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The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing is one of van Gogh's most iconic and best loved paintings, acknowledged as the first masterpiece of his Arles period. [18] It depicts common canal-side activities. A little yellow cart crosses the bridge while a group of women in smocks and multicoloured caps wash linen on the shore.
Langlois Bridge (French: Pont de Langlois) was a double-beam drawbridge in Arles, France, which was the subject of several paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1888. Being one of eleven drawbridges built by a Dutch engineer along the channel from Arles to Port-de-Bouc , this bridge might have reminded the artist of his homeland.
The painting everyone knows and loves is F397 (the text calls it The Langlois Bridge at Arles with Women Washing although Kroller-Muller simply exhibit it as 'Bridge at Arles'). Yet it was consigned almost to "other versions" status in the article and for good measure assigned a washed-out image that entirely failed to capture its vibrancy.
In 1888, Eglin invented a special type of clothes-wringer, which was a machine that had two wooden rollers attached to a crank; after being washed and rinsed, wet clothes were fed between these rollers and an immense amount of water was squeezed out. The clothes were then hung to dry, a process which took significantly less time due to the wringer.
The Piscataqua River Bridge connecting New Hampshire and Maine was closed for hours after police shot and killed a man wanted for killing his wife and then found their child dead in his car.
Darnell Barton, the 37-year old driver, was on his route driving high school students and other passengers when he spotted a young woman leaning outside the guardrail of bridge over the Scajaquada ...
Alexandrea Bozarjian, a reporter for WSAV in Savannah, Ga., was covering the annual Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run live on-air when a participant slapped her butt while jogging past her.
The bean-nighe, also known as the Washing Woman or Washer at the Ford, is seen in lonely places beside a stream or pool, washing the blood from the linen and grave-clothes of those who are about to die. Her characteristics vary depending on the locality, and differing traditions ascribe to her the powers of imparting knowledge or the granting ...