Dromedary

The camel has a single hump,
The dromedary two;
Or else the other way around,
I'm never sure. Are you?

-- Ogden Nash

Photograph: by Trisha M Shears, released in the Public Domain 2/27/07

Venice, Aqua Alta

Aqua Alta, a temporary flooding of some parts of the city during the high tide seasons, is usually mild, and taken in stride by the residents of Venice.

Photograph: Paolo da Reggio, released into the public domain.

El Greco

Doménicos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco, is considered a precursor of Expressionism and Cubism. Remarkably, his apparently modern work was created in the 16th century.

View of Toledo, El Greco, c. 1596

Princess and the Pea

"Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling."

Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea

Puzzle Illustration: The Princess and the Pea, Edmund Dulac, from The Snow Queen and Other Stores by Hans Andersen, 1911, Public Domain

Autumn Woods

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden


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Mountain

"The hills, rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun."

-- William Cullen Bryant


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Here Kitty, Kitty

"If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way."

-- Mark Twain


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