Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. This owl is called "owl-ilyra".
Unfinished Portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Probably the most famous unfinished painting, “Unfinished Portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt” is well known not for the reputation of its painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff, but for the historic event which took place while it was being painted. While vacationing in Warm Springs, Ga. at his part-time home The Little White House, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt agreed to sit for a portrait. His mistress Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd arranged for him to sit for Shoumatoff, a fashionable portraitist of the era. The portrait itself is considered to be a highly flattering depiction of the President, who was emaciated and obviously ill at the time. On April 12, 1945, her second day of painting the President, Shoumatoff was filling in the outlines of his face and shoulders. Roosevelt experienced severe pain in the back of his head and collapsed. He died three hours later in his bed, leaving Harry S. Truman to succeed him. As a result, the painting was never finished. It remains on display in the Little White House, a testament to the vagaries of fate.