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The Sinking of the Lusitania is asilent animated short film byAmerican cartoonist and animatorWinsor McCay that depicts the 1915disaster in which a Germansubmarine killed 1,198 people,

including 128 Americans. McCay's employer, WilliamRandolph Hearst, who was opposed to sending US troops tofight in World War I, downplayed the tragedy in hisnewspapers. In 1916 McCay grew tired of drawing anti-warcartoons for Hearst and started working on this propagandafilm. He and his assistants spent twenty-two months in theiroff hours working on the production, using the new celtechnology that was more efficient than the rice paper he hadused previously. Released in 1918, The Sinking of theLusitania is the earliest animated documentary and serious,dramatic work of animation to survive. It had littlecommercial success compared to McCay's earlier films,Little Nemo (1911) and Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), and hislater animation went largely unnoticed. The artist spent therest of his life making editorial drawings. (Full article...)

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A juvenile European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), photographed in the south ofCres, Croatia. This species of cormorant, first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761,lives along the rocky coasts of western and southern Europe, southwest Asia, and northAfrica. These birds eat a wide variety of fish, diving to depths of 45 m (148 ft) to findtheir prey.

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