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  2. Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia

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    Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...

  3. Darwyn Cooke - Wikipedia

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    In 1985, Cooke left his family on his own for the first time in order to show his samples at DC Comics' New York City offices. The trip resulted in his first published comic book work as a professional artist in a five-page crime story in DC Comics' New Talent Showcase #19, which was coincidentally edited by "Night of the Stalker" artist Sal Amendola. [2]

  4. List of films with live action and animation - Wikipedia

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    1953 – The Three Little Pups (cowboys riding horses; Southern Wolf riding on black-and-white live-action horse) 1959 – Donald in Mathmagic Land (live-action character at a billiards game, orchestra, paintings, human figures and live-action objects) 1959 – The Mouse That Jack Built (live-action sequence at the end)

  5. John Webber - Wikipedia

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    Webber's art is held by a number of Australian institutions including the National Portrait Gallery (William Bligh, c.1776, The Death of Captain Cook (engraving), 1784, and Portrait of Captain James Cook RN, 1782); [5] the Australian National Maritime Museum (View of Huaheine, 1784); [6] the Art Gallery of New South Wales (A View in Otaheite Peha, 1785); [7] the National Library of Australia ...

  6. Sketches by Boz - Wikipedia

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    Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces the English author Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836.

  7. The Sinking of the Lusitania - Wikipedia

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    Hurd had patented the cel method in 1914; it saved work by allowing dynamic drawings to be drawn on one or more layers, which could be laid over a static background layer, relieving animators of the tedium of retracing static images onto drawing after drawing. [32] McCay adopted the cel method beginning with The Sinking of the Lusitania. [33]

  8. List of years in animation - Wikipedia

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    These animations were probably made in black-and-white. The pictures were often traced from live-action films (much like the later rotoscoping technique). [100] [101] 1899 – French trick film pioneer Georges Méliès claimed to have invented the stop trick and popularized it by using it in many of his short films.

  9. Gladys Emerson Cook - Wikipedia

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    Gladys Emerson Cook (November 7, 1894 – February 20, 1977) was an American artist. She is known for her pictures of domestic pets and wild animals . Cook also wrote and illustrated books about animals including how to draw them.