John Collier In the Venusberg Tannhauser painting

John Collier In the Venusberg Tannhauser paintingCaravaggio The Entombment of Christ painting
This time, you enter the Pensieve with me . . . and, even more unusually, with permission."
"Where are we going, sir?"
"For a trip down Bob Ogden's memory lane," said Dumbledore, pulling from his pocket a crystal bottle containing a swirling silvery-white substance.
"Who was Bob Ogden?"
"He was employed by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement," said Dumbledore. "He died some time ago, but not before I had tracked him down and persuaded him to confide these recollections to me. We are about to accompany him on a visit he made in the course of his duties. If you will stand, Harry ..."
But Dumbledore was having difficulty pulling out the stopper of the crystal bottle: His injured hand seemed stiff and painful.

Gustav Klimt The Virgin painting

Gustav Klimt The Virgin painting
Gustav Klimt dancer painting
Gustav Klimt Adam and Eve painting
good Dad can get us these again," said Ron appreciatively, stretching luxuriously as the car moved smoothly away from the Burrow, Bill and Fleur waving from the kitchen window. He, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny were all sitting in roomy comfort in the wide backseat.
"Don't get used to it, it's only because of Harry," said Mr. Weasley over his shoulder. He and Mrs. Weasley were in front with the Ministry driver; the front passenger seat had obligingly stretched into what resembled a two-seater sofa. "He's been given top-grade security status. And we'll be joining up with additional security at the Leaky Cauldron too."
Harry said nothing; he did not much fancy doing his shopping while surrounded by a battalion of Aurors. He had stowed his Invisibility Cloak in his backpack and felt that, if that was good enough for Dumbledore, it ought to be good enough for the Ministry, though now he came to think of it, he was not sure the Ministry knew about his cloak.

Thomas Kinkade Mountain Paradise painting

Thomas Kinkade Mountain Paradise painting
Thomas Kinkade Mountain Memories painting
Give you my wand, Lucius? My wand?"

Some of the throng sniggered.

　　　"I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late … What is it about my presence in your H that displaces you, Lucius?"

"Nothing – nothing, my Lord!"

"Such lies Lucius … "

　　　The soft voice seemed to hiss on even after the cruel mouth had stopped moving. One or two of the wizards barely repressed a shudder as the hissing grew louder; something heavy could be heard sliding across the floor beneath the table.

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting

Claude Monet Sunflowers painting
Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring painting
With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly, the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems. Action in this image, action to this end, is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from my ancestors. Our constitution is so simple, so practical, that it is possible always, to meet extraordinary needs, by changes in emphasis and arrangements without loss of a central form, that is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has ever seen. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.And it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority wi1l be fully equal, fully adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for underlay action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting

Pablo Picasso Le Moulin de la Galette painting
Pablo Picasso Gertrude Stein painting
first time ever. A U.S. State Department official said Albright and Kim talked initially for two hours, took a 10-minute break, then met for another session likely to continue a further hour.Although no details were available of the tone and substance of the discussions, Kim suddenly decided to take over as host of a dinner arranged for Albright by Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission and the highest-ranking North Korean ever to go to Washington.The talks were another step in reclusive North Korea’s efforts to enter the world stage. Within the past year, Kim has also met the presidents of China, Russia and South Korea.

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting
"The Palestinians have no level of certainty about the potential results of the negotiations that would make them think of calming down the Intifada (uprising)," Egypt's main daily al-Ahram said. A Saudi newspaper reported Wednesday that the kingdom and Egypt had advised Arafat again
Two rare koalas described as "the cutest things you have ever seen" have been stolen from the San Francisco Zoo, and officials said they feared the animals would not survive long, December 27, 2000. Zoo officials expressed concern that the missing koalas would fare poorly without specialized care. Leanne, a seven-year-old-koala, shown in this undated file photo and Pat, 15, were last seen late December 26 in their adjacent enclosures.
SAN FRANCISCO - Two rare koalas described as "the cutest things you have ever seen" have been stolen from the San Francisco Zoo, and officials said on Wednesday they feared the animals would not survive long. st signing a peace deal before the new U.S. administration takes office.

Diego Rivera Portrait of Natasha Zakolkowa Gelman painting

Diego Rivera Portrait of Natasha Zakolkowa Gelman painting
Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting
a sign Belgrade wants to ensure a smooth transition in relations, Svilanovic will also meet lawmakers and officials in the new administration, though probably at a low level, diplomatic sources said. He is not expected to meet Bush's nominee to succeed Albright, retired Gen. Colin Powell, who is yet to be confirmed in the post. Officials of the incoming administration could not be contacted to confirm who would meet Svilanovic. Powell has said the United States, which has a contingent in NATO's KFOR force keeping the peace in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, should review its military commitments globally. "He's not going to rush to discuss the American commitment there and he's not putting withdrawing on the table right away," the official said, adding, "They do see the U.S. role in Europe as an unquestioned pillar of their policy."

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
Frida Kahlo paintings
They didn't pay the kids anything. The parents complained many times to the school and the township government, but nothing happened." Another villager said the elementary school with 400 pupils would produce as many as 1,600 firecrackers in a week. A third resident said the school principal had fled after the blast. A spokesman for the local police in Tanbu township, an impoverished rural region some 400 kilometres north-east of Hong Kong, flatly denied the blast was caused by firecrackers. But an official at the Tanbu local government said the authorities had received complaints that the school was being used to assemble firecrackers. "After the accident, some pupils' parents came to report about the firecracker producing activities but the police could not find any clue at the scene," said the official.

Tropical paintings

Tropical paintings
Venice paintings

Keynote Speech at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference by Bill Gates on 11 December 1997 Beijing, China　
　　Good morning. It's a great pleasure to be here. Today is a major milestone for Microsoft as our first Professional Developers Conference here in China. The key partnerships we build with software developers around the world are central not only to the success of Windows but also to realize the possibility that PC technology provides. It's through applications of every variety that businesses will be using the personal computer as the tool of the Information Age. 　　　It's rather amazing how fast this innovation is moving. Even to keep the like of myself who are deeply involved in the industry to go and see the

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings
Guillaume Seignac paintings

and Y Chromosome ContributionsResearchers, for example, used to consider non-sex cells as essentially asexual because they had the same genetic activity derived from one of the X chromosomes, says Pardue.Scientists used to think the Y chromosome found in all male cells of the body and one of the two X chromosomes in all women's cells were inactive, Pardue says.But now evidence shows the Y chromosome and the apparently inactive X chromosome also play a role in the cell's life.All cells in the body have 22 pairs of chromosome plus either two X chromosomes in female cells or an X and a Y chromosome in male cells.Although every cell in the body has the same genetic complement, cells behave differently because during development each cell goes through a process to become the tissue it was meant to become, such as liver or kidney.

Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting

Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
Claude Monet The Red Boats Argenteuil painting
happened over and over again shows just how adaptable aquatic birds are, he adds, and it indicates that evolution could have moved along at a somewhat faster pace than had been thought.If all of this is confirmed — and DNA research on aquatic birds is a very immature field — then many birds that look so much alike have erroneously been assigned to the wrong families. Hedges says it will take years to sort all of this out, and probably even longer to convince ornithologists who have become accustomed to seeing the world as it appears to be.But just because it looks like a duck doesn't necessarily mean it's a duck.Genetics is reshaping our view of just about everything these days. Nothing, it seems, is what it seems like on the surface. That's exciting, and a bit scary.Unless, of course, you happen to be a lowly grebe who has just learned that you're very much like the beauty on the beach.

Montague Dawson paintings

Montague Dawson paintings
Mary Cassatt paintings
Since the meteorites range in size from dust grains to small pebbles, they'll likely burn up completely before reaching Earth and pose no threat to people or Earth-bound objects. Satellites and the space station, however, stand a small chance of getting pelted and slightly damaged.The meteor shower, named after the constellation Leo, from which the meteors appear to originate, is expected to be visible from all parts of North America, although Jenniskens believes those in the Northeast will have the best view."This could be the last opportunity for watching an impressive meteor storm in a dark sky for decades to come," said Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near Earth Object program office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.Next year's Leonids could have been impressive, but they're scheduled to occur during a full moon, which will obscure their brilliance.Some Predict More Modest Show

church painting

church painting
City painting
The auction feature menus from the Titanic's disastrous maiden voyage in April 1912, a deck chair that was used as a model for the chairs seen in the movie "Titanic," a life jacket and name plate from one of the lifeboats, and signatures of famous Titanic passengers such as Molly Brown and John Jacob Astor. Memorabilia and art from the movie also will be included.Gary Robinson, one of the three collectors, has spent more than 10 years amassing the vessel's material."The thing I like most about Titanic collecting is the challenge and the thrill of the hunt," he said. "Being a ship that sank on her maiden voyage, there's not reams of stuff for sale."Deciding to part with the collection has been bittersweet for him."On the one hand, I'm excited that the public will finally get a chance to appreciate these magnificent items that tell an important story," he said, but "it's difficult any time that you let go of something you've enjoyed collecting."

William Bouguereau The Nymphaeum painting

William Bouguereau The Nymphaeum painting
Yvonne Jeanette Karlsen sisters painting
President Bush's bold, uncompromising leadership and his clear-cut election victory made him Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2004.大胆、坚决的领导能力以及连任竞选的胜利，使得布什总统被《时代》杂志评选为2004年的“年度人物”。Time chose Bush "for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years," Jim Kelly wrote in the magazine.《时代》执行总编吉姆·凯利在杂志中写道，《时代》选择布什是因为他“坚持己见，改造政治原则适应他的西部牛仔式的领导风格，以及说服大部分投票者让他再入主白宫4年”。Bush was also Time's choice to appear on the cover in 2000 after winning the presidential election.布什曾是《时代》2000年的年度人物，那是在布什赢得总统选举胜利之后。His father, President George H. W. Bush, was named "Man of the Year" in 1990 for what Time called his mastery of foreign policy and his wavering domestic record.他的父亲老布什因其两面性：在外交领域坚定有力，在内政方面，平庸胆怯，被1990年《时代》杂志评为“年度人物”。

Alfred Gockel paintings

Alfred Gockel paintings
Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
MAN: Melanie.-.I need your approval as a member of the committee with something we want to do, that's rather shocking. Will you excuse us, please? RHETT: I'll say one thing. The war makes the most peculiar widows.SCARLETT: I wish you'd go away. If you'd had any raising, you'd know I never want to see you again. RHETT: Now, why be silly? You've no reason for hating me. I'll carry your guilty secret to my grave. SCARLETT: Oh, I guess I'd be very unpatriotic to hate one of the great heroes of the war. I do declare, I was surprised that you'd turned out to be such a noble character.RHETT: I can't bear to take advantage of your little girl's ideas, Miss O'Hara. I am neither noble nor heroic.SCARLETT: But you are a blockade runner.

George Inness paintings

George Inness paintings
George Frederick Watts paintings
expeditions were over. He spent a great deal of his time sitting by his seaward window, looking out over the gulf, with his swiftly-whitening head leaning on his hand. He sat there tonight for many silent minutes, keeping some tryst with the past which Anne would not disturb. Presently he pointed to the iris of the West:
"That's beautiful, isn't, it, Mistress Blythe? But I wish you could have seen the sunrise this morning. It was a wonderful thing--wonderful. I've seen all kinds of sunrises come over that gulf. I've been all over the world, Mistress Blythe, and take it all in all, I've never seen a finer sight than a summer sunrise over the gulf. A man can't pick his time for dying, Mistress Blythe--jest got to go when the Great Captain gives His sailing orders. But if I could I'd go out when the morning comes across that water. I've watched it many a time and thought what a thing it would be to pass out through that great white glory to whatever was waiting beyant, on a sea that ain't mapped out on any airthly chart. I think, Mistress Blythe, that I'd find lost Margaret there."
Captain Jim had often talked to Anne of lost Margaret since he

Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting

Claude Monet Venice Twilight painting
Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
late! Leslie was heart-broken enough over it. Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? As for Dick, he'd had enough of quiet married life--just like a man. He was for up and off. He went over to Nova Scotia to visit his relations--his father had come from Nova Scotia--and he wrote back to Leslie that his cousin, George Moore, was going on a voyage to Havana and he was going too. The name of the vessel was the Four Sisters and they were to be gone about nine weeks.
"It must have been a relief to Leslie. But she never said anything. From the day of her marriage she was just what she is now--cold and proud, and keeping everyone but me at a distance. I won't be kept at a distance, believe me! I've just stuck to Leslie as close as I knew how in spite of everything."
"She told me you were the best friend she had," said Anne.

Hessam Abrishami paintings

Hessam Abrishami paintings
Howard Behrens paintings
memory it left with her was not that of the breathless moment when the stately president of Redmond gave her cap and diploma and hailed her B.A.; it was not of the flash in Gilbert's eyes when he saw her lilies, nor the puzzled pained glance Roy gave her as he passed her on the platform. It was not of Aline Gardner's condescending congratulations, or Dorothy's ardent, impulsive good wishes. It was of one strange, unaccountable pang that spoiled this long-expected day for her and left in it a certain faint but enduring flavor of bitterness.
The Arts graduates gave a graduation dance that night. When Anne dressed for it she tossed aside the pearl beads she usually wore and took from her trunk the small box that had come to Green Gables on Christmas day. In it was a thread-like gold chain with a tiny pink enamel heart as a pendant. On the accompanying card was written, "With all good wishes from your old chum, Gilbert." Anne, laughing over the memory the enamel heart conjured up the

Douglas Hofmann paintings

Douglas Hofmann paintings
Diane Romanello paintings
in an old country farmhouse last summer. The roof leaked and the rain came pattering down on my bed. There was no poetry in THAT. I had to get up in the `mirk midnight' and chivy round to pull the bedstead out of the drip -- and it was one of those solid, old-fashioned beds that weigh a ton -- more or less. And then that drip-drop, drip-drop kept up all night until my nerves just went to pieces. You've no idea what an eerie noise a great drop of rain falling with a mushy thud on a bare floor makes in the night. It sounds like ghostly footsteps and all that sort of thing. What are you laughing over, Anne?"
"These stories. As Phil would say they are killing -- in more senses than one, for everybody died in them. What dazzlingly lovely heroines we had -- and how we dressed them! Silks -- satins -- velvets -- jewels -- laces -- they never wore anything else. Here is one of Jane Andrews' stories depicting her heroine as sleeping in a beautiful white satin nightdress trimmed with seed pearls."
"Go on," said Stella. "I begin to feel that life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."
"Here's one I wrote. My heroine is disporting herself at a ball `glittering from head to foot

Fabian Perez white and red painting

Fabian Perez white and red painting
Jacques-Louis David Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass painting
his sister to propose for him because his father had given him the upper farm; and if Anne wouldn't "have him" Nettie Blewett would. There was romance for you, with a vengeance! Anne laughed -- and then sighed. The bloom had been brushed from one little maiden dream. Would the painful process go on until everything became prosaic and hum-drum?The second term at Redmond sped as quickly as had the first -- "actually whizzed away," Philippa said. Anne enjoyed it thoroughly in all its phases -- the stimulating class rivalry, the making and deepening of new and helpful friendships, the gay little social stunts, the doings of the various societies of which she was a member, the widening of horizons and interests. She studied hard, for she had made up her mind to win the Thorburn Scholarship in English. This being won, meant that she could come back to Redmond the next year without trenching on Marilla's small savings -- something Anne was determined she would not do.
Gilbert, too, was in full chase after a scholarship, but found plenty of time for frequent calls at Thirty-eight, St. John's. He was Anne's escort at nearly all the college affairs, and she knew that their names were coupled in Redmond gossip. Anne raged over this but was helpless; she could not cast an old friend like Gilbert aside, especially when he had grown suddenly wise and wary,

Tamara de Lempicka Sketch of Madame Allan Bott painting

Tamara de Lempicka Sketch of Madame Allan Bott painting
Thomas Cole The Hunter's Return painting
grave too, for your sake, Anne."
"Oh, thank you. I meant to ask you to if you would. And on little Hester Gray's too? Please don't forget hers. Do you know, I've thought and dreamed so much about little Hester Gray that she has become strangely real to me. I think of her, back there in her little garden in that cool, still, green corner; and I have a fancy that if I could steal back there some spring evening, just at the magic time 'twixt light and dark, and tiptoe so softly up the beech hill that my footsteps could not frighten her, I would find the garden just as it used to be, all sweet with June lilies and early roses, with the tiny house beyond it all hung with vines; and little Hester Gray would be there, with her soft eyes, and the wind ruffling her dark hair, wandering about, putting her fingertips under the chins of the lilies and whispering secrets with the roses; and I would go forward, oh, so softly, and hold out my hands and say to her, `Little Hester Gray, won't you let me be your playmate, for I love the roses too?' And we would sit down on the old bench and talk a

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
Frida Kahlo paintings
he Avonlea graveyard was as yet the grass-grown solitude it had always been. To be sure, the Improvers had an eye on it, and Priscilla Grant had read a paper on cemeteries before the last meeting of the Society. At some future time the Improvers meant to have the lichened, wayward old board fence replaced by a neat wire railing, the grass mown and the leaning monuments straightened up.
Anne put on Matthew's grave the flowers she had brought for it, and then went over to the little poplar shaded corner where Hester Gray slept. Ever since the day of the spring picnic Anne had put flowers on Hester's grave when she visited Matthew's. The evening before she had made a pilgrimage back to the little deserted garden in the woods and brought therefrom some of Hester's own white roses.

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting

William Bouguereau the first kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Three Ages of Woman - Mother and Child (Detail) painting
Well, I'm going to try my way first," said Anne, who had a fairly strong will of her own and was apt to cling very tenaciously to her theories.
"You're pretty stubborn, I reckon," was Mr. Harrison's way of putting it. "Well, well, we'll see. Someday when you get riled up. . .and people with hair like yours are desperate apt to get riled. . .you'll forget all your pretty little notions and give some of them a whaling. You're too young to be teaching anyhow . . .far too young and childish."
Altogether, Anne went to bed that night in a rather pessimistic mood. She slept poorly and was so pale and tragic at breakfast next morning that Marilla was alarmed and insisted on making her take a cup of scorching ginger tea. Anne sipped it patiently, although she could not imagine what good ginger tea would do. Had it been some magic brew, potent to confer age and experience, Anne would have swallowed a quart of it without flinching.
"Marilla, what if I fail!"
"You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming," said Marilla. "The trouble with you, Anne, is that you'll expect to teach those children everything and reform all their faults right off, and