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Lord Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896) Helios and Rhodes, n.d. Helios fell in love with the sea nymph, Rhode, daughter of Poseidon, and they lived together on Rhodes as protector god and goddess, with Helios naming the island in her honour. They had seven sons, known collectively as the Heliadae, and a daughter, Electryone. Mycenaean Greeks and Minoans generally depicted women with pale or white skin and men with tanned skin. Male warriors like Odysseus were usually described as having sun-browned or bronzed skin.

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'Winter’s Night with Cabins'. Svend Rasmussen Svendsen. 1910.

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Unknown Seas by Norman Lindsay (1922)

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Mischievous sprites and other vintage imps behaving badly.

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“Men have always hated us. / No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way. / They’ll never rest until they’ve spoiled the earth.”

Watership Down (1978, dir. Martin Rosen)

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Fog Riders, 1895/6 by Albert Welti (Swiss, 1862–1912)

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Quad Cities Rocket

This is an eastbound Rock Island Quad Cities Rocket with E8 655 on the point. That locomotive was built for the railroad in March of 1952.

The location, of course, is the well-known crossing with the ATSF and GM&O at Joliet, Illinois.

One photograph by Richard Koenig; taken September 20th 1975. As I've stated before when I posted this image: one of my earliest images, not old enough to drive as I recall.