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In Darwin's Footsteps - Te Waimate Mission
The Bay of Islands is a subtropical region in New Zealand's far north and is a popular destination for big-game fishing, sailing, and dolphin watching. It is an area rich in the history of Maori (Māori in their own language) and European...
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The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse, 1888. It depicts the following lines of Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott: And down the river's dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance, Seeing all his own mischance...
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Mara's Daughters Tempt the Buddha
The temptation of the Buddha by Mara's daughters. Slate, Gandhara region, Pakistan, 2nd to 4th century CE. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Sufferer of St. Anthony's Fire
A detail of a c. 1512 CE painting by Mathias Grunewald showing a man suffering from St. Anthony's fire (ergotism). 'Temptation of St. Anthony'. (Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France)