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The letter says how her uncle saw the sun rise and set. Once the sun set though, wolves chased him up a tree only leaving when the sun rose again. He then tells of going to a market and buying her a gift: a cloth with a tree and shards of eyes around the bottom which he says looked like the wolves' eyes.
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The stories take place in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous 'Faraway Tree'. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The wood and the tree are discovered by three children who move into a house nearby.
The basic story from the main variants: The Trinity or Vanity has been captured or threatened by a foreign galley, and a cabin boy is called on to rescue her. He asks about payment and is promised gold, land and the captain's daughter, depending on the variant. He then uses an auger to drill holes in the bottom of the enemy vessel and sink it.
A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...
A group of costumed Happy Tree Friends (except the Generic Tree Friends, whose costumes are invisible so we cannot see them) are out trick-or-treating, while Flippy is driving a truck carrying barrels of radioactive goo. He stops to let the critters cross the road when suddenly, his car backfires, causing him to flip out.
The earliest provenance of The Virgin and Child With a Flower on a Grassy Bench remains unknown. It may have belonged to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, in Germany, and later was in the collection of an Italian noble family, and subsequently the collections of the Louvre. [2]
The avoidance of idolatry is the main concern of the restrictions on images, and as a result, the traditional form for the religious cult image, the free-standing sculpture, is extremely rare, though examples of freestanding human sculpture do occur in Umayyad Syria and in Seljuk Iran. [17]