He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

poaching threatens wildlife populations ( for example, the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus is now considered extinct in the Congo due to human overpopulation and poaching ); water pollution ; deforestation ( chiefly due to land conversion to agriculture by indigenous farmers ); refugees responsible for significant deforestation, soil erosion, and wildlife poaching ; mining of minerals ( coltan — a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold ) causing environmental damage

Painted by Christian August Lorentzen in 1809.

Titled, A Pictorial Sequence Painted by R. H. Ives Gammell Based on The Hound of Heaven, it is considered Gammell's magnum opus.

Finkelstein describes two known frauds, that of The Painted Bird by Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski and Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, and how they were defended by people even after they'd been exposed.

Also, according to Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, The Painted Bird was Kosiński's most successful attempt at profiteering from the Holocaust by maintaining an aura of a chronicle.

In a review of Jerzy Kosiński: A Biography by James Park Sloan, D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University wrote " For years Kosinski passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own experience during the Holocaust.

The article asserted that The Painted Bird, assumed by some to be semi-autobiographical, was largely a work of fiction.

In the meantime, the immediate priority was to provide accommodation for the next Parliament, and so the Painted Chamber and White Chamber were hastily repaired for temporary use by the Houses of Lords and Commons respectively, under the direction of the only remaining architect of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Sir Robert Smirke.

Painted by Hans Gude and Adolph Tidemand.

Painted by her sister, Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate

Painted on the exterior of the entrance to a deep level shelter, this mural was executed by Brian Barnes ( with the assistance of children from Stockwell Park School ).

Painted by Joseph Nicolas Jouy, after François-Joseph Kinson

The accompanying letter stated that the painting was " Peint par Louise Abbéma, le jour anniversaire de leur liaison amoureuse " ( loosely translated: " Painted by Louise Abbéma on the anniversary of their love affair.

Painted portrait by G. P. A.

Painted by James Daughtery of Weston as part of the Works Progress Administration program in 1935, the mural depicts Putnam, Greenwich's war hero, aiming his musket at snarling wolves while all around him Native Americans hurl tomahawks and men armed with guns and knives tussle.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Bernard Comment said in his book The Painted Panorama, that the masses needed “ absolute dominance ” and the illusion offered by the panorama gave them a sense of organization and control.

Painted in Nottingham, England around 1860 by John James Story ( d. 1900 ), it depicts the life and career of the great Italian patriot, Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ).

Painted from a panoramic sketch of Early Melbourne in 1842 by Samuel Jackson.

Painted on the wall of Newgate prison was the proclamation that the inmates had been freed by the authority of " His Majesty, King Mob ".

Indian pictographs in The Painted Comanche Camp of Limpia Canyon were discovered by the Whiting and Smith Expedition of 1849.

The Binya-Cocoparra area is classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because of its relatively large population ( of up to 50 individuals ) of the near threatened Painted Honeyeater, as well as the Diamond Firetail.

A Victorian-era house on the corner of Water and Charles Streets in Painted Post

Charles de Lint, in his novel The Painted Boy ( 2010 ), refers to the ancestral spirit world as Aztlán.

Charles Hopkinson Dies at 93 ; Portraitist Painted Presidents.

The village appears, with Blisworth, in the Ealing Studios film Painted Boats ( 1945 ), filmed at the end of World War II and directed by Charles Crichton whose notable sucessess include The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and A Fish Called Wanda ( 1988 ).

Painted by Charles Bird King.

Lescaret printed Harry Crosby's next collection of poetry, Red Skeletons, with illustrations by their friend Alastair, as well as other volumes of poetry including Harry Crosby's Painted Shores ( 1927 ), said to be heavily influenced by Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe.

Painted artwork during the Tang period pertained the effects of an idealized landscape environment, with sparse amount of objects, persons, or activity, as well as monochromatic in nature ( example: the murals of Price Yide's tomb in the Qianling Mausoleum ).

The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.

Painted in 2000, the piece has been exhibited in Stuckist shows since, as well as being featured on placards during Stuckist demonstrations against the Turner Prize.

Several destructive fires affected Santa Barbara during this time: the 1964 Coyote Fire, which burned of backcountry along with 106 homes ; the smaller, but quickly moving, Sycamore Fire in 1977, which burned 200 homes ; the disastrous 1990 Painted Cave Fire, which incinerated over 500 homes in only several hours, during an intense Sundowner wind event ; the November 2008 Tea Fire, which destroyed 210 homes in the foothills of Santa Barbara and Montecito ; and the 2009 Jesusita Fire that burned and destroyed 160 homes above the San Roque region of Santa Barbara.

Painted during the survey of Tierra del Fuego, it depicts the Beagle being hailed by native Fuegians.

She considered converting to Buddhism after having gained interest for that religion during the shooting of The Painted Veil.

* The poet Thomas Medwin stayed with him during 1848 to 1849 and later wrote a poem in his honour, To Justinus Kerner: With a Painted Wreath of Bay-Leaves, published in London in 1854.

A " Painted Vulture " (" Sarcoramphus sacra " or " S. papa sacra ") is described in William Bartram's notes of his travels in Florida during the 1770s.

The Painted Bird ( Der Gemalte Vogel ) is a controversial 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński which describes the world as seen by a young boy, " considered a Gypsy or Jewish stray ," who wanders about small towns scattered around Eastern Europe during World War II.

" The Painted Bird ," is told from the perspective of a young boy during World War II.

" Perhaps the most surprising element of this aspect of Kosiński's mystifications is that he obtained from his mother, who was still alive in Poland – the father had died by the time The Painted Bird was published – a letter corroborating the claim that he had been separated from his family during the war.

D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University, reviewing a biography of Kosiński noted that initially the author had passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own life during the Holocaust: " Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

Cephalopods and small fish such as the Marbled rockcod ( Notothenia rossii ), Painted notie ( Lepidonotothen larseni ), Champsocephalus gunneri, the lanternfish species Krefftichthys anderssoni, Protomyctophum tenisoni and P. normani become more important during chick-rearing.

Another colony was discovered in 1902 at a village called Buchupalle in the Cudappah district, where these pelicans nested along with Painted Storks during the month of March.

Captured fishes are often brought up to the surface to swallow them and during this time other birds including other Little Cormorants, Painted Stork, gulls and egrets may attempt to steal them.

Painted toward the beginning of the New Negro movement in 1925, the work showcased the sense of racial pride popular during the 1920s and 1930s.

Designed and Painted by Mural Artist Dennis Lattimer during April / May 2002.

The Stoa Poikile ( Ancient Greek: ή ποικίλη στοά ) or Painted Porch, originally called the Porch of Peisianax ( Ancient Greek: ή Πεισιανάκτειος στοά ), was erected during the 5th century BC and was located on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens.

The Painted Rock Dam was constructed during a 3 year period from 1957-1960 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to help control seasonal floods on the lower reaches of the Gila River.

Painted window in bar depicting the Watusi ( dance ), uncovered during renovations in Silverlake, Los Angeles, California, 2005.

Painted in Paris during the summer of 1907, Picasso had created hundreds of sketches and studies in preparation for the final work.

Painted over for years, they were refitted with filtered glass to allow them to remain uncovered during games.