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  2. William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

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    The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...

  3. File:Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and ...

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    File information Description Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and Live Trees) (Paisaje con árbol muerto y vivo), oil on canvas, 49.4 x 65.4 cm, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokio.

  4. Pappyland - Wikipedia

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    Pappyland is an American half-hour children's television series written by Jon Nappa and broadcast on WCNY-TV in Syracuse, New York and PBS stations from 1993-1999. Thereafter, the show was moved to TLC and began airing new episodes on its Ready Set Learn! block from September 30, 1996 [1] until 1997, with reruns airing until February 21, 2003.

  5. Botanical illustration - Wikipedia

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    While a few drawings were done in black ink or pencil, most were finely enhanced with watercolor. Many were published in Flora Parisiensis , [ 53 ] by Poiteau and Turpin (1808) and some by Turpin (and Ernestine Panckoucke ) in Flore médicale [ 54 ] by François-Pierre Chaumeton (1814–1820).

  6. Fire adaptations - Wikipedia

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    For example, trees evolved with fire-embracing traits can "sacrifice" themselves during fires. But they also cause fires to spread and kill their less flammable neighbors. With the help of other fire adaptive traits such as serotiny, flammable trees will occupy the gap created by fires and colonize the habitat.

  7. Pencil drawing - Wikipedia

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    Pencil drawings were not known before the 17th century, [1] with the modern concept of pencil drawings taking shape in the 18th and 19th centuries. [1] Pencil drawings succeeded the older metalpoint drawing stylus, which used metal instead of graphite. [1] Modern artists continue to use the graphite pencil for artworks and sketches. [1]

  8. New strains of sudden oak death threaten Bay Area trees - AOL

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    An oak tree shows signs of the effect of Sudden Oak Death disease at the Los Trancos Open Space Preserve near Palo Alto, Calif. on Wednesday, July 13, 2011.

  9. List of American artists 1900 and after - Wikipedia

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    This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.