Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Claude Monet
Born: November 14, 1840
Died: December 5, 1926 (aged 86)
Bio: Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Known for:
- Impression, Sunrise (1872)
- Poppies (1873)
- Houses of Parliament
- Women in the Garden (1866)
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