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Landscapes by Nikolai Vladimirovich Stahl von Holstein, French abstract painter of Russian origin, son of a general of the Russian army. He is better known as Nicolas de Staël. Collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
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On 11 November 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice of Compiègne was concluded between the Entente powers and Germany, ending hostilities in the First World War. The document, signed in the French region of Picardy, effectively put an end to the
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Ruslan's Battle with the Head. Nikolai Ge, Ivan Kramskoy. Pensive rides our Ruslan And sees: through the night mist Far off a huge hill looms black, And something dreadful snores. He draws nearer to the hill, nearer, and hears: The marvellous hill seems to breathe. Ruslan listens and
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The Lobnoye Mesto on Red Square is the same as Golgotha. That is precisely the meaning originally invested in the structure. It was supposed that Moscow would have its own Jerusalem temple on the main square, that is, the Intercession Cathedral, and its own Golgotha, that is, the Lobnoye Mesto.
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The furnishing of the office of Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture in the 1980s, at the Palais-Royal. The plane-wood furniture was created by Andrée Putman, one of the leading French interior designers
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But on this very unhappy earth there was, without doubt, an Eden. We all think of it: the whole of our nature, in its best and least corrupted, its tenderest and most human expressions, is still pervaded by a sense of “exile”. From Tolkien’s letters.
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Rupert Grint on the set of "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" two years ago
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The Natural History Museum of Venice grew out of the collection of the Venetian patrician Teodoro Correr, who in 1830 bequeathed his colossal cabinet-of-curiosities-style holdings to the city, together with substantial funds to found a public museum and to maintain it thereafter in the three halls and
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Sixty years before the famous meme appeared