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... The conversation begins with a discussion of a 1971 painting by Kingsley Tjungurrayi, Stars, Rain, and Lightning at Night , the earliest in the collection. The subject matter is identified as an ancestral story of rain and lightning, marked by the jagged central figure as an icon of lightning...

... lightning-sketch vaudeville minstrelsy rebellion performing animator ...

... Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula’s Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa (1972) is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of early Papunya painting. The ancestral figures of rain and lightning are combined with the story of Winpa, the lightning man who brings the storm. His presence is implied rather...

... This chapter locates one of the significant taproots of American commercial animation on the vaudeville stage. Performing animators such as Winsor McCay, James Stuart Blackton, and Pat Sullivan made a living as lightning-sketch artists, creating complex visual puns on chalkboards and pads...

... Over decades or even centuries, women are subjugated; they somehow come forward; they lead reforms, including for their own rights and their families' well-being. Rwanda was no exception. But the lightning speed with which it moved through those stages makes the country a model well worth...

... extinguishing or escaping from them. Three things are needed for a fire to begin: heat, fuel and oxygen. Lightning is a major source of wildfire starts, but some are started by humans, either by accident or intention. Fallen power lines started the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, California...

... Tunupa is among the oldest gods of the people of the southern Andean and Qollasuyu region and is associated with the creative and destructive forces of fire and volcanoes, thunder and lightning. In the classic version of Tunupa’s story, an elderly male figure travels from the north to the south...

... to be Christian truth. Tunupa is among the oldest gods of the people of the southern Andean and Qollasuyu region and is associated with the creative and destructive forces of fire and volcanoes, thunder and lightning. In the classic version of Tunupa’s story, an elderly male figure travels from the north...