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The indescribable feeling when an article is almost finished
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"Do not let deceptive plans for building a new world distract your energy from saving what remains of the old"
Winston Churchill
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Explosive Devices of the Fifteenth Century
Explosive devices of the fifteenth century. From the 1405 book on military technology by the German engineer Konrad Kyeser
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Happy first month of winter!
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Notre-Dame at Night
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The real name of Cary Grant was Archibald Leach
"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant" Archibald Leach (the real name of Cary Grant)
Architecture · The East · Art · Heritage · Science
The bronze griffin on the apse of Pisa Cathedral, its origin and purpose
Pisa Cathedral, occupying the most conspicuous site in Pisa, is unfortunately usually eclipsed by the Leaning Tower and attracts little attention. The building is, nevertheless, extraordinarily interesting. And most interesting of all is the eleventh-century griffin atop a column on the cathedral's apse. How did it come
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And God said, Let there be light
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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Costume for Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” staged by Diaghilev’s company
This is how the Wicked Fairy Carabosse, the antagonist of The Sleeping Beauty, looked in Léon Bakst's version. A costume from the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" to the music of Tchaikovsky, in the production of Sergei Diaghilev's company.
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Detail of Horace Vernet’s “The Battle of Somosierra” from the National Museum in Warsaw collection
Please, Do Not Die! Detail from "The Battle of Somosierra" by Horace Vernet, collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
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