American painter Fitz Henry Lane was born on the Gloucester Peninsula in Massachusetts, which left an indelible mark on him. ...
Winslow Homer started his career as an apprentice at a lithography workshop in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1855. ...
Cephalopods have long captured human imaginations. This section presents a few examples of artistic impressions and expressions of all things cephalopod through the ages.
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Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919) was one of the most renowned biologists of the 19th century. After a short career as a physician, Haeckel turned his attention to zoology and served as a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena in Germany. ...
Pablo Neruda (1904 – 1973) was a Chilean poet who lived in exile for part of his life. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. ...
“If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”
-- Rachel Carson ...