Classy poster art for the Brazilian straight-to-video film "Ratatoing," widely seen as a low-budget rushed-to-market alternative to the Pixar film "Ratatouille."
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animation, cult classic, cult classic movie, mockbusters, movie
Peter Jackson may not've put Middle Earth's #1 power couple into his movie adaptations, but you can put them on your torso (or coffee mug, etc). Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, art by Chris Schweizer
Portrait of Penthesiliea, Queen of the Amazons and ally of Troy, whose battle with Achilles was featured in AETHIOPIS, the third installment in the Trojan Cycle/Epic Cycle (ILIAD being the second installment).
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greek, trojan war, achilles, history, amazon
Portrait of Aeneas carrying his elderly father Anchises to safety from Troy as it falls to the Greeks. Although a character in the Iliad, Aeneas received full narrative treatment in Virgil's epic poem AENEID, which follows his wanderings from Troy to Italy and casts him as an ancestor of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
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fathers day, ancient greek, teacher gift, trojan war, roman mythology
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, as well as other adventure fiction and historical romances (portrait by Chris Schweizer)
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dr watson, sherlock, sherlock holmes gift, baker street, teacher gift
Thomas Paine, American patriot and the author of COMMON SENSE, which helped to articulate the ideological foundations for American Independence and fired up the sentiment of liberty in the colonies.
(portrait by Chris Schweizer)
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american history, common sense, social studies teacher, historian, history teacher
Portrait of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, the latter being based on one of the only verified photographs of Holliday as well as descriptions later recounted by Earp's wife
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doc holiday, history teacher, american history, ok corral, us marshal
Their faces gaunt, the eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat
They're ridin' hard to catch that heard but they ain't caught 'em yet
For they've got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
On horses snortin' fire
As they ride on hear their cry
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marty robbins, ghost rider, ghost riders in the sky, weird west
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? T.R. Knows!
When Theodore Roosevelt became police commissioner of New York in 1895, the NYPD was its most dangerous and powerful criminal enterprise. An organized brutal shakedown ring, the captains had a hand in most of the city’s illegal operations. Determined to clean up the corruption, Roosevelt did exactly what Commissioner Gordon did when he took over Gotham City’s corrupt police force: he put on a black cape, patrolled the most dangerous parts of the city at midnight, and used his great physical strength, expertise in martial arts, and detective skills to personally deliver wrongdoers to justice.
Wait, no, Gordon didn’t do that. Batman did.
And so did Theodore Roo...