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In H. G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes, a man who sleeps for 203 years wakes up in a completely transformed London, where he has become the richest man in the world. In the original Buck Rogers book, the protagonist falls asleep under the influence of a gas in a mine, sleeps for four centuries, and wakes to find America under the rule of Mongol ...
Bearded Man with a Beret is a 1630 oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch artist Jan Lievens. Its dimensions are 53.5 cm × 46.3 cm (21.1 in × 18.2 in). [1] The painting is of an old man who is looking up to his right. His lips are parted as if he has been interrupted while speaking.
Clematis vitalba is a climbing shrub with branched, grooved stems, deciduous leaves, and scented greeny-white flowers with fluffy underlying sepals.The many fruits formed in each inflorescence have long silky appendages which, seen together, give the characteristic appearance of old man's beard.
Tsagaan Ubgen has the same kindly bald old man with a white beard appearance in the Mongolian version of the Cham dance. [1] There, he appears alongside other masked characters representing other syncretic Buddhist gods such as Begtse, Mahākāla, and the Garuda; [5] and is one of the few characters in the dance who is able to speak. [6] [7]
Bannik near a Bucket of Water by Ivan Bilibin, 1934. The Bannik (Cyrillic: Банник) is a bathhouse spirit in Slavic mythology. [1] He is usually described as a small, naked old man with a long beard, his body covered in the birch leaves left over from well used bath brooms. [2]
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Old Man with Beard: Whereabouts unknown [28] Painted at La Baule, France [28] 1930: Brown Girl: Whereabouts unknown. [1] Painted in Paris. [1] 1930: Self-Portrait 6: New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art: 58 × 79 cm Oil on canvas [29] Painted in Paris. [29] 1930: Amrita Sher-Gil Self-Portrait 7 [29] New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern ...