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Books · Society · Paris
Edition printed in Paris by F. Buisson in 1797, Year V of the Republic
The new reckoning from the founding of the First French Republic in September 1792, illustrated from the book trade:. printed in Paris in Year V of the Republic, or in the year 1797 from the Nativity of Christ.
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Ethnography
The Layout of the Burial Chamber and Sarcophagi of the Rulers of Ancient Egypt: The Tomb of Tutankhamun as a Case Study
Books · Moscow · Observations
Lev Rubinstein’s 2000 collection “Domashneye muzitsirovaniye” and several of its pages
Realised I had never heard or read any poems by the well-known Moscow poet and essayist Lev Rubinstein, found at home a 2000 collection of his writings, "Domestic Music-Making", with a bookmark: a 2006 Madrid metro ticket at page 43. There were no poems in the
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Paris
Versailles in the Snow
NB! · Faith · Monarchies · Society
The Bishop of Copenhagen Gives the Queen of Denmark a Light
NB! · Archive · People · Nature
This is what Hachiko looked like (1923–1935)
Art · Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Humour
It is often said what a filthy palace Versailles was in its day
It is often said what a filthy palace Versailles was in its day. There is talk of women merely hitching up their skirts to relieve themselves on the very spot where nature overtook them, and of men easing themselves straight from the balustrade in the middle of the royal chapel,
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Good Morning in the Sun of Belle-Île, 1905, with Jean Puy
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
Explanatory sheet for the great fireworks of 1755 in honour of Empress Elizabeth I
Depiction of the Great Firework Displayed in Saint Petersburg on the Evening of the New Year 1755 upon the River Neva Before the Winter House of Her Imperial Majesty. The explanatory sheet states that the great firework was given in honour of Her Imperial Majesty Elizabeth I, Autocrat of All
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A 23-year-old Drew Barrymore in a Dior gown from John Galliano's collection at the premiere party for the 1998 costume romance "Ever After: A Cinderella Story"
Books · Education · People
When asked about her lack of an academic degree, the American writer and historian Barbara Tuchman replied that Herodotus, Thucydides, Gibbon, Macaulay and Parkman had held no doctorates
In her words, the demands of a conventional academic career can dull the imagination, smother enthusiasm and stifle the style of one's prose.