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- Kathy Ellen
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Oh, I do love, love, love that.:wah::-6
- Rapunzel
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This painting is called "Pierrot's Love". It was painted in 1905 and is another good example of ambiguous image. I think it is brilliant that the cuffs of the clown's costume makes the nostril holes of the skull. Again, the power of suggestion can sway your interpretation one way or the other.
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Thumbelina the world's smallest horse
She may be small, a mere 17 inches and weighing only 60 pounds. But she is all horse.
Born as a dwarf to a miniature horse, Thumbelina is officially the world’s smallest horse.
She may never aspire to be a champion show-jumper – she is so tiny she would find it hard to jump over a bucket.
But these things matter little to the feisty Thumbelina, who has been officially recognized as the world’s smallest horse.
That title was conferred on her in 2006 when the five-year-old entered the Guinness Book of Records.
The real-life My Little Pony was born on an American farm to a couple who specialize in breeding miniature horses.
Normally these horses weight about 250lb and rise to a height of 34 inches when they are fully grown.
But from the day she was born it was clear that tiny Thumbelina would never grow to that size.
She weighed in at only 8lb – the size of a new-born baby - when she was born. Eventually she grew to just 60lb.
Her amazing size has been explained as dwarfism. This makes her a miniature of a miniature.
She may be a mini-horse, but small means beautiful as far as her owners, the Goessling family in Goose Creek farm in St. Louis, are concerned.
She likes to hang out with the cocker spaniels rather than the other horses on their 150-acre farm.
“When she was born, she was so small we thought she wasn’t going to make it. She looked very ill. We feared the worse.
“Because her legs are proportionally smaller than her body and her head, she has to wear orthopaedic fittings to straighten them out a lot of the time.
“But we love her and wouldn’t want her any other way,” said Michael Goessling, whose parents Kay and Paul bred the miniature horses.
She only measures up to the shins of the normal-sized horses in the paddock.
Michael’s parents have bred hundreds of miniature horses, but they have never had one as small as Thumbelina. She has become something of a celebrity in her home town in America.
She lives on a cup of grain and a handful of hay, served twice a day.
She is expected to live to the age of 17 years because of her size – normal horses live for about 35 years.
“She was just a complete fluke and we call her a mini mini. She is too precious to sell. I think my parents would sell me before they part with Thumbelina. She has that special Wow factor, which you only get when you see how small she really is,” said Michael.
While she has the ability to get pregnant and give birth, the Goessling family have decided not to allow this to happen.
There could be complications during the pregnancy, they believe, so it is better to avoid the risks. And also they don‘t feel it is right that the gene which creates dwarfism in horses be carried on through future generations.
She may be small, a mere 17 inches and weighing only 60 pounds. But she is all horse.
Born as a dwarf to a miniature horse, Thumbelina is officially the world’s smallest horse.
She may never aspire to be a champion show-jumper – she is so tiny she would find it hard to jump over a bucket.
But these things matter little to the feisty Thumbelina, who has been officially recognized as the world’s smallest horse.
That title was conferred on her in 2006 when the five-year-old entered the Guinness Book of Records.
The real-life My Little Pony was born on an American farm to a couple who specialize in breeding miniature horses.
Normally these horses weight about 250lb and rise to a height of 34 inches when they are fully grown.
But from the day she was born it was clear that tiny Thumbelina would never grow to that size.
She weighed in at only 8lb – the size of a new-born baby - when she was born. Eventually she grew to just 60lb.
Her amazing size has been explained as dwarfism. This makes her a miniature of a miniature.
She may be a mini-horse, but small means beautiful as far as her owners, the Goessling family in Goose Creek farm in St. Louis, are concerned.
She likes to hang out with the cocker spaniels rather than the other horses on their 150-acre farm.
“When she was born, she was so small we thought she wasn’t going to make it. She looked very ill. We feared the worse.
“Because her legs are proportionally smaller than her body and her head, she has to wear orthopaedic fittings to straighten them out a lot of the time.
“But we love her and wouldn’t want her any other way,” said Michael Goessling, whose parents Kay and Paul bred the miniature horses.
She only measures up to the shins of the normal-sized horses in the paddock.
Michael’s parents have bred hundreds of miniature horses, but they have never had one as small as Thumbelina. She has become something of a celebrity in her home town in America.
She lives on a cup of grain and a handful of hay, served twice a day.
She is expected to live to the age of 17 years because of her size – normal horses live for about 35 years.
“She was just a complete fluke and we call her a mini mini. She is too precious to sell. I think my parents would sell me before they part with Thumbelina. She has that special Wow factor, which you only get when you see how small she really is,” said Michael.
While she has the ability to get pregnant and give birth, the Goessling family have decided not to allow this to happen.
There could be complications during the pregnancy, they believe, so it is better to avoid the risks. And also they don‘t feel it is right that the gene which creates dwarfism in horses be carried on through future generations.
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Yoda - the cat with four ears
Meet Yoda, a household pet born with an extra pair of ears.
Chicago, Illinois, couple Valerie and Ted Rock took the cat in two years ago after they visited a local bar, where a group of drinkers were handing the animal around and making fun of him.
Since being adopted by the Rocks and after getting his picture posted on the Internet, the two-year-old feline has become an international media celebrity.
The Rocks have received calls from Good Morning America, Fox News and The Tyra Banks Show. The moggy's mugshot has graced the pages of the London Guardian and British tabloids.
Despite his strange appearance, Yoda - named after the pointy-eared Star Wars character (pictured below) - is a perfectly normal and affectionate cat and a delight to have around.
His extra ears are thought to be the result of a genetic mutation.
But Yoda's owners are keeping a close watch on their much-loved pet. They are concerned he could be catnapped because he is so different.
Meet Yoda, a household pet born with an extra pair of ears.
Chicago, Illinois, couple Valerie and Ted Rock took the cat in two years ago after they visited a local bar, where a group of drinkers were handing the animal around and making fun of him.
Since being adopted by the Rocks and after getting his picture posted on the Internet, the two-year-old feline has become an international media celebrity.
The Rocks have received calls from Good Morning America, Fox News and The Tyra Banks Show. The moggy's mugshot has graced the pages of the London Guardian and British tabloids.
Despite his strange appearance, Yoda - named after the pointy-eared Star Wars character (pictured below) - is a perfectly normal and affectionate cat and a delight to have around.
His extra ears are thought to be the result of a genetic mutation.
But Yoda's owners are keeping a close watch on their much-loved pet. They are concerned he could be catnapped because he is so different.
- Rapunzel
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Amazing and unusual tree
Joyce Kilmer immortalised the grace and beauty of trees in poetry:
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."
Joyce Kilmer immortalised the grace and beauty of trees in poetry:
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."
- Odie
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- Odie
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Rapunzel;1232450 wrote: Yoda - the cat with four ears
Meet Yoda, a household pet born with an extra pair of ears.
Chicago, Illinois, couple Valerie and Ted Rock took the cat in two years ago after they visited a local bar, where a group of drinkers were handing the animal around and making fun of him.
Since being adopted by the Rocks and after getting his picture posted on the Internet, the two-year-old feline has become an international media celebrity.
The Rocks have received calls from Good Morning America, Fox News and The Tyra Banks Show. The moggy's mugshot has graced the pages of the London Guardian and British tabloids.
Despite his strange appearance, Yoda - named after the pointy-eared Star Wars character (pictured below) - is a perfectly normal and affectionate cat and a delight to have around.
His extra ears are thought to be the result of a genetic mutation.
But Yoda's owners are keeping a close watch on their much-loved pet. They are concerned he could be catnapped because he is so different.
I've seen Yoda before, I just think he is the cat's meow.:-4
Meet Yoda, a household pet born with an extra pair of ears.
Chicago, Illinois, couple Valerie and Ted Rock took the cat in two years ago after they visited a local bar, where a group of drinkers were handing the animal around and making fun of him.
Since being adopted by the Rocks and after getting his picture posted on the Internet, the two-year-old feline has become an international media celebrity.
The Rocks have received calls from Good Morning America, Fox News and The Tyra Banks Show. The moggy's mugshot has graced the pages of the London Guardian and British tabloids.
Despite his strange appearance, Yoda - named after the pointy-eared Star Wars character (pictured below) - is a perfectly normal and affectionate cat and a delight to have around.
His extra ears are thought to be the result of a genetic mutation.
But Yoda's owners are keeping a close watch on their much-loved pet. They are concerned he could be catnapped because he is so different.
I've seen Yoda before, I just think he is the cat's meow.:-4
Life is just to short for drama.