Dragon and Mounted Knight

The dragon or winged serpent has formed a part in many creeds, and the dragon-slayer has been the hero of countless legends. The legend varies with climate and country, and with the development of the race in which it is found; and yet the prophecies of the Bible of the ultimate bruising of the serpent's head and the final victory over the dragon (" That old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan " Rev. xx. 2); the legends of classic days, such as that of Perseus and Andromeda; the still older struggles recorded in the slabs of Nineveh and Persepolis; the stories narrated to awed rings of listeners in the stillness of the Eastern night, or listened to by our children with eager eyes and rapt attention in the homes of England; the mass of legend that in mediaeval times clustered around the names of God's faithful ones; and the local traditions of every land, from the equator to the poles, all dwell on the mischievous presence of some evil principle and record the ultimate triumph of good.

Beneath the mass of ever-varying fable stands the like foundation, the strife between the two antagonistic principles; and thus the wide world over, in every age and in every clime, the mind of man, in broken accents, it may be, and with faltering tongue, records with joy its upward struggle, feels the need of help in the sore conflict, registers its belief in final triumph. Though the dragon-conflict occurs in many literatures, the same incidents occur over and over again, and we find in almost all the power and subtlety of the monster, the innocence and helplessness of his victims, the suddenness of his attack on them, and the completeness of his final overthrow, the dragon-slayers being the conquerors over tyranny and wrong and" every form of evil.

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IMAGE CREDIT: Progress, Volume 3 Author: University Association, Chicago. Publisher: University Association., 1897. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: Nov 22, 2006. Subjects: Economics, Literature, Religion.

TEXT CREDIT: Myth-land, Author: Frederick Edward Hulme. Publisher: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. Original from: the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized: Feb 28, 2008. Length: 243 pages. Subjects: Animals, Animals, Legends and stories of Animals, Mythical, Folklore.

Time Warner Center Columbus Circle New York City

Time Warner Center Columbus Circle New York City - Looking west from 59th street and Broadway. April 26, 2012

The development of the former Coliseum site, at the southwest corner of Central Park features a combination of distinct urban land use elements to create mixed-use development. Each element of this mixed land use fits together offering New York City and the world a unique place to live, work, shop and be entertained," said Stephen M. Ross, chairman and CEO of The Related Companies, L.P., one of the development partners.

The $1.7 billion project, called Time Warner Center, was developed by Columbus Centre LLC, The partnership consists of The Related Companies, L.P. and Apollo Real Estate Advisors, L.P.

GMAC Commercial Mortgage provided financing for the project. The $1.3 billion loan was the largest loan ever made for a private development project in the United States.

The 2.8 million square foot development combines:

Time Warner World Headquarters which include office and studio space of 865,000 square feet for the world's largest media company, with state-of-the-art digital production and broadcast facilities for live transmission of CNN and CNNfn.

The Shops at Columbus Circle, a retail venue of 347,000 leasable square feet consisting of shops, restaurants, entertainment uses and public spaces.

The Residences consist of 191 luxury condominiums offering views of Central Park and high levels of amenities and services.

One Central Park condominiums and The Residences at the Mandarin Oriental, New York. 201 luxury condominiums. Location, design, services and amenities, views of Central Park, the Hudson River and the city skyline.

Mandarin Oriental, New York consisting of 251 guestrooms and meeting room facilities. The hotel has banquet facilities and public spaces with views of Central Park.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, which houses the first and only performance spaces in the world, created specifically for jazz performances. The spaces include 3 main performance venues totaling 1,970 seats, recording studios and classroom space.

Class A office space of 211,000 square feet rentable square feet, offers views of Central Park and advanced mechanical and technological amenities and services. The corporate offices of the development partners, The Related Companies L.P., and Apollo Real Estate Advisors, L.P. are located in the space, in addition to providing rental space for other corporate tenants.

Parking to accommodate 504 cars with 24 hour valet service available in three below grade levels.

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Pioneer 10 Jupiter, Saturn, and interstellar spacecraft IMAGES

Pioneer 10 Jupiter, Saturn, and interstellar spacecraft FREE IMAGES - April 27, 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10. Classification: Flyby spacecraft.

Mission: Jupiter, Saturn, and interstellar space.

Features: Pioneer 10 and 11 launched in 1972 and 1973, and penetrated the asteroid belt. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to study Jupiter and its environment, and obtain spin-scan images of the planet. Pioneer 11 also encountered Jupiter, and went on to become the first to encounter Saturn, its rings and moons. Pioneers 10 and 11 are still operative in the far reaches of the outer solar system, and are still being tracked in November 1995. Pioneer 11's science operations and daily telemetry ceased on September 30, 1995 when the RTG power level was insufficient to operate any experiments. It is likely that Pioneer 10 will follow suit around the time of this publication in November 2000, as recent attempts to track it have been largely unsuccessful.

Stabilization: Spin stabilized.

This mission was the first to be sent to the outer solar system and the first to investigate the planet Jupiter, after which it followed an escape trajectory from the solar system. The spacecraft achieved its closest approach to Jupiter on 04 December 1973, when it reached approximately 2.8 Jovian radii (about 200,000 km).

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Columbus Circle, Broadway at 61st street NYC COLOR PHOTO

Columbus Circle, Broadway at 61st street NYC FREE COLOR PHOTO. Columbus Circle, Broadway at 61st street, looking south. April 25, 2012 10:15 am

Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, is a major landmark and point of attraction in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59th Street), and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park. It is the point from which all official distances from New York City are measured. The name is also used for the neighborhood a few blocks around the circle in each direction. To the south of the circle lies Hell's Kitchen, also known as "Clinton", and the Theatre District, and to the north is the Upper West Side.

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Cinderella heard the clock strike twelve COLOR IMAGE

Cinderella heard the clock strike twelve FREE COLOR IMAGE - The next evening the two sisters went to the ball, and Cinderella also, who was still more splendidly dressed than before. Her enjoyment was even greater than at the first ball, and she was so occupied with the Prince’s tender sayings that she was not so quick in marking the progress of time.

To her alarm she heard the clock strike twelve. She fled from the ball-room; but in a moment the coach changed again to a pumpkin, the horses to mice, the coachman and postilion to rats, the footmen to lizards, and Cinderella’s beautiful dress to her old shabby clothes. In her haste she dropped one of her glass slippers, and reached home, out of breath, with none of her godmother’s fairy gifts but one glass slipper.

When her sisters arrived after the ball, they spoke in terms of rapture of the unknown Princess, and told Cinderella about the little glass slipper she had dropped, and how the Prince picked it up. It was evident to all the Court that the Prince was determined if possible, to find out the owner of the slipper; and a few days afterwards a royal herald proclaimed that the King’s son would marry her whose foot the glass slipper should be found exactly to fit.

This proclamation caused a great sensation. Ladies of all ranks were permitted to make a trial of the slipper; but it was of no use. Cinderella now said, “Let me try—perhaps it may fit me.” It slipped on in a moment. Great was the vexation of the two sisters at this; but what was their astonishment when Cinderella took the fellow slipper out of her pocket!

At that moment the godmother appeared, and touched Cinderella’s clothes with her wand. Her sisters then saw that she was the beautiful lady they had met at the ball, and, throwing themselves at her feet, craved her forgiveness.

Author: Edward Dalziel, 1817-1905; George Dalziel, 1815-1902. Subject: Conduct of life Publisher: London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons. Year: 1865. Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT, Language: English, Call number: srlf_ucla:LAGE-1008122. Digitizing sponsor: msn. Book contributor: University of California Libraries. Collection: cdl; yrlsc; iacl; americana.

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Hank Aaron

On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron hit the first home run of his Major League Baseball career. On April 8, 1974, Aaron hit career home run number 715 off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing, breaking Babe Ruth’s long-standing record of 714

Description: Milwaukee Braves outfielder and Hall of Famer Hank Aaron in a 1960 issue of Baseball Digest. Date: December 1960. Source Baseball Digest, page 19, December 1960 issue. Author: unknown

Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully addressed the racial tension — or apparent lack thereof — in his call of the home run:

"What a marvelous moment for baseball; what a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia; what a marvelous moment for the country and the world. A black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. And it is a great moment for all of us, and particularly for Henry Aaron. … And for the first time in a long time, that poker face in Aaron shows the tremendous strain and relief of what it must have been like to live with for the past several months."

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Earth Day's 42nd anniversary COLOR IMAGE

Earth Day's 42nd anniversary FREE COLOR IMAGE: NASA is taking part in the celebration of Earth Day's 42nd anniversary on the National Mall in Washington from April 20 through April 22. The agency's involvement includes three consecutive days of activities and exhibits open to the public. Additional activities are scheduled at nearby NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

NASA's Earth Science Mission seeks to understand Earth's systems and their responses to natural and anthropogenic (human-made) changes. A fleet of satellites in NASA's Earth Observing System gives scientists the global, long-term measurements they need to connect the atmosphere (air), lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water), cryosphere (snow/ice), and biosphere (life) as a single system. NASA works with many other partners from government, industry, academia, and international space agencies on the satellite missions that make up the EOS series. (Credit: NASA)

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72d Street Subway Station New York City COLOR PHOTO

72d Street Subway Station New York City FREE COLOR PHOTO -April 23, 2012 11:15 AM. Looking south down Broadway and Amsterdam from Verdi Square. The newer half of the station completed on October 29, 2002 is in the foreground. The older station seen lower left opened on October 27, 1904, as part of the original subway, with trains running from Brooklyn Bridge to 137th Street

72nd Street is an express station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Broadway, 72nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue (including Verdi Square and Sherman Square) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It is served by the 1, 2 and 3 trains at all times.

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New York Highlanders Opening Day at Hilltop Park PHOTO

Opening Day at Hilltop Park New York Highlanders FREE PHOTO IMAGE Title: [Opening Day at Hilltop Park, New York; NY Highlanders (AL) & Philadelphia Athletics warming up (baseball)] Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher Date Created / Published: [1908 April 14] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-00301 (digital file from original neg.)

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Notes: Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: N.Y. Americans warming up before first game - N.Y. vs. Philadelphia, New York, April 14, 1908. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Corrected title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

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The beast of Revelation

The beast which John saw had not only seven heads, but ten crowned horns. These signify the ten kingdoms into which, on its being broken up, the western Roman empire was divided. It follows that the beast which John saw rising out of the sea was not pagan Rome, nor imperial Rome, but papal Rome. It was Rome after its imperial head had been wounded to death by the incursions of the Goths—after it had been divided into ten separate governments or kingdoms—and after its deadly wound had been healed by crowning the Pontiff, and making him sovereign of a considerable part of Italy.

It was this imperial papal Rome which afterwards "opened its mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven." It was this power which "made war with the saints, and overcame them," and which all the wicked of the earth have been inclined to follow and to worship.—The Apocalypse Explained, p. 134.

Having identified the man of sin, the little horn, and the wild beast as one and the same power, and that the papacy, it is well to note the oppressive conduct of the wild beast insofar as it affects the church and people of God:

1. "All the world wondered after the beast."

2. "And they (the world) worshiped the beast."

3. "And power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations."

4. "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them."

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Black eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta)

black-eyed susan - ‘Golden Jubilee’ black eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) is a beautiful native wildflower that has been domesticated for use in the Northeast. It can be direct seeded in a mixture with other erosion control plants for roadside plantings or similar disturbed areas associated with construction. It can be seeded in solid stands.

‘Golden Jubilee’ was collected along Interstate 91, south of Westminster, Vermont. Following extensive comparison with other native and commercial strains, it was released cooperatively by the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Maine Department of Transportation.

‘Golden Jubilee’ black-eyed susan usually grows about 3 feet tall. The leaves are more or less oblong, and the plants are rough and hairy on all parts. The flower heads have yellow or orange rays and dark brown spherical centers. Blooming occurs from June to September.

This plant is usually a bi-annual. It establishes a seedling the first year, produces flowers and seed the second, and then dies. This life cycle may be influenced by climatic location.

It may be a short-lived perennial in the southern part of its region of adaptation and an annual in the northern region. ‘Golden Jubilee’ is a re-seeding plant. Once it becomes established and produces a seed crop, new seedlings develop the following year. Under normal circumstances the re-seeding could continue indefinitely, unless there are drastic environmental or site changes. As competing vegetation increase, there will be a corresponding reduction in the number of black-eyed susan plants.

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Emancipation Day Washington, D.C. April 16 PHOTO IMAGES

Emancipation Day Washington, D.C. - Act of April 16, 1862. FREE PHOTO IMAGES (For the Release of Certain Persons Held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia)

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed this bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this act came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to conclusion decades of agitation aimed at ending what antislavery advocates called "the national shame" of slavery in the nation's capital. The law provided for immediate emancipation, compensation to loyal Unionist masters of up to $300 for each freed slave, voluntary colonization of former slaves to colonies outside the United States, and payments of up to $100 to each person choosing emigration.

Over the next nine months the federal government granted almost $1 million for the freedom of approxiamtely 3,100 former slaves. The District of Columbia Emancipation Act is the only example of compensated emancipation in the United States. Though its three-way approach of immediate emancipation, compensation, and colonization did not serve as a model for the future, it was an early signal of slavery's death. Emancipation was greeted with great jubilation by the District's African-American community. For many years afterward, black Washingtonians celebrated Emancipation Day on April 16 with parades and festivals.

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Production Date(s): 04/16/1862. Part Of: Series: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, compiled 1789 - 2008. MLR Number: A-1 5A (1789-1823 segment), A-1 5B (1824-1956 segment) (...)

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R.M.S. Titanic

The history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had read accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness and luxury; had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that such a comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed and built — the "unsinkable lifeboat"; — and then in a moment to hear that it had gone to the bottom as if it had been the veriest tramp steamer of a few hundred tons; and with it fifteen hundred passengers, some of them known the world over! The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity.

If its history had to be written in a single paragraph it would be somewhat as follows:—

"The R.M.S. Titanic was built by Messrs. Harland & Wolff at their well-known shipbuilding works at Queen's Island, Belfast, side by side with her sister ship the Olympic. The twin vessels marked such an increase in size that specially laid-out joiner and boiler shops were prepared to aid in their construction, and the space usually taken up by three building slips was given up to them. The keel of the Titanic was laid on March 31,1909, and she was launched on May 31,1911; she passed her trials before the Board of Trade officials on March 31, 1912, at Belfast, arrived at Southampton on April 4, and sailed the follow3

ing Wednesday, April 10, with 2208 passengers and crew, on her maiden voyage to New York. She called at Cherbourg the same day, Queenstown Thursday, and left for New York in the afternoon, expecting to arrive the following Wednesday morning. But the voyage was never completed. She collided with an iceberg on Sunday at 11.45 P.m. in Lat. 41° 46' N. and Long. 50° 14' W., and sank two hours and a half later; 815 of her passengers and 688 of her crew were drowned and 705 rescued by the Carpathia."

Titanic - From a photograph taken in Belfast Harbour. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, New York.

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: The Loss of the SS. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons. Author: Lawrence Beesley. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: Oct 3, 2008. Length: 301 pages.

"RUR" Rossum's Universal Robots

"RUR" Rossum's Universal Robots - Title: Federal Theatre - Marionette Theatre presents "RUR" Remo Bufano director. Creator(s): Verschuuren, Charles, artist Related Names: Bufano, Remo. Date Created / Published: [New York : Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1939] Medium: 1 print on board : silkscreen, color.

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.

Summary: Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "RUR" at the Marionette Theatre, showing abstract image with text. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-5045 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-117506 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZC2-1121 (color film copy slide)

Call Number: POS - WPA - NY .V47, no. 4 (B size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 94.

Subjects: Theatrical productions--1930-1940. Puppets--1930-1940. Format: Abstract works--1930-1940. Posters--1930-1940. Screen prints--Color--1930-1940. Collections: Posters: WPA Posters

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Palm Sunday tornadoes 1965

Twin funnels on Palm Sunday Image ID: wea00217, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection. Location: Indiana, Elkhart. Photo Date: 1965 April 11. Photographer: Mr. Paul Huffman. Category: Monsters/Tornadoes/

The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak occurred on April 11th, 1965 with the violent storms tearing through much of the Southern Great Lakes Region and Northern Ohio Valley. The worst hit states were Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. It is the second biggest tornado outbreak on record; 47 confirmed tornadoes resulted in 271 people killed and 3,400 people injured in just a twelve hour span. Damages from the storms mounted to more than 200 million dollars (1.1 billion/2003 dollars). Only the "Super Outbreak" of April 3rd, 1974 was worse.

In the half-day that the event lasted, twisters tasted the ground from Cedar County, Iowa eastward 450 miles to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and from Kent County, Michigan southward two hundred miles to Montgomery County, Indiana. Six states and four dozen counties had tornadoes within their borders. Fifteen weather offices had a busy Sunday as the tornadoes swept through their areas of responsibility.

It had been twelve hours unlike any the region had ever seen before. Nature's most powerful force was displayed with appalling brutality as buildings were reduced to rubble, years of hard work were obliterated in a matter of seconds, and possessions were scattered for miles across the countryside. Twelve hours of terror, of destruction, of death. Tornadoes grew to over a mile wide and F4/F5 intensity as they scoured the landscape clean of human endeavor.

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Nurses at tea

Title: Nurses at tea Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher. Date Created/Published: [no date recorded on caption card] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27157 (digital file from original negative)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

George Grantham Bain Collection, Rights and Restrictions Information. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730. There are no known restrictions on the photographs in the George Grantham Bain Collection. Access: Permitted; subject to P&P policy on serving originals.

Reproduction (photocopying, hand-held camera copying, photoduplication and other forms of copying allowed by "fair use"): Permitted; subject to P&P policy on copying. Publication and other forms of distribution: No known restrictions.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-B2-1234]

Call Number: LC-B2- 4631-6 [P&P] LOT 10834 (Corresponding print:) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Format: Glass negatives. Collections: Bain Collection.

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Nurses in the operating room

Title: Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Nurses in the operating room at the Charlotte Amalie hospital. Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer. Date Created/Published: 1941 Dec. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-047192-D (b&w film neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black & White Photographs (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html)

Publication and other forms of distribution: Permitted. Most photographs in this collection were taken by photographers working for the U.S. Government. Work by the U.S. Government is not eligible for copyright protection (see page 5 of the Copyright Office's Circular 1, "Copyright Basics"). Privacy and publicity rights may apply.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USF34-9058-C]

Call Number: LC-USF34- 047192-D [P&P] Other Number: K 816 Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title and other information from caption card. LOT 0031 (Location of corresponding print). Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Film copy on SIS roll 4, frame 1690.

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Subjects: Virgin Islands of the United States--Saint Thomas--Charlotte Amalie. Format: Safety film negatives. Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives

Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Kraken sea monsters of giant proportions

Kraken sea monsters of giant proportions. Colossal octopus by Pierre Denys de Montfort Pen and wash drawing by malacologist Pierre Dénys de Montfort, 1801, from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola. Many of his sources for the "kraken octopus" probably described the very real giant squid, Architeuthis, proven to exist in 1857.

Kraken are legendary sea monsters of giant proportions said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Iceland. In modern German, Krake (plural and declined singular: Kraken) means octopus but can also refer to the legendary Kraken.

Pierre Denys de Montfort, (1766–1820) was a French naturalist, in particular a malacologist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the giant squid Architeuthis, which was thought to be an old wives' tale, and for which he was long dismissed. He was inspired by a description from 1783 of an eight-metre long tentacle found in the mouth of a sperm whale.

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TEXT CREDIT:

• Pierre Denys de Montfort From Wikipedia
• Kraken From Wikipedia

Riot damage in Washington D.C. following assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Title: Riot damage in D.C. / [WKL]. Creator(s): Leffler, Warren K., photographer. Date Created / Published: 1968 Apr. 16. Medium: 1 negative : film.

Summary: Photograph shows the ruins of a store in Washington, D.C., that was destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-00840 (digital file from original) LC-DIG-ppmsca-03132 (digital file from original)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LC-U9- 18989-7A [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18989, frame 7A.

Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Race riots--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Ruins--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Debris--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970.

Format: Film negatives--1960-1970. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

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The Passover COLOR IMAGE

The Passover FREE COLOR IMAGE The Passover Exodus 12:1-42, Golden Text - The son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many Matthew 20:29.

Title: Picture lessons. Date Created/Published: Philadelphia : American Baptist Publication Society, between 1900 and 1913. Medium: 13 photomechanical prints : color.

Summary: Prints show scenes from Old Testament Biblical stories about Moses's life. The back of each card has a Bible lesson pertaining to the image on the front.

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-15867 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-15868 (digital file from original item, back)

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Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 095 [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title from item. Copyrighted by Providence Lithograph Co.

Subjects: Moses--(Biblical leader)--1900-1920. American Baptist Publication Society--Products--1900-1920. Biblical events--1900-1920. Format: Bible cards--1900-1920. Photomechanical prints--Color--1900-1920. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand

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Contents: 1. The child Moses saved from death, 2. Moses prepared for his work, 3. Moses called to deliver Israel, 4. Moses request refused, 5. The plagues of Egypt, 6. The Passover, 7. Crossing the Red Sea, 8. The bread from heaven, 9. Israel at Mount Sinai, 10. The Ten Commandments, I, 11. The Ten commandments, II, 12. The golden calf. 13. Review - deliverance and disobedience.

Der Schalcksnarr the jester the fool COLOR IMAGE

Der Schalcksnarr the jester the fool COLOR FREE IMAGE: Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger (1513 - 1568), Der Schalcksnarr, the jester, woodcut (hissai), Augsburg around 1540, the Castle Gotha Museum

About his youth nothing is known. His father, Henry Vogt Lord (the elder) was a painter, draftsman, engraver, etcher, printer, publisher, author, song writer and an ophthalmologist. In 1525 the young Mr. Vogt came with his father to Strasbourg , and was probably trained by this artistically and technically. As an assistant he was at his side for several years and worked with 1537/1538 to its successful "art book". About 1540 he settled as a painter and engraver in Augsburg down,the birthplace of his wife Sybilla Steinmaier.

This connection came from seven sons and five daughters. Together with Hans the Younger Burgkmair he worked at the "Augsburg Book of Genealogy", and the engraved title of this work (the emblem of the city of Augsburg) comes from him. Like other Augsburg artists, he was also in the service of the Fugger and worked on behalf of monumental frescoes that adorn many buildings were in Augsburg.

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TEXT RESOURCE: Heinrich Vogtherr der Jüngere