Outlander Store. Meet The Smarty-Pants Kids Who Stopped Going To Class And The Teachers Were Like, 'That's Cool' Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional. Eric Carle's bright, beloved children's classic about an insatiable caterpillar has been collecting awards—and fans—since it was first published in 1969. Here are a few things you might not know about The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 1.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's bright colors contrast a dark period in Eric Carle's childhood. Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, on June 25, 1929. But when Carle was 6, his father relocated the family back to his native Stuttgart, Germany. The author has since speculated that he was drawn to the chunky, vibrant colors of painted tissue paper collage in part as reaction to the grimness of his childhood. 2. Herr Kraus, Carle’s high school art teacher, recognized his young pupil’s potential and risked his livelihood for the opportunity to foster it. "I didn't have the slightest idea that something like that existed, because I was used to art being flag-waving, gun-toting Aryans—super-realistic Aryan farmers, the women with their brute arms,” Carle said.
Do Scandinavians Have It All Figured Out? - The New Yorker. Some say that the American Dream is not what it once was: wages are low, retirement is not a parachute glide but a plunge, and those chosen to fix such problems labor at undoing one another’s laws. For these doubters, there are the Swedes. On any given day, a Swedish man—call him Viggo—might be reclining on a sofa underneath a Danish lamp shaped like an artichoke. He is an artist, and he has a pension. He is wearing boldly colored pants. His young wife, Ebba, is a neurosurgeon, though she has never paid a krona in tuition, and her schedule runs between the operating table and the laboratory. Things are busy. She and Viggo have small kids (the government gives them a combined four hundred and eighty days of maternity and paternity leave for every child), and when the younger ran a fever yesterday he needed to be whisked from day care to the doctor (both charged mostly to the state).
And not only the Swedes. The global pull of Scandinavian life, never weak, continues to strengthen. These Underwater Photos Capture The Hilarious Faces Of Dogs When They Dive. There’s no denying that dogs know how to have a good time, and playing in the water makes it all the more fun. Photographer Seth Casteel perfectly captured dogs chasing balls underwater in a series that went viral in 2012. Now he’s back with Underwater Puppies, a photo shoot resulting in wild and hilarious snaps of pups under water, enjoying it as only pups can!
Share24014People Sharing Humans could never be as adorable as these water dogs, or have as much fun. Their emotions are just too great—all that excitement, all that happiness. It must be amazing to live the life of a dog! H/t: Twisted Sifter. Trivia / IQ | Trivia / IQ Quizzes, Personality Quizzes, Facebook Quizzes | BrainFall.com. Watch Movies Online Free - Movietv4u. Cursed Warship Revealed With Treasure Onboard. Jane J. Lee It was the largest and fiercest warship in the world, named the Mars for the Roman god of war, but it went up in a ball of flames in a brutal naval battle in 1564, consigning 800 to 900 Swedish and German sailors and a fortune in gold and silver coins to the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Now, a few years after the ship's discovery, researchers have concluded that the one-of-a-kind ship is also the best preserved ship of its kind, representing the first generation of Europe's big, three-masted warships.
Naval historians know a lot about 17th-century ships, but very little about warships from the 16th century, said Johan Rönnby, a professor of maritime archaeology at Södertörn University in Sweden, who is studying the 197-foot-long (60 meter) wreck. "It's a missing link," said Rönnby, whose work is funded in part by a grant from the National Geographic Society's Global Exploration Fund. Bringing a ship out of the ocean is expensive, and it can cause significant harm to artifacts.