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The first award for women in the history of Persia, the Order of the Sun for ladies, نشان آفتاب, Nishan-i-Aftab, was established by the fourth Shah of Iran of the Qajar dynasty, Naser al-Din, in 1873. The badge and the star of the order are made in
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The bourgeoisie is any group of people dissatisfied with what they have and satisfied with what they are. The Colombian philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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A reproduction of Van Gogh's self-portrait in the setting of the 2003 Bollywood romantic comedy "I'm Going Mad with Love"
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The Lion's Mound, or Butte du Lion, is a 52-metre monument to the Battle of Waterloo, begun in 1820 and completed in 1826. To build the 40-metre mound, earth was brought in from various parts of the battlefield, and on its summit a 4-metre lion
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Equestrian portrait of Prince Boris Nikolayevich Yusupov, 1809, by Antoine-Jean Gros. Collection of the Pushkin Museum
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189 years ago in London the medieval Palace of Westminster, the ancient residence of the English kings, burned down. The painter William Turner, like most Londoners, watched the fire to the very end. The palace, where Parliament had sat since the sixteenth century, was almost completely destroyed. Turner got into
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