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‘As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young’ by Jan Steen in 1664 The painting is used as a proverb by the artist portraying the message that ‘children copy adults’. Artist Jan Steen decided to use his actual family in Read More …
Early Reminiscences of the Hemp Giantesses “In driving through a part of Bohemia from Vienna to Dresden we had occasionally long stages, and in the twilight often saw, what at the time amazed and not a little startled me, Read More …
Picasso like Figures, Bordered by Sacred Serpents, Adorn a Tharu Mud Wall in Tikapur These shy people, who ran at first sight of the photographer, invited him into their home after he let them look through his camera’s view finder. Read More …
‘Fredric Weed’, 2nd baseman for the Spokane Team (Pacific Coast League), 1910 Obak tobacco baseball card
‘Playing Knucklebones’, painting by Paul Alexander Alfred Leroy 1898
“You have not brought any kaneh for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.” – Isaiah 43:23-24, God scolding the Israelite’s for not Read More …
‘Old Fisherman Smoking his Pipe’ by Katsushika Hokusai c.1835
‘L’effetto dell’hashish’ (The Effect of Hashish) by Pasquale Liotta 1875
Wat er van hennep komt by J. Vlieger (from Amsterdam) in 1873 What Comes From Hemp A cute little booklet published in 1873 by a dutch author targeted just one subject… Hemp! The title for the book would Read More …
‘Nike’, 1994 U.S. Customs Service/ Treasury Department issued Drug Sniffing Dogs trading card