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Respect Yourself as the Image of God
John of Kronstadt
Alexandr Radayev
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Rembrandt etching, 1639: man with ledger and scales, kneeling youth
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The son of the artist and theatre designer Alan Barlow was clearing out his father's studio in Norfolk when he found an original counterproof of a Rembrandt etching depicting a tax collector
The son of the artist and theatre designer Alan Barlow was clearing out his father's studio in Norfolk when he found an original counterproof of a Rembrandt etching depicting a tax collector. The print was soon put up for auction
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An Unidentified Flying Object in the Italian Sky
“The Walnut Tree of Benevento” is a picture of 1826 by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, created for a series of images of the mystical and miraculous phenomena of Italy, in which the artist documented not real events but folk legends, traditions and marvels that existed within Italian culture. The subject is
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Do not reason, do not fuss — Madness seeks, folly judges; Heal the wounds of day with sleep, And what tomorrow brings, will be…
Do not reason, do not fuss, Madness seeks, folly judges; Heal the wounds of day with sleep, And what tomorrow brings, will be… While you live, learn to endure it all: Sorrow, and joy, and anxiety. What is there to wish for? What is there to grieve over? The day
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Young Napoleon skipped meals to buy books and later thanked a café owner with a gift
In his youth, Napoleon often skipped meals to save money for books. Napoleonic frugality looked like this: nothing in his room but a bed, an armchair and a mountain of books. The proprietress of the café where he took his meals, seeing his want, often treated the young man to
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Guys, This Can't Possibly Be True, It's Obvious at Once
Guys, this can't possibly be true, it's obvious at once. The astrophysicist Avi Loeb, known as the author of theories about interstellar objects, joked that Kim Kardashian had been "invited" to join the research team studying the comet 3I/Atlas, after she dared to
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Monument to Turgenev in Oryol
Photograph of 1969
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Vermeer copied a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Felice Ficherelli
Saint Praxedes Collecting the Blood of Executed Martyrs with a Sponge. The painting is by the Italian Baroque artist of the seventeenth century Felice Ficherelli. The canvas made such an impression on Vermeer that he copied it
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Norman Rockwell's 1923 work on tales of knights and a boy with a book
Tales of Knights, 1923. The American artist Norman Rockwell
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Igor Zaidel's art object is called "Thus They Sucked All the Juices Out of Her"
Igor Zaidel's art object is called "Thus They Sucked All the Juices Out of Her". From the series "The Secret Life of the Jews". Berlin, 1992
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