Vincent van Gogh paintings

Vincent van Gogh paintings
Vittore Carpaccio paintings
Sure to be on his agenda is the spiraling electricity crisis in California, where citizens were bracing for a second day of possible blackouts on Thursday amid unprecedented chaos in the state's power supplies. Before kicking off the first of three days of inauguration festivities with a concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday afternoon, Bush was slated to continue rehearsing his 10-12 minute inaugural address with the aid of a TelePrompTer. Spokesman Ari Fleischer underscored the importance of Bush's inaugural speech, telling reporters the Texas governor would "talk about a unified nation" as he sought to deliver on his campaign promise to be "a uniter, not a divider."

Vincent van Gogh paintings

Vincent van Gogh paintings
Vittore Carpaccio paintings
Oh, I can see you don't like the dresses! What is the matter with them? Aren't they neat and clean and new?"
"Yes."
"Then why don't you like them?"
"They're--they're not--pretty," said Anne reluctantly.
"Pretty!" Marilla sniffed. "I didn't trouble my head about getting pretty dresses for you. I don't believe in pampering vanity, Anne, I'll tell you that right off. Those dresses are good, sensible, serviceable dresses, without any frills or furbelows about them, and they're all you'll get this summer. The brown gingham and the blue print will do you for school when you begin to go. The sateen is for church and Sunday school. I'll expect you to keep them neat and clean and not to tear them. I should think you'd be grateful to get most anything after those skimpy wincey things you've been wearing."
"Oh, I am grateful," protested Anne. "But I'd be ever so much gratefuller if--if you'd made just one of them with puffed