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Beware!
Beware! Take care: these two, one in a white greatcoat, the other in a brown one, may well be Russian generals spying on our barriers French caricature of the Second Empire era, 1854. Jean Geoffroy
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Igor Stravinsky: "I so enjoy drinking Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Strava-whisky"
Cinema · Science · Society · People · Humour
The BBC Has Made Isaac Newton Black
Beethoven, Cleopatra and Hannibal have already been black, so why not Newton this time?
Art · Museums
Painting of a seated woman with a lamb from the Art Institute of Chicago collection
Meekness, one of the eight ideal qualities, by the seventeenth-century French artist Eustache Le Sueur. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Aren't you my handsome darling ❤️
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The Illumination of the Eiffel Tower in 1920
Architecture · Mores · Paris
History of the Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, from Mill to Dance Hall
The celebrated Montmartre windmill Moulin de la Galette, built in 1622 and immortalised in paintings by Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, stands to this day. Moulin is French for "mill". To be sure, if the nineteenth-century owners of the milling complex are to be believed, a
NB! · Architecture · Heritage
Art Nouveau shop front in the French town of Douai, designed by Albert Peupé in 1906
Architecture · Faith · Art
Joachim and Anna meeting at the Golden Gate in Giotto's fresco in Padua
The Meeting of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. Scenes from the Life of Joachim: the Meeting at the Golden Gate, 1304–1306. Giotto di Bondone. The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, built on the site of an ancient Roman arena, houses the first cycle of frescoes indisputably attributed to Giotto. In
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Eclipse, Jean Grandville, 1844
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What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400?
What do you make of the road signs in a book of 1400? I think they are magnificent