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Alexandr Radayev
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A Tatar Kalmak
A Tatar Kalmak. Engraving from Philippe Avril's "Travels into Divers Parts of Europe and Asia, Undertaken by the French King's Order to Discover a New Way by Land into China", 1693
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Fools know sorrow too, only they are far less tender towards it than the clever, and for that reason I count the foolish much happier than the wise
NB! · Art · Madrid · Museums
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch, 1490-1500, detail
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Mary Katrantzou presents her Autumn-Winter 2011 collection with a porcelain-style corset
This really is cool. Mary Katrantzou, Autumn-Winter 2011 collection
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
Nicholas II before the Two Chambers of the State Duma, Winter Palace, 1906
Art · Museums · New York
Van Gogh's snowy fields near La Crau, in the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Snowy Landscape, Vincent van Gogh, 1888. Fields in the environs of La Crau, opposite the abbey of Montmajour. One of ten snow-covered landscapes painted by Van Gogh between 1882 and 1889. Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Paris
Versailles, an Evening in the Marble Court
NB! · Monarchies · Nature · Humour
During his visit to Saint Helena, Prince Edward conversed with Jonathan, a 191-year-old tortoise who was acquainted with King George IV and Elizabeth II and has lived on the island since the 1880s
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Imperial Parade of the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards, Boris Kustodiev, 1906
Imperial Parade of the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards, Boris Kustodiev, 1906. Hermitage collection. The painting was commissioned by the Finland Regiment of the Life Guards on the occasion of Nicholas II's visit to the regiment and the presentation to it of its colonel-in-chief, the
Books · New York · Pop Culture
The Baltimore Ravens take their name from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”
The Baltimore Ravens are the only professional sports club named after a work of classic literature. The Ravens take their name from the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Baltimore. The mystical, enigmatic plot of "The Raven" tells of a bird that
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