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adelaideseanHappy 125th birthday, Sir Douglas Mawson, explorer, scientist, and educator. He was born on May 5 in Yorkshire, was a pioneer of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and now graces the Australian $100 bill. He died in 1958.
The 1914 portrait below was one on which I based Mawson, an irascible talking stone bust from the Books of the Change/Cataclysm. Although my Mawson's character bears no relation to the real Mawson, I nonetheless intended it as a kind of tribute, since the great man spent a lot of time in the Flinders Ranges, one of my favourite places in the whole world. I hope he wouldn't mind.
The 1914 portrait below was one on which I based Mawson, an irascible talking stone bust from the Books of the Change/Cataclysm. Although my Mawson's character bears no relation to the real Mawson, I nonetheless intended it as a kind of tribute, since the great man spent a lot of time in the Flinders Ranges, one of my favourite places in the whole world. I hope he wouldn't mind.
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Date: 2007-05-14 02:19 am (UTC)Amanda will come to Sydney for a couple of days (kinda like an early honeymoon) but will have to go back to work by the time my sessions start. That's probably for the best, as she's heard most of my rants many, many times over by now. :-)