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French schoolchildren queuing for fish oil in a 1948 photograph by Robert Doisneau
French schoolchildren waiting for their weekly dose of cod liver oil, 1948. Photo by Robert Doisneau. I honestly don't know whether I have a genuine memory of being given cod liver oil at nursery school too, or whether it is a memory slot imported from my parents'
Faith · Heritage · Science · Rome
Wood analysis dates the Chair of Saint Peter to no earlier than the 6th century
For the first time in 150 years, tourists and residents of Rome can see the wooden throne of Saint Peter the Apostle, previously hidden within the Chair of Saint Peter in the apse of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Flying to Rome at once! The relic was
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The artist Lotte, who emigrated to Sweden, and her painting “Evening over Potsdam”
Lotte Laserstein painted "Evening over Potsdam" in 1930, in response to the Nazi Party winning 18% of the vote at the elections. When these people came to power, Lotte, the first woman admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts and a graduate with distinction, was persecuted as a
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The Farewell of the French Cuirassiers Leaving Paris in 1914
The end of the age of chivalry
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Jewish Museum opens first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years
The Jewish Museum, housed in the Constructivist building of the Bakhmetevsky Garage, has opened the first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years, "Lyuba, Lyubochka. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova. 1889–1924". The exhibition presents more than 280 works, many of them shown for the first time. It offers
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Very mediocre rulers are reborn as gel polish, so that something good may at last be said of them
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There is no historical fatality; there is only a historical Nemesis, which punishes those who dithered when it was still possible to act
The Austrian socio-political theorist Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Illustration: Sergey Yukhimov
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Still life “Oranges in Wrapping” by William Joseph McCloskey
Wrapped Oranges. William Joseph McCloskey
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The Church as a ship of saints in the Piccolomini Breviary illustration, Lombardy, circa 1475
An allegory of the Church as a ship, which provokes rejection and hostility from the people on the shore. The ship is filled with saints. The mast is the cross of Jesus Christ, crowned with the nest of a pelican feeding its young with its own blood. On the keel
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“Reigning Queens” in the Pop Art Style
“Reigning Queens” in the pop art style. In the Netherlands, at Het Loo Palace, a series of portraits of women on the throne, created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, has been put on show. At that time four queens headed monarchies: Elizabeth, the United Kingdom; Beatrix, the Netherlands;