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Alexandr Radayev
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Did you too fail to notice these details in Dürer's engraving "Adam and Eve", 1504?
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Portrait of the French Writer Jules Renard
When I think of all the books I still have left to read, I am certain of being happy. The French writer Jules Renard
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Salvador Dalí at Cap de Creus in Catalonia
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"The whole course of events in the February-March revolution shows clearly that the British and French embassies, with their agents and 'connections', who had long been making the most desperate efforts to prevent 'separate' agreements and a separate peac
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the role of the British and the French in the revolutionary events in the Russian Empire. V. Lenin. Complete Works. Volume XXXI
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Anton Koberger, Manna from Heaven, 1483
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Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Salvador Dalí, 1952
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Fra Mauro's world map of 1459 and the division of Europe and Asia along the Volga
A two-metre circular map of the world as it was known in 1459. It is known as the map of the Venetian monk Fra Mauro, or the Carta Fra Mauro, from the island of Murano. The cartographer was Andrea Bianco. It was made for the King of Portugal. Please
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When you scroll through that friend's reels first thing in the morning
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I Hardly Recognise You in Greasepaint
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The Postwoman's Chastity
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Abbot Daniel placed a lamp on the Holy Sepulchre on behalf of the whole Russian land
The remarkable Hegumen Daniel, who lived in the twelfth century, describes in his "Life and Pilgrimage of Hegumen Daniel of the Russian Land" how he petitioned King Baldwin I for leave to place a kandilo (a lamp) on the Holy Sepulchre on behalf of the who. Leave was