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  2. Line art - Wikipedia

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    Line art emphasizes form and drawings, of several (few) constant widths (as in technical illustrations), or of freely varying widths (as in brush work or engraving). Line art may tend towards realism (as in much of Gustave Doré 's work), or it may be a caricature , cartoon , ideograph , or glyph .

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ]

  5. Dogfaces (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Saints Ahrakas and Oghani as dogheads (dogfaces to a degree, as the hair is human); 18th-century Coptic icon. Long before modern comics and animation, dog-headed people (called cynocephalics, from Greek κυνοκέφαλοι (kynokephaloi), from κύων-(dog-) and κεφαλή (head)) have been depicted in art and legend in many cultures, beginning no later than ancient Egypt.

  6. 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.

  7. List of fictional dogs in animated film - Wikipedia

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    My Dog Tulip: Ackerley's dog; is about a man who rescues a dog and how they become best friends. Wylie Burp Bloodhound: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West: The wild west sheriff in the animated movie; is about a family of mice who decide to move out west, unaware they are falling into a trap perpetrated by a smooth-talking cat. Zero ghost dog

  8. Muttley - Wikipedia

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    Muttley is a fictional dog created in 1968 by Hanna-Barbera Productions; he was originally voiced by Don Messick. [9] He is the sidekick (and often foil) to the cartoon villain Dick Dastardly, and appeared with him in the 1968 television series Wacky Races [10] and its 1969 spinoff, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. [11]

  9. Tico and Friends - Wikipedia

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    Tico and Friends (Japanese: 七つの海のティコ, Hepburn: Nanatsu no Umi no Tiko) is a Japanese anime television series by Nippon Animation.It is about an 11-year-old girl named Nanami Simpson and her best friend Tico, a female orca.