Kyrgyz yurt (1869–1870) by Vasily Vereshchagin.
"We laid flowers on the steps of a large monument to the poet Adam Mickiewicz. It did not seem odd to me that a man born in today’s Belarus, claimed as a Jew by the Encyclopedia Judaica, whose most famous poem, written in Paris, began in Polish with the sentence ‘Lithuania, my Fatherland, you are like health,’ should have had a statue built in his honor in what is now a Ukrainian city when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire."
- Radek Sikorski, The Polish House.
"That wraps the maple syrup of truth in the waffle of propaganda."
- The Economist in response to Canada’s self-aggrandizing celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 (From “The 1812 overture,” January 7, 2012).
Cowboy statue, rural Clark County, WA.
Cisco’s Mexican Restaurant & Lounge, Vancouver, WA.
Champion and reserve champion cows (right, left) of the October 2011 Craven Dairy Auction with owner Robert Crisp (right) and judge Geoff Blezard (left).
Janus lamb at at Skógar Folk Museum, Iceland.
![Þorvaldur Bjarnarson (1832–1921), widely renowned foremost farmer [sic]. Bust (1916–1918) at Skógar Folk Museum, Iceland.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwmiha2rHW1r0aaaso1_r1_250.jpg)
Þorvaldur Bjarnarson (1832–1921), widely renowned foremost farmer [sic]. Bust (1916–1918) at Skógar Folk Museum, Iceland.
![Statue of Kiev’s founders (three brothers [Kyi, Schek, Khoriv], one sister [Lybid], two swans) in Independence Square, Kiev.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lujotoMzHV1r0aaaso1_250.jpg)
Statue of Kiev’s founders (three brothers [Kyi, Schek, Khoriv], one sister [Lybid], two swans) in Independence Square, Kiev.
Der moderne Buchdruck, part of a series of six sculptures in Berlin’s Walk of Ideas. Scholz & Friends.
