A flagellate is a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages. This is the 13th plate from Ernst Haeckel's ''Kunstformen der Natur'' (1904), and this organism is number one on the plate. I can't find the name of the species. Vintage retro cute colorful artistic nature pattern animal elegant decor fine art.
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Two hens going for a walk with beautiful red bonnets and teal and red parasols. Apple blossoms in the foreground. Vintage retro cute funny cool colorful beautiful artistic unique original creative elegant modern fashion decor Victorian Romanticism Christian pagan religious animal and floral landscape fine decorative Easter art.
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A well-dressed rabbit in a beautiful garden painting Easter eggs, with seven chicks watching. Inscription says A HAPPY EASTER TO YOU. Vintage retro cute cool colorful funny sweet artistic creative unique original modern fashion decor Christian pagan religious Victorian romantic decorative animal floral and landscape art.
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Absinthe is a very powerful alcoholic beverage (45%–74% ABV). If you have never tried it but are familiar with drinking in the American South, think white lightning. It was illegal in the US and many European countries beginning about 1915, and remained illegal until the 1990s. Commercial distillation of absinthe in the United States resumed in 2007.
It achieved great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers. Due in part to its association with bohemian culture, absinthe was opposed by social conservatives and prohibitionists. Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, and Aleister Crowley were all notorious 'bad men' of that day who were (or were thought to be) devotees of the Green Fairy.
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