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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. Fishermen Carrying a Drowned Man - Wikipedia

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    The images of the people are dark and the subject of the painting is a huddled group carrying a dead fisherman away from the water's edge. The sky in the image is lighted and muted blue and silver. [1] It is considered to be Funerary art and it is also a representation of self-sacrifice. [3] The painting is an example of the style of realism. [4]

  4. Line art - Wikipedia

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    Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight lines or curved lines placed against a background (usually plain). Two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects are often represented through shade (darkness) or hue . Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic.

  5. Leonardo DiCaprio assisted in boat rescue of a drowning man ...

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    Leonardo DiCaprio helped give a man the deep sea rescue he never got playing Jack Dawson in Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio assisted in boat rescue of a drowning man near St. Barts [Video] Skip to main ...

  6. The Scorpion and the Frog - Wikipedia

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    A likely precursor to The Scorpion and the Frog is the Persian fable of The Scorpion and the Turtle, which appears in a number of Persian texts from the late 15th century. These are the Beharistan , written in 1487 by the Persian poet Jami , [ 7 ] and the Anvaar Soheili written c. 1500 by the Persian scholar Husayn Kashifi . [ 8 ]

  7. Manticore - Wikipedia

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    Most manuscripts do not bother detailing the scorpion tail [34] and simply draw a long cat's tail, [28] but in Harley MS 3244 the manticore has an "oddly pointed tail" [34] or an "extraordinary spike on the end" of it, [28] and a tail covered in spikes from end to end is shown on the manticore in several other second family manuscripts.

  8. Scorpion man - Wikipedia

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    Scorpion-men appear in the visual arts of Mesopotamia and ancient Iran before we know them from literature. Among the earliest representations of scorpion-men are an example from Jiroft in Iran, [5] as well as a depiction on the Bull Lyre [6] from the Early Dynastic Period city of Ur. Drawing of an Assyrian intaglio depicting scorpion men.

  9. Line drawing - Wikipedia

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    Line drawing may mean: Line art, a style of two-dimensional art featuring only two, unshaded, contrasting colors; Technical line drawing, simple two-dimensional ...