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Arco Naturale, Capri Morning LIght, Roman Campagna William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900) Haseltine was one of the best American art...

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." Edgar Allan Poe - Eleonora (1841...

Orion the Hunter from Leiden Aratea by an unknown artist Leiden Aratea is a 9th century AD illuminated copy of an astronomical treatise b...

The Sky Trap by Frank Belknap Long ( 1901-1994) From the July 1941 issue of Comet , this is a wonderfully imaginative and exciting wo...

Danielle Fishel played Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World, one of the greatest television shows ever made. More recently she has been t...

Deer Among  Red-leaved M aple T rees by an unknown artist 10th century Chinese painting - ink and colors on silk.

Rinaldo in the garden of Armida by Jean-Honoré Fragonard This painting is based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered. Fr...

The Talkative Tree   by Horace Brown Fyfe From the January 1962 issue of Worlds of If , this is an imaginative science fiction story . ...

The Delegate from Venus by Henry Slesar A brilliant science fiction short story first published in the October 1958 issue of Amazing S...

Mountain landscape by Paul Bril Bril was born in Antwerp in 1554 and was a noted painter of landscapes and Capriccio art ( works depicti...

The Attendant's Confession by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ( 1839-1908), from Brazilian Tales A masterful short story writte...

      Here is my list of what could be the best shows to begin their life in the 1990's.       Of Course, this is only my opinion.   ...

"We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma....

  A Moonlit Night by Carl Wagner 1796-1867 A wondrous example of Romantic art painted in 1820 with oil on canvas.

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells First published in 1901, this is one of Wells' best works and a masterpiece of science ficti...