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  2. Larrikin - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of a larrikin, from Nelson P. Whitelocke's book A Walk in Sydney Streets on the Shady Side (1885). Larrikin is an Australian English term meaning "a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good-hearted person", or "a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions".

  3. A holiday at Mentone - Wikipedia

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    The painting is a social comedy containing several visual puns. While at first it seems a depiction of decorous behaviour, the three figures in the foreground are rigid and disunited in their arrangement. The fashionably dressed woman is seated with her back to the scene, including Mentone Baths, a gender-segregated bathhouse.

  4. The Little Larrikin - Wikipedia

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    A reviewer in The Maitland Daily Mercury found some problems with the novel and noted: "This is Ethel Turner's most ambitious work so far; it is much more elaborate than any other of her books; it is not a atory for children or mainly of a child; but, instead of being a well constructed novel for adult reading, it is a series of episodes — doubtless interesting enough in themselves ...

  5. Talk:Larrikin - Wikipedia

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    An asertion from somebody other than a relevant academic that he is a larrikin is not sufficient. John Howard and probably many others have called him a larrikin in recent days but politicians say that all the time about popular people. Grumpyyoungman01 12:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC) If enough people say something does it make it true?

  6. Rokeby Venus - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Velázquez's depiction of Venus as a reclining nude viewed from the rear was a rarity before that time, although the pose has been painted by many later artists. [65] Manet, in his stark female portrayal Olympia, paraphrased the Rokeby Venus in pose and by suggesting the persona of a real woman rather than an ethereal goddess.

  7. Little Gidding (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Also, the depiction of time within the poem is similar to the way time operates within The Family Reunion. [5] Like the other poems making up the Four Quartets, Little Gidding deals with the past, present, and future, and humanity's place within them as each generation is seemingly united. In the second section, there is a ghost who is the ...

  8. Canada’s Freeland has called Trump ‘a bully.’ She could be ...

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    Canada’s opposition politicians also appear to see Freeland as a possible successor; a video shared by Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre last week heavily focused on Freeland alongside ...

  9. Truth, Time and History - Wikipedia

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    Art historian Martin S. Soria titles the painting Spain, Time, and History and claims that the painting was likely created around 1797. He asserts the strong influence of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (first published in 1596) on Goya's depiction of Time and History as classic allegorical figures. In Soria's interpretation, History fulfills a ...