User:Elb2000

I am a recent graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. I have previously attended California Institute of Technology. I like working on art, literature, and history. I maintain a daily photoblog found at http://elbelbelb2000.blogtog.com.

elb2000

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Top Ten Lists

Literature

Here is my top ten list for classical literature. I think that these are the ten books that everyone must read in their lifetimes.

1) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2) East of Eden by John Steinbeck
3) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
5) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
8) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
9) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Paintings

I think you have to be familiar with the following paintings.

1) The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
2) Guernica by Pablo Picasso
3) Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
4) The Haywain by John Constable
5) The Arnolfini Wedding by Jan van Eyck
6) Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet
7) Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother by James Whistler
8) Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
9) The Son of Man by René Magritte
10) Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges-Pierre Seurat

Picture of the Day

Picture of the day

The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae, which is native to western North America. The trees grow to a height of around 20 to 100 metres (70 to 330 feet) and commonly reach 2.4 metres (8 feet) in diameter. The largest coast Douglas firs regularly live for more than 500 years, with the oldest specimens more than 1,300 years old. The cones are pendulous and differ from true firs as they have persistent scales. The cones have distinctive long, trifid (three-pointed) bracts, which protrude prominently above each scale. The cones become tan when mature, measuring 6 to 10 centimetres (2+1⁄2 to 4 inches) long for coastal Douglas firs. This photograph shows a young female cone of the variety Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir), cultivated near Keila, Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus