Thomas Kinkade Sunset on Lamplight Lane painting

Thomas Kinkade Sunset on Lamplight Lane paintingThomas Kinkade Sunday Outing painting
Harry stirred counterclockwise, held his breath, and stirred once clockwise. The effect was immediate. The potion turned pale pink.
"How are you doing that?" demanded Hermione, who was redfaced and whose hair was growing bushier and bushier in the fumes from her cauldron; her potion was still resolutely purple.
"Add a clockwise stir -"
"No, no, the book says counterclockwise!" she snapped.
Harry shrugged and continued what he was doing. Seven stirs counterdockwise, one clockwise, pause . . . seven stirs counterclockwise, one stir clockwise . . .
Across the table, Ron was cursing fluently under his breath; his potion looked like liquid licorice. Harry glanced around. As far as he could see, no one else's potion had turned as pale as his. He felt elated, something that had certainly never happened before in this dungeon.

Lord Frederick Leighton Return of Persephone painting

Lord Frederick Leighton Return of Persephone paintingLord Frederick Leighton Perseus on Pegasus Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda paintingLord Frederick Leighton Perseus and Andromeda painting
There have been another couple of dementor attacks," he announced, as Mrs. Weasley passed him a large slice of birthday cake. "And they've found Igor Karkaroff's body in a shack up north. The Dark Mark had been set over it... well, frankly, I'm surprised he stayed alive for even a year after deserting the Death Eaters; Sirius's brother, Regulus, only managed a few days as far as I can remember."
"Yes, well," said Mrs. Weasley, frowning, "perhaps we should talk about something diff..."
"Did you hear about Florean Fortescue, Remus?" asked Bill, who was being plied with wine by Fleur. "The man who ran..."
"Is the ice-cream place in Diagon Alley?" Harry interrupted, with an unpleasant, hollow sensation in the pit of his stomach. "He used to give me free ice creams. What's happened to him?"
"Dragged off, by the look of his place."
"Why?" asked Ron, while Mrs. Weasley pointedly glared at Bill.

Frida Kahlo Diego and Frida painting

Frida Kahlo Diego and Frida painting
Rembrandt Christ In The Storm painting
contempt in Voldemort's voice. For the third time, Charity Burbage revolved to face Snape. Tears were pouring from her eyes into her hair. Snape looked back at her, quite impassive, as she turned slowly away from him again.

"Avada Kedavra"

　　　The flash of green light illuminated every corner of the room. Charity fell, with a resounding crash, onto the table below, which trembled and creaked. Several of the Death Eaters leapt back in their chairs. Draco fell out of his onto the floor.

　　　"Dinner, Nagini," said Voldemort softly, and the great snake swayed and slithered from his shoulders onto the polished wood.

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting
Guido Reni The Archangel Michael painting
True, they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the patten of an outworn tradition. Faced by a failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money Stripped of the lure of profit by which they induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortation, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They only know the rules of a generation of self seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision, the people perish.Yes, the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civiIization. We may now restore that temp1e to the ancient truths. A measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social value, more noble than mere monetary profits.

Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting

Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting
Thomas Kinkade A Peaceful Retreat painting
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, hosting the first such gathering since 1996, denounced Israel's "belligerent attitude" toward the Palestinians but stressed that Arabs had a historic duty to attempt once again to salvage the peace process. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the summit: "As we strive for peace, Israel is striving for war. We chose peace as a strategic option. For Israel it was a tactic." The United States urged Israel and the Palestinians to do more to implement the agreement to stop fighting, reached by the two sides' leaders at a summit with President Clinton in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday. "We still need to see more from both parties to implement that agreement and stop the violence," White House spokesman Jake Siewert told reporters

Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting

Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Dallas-based Pizza Hut, the nation's largest pizza chain, says it has waged a two-year battle against Papa John's to uphold truth-in-advertising.Papa John's calls the whole spat ridiculous."The American public doesn't need the Supreme Court to tell them which pizza they like better," said Papa John's spokeswoman Karen Sherman. The case might seem like small potatoes to the justices, who only last week issued a ruling that ensured George W. Bush's election as president. But in the pizza business, this is an extra large with all the toppings.Pizza Hut, the nation's largest pizza chain, sued No. 3 Papa John's in 1998 about the slogan and some commercials that suggested Papa John's used better stuff in its pies.

Guillaume Seignac La Libellule painting

Guillaume Seignac La Libellule painting
Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond painting

Flames race through a roadside canyon today in Alpine, Calif., Flames driven by 65mph gusts in water-starved brush torched luxury homes and forced the evacuation of part of the town, an Indian reservation and a casino.
ALPINE, Calif. Jan. 4 — A major wildfire is burning out of control near San Diego, destroying homes and forcing evacuations.Firefighters battled through the night to contain the 5,500-acre blaze, but little progress was reported. Driven by winds of up to 50 mph, the fast-moving fire destroyed four luxury homes and caused hundreds of evacuations in Alpine, located in eastern San Diego County. The fire was about 10 percent contained as of midnight ET. "The fire is not contained; it is not controlled," said Alpine Fire Chief Thomas Ace. "These are absolutely the worst fire conditions imaginable."

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childe hassam paintings
Cheri Blum paintings

Michael Jackson, the eccentric king of pop trying on a mortar board and gown at the Oxford Union, Oxford, England, Tuesday March 6, 2001 in this picture made available Wednesday March 7. Pictured left, is Jackson's friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, man at right is unidentified. Referring frequently and emotionally to his own unhappy childhood, Jackson told students that society had robbed a generation of youth of their childhood.
Michael Jackson, the eccentric king of pop, brought a highly personal message of peace, love and healing to Oxford University on Tuesday night.Referring frequently and emotionally to his own unhappy childhood, the 42-year-old singer told students that society had robbed a young generation of its childhood."Tonight I come before you less as an icon of pop . . . and more as an icon of a generation, a generation that no longer knows what

Knight painting

Knight painting
Lady painting

Joan Jett will be hitting stages soon, but she's trading in those sweet transvestites for some Blackhearts.
Taking a break from her role as the coquette Columbia in the Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show, the singer/guitarist will return to her old job for some good ol' rock concerts, beginning next month.Jett, who will be joined by her group the Blackhearts for the shows, said she's eager for the switch, adding that part of the incentive for taking the Broadway gig was to keep her role as bandleader exciting. "I wanted to do the Rocky thing to distance myself from what I've been doing for the past 20 years - just to try to rekindle the fire, the passion for it," Jett said from Queens, N.Y., on Tuesday, March 27. "Not that I'm ever not passionate - it's just that I don't want things to get boring."

Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings

Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings
Eric Wallis paintings
Many lawmakers, especially Republicans, had been pressuring Bush to provide Taiwan with more and better weapons. The lawmakers say the surveillance plane incident demonstrated a need to counter Chinese aggressiveness and expansionism.
For the past four years, the Borgeson family in Cambridge, Minn., has been keeping warm by burning dried corn kernels.
In New York City, tiling equipped with solar fuel cells on the side of the Conde Nast tower in Times Square has supplemented the company's power needs. And in Maryville, Missouri, all heat and air conditioning at Northwest Missouri State University will soon be powered by the combustion of a locally plentiful resource: pig waste.

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Steve Hanks Casting Her Shadows painting
Desensitized to Violence Murphy said that children who are exposed to violence do become accustomed to it. Worse still, they need more violent stimuli to keep them interested. On the other hand, the boys at the LAN party do learn how to work as a team, she acknowledged. Since most parents would not know how to do it, it’s up to children to set up their own networks for the LAN parties. They have to use partnership skills and work in teams to hook up the computers. Many of the LAN parties include 30 to 40 teens, and at some gaming conventions, there could be hundreds of players. One recent epic LAN party was held at an airplane hangar in Norway. The Cwiekas only allow their son to play once a week, usually on a Friday, so the teens have a chance to catch up on their sleep on Saturday. But some children play much more than that. Murphy says that every family is different, but parents should consider restricting the number of these parties to once a week.

Pieter de Hooch paintings

Pieter de Hooch paintings
Pietro Perugino paintings
meteor shower forecasts can disappoint. In 1998, for example, astronomers foresaw a brilliant Leonid storm, but it turned out to be less than ordinary. Jenniskens assures, however, that prediction methods have vastly improved since then due to more precise charting of the comet's dust trails.meteor showers aren't only a treat for the eyes, science also benefits from the display. Jenniskens says he and his team plan to analyze the content of meteors as they streak by to learn what kind of organic matter they might carry and whether that matter is changed in the process.This information could be significant since some scientists believe organic matter from comets could have planted the seeds for life on Earth billions of years ago."meteor showers have gone from being great anecdotes to becoming a bona fide part of astronomy," he said.

Seascapes paintings

Seascapes paintings
Still Life paintings

Opposites attract? Psychology and statistics best determine whether two people will have a happy marriage. At least so claims an online dating service. Its users answer more than 430 questions, ranging from...
Psychology and statistics best determine whether two people will have a happy marriage. At least so claims an online dating service.EHarmony.com Inc., which has patented its matchmaking formula, describes a "method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship." Not surprisingly, critics and competitors criticize eHarmony's process as overly scientific -- some even think the so-called "love patent" as ridiculous. But Researchers at eHarmony maintain that an individual's psychological profile is a better indicator of marital success than purely demographic data.

Edward Hopper Reclining Nude painting

Edward Hopper Reclining Nude painting
Lord Frederick Leighton Nude on the Beach painting

Old-fashioned bus and train tickets may soon be a thing of the past -- and mobile phones look set to replace them. From early next year, 150 commuters in a German city, will trial technology that ...
Old-fashioned bus and train tickets may soon be a thing of the past -- and mobile phones look set to replace them.From early next year, 150 commuters in a German city, will trial technology that removes the need to buy a traditional bus ticket.Their phones will be installed with near field communication (NFC) chips, and when scanned against a special reader, the price of a ticket will be deducted from each commuter's transport account.Philips, which makes the chips, was also currently working with Universal Music France on a project

Diego Rivera paintings

Diego Rivera paintings
Don Li-Leger paintings
DR. MEADE: Good. Then I\'ll rely on you to help us. PRISSY: Yes Doctor.DR. MEADE: Ashley\'s fighting on the field. Fighting for the cause. He may never come back. He may die. Scarlett, we owe him a well borne child. AUNT PITTY: If you\'re coming Scarlett, hurry! SCARLETT: I promised Ashley, something. DR. MEADE: Then you\'ll stay? Good. Go along Miss Pittifett. Scarlett\'s staying.SCARLETT: Prissy! Prissy! Come here Prissy! Go pack my things and Miss Melanie\'s, too. We\'re to Tara right away, the Yankees are coming.MELANIE: Scarlett! Scarlett! SCARLETT: Oh, Melanie, we\'re going to... Melanie. MELANIE: I\'m sorry to be such a bother, Scarlett. It\'ll begin at daybreak.SCARLETT: But, the Yankees are coming.

Eric Wallis paintings

Eric Wallis paintings
Edmund Blair Leighton paintings
pleased smile on his face. Somehow, Anne, I just gave way then. That smile on his poor vacant face was more than I could endure. I felt as if I were denying a child the chance to grow and develop. I knew that I must give him his chance, no matter what the consequences might be. So I came over and told Gilbert. Oh, Anne, you must have thought me hateful in those weeks before I went away. I didn't mean to be--but I couldn't think of anything except what I had to do, and everything and everybody about me were like shadows."
"I know--I understood, Leslie. And now it is all over--your chain is broken--there is no cage."
"There is no cage," repeated Leslie absently, plucking at the fringing grasses with her slender, brown hands. "But--it doesn't seem as if there were anything else, Anne. You--you remember what I told you of my folly that night on the sand-bar? I find one doesn't get over being a fool very quickly. Sometimes I think there are people who are fools forever. And to be a fool--of that kind--is almost as bad as being a--a dog on a chain."
"You will feel very differently after you get over being tired and

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childe hassam paintings
Cheri Blum paintings
the door had been opened and I could get out. I was still chained to the cage but I was not in it. And that night I felt that a merciless hand was drawing me back into the cage--back to a torture even more terrible than it had once been. I didn't blame Gilbert. I felt he was right. And he had been very good--he said that if, in view of the expense and uncertainty of the operation, I should decide not to risk it, he would not blame me in the least. But I knew how I ought to decide--and I couldn't face it. All night I walked the floor like a mad woman, trying to compel myself to face it. I couldn't, Anne--I thought I couldn't--and when morning broke I set my teeth and resolved that I wouldn't. I would let things remain as they were. It was very wicked, I know. It would have been just punishment for such wickedness if I had just been left to abide by that decision. I kept to it all day. That afternoon I had to go up to the Glen to do some shopping. It was one of Dick's quiet, drowsy days, so I left him alone. I was gone a little longer than I had expected, and he missed me. He felt lonely. And when I got home, he ran to meet me just like a child, with such a

Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond painting

Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond painting
Steve Hanks Ocean Breeze painting
floor, and caught up the little bleeding, warm, dead body, Anne--they had to tear it from her before she would let it go. They sent for me--I can't talk of it."
Miss Cornelia wiped the tears from her kindly brown eyes and sewed in bitter silence for a few minutes.
"Well," she resumed, "it was all over--they buried little Kenneth in that graveyard over the harbor, and after a while Leslie went back to her school and her studies. She never mentioned Kenneth's name--I've never heard it cross her lips from that day to this. I reckon that old hurt still aches and burns at times; but she was only a child and time is real kind to children, Anne, dearie. After a while she began to laugh again--she had the prettiest laugh. You don't often hear it now."
"I heard it once the other night," said Anne. "It is a beautiful laugh."
"Frank West began to go down after Kenneth's death. He wasn't strong and it was a shock to him

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss (Le Baiser _ Il Baccio) painting
Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Couldn't get his way over something, so he jumped into the well . A good riddance! He was a born tyrant. But of course it spoiled the well. Flora could never abide the thought of using it again, poor thing! So she had another dug and a frightful expense it was, and the water as hard as nails. If he had to drown himself there was plenty of water in the harbor, wasn't there? I've no patience with a man like that. We've only had two suicides in Four Winds in my recollection. The other was Frank West--Leslie Moore's father. By the way, has Leslie ever been over to call on you yet?"
"No, but I met her on the shore a few nights ago and we scraped an acquaintance," said Anne, pricking up her ears.
Miss Cornelia nodded.
"I'm glad, dearie. I was hoping you'd foregather with her. What do you think of her?"
"I thought her very beautiful."
"Oh, of course. There was never anybody about Four Winds could touch her for looks. Did you ever see her hair? It reaches to her feet when she lets it down. But I meant how did

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childe hassam paintings
Cheri Blum paintings
Hush -- she's dead," said Janet solemnly. "If she wasn't -- but she IS. So we mustn't speak evil of her. But I'm happy at last, Anne. And I wouldn't have minded waiting so long a bit if I'd only known why."
"When are you to be married?"
"Next month. Of course it will be very quiet. I suppose people will talk terrible. They'll say I made enough haste to snap John up as soon as his poor mother was out of the way. John wanted to let them know the truth but I said, `No, John; after all she was your mother, and we'll keep the secret between us, and not cast any shadow on her memory. I don't mind what people say, now that I know the truth myself. It don't matter a mite. Let it all be buried with the dead' says I to him. So I coaxed him round to agree with me."
"You're much more forgiving than I could ever be," Anne said, rather crossly.
"You'll feel differently about a good many things when you get to be my

Avtandil paintings

Avtandil paintings
Andrew Atroshenko paintings
her. So I promised. And she's held me to that promise ever since, though I've gone on my knees to her in my turn to beg her to let me ff."
"Why didn't you tell me this?" asked Janet chokingly. "If I'd only KNOWN! Why didn't you just tell me?"
"She made me promise I wouldn't tell a soul," said John hoarsely. "She swore me to it on the Bible; Janet, I'd never have done it if I'd dreamed it was to be for so long. Janet, you'll never know what I've suffered these nineteen years. I know I've made you suffer, too, but you'll marry me for all, won't you, Janet? Oh, Janet, won't you? I've come as soon as I could to ask you."
At this moment the stupefied Anne came to her senses and realized that she had no business to be there. She slipped away and did not see Janet until the next morning, when the latter told her the rest of the story.
"That cruel, relentless, deceitful old woman!" cried Anne.

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
William Bouguereau Biblis painting
dreaming dreams, Pris. That's because the wind is from the west. I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east."
"And isn't it jolly when you discard furs and winter garments for the first time and sally forth, like this, in spring attire?" laughed Priscilla. "Don't you feel as if you had been made over new?"
"Everything is new in the spring," said Anne. "Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness. See how green the grass is around that little pond, and how the willow buds are bursting."
"And exams are over and gone -- the time of Convocation will come soon -- next Wednesday. This day next week we'll be home."

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting painting

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting painting
Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting
school. Some day I'm going to write a treatise on `The Trials of a Country Schoolmarm.' It will be a harrowing bit of realism. It seems to be the prevailing impression that we live in clover, and have nothing to do but draw our quarter's salary. My treatise shall tell the truth about us. Why, if a week should pass without some one telling me that I am doing easy work for big pay I would conclude that I might as well order my ascension robe `immediately and to onct.' `Well, you get your money easy,' some rate-payer will tell me, condescendingly. `All you have to do is to sit there and hear lessons.' I used to argue the matter at first, but I'm wiser now. Facts are stubborn things, but as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies. So I only smile loftily now in eloquent silence. Why, I have nine grades in my school and I have to teach a little of everything, from investigating the interiors of earthworms to the study of the solar system. My youngest pupil is four -- his mother sends him to school to `get him out of the way' -- and my oldest twenty -- it `suddenly struck him' that it would be easier to go to school and get an education than follow the plough any longer. In the wild effort to cram all sorts of research

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting
William Etty William Etty painting
If Milty Boulter talks like that about his mother at least you needn't repeat it," said Marilla severely.
"Bless my soul,". . .Davy had picked this expression up from Mr. Harrison and used it with great gusto. . ."Milty meant it as a compelment. He's awful proud of his mother, cause folks say she could scratch a living on a rock."
"I. . .I suppose them pesky hens are in my pansy bed again," said Marilla, rising and going out hurriedly.
The slandered hens were nowhere near the pansy bed and Marilla did not even glance at it. Instead, she sat down on the cellar hatch and laughed until she was ashamed of herself.
When Anne and Paul reached the stone house that afternoon they found Miss Lavendar

Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings

Bartolome Esteban Murillo paintings
Berthe Morisot paintings
by a short cut which led her first over the low-lying shore fields, and then through the beech wood below Robert Dickson's, by a little footpath that ran out to the main road just above the Lake of Shining Waters. . .known to unimaginative people as Barry's pond.
Two men were sitting in their buggies, reined off to the side of the road, just at the entrance of the path. One was Judson Parker; the other was Jerry Corcoran, a Newbridge man against whom, as Mrs. Lynde would have told you in eloquent italics, nothing shady had ever been proved. He was an agent for agricultural implements and a prominent personage in matters political. He had a finger. . . some people said all his fingers. . .in every political pie that was cooked; and as Canada was on the eve of a general election Jerry Corcoran had been a busy man for many weeks, canvassing the

Guillaume Seignac La Libellule painting

Guillaume Seignac La Libellule painting
Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond painting
You ornery bird," he muttered, "I almost wish I'd wrung your neck when my brother the sailor brought you home. Will you never be done getting me into trouble?"
Anne ran home blithely and recounted her adventures to Marilla, who had been not a little alarmed by her long absence and was on the point of starting out to look for her.
"It's a pretty good world, after all, isn't it, Marilla?" concluded Anne happily. "Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . .perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . .they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think. I looked forward to a dreadfully unpleasant experience when I went over to Mr. Harrison's tonight; and instead he was quite kind and I had almost a nice time. I think we're going to be real good friends if we make plenty of allowances for each other, and everything has turned out for the best. But all the same, Marilla, I shall certainly