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Map of Kiribati with settlements named London, Paris, Poland and Banana
London-Paris-Poland-Banana. everything you need to know about Kiribati
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Daniele da Volterra portrayed his friend Michelangelo as an apostle in a fresco in Rome
Portrait of Michelangelo in the guise of one of Christ's apostles. Michelangelo sat for the portrait for his friend Daniele da Volterra, who later transferred it to a fresco in Rome
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The name of February from the Etruscan god Februus and the Roman Lupercalia
In most European languages, February is named after the Roman tradition. In Rome the month was called februarius mensis, after the Etruscan god of the underworld Februus, who was associated with rites of purification (februa, februare, februum), as was the month named in his honour. In mid-February the Romans
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The Fountains of Peterhof in Winter
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Facade of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre in a Paris courtyard
Architecture · Art · Mores · Paris
France's first glass house, built for Jean Dalsace between 1928 and 1932
Maison de Verre, the House of Glass: Pierre Chareau's ambitious and avant-garde project in Paris, at 31 Rue Saint-Guillaume. The house was built between 1928 and 1932 for Dr Jean Dalsace, a physician and well-known Communist, and a close friend of the designer Pierre Chareau,
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Furniture by the French architect and designer Pierre Chareau, 1920s and 1930s
Furniture by the French architect and designer Pierre Chareau, 1920s and 1930s. Today the pieces of furniture and decor created by Chareau sell for tens of thousands of euros. Even the most modest of them, a small paper holder, went at auction in 2021 for 8 thousand. The gallery shows
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Dutch provinces as a cow in a 16th-century caricature with Philip II, Elizabeth and William of Orange
The Dutch provinces in the guise of a cow: Philip II of Spain tries to ride her, Elizabeth, Queen of England, feeds her, while William the Silent, Prince of Orange, puts his mouth to the udder to milk her. The Duke of Anjou, who holds the beast by the tail,
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The Limits of the World Known to Rome by the Year 150
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Cossack Women, the City of Yekaterinodar, the Kuban, 1900s
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Alexander the Great in a glass submarine on a French miniature of the 15th century
Medieval legends attribute to Alexander the Great a passion for exploring the natural world, notably in a glass submarine in which he sat with a cockerel, a cat and a dog. In this miniature from a fifteenth-century French book, "The True History of the Good King", an