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QUOTE: “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
A writer’s companions: Rosie & Daisy
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Hoax: Man on the Moon Has Wings
From the Italian version of The Great Moon Hoax. Leopoldo Galluzzo, Altre scoverte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschel (Other lunar discoveries from Signor Herschel), Napoli, 1836 (Smithsonian Institution Libraries)
AND BEAVERS CRADLE THEIR BABIES IN THEIR ARMS on the moon!
READ ABOUT THE GREAT MOON HOAX!
CLICK HERE for a long list with links to other proven hoaxes.
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Dogs in Art
QUOTE: “Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.” Jules Feiffer
QUOTE:”If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910), Shepherdess of Houghton Farm, 1878. Watercolor and graphite, with additions in ink and gouache, on cream wove paper, 11 x 19 in. (27.9 x 48.3 cm). Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1955.1483
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. ~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
“In horsemanship, however, he was noted as the most proficient in the Academy. In fact, rider and horse held together like the fabled centaur…” James Longstreet
US Grant was the greatest equestrian president. Everyone says so!
“He was a great horseman and sat his horse as if he were part of the horse, all one figure. There was never a movement of any description that was not masterful and graceful. No one ever saw him disturbed in any way, that is, jolted or taken unaware on horseback, whether he was going fast or slow. He was a born horseman. He had a natural love for animals of all kinds and he was of kindly instincts, without being demonstrative at all, except to his family. He never abused an animal, never.” Corporal M. Harrison Strong Grant, The Equestrian
And then there’s Theodore. Whatever he didn’t possess in grace he made up for with enthusiasm!
Go, TR! Go!
Bully!
Humbug Taft gets rid of Horses
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Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’ and regretted the ‘passing of the horse,’ but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. ~C.W. Anderson
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Evil Seals Killed the Natives! Kill the Seals!!
The pristine heaven on earth created by some people who may have gotten to the “new” world first was destroyed by adorable, playful tricksters. Yes, before that ugly Columbus came there was the evil seal laughing as it spread tuberculosis. I wonder as we go to war with a group of crazies we helped create and fund how we continue to believe in revisionist history and a corporate political class that keeps us all at each others throats. We fail to think, Hey wait! They wanted to go to war last year, but a few brave people said no way in hell. And here we are a year later. As the seals might say, it seems a little fishy.
But back to the past with a fascinating article about the seals:
http://www.history.com/news/ancient-dna-suggests-seals-brought-tuberculosis-to-new-world
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Forgotten Men and Mules Set To Music
Here’s what happens when you visit a military museum instead of going on a Christmas house tour in December: the usual melancholy of a fallen world. I promise next week will be all sweetness and light!
