Today is the 114th birthday of the artist Salvador Dali. My very favorite description of one of his pieces is that of the 1940 Painting “Daddy
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Happy 109th Birthday Carmen Miranda
Today is the 109th birthday of the woman with fruit on her head: Carmen Miranda. The next time you come across one of her films,
Happy 113th Birthday Salvador Dalí
Today is the 113th birthday of the artist Salvador Dali. My very favorite description of one of his pieces is that of the 1940 Painting “Daddy
Happy 108th Birthday Carmen Miranda
Today is the 108th birthday of the woman with fruit on her head: Carmen Miranda. The next time you come across one of her films,
Happy 112th Birthday Salvador Dalí
Today is the 112th birthday of the artist Salvador Dali. My very favorite description of one of his pieces is that of the 1940 Painting “Daddy
Y is for Yeats and Yazoo #atozchallenge
“I carry the sun in a golden cup, The moon in a silver bag.” – William Butler Yeats [1865-1939] Those Dancing Days Are Gone William
X is for Xenophanes and XTC #atozchallenge
“It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.” – Xenophanes [570-475 B.C.] From DIOGENES LAURTIUS,Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Xenophanes, IX Xenophanes of Colophon
V is for Voltaire and The Vapors #atozchallenge
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” – Voltaire [Francois Marie Arouet] [1694-1778] Sept Discourse en Vers sur l’Homme [1738] François-Marie Arouet,
Q is for Quintilian and Queen #atozchallenge
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.” – Quintilian [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] [A.D. 35-100] Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a
P is for Parker, Powell, Pollock, Peck, The Psychedelic Furs, Poitier, Price and Picasso #atozchallenge
Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well
O is for O’Keeffe, O’Hara and OMD #atozchallenge
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that
E is for Earhart, Entwistle, Escher, Einstein, Eurythmics and Ephron #atozchallenge
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the
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