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Today is Monday, November 18, 2024.

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Hey! Except for the time of day, which is the same as UTC, all times on my userpage will be the same as U.S. Central Time

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The Apennine Colossus is a stone statue, approximately 11 metres (36 feet) tall, in the estate of Villa Demidoff (originally Villa di Pratolino) in Vaglia in Tuscany, Italy. A personification of the Apennine Mountains, the colossal figure was created by Giambologna, a Flemish-born Italian sculptor, in the late 1580s. The statue has the appearance of an elderly man crouched at the shore of a lake, squeezing the head of a sea monster through whose open mouth water originally emanated into the pond in front of the statue. The colossus is depicted naked, with stalactites in the thick beard and long hair to show the metamorphosis of man and mountain, blending his body with the surrounding nature. It is made of stone and plaster and the interior houses a series of chambers and caves on three levels. Initially, the back of the statue was protected by a structure resembling a cave, which was demolished around 1690 by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Foggini, who built a statue of a dragon to adorn the back of the colossus. The Italian sculptor Rinaldo Barbetti renovated the statue in 1876.Sculpture credit: Giambologna; photographed by Rhododendrites

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Quotes that I think are wise

“ All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“ In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“ It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

Random Quotes

“ Oh my God! We're all going to die. ”

- Julie Delpy, quoted from her appearance on an episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson where she described her experience on a plane, which originally aired on August 2, 2007.

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