Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) is an oil
mural by the Spanish artist
Francisco Goya.
Satan is depicted as a goat in moonlit silhouette who hulks over a
coven of terrified witches; a young woman in black sits at far right, withdrawn from the others, perhaps in defiance. The mural is one of the fourteen Black Paintings Goya created on the plaster walls of his home, the Quinta del Sordo, around 1822. He was in his mid-70s, living alone and suffering mental and physical distress. As in some of his earlier works, Witches' Sabbath seems to explore themes of aging, death, violence and intimidation. It is generally seen by art historians as a satire on the
credulity of the age and as a condemnation of superstitions, such as the
witch trials of the
Spanish Inquisition. Some fifty years after Goya's death, the murals were removed from the home by
transferring them to canvas supports. Today the paintings are in the collection of the
Museo del Prado in Madrid. (
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... that Marc Bloch(pictured), one of the most influential historians of the 20th century, was also a
French Resistance fighter and was executed by the
Gestapo in 1944?
... that in her second novel, Echoes,
Maeve Binchy underscores the paucity of educational opportunities in small Irish towns before the introduction of free
secondary education in 1967?
1884 – Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to
cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent trial, which led to the
legalisation of cremation in the United Kingdom.
The Trans-Tasman Trophy is awarded to the winner of the
Australia–
New ZealandTest match series in
cricket. The trophy is awarded to the team that wins a Test series, or one-off Test match, between the two nations. If the series is a draw, the holder retains the trophy. It was first competed for in the
1985–86 season, although six Test series between the nations were contested before the trophy's instigation. As of February 2016[update], Australia hold the trophy following their 2–0 victory in the
2015–16 series in New Zealand. Australia also lead in overall wins, winning 10 of the 17 series, while New Zealand (nicknamed the Black Caps) have won 3, the remaining 4 ending in draws. Australia's
Allan Border is the most successful
batsman in the history of the trophy, scoring 1,356
runs in 25
innings at an
average of 61.63. New Zealand's
Ross Taylor holds the record for the highest score in the trophy's history, with 290 in the second innings of the second Test of the
2015–16 series in Australia. (Full list...)
When a liquid drop impacts the surface of a liquid reservoir it can float, bounce, coalesce with the reservoir, or splash. A floating drop remains on the surface for several seconds. Drop bouncing can occur on perturbed liquid surfaces. If the drop is able to rupture the thin film of gas which separates it from the liquid reservoir, it can coalesce. Additionally, higher
Weber number drop impacts produce splashing. In the splashing regime, the impacting drop creates a crater in the fluid surface, followed by a crown around the crater. Finally, a central jet, called the "Rayleigh jet" or "Worthington jet", protrudes from the center of the crater. If the impact energy is high enough, the jet rises to the point where it pinches off, sending one or more droplets upward out of the surface.
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