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The Bremen Musicians

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  https://youtu.be/LoHP1VbPJCY The Bremen musicians.  I'm at my translating bitter end so I just am going to present this without any attribution or further effort on my part.  Только могила может исправить горбуна   The Bremen Town Musicians are without doubt the pride and joy of the Hanseatic city. A bronze statue created by Gerhard Marcks in 1953 stands in the heart of Bremen as a tribute to the popular fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. According to the story, a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster set off on a journey to Bremen in search of a better life. https://www.bremen.eu/tale-of-the-bremen-town-musicians  

Disturbing, But Still Anthro

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 Franz Sedlacek, Ghosts on a Tree . 1933.

The Duel

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Hold on to me, I say to my second... “I SOON reached a wood, and felt my chest expand with the pure air. It was so long since I beheld the full extent of the sky, that I seemed to look upon it for the first time. The moonlight was bright, and the night-breeze laden with a banquet of fresh odours that it had caught up about the fields and hedgerows. Endowed by nature with an acute sense of smell, nothing could be more delicious to a weary Hare than the fresh fragrance of grass and thyme. Each breath I inhaled filled me with the fond memories of my childhood, which passed into my dreams as I slept in the open air. Early next morning I was roused by the clang of steel. Two gentlemen were fighting with swords, and appeared to me determined to kill each other; however, when they were tired of fencing, they walked off quietly arm-in-arm. Other combatants followed, but not one fell, and no blood was spilt in these affairs of honour, after nights of gambling and debauchery. “Jou

Fiver...rabbit Cassandra!

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Watership Down, Richard Adams. Illustrated by Joe Sutphin, adapted by James Sturn. Published by Ten Speed Graphic. The artwork in this is superior and right on the mark. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Watership-Down-The-Graphic-Novel/TPB-Part-1?id=232234 #1

Miss Kansas

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A goat girl in a field of sunflowers~ from sketch~  To finished painting~ To video~ can't think of Kansas without this song!

Miss Vermont

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A fall-ish picture featuring a beaver girl enjoying apple cider on a crisp autumn evening. From sketch~  To finished painting~ To video~

Oh, Dear...

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 Sam Tyler watches as Gene Hunt kicks in a nonce. From the BBC series, Life On Mars. https://youtu.be/PHP3Jih_rfA Nonce, 1975. Unknown, derived from British criminal slang. Several origins have been proposed; possibly derived from dialectal nonce , nonse ( “ stupid, worthless individual ” ) (but this cannot be shown to predate nonce "child-molester" and is likely a toned-down usage of the same insult), or Nance , nance ( “ effeminate man, homosexual ” ) , from nancy or nancyboy . The rhyme with ponce has also been noted. As prison slang also said to be an acronym for "Not On Normal Communal Exercise" (Stevens 2012), but this is likely a backronym .