And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I still like those old movies with Ray Harryhausen stop action effects. I can remember watching some of the old Sinbad movies at Saturday matinees when I was a kid.
That is a awesome picture
ReplyDeleteThat giraffe is very angry!
ReplyDeleteSeems legit.
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Wait until the Kraken attacks next....
ReplyDeleteReminds me of _The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream_ (https://booksvooks.com/the-ship-that-sailed-the-time-stream-pdf-g-c-edmondson.html).
ReplyDeleteSailing to the age of Dinosaurs would've been a bad idea, as the painting illustrates. Especially if one is sailing a Roman galley:-).
Bad link- have to type it in.
DeleteI remember reading and enjoying it, but it says it was written in 2012.
I could swear I read it while I was in the Navy (the 80's) or just after.
Sorry about the bad link. You can just go to booksvooks.com and search the title there.
DeleteIs this a representation of Homeric "Paradox" story - the Scylla and Charybdis thing?
ReplyDeleteHere there be dragons.
ReplyDeleteI still like those old movies with Ray Harryhausen stop action effects. I can remember watching some of the old Sinbad movies at Saturday matinees when I was a kid.
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