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Oh man, I have seen this movie, it’s weirder than the description makes it sound. The President isn’t just divinely guided: he dies and is possessed by the actual Archangel Gabriel who leaves his body, killing him, when his earthly mission is done. It turns into a pretty standard early 30s gangster film for a good 20 or 30 minutes in there. It doesn’t actually read as sincerely religious in any way but it definitely is fascist. Great Walter Huston performance, though.

Gabriel Over the White House is a 1933 American pre-Code political fantasy film starring Walter Huston as a genial but politically corrupt U.S. President who has a near-fatal automobile accident and comes under divine influence—specifically the Archangel Gabriel and the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. Eventually he takes control of the government, solves the problems of the nation, from unemployment to racketeering, and arranges for worldwide peace, before dying of a heart attack. The film received the financial backing and creative input of businessman William Randolph Hearst.

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The film was labeled by The New Republic as "a half-hearted plea for Fascism".[10] The Nation said that its purpose was "to convert innocent American movie audiences to a policy of fascist dictatorship in this country."[11] The blurb for a 1998 film series titled “Religion and the Founding of the American Republic” at The Library of Congress comments on the film as follows: President Judson Hammond is transformed from party hack to dynamic leader after his miraculous recovery from an automobile accident. The good news: he reduces unemployment, lifts the country out of the Depression, battles gangsters and Congress, and brings about world peace. The bad news: he's Mussolini. Gabriel Over the White House is a delight precisely because of its confused ideology. Depending on your perspective, it's a strident defense of democracy and the wisdom of the common man, a good argument for benevolent dictatorship, a prescient anticipation of the New Deal, a call for theocratic governance, and on and on.[12] In a 2018, article for Politico, Jeff Greenfield suggests that the film “offers us significant insights into what tempts countries to travel down an authoritarian road.” “Rushed into production with the financial help of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst... it was designed as a clear message to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that he might need to embrace dictatorial powers to solve the crisis of the Great Depression. (It was an idea embraced by establishment types like columnist Walter Lippmann, and the influential editorial pages of the New York Herald-Tribune.)”[13]

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Hayao Miyazaki’s Happy New Year 2024 Year of the Dragon illustration

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J. M. W. Turner’s Sketchbooks

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soviet treasure island

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Pierre Berge Paris apartment

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Italian specimen agate and quartz box, circa 1800.

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Isle of Skye - September 2020 Pentax 645 on Lomography 400

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Brothers Hildebrandt

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A group of Tibetan herders play a game of billiards as a flock of goats and horses graze on the pasture above them near Xiangpi mountain, China, 1999 - by Natalie Behring, American

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David Lyon (British) - Late Autumn Treetops

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A Polychrome scrimshawed whale tooth, by the so called Naval Engagement Engraver, mid 19th century

Obverse depicts a whaling scene with two whaleships, two whaleboats in the foreground and three whaleboats under sail on the distant horizon, pursuing a pod of whales. Reverse depicts a three-masted vessel off a cliff-lined coast. Several figures are visible on the deck of the ship, which is flying a long streamer and what is believed to be a simplistically rendered British flag.

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秋田の絵描きそろいぶみ!　秋田蘭画から近代の日本画まで　秋田市立千秋美術館開館25周年・国民文化祭開催記念

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Dora Jung pigeon tapestry

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George Barbier, 1922

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complete “playground” series !

commissions open👩‍💻

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Dutch sculptor Peter Gabrielse’s winter bedroom in Normandy. (Cindy Greene)

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A Hausa house | Hausa people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. The Hausa are a diverse but culturally homogeneous people based primarily in the Sahelian and Sudanian Daura area of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger, with significant numbers living in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Chad, Togo, Ghana, Sudan, Gabon and Senegal.