Christina Georgina Rossetti: Who has seen the wind? (A Poetry Comic by Nora...
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.The Great Bell of Chion-in Temple, Kyoto. Description from historic lecture booklet: "You are in the eastern outskirts of Kyoto; the city proper lies behind you to the west. The trees you see between...
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.Dorothy Day: photographer unknown, 1934 (New York World Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress)The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you...
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.Jeemy the moose, Scotland. This wee mouse was nearly tinker's tea. He was sitting a few inches below the cat and was frozen in fear!: photo by Louise Grant (Looby lou), 28 December 2006 (National...
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.Any spare change pls (street pennywhistle player): photo by Fiona Alton, 14 May 2010 (National Archives UK) He cut a sappy sucker from the muckle rodden-tree,He trimmed it, an’ he wet it, an’ he...
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.Hong Kong Skyline, panoramic view: photoby David Iliff, 2007 for Jesse Edmund Schiff. . . that the rushing.byway...................the...
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.Store window, Berlin, New Hampshire: photo by Charles Steinhacker, June 1973 When the mist cleared they found themselves in the street Dust and bits of broken glass and metal their twisting carpetAnd...
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.Pop singer Miley Cyrus performs "Party in the U.S.A.", wearing black hotpants suit and a denim vest, atop a luggage cart, at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon, as part of her 2009 Wonder World Tour:...
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. Lightning strikes on the Bronx viewed from the Empire State Building, New York City: photo by Hermann Luyken, 7 June 2008I hang my hat in my own house of horrorsmy luxurious hacienda(pick one)There...
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.Dwellers in Hooverville, Circleville, Ohio: photo by Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Summer 1938, for U.S. Farm Security Administration Circleville, county seat of Pickaway County. Average small Ohio city,...
View ArticleSquaring the Circle: Intrusion, Dispossession, Supercession at "Burning...
.Southern side of the Luthor List Mound, aka "Burning Indian Mound" or "Signal Mound", built by the prehistoric Adena culture, located northeast of the junction of the Kingston Pike and Hitler Road #2...
View ArticleWiliam Strode: The River's Clouded Glory (On the Ohio, 1972)
.Paddle wheel steamboats docked at the new Louisville waterfront on the Ohio River, May 1972The beautiful river Ohio, bounds Kentucke in its whole length, being a mile and sometimes less in breadth,...
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.Atria, Belz Factory Outlet Mall, Allen, Texas; closed 1987, demolished 20 May 2010: photo by Justin Cozart, 28 March 2009The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death....
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.Blindman's Buff (detail): Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1775-80, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington)The mind, which Voluntary doubts molestAsks but its own permission to be blest.Samuel...
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