John Collier The Water Nymph painting

John Collier The Water Nymph paintingJohn Collier Spring painting
And so I did," said Dumbledore placidly. "I told you everything I know. From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher, who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron."
"But you think you're right?" said Harry.
"Naturally I do, but as I have already proven to you, I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being — forgive me — rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
"Sir," said Harry tentatively, "does what you're going to tell me have anything to do with the prophecy? Will it help me . . . survive?"
"It has a very great deal to do with the prophecy," said Dumbledore, as casually as if Harry had asked him about the next days weather, "and I certainly hope that it will help you to survive."

Thomas Kinkade New York 5th Avenue painting

Thomas Kinkade New York 5th Avenue paintingThomas Kinkade Mountains Declare his Glory paintingThomas Kinkade HOMETOWN MEMORIES painting
Glad he's pleased," said Harry, grinning as he massaged his ribs. "We didn't know 'security' meant you!"
"I know, jus' like old times, innit? See, the Ministry wanted ter send a bunch o' Aurors, but Dumbledore said I'd do," said Hagrid proudly, throwing out his chest and tucking his thumbs into his pockets. "Lets get goin' then... after yeh, Molly, Arthur..."
The Leaky Cauldron was, for the first time in Harry's memory, completely empty. Only Tom the landlord, wizened and toothless, remained of the old crowd. He looked up hopefully as they entered, but before he could speak, Hagrid said importantly, "Jus' passin' through today, Tom, sure yeh understand, Hogwarts Business, yeh know."

Thomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting

Thomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting
Thomas Kinkade San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf painting
No volunteers?" said Voldemort. "Let's see … Lucius, I see no reason for you to have a wand anymore."

　　　Lucius Malfoy looked up. His skin appeared yellowish and waxy in the firelight, and his eyes were sunken and shadowed. When he spoke, his voice was hoarse.

"My Lord?"

"Your wand, Lucius. I require your wand."

"I …"

　　　Malfoy glanced sideways at his wife. She was staring straight ahead, quite as pale as he was, her long blonde hair hanging down her back, but beneath the table her slim fingers closed briefly on his wrist. At her touch,

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting
Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting
First Inaugural Address(1)John F. KennedyJan. 2o, 1961.We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom. Symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning, signify- ing renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn betbre you,and almighty God, the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.The worried is very different now for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. And yet, the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbears fought are still at issue around the globe. The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

Frida Kahlo Diego and Frida painting

Frida Kahlo Diego and Frida painting
Rembrandt Christ In The Storm painting
The Clinton-Gore administration has blocked reform at every turn," Bush told supporters at an airport rally in Kansas City, Mo., this afternoon. "For seven and a half years, the vice president has been the second biggest obstacle to reform in America … now he wants to be the 'obstacle in chief.'"According to an analysis by ABCNEWS, some 14 states are still up for grabs, with neither Bush nor Gore claiming a decisive edge in state polls. The vice president is having to campaign hard in states won by the Clinton-Gore ticket in both 1992 and 1996, including Oregon, Washington and Arkansas, where he will be Tuesday.A total of 270 electoral votes are needed to win the White House. Bush has a significant lead in states totaling 205 votes, while Gore leads in states totaling 204 votes.

John William Waterhouse Echo and Narcissus painting

John William Waterhouse Echo and Narcissus painting
John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting
Egypt's state media said Clinton called Mubarak Wednesday evening to discuss the proposals. The Cairo meeting comes instead of an expected summit on Thursday between Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, hosted by Mubarak in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Barak's office said earlier Thursday he had canceled planned talks with Mubarak at Sharm el-Sheikh, but an Israeli diplomatic source said they would speak after Mubarak met Arafat to review a possible late-night meeting. The Palestinians have said their response will depend on U.S. clarifications, sought in a letter to Washington which reportedly neither accepted nor rejected Clinton's suggestions.

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting

Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son painting
John Collier Lady Godiva painting

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 3, 2001 as the Dow Jones industrial average rose on news of an interest rate cut. The Dow closed up 299.60 points at 10,945.75.
NEW YORK - Stocks roared, with the technology-laden Nasdaq market posting its biggest gain ever, after the Federal Reserve threw a lifeline to Wall Street with an unexpected interest-rate cut to keep the world's largest economy from slowing too much. "The intensity and the timing (of the Fed move) caused the market to move from a fear syndrome to a feeding frenzy," said Alan Ackerman, chief market strategist at brokerage Fahnestock & Co. "The only question is if it holds."

Francois Boucher paintings

Francois Boucher paintings
Frank Dicksee paintings
UFO investigators in the Yukon, meanwhile, suspect the jump in sightings and the number of cases involving triangular-shaped flying objects may suggest the testing of secret military aircraft in the area, said Mr. Rutkowski.UFOROM compiles its data from reports filed to the research group by provincial counterparts, police, and federal agencies like Transport Canada and the Department of National Defence.Across Canada, reports of UFOs totalled 263 in 2000, ranking the year third behind 1997, when 284 UFOs were sighted, and 1993, with its record 489 sightings.In an average year, there are 236 reported sightings, according UFOROM data.Mr. Rutkowski said most of the sightings in 1993 were attributed to a cosmic

animal paintings

animal paintings
ballet paintings
ett has recorded an electronic version of "Science Fiction Double Feature" from Rocky Horror, with producers Ulf Sommers and Tony Bruno. The song will not be on the upcoming new cast album for The Rocky Horror Show, on which Jett will appear, but will be placed elsewhere, possibly on Jett's next studio album, according to her manager, Kenny Laguna.
In her time, no other artist brewed more brouhahas than Sinead O'Connor. Unfortunately, her on and offstage antics and forthright opinions all too often obscured the brilliance of her artistry and the majesty of her voice. With the release of what many are calling her best album in years, Faith and Courage, VH1.com's Jane Ratcliffe conducted the following video interview with the Irish chanteuse and found that her music is not the only thing showing signs of maturing.

Francisco de Goya paintings

Francisco de Goya paintings
Filippino Lippi paintings
Downey's legal troubles date to June 1996, when he was stopped for speeding on the Pacific Coast Highway and authorities found cocaine, heroin and a pistol in his vehicle.A month later, he was found passed out on a child's bed in a neighbor's home. Three days later, he was arrested after leaving a recovery center.He was jailed in August 1999 after he admitted during a probation hearing that he was missing scheduled drug tests. Superior Court Judge Lawrence Mira sentenced him to three years in prison for violating his probation. Talent Equal to His TroublesDowney had established an impressive movie career before his incarceration. The son of film director Robert Downey, he earned an Oscar nomination for his work in the title role in Chaplin, the 1992 screen biography of famed comedian Charlie Chaplin. He also appeared in the critically acclaimed film Wonder Boys.

Fabian Perez the face of tango ii painting

Fabian Perez the face of tango ii painting
George Frederick Watts Watts Hope painting
Beijing has adopted strict emission standards since 1999, which require a reduction of emissions by 80 percent. During period from 2004 to 2007, Beijing will adopt even stricter standards so as to further reduce emission by 60 percent.By 2007, 90 percent of the buses and 70 percent of the taxis will use clean natural gas. Five new subway lines will be built, totaling 114 kilometers in length. The handling capacity of the city's bus services will reach 19.5 million persons per day.By 2007, Beijing will consume five times as much natural gas as in 2000. No fuel coal will be used except in a few large boilers in power plants.By 2007, 14 more wastewater treatment plants will be built to increase the treating capacity to 90 percent of the total the city produced. And 50 percent of the treated wastewater will be reused. In addition, Beijing will maintain the

Jean-Leon Gerome paintings

Jean-Leon Gerome paintings
Lorenzo Lotto paintings
At its peak hour at 5 a.m. ET, the meteors could be streaming down at a rate of 70 a minute, or 4,200 an hour, says Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames' Research Center.Satellites, Space Station Could Be NickedSince 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.

impressionist painting

impressionist painting
Knight painting
Police expect 250,000 people to jam the streets of city to get a glimpse of the newlyweds' horse-drawn carriage. Downtown will be closed to cars — except for the fleet of nearly 100 Volvo limousines and dark buses that will ferry the guests to and from the church.One-third of Denmark's 10,000-strong police force is expected to be on duty and the airspace over Copenhagen will be closed for the event — except for a lone television news helicopter. Festivities included more casual events, such as a boat race, a rock concert, a private party in a modern night club and hundreds of children dressed as princes and princesses cheering the couple. Once wed, Mary Donaldson will move out of her apartment to a palace 10 times bigger. Frederik, who holds senior ranks in the Danish army, air force and navy, will get his own household staff and a parliament-approved salary raise from $700,000 to $2.4 million a year.

Guillaume Seignac Nymphe A La Piece D'Eau painting

Guillaume Seignac Nymphe A La Piece D'Eau painting
William Bouguereau Evening Mood painting
Japanese researchers said they had turned a humanoid industrial machine into a master of Japanese traditional dance in a bid to use a robot as a guardian of cultural heritage. The 1.5-meter-tall (five-foot) robot HRP-2 Promet, which looks like an animation character wearing a visor, shuffled its gray metal feet and waved its hands in the air in sync with a woman in a kimono. Katsushi Ikeuchi, a professor of engineering at Tokyo University, said the robot, which is usually used at construction sites, was taught traditional Japanese dance to preserve the art for the future. The slow-paced dance, which is performed in-groups and accompanied by lutes and other Japanese instruments, is rapidly losing ground in 21st-century Japan, with many young people only encountering it at local festivals. HRP-2 Promet was created in 2003. Priced at 38 million yen (365,000 dollars), it can help workers at construction sites and can also drive a car.

Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot paintings

Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot paintings
Allan R.Banks paintings
RHETT: We've sort of shocked the Confederacy, Scarlett. SCARLETT: It's a little like blockade running, isn't it?RHETT: It's worse. But I expect a very fancy profit out of it.SCARLETT: I don't care what you expect or what they think, I'm gonna dance and dance. Tonight I wouldn't mind dancing with Abe Lincoln himself.(In the Hamiltons. Rhett pays a visit to Scarlett and brings her a bonnet from Paris.)SCARLETT: Oh, oh, oh the darling thing. Oh, Rhett, it's lovely, lovely! You didn't really bring it all the way from Paris just for me!RHETT: Yes. I thought it was about time I got you out of that fake mourning. Next trip I'll bring you some green silk for a ""frock to match it.SCARLETT: Oh, Rhett!RHETT: It's my duty to blade boys at the front, to keep our girls at home looking pretty.

Henri Fantin-Latour paintings

Henri Fantin-Latour paintings
Horace Vernet paintings
Tennyson's wonderful swan song-- "Crossing the Bar." The old captain kept time gently with his sinewy hand.
"Yes, yes, Mistress Blythe," he said, when she had finished, "that's it, that's it. He wasn't a sailor, you tell me--I dunno how he could have put an old sailor's feelings into words like that, if he wasn't one. He didn't want any `sadness o' farewells' and neither do I, Mistress Blythe--for all will be well with me and mine beyant the bar." Any news from Green Gables, Anne?"
"Nothing very especial," replied Anne, folding up Marilla's letter. "Jake Donnell has been there shingling the roof. He is a full-fledged carpenter now, so it seems he has had his own way in regard to the choice of a life-work. You remember his mother wanted him to be a college professor. I shall never forget the day she came to the school and rated me for failing to call him St. Clair."
"Does anyone ever call him that now?"
"Evidently not. It seems that he has completely lived it down. Even his mother has succumbed. I always thought that a boy with Jake's chin and mouth would get his own way in the end. Diana writes me that Dora has a beau. Just think of it--that child!"

Guillaume Seignac Jeune femme denudee sur canape painting

Guillaume Seignac Jeune femme denudee sur canape painting
Diego Rivera Portrait of Natasha Zakolkowa Gelman painting
just like a child when he got well. He hadn't memory or intellect or reason. They tried to find out who he was but they never could. He couldn't even tell them his name--he could only say a few simple words. He had a letter on him beginning `Dear Dick' and signed `Leslie,' but there was no address on it and the envelope was gone. They let him stay on--he learned to do a few odd jobs about the place--and there Captain Jim found him. He brought him home-- I've always said it was a bad day's work, though I s'pose there was nothing else he could do. He thought maybe when Dick got home and saw his old surroundings and familiar faces his memory would wake up. But it hadn't any effect. There he's been at the house up the brook ever since. He's just like a child, no more nor less. Takes fractious spells occasionally, but mostly he's just vacant and good humored and harmless. He's apt to run away if he isn't watched. That's the burden Leslie has had to carry for eleven years--and all alone. Old Abner Moore died soon after Dick was brought home and it was found he was almost bankrupt. When things were settled up there was nothing for Leslie and Dick but the old West farm. Leslie rented it to John Ward, and the rent is all she has to

Gustave Courbet paintings

Gustave Courbet paintings
Guido Reni paintings
for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves -- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.' I think Redmond has taught me that in some measure, Anne."
"Judging from what you all, say" remarked Aunt Jamesina, "the sum and substance is that you can learn -- if you've got natural gumption enough -- in four years at college what it would take about twenty years of living to teach you. Well, that justifies higher education in my opinion. It's a matter I was always dubious about before."
"But what about people who haven't natural gumption, Aunt Jimsie?"
"People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born. It's their misfortune not their fault, poor souls. But those of us who have some gumption

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings
beau I ever had. But when he told a story he dressed it up so that you couldn't see it for frills. I never could decide whether he was lying or just letting his imagination run loose."
"And what about the others, Aunty?"
"Go away and unpack," said Aunt Jamesina, waving Joseph at them by mistake for a needle. "The others were too nice to make fun of. I shall respect their memory. There's a box of flowers in your room, Anne. They came about an hour ago."
After the first week the girls of Patty's Place settled down to a steady grind of study; for this was their last year at Redmond and graduation honors must be fought for persistently. Anne devoted herself to English, Priscilla pored over classics, and Philippa pounded away at Mathematics. Sometimes they grew tired, sometimes they felt discouraged, sometimes nothing seemed worth the struggle for it. In one such mood Stella wandered up to the blue room one rainy November evening. Anne sat on the floor in a little circle of light cast by the lamp beside her, amid a surrounding

Albert Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting

Albert Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting
Alexandre Cabanel The Birth of Venus painting
rejected suitors did. Instead, he became angry, and showed it; he said two or three quite nasty things; Anne's temper flashed up mutinously and she retorted with a cutting little speech whose keenness pierced even Charlie's protective Sloanishness and reached the quick; he caught up his hat and flung himself out of the house with a very red face; Anne rushed upstairs, falling twice over Miss Ada's cushions on the way, and threw herself on her bed, in tears of humiliation and rage. Had she actually stooped to quarrel with a Sloane? Was it possible anything Charlie Sloane could say had power to make her angry? Oh, this was degradation, indeed -- worse even than being the rival of Nettie Blewett!
"I wish I need never see the horrible creature again," she sobbed vindictively into her pillows.
She could not avoid seeing him again, but the outraged Charlie took care that it should not be at very close quarters. Miss Ada's cushions were henceforth safe from his depredations, and when he met Anne on the street, or in Redmond's halls, his bow was icy in the extreme. Relations between these two old schoolmates continued to be thus strained for nearly a year! Then Charlie

Claude Monet Woman In A Green Dress painting

Claude Monet Woman In A Green Dress painting
John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting
Gilbert Blythe was probably the only person to whom the news of Anne's resignation brought unmixed pleasure. Her pupils looked upon it as a sheer catastrophe. Annetta Bell had hysterics when she went home. Anthony Pye fought two pitched and unprovoked battles with other boys by way of relieving his feelings. Barbara Shaw cried all night. Paul Irving defiantly told his grandmother that she needn't expect him to eat any porridge for a week.
"I can't do it, Grandma," he said. "I don't really know if I can eat anything. I feel as if there was a dreadful lump in my throat. I'd have cried coming home from school if Jake Donnell hadn't been watching me. I believe I will cry after I go to bed. It wouldn't show on my eyes tomorrow, would it? And it would be such a relief. But anyway, I can't eat porridge. I'm going to need all my strength of mind to bear up against this, Grandma, and I won't have any left to grapple with porridge. Oh Grandma, I don't know what I'll do when my beautiful teacher goes away. Milty

Eugene de Blaas paintings

Eugene de Blaas paintings
Eduard Manet paintings
I shall try. But I have to let go most of my theories," said Anne, laughing a little. "I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another."
"Even the theory on corporal punishment," teased Mrs. Allan.
But Anne flushed.
"I shall never forgive myself for whipping Anthony."
"Nonsense, dear, he deserved it. And it agreed with him. You have had no trouble with him since and he has come to think there's nobody like you. Your kindness won his love after the idea that a 'girl was no good' was rooted out of his stubborn mind."
"He may have deserved it, but that is not the point. If I had calmly and deliberately decided to

Avtandil The Grand Opera painting

Avtandil The Grand Opera painting
Eugene de Blaas In the Water painting
Willowmere, where dark and light kissed each other under the firs, and down through Lover's Lane. . .spots she and Diana had so named long ago. She walked slowly, enjoying the sweetness of wood and field and the starry summer twilight, and thinking soberly about the new duties she was to take up on the morrow. When she reached the yard at Green Gables Mrs. Lynde's loud, decided tones floated out through the open kitchen window.
"Mrs. Lynde has come up to give me good advice about tomorrow," thought Anne with a grimace, "but I don't believe I'll go in. Her advice is much like pepper, I think. . .excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses. I'll run over and have a chat with Mr. Harrison instead."
This was not the first time Anne had run over and chatted with Mr. Harrison since the notable affair of the Jersey cow. She had been there several evenings and Mr. Harrison and she were very good friends, although there were times and