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Fun with Flickr photos – panorama shots split into three – Triple Art

How are these triples made? – pick a photo with a motif which fits for a panorama view – select a cutout of 1500 x 500 pixels and save this photo (Photoshop or so) – cut this wide photo in 3 equal parts of 500 x 500 pixels – now you have 3 triple photos …

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Pacific Standard Time's last hurrah for the exhibit – Lost and Found

I will be sad to see the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions go. For the past few months 60+ institutions all over California have been showing off the best native works from 1945-1980. The pieces below are from the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station, on display until the end of this year, December …

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Pacific Standard Time’s last hurrah for the exhibit – Lost and Found

I will be sad to see the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions go. For the past few months 60+ institutions all over California have been showing off the best native works from 1945-1980. The pieces below are from the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station, on display until the end of this year, December …

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Brief History of Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus

AD 280 The man we’ve come to identify at St. Nicholas was born in the third century in what is now Turkey. He eventually became a bishop in the early church and was known for helping the poor and the sick and for being a protector of sailors and children. Tales of his good works, …

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Account of a Visit From St. Nicholas

from The Troy Sentinel, December 23, 1823, p. 3 We know not to whom we are indebted for the following description of that unwearied patron of children–that homely, but delightful personification of parental kindness–SANTE CLAUS, his costume and his equipage, as he goes about visiting the fire-sides of this happy land, laden with Christmas bounties; …

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