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Georges Pompidou in the 1970s on the excess of laws and rules in France
Leave us in peace! Stop pestering us! There are too many laws in this country, too many regulations, too many rules! It is killing us! Let us live a little, and you will see, everything will sort itself out! Georges Pompidou in the 1970s [about FRANCE, naturally]. But a little
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A Precious Reliquary with a Lock of Lucrezia Borgia's Hair in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan
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Passers-by on a Moscow Street in 1972 in a Photograph by Vladimir Sychev
This Silly Love. Moscow, 1972 Photograph by Vladimir Sychev
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A pelican feeding its young with its own blood: the emblem of the Department of the Institutions of Empress Maria
A pelican feeding its young with its own blood: the emblem of the Department of the Institutions of Empress Maria. That is, Maria Feodorovna, consort of Emperor Paul I. This was the name of the principal department administering charity in the Russian Empire
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Gymnastics for Young Ladies, Adapted to Their Various Ages, for Public and Domestic Education
Gymnastics for Young Ladies, Adapted to Their Various Ages, for Public and Domestic Education. Adopted as a guide in the Saint Petersburg institutes under the Department of the Institutions of Empress Maria. The author, a doctor of medicine and surgery, described exercises intended specifically for women. The doctor held that
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Nike?
Nike? An excellent choice!
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“My Eyes at the Moment of Apparitions”, a painting by the German outsider artist August Natterer, 1913
A meme a hundred years old, then
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The legendary tale of two college dropouts who, working in a California garage, changed the world of computing usually omits Apple's third founder, Ronald Wayne (who, incidentally, created the first…
On 1 April 1976 Wayne drew up the partnership agreement for the Apple Computer Company, typing it out on his own IBM typewriter. He received a 10 per cent stake in the start-up, but the trio did not last long: twelve days later, fearing financial liability, Wayne withdrew from
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Philadelphia Museum of Art has filed a lawsuit against its former director and CEO Sasha Suda, reports Artguide
Philadelphia Museum of Art has filed a lawsuit against its former director and CEO Sasha Suda, reports Artguide. The suit states that she “misappropriated the museum's funds and lied to conceal the theft”. Suda was recently dismissed from the museum after three years in the post, despite the
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Witch Ursula's remark on body language beside a photo of two men talking
I am not hinting at anything, but this is Prince Charles, heir to the British crown, and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of the Rothschilds' international investment bank. As Ursula the sea witch used to say, body language, ha!
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Good morning and breakfast wishes with a photograph of men in a kitchen
Paul Newman, Anthony Perkins and Joanne Woodward in the Kitchen, 1958. Good morning, and a hearty breakfast to all!