Tallulah Magoo

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‪Publicity still from Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986).‬

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The 3rd Day of the Creation, 1926 by M. C. Escher

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Impossible

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Dream

M.C. Escher

1935

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PAINTED BUNTING (Passerina ciris)

One of America’s most vividly colored species, the painted bunting was sometimes called the “Nonpareil,” Audubon noted in his text, for its peerless plumage. The bird at the top of this composition is a female. Two brightly colored mature males, at bottom, and two immature males above them are boisterously fighting. Audubon wrote at some length about the “ … pugnacious habits of this species …. they may be observed in spring time, in little groups of four, five or six, fighting together, moving round each other to secure an advantageous position, pecking and pulling at each other’s feathers with all the violence and animosity to which their small degree of strength can give effect.”

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Ah! reader, could you but know the emotions that then agitated my breast! I thought I had now reached the height of all my expectations, for my voyage to the Floridas was undertaken in a great measure for the purpose of studying these lovely birds in their own beautiful islands.

John James Audubon, on sighting a flock of flamingos for the very first time during his 1832 expedition to the Florida Keys

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Carolina Parakeet, John James Audubon, 1825

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