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Albrecht Durer
"A Young Hare" by Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer painted “A Young Hare” in 1502. In 1502 Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World. It was his fourth and final voyage. Journalism is termed the Fourth Estate — an expression originating during the French Revolution. Though the French Revolution began in 1789, French King Louis XVI was beheaded January 21, 1793, beginning the bloody Reign of Terror. The Tower of Terror is a Disney amusement parks simulated free-fall thrill ride based on the television series The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone was created and hosted by Rod Serling, and was broadcast from 1959-1964. In 1964 the movie The Nasty Rabbit was released, about a Russian plot to secretly infect US rabbits with a nasty, lethal bacteria. In 1767 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed bacteria through a microscope of his own design. A microscope is a device used to view things too small to be seen by the naked eye. In the book of Genesis Adam and Eve were ashamed of their nakedness after eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they sewed fig leaves together to fashion aprons to cover themselves. Hares do not eat figs.
Learn More:
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Athena Review Iamge Archive: Map of the 4th Voyage of Chistopher Columbus
Figes, E. (1990). The tree of knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books.
Google image results: microscopes
Liberty,Equality, Fraternity - Exploring the French Revolution. Browse French Revolution Songs.
The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life
The Nasty Rabbit. Internet Movie Database.
Racusin JL, Karpov SV, Sokolowski M, Granot J, Wu XF, Pal’shin V, et al. (2008). Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B. Nature. 455 (7210), 183-8.
