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René Magritte's paradoxical series "The Empire of Light": a bright daytime sky above a night-time landscape of houses and trees
The series comprises no fewer than 17 works, titled for the most part "The Empire of Light", together with "God's Drawing Room" and "Luck". By various estimates, as many as 27 paintings are counted in the series. They were painted over many
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Comet NEOWISE in the sky above Stonehenge in the summer of 2020
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Oh, Those Mothers
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Armchair in the form of ginkgo biloba leaves by the French designer and Surrealist artist Claude Lalanne (1924–2019)
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Shall we ask Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti whether he had extraterrestrials in mind when he painted this picture?
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The Bracelet of Ramesses II with Ducks
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It Is Exactly as Vanessa Stockard Showed It
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Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina in the film "Office Romance" is, by the plot, only 36
Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina in the film "Office Romance" is, by the plot, only 36. Alisa Freindlikh was 43 at the time of filming. In short, take care of yourselves, stress included, so that at 36 you are not played by a 43-year-old lady.
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Food for Thought
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A Reminder: When Making Plans and Promises for the Year, the Main Thing Is Not to Overstrain Yourself
Architecture · Science
Deliberate curvature of lines in the architecture of the Parthenon and other Greek temples
It turns out that the finest examples of classical Greek architecture, the Parthenon, the Hephaisteion, the Temple of Apollo at Corinth and the Temple of Zeus, are marked by a deliberate absence of perfectly straight lines. It is precisely the calculated curvature of the straight and the inclination of the