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Arnold Böcklin's Sleeping Forest, 1885

Arnold Böcklin's Sleeping Forest, 1885. And the unicorn is not as handsome as they say

Still life with red berries and a white flower on a stone ledge against a dark background.

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Dutch seventeenth-century painter Adriaen Coorte and his still life with berries

Bought strawberries at the market for 150 roubles a kilo; they say they are from Greece, though the price tag says "Azerbaijan". Tasteless, so clearly Greece: all the fruit there is plastic, nothing but the smell. Anyway, until our own strawberries ripen, let us look at the seventeenth-

Seen from behind, three figures wrapped in cloth and bound with ropes stand on a hanging wooden platform against a blue sky.

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The 1975 painting “Family Portrait” by Teodor Pištěk

Family Portrait. Teodor Pištěk, 1975

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Magdalena Luther, Daughter of Martin Luther

Magdalena Luther, daughter of Martin Luther. Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder. The girl lived only 13 years

An older man in a uniform with gold braid, a chain and a star walks in a red mantle with white lining. Beside him are people in red and black robes, one holding a mace.

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Procession in Ceremonial Order Robes on a Cobbled Street

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Heraldic Costumes as Proof of the Impotence of Modern Fashion

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On 2 May 1968 the French "Red May" began: a string of strikes, student demonstrations, far-left actions and protests that swelled into ten million-strong unrest and brought about colossal social and political shifts

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The Housing-Office Art One Would Like to See

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Books Issued: from 3 to 18 Hours

Judging by this still from the novella "Obsession", Shurik, standing in for the old watchwoman in "Operation Y", really could have told the burglars which library they might stroll into at 3 a.m. Such are the recurring details in the plot of Leonid Gaidai'

Screenshot of question 10 of 24 from Life in the UK Test 3 asking what language Iron Age people spoke, with four answer options.

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Question on the language of Iron Age Britons in the British citizenship test

I'd heard that getting British citizenship was hard, but THIS hard! The test that forms a compulsory part of the application for British citizenship asks which language was spoken by the inhabitants of Iron Age Britain. Do you still think that history will never come in useful in

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This Is What a Sixteen-Year Age Gap Looks Like

This is what a sixteen-year age gap looks like. Lev Nikolayevich and Sofya Andreyevna Tolstoy

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Alexandr Radayev