After the Deluge is an oil painting by English artist George Frederic
Watts. Completed in 1891, it shows a scene from the story of Noah's
Flood, in which Noah opens the window of his Ark to see that after 40
days the rain has stopped. The Symbolist painting is a stylised
seascape, dominated by a bright sunburst breaking through clouds. Watts
intended to evoke a monotheistic God in the act of creation, without
depicting the Creator directly. The unfinished painting was exhibited at
a church in Whitechapel in 1886, under the intentionally simplified
title of The Sun. The completed version was shown for the first time at
the New Gallery in 1891 and was admired by Watts's fellow artists. It
influenced many painters who worked in the two decades following.
Between 1902 and 1906 the painting was exhibited around the United
Kingdom. It is now in the collection of the Watts Gallery in Compton,
Guildford, Surrey.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Deluge_%28painting%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1650:
Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the
Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain,
Scotland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carbisdale>
1945:
World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-
Country Cairn was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the
end of the Lapland War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_the_Three-Country_Cairn>
1965:
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a
surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plaman_Mapu>
2005:
The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made
its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
floaty:
1. Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.
2. (nautical, archaic) Of a ship: having a shallow draft (“the depth
from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull”), and thus drawing
less (that is, floating higher in) water.
3. (figurative)
4. Of music: light and relaxing.
5. Of an object: light and flimsy or soft; specifically, of a dress:
lightweight, so as to rise away from the body when the wearer is moving.
6. Of a person: feeling calm, dreamy, happy, etc., as if floating in the
air.
7. Of speech or writing: overly complicated or elaborate; flowery,
grandiloquent.
8. A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid.
9. (chiefly US)
10. A lilo (“inflatable air mattress”) or similar object that floats on
water and can be lain or sat on.
11. (swimming) Chiefly in the plural: synonym of armband (“one of a pair
of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help
the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floaty>
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laws,Borrow our language now and bidUs to speak up in freedom's cause.
--Cecil Day Lewis
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