from the SAME PLACE! The odds are astronomical.
Photographed and viewed this old Linn Tractor at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum located in Austin Manitoba Canada.
The Linn tractor is a heavy duty civilian half-track or crawler tractor invented by Holman Harry Linn. Approximately 2500 units were built in Morris, New York, USA from 1916 to 1952.
I don't know if she is re-creating a previously known Sith or something original but she definitely had this "black widow" vibe going on with her costume and attitude. *thumbs up*
She had a very nice light-up lightsaber but it was a bit... pink and too polished for the look she was emoting. So I kicked it up a bit with the Elemental Action script (creates some really striking fire and ice effects). Now it looks more raw and untempered in appearance.
Thankfully, someone tagged the cosplayer (Kay Victoria).
Unknown loco,undated picture and at an unknown location. Well,it's certainly a Class 33,most probably on a Cardiff to Portsmouth service (or vice versa) and possibly in the Bathampton area late 1980s.
Met & shot this beautiful Kiwi girl at the Louvre in Paris. Forgot to ask for her name though.
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Very small.... about 1/2"........ shows as brilliant orange in flight......there were quite a few around, landing on leaves.
2011 (?) Bluebird All American A3FE. Ex. Wadsworth City School District of Medina County...Ohio! Of all the places for this to wind up, it happened to be in the Bronx, New York, near a route I take somewhat often! I don't even know what the odds were, but this was so not likely. Unknown what it is being used for now; probably some conversion to something.
Nicholas Lanier, a true Renaissance polymath, one of the most influential court musicians of the seventeenth century, was Master of the King’s Musick, as well as an accomplished artist and collector, given free reign to shape the Royal collection for Charles I, and given ear to the social élite, rumoured to be involved in political and ambassadorial espionage.
This extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary man at the beginning of his career, is unprecedented in its virtuosity within the context of English painting at this time, and opens a window upon the culture and connoisseurship of an individual at the vanguard of artistic expression in Jacobean England. As yet the attribution remains an enigma, however this intriguing portrait was clearly painted by a highly accomplished artist, who moved in the same artistic circle as his sitter, and with whom Lanier closely collaborated in fashioning this important image.
[Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 90.5 x 72 cm]
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