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Robert Doisneau's famous photograph "The Kiss" was taken for Life magazine in 1950. Doisneau noticed a couple kissing in a Parisian café and proposed that they take part in a shoot, paying them a handsome 500 francs, which in our day is almost 1,500 euros.
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Jean Froissart describes the horrors of the “Bal des Ardents” of 1398, when a spark set alight costumes and masks made of linen soaked in pitch. Charles VI, dressed as a wild man, managed to save himself by hiding beneath the skirts of the Duchess de Berry; one or two
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At the theatre, 1950s. Robert Doisneau
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Illustration from the book "The Art of Bayonet Fencing, or Instruction in the Use of the Infantry Rifle as an Offensive and Defensive Weapon", 1832
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The "Glory of Russia" Medal Instituted by Catherine the Great Is Linked to the First Russian Circumnavigation. The expedition was conceived "on the occasion of the attempt by English trading entrepreneurs upon the conduct of trade and the hunting of beasts in the Eastern Sea" and
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Rembrandt, 1655
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David Teniers the Younger, 1650
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Samuil Adlivankin, 1931, State Tretyakov Gallery collection. Photo from the exhibition The Trial: Franz Kafka and the Art of the 20th Century at the Jewish Museum.
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"I have one arm left; but this one is the right. Therefore, wishing to go on sharing the soldier's life of battle with my comrades, I beg Your Honour's intercession for the issue to me of a sabre and a revolver," wrote Lance-Corporal
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He set out from Rivendell for Mount Doom only 17 years later. All that time Gandalf was gathering information about the Ring. Thus the Ring was destroyed when Frodo was already past 50. In the film adaptation, all of this took no more than a couple of weeks, or three