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English: Political cartoon that shows a woman applying her makeup while caricatures of Stanley Baldwin, David Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald offer different beauty treatments. Source New York Times, November 11, 1928 via The London Daily Express Date 1928 Author Sidney Strube (1892-1956). Permission (Reusing this file)
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The Garden references exotic travel literature of the 15th century through the animals, including lions and a giraffe, in the left panel. The giraffe has been traced to Cyriac of Ancona, a travel writer known for visiting Egypt during the 1440s. The exoticism of Cyriac's sumptuous manuscripts may have inspired Bosch's imagination.
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The Tugen people of modern Kenya used the giraffe to depict their god Mda. [127] The Egyptians gave the giraffe its own hieroglyph; 'sr' in Old Egyptian and 'mmy' in later periods. [124]: 49 How the giraffe got its height has been the subject of various African folktales. [10] Giraffes have a presence in modern Western culture.
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The giraffe carvings were first recorded by French archaeologist Christian Dupuy in 1987, [3] and documented by David Coulson [4] in 1997 while on a photographic expedition to the site. Due to degradation of the engravings resulting from human activity, a mold was made of the engravings for display.