User:Elb2000

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

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[edit] Top Ten Lists

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Movies of 2006

1) Pan's Labyrinth - winner of three Academy Awards
2) The Departed - winner of four Academy Awards
3) Babel
4) V for Vendetta
5) Thank You for Smoking
6) Children of Men
7) Mission Impossible III
8) The Illusionist
9) Borat
10) Casino Royale

[edit] Picture of the Day

Picture of the day
United States Capitol dome, 1846

A daguerreotype of the United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green copper dome as designed by Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white cast iron dome which was completed in 1866.

Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe
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